Popular culture Books

MON IDENTITÉ, MA CULTURERésumé du livreCe livre a pour but de démontrer aux élèves, l’importance de la culture dans la formation de l’identité. Il responsabilise l’élève...

The image of the nurse is ubiquitous, both in life and in popular media. One of the earliest instances of nursing and media intersecting is the Edison phonographic recording of Florence Nightingale's voice in 1890. Since then, a parade of nurses,...

This book is but the draft of a draft, as Melville said of Moby Dick. There is no prose here to match Melville's, but the scope is worthy of the great white whale. No one could possibly write a comprehensive, authoritative book...

This book empowers people to go beyond themselves into new spheres of learning, thinking and creativity. Drawing on recent work in communications theory as well as psychology, computer science and philosophy, it reveals some...

""The Real World"" is a novel written by Robert Herrick and published in 1901. The story follows the life of a young man named Christopher Blake, who is trying to find his place in the world. Christopher is a dreamer and a romantic, and he struggles to...

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as 'ghost signs'). Contributors to this volume examine the complex...

Romancing Through Italy is an intimate cultural journey that reveals not just the places, but the people and mysteries of an ancient land. In these true stories, discover the humor, beauty, heroes, friends, and misadventures of traveling through Italy...

Este mimo tiene mucho que decir...Jeffrey A. Brick se embarca en una aventura para transformar no solo su vida, sino también la vida de quienes le rodean. Con una carrera en servicios de salud y el mercado americano a punto de abrirse para...

In Tracking King Kong Cynthia Erb charts the cultural significance of the character of King Kong, from the early 1930s, when Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s classic film King Kong was first released, to Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake...

In Keepin’ It Hushed: The Barbershop and African American Hush Harbor Rhetoric, Vorris L. Nunley investigates the role of the hush harbor (a safe place for free expression among African American speakers) as a productive space of rhetorical...

Because of the increasing influence of hip hop music and culture on a generation raised during its dominance, it is important to address Hip hop and African American vernacular not merely as elements of folk and popular cultures but as rhetoric worthy of...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's network television series Disneyland/The Wonderful World of Color.  The series, part of Walt Disney's quest to re-create American entertainment, premiered October 27, 1954 on...

As entertainment becomes a trillion-dollar-a-year industry worldwide, as our modern era increasingly lives up to its label of the "entertainment age," and as economists begin to recognize that entertainment has become the driving force of the new world...

Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. Case studies include a comparative analysis of Jimi Hendrix's and Whitney Houston's versions of "The...

Occult traditions have inspired musical ingenuity for centuries. From the Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic...

The object of much debate, attention, and scholarship since it first aired more than 20 years ago, The Simpsons provides excellent, if unexpected, fodder for high school and college lesson plans. After all, laughing students are hardly sleeping...

This book details the origins of the names of 240 musical acts, focusing on the most popular groups (and a few individual performers) from the 1960s through today. Even casual music fans will recognize almost all of the acts discussed. A few one-hit...

Leading scholars in sports communication tackle a wide range of subjects in these essays, including the ways in which people root for their teams, the consumption of sports information, and the uses of technology to cultivate fan communities. Taking...

Bringing together twenty-five years of work on what he has called the "historical poetics of cinema," David Bordwell presents an extended analysis of a key question for film studies: how are films made, in particular historical contexts, in order to...

Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of these fairy tale images, to seek out and understand the reality of service workers' experience. Within...

"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."-Gore Vidal

This intriguing book engages with the concept of the body in its cultural context by acknowledging and demonstrating that the human body is understood differently in Western and Indian cultures. The contributors go on to show that any attempt to put...

This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China.  It argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which individuals and institutions emerge and interact. While offline and...

This book examines different aspects of Asian popular culture, including films, TV, music, comedy, folklore, cultural icons, the Internet and theme parks. It raises important questions such as - What are the implications of popularity of Asian popular...

This book presents a comprehensive, full-length analysis of the uses of media and communication technologies by different social actors in Malaysia. Unlike other studies of the media in Malaysia which concentrate on "political economy" or "freedom of the...

This book examines the influence of mobile media technology on the lives of young people in East and North Asia, South East Asia and Australia. It discusses the impact information communication technologies have today on social identity, well-being,...

Beads, Bodies, and Trash merges cultural sociology with a commodity chain analysis by following Mardi Gras beads to their origins. Beginning with Bourbon Street of New Orleans, this book moves to the grim factories in the tax-free economic zone of rural...

In social theory and sociology, time and travel in technological cultures is one of the new and challenging research topics in the 'mobilities turn'. Yet surprisingly, contemporary practices of mobility have till now, seen only limited theorization...

Including over 100 illustrations from mainstream film to independent film, video art, performance and the visual arts, this important and original book explores how technology has affected artists' abilities and forms to express themselves.From...

"Paws and Symbols: The Social Effect of Well known Felines" is a charming investigation into the permanent imprint left by cat mates on our shared mindset. This enchanting task digs into the universe of famous felines, both genuine and fictitious, whose...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Sportwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Sportsoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Geld, Sponsoren und Zuschauer, das sind Fakten die heutzutage entscheidend...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Niklas Luhmann's concept of operativ constructivism and Angela...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit im Jahr 2000 die erste Staffel "Popstars" im deutschen Fernsehen ausgestrahlt wurde, haben...

Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Health - Sport - Sport Sociology, grade: B, University of Leicester (Institute for Sociology), course: MA course for Sociology of Sports, language: English, abstract: AbstractThe increasing insecurity in...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Herstellung einer Öffentlichkeit - das...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 15 Punkte, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Gewalt wird dort offensichtlich, wo es zu Verletzungen von Personen, großen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, Universität Konstanz (FB Geschichte und Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Interkultureller Vergleich, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Schlüsselbilder sind es, die durch...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,6, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald (Institut für Sportwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Gottlieb Daimler sagte voraus, dass die weltweite Nachfrage an...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: gut 1,8, Technische Universität Berlin (Institut für Sprache und Kommunikation an der Technischen Universität Berlin), Veranstaltung: Mediensoziologie, Sprache:...

Zwischenprüfungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Darstellung des Holocaust im Film hat von Beginn an heftige Auseinandersetzungen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1.0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Konstruktivismus und Form Analyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1918 tritt...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Universität Mannheim, Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Niklas Luhmann geht in seiner Systemtheorie von einem die Elemente des Sozialen...

Höfisches Leben war bis tief ins 19. Jahrhundert die erstrebenswerteste Daseinsform nicht nur Europas und ist untrennbar mit dem Luxus als einer Kultur des Überflusses verbunden. Weshalb dies so war, hat Forscher aus Frankreich und England, Österreich,...

Ways of Showing-A first handbook of its kind, taking inspiration from John Berger's book Ways of Seeing. It is practical and unpretentious and outlines the lives of Artists both famous and less known, Barry Flanagan, Jo Spence, Gillian Ingham, Don...