Popular Culture

In time for the 70th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz&;s beloved comic strip Peanuts comes this deluxe poster book, with 20 pull-out posters Celebrate the 70th anniversary of Peanuts with this appealing, first-ever poster collection. From Charlie...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062985330Author Rebecca VincentFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Harper DesignPublisher Harper DesignWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593541821Author Nick HornbyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Solitary Pleasures is the first anthology to address masturbation, exploring both the history and artistic representation of autoeroticism. Masturbation today enjoys a highly equivocal and contradictory status among cultural discourses relating to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578511085Author Jeff AntebiFormat HardbackPage Count 350Imprint BookBabyPublisher BookBaby

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Printed Book of the Year (English), Publishing Next 2022.Book InformationISBN 9788194534822Author Ranjana DaveFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint Tulika...

Contributors: Alan Mckee, Line Grenier, Jocelyne Guilbault, Kevin Foster, Megan Boler, Cameron McCarthy, Sandhya Shukla, John Hartigan,Jr.Articles:The Aboriginal Version of Ken Done... Banal Aboriginal Identities in AustraliaCreolite and Francophonie in...

This unique book presents the work of more than 80 famous tattoo artists specializing in film, TV series, animation, toys, and music. It is an incredible international panorama explaining how Pikachu, Batman, and other international pop culture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684052615Author Tony FleecsFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design WorksWeight(grams) 601gDimensions(mm) 306mm *...

WWII was devastating to Europe, but the U.S. emerged with a robust economy. People who were encouraged to save every cent for the war effort now spent freely, including on magazines. The U.S. quickly came to dominate the men’s magazine market.Playboy,...

This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational...

Sexual revolution, civil rights, Flower Power, miniskirt, women’s liberation, The Pill, Black Panthers, hippies; all these words and phrases entered our language in the turbulent 1960s. The decade started as an extension of the domestic ’50s and ended...

The first commercial camera was introduced in 1839. By 1865 technology enabled ordinary men to create photographic negatives, and they immediately began taking and distributing photos of naked women. The French led the way, and it was the French who...

The perfect way for kids to bring their love of Minecraft's boundless virtual worlds into a colorful new reality!Based on Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time, this action-packed coloring book lets kids color their way through nearly 50...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622524Author Barbara JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,US

This book studies the representations of working-class women in canonical and popular American fiction between 1820 and 1870. These representations have been invisible in nineteenth century American literary and cultural studies due to the general view...

This new book continues the tradition of the American pin-up girl, while taking it to new territory. It celebrates not only the stunning beauty of the models, but the artistry of tattoos and piercings that adorn their bodies. These new cultural icons are...

Tony Sarg (1880-1942), an American artist born in Guatemala to a diplomatic family, first achieved professional success as an illustrator in London and New York. But in the 1920s, he gained even greater renown for his touring puppet shows based on...

"Cultural Studies"is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg,...

Pubic hair appeared on the American newsstand in 1970 compliments of Penthouse magazine. Within a year it was everywhere, and in 1975 Midwest redneck Larry Flynt parted the hair and made the pink beyond the centerpiece of Hustler.In Northern Europe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789815009453Author William SimFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte LtdPublisher Marshall Cavendish International...

From viral videos on YouTube to mobile television on smartphones and beyond, TV has overflowed its boundaries. If Raymond Williams' concept of flow challenges the idea of a discrete television text, then convergence destabilizes the notion of television...

The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom. In The Death and Rebirth ofAmerican Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question,...

Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in...

An A-Z of Modern America is a comprehensive cultural dictionary which defines contemporary America through its history and civilization. The book includes entries on:key people from presidents to Babe RuthAmerican life, customs, clothing and...

This special issue looks at the increasing presence of Cultural Studies as a discipline within academia. The debate about it's relevance still rages and is commented on in these pages. Also includes tips on publishing for academics and a guide to...

Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and...

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.About the AuthorProfessor Lawrence Grossberg,...

The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we...

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works...

How do artists, collectors, dealers, and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market?To answer this question, Stuart Plattner eschews the spotlights and media-hype...

Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are...

What kind of turn is the turn to ethics? A Right turn? A Left turn? A wrong turn? A U-turn? Ethics is back in literary studies, philosophy, and political theory. The philosophers, political theorists, literary critics and physician whose essays are...

Like many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found himself increasingly torn between his fear of not belonging...

A collection of essays on the topical and familiar : the future of reggae and the legend of Bob Marley; community and the public body in breast cancer media activism, and the redefinition of the Louvre are among the subjects discussed.About the...

In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links...

First published in 1995. Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.About the...

Cultural Studies 4.2 is a Special issue: Chicana/o Cultural Representations: Reframing Alternative Critical DiscoursesAbout the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415052771Author Issue Editor: Angie C. ChabramFormat...

Valentin Popov's art combines images of the superhero in American society with traditional religious iconic art from his native Ukraine. His work is in a number of major art museum collections including the National Museum of Ukrainian Art, the Fine Arts...

This distinctive volume explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books, magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives...