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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror
The Melancholic Sublime
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting aesthetic...
Categorizing Sound
Genre and Twentieth-Century Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Categorizing Sound addresses the relationship between categories of music and categories of people, particularly how certain ways of organizing sounds becomes integral to how we perceive ourselves and how we feel connected to some people and disconnected from others. Presenting a series of case studies...
Mechademia 5
Fanthropologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013
Passionate fans of anime and manga, known in Japan as otaku and active around the world, play a significant role in the creation and interpretation of this pervasive popular culture. Routinely appropriating and remixing favorite characters, narratives, imagery, and settings, otaku take control of the...
Boys Love Manga and Beyond
History, Culture, and Community in Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the "beautiful boy" has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of...
Mechademia 10
World Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11—the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crises—and the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtaken Japan. Because anime and manga have long proposed (and illustrated) alternative worlds—some created...
by Ian Bogost
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
Videogames! Aren’t they the medium of the twenty-first century? The new cinema? The apotheosis of art and entertainment, the realization of Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk? The final victory of interaction over passivity? No, probably not. Games are part art and part appliance, part tableau and part toaster....
Queerness in Pop Music
Aesthetics, Gender Norms, and Temporality
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
This book investigates the phenomenon of queering in popular music and video, interpreting the music of numerous pop artists, styles, and idioms. The focus falls on artists, such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Boy George, Diana Ross, Rufus Wainwright, David Bowie, Azealia Banks, Zebra Katz, Freddie Mercury,...
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977
The Story of Music Hall in Rock
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
British Rock Modernism, 1967-1977 explains how the definitive British rock performers of this epoch aimed, not at the youthful rebellion for which they are legendary, but at a highly self-conscious project of commenting on the business in which they were engaged. They did so by ironically appropriating...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
In October 2012, the Walt Disney Company paid more than $4 billion to acquire Lucasfilms, the film and production company responsible for Howard the Duck. But Disney, despite its history and success with duck characters, wasn’t after Howard; in buying Lucasfilms, it also bought the rights to the...
Best Bear Ever!
A Little Year of Liz Climo
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Come spend some time in Liz Climo's world! The artist and popular blogger returns with another collection of her comics--this time following the seasons with her most beloved characters.
Fans love Liz Climo's charmingly funny animal kingdom, which was first featured in The Little World of Liz...
The Adoring Audience
Fan Culture and Popular Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
My Beautiful Despair
The Philosophy of Kim Kierkegaardashian
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
“Reflective maxims on life, death, sin, and emptiness, salted with luxury accessories of the Kardashian lifestyle...@KimKierkegaard is dross turned gold, redemption through absurdity in a hundred and forty characters.” –The New Yorker
In “the ultimate meeting of the sublime with the...
by Amy E. Seham
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2001
On both sides of the stage improv-comedy's popularity has increased exponentially throughout the 1980s and '90s and into the new millennium. Presto! An original song is created out of thin air. With nothing but a suggestion from the audience, daring young improvisers working without a net or a script...
International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga
The Influence of Girl Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and researchers from both manga’s home country of...