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What If This Were Enough?
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
***A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018*
*A Bustle Best Nonfiction Book of 2018*
*One of Chicago Tribune's Favorite Books by Women in 2018*
*A Self Best Book of 2018 to Buy for the Bookworm in Your Life*
By the acclaimed critic, memoirist, and advice columnist behind the popular "Ask...
Striptease Culture
Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2002
From advertising to health education campaigns, sex and sexual imagery now permeate every aspect of culture. Striptease Culture explores the 'sexualization' of contemporary life, relating it to wider changes in post-war society.
Striptease Culture is divided in to three sections:
* Part...
Zombies and Sexuality
Essays on Desire and the Living Dead
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Since the early 2000s, zombies have increasingly swarmed the landscape of popular culture, with ever more diverse representations of the undead being imagined. A growing number of zombie narratives have introduced sexual themes, endowing the living dead with their own sexual identity. The unpleasant...
Deceived Wisdom
Why What You Thought Was Right Is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Accessible, clear, and humorous, Deceived Wisdom answers questions people have pondered over for a lifetime, such as: Have you ever been informed that what you need to cool down is a nice cup of tea? And are you bored of being told that you have to let that red wine breathe first to improve its...
The Pot Book
A Complete Guide to Cannabis
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Leading experts on the science, history, politics, medicine, and potential of America’s most popular recreational drug
• With contributions by Andrew Weil, Michael Pollan, Lester Grinspoon, Allen St. Pierre (NORML), Tommy Chong, and others
• Covers marijuana’s physiological and...
Doing Research in Cultural Studies
An Introduction to Classical and New Methodological Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
`This book is a goldmine for students…it is brilliantly conceptualized and brilliantly executed. With this book cultural studies finally comes of age methodologically' - Professor Norman K Denzin, Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois
Doing Research in Cultural Studies...
Serial Killers
Death and Life in America's Wound Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In this provocative cultural study, the serial killer emerges as a central figure in what Mark Seltzer calls 'America's wound culture'. From the traumas displayed by talk show guests and political candidates, to the violent entertainment of Crash or The Alienist, to the latest terrible report of mass...
Freedom Dreams
The Black Radical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2002
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X, Kelley writes of the hope that Communism offered, the mindscapes of...
Watch Me Play
Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting
Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a month. In these new platforms for interactive...
Leisure and Power in Urban China
Everyday life in a Chinese city
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regular workdays in a local...
by BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live, Richard Coles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live, the network's flagship Saturday morning programme, has been on the air since 2006 and is hugely popular, with 1.8 million weekly listeners. Since 2013 it has featured a slot called 'Thank You', for which members of the public phone in to thank people for kind acts they...
The David Bowie Song Guide
418 Songs by Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
David Robert Jones, known professionally as David Bowie was regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime,...
by Frenchy Lunning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Fetish Style traces the history, forms and tendencies of sub-cultural fashions that are popular in both mainstream and alternative fashion cultures.
Presenting the world of subcultural fetish clothing design in all of its richness and beauty, this book explores the idea of fetish as subversive...
Playing with Earth and Sky
Astronomy, Geography, and the Art of Marcel Duchamp
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Playing with Earth and Sky reveals the significance astronomy, geography, and aviation had for Marcel Duchamp—widely regarded as the most influential artist of the past fifty years. Duchamp transformed modern art by abandoning unique art objects in favor of experiences that could be both embodied...