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Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
Her image is iconic: Oprah Winfrey has built an empire on her ability to connect with and inspire her audience. No longer just a name, "Oprah" has become a brand representing the talk show host's unique style of self-actualizing individualism. The cultural and economic power wielded by Winfrey...
Blood, Guns, and Testosterone
Action Films, Audiences, and a Thirst for Violence
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2009
Since the early days of film, the representation of masculinity has changed considerably. In the beginning, men instinctively knew right from wrong. They rode to the rescue and saved the day in the nick of time to the admiration and gratitude of society. But over the decades, heroes have evolved from...
Post-Millennial Gothic
Comedy, Romance and the Rise of Happy Gothic
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Surveying the widespread appropriations of the Gothic in contemporary literature and culture, Post-Millennial Gothic shows contemporary Gothic is often romantic, funny and celebratory. Reading a wide range of popular texts, from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series through Tim Burton's Gothic film adaptations...
Slam Dunks and No-Brainers
Language in Your Life, the Media, Business, Politics, and, Like, Whatever
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2005
In this marvelously original book, three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Leslie Savan offers fascinating insights into why we’re all talking the talk—Duh; Bring it on!; Bling; Whatever!—and what this reveals about America today. Savan traces the paths that phrases like these travel from obscure...
by Limor Shifman
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2013
Taking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture.
In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own...
Pops in Pop Culture
Fatherhood, Masculinity, and the New Man
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
The definitions of fatherhood have shifted in the twenty-first century as paternal subjectivities, conflicts, and desires have registered in new ways in the contemporary family. This collection investigates these sites of change through various lenses from popular culture - film, television, blogs, best-selling...
The Enlightened Bracketologist
The Final Four of Everything
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2008
Every March, the NCAA men's basketball tournament blankets newspapers and the Internet, and attracts millions of television viewers over the course of three weeks. Will a perennial favorite like Duke win? Or will it be a dark horse like Gonzaga? The phenomenon known as March Madness galvanizes a nation...
The Authenticity Hoax
How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
“A totally real, genuine, authentic book about why you shouldn’t believe any of those words. And it’s genuinely good.”
— Gregg Easterbrook, author of Sonic Boom
Exploring a number of trends in our popular culture—from Sarah Palin to Antiques Roadshow, organic food to the indignation...
by Leigh H. Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
This book provides an up-to-date account of how reality TV has developed, why it has become the most popular genre on television today, and how the explosion in reality TV signals new developments in American media culture.
Jewhooing the Sixties
American Celebrity and Jewish Identity—Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Sandy Koufax, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, and Barbra Streisand first came to public attention in the early 1960s, a period Kaufman identifies as historically ripe for American Jews to reexamine their (Jewish) identities. All four achieved extraordinary success in their respective fields and became celebrities...
Uneasy Street
The Anxieties of Affluence
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society
From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on “easy street”?...
by Timothy White, Jim Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Match Prints is a visual and editorial dialogue between two important photographers and longtime friends. Over the course of their twenty-year friendship, Jim Marshall and Timothy White discovered that their work often shared striking similarities despite time differences of as much as three decades....
by Stephen Weiner, Ellen Forney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The popular primer on the best graphic novels, initially called The 101 Best Graphic Novels, is back in its third updated edition. Expert librarian Stephen Weiner—with the crowdsourcing help of professionals in the field, from artists to critics to leading comic store owners—has sifted through...
Wide Awake in Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book...