Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Here's to My Sweet Satan
How the Occult Haunted Music, Movies and Pop Culture, 1966-1980
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A sweeping and masterful cultural history, “Here’s to My Sweet Satan” tells how the Occult conquered the American imagination, weaving together topics as diverse as the birth of heavy metal, 1970s horror films, the New Age movement, Count Chocula cereal, the serial killer Son of Sam, and more....
by Dr. T.L. Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The Hip Hop Lectures (Volume 1) are inspired by actual academic Hip Hop lectures taught in various educational institutes and organizations. The Hip Hop Lectures provide readers with an in-depth look at current Hip Hop culture through the lens of history. Throughout this book, the reader will be able...
by William Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
A collection of New York Times bestselling author William Gibson’s articles and essays about contemporary culture—a privileged view into the mind of a writer whose thinking has shaped not only a generation of writers but our entire culture...
Though best known for his fiction, William...
Serial Girls
From Barbie to Pussy Riot
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Everywhere you look patriarchal society reduces women to a series of repeating symbols: serial girls.
On TV and in film, on the internet and in magazines, pop culture and ancient architecture, serial girls are all around us, moving in perfect sync—as dolls, as dancers, as statues. From Tiller...
True Stories of CSI
The Real Crimes Behind the Best Episodes of the Popular TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
The bestselling forensic psychologist examines the true crimes that inspired the television smash hit, C.S.I.
Katherine Ramsland follows the evidence and revisits some of the most absorbing episodes of the phenomenally popular C.S.I. television franchise, and explores the real-life crimes that...
by Mark McWilliams
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Americans have increasingly embraced food culture, a fact proven by the rising popularity of celebrity chefs and the prominence of television shows celebrating food themes. This fascinating overview reveals the surprising story behind the foods America loves.The Story Behind the Dish:...
Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture
The Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional...
The Talmud and the Internet
A Journey between Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
"Not long after my grandmother died, my computer crashed and I lost the journal I had kept of her dying." So begins this powerful, personal consideration of modern technology and ancient religious impulses by the celebrated young novelist, essayist, and culture editor of the Forward. Jonathan...
The Road Trip that Changed the World
The Unlikely Theory that will Change How You View Culture, the Church, and, Most Importantly, Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Can’t find no satisfaction?
There’s no shortage of prescriptions for restlessness out there: Seek adventure. Live your life. Don’t hold back.
Sound familiar?
The Road Trip that Changed the World is a book challenging the contemporary conviction that personal freedom and...
The Late Age of Print
Everyday Book Culture from Consumerism to Control
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2009
Ted Striphas argues that, although the production and propagation of books have undoubtedly entered a new phase, printed works are still very much a part of our everyday lives. With examples from trade journals, news media, films, advertisements, and a host of other commercial and scholarly materials,...
Colonial Desire
Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2005
The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we are operating in complicity with historical...
by Tom Z
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
In 6th grade, I was part of my school’s Enrichment Program. It was a group of roughly 15 intelligent students who administrators felt weren’t being sufficiently challenged in the classroom. One period a day we would skip class and go to the Enrichment room, where we’d undertake an activity that...
Hope in a Jar
The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?
In...
The Selfie Generation
How Our Self-Images Are Changing Our Notions of Privacy, Sex, Consent, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Whether it's Kim Kardashian uploading picture after picture to Instagram or your roommate posting a mid-vacation shot to Facebook, selfies receive mixed reactions. But are selfies more than, as many critics lament, a symptom of a self-absorbed generation?
Millennial Alicia Eler's The Selfie...