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by Cecilia Alero Titilayo Saibu, David Wafula Yenjela, Shalini Nadaswaran
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular culture; and as texts in their own right from within...
Bigger than Ben-Hur
The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2016
First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The
popular novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over
10 million, and two highly successful film adaptations. For over a century, it has
become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply...
Japan Traveler's Companion
Japan's Most Famous Sights From Okinawa to Hokkaido
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Japan mesmerizes and bewilders the visitor in equal measure, making a top-notch travel guide essential for anyone planning a trip to the land of the rising sun.
Rob Goss is an award-winning Japan travel writer who has lived in the country for years. From fast-paced Tokyo to the serene temples...
The King of Novelty
Dickie Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2000
The King of Novelty is Jon Goodmans revisionist epic for posterity of his father, legendary novelty record producer and music sampling pioneer Dickie Goodman, a man contending with internal conflict and familial obligations while entertaining the world; foreword by Dr. Demento, and epigraph from "Weird...
Specter of the Monolith
Nihilism, the Sublime, and Human Destiny in Space-From Apollo and Hubble to 2001, Star Trek, and Interstellar
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Science geeks and space film fans, take a journey through the questions from your favorite movies that may continue to haunt or puzzle you. Specter of the Monolith offers a radically original critique of how humans have confronted the majesty of the vast universe—via art, media, science, pop culture,...
Modern Occult Rhetoric
Mass Media and the Drama of Secrecy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2010
A broadly interdisciplinary study of the pervasive secrecy in America cultural, political, and religious discourse.
The occult has traditionally been understood as the study of secrets of the practice of mysticism or magic. This book broadens our understanding of the occult by treating it as...
Beyond the Beat
Musicians Building Community in Nashville
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks...
Living Room Wars
Rethinking Media Audiences
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively populist. Ang examines how the makers and marketers...
by Joel Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Each of the 28 songs from White Album are “profiled” in this volume of Beatle Song Profiles.
Beatle Song Profiles are concise commentaries on every Beatle song. The song profiles describe the song’s origins and inspiration, what The Beatles themselves said about it, what was unique...
Godly Heretics
Essays on Alternative Christianity in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
When computers freeze, they are “rebooted” and soon working properly again. Similarly, legendary thinkers throughout history have argued that Christianity should start fresh by recapturing the humanitarian spirit of Jesus’ original message. These include such disparate individuals as Thomas...
Dolly and Zane Grey
Letters from a Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
Popular western writer Zane Grey was a literary celebrity during his lifetime and the center of a huge enterprise based on his writing, which included books, magazine serials, film and stage versions of his stories, even comic strips. His wife, Dolly, closely guided Grey's career almost from its beginning,...
Woodstock Scholarship
An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when...
Armed with Abundance
Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of U.S. soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities,...
Going to the Dogs
Greyhound Racing, Animal Activism, and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
North American Society for Sport History Book Award
In the 1970s sitcom The Odd Couple, Felix and Oscar argue over a racing greyhound that Oscar won in a bet. Animal lover Felix wants to keep the dog as a pet; gambling enthusiast Oscar wants to race it. This dilemma fairly reflects America's...