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by William Sims Bainbridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
An exploration of the popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft as a virtual prototype of the real human future.
Adorno and Democracy
The American Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
German philosopher and social critic Theodor Adorno (1903--1969) is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers. A leading member of the Frankfurt School, Adorno advanced an unconventional type of Marxist analysis in books such as Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944),...
The Dim Sum Field Guide
A Taxonomy of Dumplings, Buns, Meats, Sweets, and Other Specialties of the Chinese Teahouse
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
A whimsically illustrated yet authoritative guide to the "taxonomy" of dim sum, based on a popular Lucky Peach story.
Author and illustrator Carolyn Phillips demystifies the rich, nuanced culinary institution of teahouse snacks in The Dim Sum Field Guide, a pocket-size, definitive resource...
Superheroes and American Self Image
From War to Watergate
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in which they are produced. Structured around key political events in the US between 1938 and 1975, the author combines analyses of visual and textual discourse,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. China’s stratospheric growth has made it the second largest economy in the world—and one of the most unequal. Marxist ideology...
Postcards from the Edge
Remote British Lighthouses in Vintage Postcards
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weather on our holidays or where we're visiting next on our travels. A hundred years ago we sent postcards with more serious messages - important, personal...
A Decade of Dark Humor
How Comedy, Irony, and Satire Shaped Post-9/11 America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
A Decade of Dark Humor analyzes ways in which popular and visual culture used humor-in a variety of forms-to confront the attacks of September 11, 2001 and, more specifically, the aftermath. This interdisciplinary volume brings together scholars from four countries to discuss the impact of humor and...
by Jennifer Grayer Moore
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017
What are the origins of highly specific denim fashions, such as bell bottoms, skinny jeans, and ripped jeans? How do mass media and popular culture influence today's street fashion? When did American fashion sensibilities shift from conformity as an ideal to youth-oriented standards where clothing...
by Linda Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
Many television critics, legions of fans, even the president of the United States, have cited The Wire as the best television series ever. In this sophisticated examination of the HBO serial drama that aired from 2002 until 2008, Linda Williams, a leading film scholar and authority on the interplay...
Fun and Games in Higher Education
The Lonely Crowd Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2007
Fun & Games & Higher Education ranges from Wayne’s World to hot-rodding, from automobility to the popular phenomenon know as the tailgate party, from German sociologist George Simmel to Canadian Media Guru Marshall McLuhan—all in the interests in exploring North American obsession with play-and particularly the intersection between education, work, and leisure.
Global Entertainment Media
Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media.
In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye...
Soccer Culture in America
Essays on the World's Sport in Red, White and Blue
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2013
What does the world’s favorite sport mean in the United States? Despite the common belief that it is only a women’s sport, an immigrants’ sport, a small kids’ sport—or that hating soccer is very American, the new essays in this volume attest that soccer indeed is a very American and very...
Playing For Keeps
Sport, The Media and Society
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
A highly regarded text on the intersection of mass media and sports. First published 1987; this edition with new foreword 2013.
This book is a brief introductory inquiry that, in the early chapters, provides a broad historical overview of the development since the early nineteenth century of...
Shopping Around
Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are examined, exposing the fact that women "read"...