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Self Help, Inc.
Makeover Culture in American Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2005
Why doesn't self-help help? Cultural critic Micki McGee puts forward this paradoxical question as she looks at a world where the market for self-improvement products--books, audiotapes, and extreme makeovers--is exploding, and there seems to be no end in sight. Rather than seeing narcissism at the...
The Changing Landscape of Work and Family in the American Middle Class
Reports from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
This collection explores the dynamics of the modern, middle-class American family and its near-constant state of transition. The editors introduce the book by situating it within the context of work, family, and ethnographic research on middle-class families in the United States. Emerging and established...
Digination
Identity, Organization, and Public Life in the Age of Small Digital Devices and Big Digital Domains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2011
The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg’s printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world. Some commentators have argued that this shift from orality to literacy marked a much broader,...
by Roland Kelts
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2006
Contemporary Japanese pop culture such as anime and manga (Japanese animation and comic books) is Asia's equivalent of the Harry Potter phenomenon--an overseas export that has taken America by storm. While Hollywood struggles to fill seats, Japanese anime releases are increasingly outpacing American...
by Dr Richard Johnson, Prof Deborah Chambers, Dr Parvati Raghuram
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2004
`This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of cultural studies itself. This is...
The Female Nude
Art, Obscenity and Sexuality
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization...
Geek Parenting
What Joffrey, Jor-El, Maleficent, and the McFlys Teach Us about Raising a Family
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
All the life lessons, values, and advice from pop culture that parents need to raise geeky children.
It takes a starship to raise a child. Or a time machine. Or a tribe of elves. Fortunately, Geek Parenting offers all that and more, with thoughtful mini-essays that reveal profound child-rearing...
by Claire Taylor, Thea Pitman
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online...
Framing Celebrity
New directions in celebrity culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together...
by José M Carcione,
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The subject of this book is The Milonga, the place to dance tango, and it is addressed to the Milongueros, that is, the dancers. The idea is to illustrate to those who begin to dance, what the milonga is, and for those who already know it and wish the go more deeply into the subject Tango, the goal...
by Florence BRAUNSTEIN, Jean-François PÉPIN
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Language: French
Release Date: December 17, 2010
Le banquet du savoir est ouvert !
Vous avez la mémoire qui flanche ; le peu que vous saviez, vous l'avez oublié. Tests et examens vous donnent des sueurs froides, tandis qu'en société, par crainte de dire une sottise, vous restez obstinément muet, honteux, buté ? un cancre face à l'instituteur...
Pourtant,...
Media Franchising
Creative License and Collaboration in the Culture Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
"Johnson astutely reveals that franchises are not Borg-like assimilation machines, but, rather, complicated ecosystems within which creative workers strive to create compelling 'shared worlds.' This finely researched, breakthrough book is a must-read for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding...
by Catherine GS Lim
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
There is more to the culture than what's cooking in the peroh rumah, or kitchen. For instance, have you ever wondered why they speak the way they do? And what is the big deal about cherki games? Why are they always singing the dondang sayang? And, more importantly, what does it mean to be a Peranakan?
by Douglas Kellner
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in elements of domestic melodrama, crime drama and legal...