Roger Horrocks
Biographic Data
| ID | 4498598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger Horrocks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger |
| FAMILY NAME | Horrocks |
| SIGNATURE | HORROCKS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Genre
A genre is any group of texts identified as sharing a cluster of characteristics (such as structure, theme, function, style, mood, spatial or temporal setting). The term may imply a precise list of characteristics or be used more flexibly as a way of exploring “family resemblances” (in Wittgenstein's sense of that phrase). New genres are constantly being identified, but use value determines whether a proposed grouping gains long term acceptance
Genre
A genre is any group of texts identified as sharing a cluster of characteristics (such as structure, theme, style, mood, spatial or temporal setting, or function). The term may imply a precise list of characteristics or be used more flexibly as a way of exploring “family resemblances” (in Wittgenstein's sense of that phrase). New genres are constantly being identified, but use‐value determines whether a proposed grouping gains long‐term acceptanc…
Turbulent Television: The New Zealand Experiment
A small country can provide particularly revealing case studies in the dynamics of media systems and the impact of new technologies. New Zealand television has been through dramatic changes, shifting from a public service to a commercial orientation, then struggling to reconstruct a minimal level of public service. New technology creates problems for a small country as well as opportunities, and investment in digitalization has helped a multinati…
Freud Revisited: Psychoanalytic Themes in the Postmodern Age
Conflicts and surprises in New Zealand television
1996). Conflicts and surprises in New Zealand television. Continuum: Vol. 10, Aotearoa/New Zealand: A New Mediascape, pp. 50-63
Westerns
The western is something of a test case for a book such as this, for it is a masculine genre par excellence. The western novel and film are ‘phallic discourses’ taken to an endpoint – men gaze at each other, pump bullets into each other’s bodies, and lust after women as bar-room ‘whores’. Is the western therefore simply a celebration of patriarchal values? Does it represent a male extirpation of the female, a homoerotic expression of hatred and e…
Psychological Approaches to Culture
I have devoted a whole chapter to psychological approaches to culture, since it is the approach which interests me most, and because in the last twenty years the use of psychoanalytic ideas, and to some extent ideas from Jungian psychology, has increased enormously in literary criticism, film criticism and cultural studies. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as…
Pornography
Is pornography part of popular culture? The fact that this question can be posed is in itself significant, for porn stands on the threshold of acceptability and visibility. Its function is in some ways to scandalize, to present ‘on-scene’ what is considered obscene. 1 But porn has also been commercialized and industrialized in this century. Not simply found in the leatherbound volumes of the upper-class connoisseur, it is blazoned across mass sel…
Horror Films
Horror films are often believed to have audiences which are primarily young and male. Thus in her book Men, Women and Chainsaws , Carol Clover summarizes what available evidence there is about horror audiences, and concludes that pride of place goes to adolescent males. 1 This is also confirmed by James Twitchell in his book Dreadful Pleasures . 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the ke…
Male Images in Rock and Pop Music
Being part of patriarchal society, popular music has been dominated by men at all levels: composing and playing music, arranging and engineering it, and making the business deals about it. But in certain areas of popular music, quite complex divisions of labour have operated between men and women. For example, although in jazz the greatest instrumentalists have been men – Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker and so on – the greatest jaz…
Approaches to Gender
The study of gender is in ferment today. Feminists, sociologists, political analysts, psychologists and psychoanalysts, literary critics, film critics – many scholars are taking part in the ‘discovery’ of gender. Previously, the relations of power between men and women, the hidden political structures of heterosexual ity and the family, the way gender permeates many cultural areas such as sport, film, music, literature – these aspects of social e…
Studying Popular Culture
Just as one cannot approach gender without some theoretical preparation, so any study of popular culture must begin by briefly considering the scholarly background to it. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Conclusions
One word that comes to mind, after surveying these images of men, and some images used by men, in a wide variety of genres and media, is ambivalence . Just as Superman hides the diffident figure of Clark Kent, so many other images of men are more complex than first meets the eye. Thus perhaps the most famous, or infamous, images of male depredation are found in pornography, yet I have argued that these images also reveal intense deprivation and i…
Male Sport
Sport is one of the most neglected areas of culture in academic studies, but cultural students and historians and sociologists of sport are now beginning to make up this deficit – this can be seen in the growth of journals specializing in sport.1
Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture
This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. The author argues that popular culture gives us hig
Masculinity in Crisis: Myths, Fantasies and Realities
This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This boo
Creating a Feature‐Film Industry
Disruption of performance functions in a case of expressive aphasia
Metaphor in competence and performance
Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture
This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. The author argues that popular culture gives us hig
Turbulent Television: The New Zealand Experiment
A small country can provide particularly revealing case studies in the dynamics of media systems and the impact of new technologies. New Zealand television has been through dramatic changes, shifting from a public service to a commercial orientation, then struggling to reconstruct a minimal level of public service. New technology creates problems for a small country as well as opportunities, and investment in digitalization has helped a multinati…
Conflicts and surprises in New Zealand television
1996). Conflicts and surprises in New Zealand television. Continuum: Vol. 10, Aotearoa/New Zealand: A New Mediascape, pp. 50-63
Creating a Feature‐Film Industry
Metaphor in competence and performance
Disruption of performance functions in a case of expressive aphasia
Creating a Feature‐Film Industry
Masculinity in Crisis: Myths, Fantasies and Realities
This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This boo
Westerns
The western is something of a test case for a book such as this, for it is a masculine genre par excellence. The western novel and film are ‘phallic discourses’ taken to an endpoint – men gaze at each other, pump bullets into each other’s bodies, and lust after women as bar-room ‘whores’. Is the western therefore simply a celebration of patriarchal values? Does it represent a male extirpation of the female, a homoerotic expression of hatred and e…
Psychological Approaches to Culture
I have devoted a whole chapter to psychological approaches to culture, since it is the approach which interests me most, and because in the last twenty years the use of psychoanalytic ideas, and to some extent ideas from Jungian psychology, has increased enormously in literary criticism, film criticism and cultural studies. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as…
Pornography
Is pornography part of popular culture? The fact that this question can be posed is in itself significant, for porn stands on the threshold of acceptability and visibility. Its function is in some ways to scandalize, to present ‘on-scene’ what is considered obscene. 1 But porn has also been commercialized and industrialized in this century. Not simply found in the leatherbound volumes of the upper-class connoisseur, it is blazoned across mass sel…
Horror Films
Horror films are often believed to have audiences which are primarily young and male. Thus in her book Men, Women and Chainsaws , Carol Clover summarizes what available evidence there is about horror audiences, and concludes that pride of place goes to adolescent males. 1 This is also confirmed by James Twitchell in his book Dreadful Pleasures . 2 These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the ke…
Male Images in Rock and Pop Music
Being part of patriarchal society, popular music has been dominated by men at all levels: composing and playing music, arranging and engineering it, and making the business deals about it. But in certain areas of popular music, quite complex divisions of labour have operated between men and women. For example, although in jazz the greatest instrumentalists have been men – Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker and so on – the greatest jaz…
Approaches to Gender
The study of gender is in ferment today. Feminists, sociologists, political analysts, psychologists and psychoanalysts, literary critics, film critics – many scholars are taking part in the ‘discovery’ of gender. Previously, the relations of power between men and women, the hidden political structures of heterosexual ity and the family, the way gender permeates many cultural areas such as sport, film, music, literature – these aspects of social e…
Studying Popular Culture
Just as one cannot approach gender without some theoretical preparation, so any study of popular culture must begin by briefly considering the scholarly background to it. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Conclusions
One word that comes to mind, after surveying these images of men, and some images used by men, in a wide variety of genres and media, is ambivalence . Just as Superman hides the diffident figure of Clark Kent, so many other images of men are more complex than first meets the eye. Thus perhaps the most famous, or infamous, images of male depredation are found in pornography, yet I have argued that these images also reveal intense deprivation and i…
Male Sport
Sport is one of the most neglected areas of culture in academic studies, but cultural students and historians and sociologists of sport are now beginning to make up this deficit – this can be seen in the growth of journals specializing in sport.1
Male Myths and Icons: Masculinity in Popular Culture
This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. The author argues that popular culture gives us hig
Conflicts and surprises in New Zealand television
1996). Conflicts and surprises in New Zealand television. Continuum: Vol. 10, Aotearoa/New Zealand: A New Mediascape, pp. 50-63
Freud Revisited: Psychoanalytic Themes in the Postmodern Age
Turbulent Television: The New Zealand Experiment
A small country can provide particularly revealing case studies in the dynamics of media systems and the impact of new technologies. New Zealand television has been through dramatic changes, shifting from a public service to a commercial orientation, then struggling to reconstruct a minimal level of public service. New technology creates problems for a small country as well as opportunities, and investment in digitalization has helped a multinati…
Genre
A genre is any group of texts identified as sharing a cluster of characteristics (such as structure, theme, style, mood, spatial or temporal setting, or function). The term may imply a precise list of characteristics or be used more flexibly as a way of exploring “family resemblances” (in Wittgenstein's sense of that phrase). New genres are constantly being identified, but use‐value determines whether a proposed grouping gains long‐term acceptanc…
Genre
A genre is any group of texts identified as sharing a cluster of characteristics (such as structure, theme, function, style, mood, spatial or temporal setting). The term may imply a precise list of characteristics or be used more flexibly as a way of exploring “family resemblances” (in Wittgenstein's sense of that phrase). New genres are constantly being identified, but use value determines whether a proposed grouping gains long term acceptance
Sociology (12 works) · Art (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Media studies (5 works)