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True Crime
Observations on Violence and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
True crime is crime fact that looks like crime fiction. It is one of the most popular genres of our pathological public sphere, and an integral part of our contemporary wound culture-a culture, or at least cult, of commiseration. If we cannot gather in the face of anything other than crime, violence,...
Fan CULTure
Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Fan CULTure explores how present-day fans interact with the films, television shows, books, and pop culture artifacts they love. From creating original works of fanfiction to influencing the content of major primetime series through social media, fans are no longer passive consumers. They have evolved...
This Is Not a President
Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
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In This Is Not a President, Diane Rubenstein looks at the postmodern presidency - from Reagan and George H. W. Bush, through the current administration, and including Hillary. Focusing on those seemingly inexplicable gaps or blind spots in recent American...
Kickboxing Geishas
How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media's attention. But...
Transforming Borders
Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy contributes to transformative pedagogies scholarship by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. C. Alejandra Elenes develops her conceptualizations of border/transformative pedagogies by linking...
The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child
Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice...
Hollywood's West
The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the "frontier thesis" influenced film and television producers who used the West as a...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Americans are still fascinated by the romantic notion of the "noble savage," yet know little about the real Native peoples of North America. This two-volume work seeks to remedy that by examining stereotypes and celebrating the true cultures of American Indians today.
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Outlaw Culture
Resisting Representations
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself...
The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto game series has inspired a range of reactions among players and commentators, and a hot debate in the popular media. These essays from diverse theoretical perspectives expand the discussion by focusing scholarly analysis on the games, particularly Grand Theft...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Though in existence for only a few decades, video games are now firmly established in mainstream culture all around the planet. Every year new games are produced, and every year new favorites emerge. But certain characters have become so iconic that they withstand both time and the shifting interests...
Feminism Without Women
Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)
Militainment, Inc.
War, Media, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive...
DIY Utopia
Cultural Imagination and the Remaking of the Possible
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
At first glance, contemporary popular culture, filled with bleak images of the future, seems to have given up on the possibility of positive collective change. Below the surface, however, alternative culture is rife with artist-led projects, activist movements, and subcultural communities of interest...