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The Digital Plenitude
The Decline of Elite Culture and the Rise of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
How the creative abundance of today's media culture was made possible by the decline of elitism in the arts and the rise of digital media.
Media culture today encompasses a universe of forms—websites, video games, blogs, books, films, television and radio programs, magazines, and more—and...
Encyclopedia of KISS
Music, Personnel, Events and Related Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
The self-proclaimed “Hottest Band in the World,” KISS is one of the most popular groups in the history of rock, having sold more than 100 million albums during their more than 40–year reign. With more gold albums than any other American band, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of...
Eminem and Rap, Poetry, Race
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
Eminem is the best-selling musical artist of the 21st century. He is also one of the most contentious and most complex artists of our time. His verbal dexterity ranks him among the greatest technical rappers ever. The content of his songs combines the grotesque and the comical with the sincere and...
Quizzing America
Television Game Shows and Popular Culture in the 1950s
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
The 1950s television game show was a cultural touchstone, reflecting the zeitgeist of a flourishing modern nation. The author explores the iconography of the mid–20th century U.S. in the context of TV watching, game playing and prize winning. The scandals that marred the genre’s reputation are revisited, highlighting American’s propensity for both gullibility and winking cynicism.
The South of the Mind
American Imaginings of White Southernness, 1960–1980
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
With the nation reeling from the cultural and political upheavals of the 1960s era, imaginings of the white South as a place of stability represented a bulwark against unsettling problems, from suburban blandness and empty consumerism to race riots and governmental deceit. A variety of individuals...
The Dangerous Philosophies of Michael Jackson: His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife
His Music, His Persona, and His Artistic Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Michael Jackson is regarded as one of the most important musicians of our time. Going well beyond the average celebrity biography, this comprehensive book looks at why that is true, offering insights into every facet of Jackson's art, life, and artistic afterlife. It looks at the methods by which...
by Jan-Patrick Stolpmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: 1,3, University of East London (BUSINESS SCHOOL), course: Global Music Production & Distribution, language: English, abstract: Music Television, or MTV, a cable television network that allocates most of its broadcasting...
Millennial Fandom
Television Audiences in the Transmedia Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
No longer a niche or cult identity, fandom now colors our notions of an expansive generational construct—the millennial generation. Like fans, millennials are frequently cast as active participants in media culture, spectators who expect opportunities to intervene, control, and create. At the same...
Adventures in Archaeology
The Wreck of the Orca II and Other Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
Remnants of the curious and peculiar ways humankind has marked the archaeological landscape are abundant but often ignored: wrecked aircraft, abandoned airfields, old highway billboards, derelict boats, movie props, and deserted mining operations. In this book, archaeologist P.J. Capelotti explores...
Locating Nordic Noir
From Beck to The Bridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017
This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include readings of well-known television crime dramas such as...
Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context
Being and Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2019
Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions. Challenging the view of Taiwan as a product of transience and displacement, it highlights Taiwan’s subjectivity, viewing the island as a site of a global development that epitomizes...
Fashion Fads Through American History: Fitting Clothes into Context
Fitting Clothes into Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Perfect for any reader interested in fashion, history, or popular culture, this text is an essential resource that presents vital information and informed analysis of key fashion fads not found elsewhere.
• Provides high school and college students with interesting information about the direct...
India Social
HOW SOCIAL MEDIA IS LEADING THE CHARGE AND CHANGING THE COUNTRY
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
`As a pioneer in the age when social media has become India?s new political pulpit and argumentative townsquare, Ankit Lal is perfectly poised to chronicle India?s transformational tryst with Twitter and Facebook and whatever comes next.? ? SHEKHAR GUPTA, senior journalist and recipient of the Padma...
Cultural Disability Studies in Education
Interdisciplinary Navigations of the Normative Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Over the last few decades disability studies has emerged not only as a discipline in itself but also as a catalyst for cultural disability studies and Disability Studies in Education. In this book the three areas become united in a new field that recognises education as a discourse between tutors...