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

• Author(s): Xin Chen | Nicholas Tarling • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis edited volume brings together scholars from eight c...

• Author(s): Steve Markuson • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - GeneralRock on the Roll: Serving Up Popular Culture is a creative and innovative e...

• Author(s): Mehita Iqani • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialExplores the cultural politics of garbage in contemporary global societ...

• Author(s): Shirley Fedorak • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhile usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and mu...

• Author(s): Laszlo Muntean • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesMemory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters lite...

• Author(s): Sandra Eckard | Alex Romagnoli | Anke Marie Bock • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: American - GeneralThis book examines the role of sidekicks in superhero narratives, offering insight into the...

• Author(s): Penny Griffin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gender StudiesWhile some have argued that we live in a 'postfeminist' era that renders feminism irrelevant to people's contemporary lives this bo...

• Author(s): Wai-Chung Ho • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalWhile attention has been paid to various aspects of music education in China, to date no single publication has sys...

• Author(s): Katie Milestone • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThis fully updated second edition of Gender and Popular Culture examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered i...

• Author(s): Malynnda A. Johnson • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralHIV on TV: Popular Culture's Epidemic is a critical analysis of the ways television has portrayed HIV. Spanning t...

• Author(s): Lindsay Steenberg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureThis book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to ...

• Author(s): Jeffrey A. Tolbert • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyM�bius Media explores the interplay of popular and traditional cultures, reminding readers ...

• Author(s): Turner • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Popular CultureAbout the Book "An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, ...

• 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): Laura J. Getty | Josef Vice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture From the global spectacle of RuPaul's Drag Race to queer characters in science fiction universes, ...

• Author(s): Mara Arts • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Popular CultureFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the representation of London's nightlife in popular films and newspapers of the interwar period. Th...

• Author(s): Anthony Waine • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: European - German Changing Cultural Tastes offers a critical survey of the taste wars fought over the past two centuries between the intellectual ...

• Author(s): Kelton Cobb • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralThe Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies th...

• Author(s): M. Danesi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow and when did the kiss become a vital sign of romance and love? In this wide-ranging book, pop culture expert Mar...

• 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): Robert Shaughnessy • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThis Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and wo...

• 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--...

• Author(s): Richard McMahon • Publisher: Willan Publishing (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Willan Publishing (UK) • BISAC: Legal HistoryThis book explores the relationship between crime, law and popular culture in Europe from the sixteenth century onw...

• 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): Semi Purhonen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralKey debates of contemporary cultural sociology - the rise of the 'cultural omnivore', the fate of classical 'highbrow' culture...

• Author(s): M. J. Rymsza-Pawlowska • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyDuring the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, millions of Americans engag...

• Author(s): Kevin O'Neill • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralA valuable resource that will give students a fresh look at how Americans view the afterlife, helping readers u...

• 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): John Stephens | Vivian Yenika-Agbaw • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureContributions by Cynthia Neese Bailes, Nina Batt, L...

• Author(s): Anna Schober • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - 20th & 21st CenturyThis book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art an...

• Author(s): Sara Cohen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalHow is popular music culture connected with the life, image, and identity of a city? How, for example, did the Beatles emerge in...

• Author(s): Stéphanie Genz • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryAddressing the contradictions surrounding modern-day femininity and its complicated relationship with feminism and po...

• Author(s): Joanne Hollows • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryAccessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popula...

• Author(s): Catherine M. Roach • Publisher: Berg Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Berg Publishers • BISAC: Women's StudiesAt the heart of Stripping, Sex, and Popular Culture lies a very personal story, of author Catherine Roach's response to the ...

• Author(s): Andrew Shahriari • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EthnomusicologyPopular World Music, Third Edition introduces students to popular music genres and artists from around the world. Andrew Shahriari discuss...

• Author(s): Mary Cross • Publisher: Praeger • Publisher Imprint: Praeger • BISAC: Popular CultureAs timely as the latest tweet, this book tracks the digital revolution as a paradigm shift that is transforming popular culture in as yet unforeseen...