Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping
No Time for Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...
The Millennials on Film and Television
Essays on the Politics of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
The millennials, who constitute the largest generation in America’s history, may resist a simple definition; nevertheless, they do share a number of common traits and also an ever increasing presence on film and television. This collection of new essays first situates the millennials within their...
Twain's Brand
Humor in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use "Mark Twain" as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, live performances, authorship, and entrepreneurship made "Mark Twain" the premier national and international...
The Ages of Iron Man
Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Billionaire industrialist, cold warrior, weapons designer, alcoholic, philanthropist, Avenger—Tony Stark, alter-ego of Marvel Comics’ Iron Man, has played many roles in his five decades as a superhero. From his 1963 comics debut in Tales of Suspense to the recent film adaptations—The Avengers...
Harry, A History - Enhanced with Videos and Exclusive J.K. Rowling Interview
The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A new enhanced e-book edition, featuring an extended transcript from Melissa Anelli's exclusive interview with J. K. Rowling; a new, updated chapter; and special videos made just for this edition!
Melissa Anelli wears a ring that was a gift to her from J.K. Rowling, given as a measure of appreciation...
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Vampires
Fascinating Vampire Lore from Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
Vampires are the hottest topic in popular culture today. From the now classic novels of Anne Rice, to the mega-selling series by Stephanie Meyer to the hit HBO series True Blood based on the bestselling novels of Charlaine Harris, the undead are certainly not dead in terms of books sales. Now, those...
by Susan B. Kaiser
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Bridging theory and practice, this accessible text provides an introduction to fashion from both cultural studies and fashion studies perspectives, and addresses the growing interaction between the two fields.
Cultural studies relies on fashion to exemplify change as well as continuity, examine...
Mechademia 5
Fanthropologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Passionate fans of anime and manga, known in Japan as otaku and active around the world, play a significant role in the creation and interpretation of this pervasive popular culture. Routinely appropriating and remixing favorite characters, narratives, imagery, and settings, otaku take control of the...
by Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success with duck characters, wasn’t after Howard; in buying Lucasfilms, it also bought the rights to the...
The Adoring Audience
Fan Culture and Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
State of Minds
Texas Culture and Its Discontents
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
John Steinbeck once famously wrote that "Texas is a state of mind." For those who know it well, however, the Lone Star State is more than one mind-set, more than a collection of clichés, more than a static stereotype. There are minds in Texas, Don Graham asserts, and some of the most important are...
Uganda - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Once notorious for the tyranny of Idi Amin, immortalized in the film The Last King of Scotland, Uganda has, for the last twenty-six years or so, struggled to overcome its negative image. It has largely been successful. Rated the best country to visit in 2012, it was one named of the best tourist destinations...
Cultured States
Youth, Gender, and Modern Style in 1960s Dar es Salaam
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Cultured States is a vivid account of the intersections of postcolonial state power, the cultural politics of youth and gender, and global visions of modern style in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during the 1960s and early 1970s. Andrew Ivaska describes a cosmopolitan East African capital rocked by debates...