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  • Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music
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    Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music

    As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the...
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  • The Orwell Reader The Orwell Reader
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    The Orwell Reader

    Here is Orwell's work in all its remarkable range and variety. The selections in this anthology show how Orwell developed as writer and as thinker; inevitably, too, they reflect and illuminate the history of the time of troubles in which he lived and...
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    Much Ado About Keanu

    Thanks to his prolific movie career (seventy-eight movies as of 2023) and endearing real-life persona, Keanu Reeves has become the universal screen saver of pop culture-nobody can go a few days without some reference to Keanu or his movies popping up...
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  • Killing Season Uncut
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    Killing Season Uncut

    Australians came to the ABC's The Killing Season in droves, their fascination with the brutal Rudd-Gillard struggle as enduring as the saga itself. This is the book that brings you the uncut version of The Killing Season, taking you behind the cameras to...
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    The Turban

    Unravel the fascinating history of the turban, from its origins to its religious uses and its appearance in contemporary fashion and culture.A turban is a strip of cloth folded and wrapped around the head; however, this description includes multifarious...
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    <i>La Parisienne</i> in cinema <i>La Parisienne</i> in cinema
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    <i>La Parisienne</i> in cinema

    The first book-length work on the Parisienne, this study combines scholarship in the fields of art history, literature and fashion to enrich our understanding of this intriguing cinematic figure, simultaneously offering new perspectives on film.
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  • Safe Havens for Hate
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    Safe Havens for Hate

    Why efforts to moderate harmful content on social media fail to stop extremistsContent moderation on social media has become one of the most daunting challenges of our time. Nowhere is the need for action more urgent than in the fight against terrorism...
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  • How Essential Is Fluoride? How Essential Is Fluoride?
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    How Essential Is Fluoride?

    What Do The Experts Say?And just as importantly What do they NOT say?This book argues that experts have consistently exaggerated in their claim that fluorine should be considered an essential element for humans and suggests reasons why.Expert...
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  • Joystick Soldiers Joystick Soldiers
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    Joystick Soldiers

    Joystick Soldiers is the first anthology to examine the reciprocal relationship between militarism and video games. War has been an integral theme of the games industry since the invention of the first video game, Spacewar! in 1962.While war video games...
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  • The Handbook of Spanish Language Media The Handbook of Spanish Language Media
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    The Handbook of Spanish Language Media

    With the rise of Spanish language media around the world, The Handbook of Spanish Language Media fills the need for a comprehensive reference work, not only providing background knowledge of the various issues and topics relevant to...
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  • Communication as Culture, Revised Edition Communication as Culture, Revised Edition
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    Communication as Culture, Revised Edition

    In this classic text, James W. Carey maintains that communication is not merely the transmission of information; reminding the reader of the link between the words "communication" and "community," he broadens his definition to include the...
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  • Relentless Progress Relentless Progress
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    Relentless Progress

    Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? These are some of the critical questions raised by Jack...
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  • Mobile Technologies Mobile Technologies
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    Mobile Technologies

    Mobile Technologies charts the social, cultural, creative, and design aspects of mobiles as they are being incorporated into and changing the nature of media. It provides rigorous and timely analysis of the new area of mobile media and will be of...
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  • That or Which, and Why That or Which, and Why
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    That or Which, and Why

    That or Which, and Why is an insightful and witty guide to writing. Based on Evan Jenkins's long-running column 'Language Corner' in Columbia Journalism Review, the book is compiled of brief, alphabetically arranged entries on approximately 200 major...
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  • Office Hours Office Hours
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    Office Hours

    In a series of stinging analyses, this book examines the current sorry state of higher education. The second half of the volume offers "alternative futures" for the academy, visions that involve academic organizations, public outreach through the...
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  • Media, Home and Family Media, Home and Family
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    Media, Home and Family

    Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life.
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  • Negri on Negri Negri on Negri
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    Negri on Negri

    Political philosopher, convicted activist, leftist intellectual and coauthor of the bestselling Empire, Antonio Negri is one of the most controversial thinkers at work today. In this booklength conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle, Negri offers...
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  • Songs in the Key of Black Life Songs in the Key of Black Life
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    Songs in the Key of Black Life

    In Songs in the Key of Black Life, acclaimed cultural critic Mark Anthony Neal turns his attention to Rhythm and Blues. He argues that R&B-often dismissed as just a bunch of love songs, yet the second most popular genre in terms of sales-can tell us much...
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  • The Practice of Public Art The Practice of Public Art
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    The Practice of Public Art

    Wide-ranging and timely, The Practice of Public Art brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators from the United Kingdom and United States to offer differing perspectives on the many...
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  • Film and Television After DVD Film and Television After DVD
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    Film and Television After DVD

    Film and Television after DVD argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television, critically examining the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and new media...
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  • Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema
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    Nation and Identity in the New German Cinema

    In this original study, Scharf investigates issues of national identity in films of the New German Cinema. Using a cultural studies analysis, Scharf argues that the conflict between this generation of critical filmmakers and their...
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  • Asian America.Net
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    Asian America.Net

    Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.
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  • Time and the Literary Time and the Literary
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    Time and the Literary

    Time and the literary: the immediacy of information technology has supposedly annihilated both. Email, cell phones, satellite broadcasting seem to have ended the long-standing tradition of encoding our experience of time through writing. Paul de Man's...
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  • Body Trade Body Trade
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    Body Trade

    Body Trade exposes myths surrounding the trade in heads, cannibalism, captive white women, the display of indigenous people in fairs and circuses, the stolen generations, the 'comfort' women and the making of the exotic/erotic body. This is a lively and...
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  • New Media, Old Media New Media, Old Media
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    New Media, Old Media

    New Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital...
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  • White Nation White Nation
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    White Nation

    Anthropologist and social critic Ghassan Hage explores one of the most complex and troubling of modern phenomena: the desire for a white nation.
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  • Impure Acts Impure Acts
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    Impure Acts

    Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack on higher education, and the cultural...
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  • Cosmopolitan Geographies Cosmopolitan Geographies
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    Cosmopolitan Geographies

    This book highlights the best new interdisciplinary research on the theory and practice of cosmopolitanism, with a special focus on the cosmopolitan literatures of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America, from medieval times to the present.
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  • Screened Out Screened Out
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    Screened Out

    Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies. A fresh and revelatory look at sexuality in the Great Age of...
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  • What's Left of Theory? What's Left of Theory?
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    What's Left of Theory?

    For several years, write the editors of What's Left of Theory , a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant...
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  • Cyborg Citizen Cyborg Citizen
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    Cyborg Citizen

    The growing synergy of humans and technology--from dialysis to genetically altered foods to PET scans--is transforming how we view our minds and our bodies. But how has it changed the body politic? How can we forge a society that protects the rights of...
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  • God's Gym God's Gym
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    God's Gym

    In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's...
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  • Internet Culture Internet Culture
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    Internet Culture

    The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of...
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  • Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture
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    Historicism, Psychoanalysis, and Early Modern Culture

    First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through...
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  • Premodern Sexualities Premodern Sexualities
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    Premodern Sexualities

    Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors...
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  • The Revolution Wasn't Televised The Revolution Wasn't Televised
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    The Revolution Wasn't Televised

    Caricatures of sixties television--called a "vast wasteland" by the FCC president in the early sixties--continue to dominate our perceptions of the era and cloud popular understanding of the relationship between pop culture and larger social forces...
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  • The Spivak Reader The Spivak Reader
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    The Spivak Reader

    Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies...
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  • Fugitive Cultures Fugitive Cultures
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    Fugitive Cultures

    Fugitive Cultures examines how youth are being increasingly subjected to racial stereotyping and violence in various realms of popular culture, especially children's culture. But rather than dismissing popular culture, Henry Giroux addresses its...
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  • The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism
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    The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism

    The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom.In The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question,...
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  • Jungian Film Studies Jungian Film Studies
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    Jungian Film Studies

    Jungian film studies is a fast-growing academic field, but Jungian and post-Jungian concepts are still new to many academics and film critics. Helena Bassil-Morozow and Luke Hockley present Jungian Film Studies: The Essential Guide, the first book to...
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  • Fashion Ethics Fashion Ethics
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    Fashion Ethics

    Fashion Ethics brings to light the ethical aspects of the fashion supply chain from sketch book to machinist, from marketing campaigns to trucks at the landfill site. Sue Thomas considers the total ethical landscape addressing issues such as...
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  • Iranian Intellectuals Iranian Intellectuals
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    Iranian Intellectuals

    Previously published as a special issue of British Journal of Middle East Studies, this volume focuses on leading figures within Iran between 1997-2007 and their visions and works that are related to Iranian society. A cross section of opinion is...
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  • Fifty Key British Films Fifty Key British Films
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    Fifty Key British Films

    In Fifty Key British Films, Britain's best known films such as Clockwork Orange, The Full Monty and Goldfinger are scrutinised for their outstanding ability to articulate the issues of the time. This is essential reading for anyone interested...
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  • The Legality of Boxing The Legality of Boxing
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    The Legality of Boxing

    The first book of its kind dedicated to an assessment of the legality of boxing, The Legality of Boxing: A Punch Drunk Love? assesses the legal response to prize fighting and undertakes a current analysis of the status of boxing in both criminal legal...
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