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by Hiroki Azuma, Sait Tamaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
From Cutie Honey and Sailor Moon to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the worlds of Japanese anime and manga teem with prepubescent girls toting deadly weapons. Sometimes overtly sexual, always intensely cute, the beautiful fighting girl has been both hailed as a feminist icon and condemned as a symptom...
The Superhero Book
The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Appealing to the casual comic book reader as well as the hardcore graphic novel fan, this ultimate AtoZ compendium describes everyone’s favorite participants in the eternal battle between good and evil. With nearly 200 entries examining more than 1,000 heroes, icons and their place in popular culture,...
Superman
The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
A celebration of Superman's life and history?in time for his 75th birthday
How has the Big Blue Boy Scout stayed so popular for so long? How has he changed with the times, and what essential aspects of him have remained constant? This fascinating biography examines Superman as a cultural phenomenon...
Love Is a Four-Letter Word
True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From Junot Díaz, Lynda Barry, Gary Shteyngart, and Kate Christensen to popular up-and-comers like Dan Kennedy, Wendy McClure, and Brock Clarke, Love Is a Four-Letter Word is a dead-on contemporary collection of true stories of seduction, heartbreak, and regret. Fearlessly revealing their shattered...
Violence Girl
East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement....
The Birth of the Museum
History, Theory, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.
Discussing the historical development of museums alongside...
Yesterday Once More
The Carpenters Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
With a string of number-one hits showcasing Karen Carpenter's warm and distinctive vocals and Richard Carpenter's sophisticated compositions and arrangements, the Carpenters were responsible for some of the most popular music of the 1970s, and this compendium collects more than 50 articles, interviews,...
Generation X Goes Global
Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics’ understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local...
The Bitter End
Hanging Out at America's Nightclub
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2002
The tale of the famous Greenwich Village coffeehouse turned nightclub, The Bitter End is also the story of the club's manager and owner, Paul Colby. From the early 60s to the 90s, the Bitter End hosted a wide range of influential music and comedy acts that reflected the changing creative atmosphere...
by Bob Leszczak
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Recording Artists don't always enjoy success with their first release. A hit record relies on any number of factors: the right song, a memorable performance, a healthy promotional budget, great management, a spot of luck, and even some intangibles. Take choice of a name. For a single artist, duo,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Despite their commercial appeal and cross-media reach, superheroes are only recently starting to attract sustained scholarly attention. This groundbreaking collection brings together essays and book excerpts by major writers on comics and popular culture.While superhero comics are a distinct and...
Inside the Hollywood Fan Magazine
A History of Star Makers, Fabricators, and Gossip Mongers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
The fan magazine has often been viewed simply as a publicity tool, a fluffy exercise in self-promotion by the film industry. But as an arbiter of good and bad taste, as a source of knowledge, and as a gateway to the fabled land of Hollywood and its stars, the American fan magazine represents a fascinating...
Grant Morrison
Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
One of the most eclectic and distinctive writers currently working in comics, Grant Morrison (b. 1960) brings the auteurist sensibility of alternative comics and graphic novels to the popular genres-superhero, science fiction, and fantasy-that dominate the American and British comics industries. His...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Comics and graphic novels have recently become big business, serving as the inspiration for blockbuster Hollywood movies such as the Iron Man series of films and the hit television drama The Walking Dead. But comics have been popular throughout the 20th century despite the significant effects of the...