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Critical Digital Studies
A Reader, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Since its initial publication, Critical Digital Studies has proven an indispensable guide to understanding digitally mediated culture. Bringing together the leading scholars in this growing field, internationally renowned scholars Arthur and Marilouise Kroker present an innovative and interdisciplinary...
Digital Keywords
A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media...
The Fabric of Cultures
Fashion, Identity, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history.
The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as a culture industry that shapes the identities...
Digitized Lives
Culture, Power, and Social Change in the Internet Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
In a remarkably short period of time the Internet and associated digital communication technologies have deeply changed the way millions of people around the globe live their lives. But what is the nature of that impact? In chapters examining a broad range of issues—including sexuality, politics,...
Collectible '70s
A Price Guide to the Polyster Decade
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
A funkadelic trip to the not-so-distant past…
Disco, Smiley Faces, 8-tracks and platform shoes - retro is in and '70s rule! The Collectible '70s is a pop-culture history and price guide to treasures of this unforgettable decade. Covering everything from leisure suits to Pet Rocks, Saturday Night...
Moving Data
The iPhone and the Future of Media
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The iPhone has revolutionized not only how people communicate but also how we consume and produce culture. Combining traditional and social media with mobile connectivity, smartphones have redefined and expanded the dimensions of everyday life, allowing individuals to personalize media as they move...
Planet Cosplay
Costume Play, Identity and Global Fandom
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2018
This book examines cosplay from a set of ground-breaking disciplinary approaches, highlighting the latest and emerging discourses around this popular cultural practice. Planet Cosplay comprises chapters from scholars who are widely published in this field, examining the subject of cosplay from sources...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Forty original contributions on what we should all be watching next.
We all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it ‘good’ or ‘bad.’ Rather, criticism uses the...
Not Like Us
How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, And Transformed American Culture Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Debunking the myth of the "Americanization" of Europe, a noted historian presents an authoritative and engrossing cultural history of how America tried to remake Europe in its own image, and how the Europeans successfully retained their identity in the face of American mass culture. Pells...
Narrating the Landscape
Print Culture and American Expansion in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The American nineteenth century saw a largely rural nation confined to the Eastern Seaboard conquer a continent and spawn increasingly dense commercial metropolises. This time of unprecedented territorial and economic growth has long been thought to find its most sweeping visual equivalent in the...
Otaku Tōkyō isshūkan
Une semaine au coeur de la passion manga
Language: French
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Voyager à Tōkyō est un rêve pour tout fan de pop-culture japonaise. Et si vous n’aviez qu’une semaine pour vous faire de mémorables souvenirs de passionné ? Relevez le défi grâce à cet ouvrage ! Il vous guidera vers les lieux emblématiques des anime/mangas et vous permettra de découvrir...
Celebrity and Power
Fame in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public...
British Fashion Design
Rag Trade or Image Industry?
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry. Based on interviews and research conducted over a number of years, Angela McRobbie charts the flow of art school fashion graduates into the industry; their attempts to reconcile...
by Rob Reger
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In her fifteen-plus years in existence, oddballs, outcasts, and art freaks the world over have grown to know and love a strange young girl named Emily. With roots in the punk-rock art scene of Santa Cruz skate culture and an early appeal to European trend spotters, the iconic image of Emily and her...