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Okinawa, Japan
The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
Okinawa, Japan. The People, History, World War II, Culture and Tradition. Travel and Tourism. Before Okinawa, there was Ryukyu, an independent kingdom ruled by its kings, its people seafarers prospering through trade with China and other neighboring countries. In 1609, Ryukyu was invaded by Satsuma...
Soldier Heroes
British Adventure, Empire and the Imagining of Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in the era of nineteenth-century popular imperialism,...
Art on Skin
Tattoos, Style, and the Human Canvas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
A celebration of all things tattoo, this visually appealing wealth of tattoo knowledge will have you running for the nearest tattoo artist. The twenty-first century has seen a boom in tattooing, with millions of American’s-23 percent of them-boasting ink on their body. This popular pastime is not...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The Believer’s mission is to introduce readers to the best and most interesting work in the world of art, culture, and thought-whether that means literature, painting, wrestling, philosophy, or cooking. Its content (including essays, interviews, comics, poetry, and reviews) offers fresh perspectives...
Second Takes
Remaking Film, Remaking America
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Second Takes presents the history of English language cinema by focusing on cinematic remakes and on how cinema has been replaced by new forms of “media.” Remakes, with their innate plurality, offer the most substance for concentrated cultural analysis of how movies reflect and shape American...
Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory
Reimagining a Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2001
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group...
Carnavales De Santiago De Cuba (1948-1956)
La Gran Semana Santiaguera
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Carnavales de Santiago de Cuba (1948-1956): La Gran Semana Santiaguera es el ttulo que se le da a esta investigacin histrica, econmica, folclrica y sociolgica realizada por los autores Alejandro Pichel y Olga Garca en 1973, referente a la poca de mayor esplendor del carnaval santiaguero (1948-1956),...
by Michael Regan
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, , language: English, abstract: Music, in all its multifarious styles and idioms, is everywhere, 24 hours a day. It never rests, and we can hear just about everything of significance ever composed, performed and improvised, at the...
by Ellen Willis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis’s daring insights went beyond popular music, taking on such issues as pornography, religion,...
Buffy Meets the Academy
Essays on the Episodes and Scripts as Texts
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book presents serious academic scholarship on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It differs from other works because it uses Buffy as a primary text and not as a secondary instrument to explore other concepts. In doing so, it demonstrates that popular culture studies should be approached with the same...
Vampira
Dark Goddess of Horror
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
The new book from award-winning historian W. Scott Poole is a whip-smart piece of pop culture detailing the story of cult horror figure Vampira that actually tells the much wider story of 1950s America and its treatment of women and sex, as well as capturing a fascinating swath of Los Angeles history.
In...
Loving Vampires
Our Undead Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society’s most sensitive subjects—sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class—and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture’s vampires variously...
The Mythology of Supernatural
The Signs and Symbols Behind the Popular TV Show
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
A look into the paranormal legends, lore, mythology, and monsters featured on the hit television show Supernatural.
From angels to demons, The Mythology of Supernatural explores the religious roots and the ancient folklore of the otherworldly entities that brothers Sam and Dean Winchester face...
The Poets of Tin Pan Alley
A History of America's Great Lyricists
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 1992
From the turn of the century to the 1960s, the songwriters of Tin Pan Alley dominated American music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George and Ira Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart--even today these giants remain household names, their musicals regularly revived, their methods and styles analyzed and imitated,...