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by Thomas MacFarlane
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
George Harrison was one of the most prolific popular music composers of the late 20th century. During his tenure with the Beatles, he caught the wave of 1960s pop culture and began channeling its pervasive influence through his music. Often described as "The Invisible Singer," his solo recordings...
Advertising Revolution
The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
The story of "Revolution" by the Beatles, from its origin as a protest song of the 1960s, to it becoming the musical backdrop for one of the most famous, influential, and controversial adverts of all time.
In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial for Air shoes—and...
Thinking Kink
The Collision of BDSM, Feminism and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
When the mildly kink-themed trilogy 50 Shades of Grey became popular reading in 2012, the media speculated that feminism was in reverse, as the public went mad over bondage and discipline, domination and submission and sadomasochism (BDSM). The novels provoked academic debate about BDSM and the issues...
by Randal Montgomery PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
2014 EDITION - REVISED AND EXPANDED
The author has a degree in psychology, has worked in mental hospitals, has a PhD in sociology with academic credentials (teaching, publishing papers in peer reviewed journals, conducting research using various methods, e.g. administering psychological tests,...
They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves
The History and Politics of Alien Abduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a...
by Jennifer Frost, Steven Alan Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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. With their emphasis on issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, sex, race, gender,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from...
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States
Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume...
by Andrew R. Bahlmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016
Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone largely unexplored. This book provides a model...
Lincoln before Lincoln
Early Cinematic Adaptations of the Life of America's Greatest President
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Remembered as the Savior of the Union, Abraham Lincoln is one of America's most revered presidents. There have been tens of thousands of books published about him since his death, but he has proved to be a surprisingly daunting subject for filmmakers. Despite a wealth of biographical material, relatively...
by Cameron C. Nickels
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
In Civil War Humor, author Cameron C. Nickels examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations,...
Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television
Animation and the American Joke
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the...
Politics and Politicians in Contemporary US Television
Washington as Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the present, this volume offers stimulating perspectives on the status of representations of contemporary US...
Surface and Depth
The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
The idea of a common American culture has been in retreat for a generation or more. Arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture...