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Bottled Up
How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn’t
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
As the subject of a popular web reality series, Suzanne Barston and her husband Steve became a romantic, ethereal model for new parenthood. Called "A Parent is Born," the program’s tagline was "The journey to parenthood . . . from pregnancy to delivery and beyond." Barston valiantly...
by Marcel Danesi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files, the book provides more than just accessible definitions. Each of the more than 800 entries is cross-referenced...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago....
Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth
The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events.
• Provides comprehensive coverage of topics about or...
Travel Marketing and Popular Photography in Britain, 1888–1939
Reading the Travel Image
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This bookexplores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939. The book examines the implications of people’s increasing familiarity with the language and possibilities of photography on...
Super Bitches and Action Babes: The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006
The Female Hero in Popular Cinema, 1970-2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2007
With actress Pam Grier's breakthrough in Coffy and Foxy Brown, women entered action, science fiction, war, westerns and martial arts films--genres that had previously been considered the domain of male protagonists. This ground-breaking cinema, however, was--and still is--viewed with ambivalence....
Pop Culture
The Culture of Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009
While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and political culture. The author begins by defining popular culture, outlining criticisms, and examining the impact of globalization on pop culture. She then...
by Mr. Allen Forte, Richard Lalli, Gary Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
In the twenties, thirties, and forties, now-legendary American songwriters and lyricists created a repertoire of popular songs, songs that have captured the hearts of generations of music lovers. George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, Cole Porter, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Hoagy Carmichael and many others,...
Latin Numbers
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
*Latin Numbers *is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the twentieth-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002
Cover artwork by Diane Gamboa. Credit-Click here
Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves...
Popular China
Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001
Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging...
Matters of Gravity
Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003
The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster—Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading media and cultural theorist Scott Bukatman reveals how popular...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling
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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...