Popular Culture category: 4839 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
How did we get from Hollywood to YouTube? What makes Wikipedia so different from a traditional encyclopedia? Has blogging dismantled journalism as we know it?
Our media landscape has undergone a seismic shift as digital technology has fostered the rise of "participatory culture,"...
Television Drama in Contemporary China
Political, social and cultural phenomena
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and mainstream...
Keeping Up the Kardashian Brand
Celebrity, Materialism, and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Kardashian family is a contemporary cultural touchstone, recognizable throughout the world connoting warrantless celebrity, voluptuous beauty, and social media savviness. Amanda Scheiner McClain explores the Kardashians’ brand and celebrity via narrative discourse analyses of their hit reality...
Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia
Use of celebrity and its influence on society, culture and communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Offering a rare insight into the world of celebrity and media in China and beyond, Celebrity Culture and the Entertainment Industry in Asia deconstructs the dynamics of “stardom” and celebrity endorsement in East Asia, and examines its impact on marketing communications and media. Through first-hand...
by Eric Avila
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy...
Zero Comments
Blogging and Critical Internet Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In Zero Comments, internationally renowned media theorist and 'net critic' Geert Lovink revitalizes worn out concepts about the Internet and interrogates the latest hype surrounding blogs and social network sites. In this third volume of his studies into critical Internet culture, following the influential...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey...
Blood, Guns, and Testosterone
Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably. In the beginning, men instinctively knew right from wrong. They rode to the rescue and saved the day in the nick of time to the admiration and gratitude of society. But over the decades, heroes have evolved from...
The Enlightened Bracketologist
The Final Four of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation...
The Authenticity Hoax
How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
“A totally real, genuine, authentic book about why you shouldn’t believe any of those words. And it’s genuinely good.”
— Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom
Exploring a number of trends in our popular culture—from Sarah Palin to Antiques Roadshow, organic food to the indignation...
by Leigh H. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book provides an up-to-date account of how reality TV has developed, why it has become the most popular genre on television today, and how the explosion in reality TV signals new developments in American media culture.
Uneasy Street
The Anxieties of Affluence
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on “easy street”?...
by Stephen Weiner, Ellen Forney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The popular primer on the best graphic novels, initially called The 101 Best Graphic Novels, is back in its third updated edition. Expert librarian Stephen Weiner—with the crowdsourcing help of professionals in the field, from artists to critics to leading comic store owners—has sifted through...
Mapping Smallville
Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
One of the first full-length academic projects on the television series Smallville, this collection of new essays explains why the WB/CW series is important to understanding contemporary popular culture. The essays are presented in four sections covering broad categories: Clark Kent’s metamorphosis...