Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics
African Spirituality in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion...
Second Takes
Remaking Film, Remaking America
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Second Takes presents the history of English language cinema by focusing on cinematic remakes and on how cinema has been replaced by new forms of “media.” Remakes, with their innate plurality, offer the most substance for concentrated cultural analysis of how movies reflect and shape American...
Loving Vampires
Our Undead Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society’s most sensitive subjects—sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class—and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture’s vampires variously...
Rock and Popular Music
Politics, Policies, Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.
International in its scope and conception, this innovative collection explores the...
Talking Dirty on Sex and the City
Romance, Intimacy, Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
First broadcast on HBO in 1998, Sex and the City quickly became a mainstream success. Following four women who navigate the promise and peril of social, political, and sexual relationships in New York, the series caused a stir in the popular media. Academia also responded with a remarkable body of...
Measuring Up
How Advertising Affects Self-Image
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today display the values of a society that has more interest in the body...
by Sharon Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
A bold new account of how celebrity works
Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?
In this fascinating and deeply researched...
Damned If You Do
Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage:...
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing
Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow....
The Looks of Love
50 Moments in Fashion That Inspired Romance
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Hal Rubenstein, fashion authority, consultant, and author of the bestselling 100 Unforgettable Dresses, presents fifty of the most influential romantic moments in style from the 1930s to today, in this full-color collection that reveals each item's indelible place in the pantheons of fashion and popular...
Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror
The Melancholic Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic...
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
History, Culture, and Community in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the "beautiful boy" has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of...
Analysing Popular Music
Image, Sound and Text
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
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Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values,...
Eminem: The Real Slim Shady
The Real Slim Shady
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Offering a fresh way to look at one of the best-selling hip hop artists of the early 21st century, this book presents Eminem's words, images, and music alongside comments from those who love and hate him, documenting why Eminem remains a cultural, spiritual, and economic icon in global popular culture.
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