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  • Painted People
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    Painted People

    In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing ‘an art without a history’. ‘No-one’, it went on, ‘has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.’ Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an...
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    How Y'all Doing?

    New York Times and USA Today BestsellerViral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the odd, funny, and unforgettable events in his life in this unmissable essay collection that echoes his droll,...
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  • One Two Three Four
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    One Two Three Four

    SHORTLISTED for the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners awardWINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020A Spectator Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year From the...
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  • 50 Things To Do In The Wild
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    50 Things To Do In The Wild

    Fifty savvy skills for outdoor adventurers. This trusty guide teaches you all the essential skills you need to survive in the wild, from building a shelter to making a fire. Forest school practitioner Richard Skrein shares his expertise and enthusiasm...
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    Death Becomes Them

    An eye-opening and intimate look into the lonely, sad and nightmarish lives left behind celebrity suicides, Death Becomes Them covers twenty subjects ranging from Sylvia Plath to Ian Curtis, from Vincent van Gogh to Abbie Hoffman, and Diane Arbus to...
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    Hating Women

    From the author of the internationally bestselling Kosher Sex. A wake-up call about the growing trend of misogyny in our culture-as evidenced by the flood of reality TV shows, ads, and lyrics that portray women as brainless bimbos, or worse Shmuley...
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    Your Beauty Mark

    From burlesque show to fashion runway, magazine cover to Internet video, fashion icon and “burlesque superheroine” (Vanity Fair) Dita Von Teese has undergone more strokes of red lipstick, bursts of hair spray, boxes of blue-black hair dye and pats of...
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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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  • 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
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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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  • Like That Like That
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    Like That

    "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...
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  • Twilight Memories Twilight Memories
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    Twilight Memories

    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...
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  • Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television
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    Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television

    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...
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  • The Total Work of Art The Total Work of Art
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    The Total Work of Art

    The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of...
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    Sexy Bodies

    Are bodies sexy? How? In what sorts of ways? Sexy Bodies investigates the production of sexual bodies and sexual practices, of sexualities which are dyke, bi, transracial, and even hetero. It celebrates lesbian and queer sexualities but also explores...
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    Posthuman Capitalism

    Posthuman Capitalism critically reviews the manifestation of capitalist agenda online by examining the phenomenon of the 'posthuman' in the data economy. The chapters examine our posthuman condition, where we are constantly asked to partake in platforms...
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  • Heroes in Contemporary British Culture Heroes in Contemporary British Culture
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    Heroes in Contemporary British Culture

    This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama.Drawing on case studies...
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  • Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives
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    Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives

    Structure and Agency in Young People's Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the...
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    Gothic Charm School Gothic Charm School
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    Gothic Charm School

    An essential, fully illustrated guidebook to day-to-day Goth livingThere's more to being a Goth than throwing on some black velvet, dyeing your hair, and calling it a day (or a night). How do you dress with morbid flair when going to a job interview? Is...
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  • Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan
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    Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan

    Japanese popular culture is constantly evolving in the face of internal and external influence. Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan examines this evolution from a new and challenging perspective by focusing on the movements of popular culture into...
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  • Isn't it Ironic? Isn't it Ironic?
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    Isn't it Ironic?

    This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications and perilous linguistic...
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  • Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture
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    Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture

    Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book...
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  • Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music
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    Bruce Springsteen and Popular Music

    This interdisciplinary volume enters the scholarly conversation about Bruce Springsteen at the moment when he has reinforced his status of global superstar and achieved the status of social critic. Covering musical and cultural developments, chapters...
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  • Internet Video Culture in China Internet Video Culture in China
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    Internet Video Culture in China

    Examining Internet culture in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the US, this book analyzes videos which entertain both English and Chinese-speaking viewers to gain a better understanding of cultural similarities and differences. Each...
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  • Textual Travels Textual Travels
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    Textual Travels

    This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of...
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  • Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India
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    Cosmopolitan Modernity in Early 20th-Century India

    This book presents an alternative view of cosmopolitanism, citizenship and modernity in early 20th-century India through the multiple lenses of mysticism, travel, friendship, art, and politics.It makes a key intervention in the understanding of...
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  • Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity
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    Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

    In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of music that had existed in the West since the Renaissance...
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  • Whores and Other Feminists Whores and Other Feminists
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    Whores and Other Feminists

    Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside the...
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  • Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa
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    Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

    This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial,...
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  • Families in Asia Families in Asia
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    Families in Asia

    Families in Asia provides a unique sociological analysis of family trends in Asia. Stella R. Quah uses demographic and survey data, personal interviews and case studies from China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines,...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
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    The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism

    The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism provides a comprehensive overview of the research into the convergence of media and tourism and specifically investigates the concept of mediatized tourism.
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  • Rolling Rolling
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    Rolling

    Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses.Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the...
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    Dogfight at the Pentagon Dogfight at the Pentagon
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    Dogfight at the Pentagon

    includes the essay "The Endless Game of Tag", the inspiration for the major motion picture TagA delightful collection of the wild, the weird, and the wonderful culled from the Wall Street Journal's popular, and long-standing A-hed column.One of the Wall...
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    Letters to a Bullied Girl Letters to a Bullied Girl
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    Letters to a Bullied Girl

    Olivia Gardner, a northern California teenager, was severely taunted and cyber-bullied by her classmates for more than two years. News of her bullying spread, eventually reaching two teenage girls from a neighboring town, sisters Emily and Sarah Buder...
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  • Dish and Tell Dish and Tell
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    Dish and Tell

    It's easy to feel like we're alone in our struggles, but when we're able to share our stories with other women, we realize how alike we really are. There is comfort in numbers and knowing that we're not alone. -- PatriciaAs women, we take care of...
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    Arsenic & Breast Milk

    Arsenic & Breast Milk weaves an honest tale of healing and self-love.Her first collection of poetry, M.A.N. guides the reader on a personal pilgrimage of pain, passion, and identity through a dark and whimsical scope. Centering on love and intimacy,...
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