Popular Culture category: 4839 books
USA - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Who can afford not to understand the USA? Many facets of American life have been embraced around the world, yet the sense of "just like in the movies" familiarity that first-time visitors often feel can be misleading. Underneath the gleaming smile of American popular culture lies a rich...
Selling Women's History
Packaging Feminism in Twentieth-Century American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Only in recent decades has the American academic profession taken women’s history seriously. But the very concept of women’s history has a much longer past, one that’s intimately entwined with the development of American advertising and consumer culture.
Selling Women’s...
Teenage
The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teen angst, the award-winning England's Dreaming, Jon Savage presented the "definitive history of the English punk movement" (The New York Times). Now, in Teenage, he explores the secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in a monumental...
Realism for the Masses
Aesthetics, Popular Front Pluralism, and U.S. Culture, 1935-1947
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Realism for the Masses, is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The literary and artistic creations of American realism are generally associated with the late nineteenth century. But this book argues that the aesthetic...
Mauritius - Culture Smart!
The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Mauritius is a conundrum. A small, exotic, multiethnic island nation in the Indian Ocean, to some it is a multicultural "rainbow," a haven of peace, love, and understanding. Others see it as ethnically divided, cultivating only "sugarcane and prejudice." Opinions differ as to whether...
by Robert R. Prechter
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Suppose you could understand why stars who rule the airwaves and movie screens one minute can be catapulted to obscurity the next. And why genres of TV shows become popular overnight. How and why trends fluctuate in the attendance of sporting events; the next big thing in fashion; and the styles,...
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills...
The DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession."
--In These Times
"Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to further...
BITCHfest
Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply...
In Media Res
Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically...
by Catherine Spooner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and try not to stare at the pierced and tattooed teens we pass on the streets. But what is it about this dark and morbidly morose...
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...
Elvis After Elvis
The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.'
Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US culture? Why does he continue to enjoy a cultural...
Popular Music Fandom
Identities, Roles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with the wider field of media fan research, raising...