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Fandom as Classroom Practice
A Teaching Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Providing ways to engage students through their popular culture interests, this collection brings together several essays, across disciplines, to show how fan practices such as writing fan fiction, creating vids, communicating via Tumblr, and participating in film tourism can invite students to invest...
OK:The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
It is said to be the most frequently spoken (or typed) word on the planet, more common than an infant's first word ma or the ever-present beverage Coke. It was even the first word spoken on the moon. It is "OK"--the most ubiquitous and invisible of American expressions, one used countless times every...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Contributions by Marleen S. Barr, Shiloh Carroll, Sarah Gray, Elyce Rae Helford, Michael R. Howard II, Ewan Kirkland, Nicola Mann, Megan McDonough, Alex Naylor, Rhonda Nicol, Joan Ormrod, J. Richard Stevens, Tosha Taylor, Katherine A. Wagner, and Rhonda V. Wilcox
Although the last three decades...
Age of the Geek
Depictions of Nerds and Geeks in Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
This collection examines the nerd and/or geek stereotype in popular culture today. Utilizing the media—film, TV, YouTube, Twitter, fiction—that often defines daily lives, the contributors interrogate what it means to be labeled a “nerd” or “geek.” While the nerd/geek that is so easily...
The Trouble with Nature
Sex in Science and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exposé of the heterosexual fables that pervade popular culture, from prime-time sitcoms to scientific theories about the so-called gay gene. Lancaster links...
El intelectual y la cultura de masas
Argumentos Latinoamericanos En Torno a Ángel Rama Y José María Arguedas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 15, 2016
El intelectual y la cultura de masas, de Javier García Liendo, estudia las respuestas intelectuales de Ángel Rama (Uruguay) y José María Arguedas (Perú) a los efectos de la cultura de masas en la cultura de la imprenta latinoamericana y en las culturas indígenas de los Andes. Explora la participación...
Blasian Invasion
Racial Mixing in the Celebrity Industrial Complex
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Myra S. Washington probes the social construction of race through the mixed-race identity of Blasians, people of Black and Asian ancestry. She looks at the construction of the identifier Blasian and how this term went from being undefined to forming a significant role in popular media. Today Blasian...
by Lynnette Porter
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890. Yet how much of what is commonly known about this world-renowned artist is accurate? Though he left thousands of works and a trove of letters, the definitive Van Gogh remains elusive. Was he a madman who painted his...
Applied Discourse Analysis
Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and with many other images, discusses the basic principles of discourse theory and applies them to various aspects of popular culture, media and everyday life. Among the topics it analyzes are speed dating, advertising, jokes, language use, myths, fairy tales and material culture.
by Anne M. Harris
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
This book explores the rich intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. The co-constitutive identity-building work of music, performance, and drama for Samoan and Sudanese youth in church contexts has given rise to new considerations of diversity, cultural...
Happily Ever After
The Romance Story in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the Biblical Song of Songs to Disney’s princesses, but perhaps most provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed...
A MORTE DO HOMO SAPIENS
A AÇÃO IRRACIONAL COMO VALOR SOCIAL
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: June 16, 2014
“A sociedade pós-moderna, no alvorecer do século XXI, idolatra e se orgulha das máquinas que pensam. E, numa outra via paradoxal, suspeita e não vê com bons olhos os homens que, negando se tornarem meros apêndices delas, ainda ousam querer pensar.” (autor desconhecido)
"Rotineiramente...
Costuming Cosplay
Dressing the Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplay takes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture...
Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces
Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter...