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Critical Thinking About Sex, Love, and Romance in the Mass Media
Media Literacy Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
This distinctive volume explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books, magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches on the representation...
Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping
No Time for Mother
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...
Measuring Up
How Advertising Affects Self-Image
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The mute gestures of advertising images are frozen for posterity by photographers and illustrators, gestures that, for better or worse, perpetuate a certain aesthetic and eventually become emblematic of a period. The images of today display the values of a society that has more interest in the body...
The Millennials on Film and Television
Essays on the Politics of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2014
The millennials, who constitute the largest generation in America’s history, may resist a simple definition; nevertheless, they do share a number of common traits and also an ever increasing presence on film and television. This collection of new essays first situates the millennials within their...
La santa muerte
La virgen de los olvidados
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Un libro que expone de manera clara y resumida la historia y sistema de uno de los cultos populares más extendidos del México actual: la adoración a la Santa muerte.
La virgen de los olvidados. Su sola mención y su figura pueden provocar rechazo y temor; sin embargo, para muchos mexicanos...
by Carlos Monsiváis
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Carlos Monsiváis es justamente célebre por sus indagaciones, tan ingeniosas como conocedoras, en las múltiples y complejas realidades de la cultura mexicana: la que conocemos como cultura popular y la “alta cultura. En este volumen el autor desmenuza, con su humor y saber acostumbrados, distintos...
Making Martyrs
The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official literature, and popular culture. She argues that early Soviet narratives constructed stories of national...
Alice in Transmedia Wonderland
Curiouser and Curiouser New Forms of a Children's Classic
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Part of Alice’s appeal is her ambiguity, which makes possible a range of interpretations in adapting Lewis Carroll’s classic Wonderland stories to various media. Popular re-imaginings of Alice and her topsy-turvy world reveal many ways of eliciting enchantment and shaping make-believe. Late 20th...
Reading Beyond the Book
The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...
by Sharon Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2019
A bold new account of how celebrity works
Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?
In this fascinating and deeply researched...
The Ages of the Incredible Hulk
Essays on the Green Goliath in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The Incredible Hulk is one of the earliest Marvel Comics superheroes. Through the decades, the character and his narrative elements—the causes of Bruce Banner’s transformations, the Hulk’s strength, intelligence and skin color, the stories’ tone, theme and sources of conflict—have been continually...
The Ages of Iron Man
Essays on the Armored Avenger in Changing Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2015
Billionaire industrialist, cold warrior, weapons designer, alcoholic, philanthropist, Avenger—Tony Stark, alter-ego of Marvel Comics’ Iron Man, has played many roles in his five decades as a superhero. From his 1963 comics debut in Tales of Suspense to the recent film adaptations—The Avengers...
by Chris Sorrentino
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2010
Deep Focus is a series of film books with a fresh approach. Take the smartest, liveliest writers in contemporary letters and let them loose on the most vital and popular corners of cinema history: midnight movies, the New Hollywood of the sixties and seventies, film noir, screwball comedies, international...
Harry, A History - Enhanced with Videos and Exclusive J.K. Rowling Interview
The True Story of a Boy Wizard, His Fans, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
A new enhanced e-book edition, featuring an extended transcript from Melissa Anelli's exclusive interview with J. K. Rowling; a new, updated chapter; and special videos made just for this edition!
Melissa Anelli wears a ring that was a gift to her from J.K. Rowling, given as a measure of appreciation...