Popular Culture category: 4839 books
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism...
Consuming Japan
Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This insightful book explores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. Would Japan's remarkable post–World War II economic success enable the East Asian nation to overtake the United States? Or could Japan's globe-trotting corporations serve as...
Applied Discourse Analysis
Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and with many other images, discusses the basic principles of discourse theory and applies them to various aspects of popular culture, media and everyday life. Among the topics it analyzes are speed dating, advertising, jokes, language use, myths, fairy tales and material culture.
Video Games
A Popular Culture Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement. But there are important differences, as Arthur...
Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces
Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter...
The Digital Plenitude
The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.
Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms—websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more—and...
Studying Sexualities
Theories, Representations, Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Sexuality is an integral part of our lives, and our identities. But how do we study it? Written in a lively and accessible style, Studying Sexualities aims to introduce students to the critical study of sexuality, taking a look at the major theories, media representations, and cultural practices.
After...
Contemporary Collecting
Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
While the importance of collections has been evident in the sciences and humanities for several centuries, the social and cultural significance of collecting practices is now receiving serious attention as well. As reflected in programs like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, and websites such...
by Paul Bowman, Professor of Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
What do martial arts signify today? What do they mean for East-West cross cultural exchanges? How does the representation of martial arts in popular culture impact on the wide world? What is authentic practice? What does it all mean?
From Kung Fu to Jiujitsu and from Bruce Lee to The Karate...
by John Portmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This book examines American popular culture to demonstrate that celebrities have superseded religious figures as moral authorities. As trust in religious institutions has waned over recent decades, the once frivolous entertainment fringe has become the moral center. Young people and voters increasingly...
Amazons in America
Matriarchs, Utopians, and Wonder Women in U.S. Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2019
With this remarkable study, historian Keira V. Williams shows how fictional matriarchies—produced for specific audiences in successive eras and across multiple media—constitute prescriptive, solution-oriented thought experiments directed at contemporary social issues. In the process, Amazons in...
The Tanning of America
How Hip-Hop Created a Culture That Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer-the tan generation - by learning from hip-hop and youth culture.
"He is the conduit between corporate America and rap and the streets-he...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to become a multi-billion-dollar industry of spin-off series, feature films and merchandise. Fuelling the ever-expanding franchise are some of the most rabid...
Jamaica - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Laid back, sun-drenched tropical paradise, or hotbed of drug-related crime and violence? Neither stereotype is true. Jamaica suffers from a PR problem, created largely by tabloid headlines written thousands of miles away. The reality is more complex and more fascinating. Despite its small size, Jamaica...