Popular Culture category: 4839 books
All Your Base Are Belong to Us
How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
Through the stories of gaming's greatest innovations and most beloved creations, journalist Harold Goldberg captures the creativity, controversy--and passion--behind the videogame's meteoric rise to the top of the pop-culture pantheon.
Over the last fifty years, video games have grown from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book offers the first in-depth analysis of the relationship between art and design, which led to the creation of 'pop'. Challenging accepted boundaries and definitions, the authors seek out various commonalities and points of connection between these two exciting areas.
Confronting the...
Horrible Prettiness
Burlesque and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was...
The Ages of the Avengers
Essays on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Comic book audience expectations have fluctuated dramatically through the years, and comic book creators have had to adapt to shifting reader concerns. One of Marvel Comic’s most popular franchises for five decades, the Avengers have always been reflective of their times, having adapted to an evolving...
by Hiroki Azuma, Sait Tamaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom...
Generation X Goes Global
Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics’ understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local...
Rock and Roll Baby Names
Over 2,000 Music-Inspired Names, from Alison to Ziggy
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Everything an expectant music-lover needs to know about the lyrics, band trivia, and other rock-and-roll factoids linked to thousands of popular baby names.
What do we know about Caroline? Neil Diamond says she's sweet and The Beach Boys say she prefers short hair when she's older. And what...
Dorothy and Otis
Designing the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A lavish, gorgeously designed full-color collection that showcases the designs of Dorothy and Otis Shepard, two groundbreaking giants of early twentieth-century American advertising.
Dorothy and Otis Shepard are the unsung heroes of early twentieth-century North American visual culture. Together,...
U2 and the Religious Impulse
Take Me Higher
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
U2 and the Religious Impulse examines indications in U2's music and performances that the band work at conscious and subconscious levels as artists who focus on matters of the spirit, religious traditions, and a life guided by both belief and doubt.
U2 is known for a career of stirring songs,...
Retro
The Culture of Revival
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Bell-bottoms are in. Bell-bottoms are out. Bell-bottoms are back in again. Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term “retro” has become the buzzword for describing such trends, but what does it mean? Elizabeth Guffey explores...
DJ Culture in the Mix
Power, Technology, and Social Change in Electronic Dance Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
The DJ stands at a juncture of technology, performance and culture in the increasingly uncertain climate of the popular music industry, functioning both as pioneer of musical taste and gatekeeper of the music industry. Together with promoters, producers, video jockeys (VJs) and other professionals...
A Great Idea at the Time
The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2008
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial dead white men,” are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s and 1960s, they were a pop culture phenomenon. The Great Books of Western Civilization, fifty-four volumes chosen by intellectuals at the University of Chicago,...
You Never Call! You Never Write!
A History of the Jewish Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2007
In You Never Call, You Never Write, Joyce Antler provides an illuminating and often amusing history of one of the best-known figures in popular culture--the Jewish Mother. Whether drawn as self-sacrificing or manipulative, in countless films, novels, radio and television programs, stand-up comedy,...
Sports-Talk Radio in America
Its Context and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
An inside look at the hosts, hot spots, and history of sports-talk radio
Sports-Talk Radio in America looks at major-, medium-, and small-market stations across the United States that feature an all-sports format, with a focus on the unique personalities and programming strategies that make...