Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Kansai Cool
A Journey into the Cultural Heartland of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
In Kansai Cool anthropologist, writer and filmmaker Christal Whelan offers profound insights in the only collection of essays to focus on Kansai, Japan's ancient heartland.
Kansai—the region in Western Japan that boasts the ancient capitals of Kyoto and Nara, the bustling commercial city...
Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth
And Other Pop Culture Correspondences
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
“Dear Luke, We Need to Talk, Darth is proof that a funny book on pop culture doesn't have to be snide and nasty. I loved everything about it.” —Jim Gaffigan
We all know how Darth Vader shared his big secret with Luke Skywalker, but what if he had delivered the news in a handwritten note instead?...
by Mark H. Moss
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2007
Shopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the department store, the mall, and the e-store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people...
Great Satan's rage
American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This book looks at how rap and metal, the two most pervasive popular music forms of the 1990s, have been highly engaged with America's role in the world, supercapitalism and their own role within it. This has especially been the case when genres - hitherto clearly identified as indelibly 'black' or...
Ready, Steady, Go!
The Smashing Rise and Giddy Fall of Swinging London
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2002
It’s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes,...
Primetime Propaganda
The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
“Vitally important, devastatingly thorough, and shockingly revealing…. After reading Primetime Propaganda, you’ll never watch TV the same way again.”
—Mark Levin
Movie critic Michael Medved calls Ben Shapiro, “One of our most refreshing and insightful voices on the popular culture,...
The Book of Jezebel
An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
From Jezebel.com, the popular website for women, comes a must-read encyclopedic guide to pop culture, feminism, fashion, sex, and much more.
Within months of Jezebel's May 2007 appearance on the new media scene, fans of the blog began referring to themselves as "Jezzies" in comment...
Slaphappy
Pride, Prejudice, and Professional Wrestling
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Slaphappy is reporter Thomas Hackett's penetrating look at the world of professional wrestling, for those who love the spectacle and for the sport's skeptics and the uninitiated. Through interviews with wrestlers, promoters, and fans, Hackett explores the full range of issues that swirl around wrestling...
Narcocorrido
Un Viaje Dentro de la Musica de Drogas, Armas, y Guerrilleros
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 24, 2012
This book explores the world in which one of the oddest and most interesting trends in Latin music over the last 30 years has risen, the narcocorrido. Narcocorridos are Mexican ballads about the daring deeds of cross-border drug traffickers. Tracing the narcocorrido from its birth during the Mexican...
by Karen Fournier
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
As a whole, Alanis Morissette's work has never been critically analyzed. The Words and Music of Alanis Morissette addresses this oversight through its examination of Morissette's work in the context of biographical facts, its relationship to other cultural trends, and its reflection of the female...
Well Met
Renaissance Faires and the American Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a...
Surrealism and the Cinema: Open-eyed Screening
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Available again after years out of print. Surrealism and the Cinema (1976), was an iconoclastic work of both film theory and art criticism, with its insightful readings of the films of Bunuel, Hitchcock, von Sternberg and Samuel Fuller and references to popular culture...
by Trav S.D.
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Chain of Fools traces the art of slapstick comedy from its pre-cinema origins in the ancient pantomime through its silent movie heyday in the teens and twenties, then on to talkies, television, and the internet. Author Trav S.D. mixes a wicked wit, a scholar’s curiosity, and a keen critical appreciation...
The Rise of Enlightened Sexism
How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Women today are inundated with conflicting messages from the mass media: they must either be strong leaders in complete command or sex kittens obsessed with finding and pleasing a man. In The Rise Of Enlightened Sexism, Susan J. Douglas, one of America's most entertaining and insightful cultural critics,...