Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film
Framing Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to configure...
The Quest for Gentility in China
Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2007
The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to 1999, showing how the notion of gentility has evolved and retained its relevance in China from late...
Going to the Dogs
Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
North American Society for Sport History Book Award
In the 1970s sitcom The Odd Couple, Felix and Oscar argue over a racing greyhound that Oscar won in a bet. Animal lover Felix wants to keep the dog as a pet; gambling enthusiast Oscar wants to race it. This dilemma fairly reflects America's...
Salaam Bollywood
Representations and interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The...
Remake Television
Reboot, Re-use, Recycle
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Remakes are pervasive in today’s popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, “re-imaginings,” or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networks interested in building on the nostalgic capital of past successes (or giving a second chance...
American Hauntings: The True Stories behind Hollywood's Scariest Movies—from The Exorcist to The Conjuring
The True Stories behind Hollywood’s Scariest Movies—from The Exorcist to The Conjuring
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Neither a debunking book nor one written for the "true believer" in the paranormal, American Hauntings objectively scrutinizes the historic evidence behind such hugely popular films as The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, An American Haunting, The Conjuring, and The Haunting in Connecticut...
The Nazi Card
Nazi Comparisons at the Beginning of the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
The Cold War began almost immediately after the end of World War II and the defeat of the Nazis in Europe. As images of the Nazis’ atrocities became part of American culture’s common store, the evil of their old enemy, beyond the Nazis as a wartime opponent, became increasingly important. As America...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources—verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic—to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining. Yet little is known...
by Jonathan Goldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart...
Living with the Living Dead
The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked in images...
Digital Shift
The Cultural Logic of Punctuation
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives⎯using them as reading lenses to consider a broad range of textual objects and practices...
Inventing the Egghead
The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to...
Teaching with the Screen
Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Teaching with the Screen explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity, these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitutes education. Spotlighting the visual, spatial, and relational aspects of media-based...
Masculinity in Breaking Bad
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2015
Following on author Peter Rollins’ motto “If it isn’t popular, it isn’t culture,” this collection of new essays considers Vince Gilligan’s award-winning television series Breaking Bad as a landmark of Western culture—comparable to the works of Shakespeare and Dickens in their time—that...