Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Life: The Movie
How Entertainment Conquered Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.
Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media...
The Birth of the Museum
History, Theory, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.
Discussing the historical development of museums alongside...
From Shtetl to Stardom
Jews and Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The outsized influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex...
by Patrick Bunker
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Willie Robertson
The Inspirational Life Story of Willie Robertson; Duck Commander CEO, Reality Television Star, and National Role Model
By Patrick Bunker
Ever since Willie Robertson put out his first hunting videos, the world wanted to learn more about the man’s life. The world’s...
X-Men and the Mutant Metaphor
Race and Gender in the Comic Books
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
First appearing in 1963, The Uncanny X-Men had a rough start, lasting until 1970 when the comic book was canceled due to low sales. Following a relaunch in 1975, however, it found new popularity thanks to intricate scripting by Chris Claremont and the artwork of John Byrne. Within a few years, The...
by David W. Tosh
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
A visual and entertaining adventure exploring one of the most popular and significant eras of comic book history.
From 1956 to 1970, the “Silver Age of Comics” gave us Spider-Man, The Avengers, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man and a flurry of other unforgettable and formidable characters....
Twee
The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that’s embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating hybrid generation known...
The Horror of It All
One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead...
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Pop culture history meets blood-soaked memoir as Adam Rockoff, “a passionate fan of the horror genre in all its forms,” (The New York Times) recalls a life spent watching blockbuster slasher films, cult classics, and everything in between.
Horror films have simultaneously captivated and...
Searching for Michael Jackson's Nose
And Other Preoccupations of Our Celebrity-Mad Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
In his first book, National Post columnist Scott Feschuk offers a hilarious, satirical take on trends in television and our peculiar obsession with the famous, the infamous, and the nature of Tom Cruise’s sexuality. Searching for Michael Jackson’s Nose romps through the birth and the future of...
The Seventies
The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock, black action films and gay male subcultures as well as including queer...
90s Bitch
Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
To understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape. 90s Bitch tells the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. Trailblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Marcia...
by Steven T. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From its anarchic early days to its present dreams of world domination, this is the untold story of Burning Man-the most popular, unique, and enduring countercultural event of recent times in which alternative lifestyle enthusiasts erect a giant statue and construct a temporary city to live in for...
by Rachel Carroll, Adam Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Bringing together exciting new interdisciplinary work from emerging and established scholars in the UK and beyond, Litpop addresses the question: how has writing past and present been influenced by popular music, and vice versa? Contributions explore how various forms of writing have had a crucial...
by Nick Salvato
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Airing on CBS for fourteen seasons (1979–93), Knots Landing was a spinoff of the popular drama Dallas, but ultimately ran longer and took a very different tone on domestic, social, and economic issues than its predecssor. In the first full-length scholarly study of Knots Landing, Nick Salvato situates...