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Autobiographical Comics
Life Writing in Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
A troubled childhood in Iran. Living with a disability. Grieving for a dead child. Over the last forty years the comic book has become an increasingly popular way of telling personal stories of considerable complexity and depth. In Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures, Elisabeth...
The Post-9/11 Video Game
A Critical Examination
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
This critical study of video games since 9/11 shows how a distinct genre emerged following the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. Comparisons of pre and post–9/11 titles of popular game franchises—Call of Duty, Battlefield, Medal of Honor, Grand Theft Auto and Syphon Filter—reveal reshaped...
Funny Girls
Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
For several generations, comics were regarded as a boys’ club—created by, for, and about men and boys. In the twenty-first century, however, comics have seen a rise of female creators, characters, and readers. While this sudden presence of women and girls in comics is being regarded as new and...
by Sreechinth C
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2019
Elton John is one of pop music’s great survivors. He was a singer, songwriter and composer who discovered his passion for music at an early age. Elton worked with lyricist Bernie Taupin as his songwriting partner since 1967; they have collaborated on more than 30 albums to date. He fused many strands...
Espionage in British Fiction and Film since 1900
The Changing Enemy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Espionage in British Fiction and Film Since 1900 traces the history and development of the British spy novel from its emergence in the early twentieth century, through its growth as a popular genre during the Cold War, to its resurgence in the early twenty-first century. Using an innovative structure,...
Red States
Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and Southern Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Red States uses a regional focus in order to examine the tenets of white southern nativism and Indigenous resistance to colonialism in the U.S. South. Gina Caison argues that popular misconceptions of Native American identity in the U.S. South can be understood by tracing how non-Native audiences...
Dangerous Games
What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the field of psychology, and law enforcement claimed that these games were not only psychologically dangerous...
Profane Culture
Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2014
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures—the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies...
by Nancy Hendricks
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
'Daily Life in 1950s America shows that the era was anything but uneventful. Apart from revolutionary changes during the decade itself, it was in the 1950s that the seeds took root for the social turmoil of the 1960s and the technological world of today. The book's interdisciplinary format looks at...
by Laurence Peters, Mike Peters
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
This ground breaking work treats the Trump presidency as a "teachable moment." It is designed to help English Language Arts teachers engage with their students concerning the 45th president of the United States' multiple strategies for winning and holding power. The book provides many lesson...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
The last decade has seen dramatic changes in the U.S. political process. The advent of social media and other new forms of expression have enabled an unprecedented number of citizens to enter the political arena by expressing their opinions about issues and candidates in ways that can influence untold...
A Locker Room of Her Own
Celebrity, Sexuality, and Female Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Timothy E. Wise presents the first book to focus specifically on the musical content of yodeling in our culture. He shows that yodeling serves an aesthetic function in musical texts. A series of chronological chapters analyzes this musical tradition from its earliest appearances in Europe to its incorporation...
Inventing the Egghead
The Battle over Brainpower in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to...
A History of Cigarette and Trade Cards
The Magic Inside the Packet
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
How trading cards captured the popular culture—from war to sports, science to celebrities—with tips on how to start and develop your own collection.
The collection of picture cards has fascinated generations of children and adults since the late nineteenth century. Between 1900 and 1940, cartophily,...