Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Massive Pissed Love
Nonfiction 2001–2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
An incisive, snarky, and brilliant collection of arts, music, and literary criticism by a post-punk legend.
Richard Hell may best be known as a punk icon, a founding member of seminal bands Television, the Heartbreakers, and The Voidoids, but for decades he’s been a prominent voice in American...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2009
A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences—westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus—and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom,...
by Harris Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Behind the Music Tales is a series which captures the mood and feel of the energy that surged through music and pop culture in the 90s and 2000s. It presents exclusive original interviews as an honest record directly from authentic creative sources, and is an accurate historical document.
The...
Handbags: A Love Story
Legendary Designs from Azzedine Alaïa to Yves Saint Laurent
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
In this sumptuous full-color compendium, award-winning designer Monica Botkier celebrates seventy of the most coveted bags of the past seventy-five years, from Chanel, Dior, Gucci, Hermès, Yves Saint Laurent, Louis Vuitton, and other international couture houses, as well as top bag designers such...
Thinking Through Fashion
A Guide to Key Theorists
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts.
This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp...
Juggalo
Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Juggalo: Insane Clown Posse and the World They Made is a vivid journey into the heart of a misunderstood subculture. Through firsthand reporting, including interviews with Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope of the Insane Clown Posse, their friends and family, and numerous devoted fans, Juggalo explores the...
by Dr. T.L. Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
The Hip Hop Lectures (Volume 2) are inspired by actual academic Hip Hop lectures taught in various educational institutes and organizations. The Hip Hop Lectures provide readers with an in-depth look at current topics plaguing Hip Hop culture. Throughout this book, the reader will be able to see how...
How to See the World
An Introduction to Images, from Self-Portraits to Selfies, Maps to Movies, and More
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Every two minutes, Americans alone take more photographs than were printed in the entire nineteenth century; every minute, people from around the world upload over 300 hours of video to YouTube; and in 2014, we took over one trillion photographs. From the funny memes that we send to our friends to...
Hand of Fire
The Comics Art of Jack Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited with creating or cocreating a number of Marvel's...
Venus in Exile
The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2001
Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still...
Coming to Our Senses
Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in...
Old Trout Funnies
The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Now iconic to Canadian, if not global culture, Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brought the island’s deeply rooted creative side—music,...
Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle
Experiencing Contemporary Japanese Animation
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime. Japanese animation is more popular than ever following the 2002 Academy Award given to Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away. It confirmed that anime is more than just children's cartoons, often portraying...
Epigenetics in the Age of Twitter
Pop Culture and Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
"America's most interesting and important essayist." —Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize–winning author of The Age of Insight
"[Gerald Weissmann] bridges the space between science and the humanities, and particularly between medicine and the muses, with wit, erudition, and, most important,...