Popular culture Books

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen (Modul 3 - Lehrgebiet Mediendidaktik), Veranstaltung: Gestaltung und Entwicklung von neuen Medien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Internet...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Gesellschaftswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Geld und Tore: Über die Folgen der Kommerzialisierung im Fussball ,...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sören Berkowicz widmet sich in seiner Master-Arbeit einem genuin soziologischen Thema,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,0, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (Institut für Sportsoziologie), Veranstaltung: Sport in der alternden Gesellschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Momentan befindet sich unsere...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Geschwister Scholl Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie konnte die politische Arbeit von TON STEINE SCHERBEN...

Son Goku’s adventure begins! Join me in Dragon Ball Culture Volume 2, as we travel along with Goku on his epic journey for greater strength.With each step that Goku takes, you’ll discover more of the hidden spirituality and symbolism in...

Scholars of state socialism have frequently invoked "nostalgia" to identify an uncritical longing for the utopian ambitions and lived experience of the former Eastern Bloc. However, this concept seems insufficient to describe memory cultures in the Czech...

Children whose dominant handedness is purposefully reversed may undergo profound alterations in their developing brains. Hidden Handedness tells this story from an autobiographical point of view. The story opens with the experiences of an adult who...

Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in...

Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne...

Owen W. Gilman Jr. stresses the US experience of war in the twenty-first century and argues that wherever and whenever there is war, there will be imaginative responses to it,especially the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Since the trauma of...

Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence...

The superhero Wolverine time travels and changes storylines. On Torchwood, there's a pill popped to alter the past. The narrative technique of retroactive continuity seems rife lately, given all the world-building in comics. Andrew J. Friedenthal...

An eight year old boy named James, aka the wannabe Cisco Kid, nearly lost his life as he searched for precious metal in a bone dry southwest Arizona gulley. He retrieved only pyrite before a desert flood swept away his world. Over the course of half a...

The present volume on Anabaptist ReMix: The Varieties of Cultural Engagement is a case study of one tradition-Anabaptists and Mennonites-and fragments of its transformation in the modern and post-modern era.

This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry,...

Ce livre fascinant explore les traditions du spectacle de rue et les pratiques douteuses des charlatans à Paris du Moyen Âge au XVIIIe siècle. Avec des descriptions détaillées des astuces et des tromperies des charlatans, Gouriet offre une perspective...

Faulknerista collects more than twenty years of critically influential scholarship by Catherine Gunther Kodat on the writings of one of the most important American authors of the twentieth century, William Faulkner. Initially composed as freestanding...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

 "THE ANUAKS MUST DEFEAT THE BRITISH..." 1880,The Anuaks knew it was an exigency, they either reverse the siege by arming themselves with their enemy's firearms, or they would up decimated and displaced. Africa's pride and independence would be lost...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future.

Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.Reading the Vampire examines the...

In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies. Like a Film investigates how the cinematic...

Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.International in its scope and...

"Reading Into Cultural Studies" revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the...

This edited volume mainly focuses on the practice of taking and displaying various body parts as trophies in both North and South America. The editors and contributors (which include Native Peoples from both continents) examine...

The last decade has witnessed increased interest in establishing partnerships between professional practitioners in public interpretation and educational institutions to excavate and preserve the past. These developments have...

This book explores the key issues of racism, anti-racism and identity in British football. It relates the history of black players in the game, analyzes the racism they have experienced, and evaluates the efficacy of anti-racist campaigns. The efficacy...

സൗന്ദര്യത്തിന്റെ നിർവചനം: സംസ്‌കാരങ്ങൾക്കും യുഗങ്ങൾക്കും അപ്പുറംസൗന്ദര്യം എന്നത് ഒരു ആത്മനിഷ്ഠമായ അനുഭവമാണ്, എന്നാൽ അതിന്റെ നിർവചനം എക്കാലവും സംസ്‌കാരങ്ങളും യുഗങ്ങളും തമ്മിൽ വ്യത്യാസപ്പെട്ടിരിക്കുന്നു. ഈ ലേഖനം പുരാതന ആദർശങ്ങളിൽ നിന്ന് ആധുനിക...

From the corrupt and deranged mind of C.T. Jackson, comes his second book that teaches you how to reach the top of the world by being the most horrible person you can imagine.Feel like you deserve more than you actually do? Do you see people as mere...

Tahiti and French Polynesia have been mythologized as the sensual Earthly Paradise since the 18th century. Within the last thirty years, the people indigenous to these islands, the Maohi, have been publishing their works. Most of the literary energy...

Frustration, excitement, anger, happiness, anxiety, pleasure, grief - there arevarious ways how people may respond to living, studying, or working abroad,and everything that is related to it. While some sojourners have virtually noproblems to blend in...

Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross Disciplinary Cultural Analysis makes the argument for studying everyday life through a combination of introductory theoretical approaches and a grouping of applications to specific aspects of American culture. The...

This book examines the role of comics in the perpetuation of the myth of the American West. In particular, it looks at the ways in which lone central characters, and their acts of violence, are posited as heroic. In doing so, the book raises...

This book argues that Hip Hop's early history in the South Bronx charts a course remarkably similar to the conceptual history of artistic creation presented in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics. It contends that the resonances between Hegel's account of the...