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In this eye-opening collection of essays, Dr. Geraldine K. Piorkowski shares what she learned working with people from different socioeconomic levels, races, sexual orientations, and walks of life. Besides reaffirming that all people are fundamentally...

Social Media in Asia is a collection of essays about fourteen countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Most authors are from that region, too. As communication via social media is commonplace among people all over the world, analyzing social media use is...

What is it about nature that makes you want to hang around and stay longer, relax, just one more wave...part of the Blinkies series, hardcover Notebooks with Funky Art covers. The blank (un-ruled) pages are perfect for note-taking without being...

A cultural history of global electronic dance music countercultures, Technomad explores the pleasurable and activist trajectories of post-rave culture. The book documents an emerging network of techno-tribes, exploring their pleasure principles...

From the silver screen to the famous ride at Disneyland and beyond, pirates are everywhere. They appear on television, operate miniature golf courses, and even promote fast food. But have you ever wondered how a relatively small group of criminals from a...

Light and Photomedia proposes that, regardless of technological change, the history and future of photomedia is essentially connected to light. It is a fundamental property of photomedia, binding with space and time to form and inform new, explicitly...

"The Anti-Bucket List In Detail Just Like You Never Wanted" by Hunter C. Johnson is a thought-provoking guide that challenges the traditional notion of bucket lists, exploring the beauty and growth that can be found in embracing unwanted experiences and...

A unique look into a niche fandom, the stories inside this book are a first-hand account of several chartered boyband cruises and the friendships and mistakes made along the way. At times awkward, embarrassing and hilarious, this book has something for...

A COLLECTION THAT EXPLORES THE ROLE OF CURRENT SATIRE IN SHAPING WHAT IT MEANS TO BE BLACKFrom 30 Americans to Angry White Boy, from Bamboozled to The Boondocks, from Chappelle's Show to The Colored Museum, this collection of twenty-one essays takes an...

How the Left popularized American realism through best-sellers, Broadway plays, radio, film, and journalismRealism for the Masses is an exploration of how the concept of realism entered mass culture, and from there, how it tried to remake "America." The...

Essays that assault the conviction that horror film is a genre on its deathbedEssays by Craig Bernardini, David Church, Pamela Craig, Blair Davis, Martin Fradley, Steffen Hantke, Reynold Humphries, James Kendrick, Christina Klein, Ben Kooyman, Jay McRoy,...

Contributions from Nathaniel Brennan, Luca Caminati, Silvia Carlorosi, Caroline Eades, Saverio Giovacchini, Paula Halperin, Neepa Majumdar, Mariano Mestman, Hamid Naficy, Sada Niang, Masha Salazkina, Sarah Sarzynski, Robert Sklar, and Vito...

Ever since they were written in the fourteenth century, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms and The Water Margin have been considered masterpieces of traditional Chinese fiction. People from different social strata have read them and remembered their...

The cultural history of one of rock's greatest masterpieces told through the eyes of its creator.

The first book to comprehensively examine Lou Gehrig's famous "Luckiest Man" speech.

A deeply personal study of post-9/11 film that exposes how genre can frame the shifting meanings of the War on Terror and its impact on American law and culture.

Examines the ways in which post-apocalyptic films express white racial anxiety.

Astounding, Mysterious, Weird and True: The Pulp Art of Comic Book Artists is the first-ever book about the pen and ink artists who worked in both pulps and comics, and what happened to them. This informative and entertaining volume offers an...

This book considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction narratives can explore...

MOVIES AND THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES has fun facts, celebrity quotes and classic cocktail recipes accompanying more than 300 edgy gender film recommendations cropping up on Battle of the Sexes movie lists, such as "It's a Man's World," "Love is a...

Church leaders are struggling to turn the tide of this epidemic exodus. It doesn't surprise me when I read almost universal statistics of Millennials abandoning church. Why? Because  I am a millennial. And I almost left the church. Now, to my...

Take a whacky and whimsical journey into the sensual, feverish and sightly cheeky history of the famous Margarita cocktail.Discover offbeat stories, rumours and folklore surrounding this sweet, sour and salty drink - and enjoy some new Margarita cocktail...

"Unapologetically black, educated and intelligent. Drake Masters is effortlessly charismatic and hilarious." - Alexis HarrisonA novel idea: Like That is a collection of 100 of the author's favorite Facebook statuses; the result of years worth of...

In this new collection of essays on memory and amnesia in the postmodern world, cultural critic Andreas Huyssen considers how nationalism, literature, art, politics, and the media are obsessed with the past. The great paradox of our fin-de-siecle culture...

Emotions, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television explores textual representations of emotions from a cultural perspective. It considers emotions as structures of feeling that are collectively shared and historically developed, focusing on the justice...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Marke war und ist ein Megathema, denn wir umgeben uns in allen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Universität Bremen (Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Medien und Identität, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Medien vermitteln Weltsichten,...

Facharbeit (Schule) aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, , Veranstaltung: Fach: Spieleentwicklung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Facharbeit besteht aus drei Teilen. Zum einen wird auf einige geschichtliche Aspekte von...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Neue Medien, technische Zivilisation, kultureller Wandel, Sprache: Deutsch,...

Devour: Art & Lit Canada - issue 014 is a Canadian culture magazine, published by Wet Ink Books. This is a special issue featuring three of Canada's finest poets: bpNichol, Don Gutteridge and Laurence Hutchman, Stay tuned for our regulare winter...

Julian C. H. Lee, Hariz Halilovich, Ani Landau-Ward, Peter Phipps, & Richard J. SutcliffeMonsters of Modernity explores the contemporary human condition through a selection of globally iconic monsters. The authors explore diverse monsters for...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery...

This collection of essays, written over a period of years, entertains the shared place of psyche and poetics. Dr. Slattery has explored the manner in which the psyche is poetic and how poetry is deeply psycho-mythical. Influenced in part by the...

"Now iconic to Canadian, if not global culture, Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brought...

Hey, There's Science In This is a collection of essays about unexpected science links to everyday topics. Rubber ducks at sea, a Japanese TV show or food-based paint techniques don't seem to have much to do with science at first glance, but Eva Amsen...

The book is unique in that it mixes theory and practical applications in rethinking traditional social studies education. It focuses on essays integrating media, popular culture, and alternative texts for teaching and learning in social studies and...

Take a journey back in time to a world where comedy was king and the men and women who made us laugh were the brightest of stars. Comedy is not always funny once the spotlight goes out and the audience goes home. Come with Catherine Olen on a trip...

페르소나의 개념과 내면의 심리적 매핑에 관한 오늘날의 문화에는 많은 관심이 있습니다. 사실, 슈퍼 스타 코리아 팝 밴드 인 BTS가 머레이 스타 인 박사의 컨셉을 취해 최신 앨범 인 Map of the Soul : Persona의 제목과 가사에 엮어 놓은 것에 대한 관심은 너무나 강력합니다. 인생의 여정에 영향을 미칩니 까? 주변 사람들과 교감 할 때 어떤 마스크를 착용합니까? 우리의 페르소나는 궁극적으로 우리가 세상과 어떻게 관련되어 있는지입니다...

Shaolin Brew: Race, Comics, and the Evolution of the Superhero looks at how the comic book industry developed from a white perspective and how minority characters were and are viewed through a stereotypical white gaze. Further, the book explores how...

Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more...

Born in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, artist and writer George Pérez (1954-2022) cut his teeth in the 1970s as an artist at Marvel who worked on lesser titles like The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Creatures on the Loose, and then mainstays like...

John Banville (b. 1945) is a distinguished novelist and winner of several prestigious awards, including the Man Booker Prize for his novel The Sea. As a teenager Banville hoped to be a painter, and although he ultimately decided he lacked the talent for...

Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the sound, languages, scenery, media,...

In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America's preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated...

Contributions by Ofra Amihay, Madeline Backus, Samantha Baskind, Elizabeth Rae Coody, Scott S. Elliott, Assaf Gamzou, Susan Handelman, Leah Hochman, Leonard V. Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Shiamin Kwa, Samantha Langsdale, A. David Lewis, Karline McLain,...

THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF STAND-UP COMEDY THROUGH THE LENS OF FOLKLOREIn A Vulgar Art Ian Brodie uses a folkloristic approach to stand-up comedy, leveraging the discipline's central method of studying interpersonal, artistic communication and performance...