Popular culture Books

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Veranstaltung: Theorie und Empirie des Fernsehens, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: EinleitungSeit Beginn der...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,5, Universität Siegen, Veranstaltung: Medienwissenschaften; Soziologie; Sozialpsychologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...] Die folgende Arbeit stellt sich der...

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, Veranstaltung: Musikpädagogik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Musikalische Sozialisation aus der Perspektive...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „The ‚Hutus' and ‚Tutsis' killed each other with hatches and hoes andmachetes, and I know that none of these...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Universität Hamburg (Sozialökonomie), Veranstaltung: Empirisches Praktikum: Jugend- und Musikkulturen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1. Einleitung, 2.Die HipHop...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Ansatz der Studienarbeit im Kontext des sozialen Wandels umfasst die exemplarische Gegenüberstellung von...

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: 1,0, University of Hagen, language: English, abstract: This thesis evaluates the role of actor models with regard to the changes in virtual environments. The most...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wenn man heute die Opernlandschaft betrachtet, dann wird deutlich: Oper ist ein multimediales...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1, Universität Wien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Diplomarbeit setzt sich mit der Art und Weise auseinander in der sich die „Weiße", „abendländische",...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Universität Kassel (FB 05 - Gesellschaftswissenschaften Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Seminar: Regeln und Abweichler, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Seminar...

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,1, Universität Regensburg (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Klimawandel ist ein globales Problem, das von Jahr zu Jahr wächst und...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,7, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Netzwerksoziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Hausarbeit soll sich mit einem Thema...

Vordiplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,2, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Thema „Gewaltdarstellungen in den neuen Medien" ist in der empirischen Medienforschung eines der...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,3, Universität Paderborn, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Symbiose der Medien Radio und Internet birgt ein großes Potenzial in sich. Die zahlreichen Radioangebote,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 1,0, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg (Sport), Veranstaltung: Raufen und Kämpfen im Sportunterricht, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: „Ich weiß nicht, ob ich meinen André hier...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Sport - Sportsoziologie, Note: 2,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Institut für Sportwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Slacklinen, eine junge, aufstrebende Bewegungsform, erfreut sich...

This collection of essays focuses on the representations of a variety of "bad girls"-women who challenge, refuse, or transgress the patriarchal limits intended to circumscribe them-in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the...

In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the "affective turn in...

This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty. The book focuses on feminist modes of activism, as well as media and cultural representation to ask...

This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory. The concept of the neo-tribe was first introduced by the French sociologist Michel Mafessoli...

This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates, the freak show model into a "new American...

This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging...

From Sherlock Holmes onwards, fictional detectives use lenses: Ocular Proof and the Spectacled Detective in British Crime Fiction argues that these visual aids are metaphors for ways of seeing, and that they help us to understand not only individual...

The book investigates the witch as a key rhetorical symbol in twentieth- and twenty-first century feminist memory, politics, activism, and popular culture. The witch demonstrates the inheritance of paradoxical pasts, traversing numerous ideological...

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences generally. Beginning from the idea of "hooks" in popular song, the book identifies experiences of special liveliness that...

This book launches a proposal: to fill some empirical and theoretical gaps that presently exists in populism studies by looking at the potential nexus between populist phenomena and popular culture. It provides a detailed account of the multiple...

Insulting Music explores insult in and around music and demonstrates that insult is a key dimension of Western musical experience and practice. There is insult in the music we hear, how we express our musical preferences, as well as our reactions to...

Through meticulous examinations, this book analyzes how women update their identities and articulate their feelings through clothing and art in protests, politics in the United States in the 20th century. Topics explored include the suffragists and their...

This book is a study of how transfictional and transmedia storytelling emerges in the nineteenth century and how the period's receptive practices anticipate the receptive practices of fandom and transmedia storytelling franchises in the twentieth and...

This book constitutes the first monograph dedicated to an academic analysis of David Bowie's appearances in film. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, Bowie's 'silver screen' career is explored in full. The...

This book examines the figure of the sleeper agent as part of post-9/11 political, journalistic and fictional discourse. There is a tendency to discuss the terroristic threat after 9/11 as either a faraway enemy to be hunted down by military force or, on...

By the early 1830s the old school of Gothic literature was exhausted. Late Romanticism, emphasising as it did the uncertainties of personality and imagination, gave it a new lease of life. Gothic-the literature of disturbance and uncertainty-now produced...

"Software Engineering and Tech Culture in Nigeria" delves into the dynamic intersection of culture and technology in one of Africa's most vibrant tech ecosystems.This comprehensive guide explores the evolution of Nigeria's tech industry, highlighting key...

Cosplay. Celebrity impersonation. Historical reenactment. Drag. Ren Fairs. Through research and stories, come discover the transformational and inclusive world of costumes, and how they can be used to uncover, cultivate, and represent aspects of one's...

Classic Italian film poster art is renowned as being among the most accomplished, creative and dynamic of its kind. From the post-war period through to the 1980s, Italian artists consistently produced posters with sumptuously stunning designs and imagery...

Post-war cinema saw a rapid rise in the production of B-movies - low-budget genre films dealing with such subjects as horror, science fiction, juvenile delinquency and beatniks, bad girls and women in prison, bikers, gangsters, jungle terror, mondo, drug...

An uproariously funny, no-holds-barred tussle with India's entire canvas: political culture and current affairs, the environment and conservation, the bureaucracy and governance, legal matters, social issues, societal peccadilloes, and anything else that...

"Brilliant, and very very funny" - "A wicked read" - "Biting Satire "Famous actors were members of Macready's Club. So were playwrights, composers, film producers, judges, barristers, newspaper editors, TV personalities, politicians, ambassadors and...

After World War II, Japanese popular culture was "banned" in Korea. However, despite the official ban, Japanese popular culture was introduced and circulated through hidden or unofficial channels. In fact, the author, born in Seoul in 1976, grew up...

The only way to change culture is to create culture. Andy Crouch says we must reclaim the cultural mandate to be the creative cultivators God designed us to be. In this expanded edition of his award-winning book he unpacks how culture works and gives us...

Since its 2013 premiere, Orange Is the New Black has become Netflix's most watched series, garnering critical praise and numerous awards and advancing the cultural phenomenon of binge-watching. Academic conferences now routinely feature panels...

Over the past three decades, African Americans have faced a number of new challenges brought about by changes in the political, economic and social structure of America. Furthermore, this vastly changed social landscape has produced a number of resonant...

This book employs actor-network theory in order to examine how representations of crime are produced for contemporary prime-time television dramas. As a unique examination of the production of contemporary crime television dramas, particularly their...

This book, first published in 1987, is both simple in conception and ambitious in intention. It aims at legitimating the new interdisciplinary field of men's studies as one of the most significant and challenging intellectual and curricular developments...

This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies, and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal...

Ng examines the aftermath of the massive protests in 2019 and the implementation of the National Security Law in Hong Kong.