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Quentin Tarantino
Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
Quentin Tarantino's films beg to be considered metafiction: metacommentaries that engage with the history of cultural representations and exalt the aesthetic, ethical, and political potential of creation as re-re-creation and resignification.
Covering all eight of Quentin Tarantino's films...
Deep Focus (Engaging Culture)
Film and Theology in Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
Three media experts guide the Christian moviegoer into a theological conversation with movies in this up-to-date, readable introduction to Christian theology and film. Building on the success of Robert Johnston's Reel Spirituality, the leading textbook in the field for the past 17 years, Deep Focus...
The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Nearly two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is one of the most widely read and beloved English novelists of any era. Writing and publishing anonymously during her lifetime, the woman responsible for some of the most enduring characters (and couples) of modern romantic literature, including...
States of Emergency
Essays on Culture and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In his latest book, Patrick Brantlinger probes the state of contemporary America. Brantlinger takes aim at neoliberal economists, the Tea Party movement, gun culture, immigration, waste value, surplus people, the war on terror, technological determinism, and globalization. An invigorating return to...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the media" approaches, this...
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The Cool Sell of Guerrilla Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
2015 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Media Ecology Association
2013 Book of the Year, Visual Communication Division, National Communication Association
Amidst the profound upheavals in technology, economics, and culture that mark the contemporary moment, marketing strategies...
Hybridity and its Discontents
Politics, Science, Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The contributors trace manifestations of hybridity in debates about miscengenation...
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels
Violence, Trauma, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Cultures of War in Graphic Novels examines the representation of small-scale and often less acknowledged conflicts from around the world and throughout history. The contributors look at an array of graphic novels about conflicts such as the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901), the Irish struggle for national...
Consumerism on TV
Popular Media from the 1950s to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Presenting case studies of well-known shows including Will and Grace, Birds of a Feather, Sex and the City and Absolutely Fabulous, as well as 'reality' television, this book examines the transformations that have occurred in consumer society since its appearance and the ways in which these have been...
Busted Boom
The Bummer Of Being A Boomer
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
It’s true: the superpower known as the USA is now being run … by Baby Boomers. They dominate government, control corporations, steer society and culture. Boomers are in power. This is their time. But who are they, really? What do they think? And most importantly, what have they done? What are they...
Marijuana Medicine
A World Tour of the Healing and Visionary Powers of Cannabis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2001
A comprehensive survey of the therapeutic, historical, and cultural uses of cannabis in traditions around the world.
• The most complete visual record of cannabis culture ever published.
• Christian Ratsch is one of the world's foremost ethnopharmacologists and is the current president...
Online Society in China
Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which individuals and institutions emerge and interact. While offline and online spaces are connected and influence each other,...
Game Work
Language, Power, and Computer Game Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2008
Video and computer games in their cultural contexts.
As the popularity of computer games has exploded over the past decade, both scholars and game industry professionals have recognized the necessity of treating games less as frivolous entertainment and more as artifacts of culture worthy of...