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Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?

How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness

by Timothy Caulfield
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015

An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life What would happen if an average Joe tried out for American Idol, underwent a professional makeover, endured Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Cleanse,” and followed the outrageous rituals of the rich...

Superheroes on World Screens

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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015

Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume shows, many national cultures have created or reimagined the idea of the superhero, while the realm of superheroes now contains many icons whose histories borrow from local folklore and legends. Consequently,...

Zombies, Migrants, and Queers

Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture

by Camilla Fojas
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017

The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal collapse in The Walking Dead. Middle-class whites crossed the literal and metaphorical Mexican border on Breaking Bad or coped with a lack of freedom among...

The Trouble with Nature

Sex in Science and Popular Culture

by Roger N. Lancaster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003

Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links...

Van Gogh in Popular Culture

by Lynnette Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015

Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890. Yet how much of what is commonly known about this world-renowned artist is accurate? Though he left thousands of works and a trove of letters, the definitive Van Gogh remains elusive. Was he a madman who painted his...

Creativity, Religion and Youth Cultures

by Anne M. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

This book explores the rich intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. The co-constitutive identity-building work of music, performance, and drama for Samoan and Sudanese youth in church contexts has given rise to new considerations of diversity, cultural...

The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott

by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, Nancy Kang
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

The Culture and Philosophy of Ridley Scott, edited by Adam Barkman, Ashley Barkman, and Nancy Kang, brings together eighteen critical essays that illuminate a nearly comprehensive selection of the director’s feature films from cutting-edge multidisciplinary and comparative perspectives. Chapters...

Happily Ever After

The Romance Story in Popular Culture

by Catherine M. Roach
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016

Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney’s princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed...

Pop Culture in Europe

by Juliana Tzvetkova
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

A fascinating survey of popular culture in Europe, from Celtic punk and British TV shows to Spanish fashion and Italian sports. • Makes connections between pop culture in Europe to that of the United States • Provides further readings and a bibliography at the end of the work •...

Costuming Cosplay

Dressing the Imagination

by Therèsa M. Winge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018

Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture...

Clockwork Rhetoric

The Language and Style of Steampunk

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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014

This unique book explores how the aesthetic and cultural movement "Steampunk" persuades audiences and wins new acolytes. Steampunk is an aesthetic style grounded in the Victorian era, in clothing and accoutrements modeled on a heightened and hyper-extended age of steam. In addition to its...

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context

Being and Becoming

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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes...

Baby Boomer Rock 'n' Roll Fans

The Music Never Ends

by Joseph A. Kotarba
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012

Rock ‘n’ roll infuses the everyday life of the American adult, but for the first, complete generation of rock ‘n’ roll fans—baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964—it holds a special kind of value, playing a social personality-defining role that is unique to this group. Based on 18 years...

A History of Evil in Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal About America [2 volumes]

What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal about America

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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014

Evil isn't simply an abstract theological or philosophical talking point. In our society, the idea of evil feeds entertainment, manifests in all sorts of media, and is a root concept in our collective psyche. This accessible and appealing book examines what evil means to us. • Includes the...

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