Popular Culture category: 4839 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The popularization and cult-like following of electronic music has provoked new relations between men and machines, art and technology, and modern shamans and disc jockeys. New technologies and multimedia tools have awakened neo-ritual practices through the emergence of Psychedelic Trance parties,...
A Culture of Conspiracy
Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael Barkun delves deeper into America's conspiracy sub-culture, exploring the rise of 9/11 conspiracy theories, the "birther" controversy surrounding...
Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Gender, Crime, and Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has captured...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Elyce Rae Helford, Michael R. Howard II, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, Tosha Taylor, Katherine A. Wagner, and Rhonda V. Wilcox
Although the last three decades...
Mediums, Monks, and Amulets
Thai Popular Buddhism Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Mediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three...
by Donald C. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
Documenting the evolution of teens and media from the 1950s through 2010, this book examines the films, books, television shows, and musical artists that impacted American culture and shaped the "coming of age" experience for each generation.
• Presents concise content and detailed...
American Culture, American Tastes
Social Change and the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially in the past century, and the shifting perceptions...
Motorsports and American Culture
From Demolition Derbies to NASCAR
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Soon after the first automobiles were introduced in the United States, auto racing became a reality. Since that time, motorsports have expanded to include drag racing, open wheel racing, rallying, demolition derbies, stock car racing, and more. Motorsports have grown to such an extent that NASCAR...
Superheroes!
Capes, Cowls, and the Creation of Comic Book Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Wonder Woman, the Avengers, the X-Men, Watchmen, and more: the companion volume to the PBS documentary series of the same name that tells the story of the superhero in American popular culture.
Together again for the first time, here come the greatest comic...
The Dumbest Generation
How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future(Or, Don 't Trust Anyone Under 30)
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.
The Dumbest Generation is a dire report on the intellectual...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
A Low Culture Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Over half a million copies sold!
From the author of the highly acclaimed heavy metal memoir, Fargo Rock City, comes another hilarious and discerning take on massively popular culture—set in Chuck Klosterman’s den and your own—covering everything from the effect of John Cusack flicks to the crucial...
by Kat Von D
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
High Voltage Tattoo is a graphic perspective on today's global tattoo culture by Kat Von D, star of The Learning Channel's L.A. Ink and one of the most talented and popular artists working today. Designed in a style that is reminiscent of a handmade Gothic journal with its red padded cover, ornate...
by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of contemporary film, a genre...
Golden State, Golden Youth
The California Image in Popular Culture, 1955-1966
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the post-World War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s. Nowhere was this more evident than in the explosion of California youth images...