Popular Culture category: 4839 books
They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
The History and Politics of Alien Abduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a...
by Jennifer Frost, Steven Alan Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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 emphasis on issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, sex, race, gender,...
Culture, Class, and Critical Theory
Between Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinkers,...
The Spiritual Meaning of the Sixties
The Magic, Myth, and Music of the Decade That Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Unveils the spiritual meaning that fueled the artistic, political, and social revolutions of the 1960s
• Investigates the spiritual principles that informed everything from the civil rights and anti-war movements, to the hippies’ rejection of materialist culture, to the rise of feminism,...
by Andrew R. Bahlmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model...
Empowered
Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
In Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multimedia platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns. Examining feminist discourses that emphasize self-confidence, body positivity,...
by Cameron C. Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
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,...
Gangland: The Revised Edition
Cultural elites and the new generationalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1999
Panics over the culture wars, political correctness and victim feminism, rap music, ecstasy and body piercings . . . our cultural landscape is currently peppered with examples of a desperately backward-looking stasis and a fearful hanging-on.
In Gangland Mark Davis analyses the dated ideals...
Spacefarers
Images of Astronauts and Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
The recent 50th anniversaries of the first human spaceflights by the Soviet Union and the United States, and the 30th anniversary of the launching of the first U.S. Space Shuttle mission, have again brought to mind the pioneering accomplishments of the first quarter century of humans in space. Historians,...
Economics of the Undead
Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Whether preparing us for economic recovery after the zombie apocalypse, analyzing vampire investment strategies, or illuminating the market forces that affect vampire-human romances, Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science gives both seasoned economists and layman readers...
Performing Folklore
Ranchos Folcloricos from Lisbon to Newark
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Through the lens of expressive culture, Performing Folklore tracks Portugal’s transition from fascism to democracy, and from imperial metropole to EEC member state. Kimberly DaCosta Holton examines the evolution and significance of ranchos folclóricos, groups of amateur musicians and dancers who...
by Aaron Gulyas
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. Among the many materials available to teachers in the digital age are public-domain...
Sports Fans 2.0
How Fans Are Using Social Media to Get Closer to the Game
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
As of 2012, Twitter has over 100 million active users worldwide, generating close to 230 million Tweets per day. Encouraged by sports shows that incorporate social media as a major component of their programming strategies, sports fans and athletes have proven to be some of the most prolific and adept...
Reading between the Borderlines
Cultural Production and Consumption across the 49th Parallel
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2018
Is Superman Canadian? Who decides, and what is at stake in such a question? How is the Underground Railroad commemorated differently in Canada and the United States, and can those differences be bridged? How can we acknowledge properly the Canadian labour behind Hollywood filmmaking, and what would...