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Feminist Ryan Gosling
Feminist Theory (as Imagined) from Your Favorite Sensitive Movie Dude
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Based on the popular blog of the same name, Feminist Ryan Gosling pairs swoon-worthy photos of the sensitive, steamy actor with feminist theories to the delight of women (and more than a few of their mothers) everywhere.
What started as a silly way for blogger Danielle Henderson and her classmates...
Hiding in the Light
On Images and Things
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and promotional music videos. He assesses their broad cultural significance and charts their impact on contemporary popular tastes.
Of Comics and Men
A Cultural History of American Comic Books
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Originally published in France and long sought in English translation, Jean-Paul Gabilliet's Of Comics and Men: A Cultural History of American Comic Books documents the rise and development of the American comic book industry from the 1930s to the present. The book intertwines aesthetic issues and...
Anything That Moves
Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters, and the Making of a New American Food Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The popular New Yorker writer combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain.
Dana Goodyear’s narrative debut is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into the raucous, strange, fascinatingly complex world of contemporary American food culture. At...
Beatleness
How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A must-have for Beatles fans looking for new insight . . . Leonard uncovers fresh ideas [that] six decades of Beatles literature passed over” (The Spectrum).
Part generational memoir and part cultural history of the sixties, Beatleness is the first book to tell the story of the Beatles...
The Boy Who Cried Freebird
Rock & Roll Fables and Sonic Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
Wedding the American oral storytelling tradition with progressive music journalism, Mitch Myers' The Boy Who Cried Freebird is a treatise on the popular music culture of the twentieth century. Trenchant, insightful, and wonderfully strange, this literary mix-tape is authentic music history . . . except...
by Will Friedwald
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The author of the magisterial A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers now approaches the great singers and their greatest work in an innovative and revelatory way: through considering their finest albums, which is the format in which this music was most resonantly organized and presented...
Love for Sale
Pop Music in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
A personal, idiosyncratic history of popular music that also may well be definitive, from the revered music critic
From the age of song sheets in the late nineteenth-century to the contemporary era of digital streaming, pop music has been our most influential laboratory for social and aesthetic...
Amore
The Story of Italian American Song
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
Amore is Mark Rotella's celebration of the "Italian decade"—the years after the war and before the Beatles when Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Dean Martin, and Tony Bennett, among others, won the hearts of the American public with a smooth, stylish, classy brand of pop. In Rotella's vivid...
Pick Yourself Up
Dorothy Fields and the American Musical
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
In a career that spanned nearly five decades, Dorothy Fields penned the words to more than four hundred songs, among them mega-hits such as "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," "The Way You Look Tonight," and "If My Friends Could...
Christ to Coke
How Image Becomes Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Image, branding, and logos are obsessions of our age. Iconic images dominate the media. Christ to Coke is the first book to look at all the main types of visual icons. It does so via eleven supreme and mega-famous examples, both historical and contemporary, to see how they arose and how they continue...
Life: The Movie
How Entertainment Conquered Reality
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.
Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media...
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool
A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool profiles over 250 of the most intriguing personalities of the 1960s. The men and women covered in the book include a wide range of celebrities-from well-known superstars (the Beatles, Dustin Hoffman, Muhammad Ali) to lesser-known icons (Nico, Terry Southern, Bo Belinsky)-who...
by Tyler Knott Gregson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Here starts the journey
Every day for the past six years, Tyler Knott Gregson has written a simple haiku about love, and posted it online. These heartfelt poems have attracted a large and loyal following around the world. This highly anticipated follow-up to *Chasers of the Light, *presents Tyler’s favorites, some...