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  • Scream with Me
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    Scream with Me

    A compelling and timely exploration of the horror genre from award-winning scholar Eleanor Johnson that sheds light on the nexus between classic horror films and women’s rights, bodily autonomy, and more.In May 2022, Columbia University’s Dr. Eleanor...
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    Lauren Roberts: Powerless Trilogy Sculpted Journal
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    Lauren Roberts: Powerless Trilogy Sculpted Journal

    This officially-licensed journal has a tactile, sculpted cover featuring the Trilogy icon and flower motifs from the bestselling Powerless trilogy of novels by Lauren Roberts.This eye-catching, stylish journal is sure to delight any fan of the Powerless...
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    100 Years of Anime
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    100 Years of Anime

    Relive a full century of artistic innovation, iconic moments, and technological advancements in this gorgeously illustrated definitive history of anime.Paying tribute to a century of one of the world’s most popular and enduring genres, 100 Years of Anime...
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  • Comics Studies Here and Now Comics Studies Here and Now
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    Comics Studies Here and Now

    Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study.
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    Necronomicon Tiny Tarot Deck and Guidebook

    The bestselling tarot set—now made tiny! Let Cthulhu and the Great Old Ones guide your tarot practice with this small but mighty tarot deck filled with stunning illustrations inspired by H. P. Lovecraft’s fictional grimoire, the Necronomicon. Featuring...
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  • Hair Goes History Hair Goes History
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    Hair Goes History

    The book Hair Goes History by J.D. Taylor explores how hair enhancement and hair systems have played a significant role in shaping history and culture. Covering everything from ancient Egyptian wigs to the political and celebrity hairstyles of modern...
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  • Screenshots of Covid Screenshots of Covid
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    Screenshots of Covid

    The media never reveal the full truth all at once, but they do release articles now and then of parts of it.This book pieces them all together to reveal the full story of what really happened and why.150+ pages of headlines and tweets in rough...
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  • Decoding Liberation Decoding Liberation
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    Decoding Liberation

    This book explores the relationship between the free software movement and freedom. Focusing on five main themes-the emancipatory potential of technology, social liberties, the facilitation of creativity, the objectivity of computing as a scientific...
    $111.00

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  • Creativity, Religion and Youth Cultures Creativity, Religion and Youth Cultures
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    Creativity, Religion and Youth Cultures

    This book explores the intersection between faith, religion and performing arts in culture-based youth groups. Culture-specific churches provide a safe if "imagined community" in which young people can express these emerging identities, which...
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  • Navigating Imaginary Worlds Navigating Imaginary Worlds
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    Navigating Imaginary Worlds

    This edited anthology offers a collection of essays that each look at various types of wayfinding. Together they explore a variety of wayfinding tools and techniques and their applications, as well as ways of keeping track of the construction of worlds...
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  • When Leo Logged On When Leo Logged On
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    When Leo Logged On

    In 1997, Titanic wasn't just a movie-it was a cultural tsunami. For one young woman, stepping into the theater that day wasn't just about watching a film; it was about stepping into a world that would help define the rest of her life.Caught in the...
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  • Cavell on Film Cavell on Film
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    Cavell on Film

    A collection of the philosopher Stanley Cavell's most important writings on cinema.Stanley Cavell was the first philosopher in the Anglo-American tradition to make film a central concern of his work, and this volume offer a substantially complete...
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  • They Come in Pairs They Come in Pairs
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    They Come in Pairs

    They Come in Pairs by Rokiba ChaiseSome legends stand alone-others are defined by their greatest rivals. They Come in Pairs dives deep into the world of sports and music, exploring the stories of iconic duos whose careers, rivalries, and legacies have...
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  • Trump for Morons Trump for Morons
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    Trump for Morons

    The wittiest man in America who is Canadian could not sit by and watch democracy be destroyed by a convicted felon taking up residency in the White House. As an Emmy-award winner, documentarian and author of several books, naturally John Barbour had to...
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  • The Philosophy of Ted Chiang The Philosophy of Ted Chiang
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    The Philosophy of Ted Chiang

    Ted Chiang is one of the most insightful science fiction writers of our time. His writing has garnered high praise, including four Nebula awards, four Hugo awards and the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. His short story, "Story of Your Life,"...
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  • This Is How We Love This Is How We Love
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    This Is How We Love

    The 1994 movie This Is How We Love touched the hearts of so many critics and fans alike when it was released, and has since captivated an even wider audience after winning the Academy Award for Best Picture! Now you, too, can...
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  • Hi There, Boys and Girls! Hi There, Boys and Girls!
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    Hi There, Boys and Girls!

    Whatever happened to Bozo the Clown, to Aunt Norma, to Solomon C. Whiskers, those television celebrities who hammed it up between cartoons and contests during local kids' shows? In Hi There, Boys and Girls! America's Local Children's TV Programs, Tim...
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  • Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other
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    Europe in Its Own Eyes, Europe in the Eyes of the Other

    What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of...
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  • Asian Political Cartoons Asian Political Cartoons
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    Asian Political Cartoons

    In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia,...
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  • Asian Political Cartoons (Hardback) Asian Political Cartoons (Hardback)
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    Asian Political Cartoons (Hardback)

    In Asian Political Cartoons, scholar John A. Lent explores the history and contemporary status of political cartooning in Asia, including East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, and Taiwan), Southeast Asia (Brunei, Cambodia,...
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  • Conversations with Joanna Scott Conversations with Joanna Scott
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    Conversations with Joanna Scott

    Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their...
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  • Conversations with Graham Swift Conversations with Graham Swift
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    Conversations with Graham Swift

    Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview...
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  • Graphic Indigeneity Graphic Indigeneity
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    Graphic Indigeneity

    Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique García, Javier...
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  • Gothic for Girls Gothic for Girls
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    Gothic for Girls

    Today fans still remember and love the British girls' comic Misty for its bold visuals and narrative complexities. Yet its unique history has drawn little critical attention. Bridging this scholarly gap, Julia Round presents a comprehensive cultural...
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  • Children's Books on the Big Screen Children's Books on the Big Screen
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    Children's Books on the Big Screen

    In Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen...
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  • Tourists and Trade Tourists and Trade
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    Tourists and Trade

    How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art.Finalist for the 2023 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Regional category Amid the economic turmoil of the Great Depression, in 1929, Clarence...
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  • A Primer For Daily Life A Primer For Daily Life
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    A Primer For Daily Life

    The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded in Marxist theory, and guided by feminism, Susan Willis's lucid and entertaining...
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  • Mobile Interface Theory Mobile Interface Theory
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    Mobile Interface Theory

    In this updated second edition, Jason Farman offers a groundbreaking look at how location-aware mobile technologies are radically shifting our sense of identity, community, and place-making practices. Mobile Interface Theory is a foundational book in...
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    Visualizations of Urban Space

    This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations, aesthetics, and politics in the context of...
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    Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love

    Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness...
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  • Videogames and Agency Videogames and Agency
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    Videogames and Agency

    Videogames and Agency explores the trend in videogames and their marketing to offer a player higher volumes, or even more distinct kinds, of player freedom. The book offers a new conceptual framework that helps us understand how this freedom to act is...
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    Introducing Korean Popular Culture

    This new textbook is a timely and interdisciplinary resource for students looking for an introduction to Korean popular culture, exploring the multifaceted meaning of Korean popular culture at micro and macro levels and the process of cultural...
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    Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy

    Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire, commentary and expression of identity especially for the...
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    360° Circus

    This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360° view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the circus' role...
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    The Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies

    A definitive guide to contemporary video game studies, this second edition has been fully revised and updated to address the ongoing theoretical and methodological development of game studies.Expertly compiled by well-known video game scholars Mark J. P...
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  • Recollecting Collecting Recollecting Collecting
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    Recollecting Collecting

    This intriguing volume sheds light on the diverse world of collecting film- and media-related materials. Lucy Fischer's introduction explores theories of collecting and representations of collecting and collections in film, while arguing that collections...
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  • Martial Culture, Silver Screen Martial Culture, Silver Screen
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    Martial Culture, Silver Screen

    Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E...
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  • Intersectional Tech Intersectional Tech
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    Intersectional Tech

    In Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming, Kishonna L. Gray interrogates blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of the concurrent, seemingly unrelated...
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  • American Sports in an Age of Consumption American Sports in an Age of Consumption
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    American Sports in an Age of Consumption

    Sports are not what they used to be. New publicly funded stadiums resemble shopping malls. Fans compete for cash prizes in fantasy sports leagues. Sports video games are now marketing and public relations tools and team logos have become fashionable...
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  • Authenticity and How We Fake It Authenticity and How We Fake It
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    Authenticity and How We Fake It

    Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere off-screen in our lived experience. This is seen as more "authentic" than the predominantly fictional media...
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  • Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health
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    Celebrity Health Narratives and the Public Health

    We follow celebrities on Twitter and Facebook, watch them on television, and read about them in supermarket checkout lines. Our relationship with celebrities has never been so immediate. Their personal trials are news headlines and water cooler talk. ...
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