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Damned If You Do
Dilemmas of Action in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010
Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage:...
by Georgia Aitaki, Maria Akritidou, Yiorgos Anagnostou
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
This book deals with historical consciousness and its artistic expressions in contemporary Greece since 1989 from the point of view that contemporary Greeks have been faced with the contradictions between on the one hand a glorious, world-famous yet distant past and, on the other, a traumatic contemporary...
The Meaning and Culture of Grand Theft Auto
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The immensely popular Grand Theft Auto game series has inspired a range of reactions among players and commentators, and a hot debate in the popular media. These essays from diverse theoretical perspectives expand the discussion by focusing scholarly analysis on the games, particularly Grand Theft...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Though in existence for only a few decades, video games are now firmly established in mainstream culture all around the planet. Every year new games are produced, and every year new favorites emerge. But certain characters have become so iconic that they withstand both time and the shifting interests...
Buffy, Ballads, and Bad Guys Who Sing
Music in the Worlds of Joss Whedon
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
When writer and director Joss Whedon created the character Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he could hardly have expected the resulting academic interest in his work. Yet almost six years after the end of Buffy on television, Buffy studies—and academic work on Whedon's expanding oeuvre—continue to grow....
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2001
This Companion maps the world of pop and rock, pinpointing the most significant moments in its history and presenting the key issues involved in understanding popular culture's most vital art form. Expert writers chart the changing patterns in the production and consumption of popular music, the emergence...
In Media Res
Race, Identity, and Pop Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
In Media Res is a manifold collection that reflects the intersectional qualities of university programming in the twenty-first century. Taking race, gender, and popular culture as its central thematic subjects, the volume collects academic essays, speeches, poems, and creative works that critically...
Feminism Without Women
Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)
Militainment, Inc.
War, Media, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive...
Fugitive Cultures
Race, Violence, and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its political and pedagogical value as a site of critique...
by Catherine Spooner
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2007
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and try not to stare at the pierced and tattooed teens we pass on the streets. But what is it about this dark and morbidly morose...
The Wanted Quiz Book
100 Questions on the Boy Band
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Are you a fan of The Wanted? Can you name all the members of this popular English-Irish boy band? Have you followed the group from the release of their debut album through to chart-topping success? If you think you know all about The Wanted, then you are certain to enjoy this new quiz book.In which month...
Eminem: The Real Slim Shady
The Real Slim Shady
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Offering a fresh way to look at one of the best-selling hip hop artists of the early 21st century, this book presents Eminem's words, images, and music alongside comments from those who love and hate him, documenting why Eminem remains a cultural, spiritual, and economic icon in global popular culture.
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Bite Me
Food in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored - what we eat is a marker of power, cultural...