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POLLEN IN PRINT 1955-1959, edited by Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle, is the latest release from the acclaimed Men's Adventure Library, chronologically collecting the complete men's adventure magazine (aka MAM) illustrations by the great SAMSON POLLEN,...

Step by step, into tomorrow, prudent or two left feet on dance floor?Cosmos is grand, comprehensive reading is twin to broad vision, Yesterday is Tomorrow's advisor?Thus comes World Culture Pictorial® Reading and Reflection - from poetry to policy, from...

Mintirho ya Vulavula: Arts, National Identities and Democracy examines the role of arts and culture in development, and specifically its value in consolidating our nascent democracy and in facilitating the transformation of South African society...

Behind The Curtain: What Your Rideshare Driver Really Sees At Night Will Shock You!Imagine what it would be like to pick up a total stranger late at night, and have no idea where you are going until after he climbed into your back seat?For the first...

Baby Boom or Bust is a mostly chronological, frequently irreverent memoir that crosses six notable decades. Baby boomers were borne of The Silent Generation, a large group of prolific breeders between the baby boomer and Greatest Generation eras...

In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a time in which the country saw new economic prosperity, a growing cosmopolitan population, and the emergence of consumer culture...

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A Culture of Confidence: Politics, Performance and the Idea of Americaby Richard NelsonA study of contemporary America's hunger for confidence and the politics of performance that shapes our institutions and our daily lives.Compelled by the ubiquitous...

Metapop: Self-referentiality in Contemporary American Popular Cultureby Michael DunneSince no other book has been written on this subject, Metapop blazes a trail into new territory. The author writes very clearly and gracefully and expresses what could...

Horror Film: Creating and Marketing Fearedited by Steffen Hantkewith essays by Stacey Abbott, Michael Arnzen, Blair Davis, David Scott Diffrient, Richard J. Hand, James Kendrick, Claire Sisco King, K. A. Laity, Jay McRoy, Lorena Russell, Philip L...

Every zombie movie has a terrifying underlying message. The enemy isn't supernatural or an alien from another planet. "The enemy is . . . us!" The "undead" -- mutated humans, grotesque versions of their previous selves -- are destroying everything in...

Individuals often view "culture" as activities beyond their interests, associating the concept with exclusivity or high art. To be cultured is often synonymous with engaging in physical expressions of art, like opera, a classical music concert, a...

This response to the current crisis in the field of literary studies describes the fundamental flaws of poststructuralist literary criticism, which has become a self-serving enterprise at the expense of scholarship at large and students in particular...

Major League Baseball was in crisis in 1968. The commissioner was inept, professional football was challenging the sport's popularity and the game on the field was boring, with pitchers dominating hitters in a succession of dull, low-scoring games...

Millions of people bowl yet few know much about bowling's rich history. For more than 25 years, J.R. "Dr. Jake" Schmidt has been recounting that history in Bowlers Journal International with vitality and detail. This collection of 90 of his classic...

New York's repertory movie houses specialized in presenting films ignored by mainstream and art house audiences. Curating vintage and undistributed movies from various countries, they educated the public about the art of film at a time when the cinema...

Widely acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has made significant contributions to baseball research. This collection of 15 new essays selected from the 2015...

Aren't we all TV critics? It's a question that overlooks the importance of professional critics whose print and online columns reach large audiences. Their work helps viewers engage with programming and helps shape the conversations that arise. This...

The director's authorial role in filmmaking--the extent to which a film reflects his or her individual style and creative vision--has been much debated among film critics and scholars for decades. Drawing on generations of criticism, this study...

So, the film or television lesbian character dies. It seems to happen frequently. But does it really? If so, is it something new? Surveying the fates of numerous characters over decades, this study shows that killing off the lesbian is not a new trend...

Evangelical Christianity--the faith professed by one in four Americans--exerts an enormous influence in American society. Believed by some to have originated as a reaction to the social revolution of the 1960s, evangelicalism as a distinct subculture...

Fictional war narratives often employ haunted battlefields, super-soldiers, time travel, the undead and other imaginative elements of science fiction and fantasy. This encyclopedia catalogs appearances of the strange and the supernatural found in the...

Soap operas have captured loyal, often lifelong viewers since the first American daytime serial debuted in 1949. In this collection of 29 new and five classic essays and recollections, authors and soap opera insiders delve into the passion for...

Nineteenth-century Britain gave birth to the fantasy novel and the science fiction novel--two of today's most popular genres. During the same period, the traditional Christian beliefs that had underpinned British society for centuries faced new...

When Kenneth Johnson's science fiction miniseries V premiered in 1983, it netted more than 40 percent of the television viewing audience and went on to spawn a sequel, a weekly series, novelizations, comic books and a remake. Yet the 2009 V reboot was...

In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past--accessed with the touch of a finger--are now intertwined with those of the present, raising questions about how visual culture...

Many fans loved Fifty Shades of Grey. Many others loved to hate it. E.L. James' trilogy of novels, and the film based on them, created a popular culture sensation, revealing much about a society that is both preoccupied with and scandalized by BDSM...

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone...

The book ""Geology Of Victoria: A Descriptive Catalogue Of The Specimens In The Industrial And Technological Museum, Melbourne (1875)"" is written by George H. F. Ulrich. This book is a comprehensive catalogue of the geological specimens found in...

This book examines the intersection between Indian cinema (across geographic regions, languages and formats) and human rights. It analyzes Indian cinema from multiple human rights perspectives, such as freedom of expression and censorship, socio-economic...

This book is a novel and inspiring research work on creative industry clusters in China. Seldom has literature on CCIPs dealt with the detailed economic logic and operational methods of a CCIP. The author not only does a detailed comparison of two...

Is he MAD? Mark Arnold, author of If You're Cracked, You're Happy, Volumes Won and Too, has done it again with the very first COMPLETE MAD history since the 1990s. He's UNCONDITIONALLY MAD!!! This two-volume set (Part 1 and Part B) covers the entire...

Is he MAD? Mark Arnold, author of If You're Cracked, You're Happy, Volumes Won and Too, has done it again with the very first COMPLETE MAD history since the 1990s. He's UNCONDITIONALLY MAD!!! This two-volume set (Part 1 and Part B) covers the entire...

This book was written as a doctoral thesis. It was submitted to and accepted by the University of Poona in 1979. Several people contributed to the creation of this book, in various ways. Prof. S. D. Joshi, my supervisor,...

A trustworthy record is one that is both an accurate statement of facts and a genuine manifestation of those facts. Record trustworthiness thus has two qualitative dimensions: reliability and authenticity. Reliability means...

Yohei Sasakawa The Northern Sea Route is the shortest shipping route connecting the Far East and Europe. However, the route has been practically inaccessible to commercial vessels, due to the harsh natural conditions in the...

Shaukat Thanvi has presented personal information related to the lives of various poets, writers, political leaders and editors in his famous interesting and humorous format in this book Sheesh Mahal."شیش محل" معروف و ممتاز مزاح نگار شوکت تھانوی کے...

Conseguir alimentos es uno de los ejercicios que más tiempo, energía y recursos consume en la Cuba actual. Por ello la jerga gastronómica en el habla popular cubana aumenta continuamente, buscando formas de nombrar una ocupación común a todos los cubanos...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar: Wie beforscht man das Internet? Zur Praxis qualitativer...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, Universität Trier, Veranstaltung: Soziologie des Films, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Innerhalb des letzten Jahrhunderts hat die Filmindustrie mehrere große...

Some (web) television texts achieve immense commercial success. Certain commercially successful texts boast dedicated, creative, and exponentially growing fandoms. These fan communities engage in specific fan practices that are significantly influenced...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,7, Universität Bielefeld, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn wir uns ein Bild anschauen, haben wir sofort Assoziationsketten und Gedankengänge, mit denen wir das...

Tesis del año 2013 en eltema Deporte - Sociología deportiva, , Materia: SOCIOLOGIA, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Esta investigación aborda la implementación de la política en recreación en la comuna 8 del Distrito de Buenaventura para el periodo 2008 -...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,15, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Medien des Rechts, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Die Staatsanwaltschaft geht von...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2.0, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This Master´s thesis deals with correlations of music, nationalism, social class and history in the...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, Fachhochschule Salzburg (Soziale Arbeit), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Fernsehen bedient bzw. konfrontiert seine ZuseherInnenschaft zunehmend mit lebensnahen...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Universität Osnabrück (Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Fußball ist des Deutschen liebstes Kind, so sagt man. Die Bundesliga bricht jedes...