Popular culture Books

Can a gumshoe wear high heels? In a genre long dominated by men, women are now taking their place-as authors and as characters-alongside hard-boiled legends like Sam Spade and Mike Hammer. Hardboiled and High Heeled examines the meteoric rise of the...

Imperial Leather chronicles the dangerous liaisons between gender, race and class that shaped British imperialism and its bloody dismantling. Spanning the century between Victorian Britain and the current struggle for power in South Africa, the book...

"After reading Teaching to Transgress I am once again struck by bell hooks's never-ending, unquiet intellectual energy, an energy that makes her radical and loving." -- Paulo FreireIn Teaching to Transgress,bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent...

For the first time the anthologized works of Sarah Fenstermaker and Candace West have been collected along with new essays to provide a complete understanding of this topic of tremendous importance to scholars in social science.

From Chaplin's tramp to the Bathing Beauties, from madcap chases to skyscraper perils, slapstick comedy supplied many of the most enduring icons of American cinema in the silent era. This collection of fourteen essays by prominent film scholars...

Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society - from museum attendance to music downloading.  Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul...

'From The Passion of the Christ to the presumed 'clash of civilizations', religion's role in culture is increasingly contested and mediated. Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture is a welcome and interdisciplinary contribution that maps the territory...

Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly...

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies. It addresses a question about why the West has had such a fascination for the adeptness with which the Japanese...

Considers how the terms of gender are embodied in technologies, and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender. The contributors explore the complex territory between the lust for, and the fear of, technology, commenting on the ambivalence...

In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the...

Is there a universal right to the free expression and preservation of cultural heritage, and if so, where is that right articulated and how can it be protected? No corner of today's world has escaped the effects of...

In this collection, Cătălina Florina Florescu focuses on several contemporary Romanian female playwrights with residencies in Europe and the U.S.

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as popular as ever. This book investigates a resurgence of serial narratives in contemporary literary culture...

Recently, the U.S. has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by men expressing a sense of grievance, from "incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding sociological, historical, political, and economic analyses of masculinity...

This book critically examines recent theories of fashion which have sought to legitimize its pleasures and defend it as an avenue for self-expression. Through a series of essays which address different aspects of fashion in postmodern culture including...

It Came From the 1950s is an eclectic, witty and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties and desires of their times. The essays explore the...

Genre in Asian Film and Television takes a dynamic approach to the study of Asian screen media previously under-represented in academic writing. It combines historical overviews of developments within national contexts with detailed case studies on the...

With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life, and offers an understanding and...

The Politics of Hollywood Cinema radically transforms our understanding of cinema's potential to be politically engaging and challenging. Examining several films from Hollywood's classical era, including Marked Woman, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Born...

"Be the best you can be" urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the...

An innovative and original new study, Television, Memory and Nostalgia re-imagines the relationship between the medium and its forms of memory and remembrance through a series of case studies of British and North American programmes and practices. These...

With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in...

This book explores the relationship of human bodies with natural and cultural environments, arguing that these categories are linked and intertwined. It argues for an environmentally sustainable and healthy relationship between the body and the earth.

This book offers an evocative cross-cultural exploration into the everyday lives and music practices of young people from their own broad social, cultural and ethnic perspectives. Youth from seven urban locales in Australia, the UK, the US and Europe...

In the land of samba, there is another vibrant culture capturing the attention of urban youth. This compelling account argues that hip hop, while certainly a product of globalized flows of information and technology, is by no means homogenous. Using more...

The American urban scene, and in particular New York's, has given us a rich cultural legacy of slang words and phrases, a bonanza of popular speech. Hot dog, rush hour, butter-and-egg man, gold digger, shyster, buttinsky, smart aleck, sidewalk...

'An elegantly written and, at points, passionately argued examination of the relation of criticism to culture in the modern world. The strengths of the book are many: it is vigorously argued, immensely learned, and cogent.'Bryan Wolf, Yale University

Medium Concetta Bertoldi answers all your questions about life after life. . . from the irreverent: (If the dead are always with us, do they have a XXX view of my bedroom?). . . to the poignant: (Will my deceased father be with me when I walk down the...

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that...

Dive into the vibrant world of BTS, from their humble beginnings to their status as global icons. Each chapter is a window into the unique aspects that make up the BTS phenomenon - their music, fashion, impactful videos, philanthropy, and the unwavering...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,3, Technische Universität Dresden (Germanistik), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Theatrale Invektiven, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Jahr 1994: rückblickend gab es...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen (Internationalisierung von Bildungsprozessen), Veranstaltung: Masterstudiengang Modul 6, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wir bewegen uns in...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,5, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg (Institut für Sportwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Sport an sich scheint sinnlos zu sein und ist nur verstehbar durch die...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Institut für Sport und Sportwissenschaften an der Universität Kiel), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Angesichts der scheinbar niemals...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,7, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln (Sportsoziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: EinleitungFreizeit wird in unserer Gesellschaft immer wichtiger. Nicht nur, weil...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2.0, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen mit Fragen nach den Kernthemen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Selten stand das Genre Kabarett so stark wie 1968 unter dem Verdacht, nicht...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Universität Mannheim (Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Sozialpsychologie der Gesundheit, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Derzeit wird das Thema...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Universität Rostock (Institut für Soziologie und Demographie), Veranstaltung: Soziologie des Fernsehens, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Durch die Etablierung des...