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Machiavelli Goes to the Movies
Understanding The Prince through Television and Film
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Niccolò Machiavelli’s The Prince remains an influential book more than five centuries after he wrote his timeless classic. However, the political philosophy expressed by Machiavelli in his tome is often misunderstood. Although he thought humans to be rational, self-interested creatures, and even...
Identity and African American Men
Exploring the Content of Our Characterization
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Identity and African American Men: Exploring the Content of Our Characterization provides a comprehensive, research-based account of the ideologies and mindsets of many young African American men.
Identity and African American Men makes a unique contribution to the literature by offering a conceptual...
The Modern Stephen King Canon
Beyond Horror
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
The Modern Stephen King Canon: Beyond Horror is a collection of essays focused on the more recent writings of Stephen King, including Revival, 11/22/63, and a selection of short stories by the “Master of the Macabre.” The authors write about King works that have received little critical attention...
France and Indochina
Cultural Representations
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2005
At the intersection of literary, cultural, and postcolonial studies, this volume looks at French perceptions of 'Indochina' as they are conveyed through a variety of media including cinema, literature, art, and historical or anthropological writings. The volume is long awaited, as France's memory...
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop
Crises in Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop examines white American male literature for its social commentary on the construction of whiteness in the United States. Whiteness has always been a contested racial identity in the U.S., one in a state of construction and reconstruction throughout...
Queer Media Images
LGBT Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media...
by Ann E. Burnette, Mary Frances Casper, Hao-Chieh Chang
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors to this volume bring a variety of feminist rhetorical and media criticism approaches from across the...
by Kelly Oliver, Cynthia Willett, Julie Willett
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. The essays examine visual, print, and performance media—stand-up comedy, movies, television, and...
by Andrew F. Herrmann, Art Herbig, Tony E. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business...
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film
Fatal Theory and Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Baudrillard, Youth, and American Film examines the portrayal of youth in American cinema with Jean Baudrillard's radical social theory and philosophical system. Kline uses Baudrillard's corpus to analyze the troubling effects of the portrayal of youth in American teen films, namely, its contribution...
Writing Youth
Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Writing Youth: Young Adult Fiction as Literacy Sponsorship shows how many young adult novels model for young people ways to manage the various media tools that surround them. Jonathan Alexander examines not only young adult texts and their media ecologies but also young people’s multiliterate media...
The Pedagogy of Pop
Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Theoretical and Practical Strategies for Success discusses a variety of strategies and approaches for using social and mass media as tools through which...
Rhetoric of Femininity
Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Rhetoric of Femininity: Female Body Image, Media, and Gender Role Stress/Conflict offers critical and social identity intersectionalities approach to interpretations of femininity among three generations of women for a rhetorical examination of how femininity is made to mean by media and popular culture....
Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture
Fleeting Images
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, examine how children and the concept of childhood are presented in visual and print media through the unique lens of childhood studies. This collection, authored by a cadre of international...