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How Bodybuilders, Soldiers and a Hairdresser Reinvented Martial Arts for America
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2016
Why do so many Americans practice martial arts? How did kung fu get its own movie genre? What makes mixed martial arts so popular? This book answers these questions for the first time with historical research. At the turn of the 20th century, the United States enjoyed a time of prosperity but feared...
by Matthew Pateman
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2015
On the TV screen as elsewhere, there is often more than meets the eye. For decades, television has offered not just entertainment, but observations—subtle and otherwise—on society. This book examines the cultural commentary contained in Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, a show that ran for seven seasons...
The Seven Sisters of Sleep
The Celebrated Drug Classic
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1997
This groundbreaking survey, written in 1860, is a radically open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages.
Early users of tobacco in Russia would have their noses cut off and repeat offenders their heads. Pope Innocent XII excommunicated any who used it in St. Peters....
by Dean Kowalski
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In this book, Dean Kowalski argues that filmmakers can “do” philosophy when creating a fictional narrative film, and utilizes a careful and extensive analysis of Joss Whedon’s fictive creations—Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse, and The Cabin in the Woods (among others)—to...
Transforming Images
Screens, affect, futures
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
Contemporary social and cultural life is increasingly organised around a logic of self-transformation, where changing the body is seen as key. Transforming Images examines how the future functions within this transformative logic to indicate the potential of a materially better time. The book explores...
Problematic
How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
From Beyoncé’s Lemonade to The Force Awakens to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the entertainment industry seems to be embracing the power of women like never before. But with more feminist content comes more feminist criticism—and it feels as if there’s always something to complain about.
Dianna...
Celebrity Media Effects
The Persuasive Power of the Stars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
America is fascinated with celebrities—from chefs to athletes to television, movie, and rock stars, and even to people who are only famous for being famous. This book explores the effect of celebrity on Americans' public and private lives. The contributors examine how celebrities bring about change,...
Bob Dylan and the British Sixties
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Britain played a key role in Bob Dylan's career in the 1960s. He visited Britain on several occasions and performed across the country both as an acoustic folk singer and as an electric-rock musician. His tours of Britain in the mid-1960s feature heavily in documentary films such as D.A. Pennebaker's...
Wir hatten Sex in den Trümmern und träumten
Die Wahrheit über die Popindustrie - Extended Version
Language: German
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Was macht einen Star wirklich aus? Wer ist gekommen, um zu bleiben, und wer nächstes Jahr schon weg vom Fenster? Wer verdient, und wer wird verheizt? Tim Renner und Sarah Wächter wissen, wie das Musikgeschäft funktioniert. In "Wir hatten Sex in den Trümmern und träumten" erklären sie, wie das...
Working to Laugh
Assembling Difference in American Stand-Up Comedy Venues
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
Through intensive fieldwork lasting over eighteen months, this book demonstrates that the stand-up comedy venue is a dynamic space where social actors contest and reproduce dominant understandings of race, class, and gender in ways that transcend the joke-work performed on stage. Situated within the...
The New Rules of Coffee
A Modern Guide for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
An illustrated guide to the essential rules for enjoying coffee both at home and in cafes, including tips on storing and serving coffee, coffee growing, roasting and brewing, plus facts, lore, and popular culture from around the globe.
This introduction to all things coffee written by the founders...
Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel
From Teddy Boys to Trainspotting
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
From the Teddy Boys of the post-war decade to the heroin chic of "Cool Britannia,†? the many subcultures of Britain's teenagers have often been at the forefront of social change. Youth Culture and the Post-War British Novel is the first book to chart that history through the work of some of...
by Yannis Andricopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
This is a personal journey through history and politics on the back of the narrator’s own experiences in the two countries he has come to love most: Greece and England. The impact of momentous events over the years on everyday lives and the ensuing struggle for survival are vividly, poetically and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
This book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology, exposing how they promote neoliberalism’s underlying ideas, values and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality, undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and...