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by James E. Perone
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
By the age of 13, singer-songwriter Taylor Swift had already inked a development deal with a major record label. This early milestone was an appropriate predictor of what accomplishments were to come. Now a superstar artist with an international fanbase of millions and several critically acclaimed...
American Bandstand
Dick Clark and the Making of a Rock 'n' Roll Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 1999
"I don't make culture, I sell it" Dick Clark once remarked. Indeed, the man who reigned as host of American Bandstand for nearly four decades may not have invented rock 'n' roll, but he sold it to the American public better than anyone before or since. Before Clark, rock 'n' roll was the...
Imagined Frontiers
Contemporary America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture...
by Nathan Vernon Madison
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In this thorough history, the author demonstrates, via the popular literature (primarily pulp magazines and comic books) of the 1920s to about 1960, that the stories therein drew their definitions of heroism and villainy from an overarching, nativist fear of outsiders that had existed before World...
Mathematics in Popular Culture
Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS...
You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are successful in traditionally male-dominated fields,...
by A. Bowdoin Van Riper
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. Science fiction is one of the most popular genres of contemporary film, a genre...
by Karen Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness—standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison. Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon,...
Thinking Dead
What the Zombie Apocalypse Means
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Zombies are everywhere these days. We are consuming zombies as much as they are said to be consuming us in mediated apocalyptic scenarios on popular television shows, video game franchises and movies. The “zombie industry” generates billions a year through media texts and other cultural manifestations...
The Wow Climax
Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2006
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic...
by Fiona Bolton
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Really Easy Piano with another selection of 50 Popular Songs. This is the perfect book for beginner pianists who want to improve their playing and expand their repertoire with pieces ranging from pop to classical, from The Mamas And Papas to Mozart and Sinead O'Connor to Star Trek.
Each of...
No Respect
Intellectuals and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's lively history and critique of modern American culture....
Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture
A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. This has followed the increased use of such characters as metaphors, with novelists and critics identifying specific meanings and topics behind them. This book aims to unravel the shapeshifting trope....
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery
An Essay on Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2003
Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standards...