Search results for “[Subject: popular-culture]”

• Author(s): Elena dell'Agnese • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyWhat is the role of popular culture in shaping our discourse about the multifaceted system of material things, s...

• Author(s): Arno Görgen • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and id...

• Author(s): Jim Collins • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Books & ReadingBring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has develope...

• Author(s): John Whethamstede • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Genetics & GenomicsMary Shelley's Frankestein, a tale crafted two centuries ago 'to awaken thrilling horror'...

• Author(s): Gordon Lynch • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Popular CultureUnderstanding Theology and Popular Culture is one of the first books to give an overview of the key issues and methods in this fie...

• Author(s): Laura J. Getty • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture The choices that individuals make in moments of crisis can transform them. By focusing on fictional characters ...

• Author(s): Frederick Luis Aldama • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe Routledge Companion to Gender, Sex and Latin American Culture is the first comprehensive volume to explore the intersections betwe...

• Author(s): Mary Triece • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Women's StudiesProtest and Popular Culture is at once a historical monograph and a critique of postmodernist approaches to the study of mass media,...

• Author(s): Leonard R. N. Ashley • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralLeonard R. N. Ashley delights readers with a collection of facts and folklore...

• Author(s): Joad Raymond • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWhat did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was ...

• Author(s): Martin Claar | Clint W. Jones | Esra Merve Çaliskan Çaliskan • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralThis book examines the representation of terrorists and terrorisms in fi...

• Author(s): Yaari Felber-Seligman • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press • BISAC: Africa - EastWhen viewed from the economic centers of the Indian or Atlantic Oceans, the Ruvuma region of Ea...

• Author(s): Ian Reader • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSpecially commissioned studies of popular pilgrimages - East and West, past and present, religious and 'secular - r...

• Author(s): Hilary MCD Beckles • Publisher: University of the West Indies Press • Publisher Imprint: University of the West Indies Press • BISAC: Popular CultureRihanna is arguably the most commercially successful Caribbean artist in history. Sh...

• Author(s): Stephanie Ricker Schulte • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - General"This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't...

• Author(s): Serda Brauns • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: ReferenceEssay from the year 2007 in the subject History - Miscellaneous, Humboldt-University of Berlin (Centre for British Studies), course: British His...

• Author(s): Brian Cogan • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Popular CultureThe Boomers are the generation that changed everything, from economics to politics to popular culture. This book examines the myriad ways and long-...

• Author(s): David Buckingham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralTeaching about the media and popular culture has been a major concern for radical educators. Yet in recent years, the hyperbolic rhetoric of "crit...

• Author(s): Matthew Hilton • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsA concise history of smoking in British popular culture from the early nineteenth century to th...

• Author(s): David Sanjek • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalHow has the history of rock 'n' roll been told? Has it become formulaic? Or remained, like the music itself, open t...

• Author(s): Janell Hobson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gender StudiesIn this third edition of the classic cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, Jan...

• Author(s): Benjamin Bateman • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing • BISAC: Gender StudiesGender and Sexuality in Popular Culture features a unique collection of seminal and path-breaking sch...

• Author(s): Jennifer Maher • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralUnderstanding Gender and Sexuality in Popular Culture explores key themes and modes of criticism i...

• Author(s): James Combs • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press • BISAC: Popular CultureThis book takes another look at politics and popular culture. The author has tried to explain the polit...

• Author(s): Steve Redhead • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Popular CultureThis reader in popular cultural studies meets the need for an up-to-date collection of readings on contemporary youth cultures an...

• Author(s): Emilia Djonov • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralStudies of multimodality have significantly advanced our understanding of the potential of different semiotic resources--ver...

• Author(s): Joel Waldfogel • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralHow digital technology is upending the traditional creative industries--and why that's a good thing Th...

• Author(s): Andrew D. Thrasher | Matthew William Brake • Publisher: Fortress Academic • Publisher Imprint: Fortress Academic • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionPost-Christian Religion in Popular Culture offers exegetical analyses of the post-Christia...

• Author(s): Justin Edwards • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultur...

• Author(s): Bronwyn Williams • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LiteracyHow do students' online literacy practices intersect with online popular culture? In this book scholars from a range of countries incl...

• Author(s): Dimitris Akrivos • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: CriminologyFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an ...

• Author(s): Tiffany Potter • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesIn contemporary pop culture, the pursuits regarded as the most frivolous are typically understood to be ...

• Author(s): Anne M. Cooper-Chen • Publisher: Peter Lang Us • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Us • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFrom 1993 to 2003, exports of Japan's cartoon arts tripled in value, to $12.5 billion. Fan phenomena aroun...

• Author(s): D. P. Martinez | Dolores P. Martinez | Harumi Befu • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis is a lively discussion of Japanese popular c...

• Author(s): Ole Jakob Løland | Anders Martinsen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Biblical Studies - GeneralThis book is an accessible overview of the Bible's complex and evolving reception in popular culture. Drawin...

• Author(s): Anthony Burke Smith • Publisher: University Press of Kansas • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Kansas • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionWhen John Kennedy ran for president, some Americans thought a Catholic couldn't--or shouldn't--...