Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Great Awakenings
Popular Religion and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United States--the country with the highest church attendance in the Western world. Popular religion can take...
by Dominic Strinati
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
An Introduction to Theories of Popular Culture is widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students taking courses in the major theories of popular culture. Strinati provides a critical assessment of the ways in which these theories have tried to understand and evaluate popular culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Recent natural as well as man-made cataclysmic events have dramatically changed the status quo of contemporary Japanese society, and following the Asia-Pacific war’s never-ending ‘postwar’ period, Japan has been dramatically forced into a zeitgeist of saigo or ‘post-disaster.’ This radically...
American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures
Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Bringing together disparate and popular genres of the 21st century, American Popular Culture in the Era of Terror: Falling Skies, Dark Knights Rising, and Collapsing Cultures argues that popular culture has been preoccupied by fantasies and narratives dominated by the anxiety —and, strangely, the...
Popular Culture in Africa
The Episteme of the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African...
by Stuart Hall, Paddy Whannel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
When it first appeared in 1964, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts opened up an almost unprecedented field of analysis and inquiry into contemporary popular culture. Counter to the prevailing views of the time, Hall and Whannel recognized popular culture's social importance and considered...
Kitchen Culture in America
Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together,...
Islamic Modernities in Southeast Asia
Exploring Indonesian Popular and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
What does it mean to be a modern Muslim today? In contemporary discourse Islam and modernity are often presented as each other’s opposites in media and popular culture.
Southeast Asia has a large Muslim population, especially in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, but Islamic culture in these...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Over the past decade, Korean popular culture has become a global phenomenon. The "Korean Wave" of music, film, television, sports, and cuisine generates significant revenues and cultural pride in South Korea. The Korean Popular Culture Reader provides a timely and essential foundation for...
Beyond Blurred Lines
Rape Culture in Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
From its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of “rape culture” has resonated in a variety of spheres, including television, gaming, comic book culture, and college campuses. Beyond Blurred Lines traces ways that sexual violence is collectively...
A Matrix of Meanings (Engaging Culture)
Finding God in Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
From the glittering tinsel of Hollywood to the advertising slogan you can't get out of your head, we are surrounded by popular culture. In A Matrix of Meanings Craig Detweiler and Barry Taylor analyze aspects of popular culture and ask, What are they doing? What do they represent? and What do they...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally resonant cultural resources.
This book...
Basketball in America
From the Playgrounds to Jordan's Game and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Examine the social and cultural impact of basketball on America at the amateur and professional levels!
Basketball in America: From the Playgrounds to Jordan’s Game and Beyond is a pioneering analysis of the history of basketball and its effect on popular culture from the 1970s to today....
Britishness, Popular Music, and National Identity
The Making of Modern Britain
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness. Rather than providing a history of popular music or an itemization of indigenous musical qualities, it exposes the influential cultural and nationalist rhetoric...