Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Media and Class
TV, Film, and Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Although the idea of class is again becoming politically and culturally charged, the relationship between media and class remains understudied. This diverse collection draws together prominent and emerging media scholars to offer readers a much-needed orientation within the wider categories of media,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in politics, medicine and everyday life. The problems...
by Liam Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Everybody's Jane
Austen in the Popular Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
The first book
to investigate Jane Austen's popular significance today, Everybody's Jane considers why Austen matters to amateur readers, how they make use of her
novels, what they gain from visiting places associated with her, and why they
create works of fiction and nonfiction inspired by her novels...
Tradition, Urban Identity, and the Baltimore “Hon"
The Folk in the City
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Baltimoreans have garnered a reputation for greeting one another by tagging “hon” to their speech. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, this small piece of local dialect took center stage in a series of rancorous public debates over the identity associated with Baltimore culture....
Kid Comic Strips
A Genre Across Four Countries
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultures and humor styles. By examining Skippy and Ginger Meggs, the book shows a good deal of similarities...
Infectious Rhythm
Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread...
Karaoke
The Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Dancing Queen. Respect. Brandy (You’re a Fine Girl). There are some songs so infectious that you can’t help but belt out the lyrics along with the singer. Karaoke—meaning “empty orchestra” in Japanese—gets rid of the singer and leaves you in the spotlight alone. It is the social manifestation...
Charisma
The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
From the profoundly influential social theorist Philip Rieff comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.According to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma-the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars-is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly...
Litter
The Remains of Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
'What a book.' Clive Aslet, Country Life 'Characteristically brilliant.' Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times 'A little oasis of sanity.' Daily Mail. Driving the four hundred miles from Glasgow to London, Theodore Dalrymple found practically every yard of roadside to be littered with rubbish flapping in the...
The Knife Went In
Real-Life Murderers and Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
More than half a century ago, George Orwell wrote an essay about the decline of the English murder. Since the 1990s, Theodore Dalrymple has witnessed its modern variety in real life. For over a quarter of a century he has treated and examined many more murderers than most as a prison doctor, psychiatrist,...
Watching TV Religiously (Engaging Culture)
Television and Theology in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
Helping Christians Understand the Power and Meaning of TV
Since its inception, television has captured the cultural imagination. Outside of work and sleep, it is now the primary preoccupation of most Americans. Individuals consume upward of five hours of TV daily, even more when taking into...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Few could have predicted the enduring affection inspired by Joss Whedon’s television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. With its origins in a script Whedon wrote for a 1992 feature film of the same name, the series far outpaced its source material, gathering a devoted audience that remains loyal...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in classrooms and public forums, most encyclopedias of childhood and youth are devoted to history, human development, and society. A limitation on the reference bookshelf is the restriction of youth to pre-adolescence, although issues of youth...