Popular Culture

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594481949Author Steven JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm)...

This is an ode to the lost golden age of the pinball machine. These vivid, flashing portals of entertainment were mainstays of nearly every bar, pub and amusement arcade from the 1960s to the 1990s, but today they have all but disappeared. While the...

On subjects from Superman to rock 'n' roll, from Donald Duck to the TV news, from soap operas and romance novels to the use of double speak in advertising, these lively essays offer students of contemporary media a comprehensive counterstatement to the...

In the modern information age, our brain's coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the...

While corporations, governmental groups, and public relations firms debated the best way to memorialize the event of 9/11, sites of commemoration could be seen across the country and especially on the Internet. Greg Ulmer suggests that this reality...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593475959Author Samantha HighfillFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 131mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476694559Author Laura J GettyFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593237342Author Andy CrouchFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836908029Author James HurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 139Imprint Bookvault PublishingPublisher Bookvault PublishingWeight(grams) 377g

How popular music reflects the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for more sustainable ways to liveHow popular music reflects the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for more sustainable ways to liveAbout the AuthorMark...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463725873Author Kim WaldenFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University Press

Phobia and American Literature, 1705-1937: A Therapeutic History tells a neglected, two-century history of phobia's gradual emergence as a variable suffix in medicine, politics, and literature, ready to be appended to an array of objects, situations, and...

An examination of the American fascination with conspiracy and the distrust it sows The recent popularity of The DaVinci Code and The Matrix trilogy exemplifies the fascination Americans have with conspiracy-driven subjects. Though scholars have...

This edited volume identifies and establishes the idea of the Callidocene, which the authors position as an epoch that both includes and extends beyond the current conception of the Anthropocene. While the word 'Anthropocene' has become strongly...

In Pink Globalization, Christine R. Yano examines the creation and rise of Hello Kitty as a part of Japanese Cute-Cool culture. Yano argues that the international popularity of Hello Kitty is one aspect of what she calls pink globalization-the spread of...

A fascinating and enlightening deep dive into the infamous Disney Adult community from the woman behind the popular website The Disney Food Blog. Disney Adults are grown-ups who derive singular, almost obsessive, joy from all things Disney. They devote...

As education, entertainment, or "edutainment" (as Walt called it), Disney offers its consumers and guests a wealth of opportunities for learning. In Why the Magic Matters, top Disney scholars and teachers unpack what, why, and how Disney maintains its...

As education, entertainment, or "edutainment" (as Walt called it), Disney offers its consumers and guests with a wealth of opportunities for learning. In Why the Magic Matters, top Disney scholars and teachers unpack what, why, and how Disney maintains...

This edited volume examines the ways in which the representation of female teachers on television has developed from the advent of the medium up to the present day. Despite the widely feminized nature of the teaching profession, the first depictions of...

This edited collection considers how scholars conduct research on (everyday) politics in Southeast Asia via networks of internet popular culture. This includes artefacts, networks, groups, and cultures that are specific to Southeast Asian online...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789083318110Author Ruben LundgrenFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint 200cmPublisher 200cm

Have you ever wondered whether the assortment of books you have at home is a 'collection'? Do you want to reorganize it? Expand it? Or repair some of your treasured volumes? This quirky but practical guide covers questions book-lovers might have about...

Uncovering Hollywood's perpetual longing for a lost industrial America "We don't make things in America anymore": like clockwork, this refrain resurfaces in political discourse, a reflection of yearning for a bygone era of industrial productivity. In his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584650355Author Reinhold WagnleitnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

A collection of essays on cultural and political innovations in Latin America. The work shows how the penetration of capital and media - known as globalization - into the political and everyday life of Latin America has had far-reaching cultural...

James Gilbert examines the confrontation between science and religion in the 20th century, as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought clashed within the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly...

This text presents an introduction to social studies of scientific knowledge. Using case studies from cognitive science, physics, and biology to illustrate descriptions and applications of the social study of science, the authors aim to provide a...

Often described as an art of abstraction and subjective introspection, experimental film is also invested in exploring daily objects and materials and in channeling, in the process, a peculiar perception of the modern everyday that this book calls queer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624911415Author MS Lynette FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Parkhurst Brothers Publishers IncPublisher Parkhurst Brothers Publishers...

Romantic fiction has long been dismissed as trivial and denounced for peddling supposedly patriarchal myths of heterosexual love and marriage. Despite such criticism, the popularity of romantic fiction has only increased in recent decades.Drawing on...

Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such as China with a powerful central state? Contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879722968Format HardbackImprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin PressWeight(grams) 432g

Explores ideologies of the paranormal in the USA, from views put forward by parapsychologists and crystal healers, to skeptical debunkers. Adopting a cultural perspective, Hess studies how each group constructs its own boundaries of true and false...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602230064Author Jill OakesFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. The book considers economists' support of markets in relation to...

Works of genre fiction are a source of enjoyment, read during cherished leisure time and in incidental moments of relaxation. This original book takes readers inside popular genres of fiction, including crime, fantasy, and romance, to reveal how personal...

"24 Great Films Too Painful to Watch Twice" "14 Cover Songs That Are Better Than the Originals," "14 Tragic Movie Masturbation Scenes": If any of these titles intrigue you, you're ready for Inventory. Since its introduction in 2006, the weekly feature...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942695424Author Lawrence M. EppardFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint Mason PublishingPublisher Mason PublishingDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

The phrase "dude food" likely brings to mind a range of images: burgers stacked impossibly high with an assortment of toppings that were themselves once considered a meal; crazed sports fans demolishing plates of radioactively hot wings; barbecued or...

How popular music reflects the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for more sustainable ways to liveHow popular music reflects the contradictions and dreams of communities searching for more sustainable ways to liveAbout the AuthorMark...