Introduction

1 Zooming in: stylistic approaches to pop culture

Valentin Werner and Christoph Schubert

Part I: Pop fiction

2 Misdirection (re)strategizing in Robinson’s A Dedicated Man
Christiana Gregoriou

3 From pop fiction to televisual adaptation: a corpus-stylistic approach to Dead until Dark and True Blood
Rocio Montoro

Part II: Telecinematic discourse

4 Communicative and linguistic features of reality show interactions: a case study of Love Island UK
Tatyana Karpenko-Seccombe

5 Ideological stance-taking in Jane the Virgin: stylistic effects of multimodality and code-switchingSusan Reichelt

6 Suspense in film dialogue: screening Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight
Christoph Schubert

7 The art of turn-taking in movie phone call openingsChristian R. Hoffmann

Part III: Pop music and lyrics

8 The Arctic Monkeys live at the Royal Albert Hall: investigating Turner’s "lounge singer shimmer"
Lisa Jansen and Anika Gerfer

9 "Guess who’s back, back again": stylistic development in Eminem’s lyrics
Valentin Werner

Part IV: Cartoons and video games

10 New York City dialect, speech acts, and anti-blackness in Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland
Cecelia Cutler

11 The stylistic journey of a video game: a diachronic approach to multimodality in the Football Manager series
Du?an Stamenkovi?

12 Stylistic approaches to pop culture: an afterword

Michael Toolan