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The End of Cool Japan
Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Today’s convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those...
Religion and Popular Culture
Rescripting the Sacred, 2d ed.
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religion are connected, forming and informing new ways of thinking, writing and practicing religion and theology. Film, television, music, sports and video games are integral to understanding the spiritual, the secular and...
by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of...
by Shuyu Kong
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of...
African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Identity Quest
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The contributors approach the subject from an interdisciplinary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores:
key issues of definition and of methodology
religious encounters with popular...
Entertaining Judgment
The Afterlife in Popular Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Nowadays references to the afterlife-angels strumming harps, demons brandishing pitchforks, God enthroned on heavenly clouds-are more often encountered in New Yorker cartoons than in serious Christian theological reflection. Speculation about death and its sequel seems to embarrass many theologians;...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, this book uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon of great interest, to draw students in and bring life to their study of social life.
The New Heroines: Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st-Century Popular Culture
Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st-Century Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories. It's an irresistible concept: the heroine who seems just like every other, but under the surface, she has the potential to change the world. This book examines the cultural significance of teen...
Africa in the American Imagination
Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated...
The Pop Palimpsest
Intertextuality in Recorded Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018
Within popular music there are entire genres (jazz “standards”), styles (hip hop), techniques (sampling), and practices (covers) that rely heavily on references between music of different styles and genres. This interdisciplinary collection of essays covers a wide range of musical styles and artists...
by Cyndy Hendershot
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America’s attention turned from world war to cold war. The perceived threat of communism had a definite and significant impact on all levels of American popular culture, from government propaganda films like Red Nightmare in Time magazine...
Popular Culture as Art and Knowledge
A Critique of Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy. It turns to art, more specifically popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy. Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines holds...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
For more than 60 years, Scientology has claimed alternative religious status with a significant number of followers, despite its portrayals in popular culture domains as being bizarre. What are the reasons for the vital connections between Scientology and popular culture that help to maintain or challenge...