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by Mike Bhangu
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
An angel or a demon, a person can be overcome by either one. Tragically, popular culture provokes the demon to captain the thoughts and actions of an individual.
The angel in you and me is under attack. Our spirituality is openly assaulted. This manuscript explores several of the cultural elements...
Oz behind the Iron Curtain
Aleksandr Volkov and His Magic Land Series
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Recipient of the 2018 Outstanding Faculty Research Achievement Award in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics at Syracuse University
In 1939, Aleksandr Volkov (1891-1977) published Wizard of the Emerald City, a revised version of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz....
Monster Trek
The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Bigfoot sightings have been reported in every state except Hawaii. Interest in this creature, which many believe to be as mythical as a leprechaun, is as strong today as ever, with the wildly popular show Finding Bigfoot persisting on the Animal Planet network and references to bigfoot appearing throughout...
Engaging the Past
Mass Culture and the Production of Historical Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media can encourage complex interactions with the past that have far-reaching consequences for history and...
by Rex Barnes, Joel Bordeaux, Albion M. Butters
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry to luxury resorts and sports cars, and popular culture has readily absorbed it along similar lines. Yet the religious traditions grounding such images...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
In 1956 many people thought rock `n' roll was a passing fad, yet over forty years later , more than ever, Popular Music is a part of contemporary culture, reinventing itself for successive generations. Pop embraces its own history, with musicians from every genre routinely sampling the sounds of the...
East Meets Black
Asian and Black Masculinities in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
East Meets Black examines the making and remaking of race and masculinity through the racialization of Asian and black men, confronting this important white stratagem to secure class and racial privilege, wealth, and status in the post-civil rights era. Indeed Asian and black men in neoliberal America...
All-American TV Crime Drama
Feminism and Identity Politics in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
Law and Order Special Victims Unit (SVU) is more popular than any other American police procedural television series, but how does its unique focus on sex crimes reflect contemporary popular culture and feminist critique, whilst also recasting the classic crime narrative?
Transatlantic Mysteries
Crime, Culture, and Capital in the 'Noir Novels' of Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
Transatlantic Mysteries presents a comparative study that brings together authors Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Manuel Vázquez Montalbán —from two specific political contexts: post-1968 Mexico and post-Franco Spain— who both work in one specific genre—'noir' detective fiction. In this so called...
Bestseller
A Century of America's Favorite Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
Whether curled up on a sofa with a good mystery, lounging by the pool with a steamy romance, or brooding over a classic novel, Americans love to read. Despite the distractions of modern living, nothing quite satisfies many individuals more than a really good book. And regardless of how one accesses...
by Nadine Hubbs
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In her provocative new book Rednecks, Queers, and Country Music, Nadine Hubbs looks at how class and gender identity play out in one of America’s most culturally and politically charged forms of popular music. Skillfully weaving historical inquiry with an examination of classed cultural repertoires...
Classic American Popular Song
The Second Half-Century, 1950-2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Everybody's Jane
Austen in the Popular Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
The first book
to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her
novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they
create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels...
Fukushima and the Arts
Negotiating Nuclear Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
The natural and man-made cataclysmic events of the 11 March 2011 disaster, or 3.11, have dramatically altered the status quo of contemporary Japanese society. While much has been written about the social, political, economic, and technical aspects of the disaster, this volume represents one of the...