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by Jack Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Brace yourself for a wild ride into the depths of Western culture to discover how creativity can reshape the world. But beware: everything you consider normal will be erased from the drawing board.
Drawn To Change is an artist's take on what it means to be creative in a world that is constantly...
Intimacy on the Internet
Media Representations of Online Connections
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections—be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices. Popular culture (film, narrative television, the news media, and advertising)...
Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot
Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This thought-provoking study of paranormal phenomena traces the impact of supernatural beliefs on popular culture and, conversely, examines the influence of new communication technologies on research being conducted in the field.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Despite the much vaunted ’end of religion’ and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own ’spiritualities of life’. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international...
Reality Television
Oddities of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Reality television remains a pervasive form of television programming within our culture. The new mantra is go big or go home, be weird or be invisible. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty, for example,are arguably two of the most compelling reality television programs currently airing because...
CCCS Selected Working Papers
Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2007
This collection of classic essays focuses on the theoretical frameworks that informed the work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at the University of Birmingham, the methodologies and working practices that the Centre developed for conducting academic research and examples of the studies...
Lure of the Vampire: A Pop Culture Reference Book
School of Mystical Mysteries Course Books
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2015
This is the THIRD and most recent edition.
Lure of the Vampire is a pop culture reference book that takes you on a journey through the mythology and history of the monstrous vampires – through the romantic and, at times, scary vampires in movies, television, and books.
Included in this definitive...
Indian Genre Fiction
Pasts and Future Histories
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way...
Naked Exhibitionism
Gendered Performance and Public Exposure
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
What does it mean to be naked in public? Approaching this question from across the disciplines, this book examines the evolution of female exhibitionism from criminal taboo to prime-time entertainment. Taking an interdisciplinary approach which brings together all fields of popular culture including...
Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump
Images from Literature and Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
*Utopia and Dystopia in the Age of Trump:*Images from Literature and Visual Arts treats literature, film, television series, and comic books dealing with utopian and dystopian worlds reflecting on or anticipating our current age. From Henry James’s dreamlike utopia of “The Great Good Place”...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
What happens when math nerds, band and theater geeks, goths, sci-fi fanatics, Young Republican debate poindexters, techies, Trekkies, D&D players, wallflowers, bookworms, and RPG players grow up? And what can they tell us about the life of the mind in the contemporary United States? With #GamerGate...
Dirty Harry's America
Clint Eastwood, Harry Callahan, and the Conservative Backlash
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
“Street provides a crucial critical and cultural service by not only studying Eastwood’s individual films in sharp detail but also by providing a close and serious analysis of the cultural and historic times of the films.”—Sam B. Girgus, author of Clint Eastwood’s America
“By far the...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Video games take players on a trip through ancient battlefields, to mythic worlds, and across galaxies. They provide players with a way to try on new identities and acquire vast superpowers. Video games also give people the chance to hit reset – to play again and again until they achieve a desired...
The Comics of Charles Schulz
The Good Grief of Modern Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
With contributions by:
Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders, Jeffrey O. Segrave, and Michael Tisserand
The Comics of Charles Schulz collects new essays...