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Star Worlds
Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtual worlds connected with popular science fiction—specifically, with Star Wars and Star Trek—that have been inhabited for over a decade by computer gamers. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, both of which have shaped the dominant...
Medievalism, Politics and Mass Media
Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
In 2001, George Bush provoked global uproar by describing the nascent War on Terror as a "Crusade". His comments, however, were welcomed by Al-Qaeda, who had long been describing Western powers in precisely the same terms, as modern Crusaders once again invading the Middle East. Ten years...
Intimacy on the Internet
Media Representations of Online Connections
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections—be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices. Popular culture (film, narrative television, the news media, and advertising)...
Teaching with the Screen
Pedagogy, Agency, and Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Teaching with the Screen explores the forms that pedagogy takes as teachers and students engage with the screens of popular culture. By necessity, these forms of instruction challenge traditional notions of what constitutes education. Spotlighting the visual, spatial, and relational aspects of media-based...
Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything?
How the Famous Sell Us Elixirs of Health, Beauty & Happiness
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
An exploration of the effect our celebrity-dominated culture has on our ideas of living the good life
What would happen if an average Joe tried out for American Idol, underwent a professional makeover, endured Gwyneth Paltrow’s “Clean Cleanse,” and followed the outrageous rituals of the rich...
Paranormal Nation: Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot
Why America Needs Ghosts, UFOs, and Bigfoot
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
This thought-provoking study of paranormal phenomena traces the impact of supernatural beliefs on popular culture and, conversely, examines the influence of new communication technologies on research being conducted in the field.
DIY Style
Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned...
Live and Recorded
Music Experience in the Digital Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
This book uncovers how music experience–live and recorded–is changing along with the use of digital technology in the 2000s. Focussing on the Nordic region, this volume utilizes the theory of mentalization: the capacity to perceive and interpret what others are thinking and feeling, and applies...
The Beauty Industry
Gender, Culture, Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become not simply places to have your hair cut or your nails done, but increasingly sites of physical and even spiritual therapy.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
Despite the much vaunted ’end of religion’ and the growth of secularism, people are engaging like never before in their own ’spiritualities of life’. Across the West, paranormal belief is on the rise. The Ashgate Research Companion to Paranormal Cultures brings together the work of international...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Superheroes such as Superman and Spider-Man have spread all over the world. As this edited volume shows, many national cultures have created or reimagined the idea of the superhero, while the realm of superheroes now contains many icons whose histories borrow from local folklore and legends. Consequently,...
Wide Awake in Slumberland
Fantasy, Mass Culture, and Modernism in the Art of Winsor McCay
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Cartoonist Winsor McCay (1869-1934) is rightfully celebrated for the skillful draftsmanship and inventive design sense he displayed in the comic strips Little Nemo in Slumberland and Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay crafted narratives of anticipation, abundance, and unfulfilled longing. This book...
I Can Has Cheezburger?
A LOLcat Colleckshun
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
The Internet has provided us with many wonders, from skateboarding dogs to Chuck Norris facts. Over the past year, though, one sensation has dominated the Web: LOLcats. Here’s how it works: First you find a picture of a cat online, and then you add a caption that reflects the cat’s point of view....
by Joe Mande
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
A hilarious send-up—and ironic celebration—of hipster culture based on the hugely popular website
Look at this Fucking Hipster (LATFH.com) was born in April 2009 as a way to help author Joe Mande help his dad answer the question, "Is that a hipster?" Months later, with millions...