Popular Culture category: 4839 books
So Sexy So Soon
The New Sexualized Childhood, and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Thong panties, padded bras, and risqué Halloween costumes for young girls. T-shirts that boast “Chick Magnet” for toddler boys. Sexy content on almost every television channel, as well as in books, movies, video games, and even cartoons. Hot young female pop stars wearing provocative clothing...
Zombies and Sexuality
Essays on Desire and the Living Dead
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant...
Understanding Chinese Society
Changes and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Before 1978, China was backward economically, politically, diplomatically and was extremely isolated. The country had a few diplomatic allies like North Korea, Russia and Vietnam. However, in the past three decades, the country has witnessed robust changes that have aroused the interest of the westerners...
Why Culture Matters
A biblical Christian approach to things cultural
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
What is 'culture'? Where does it come from? What impact does it have on us today? And why is it so important?
Why Culture Matters is an excellent introduction to culture for all Christians. It is an essential first text for every theological or Bible college, Christian school or church library....
Beautiful War
Studies in a Dreadful Fascination
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
*A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war?
Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination* is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant presence of war in our everyday...
Disney Discourse
Producing the Magic Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our "Goodwill Ambassadors:" Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an interdisciplinary approach to read through Disney's domestic cultural production "innocent" national icons, as...
Beyond Bombshells
The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power,...
The City in Slang
New York Life and Popular Speech
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 1995
The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk superintendent, yellow journalism, breadline, straphanger,...
The Wedding Complex
Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2002
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddings—as performances, fantasies, and rituals of transformation—are sites for imagining and enacting...
Adorno and Democracy
The American Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903--1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944),...
by Cameron C. Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations,...
by Kathryn Edney
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their resurgent popularity—on both the large and small screens—musicals...
The Kid of Coney Island
Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2001
A generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day. In this lively biography, Woody Register tells...
Global Entertainment Media
Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.
In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye...