Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Rock Brands
Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands,...
Imagined Frontiers
Contemporary America and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture...
Mathematics in Popular Culture
Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Mathematics has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over a century. In recent years, the movies Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and Stand and Deliver, the stage plays Breaking the Code and Proof, the novella Flatland and the hugely successful television crime series NUMB3RS...
You've Come A Long Way, Baby
Women, Politics, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2009
The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are successful in traditionally male-dominated fields,...
Geek in China
Discovering the Land of Alibaba, Bullet Trains and Dim Sum
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
For every fan of kung fu, steamed dumplings, Confucius and giant skyscrapers, A Geek in China is a hip, smart and concise guide to the Middle Kingdom.
Packed with photographs and short articles on all aspects of Chinese culture, past and present, A Geek in China introduces readers to everything...
by Karen Dillon
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
The cultural fantasy of twins imagines them as physically and behaviorally identical. Media portrayals consistently offer the spectacle of twins who share an insular closeness and perform a supposed alikeness—standing side by side, speaking and acting in unison. Treating twinship as a cultural phenomenon,...
Dangerous Curves
Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example...
Uncommon Cultures
Popular Culture and Post-Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.
The Wow Climax
Tracing the Emotional Impact of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2006
Henry Jenkins at Authors@Google (video)
Vaudevillians used the term "the wow climax" to refer to the emotional highpoint of their acts-a final moment of peak spectacle following a gradual building of audience's emotions. Viewed by most critics as vulgar and sensationalistic, the vaudeville aesthetic...
Werewolves and Other Shapeshifters in Popular Culture
A Thematic Analysis of Recent Depictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the rise. This has followed the increased use of such characters as metaphors, with novelists and critics identifying specific meanings and topics behind them. This book aims to unravel the shapeshifting trope....
Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture
Fleeting Images
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
In Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, examine how children and the concept of childhood are presented in visual and print media through the unique lens of childhood studies. This collection, authored by a cadre of international...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
As the Gulf assumes an ever more important identity in the global political economy, we see the emergence of a new popular and political culture underpinning its increasingly self-confident national identities. This volume explores the new dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This book offers a complete overview of the contributions of U.S. Latinos to American popular culture and examines the emergence of the U.S. Latino identity.
by Jodie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as they are both constructed and experienced in the festival context. Drawing on a wide range of case studies from Australia and Europe, festivals are examined...