Popular Culture category: 4839 books

Cover of Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China
by Shuyu Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of...
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I'm Judging You

The Do-Better Manual

by Luvvie Ajayi
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016

"A truth-riot of a book!"—Shonda Rhimes New York Times Bestseller #1 Washington Post Bestseller Redbook “20 Books By Women You Must Read this Fall” GoodHousekeeping.com “17 New Best New Books to Read This Fall” BookRiot “100 Must-Read Hilarious Books” Goodreads Choice...
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Dreaming of Dixie

How the South Was Created in American Popular Culture

by Karen L. Cox
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011

From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and...
Cover of The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals,...
Cover of Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture
by Hilary McD. Beckles, Heather D. Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2015

Rihanna: Barbados World Gurl in Global Popular Culture brings together US- and Caribbean-based scholars to discuss issues of class, gender, sexuality, race, culture and economy. Drawing from literature, history, musicology, sociology, cultural studies, feminist, gender, and queer studies, the creative/cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015

In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "crucible"...
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Youthscapes

The Popular, the National, the Global

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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2013

Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors....
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The American Surfer

Radical Culture and Capitalism

by Kristin Lawler
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010

The image of surfing is everywhere in American popular culture – films, novels, television shows, magazines, newspaper articles, music, and especially advertisements. In this book, Kristin Lawler examines the surfer, one of the most significant and enduring archetypes in American popular culture,...
Cover of Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling Media...
Cover of Women, Camp, and Popular Culture
by Katrin Horn
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women’s engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga. In detailed analyses of lesbian cinema, postfeminist TV, and popular music, the book offers a novel take on its subject. It defines...
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Consuming Pleasures

Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World

by Daniel Horowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012

How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious...
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Virtual Orientalism

Asian Religions and American Popular Culture

by Jane Iwamura
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011

Saffron-robed monks and long-haired gurus have become familiar characters on the American popular culture scene. Jane Iwamura examines the contemporary fascination with Eastern spirituality and provides a cultural history of the representation of Asian religions in American mass media. Encounters...
Cover of We are the Champions: The Politics of Sports and Popular Music
by Ken McLeod
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016

Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each other's performative strategies and stylistic content. Typically only studied as separate entities, popular...
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Bullying in Popular Culture

Essays on Film, Television and Novels

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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015

Public awareness of bullying has increased tremendously in recent years, largely through its representation in film, television and novels. In popular media targeted towards young readers and viewers, depictions of bullying can present teachable moments and relatable situations. Written from a variety...
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