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Diasporas in the New Media Age
Identity, Politics, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The explosion of digital information and communication technologies has influenced almost every aspect of contemporary life. Diasporas in the New Media Age is the first book-length examination of the social use of these technologies by emigrants and diasporas around the world. The eighteen original...
by Amber L. Davisson
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2013
Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the pop star manages the celebrity persona in her relationships with her fans, the development of her gender identity, her parodying of other celebrities, and her...
Cultural Chaos
Journalism and Power in a Globalised World
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2006
With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised news culture.
In this new text, Brian...
The French Way
How France Embraced and Rejected American Values and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts. Their essays—by noted scholars Kellner, Fine, McLaren, Richardson, Denzin, Giroux and others—are collected in this volume,...
The Argument about Things in the 1980s
Goods and Garbage in an Age of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In the late 1970s, a Jeff Koons art exhibit featured mounted vacuum cleaners lit by fluorescent tube lighting and identified by their product names: New Hoover Quik Broom, New Hoover Celebrity IV. Raymond Carver published short stories such as “Are These Actual Miles?” that cataloged the furniture,...
Mother Teresa
Saint or Celebrity?
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2006
Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of the twentieth century. During her lifetime as well as posthumously, Mother Teresa continues to generate...
AA to Z
An Addictionary of the 12-Step Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
What does a codependent say to his mate when he wakes up?
"Good morning, how am I?"
--Overheard at a Codependents Anonymous meeting
Throughout the world today, more than two million alcoholics and hundreds of thousands of drug addicts, compulsive overeaters, sex addicts, compulsive gamblers,...
Difficult Reputations
Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered...
Thunder in the Mountains
A Portrait of American Gun Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
In this beautifully written and powerful memoir, author Craig K. Collins ushers readers down a remarkable path – one that wends from the American frontier to present-day suburbia. Along the way, he explores the meaning of a history – of his family’s and his country’s – that is infused with...
by Bran Nicol
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
It scares—and titillates—in such movies as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Basic Instinct. It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex-lovers and strangers. Stalking has been a fact of human society...
Getting Physical
The Rise of Fitness Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
John G. Cawelti Award
Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences Award
From Charles Atlas to Jane Fonda, the fitness movement has been a driving force in American culture for more than half a century. What started as a means of Cold War preparedness now sees 45 million...
Cultural Feelings
Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams, and informed by recent ‘affect theory’, it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural...
by Raphael Travis Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
In The Healing Power of Hip Hop, Raphael Travis Jr. offers a passionate look into existing tensions aligned with Hip Hop and demonstrates the beneficial quality it can have empowering its audience. His unique perspective takes Hip Hop out of the negative light and shows readers how Hip Hop has benefited...