Popular Culture category: 4839 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers....
The Sky Is Falling
How Vampires, Zombies, Androids, and Superheroes Made America Great for Extremism
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
**A Sunday Times (London), Best Book of 2018
A thoughtful, entertaining, and occasionally profound critical study of the texts that entertain, move and, sometimes, shape us.”
-The Spectator (London)
A bold, witty, and brilliantly argued analysis of the role pop culture has played...
by Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have...
Mediated Images of the South
The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture. The contributors offer a contemporary...
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards...
Neocitizenship
Political Culture after Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
How political realities are formed when the government ceases to be a guarantor of rights and democracy
Neocitizenship explores how the constellation of political and economic forces of neoliberalism have assailed and arguably dismantled the institutions of modern democratic governance in the...
by Rex Barnes, Joel Bordeaux, Albion M. Butters
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images...
by Tim Wall
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audience that gives it meaning... A vital read for anyone interested in the changing nature of popular music production and consumption"
- Dr Nathan Wiseman-Trowse,...
Slippery Pastimes
Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular — but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences.
Slippery...
Theatrical Liberalism
Jews and Popular Entertainment in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies
For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of popular theater and film–especially in...
by Louis H. Palmer III
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Vampires in the New World surveys vampire films and literature from both national and historical perspectives since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula, providing an overview of the changing figure of the vampire in America. It focuses on such essential popular culture topics as pulp fiction,...
by Arthur A. Natella
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and...
America's Disaster Culture
The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events categorized as catastrophic? America's Disaster Culture offers answers to this question and a critical theory surrounding the culture of "natural†? disasters in American consumerism, literature, media,...
Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television
Washington as Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US...