Popular Culture category: 4839 books
A Decade of Dark Humor
How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and...
Twain's Brand
Humor in Contemporary American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Samuel L. Clemens lost the 1882 lawsuit declaring his exclusive right to use "Mark Twain" as a commercial trademark, but he succeeded in the marketplace, where synergy among his comic journalism, live performances, authorship, and entrepreneurship made "Mark Twain" the premier...
by Jennifer Grayer Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
What are the origins of highly specific denim fashions, such as bell bottoms, skinny jeans, and ripped jeans? How do mass media and popular culture influence today's street fashion? When did American fashion sensibilities shift from conformity as an ideal to youth-oriented standards where clothing...
How Fear Works
Culture of Fear in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
In 1997, Frank Furedi published a book called Culture of Fear. It was widely acclaimed as perceptive and prophetic. Now Furedi returns to his original theme, as most of what he predicted has come true. In How Fear Works, Furedi seeks to explain two interrelated themes: why has fear acquired such a...
Resistance Through Rituals
Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Praise for the first edition:
‘No one seriously interested in youth mass culture or style can afford to ignore this work.’ - Stanley Cohen, The Times Higher Education Supplement
‘The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies deserves our gratitude for having begun to locate the...
Hellions
Pop Culture's Rebel Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Who is the iconic rebel? Is it a character from the legacy of James Dean or Clint Eastwood, or maybe a Beat Generation writer? Is it a woman?
Modern pop culture and the media have distorted the notion of rebellion. Classic male rebels appear sexy, nomadic-naturally rebellious-while unorthodox...
Postcards in the Library
Invaluable Visual Resources
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Postcards, individually and collectively, contain a great deal of information that can be of real value to students and researchers. Postcards in the Library gives compelling reasons why libraries should take a far more active and serious interest in establishing and maintaining postcard collections...
Representing 9/11
Trauma, Ideology, and Nationalism in Literature, Film, and Television
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
This diverse collection of essays analyzes popular culture texts—including novel, films, and television shows—that demonstrate a variety of attitudes in the wake of the September 11 , 2001 attacks. The works reflect not just the early nationalist attitudes under President George W. Bush’s administration,...
Cyberbullies, Cyberactivists, Cyberpredators: Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes
Film, TV, and Internet Stereotypes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Internet has enabled an exponentially larger number of people—individuals who are members of numerous and vastly different subgroups—to be exposed to one other. As a result, instead of the simple "jocks versus geeks" paradigm of previous eras, our society now has more detailed stereotypes...
by Norman Berdichevsky
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2011
Denmark, the southernmost Nordic nation, remains little-known to many citizens of the world. Too often conflated with its Scandinavian neighbors to the north, it is a land of generally flat terrain, with an inviting temperate climate. The land of the Danes has much to offer visitors, and this guide...
The Girl on the Magazine Cover
The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.
Kitch examines the years from 1895 to 1930...
The Legality of Boxing
A Punch Drunk Love?
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2007
The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal theory and practice.
In this book, Anderson...
Vending Machines
An American Social History
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Although the 1880s are considered the beginning of the vending machine era, these devices have existed for a couple of thousand years. The earliest reference to a vending machine was made by Hero—a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer who probably lived in Alexandria during the first century...
Textual Travels
Theory and Practice of Translation in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of popular culture, and especially the role of translation...