Popular Culture category: 4839 books

Cover of Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture
by Marlowe Daly-Galeano, Eva Lupold, Christiane E. Farnan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone dramatic changes in the past 150 years, changes which have both reflected and modeled standards of behavior for America’s tweens and teen girls. Though series...
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Religion and Popular Culture

Rescripting the Sacred, 2d ed.

by Richard W. Santana, Gregory Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016

Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religion are connected, forming and informing new ways of thinking, writing and practicing religion and theology. Film, television, music, sports and video games are integral to understanding the spiritual, the secular and...
Cover of The Global Impact of South Korean Popular Culture
by Crystal S. Anderson, Ecaterina Balica, Colette Balmain
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

This volume fills a gap in the existing literature and proposes an interdisciplinary and multicultural comparative approach to the impact of Hallyu worldwide. The contributors analyze the spread of South Korean popular products from different perspectives (popular culture, sociology, anthropology,...
Cover of Teaching Medicine and Medical Ethics Using Popular Culture
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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017

This book demonstrates how popular culture can be successfully incorporated into medical and health science curriculums, capitalising on the opportunity fictional media presents to humanise case studies. Studies show that the vast majority of medical and nursing students watch popular medical television...
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Unpopular Culture

Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s

by Bart Beaty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007

In the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nations have overturned the dominant traditions of comic book publishing as it has existed since the end of the Second World War. These artists reject both the traditional form and content of comic...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002

What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today? Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means...
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Wild Science

Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media

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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013

Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA research, and news reports about cloning, the fight against AIDS, cancer and depression. With popular culture...
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The Young Are Making Their World

Essays on the Power of Youth Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2016

Young people have long used popular culture to explore, define and express who they are. For many, popular culture is also a tool of survival. Gone are the days when proscriptive programs were needed for young people to transition to adulthood. Today, youth culture is communicated through information...
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Chaucer's Afterlife

Adaptations in Recent Popular Culture

by Kathleen Forni
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013

This study explores Chaucer’s present-day cultural reputation by way of popular culture. In just the past two decades his texts have been adapted to a wide variety of popular genres, including television, stage, comic book, hip-hop, science fiction, horror, romance, and crime fiction. This cultural...
Cover of Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture
by Marcel Danesi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files, the book provides more than just accessible definitions. Each of the more than 800 entries is cross-referenced...
Cover of Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth
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Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014

A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events. • Provides comprehensive coverage of topics about or...
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Popular China

Unofficial Culture in a Globalizing Society

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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2001

Using ingenious research methods, the contributors to this book explore the search for meaning among ordinary people in China today. The subjects of these vivid essays span the social spectrum from hip young entrepreneurs to sweatshop workers and homeless beggars. The issues are equally diverse, ranging...
Cover of Readings in Law and Popular Culture
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007

Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as...
Cover of From Popular Culture to Everyday Life
by John Storey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014

From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as a primary concept in cultural studies. Storey...
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