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    Contested Kingdom

    In Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland, William McCarthy presents a groundbreaking study centered on the history of Disneyland and Disney theme park enthusiasts. Focusing on two unexplored yet interconnected...
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    Howard Cruse (Hardback)

    Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher's kid from Alabama who became "the godfather of queer comics," Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ+...
    $285.00

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    Howard Cruse

    Howard Cruse tells the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher's kid from Alabama who became "the godfather of queer comics," Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a wicked satirist, an LGBTQ+...
    $72.00

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    Artful Breakdowns

    Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent Worcester A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited...
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    See! Hear! Cut! Kill!

    Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. To date, it includes twelve movies, a television show, comic books, and video games, among other media. In SEE! HEAR!...
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    Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos

    Blockheads, Beagles, and Sweet Babboos: New Perspectives on Charles M. Schulz's "Peanuts" sheds new light on the past importance, ongoing significance, and future relevance of a comics series that millions adore: Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts. More...
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    Visions of Invasion

    Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael...
    $97.00

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  • Asia and the Future of Football Asia and the Future of Football
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    Asia and the Future of Football

    Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game, however, have created new conflicts and challenges. This book explores the role of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) within the rising significance of...
    $142.00

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  • The End of Cool Japan The End of Cool Japan
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    The End of Cool Japan

    Today's convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially...
    $131.00

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  • Television Drama in Contemporary China Television Drama in Contemporary China
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    Television Drama in Contemporary China

    Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful...
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  • Transmedia Character Studies Transmedia Character Studies
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    Transmedia Character Studies

    Transmedia Character Studies provides a range of methodological tools and foundational vocabulary for the analysis of characters across and between various forms of multimodal, interactive, and even non-narrative or non-fictional media.
    $105.00

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  • Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades
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    Space and Play in Japanese Videogame Arcades

    This book presents a scholarly investigation of the development and culture of Japanese videogame arcades, both from a historical and contemporary point of view. In treating videogames as sets of circumstances, the book identifies the opportunities for...
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  • Rituparno Ghosh Rituparno Ghosh
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    Rituparno Ghosh

    An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray's legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly...
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  • Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites
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    Hollywood Death and Scandal Sites

    For more than a century, people have been drawn to sites of tragedy involving the rich, beautiful and notorious of Hollywood. Tourists at the center of the movie universe flock to Rudolph Valentino's grave, the house where Marilyn Monroe died, the "O...
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  • Our Bums Our Bums
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    Our Bums

    Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular...
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  • Kvetching and Shpritzing Kvetching and Shpritzing
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    Kvetching and Shpritzing

    Jewish humor, with its rational skepticism and cutting social criticism, permeates American popular culture. Scholars of humor--from Sigmund Freud to Woody Allen--have studied the essence of the Jewish joke, at once a defense mechanism against a...
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  • Art and Politics in Have Gun--Will Travel Art and Politics in Have Gun--Will Travel
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    Art and Politics in Have Gun--Will Travel

    From 1955 to 1964, American television was awash in adult Westerns, as much as one quarter of all prime-time programming. During its six seasons (1957-1963), Have Gun-Will Travel was recognized as one of the best shows on television--politically the...
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  • The Stewart/Colbert Effect The Stewart/Colbert Effect
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    The Stewart/Colbert Effect

    The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report have attracted much interest in recent years from popular audiences as well as scholars in various disciplines. Both Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have been named on Time magazine's list of the...
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  • Buffy Goes Dark
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    Buffy Goes Dark

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim for its use of metaphor to explore the conflicts of growth, power, and transgression. Its groundbreaking stylistic and thematic devices, boldness and wit earned it an intensely devoted fan base--and as...
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  • Politics and the American Television Comedy Politics and the American Television Comedy
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    Politics and the American Television Comedy

    This work examines the unique and ever-changing relationship between politics and comedy through an analysis of several popular American television programs. Focusing on close readings of the work of Ernie Kovacs, Soupy Sales, and Andy Kaufman, as...
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  • Conjoined Twins Conjoined Twins
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    Conjoined Twins

    When two human ova fail to fully separate during pregnancy, the result is conjoined twins. The twins may be connected by ligament, bone, or just flesh, and they often share organs, but what captures most people's interest is whether the twins share...
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  • Our Faith in Evil Our Faith in Evil
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    Our Faith in Evil

    Is violence in American cinema a reflection of life? Or does life imitate the violence people see in cinema? One of the pressing questions in today's society is whether fictional portrayals of violence have social or psychological consequences...
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  • Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film
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    Masculinity in the Interracial Buddy Film

    Feature films function as a keeper of America's collective conscience--a repository of fears, guilt, and hopes. "Buddy films" about men of different races depict a world where a peaceful balance is possible and conflicts can be resolved. Since the...
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  • Nightmares in Red, White and Blue Nightmares in Red, White and Blue
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    Nightmares in Red, White and Blue

    What's weighing on Americans? Look to horror movies for your answer--they're one of the best measures of the American consciousness. From an early fascination with the Gothic, to the mutant horrors of the Atomic Age and alien enemies of the Cold War,...
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  • Watching M*A*S*H, Watching America Watching M*A*S*H, Watching America
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    Watching M*A*S*H, Watching America

    It has been said that M*A*S*H was a show set in the 1950s which reflected the shifting values of the 1970s and early 1980s. Hawkeye Pierce, Radar O'Reilly, Trapper John McIntyre, Sherman Potter, Margaret (Hot Lips) Houlihan, B.J. Hunnicutt, Frank...
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  • Dick Tracy and American Culture Dick Tracy and American Culture
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    Dick Tracy and American Culture

    In October 1931, Dick Tracy made his debut on the pages of the Detroit Mirror. Since then America's most famous crime fighter has tangled with a variety of protagonists from locations as diverse as the inner city and outer space, all the time...
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  • Madonna as Postmodern Myth Madonna as Postmodern Myth
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    Madonna as Postmodern Myth

    Madonna has long been accepted as a pop culture icon, but this text postulates a greater cultural importance by analyzing her as a postmodern myth. This work examines how Madonna methodically discovered and constructed herself (often rewriting her...
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  • Wrestling and Hypermasculinity Wrestling and Hypermasculinity
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    Wrestling and Hypermasculinity

    Professional wrestling revels in its exaggeration of masculinity. This hyper-masculinity is evident in the physical appearance of wrestlers, the sexuality-charged and violent moves used in and out of the ring, the role assigned to women and the...
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  • The Frankenstein Archive The Frankenstein Archive
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    The Frankenstein Archive

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's classic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, first published in 1818, started a phenomeon that has survived the years and permeated many aspects of popular culture. It has spawned numerous films, television...
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  • From Popular Culture to Everyday Life
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    From Popular Culture to Everyday Life

    From Popular Culture to Everyday Life presents a critical exploration of the development of everyday life as an object of study in cultural analysis, wherein John Storey addresses the way in which everyday life is beginning to replace popular culture as...
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  • Russia's Skinheads Russia's Skinheads
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    Russia's Skinheads

    Russia's Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the 'lumpen' end of the...
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  • Tim Burton Tim Burton
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    Tim Burton

    This book employs Jungian and post-Jungian concepts of unconscious mental processes along with film semiotics, analysis of narrative devices and cinematic history; to explore the reworking of myth and fairytale in Burton's gothic fantasy world.
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  • The Body Emblazoned The Body Emblazoned
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    The Body Emblazoned

    'A major event in the cultural history of the modern era ... beautifully written, rich in insights, and a pleasure to read. A most absorbing and illuminating work of scholarship.' - Roy Porter, The Wellcome Institute
    $373.00

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  • Dance in US Popular Culture Dance in US Popular Culture
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    Dance in US Popular Culture

    This innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving in - and through - culture.
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  • Performing Religion on the Secular Stage Performing Religion on the Secular Stage
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    Performing Religion on the Secular Stage

    This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theatre and performance. The book analyses a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon, a study that is of high importance considering the...
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  • Penis Envy Penis Envy
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    Penis Envy

    In her latest creative endeavor, poet and artist Marjorie J. Levine explores "penis envy" with humor and thought-provoking art. Her quirky doodles are imaginative statements with blended unfinished graffiti and visually corrected text. The...
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  • Dented Cans and Classic Cars Dented Cans and Classic Cars
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    Dented Cans and Classic Cars

    Dented Cans and Classic Cars centers on Daniel Krause's experiences with moving to a retirement community and covers the entire - sometimes difficult experience, from deciding on a move and picking a place to live to the frustrations of downsizing...
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  • Sierra and Desert Rails Sierra and Desert Rails
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    Sierra and Desert Rails

    A survey in black and white photos and text of the railroads of California's Sierra Nevada mountains and the old minng lines in the desert just beyond the mountains, in the last steam era, from 1947 to 1959.  The two main-line routes, Donner...
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  • A Comedy of Pretzels A Comedy of Pretzels
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    A Comedy of Pretzels

    When tradition twists with popular culture and lands on "people's oral humor," idealistic Reuben Lamberth finds himself in a mess. He is a young, progressive, inspired scholar teaching at a prestigious northeastern university, but his other unique self...
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  • Fix-It Fics Fix-It Fics
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    Fix-It Fics

    Over the past ten years, fan fiction has outgrown its perceived taboo, as made by the public, and has evolved into a legitimate form of writing and self-expression. Academics, too, have recognized the potential for fan fiction studies through the lens of...
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