Popular Culture category: 4839 books
The Astro Boy Essays
Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the Manga/Anime Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
The pioneering genius of Japan’s “God of Comics,” Osamu Tezuka (1928–89), is examined through his life’s masterwork: Tetsuwan Atomu, also known as Mighty Atom or Astro Boy, a comic series featuring a cute little android who yearns to be more human. The history of Tetsuwan Atomu and Tezuka’s...
Zombie Theory
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Zombies first shuffled across movie screens in 1932 in the low-budget Hollywood film White Zombie and were reimagined as undead flesh-eaters in George A. Romero’s The Night of the Living Dead almost four decades later. Today, zombies are omnipresent in global popular culture, from video games and top-rated...
Speculative Blackness
The Future of Race in Science Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
In Speculative Blackness, André M. Carrington analyzes the highly racialized genre of speculative fiction—including science fiction, fantasy, and utopian works, along with their fan cultures—to illustrate the relationship between genre conventions in media and the meanings ascribed to blackness...
Imagining Resistance
Visual Culture and Activism in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus...
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Closing of the Liberal Mind
How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently Acting Senior Vice President for Research at The Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect...
The Politics of Culture
Around the Work of Naoki Sakai
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded...
It Happens at Comic-Con
Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
This collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego’s Comic-Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices...
Mechademia 6
User Enhanced
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing dôjinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations, and engaging in fansubbing and DIY animation. Indeed, fans can no longer be considered passive consumers...
Erotic Innocence
The Culture of Child Molesting
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 1998
In Erotic Innocence James R. Kincaid explores contemporary America’s preoccupation with stories about the sexual abuse of children. Claiming that our culture has yet to come to terms with the bungled legacy of Victorian sexuality, Kincaid examines how children and images of youth are idealized,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The Believer’s mission is to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought-whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers fresh perspectives...
Bangladesh - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Bangladesh is a lush, green country situated on the fertile Ganges delta, adjacent to the Indian state of West Bengal. Although there are hilly areas in the northeast, this densely populated country is mostly flat, and criss-crossed by many rivers. Much of its coastline forms part of the world's largest...
Buffy Meets the Academy
Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same...
Vampira
Dark Goddess of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The new book from award-winning historian W. Scott Poole is a whip-smart piece of pop culture detailing the story of cult horror figure Vampira that actually tells the much wider story of 1950s America and its treatment of women and sex, as well as capturing a fascinating swath of Los Angeles history.
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