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

• 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...

• Author(s): Sarah Thornton • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley and Sons LtdThis is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and ra...

• Author(s): Liedeke Plate • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art ...

• 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): Paul R. Gorman • Publisher: University of North Carolina Press • Publisher Imprint: University of North Carolina Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturySince the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently c...

• Author(s): Sunny Yoon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureThis volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are f...

• 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): 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): Rebekah Welton | Laura Quick | Zanne Domoney-Lyttle • Publisher: T&T Clark • Publisher Imprint: T&T Clark • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old TestamentSupporting the theory that there is no singular 'Bible', and the idea that bib...

• Author(s): Jennifer A. Sandlin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralA presence for decades in individuals' everyday life practices and identity formation, the Walt Disney Company has more recently als...

• Author(s): Annabelle Sreberny • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Islamic StudiesThe Islamic Republic of Iran has entered its fourth decade, and the values and legacy of the Revolutio...

• Author(s): Natália Pikli • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ShakespeareThis book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 158...

• 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): Charles H. Lippy • Publisher: Greenwood Press • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood Press • BISAC: GeneralThose familiar with the uneven quality of existing biographies and autobiographies of modern American religious celebrities will be es...

• Author(s): Jeffrey N Wasserstrom • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book uses the dramatic occupation of Tiananmen Square as the foundation for rethinking the cultural dimensions of Chines...

• Author(s): Mary Hilton • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Language Experience ApproachToday's children spend more time than ever before watching television, playing computer games and reading comic and pul...

• Author(s): Ted Gournelos • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismPopular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park argues that progressi...

• Author(s): Bart Beaty • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Popular CultureIn the last fifteen years or so, a wide community of artists working in a variety of western European nation...

• Author(s): Debbora Battaglia • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Sociology of ReligionAnthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have consider...

• Author(s): Marcus Harmes • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Popular CultureFrom the Back CoverThe Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture will be an essential reference point, providing international cov...

• Author(s): Ying Xiao • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Media StudiesScarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, ...

• Author(s): Beng Huat Chua • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralConventional political science depicts legitimate elections as rational affairs in which informed voters select candidates for office according to h...

• Author(s): Laura J. Shepherd • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical internationa...

• Author(s): Chris Rojek • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanis...

• Author(s): Paul Manning • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyThis book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social...

• Author(s): Anne Rothe • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesIn Popular Trauma Culture, Anne Rothe argues that American Holocaust discourse has a particular plot structure--char...

• Author(s): Ben Highmore • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureWhat are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?Culture offers stu...

• Author(s): Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom | Elizabeth Perry • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis innovative and widely praised volume uses the dramatic occupation of Tiananmen Square as the foundation for reth...

• Author(s): Ronnie D. Lipschutz • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Political EconomyThis entertaining and enlightening book provides a guide to basic concepts and pr...

• Author(s): Frank Hoffmann | Marshall Fishwick | Beulah B. Ramirez • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralAs religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Awar...

• Author(s): Liedeke Plate • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesThis volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popul...

• Author(s): Bart Beaty • Publisher: Athabasca University Press • Publisher Imprint: Athabasca University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian...

• Author(s): Richard W. Santana | Gregory Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sociology of Religion Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religio...

• Author(s): Alma M. Garcia • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesContested Images: Women of Color in Popular Culture is a collection of 17 essays that analyze representations in popular culture o...

• 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): Evgeny Dobrenko | Natalia Jonsson-Skradol • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralStalin's reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (...