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Comics & Media
A Special Issue of "Critical Inquiry"
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
The past decade has seen the medium of comics reach unprecedented heights of critical acclaim and commercial success*. Comics & Media* reflects that, bringing together an amazing array of contributors--creators and critics alike--to discuss the state, future, and potential of the medium.
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Ed Sheeran
A+ The Unauthorized Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Ed Sheeran is the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter with a tiny guitar and huge talent! From Sheeran's bohemian childhood to international stardom, read exclusive interviews with friends, relatives, musical collaborators, and key figures in his rise to success. The Grammy-nominated singer has toured...
THE DEATH OF HOMO SAPIENS
THE ACTION IRRATIONAL AS SOCIAL VALUE
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Segundo Karl Marx[1], “para que o homem possa ser capaz de transformar (a sociedade ou a sua condição sócio-existencial) é preciso, antes, que ele seja capaz de transformar-se”.
Nesse sentido, para poder transformar-se é preciso também poder pensar: libertar-se das...
Hit Woman
Adventures in Life and Love during the Golden Age of American Pop Music
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Hit Woman is the story of Susan Hamilton’s wildly improbable life: from early days as a child prodigy and actor, through heady success on the concert stage, in the boardrooms of Madison Ave. and over the talkback microphones of recording studios all over the world. This personal and most intimate...
Twee
The Gentle Revolution in Music, Books, Television, Fashion, and Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
New York Times, Spin, and Vanity Fair contributor Marc Spitz explores the first great cultural movement since Hip Hop: an old-fashioned and yet highly modern aesthetic that’s embraced internationally by teens, twenty and thirty-somethings and even some Baby Boomers; creating hybrid generation known...
Cultural Studies
Volume 7, Issue 2
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth
Beyond Schools
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and...
The Joker
A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to...
Steampunk
Back to the Future with the New Victorians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Credited with cofounding the movement with his Edwardian/Victorian themed albums, Paul Roland traces the history of the genre, drawing on exclusive quotes from leading writers, artists, musicians, and filmmakers in the fieldWhat began in the late 1980s as an underground community of science fiction...
Everything in its Right Place
Analyzing Radiohead
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
More than any rock artist since The Beatles, Radiohead's music inhabits the sweet spot between two extremes: on the one hand, music that is wholly conventional and conforms to all expectations of established rock styles, and, on the other hand, music so radically experimental that it thwarts any learned...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
From a decidedly inauspicious start as a low-rated television series in the 1960s that was cancelled after three seasons, Star Trek has grown to become a multi-billion-dollar industry of spin-off series, feature films and merchandise. Fuelling the ever-expanding franchise are some of the most rabid...
Adam's Navel
A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible parts of the body. In this fascinating brew of science...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Around 500 movies from the silent and early talkie era are now available on DVD. Of course this figure includes shorts as well as features, plus 40 or 50 films that are available in multiple versions. This handbook reviews 178 movies, dating from 1918 through 1934, that are now available to purchase...
by John Howard Reid
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2011
Ingrid Bergman, the lovely star of "Casablanca", is featured on the cover. It's one of my all-time favorites. Other winning movies featured in this book include "The Black Swan", "All About Eve", "The Paleface", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", "The...