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by Andrew Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Ideal for students and general readers, this single-volume work serves as a ready-reference guide to pop culture in countries in North Africa and the Middle East, covering subjects ranging from the latest young adult book craze in Egypt to the hottest movies in Saudi Arabia.
• Allows readers...
Haunting Experiences
Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
This ready reference is a comprehensive guide to pop culture in Asia and Oceania, including topics such as top Korean singers, Thailand's sports heroes, and Japanese fashion.
• Supports the National Geography Standards by examining cultural mosaics and the globalization of cultural change
•...
Gaming Masculinity
Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Gendered Battle for Online Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In 2016, a female videogame programmer and a female journalist were harassed viciously by anonymous male online users in what became known as GamerGate. Male gamers threatened to rape and kill both women, and the news soon made international headlines, exposing the level of abuse that many women and...
Brazil in Twenty-First Century Popular Media
Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This volume examines some of the ways that Brazil has been represented and seeks to represent itself in popular media. It looks at social inequalities, racial divisions, and legacies of political restructuring as it illuminates the challenges and opportunities that the nation faces at present and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2005
Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular culture. This volume contains contributions from...
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States
Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Race and Hegemonic Struggle in the United States: Pop Culture, Politics, and Protest is a collection of essays that draws on concepts developed by Antonio Gramsci to examine the imagining of race in popular culture productions, political discourses, and resistance rhetoric. The chapters in this volume...
Surface and Depth
The Quest for Legibility in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2003
The idea of a common American culture has been in retreat for a generation or more. Arguments emphasizing difference have discredited the grand synthetic studies that marginalized groups and perspectives at odds with the master narrative. Surface and Depth: The Quest for Legibility in American Culture...
by Michael Mario Albrecht
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of ’quality’ television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculinity that are informed not only by the women’s movement of the sixties and seventies, but also by several decades of backlash and debate about...
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have become staples of entertainment industries, and many of these figures have received extensive critical attention. But one figure has remained in the shadows--the...
The Age of Promiscuity
Narrative and Mythological Meme Mutations in Contemporary Cinema and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book presents an original and engaging look at contemporary popular culture, opening with the provocative idea that this is a day and age of complete exhaustion of ideas, images, stories, and myths. Questioning the effects of content recycling in cinema and other media, the author further elaborates...
Dinosaurs Ever Evolving
The Changing Face of Prehistoric Animals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
From their discovery in the 19th century to the dawn of the Nuclear Age, dinosaurs were seen in popular culture as ambassadors of the geological past and as icons of the “life through time” narrative of evolution. They took on a more foreboding character during the Cold War, serving as a warning...
The naval war film
Genre, history and national cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This book undertakes a unique, coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. The films under discussion encompass all areas of naval operations in war, and highlight varying institutional and aesthetic responses to navies and the sea in popular culture....
by Kristen J. Warner
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
This book fills a significant gap in the critical conversation on race in media by extending interrogations of racial colorblindness in American television to the industrial practices that shape what we see on screen. Specifically, it frames the practice of colorblind casting as a potent lens for...