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Haunting Experiences
Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based...
Remake Television
Reboot, Re-use, Recycle
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Remakes are pervasive in today’s popular culture, whether they take the form of reboots, “re-imaginings,” or overly familiar sequels. Television remakes have proven popular with producers and networks interested in building on the nostalgic capital of past successes (or giving a second chance...
American Hauntings: The True Stories behind Hollywood's Scariest Movies—from The Exorcist to The Conjuring
The True Stories behind Hollywood’s Scariest Movies—from The Exorcist to The Conjuring
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
Neither a debunking book nor one written for the "true believer" in the paranormal, American Hauntings objectively scrutinizes the historic evidence behind such hugely popular films as The Exorcist, The Amityville Horror, An American Haunting, The Conjuring, and The Haunting in Connecticut...
Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and...
Burma, Kipling and Western Music
The Riff from Mandalay
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views? This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular...
by Jonas Takors
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
Each age produces its own Henry(s). This innovative study in popular culture examines how novels, films, TV-series and historiography shape new versions of Henry VIII for the twenty-first century. From The Other Boleyn Girl to The Tudors, 2009’s quint-centenary celebrations of Henry’s coronation...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Studies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources—verbal, visual, aural, and kinetic—to make meaning and allow people to achieve various social purposes such as persuading, entertaining, and explaining. Yet little is known...
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....
by Michael Mario Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about...
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows--the...
The naval war film
Genre, history and national cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture....
Rethinking Social Studies and History Education
Social Education through Alternative Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social...
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago and the Power of Popular Feminism, 1970-2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Judy Chicago's monumental art installation The Dinner Party was an immediate sensation when it debuted in 1979, and today it is considered the most popular work of art to emerge from the second-wave feminist movement. Jane F. Gerhard examines the piece's popularity to understand how ideas about feminism...
The Bad Sixties
Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture, Antiwar, and Black Power Movements
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Winner of the 2018 Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association
Ongoing interest in the turmoil of the 1960s clearly demonstrates how these social conflicts continue to affect contemporary politics. In The Bad Sixties: Hollywood Memories of the Counterculture,...