Popular culture Books

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass...

While the questions of ethics have become increasingly important in recent years for many fields within the humanities, there has been no single volume that seeks to address the emergence of this concern with ethics across the disciplinary spectrum...

Global Pop examines the rise of "world musics" and "world beat", and some of the musicians associated with these recent genres such as Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Johnny Clegg. Drawing on a wide range of sources - academic, popular,...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great...

Cultural Studies explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by...

This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes.

This book offers a comprehensive scholarly overview of Reddit, one of the most popular and least studied social platforms of the early 21st century.The book inspires new ways of thinking about Reddit, considering it from multiple perspectives: through a...

La Turchia è una terra che attira e appassiona. Si rimane spesso sorpresi su alcuni modi di fare molto vicini alla cultura europea mentre per altri ci si interroga e si rimane affascinati. Togliersi le scarpe prima di entrare in casa, gettare acqua...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts haben neue Kommunikationstechnologien die Welt erobert. Durch sie ist nicht nur...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 3,0, Hochschule der Medien Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit beschäftigt sich mit den Chancen und Möglichkeiten der Kinder,den Computer und das...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,8, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Internet gilt bei vielen Experten...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Universität Kassel, Veranstaltung: Soziologie der Kommunikation, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Werbung ist ein Medium, mit dem man in der heutigen Gesellschaft...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover (Institut für Sportwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die aktuellen Berichterstattungen in den Medien haben der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Kommunikationswissenschaftliche Grundlagen II, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die NPD wollte über...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Buch „Beitrag zur Entstehung und Entwicklung des Musicals" beschäftigt sich, gegenüber den Musik-Genre „Oper" und "Operette" mit einer...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1.3, Universität Regensburg (Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur; Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Kulturindustrie und...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1, Universität Bremen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Finale der Weltmeisterschaft 2006 zwischen Italien und Frankreich wird von einem weltweiten Milliardenpublikum auf allen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Adorno und Horkheimer haben mit ihrer Schrift „Dialektik der Aufklärung" einen Erklärungsansatz für die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,2, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Christliche Publizistik), Veranstaltung: Proseminar: Allwissend und Allgegenwärtig: Das Internet, Sprache:...

This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yong's works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential martial...

Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway is a study of culture contact between the Saami and the Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in an historical perspective. This study is based primarily on literary sources and official...

How the daytime drama format reaches or loses its audience in the Internet ageContributions by Ernest Alba, Kay Alden, Robert C. Allen, Nancy Baym, Sara A. Bibel, Denise D. Bielby, Denise Brothers, Tom Casiello, Mary Cassata, Giada Da Ros, Abigail De...

A record of turbulent times in which the comics became the trusted platform to attack the status quo in ItalyExploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political assassination, and student protests, Drawn and Dangerous:...

Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and presented by biographers and journalists as history. Yet many of these works do not strictly qualify as...

This book is the first study to provide a situated investigation of the site of family play- the shared spaces and private places of gameplay within the domestic sphere. It carries out an empirically grounded and critical analysis of what marketing and...

This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility-actual, social, virtual, and imaginary-as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration;...

The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and...

The works of William Faulkner are charged with elements of such great diversity that they are an almost inexhaustible resource for study and analysis. One of the most diverse is the subject of this fascinating volume.However alien Faulkner professed...

The classical Hollywood films that were released between the 1930s and 1960s were some of the most famous products of global trade, crisscrossing borders and rising to international dominance. In analyzing a series of Hollywood films that illustrate...

"Comprised largely of cultural studies-influenced ethnographies of young people in various locations around the world, this collection of timely and provocative studies moves beyond the familiar and easy tropes of young person as urban, multi-tasking, irr

In 1990 the fledgling Fox television network debuted its prime-time soap opera Beverly Hills, 90210, which was intended to appeal to viewers in their late teens and early twenties. Before long, not only did the network have a genuine hit with a lar

Today, birth, suffering, healing, and death--all powerful experiences--are closely associated with nurses. In <i>Nurses' Work, The Sacred and The Profane</i>, Zane Robinson Wolf reveals and examines the rituals nurses unconsciously...

Visionary Observers explores the relationship between anthropology and public policy, examining the careers of nine twentieth-century American anthropologists who made important contributions to debates about race, ethnicity, socialization, and education...

Dear Readers,From 1970-1974 George Harrison and others organized a series of Concerts for Bangladesh. These charity concerts raised millions for UNICEF's relief efforts to aid Bangladesh war victims.American Trilogy contains revealing biographies and...

In his latest book, fairy tales expert Jack Zipes explores the question of why some fairy tales "work" and others don't, why the fairy tale is uniquely capable of getting under the skin of culture and staying there. Why, in other words, fairy tales...

As India celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its independence, much praise was lavished on its emergence as a major player on the global stage. Its economic transformation and geopolitical significance as a nuclear power are matched by its globally...

During the mid-1990s, the O.J. Simpson murder trial dominated the media in the United States and were circulated throughout the world via global communications networks. The case became a spectacle of race, gender, class and violence, bringing in...

In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links...

First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The phenomena of `enterprise' and `heritage' might at first thought seem unrelated: this book sets out to show that the two concepts are not only related but deeply interdependent. If `enterprise' can be used to define the official encouragement of the...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,3, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Sport- und Bewegungswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Juvenile Lebenswelten als Produkt rasanter gesellschaftlicher...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,3, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Frauen werden in Printmedien unterschiedlich dargestellt und abgebildet. Dieses Buch...