Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Travel Marketing and Popular Photography in Britain, 1888–1939
Reading the Travel Image
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This bookexplores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939. The book examines the implications of people’s increasing familiarity with the language and possibilities of photography on...
Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006
The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, was--and still is--viewed with ambivalence....
by Shenshen Cai
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries,...
Historical Theory and Methods through Popular Music, 1970–2000
“Those are the New Saints”
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
This book examines the post-1960s era of popular music in the Anglo-Black Atlantic through the prism of historical theory and methods. By using a series of case studies, this book mobilizes historical theory and methods to underline different expressions of alternative music functioning within a mainstream...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
This comprehensive survey examines Latin American music, focusing on popular—as opposed to folk or art—music and containing more than 200 entries on the concepts and terminology, ensembles, and instruments that the genre comprises.
• Roughly 200 entries on concepts and terminology, ensembles,...
Soundtracking Germany
Popular Music and National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular. By discussing diverse musical genres and commercially and critically successful songs at the heights of their cultural relevance throughout seventy years of post-war German history,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of “bad girls”—women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them—in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Perhaps not...
by Margo Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2006
In On Michael Jackson—an at once passionate, incisive, and bracing work of cultural analysis—Pulitzer Prize–winning critic for The New York Times Margo Jefferson brilliantly unravels the complexities of one of the most enigmatic figures of our time.
Who is Michael Jackson and what does...
Slimed!
An Oral History of Nickelodeon's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
**The special 5th Anniversary Edition of SLIMED!
An Entertainment Weekly “Best Tell-All” Book
One of Parade Magazine's “Best Books About Movies/TV”
Included in Publishers Weekly's “Top Ten Social Science Books”
Before the recent reboots, reunions, and renaissance of classic...
Scandals of Classic Hollywood
Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Gossip meets history—a compulsively readable collection of Hollywood's most notorious clashes and controversies in the spirit of Hollywood Babylon
Believe it or not, America's fascination with celebrity culture was thriving well before the days of TMZ, Perez Hilton, Charlie Sheen's breakdown and...
No Joke
Making Jewish Humor
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer,...
by John Waters
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
**From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and all who seek happiness and success on their own terms.
So what if you have talent? Then what?**
When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School...
Extra Lives
Why Video Games Matter
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally,...
I Want My MTV
The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
**Remember When All You Wanted Was Your MTV? The perfect gift for the music fan or child of the eighties in your life.
Named One of the Best Books of 2011 by NPR – Spin - USA Today – CNBC - Pitchfork - The Onion - The Atlantic - The Huffington Post – VEVO - The Boston Globe - The San...