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Science Fiction Audiences
Watching Star Trek and Doctor Who
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired an following that continues to grow. The book is based on over ten years of research including...
Blood Plagues and Endless Raids
A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In 2005, the video game World of Warcraft struck the cultural landscape with tidal force. One hundred million people have played WoW in the twelve years since.
But those people did more than play. They worked, they fought, they triumphed, they held entire game servers hostage, they even married...
The Name Therapist
How Growing Up with My Odd Name Taught Me Everything You Need to Know about Yours
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
What’s a “stripper” name? For that matter, what’s a high-class name? How do you tell the difference? Why does everyone call them “baby” names when they follow us through our whole lives? And can your name determine your destiny?
From a television screenwriter and contributor on the...
Gods in the Bazaar
The Economies of Indian Calendar Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007
Gods in the Bazaar is a fascinating account of the printed images known in India as “calendar art” or “bazaar art,” the color-saturated, mass-produced pictures often used on calendars and in advertisements, featuring deities and other religious themes as well as nationalist leaders, alluring...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2012
The Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies offers an exceptionally clear overview of the analysis of identity in the social sciences, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for identity-studies in the twenty-first century.
The key theories of identity, ranging from classical accounts...
Performance Anxieties
Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the meaning of Jewishness in Freud's day, Ann Pellegrini...
Who Needs Books?
Reading in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted...
Hip Hop Versus Rap
The Politics of Droppin' Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
'What is the real hip hop?'
'To whom does hip hop belong?'
'For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?'
These are three key questions posed by hip hop activists in Hip Hop Versus Rap, which explores the politics of cultural authenticity, ownership, and uplift in...
If You Can Read This
The Philosophy of Bumper Stickers
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
A PICTURE MAY BE WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS—
BUT A FEW CHOICE WORDS CAN SPEAK VOLUMES!
• If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren’t More People Happy?
• Bottled Water Is for Suckers
• Clones Are People Too
• At Least the War on the Environment Is Going Well
• Don’t Believe Everything You...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator....
Counterculture Through the Ages
From Abraham to Acid House
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. At times it moves deep below the surface of things, a stealth mode of being all but invisible to the dominant paradigm; at other times it’s in plain sight, challenging the status quo; and at still other times it erupts in a fiery...
The Emperor's Virtual Clothes
The Naked Truth About Internet Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 1995
A skeptic by nature, a writer and teacher more at home with ballpoint pens than computer programs, Dinty W. Moore wanted to find out for himself if the much-touted Internet and the electronic culture it has spawned is really going to be the Next Big Thing, or whether it's the emperor's new clothes....
Gay Skins
Class, Masculinity and Queer Appropriation
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Since their birth in the late 1960’s as a working class subcultural response to what was seen as a feminised, bourgeois-hippy parent culture, the skinhead has since held a semi-mythological status amongst the UK’s street tribes. But from the off, queer undercurrents inevitably ran through skinhead...
Real Folks
Race and Genre in the Great Depression
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2011
During the Great Depression, people from across the political spectrum sought to ground American identity in the rural know-how of “the folk.” At the same time, certain writers, filmmakers, and intellectuals combined documentary and satire into a hybrid genre that revealed the folk as an anxious...