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Autobiographical Comics
Life Writing in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth...
The Post-9/11 Video Game
A Critical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This critical study of video games since 9/11 shows how a distinct genre emerged following the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. Comparisons of pre and post–9/11 titles of popular game franchises—Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Grand Theft Auto and Syphon Filter—reveal reshaped...
Dangerous Games
What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous...
by Nancy Hendricks
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
'Daily Life in 1950s America shows that the era was anything but uneventful. Apart from revolutionary changes during the decade itself, it was in the 1950s that the seeds took root for the social turmoil of the 1960s and the technological world of today. The book's interdisciplinary format looks at...
Law In and As Culture
Intellectual Property, Minority Rights, and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
There are two oppositional narratives in relation to telling the story of indigenous peoples and minorities in relation to globalization and intellectual property rights. The first, the narrative of Optimism, is a story of the triumphant opening of brave new worlds of commercial integration and cultural...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The last decade has seen dramatic changes in the U.S. political process. The advent of social media and other new forms of expression have enabled an unprecedented number of citizens to enter the political arena by expressing their opinions about issues and candidates in ways that can influence untold...
The Russian "House"
An Examination of Post-Soviet Russian Culture in the Times of Putin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
The Russian “House”: An Examination of Post-Soviet Russian Culture in the Times of Putin examines Russian society as considered by the Russian people. This study recognizes the political, economic, and social structure of post-Soviet Russia in the 2010s-era given that the Russian citizenry, the...
A Locker Room of Her Own
Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation...
A History of Cigarette and Trade Cards
The Magic Inside the Packet
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
How trading cards captured the popular culture—from war to sports, science to celebrities—with tips on how to start and develop your own collection.
The collection of picture cards has fascinated generations of children and adults since the late nineteenth century. Between 1900 and 1940, cartophily,...
Sex in Consumer Culture
The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Sex in Consumer Culture: The Erotic Content of Media and Marketing considers the use of sex to promote brands, magazines, video games, TV programming, music, and movies. Offering both quantitative and qualitative perspectives from leading scholars in a variety of disciplines, this volume addresses...
Veiled Superheroes
Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political discourse. Through a close reading of texts including Ms. Marvel, Qahera, and The 99, Sophia Rose Arjana argues that these powerful and iconic characters reflect independence...
Ordinary Lives
Studies in the Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar...
Examining Lois Lane
The Scoop on Superman's Sweetheart
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
In June 1938, Superman made his debut in Action Comics #1, which also featured his romantic interest—and Clark Kent’s journalistic rival—Lois Lane. In the decades since, the intrepid reporter has become an iconic figure almost as recognizable as the Man of Steel himself. Lois has appeared in...
The Extreme in Contemporary Culture
States of Vulnerability
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This is a study of vulnerability as a dominant cultural discourse today, especially as it manifests in ‘extreme cultures’. These are cultural practices and representations of humans in risky, painful or life-threatening conditions where the limits of their humanity are tested, and producing heightened...