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Television Cities

Paris, London, Baltimore

by Charlotte Brunsdon
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018

In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of...
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Appropriately Indian

Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class

by Smitha Radhakrishnan
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011

Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India’s labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country’s economic and cultural...
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The Commodification of Childhood

The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer

by Daniel Thomas Cook
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004

In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children’s consumer culture—and the commodification of childhood itself—by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children’s clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants,...
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The Soul of Anime

Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story

by Ian Condry
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013

In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with artists at some of Tokyo's leading animation studios—such as Madhouse, Gonzo, Aniplex, and Studio...
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Double Negative

The Black Image and Popular Culture

by Racquel J. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018

From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such...
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One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount

Popular Music on Early Television

by Murray Forman
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012

Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and...
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Advertising Diversity

Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers

by Shalini Shankar
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015

In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years at Asian American ad agencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los...
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The Space of Boredom

Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order

by Bruce O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017

In The Space of Boredom Bruce O'Neill explores how people cast aside by globalism deal with an intractable symptom of downward mobility: an unshakeable and immense boredom. Focusing on Bucharest, Romania, where the 2008 financial crisis compounded the failures of the postsocialist state to deliver...
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Freedom without Permission

Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions

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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016

As the 2011 uprisings in North Africa reverberated across the Middle East, a diverse cross section of women and girls publicly disputed gender and sexual norms in novel, unauthorized, and often shocking ways. In a series of case studies ranging from Tunisia's 14 January Revolution to the Taksim Gezi...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015

The first sustained critical examination of the work of Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, this interdisciplinary collection considers how Díaz's writing illuminates the world of Latino cultural expression and trans-American and diasporic literary history. Interested in conceptualizing Díaz's...
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Orientalism's Interlocutors

Painting, Architecture, Photography

by Nicholas Thomas, Zeynep Çelik, Roger Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002

Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist...
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Full Metal Apache

Transactions Between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America

by Takayuki Tatsumi, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006

Takayuki Tatsumi is one of Japan’s leading cultural critics, renowned for his work on American literature and culture. With his encyclopedic knowledge and fan’s love of both Japanese and American art and literature, he is perhaps uniquely well situated to offer this study of the dynamic crosscurrents...
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Time Binds

Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories

by Elizabeth Freeman, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2010

Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation...
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Birth of an Industry

Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

by Nicholas Sammond
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels...
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