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Envisioning Black Feminist Voodoo Aesthetics
African Spirituality in American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s Princess and the Frog and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise are two notable examples. The reliance on the black priestess of African-derived religion...
Kickboxing Geishas
How Modern Japanese Women Are Changing Their Nation
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2007
Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. Shopping-crazed schoolgirls in Hello Kitty costumes and the Harajuku girls Gwen Stefani helped make so popular have grabbed the media's attention. But...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Crime fiction is one of the most popular literary genres and has been for more than a century. At the heart of almost all forms of mysteries—from the Golden Age puzzler to the contemporary police procedural, from American hardboiled fiction to the Japanese timetable mystery—is the investigator....
Reading in the Dark
Horror in Children's Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Dark novels, shows, and films targeted toward children and young adults are proliferating wildly. It is even more crucial now to understand the methods by which such texts have traditionally operated and how those methods have been challenged, abandoned, and appropriated. Reading in the Dark fills...
The DNA Mystique
The Gene as a Cultural Icon
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"The DNA Mystique is a wake-up call to all who would dismiss America's love affair with 'the gene' as a merely eccentric obsession."
--In These Times
"Nelkin and Lindee are to be warmly congratulated for opening up this intriguing field [of genetics in popular culture] to further...
White Weddings
Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
This is a groundbreaking study of our culture's obsession with weddings. By examining popular films, commercials, magazines, advertising, television sitcoms and even children's toys, this book shows the pervasive influence of weddings in our culture and the important role they play in maintaining...
Talking Dirty on Sex and the City
Romance, Intimacy, Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
First broadcast on HBO in 1998, Sex and the City quickly became a mainstream success. Following four women who navigate the promise and peril of social, political, and sexual relationships in New York, the series caused a stir in the popular media. Academia also responded with a remarkable body of...
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...
Transforming Borders
Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2010
Transforming Borders: Chicana/o Popular Culture and Pedagogy contributes to transformative pedagogies scholarship by adding the voices of Chicana feminist pedagogies, epistemologies, and ontologies. C. Alejandra Elenes develops her conceptualizations of border/transformative pedagogies by linking...
The Future of the Nineteenth-Century Dream-Child
Fantasy, Dystopia, Cyberculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter series and in other works that have reached unprecedented levels of popular success today. Discussing Harry Potter as a reincarnation of Lewis Carroll's Alice...
BITCHfest
Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2006
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms., Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and deeply...
Hollywood's West
The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2005
American historians such as Frederick Jackson Turner have argued that the West has been the region that most clearly defines American democracy and the national ethos. Throughout the twentieth century, the "frontier thesis" influenced film and television producers who used the West as a...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Americans are still fascinated by the romantic notion of the "noble savage," yet know little about the real Native peoples of North America. This two-volume work seeks to remedy that by examining stereotypes and celebrating the true cultures of American Indians today.
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by Jennifer L. McMahon, B. Steve Csaki, Shai Biderman
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
The western is arguably the most iconic and influential genre in American cinema. The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West render the genre popular yet lead it to offer a view of America's history that is sometimes inaccurate. For many, the western...