Popular Culture

This collection of essays translates visual language into on-screen politics. While the series ""The West Wing"" may be criticized as ""idealistic"", its clever techniques of camera work, lighting, editing, and mise en scene reflect America's best image...

From the campaign trail to the rock tour, Button Power collects a people's history of American culture told through the pin-back button. Lively commentary from two of America's foremost button experts shows how the small but powerful button reveals the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476730400Author Greg SesteroFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780761536437Author Steven L. KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Prima LifePublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

Depictions of rape on television have evolved dramatically, from hard-boiled stories about male detectives to more insightful shows focusing on rape victims. Rape on Prime Time is the first book to examine those changing depictions of rape. Lisa M...

Expert guidance on how to grow innovation and optimize already-successful areas of established organizations Transforming Legacy Organizations provides real-world advice and research-based information on how to grow innovation by employing new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505115932Author Timothy J GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780801039096Author Clive MarshFormat PaperbackImprint Baker Academic, Div of Baker Publishing GroupPublisher Baker Publishing Group

He's the only person to whom The Velvet Underground ever played as an audience of one, the first British writer to talk to Patti Smith after her seventeen-year hiatus from rock. One reviewer hailed his previous book England is Mine as "surely the...

Thought of as one of the world's greatest political theorists, Antonio Gramsci's writings push readers to interpret and change the world. In Using Gramsci, Michele Filippini enlarges upon his seminal works, disentangling it from the prevailing orthodoxy...

Flares are in. Flares are out. Flares are back again. Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term retro' has become the buzz word for describing such trends, but what does it mean?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781504095723Author John HiggsFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Open Road MediaPublisher Open Road Media

The Golden Age of Bullshit.Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, influence and insincerity, little white lies and tall tales, falsehoods and propaganda, and all sorts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059364Author Michael Andor BrodeurFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307406637Author Dick MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

That rare thing, an academic study of music that seeks to tie together the strands of the musical text, the industry that produces it, and the audience that gives it meaning... A vital read for anyone interested in the changing nature of popular music...

As almost (or, truly, virtually) every aspect of making and viewing movies is replaced by digital technologies, even the notion of "watching a film" is fast becoming an anachronism. With the likely disappearance of celluloid film stock as a medium, and...

Once it was just Mods and Rockers or Hippies and Skinheads. Now we have Riot Grrls and Rappers; Modern Primitives and Metalheads; Goths, Clubcultures and Fetishists; Urban Tribes, New Age Travellers and Internet fan groups. In a global society with a...

Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read plot lines for the complex thought experiments they contain and analyze their implications as if the comic authors were philosophers. Reading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423606420Author Jim ArndtFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Gibbs M. Smith IncPublisher Gibbs M. Smith IncWeight(grams) 767gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

"A pathbreaking book on an important subject which, surprisingly, has been paid little attention by social scientists. Zerubavel writes with both learning and lucidity. His book is a pleasure to read." (Peter Berger). "Others have written about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399532696Author Noel BothamFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 221gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Chris Smith's 101 Albums That Changed Popular Music tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded, ranging from The Anthology of American Folk Music (1952) to Elephant (2003) by...

La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous "special"...

A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world's most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts, quotes, and more than 100 gorgeous images culled from...

WHEN CHICKENHEADS COME HOME TO ROOST is a decidedly intimate look into the life of the modern black woman; a complex world where feminists often have not-so-clandestine affairs with the most sexist of men and where women who cherish their independence...

Out of the Vinyl Deeps, published in 2011, introduced a new generation to the incisive, witty, and merciless voice of Ellen Willis through her pioneering rock music criticism. In the years that followed, Willis's daring insights went beyond popular...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735210943Author Gretchen McCullochFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm)...

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998994659Author Julia Feliz BrueckFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Sanctuary PublishersPublisher Sanctuary PublishersWeight(grams)...

"Delicious memoir. . . . catnip for Hollywood gossip hounds." -Publishers Weekly The story of how Mario Lavandeira becomes Perez Hilton, the world's first and biggest celebrity blogger, with millions of readers around the globe. With Perez's help, many...

Winner of the 2004 Gary Olson Award for best book in cultural theory presented by JACExploring the emergence of a societal imperative to enjoy ourselves, Todd McGowan builds on the work of such theorists as Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Zdizuek, Joan Copjec, and...

Leo Zagami's groundbreaking study of aliens and UFOs explores where we come from and which mysterious figures have guided humanity's political and religious choices. From the prophets to the initiates and magicians, all ages have drawn from a common...

Universal Studios never really wanted to get into the theme park business. They wanted to be the anti-Disney. But when forced to do so, they did it in a big way. Despite the fits and starts of multiple owners, the parks have finally gained the momentum...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250619532Author Lewis HydeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 135mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400034086Author David ShenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Corporate sponsorship and business involvement in the visual arts have become increasingly common features of our cultural lives. From Absolut Vodka's sponsorship of art shows to ABN-AMRO Bank's branding of Van Gogh's self-portrait to advertise its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593680534Author Richard B SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint RadixPublisher RadixWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Elevate your manga drawings to the next level with help from a Japanese professional! Manga drawing expert and author Ebimo is an action film junkie who taught herself to draw by studying martial arts films. In this book, she brings those techniques,...

Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nation's history. What's the matter with history? For decades, critics of the discipline have argued that the historical...