Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Latin American Popular Culture since Independence
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This unique reader offers an engaging collection of essays that highlight the diversity of Latin America’s cultural expressions from independence to the present. Leading historians explore funerals, dance and music, letters and literature, spectacles and monuments, and world’s fairs and food....
by Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book explores the "new vampire" as a literary trope, offering a comprehensive critical analysis of...
Entertaining Judgment
The Afterlife in Popular Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Nowadays references to the afterlife-angels strumming harps, demons brandishing pitchforks, God enthroned on heavenly clouds-are more often encountered in New Yorker cartoons than in serious Christian theological reflection. Speculation about death and its sequel seems to embarrass many theologians;...
Rethinking Social Studies and History Education
Social Education through Alternative Texts
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and history education through a social education lens. Social...
The Paranormal and Popular Culture
A Postmodern Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academic world has been slow...
by Raechel Dumas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture, produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in selected works of fiction, manga, film, and video games, offering a trans-genre, trans-media analysis...
The Artemis Archetype in Popular Culture
Essays on Fiction, Film and Television
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt. These characters are often identified as heroines and recognized as powerful and progressive pop icons. Some fit the image of the tough, resourceful female in a...
by Yuya Kiuchi
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2017
Many fans loved Fifty Shades of Grey. Many others loved to hate it. E.L. James’ trilogy of novels, and the film based on them, created a popular culture sensation, revealing much about a society that is both preoccupied with and scandalized by BDSM eroticism. Some critics argued that the franchise...
Approaching Eden
Adam and Eve in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
You don't have to be religious for the story of Adam and Eve to have touched your life. From Voldemort's snake mascot in Harry Potter novels to the 'forbidden fruit' apple that puts Snow White to sleep in fairy tales, we are inundated with references to the Garden of Eden in popular culture from an...
The Murder Mystique: Female Killers and Popular Culture
Female Killers and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Although they account for only ten percent of all murders, those attributed to women seem especially likely to captivate the public. This absorbing book examines why that is true and how some women, literally, get away with murder.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015
Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago....
Latin Numbers
Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S. Popular Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
*Latin Numbers *is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the twentieth-century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Brian Eugenio Herrera looks at how these performances and performers contributed to American popular...
Popular Postcolonialisms
Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and...
Transnational Cinematic and Popular Music Icons
Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, and Queen Latifah, 1917-2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Transnational Cinematic & Popular Music Icons: Lena Horne, Dorothy Dandridge, & Queen Latifah, 1917-2017 centers twentieth and twenty-first century black-transnational stereotypes, celebrities, and symbols Lena Horne's, Dorothy Dandridge;s, and Queen Latifah’s transnational popular cultural...