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• Author(s): Robert C. Cottrell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralTraces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each...

• Author(s): Ray B. Browne • Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press • BISAC: Holidays (non religious)Popular entertainments are windows into the attitudes and values of the people who participa...

• Author(s): Elliott Anthony • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOurs is the age of celebrity. An inescapable aspect of daily life in our media-saturat...

• Author(s): Ray Jones • Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cumberland House Publishing • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialWhat do Raggedy Ann dolls, grizzly bears, Texas papershell pecans, and country music leg...

• Author(s): Melanie Kennedy • Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company • Publisher Imprint: I. B. Tauris & Company • BISAC: Life Stages - School AgeA powerful female, pre-adolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becomin...

• Author(s): Raymond F. Betts • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralThis lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period...

• Author(s): Philippa Snow • Publisher: MACK • Publisher Imprint: MACK • BISAC: Sociology - General

• Author(s): Marcel Danesi • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralIn this user-friendly dictionary of popular culture, over 800 A-to-Z entries pr...

• Author(s): Noah Berlatsky • Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Greenhaven Publishing • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis edition delivers contemporary perspectives on popular culture, with the majority of the ma...

• Author(s): Mathieu Deflem • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book investigates the stardom of Lady Gaga within a cultural-sociological framework. Resisting a reductionist perspecti...

• Author(s): Crystal Abidin • Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book presents a framework for thinking about different forms of internet celebrity that have emerged in...

• Author(s): Tony Bennett | Graham Martin | Bernard Waites • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular Culture

• Author(s): Andrea McDonnell • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesAmericans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the...

• Author(s): Gayle Stever • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social PsychologyWhy are we fascinated by celebrities we've never met? What is the difference between fame and celebrity? How has social media enabled a new ...

• Author(s): Doris Berger • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: American - GeneralBiopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highlights the na...

• Author(s): Richard Owoeye • Publisher: Richard Owoeye • Publisher Imprint: Richard Owoeye • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralAfrican Celebrities: The Rise, The Legacy and The Future is your ultimate backstage pass to the world of African fame. F...

• Author(s): Benjamin Litherland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralAt the intersection of sport, entertainment and performance, wrestling occupies a unique position in Britis...

• Author(s): Malcolm Boyd • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: General""Christ And Celebrity Gods: The Church In Mass Culture"" written by Malcolm Boyd is a thought-provoking book that examine...

• Author(s): Kenneth T. Walsh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: United States - GeneralIt didn t take long for Barack Obama to make his mark as the biggest political star to ever occupy the White House. Ove...

• Author(s): Jennifer Adese • Publisher: University of Manitoba Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Manitoba Press • BISAC: Native American StudiesIndigenous Celebrity speaks to the possibilities, challenges, and consequences of popular form...

• Author(s): Doris Berger • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: American - GeneralBiopics on artists influence the popular perception of artists' lives and work. Projected Art History highl...

• Author(s): Frank A. Salamone • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn this book, Frank A. Salamone looks at the United States in the 1950s through its popu...

• Author(s): Milly Williamson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesIt is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent yea...

• Author(s): Dan Brockington • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Popular CultureThe battle to save the world is being joined by a powerful new group of warriors. Celebrities are lending their name to conservation causes...

• Author(s): Douglas Brownlie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralBringing together the latest thinking on both celebrity brands and celebrity culture from academics specialising in the field of market...

• Author(s): Angela McRobbie • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Popular CultureHow do different artistic and cultural practices develop in the contemporary consumer culture? Providing a new direction in cultural studie...

• Author(s): Vicki Abt • Publisher: Popular Press • Publisher Imprint: Popular Press • BISAC: Television - GeneralThis title looks at the evolution and cultural significance of daytime talk shows, concluding that they are more than harmless enter...

• Author(s): Leslie Wilson • Publisher: Press Americana • Publisher Imprint: Press Americana • BISAC: Essays

• Author(s): Mark Howell • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing

• Author(s): Raymond F. Betts • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralThis lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period...

• Author(s): Henry a. Giroux • Publisher: Bergin & Garvey • Publisher Imprint: Bergin & Garvey • BISAC: GeneralIlluminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implica...

• Author(s): Bonnie Carr O'Neill • Publisher: University of Georgia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Georgia Press • BISAC: Popular CultureThrough extended readings of the works of P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederic...

• Author(s): Jane O'Connor | John Mercer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Media StudiesThe twenty-first century has seen an explosion in the ways and means in which children can become part of celebrity culture. With...

• Author(s): Gayle Stever • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social PsychologyWhy are we fascinated by celebrities we've never met? What is the difference between fame and celebrity? How has social media enabled a new ...

• Author(s): Janelle Applequist | Joshua N. Azriel | Deborah S. Bowen • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book explores the ways celebrities affect culture and their audience. It covers cel...

• Author(s): Lee Barron • Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited • BISAC: Popular CultureThe rise of tattoos into the mainstream has been a defining aspect of 21st century western culture. Tattoos an...