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Cyberpop
Digital Lifestyles and Commodity Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Cyberpop is an analysis of cyberculture and its popular cultural productions. The study begins with a Foucaultian model of cyberculture as a discursive formation, and explains how some key concepts (such as 'virtuality,' 'speed,' and 'Connectivity') operate as a conceptual architecture network linking...
The Paranormal and Popular Culture
A Postmodern Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow...
by Raechel Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis...
The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture
Essays on Fiction, Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. These characters are often identified as heroines and recognized as powerful and progressive pop icons. Some fit the image of the tough, resourceful female in a...
Video Games
A Popular Culture Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement. But there are important differences, as Arthur...
by Yuya Kiuchi
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Many fans loved Fifty Shades of Grey. Many others loved to hate it. E.L. James’ trilogy of novels, and the film based on them, created a popular culture sensation, revealing much about a society that is both preoccupied with and scandalized by BDSM eroticism. Some critics argued that the franchise...
Studying Sexualities
Theories, Representations, Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Sexuality is an integral part of our lives, and our identities. But how do we study it? Written in a lively and accessible style, Studying Sexualities aims to introduce students to the critical study of sexuality, taking a look at the major theories, media representations, and cultural practices.
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I'm Not Like Everybody Else
Biopolitics, Neoliberalism, and American Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Despite the presence of the Flaming Lips in a commercial for a copier and Iggy Pop’s music in luxury cruise advertisements, Jeffrey T. Nealon argues that popular music has not exactly been co-opted in the American capitalist present. Contemporary neoliberal capitalism has, in fact, found a central...
Contemporary Collecting
Objects, Practices, and the Fate of Things
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
While the importance of collections has been evident in the sciences and humanities for several centuries, the social and cultural significance of collecting practices is now receiving serious attention as well. As reflected in programs like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, and websites such...
Approaching Eden
Adam and Eve in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
You don't have to be religious for the story of Adam and Eve to have touched your life. From Voldemort's snake mascot in Harry Potter novels to the 'forbidden fruit' apple that puts Snow White to sleep in fairy tales, we are inundated with references to the Garden of Eden in popular culture from an...
Mind the Bollocks
A riotous rant through the ridiculousness of Rock'n'Roll
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Popular music has always attracted the kind of morally bankrupt individuals who are too unhinged to hold down a proper job. And thats just as well. After all, if your local fishmonger told you hed just snorted his fathers ashes, you might think twice about doing business with him. But when Keith Richards...
Disability, Obesity and Ageing
Popular Media Identifications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which ’spurned’ identities are depicted and reacted to in televisual genres and online forums. Examining the symbolic power of the media, this book presents case studies from drama,...
by Daniel Peretti
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Superman rose from popular culture—comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies—but people have so embraced the character that he has now become part of folklore. This transition from popular to folk culture signals the importance of Superman to fans and to a larger American...
The Murder Mystique: Female Killers and Popular Culture
Female Killers and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Although they account for only ten percent of all murders, those attributed to women seem especially likely to captivate the public. This absorbing book examines why that is true and how some women, literally, get away with murder.