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Mediated Images of the South
The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of the Southerner within mass communication and popular culture. The contributors offer a contemporary...
Gender, Health, and Popular Culture
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Health is a gendered concept in Western cultures. Customarily it is associated with strength in men and beauty in women. This gendered concept was transmitted through visual representations of the ideal female and male bodies, and ubiquitous media images resulted in the absorption of universal standards...
Home Sweat Home
Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Coeditors Elizabeth Patton and Mimi Choi argue that an in-depth examination of media images of housework from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century is long overdue. Modern depictions often imply that certain concerns can be resolved through excessive domesticity, reflecting...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack
Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan...
Consuming Pleasures
Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the essence of a vibrant consumer culture? The New York intellectuals of the 1930s rejected any serious...
Postfeminism and Paternity in Contemporary US Film
Framing Fatherhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular U.S. film of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse, identifying and discussing dominant paradigms and tropes that emerge from the tendency of popular cinema to configure...
Neocitizenship
Political Culture after Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
How political realities are formed when the government ceases to be a guarantor of rights and democracy
Neocitizenship explores how the constellation of political and economic forces of neoliberalism have assailed and arguably dismantled the institutions of modern democratic governance in the...
Theatrical Liberalism
Jews and Popular Entertainment in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Finalist for the 2013 National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies
For centuries, Jews were one of the few European cultures without any official public theatrical tradition. Yet in the modern era, Jews were among the most important creators of popular theater and film–especially in...
by Donna P. Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
In Jamaica, dancehall music and culture has become perhaps the most prominent expression of Jamaican popular culture. Taking its name from the dance halls in which popular local recordings were played by sound systems, the concept of Dancehall as a cultural space has rapidly gained momentum in the...
by Dr. Arthur A, Berger
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 1996
Arthur Asa Berger elucidates narrative theory and applies it to readers' everyday experiences with popular forms of mass media. This unique book demonstrates how to interpret narratives while presenting the analysis in an accessible manner.
by Louis H. Palmer III
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
Vampires in the New World surveys vampire films and literature from both national and historical perspectives since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula, providing an overview of the changing figure of the vampire in America. It focuses on such essential popular culture topics as pulp fiction,...
by Arthur A. Natella
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and...
by Patricia L. Dooley
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book examines how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at numerous examples of films, websites, television shows, and songs that have touched on—and impacted—this issue.
• Covers freedom of speech issues in popular culture in the 19th and 20th centuries as well...
Salaam Bollywood
Representations and interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of India’s cultural diplomacy. Avoiding a linear, developmental narrative, the book re-examines the developments through the ruptures in the course of cinematic history. The...