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Harvard University, Asia Center Islands of Eight Million Smiles
Book SynopsisSince the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the idol, an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents.
£37.76
Taylor & Francis Ltd Reuven Shiloah the Man Behind the Mossad Secret Diplomacy in the Creation of Israel
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£61.99
Running Press,U.S. What Would Velma Do
Book SynopsisA clever illustrated ode to the breakout star of Scooby-Doo, exploring the life lessons this iconic nerd girl teaches us and why we should all aim to be the Velma of our friend group From the moment Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! premiered in 1969 and through the many Scooby movies and shows since, it has cemented its place as one of the greatest cartoons of all time. But there is one character in particular who has risen to icon status: a smarty-pants who can't see without her glasses named Velma Dinkley. As the nerdiest member of the Mystery, Inc. gang, Velma might have been a wallflower or an underdog. Instead, she's become a fan favorite, a fashion legend, a standout role for Linda Cardellini in the live-action movies, the inspiration for countless Halloween costumes, and the star of her own animated series from Mindy Kaling. But why, exactly, do we love this brainiac so much? What Would Velma Do? explores the answers to that question, as well as the many inspiring takeaways we can learn from her, the history of the character, and enough fun facts and trivia to make you say Jinkies!
£14.24
University of British Columbia Press Imagining Difference
Book SynopsisAn ethnography about historical and contemporary ideas of human difference expressed by residents of Fernie, BC, a coal-mining town transforming into an international ski resort.Trade ReviewWith its 25-page bibliograhy, most of Imagining Difference won’t pass for popular history, but this work has an intriguing premise and Robertson deserves credit for an original undertaking. * BC Bookworld, Vol. 19, No. 4, Winter 2005 *Robertson is an ethnographer and a specialist in “urban anthropology” with a storytelling talent exceptional among the theory-riddled academics who tend to infest her field. She’s just mindful enough of the intellectual blinders that so preoccupy deconstructionist academics that she glides rather gracefully through the hash and gets to the beating heart of her chosen subject… Robinson spent three years in Fernie, visiting old Italian ladies and such, talking about curses, hanging out with the locals, taking notes. The result is brilliant. -- Terry Glavin * Georgia Straight *One is continually aware of, and intrigued by, the ethnographic process. The subject matter under investigation, however, delves deeper into the realm of stories and storytelling as vehicles for articulating perceptions of human difference. The legend of the curse – and its many different versions – often led to discussions of curse beliefs, religion, class, race, sexuality, gender, age, history, and geography. These various strands of text are ably woven together by Robertson; in the end she suggests “ideas about human difference remain intact across generations” (p. 246). Her study invites the reader to engage in a kind of translation of the Fernitian inquest and examine our own surroundings. Though the volume looks at an old coal-mining town/now international ski destination in southern British Columbia, the study will be of interest to anthropologists, historians, and Canadianists as well as those interested in Native Studies, Women’s Studies, Cultural and Ethnic Studies. -- Myka Burke, Faculty of Philology, University of Leipzig * Canadian Ethnic Studies, Vol XXXVII, No. 2, 2005 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPreface: Knowing Who Your Neighbours AreIntroduction: Ideas Make Acts PossiblePart One: Politics of Cursing1. Conversations among Europeans and Other Acts of Possession2 Látkép Ansicht View B??: Constructing the “Foreign”3 “The Story As I Know It”Part Two: Imagining Difference4 A Moment of Silence5 Getting Rid of the Story6 Development, Discovery, and Disguise7 One Step Beyond Epilogue: WaitingNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
McFarland & Company Conspiracy Theories The Roots Themes and
Book SynopsisNarratives based on conspiratorial and paranoid thinking have become increasingly prominent throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. From the prosaic to the outlandish, conspiracy theories and the narratives constructed by those who believe them present a unique window into the history of the United States, highlighting fears both founded and unfounded.
£30.39
State University Press of New York (SUNY) To the Extreme
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£26.32
Johns Hopkins University Press The Culture of the Cold War 2e
Book SynopsisHis new epilogue is partly a guide for new historians to tackle the complexities of Cold War studies.Trade ReviewA lively and well-documented account of how the Cold War both produced and was sustained by super-patriotism, intolerance and suspicion, and how these pathologies infected all aspects of American life in the 1950s-entertainment, churches, schools. Older readers will remember and still be amazed; younger ones will find this a readable introduction to a bizarre aspect of the American past. Foreign Affairs, reviewing the first editionTable of ContentsForewordAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Politicizing Culture: Suspicious MindsChapter 2. Seeing Red: The StigmaChapter 3. Assenting: The Trend of IdeologyChapter 4. Praying: God Bless AmericaChapter 5. Informing: Many Are CalledChapter 6. Reeling: The Politics of FilmChapter 7. Boxed-In: Television and the PressChapter 8. Dissenting: Pity the LandChapter 9. Thawing: A Substitute for VictoryEpilogueBibliographical EssayIndex
£28.16
Johns Hopkins University Press Imperial Projections Ancient Rome in Modern
Book Synopsis, Martin M. Winkler, and Maria WykeTrade ReviewAn excellent collection of essays... Among the best are Nicholas J. Cull's exploration of Carry On Cleo and its brilliant send up of the epic Cleopatra... and Margaret Malamud's careful look at the Broadway and cinema version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum... The outstanding contribution to Imperial Projections is, however, Sandra Joshel's essay on I, Claudius. -- Mary Beard Times Literary Supplement This volume aids and abets a reader's own meditation on the empires of Britain, America, and Hollywood, and the ways in which the Roman empire has been an abiding vehicle for simultaneously manifesting, indulging, interrogating, and critiquing the ambitions of these more recent empires. -- Rebecca Resinski Key Reporter Imperial Projections is a terrific book. It successfully merges modern cultural critique with sound classical scholarship, and does so in a manner that is enjoyable to read and intellectually challenging. -- Kirk Ormand Bryn Mawr Classical Review An insightful exploration into how Imperial Rome, in its various popular guises, has provided a malleable and commercially viable mythos that has found special receptivity in modern America. -- Amy Henderson History: Reviews of New Books This engaging volume capitalizes on contemporary interest in the decadence and excess that characterizes Rome in the modern, as indeed in the ancient, imagination... Read it and enjoy! -- A. M. Keith New England Classical Journal 2003 An excellent example of what might be called the allegorical mode of cinematic interpretation, in which movies are understood as texts about the cultures that make and consume them. Scope: Online Journal of Film Studies Imperial Projections provides some intriguing new perspectives on such pop culture representations of Rome and the Romans. -- Catherine Colegrove Classical Outlook 2004Table of ContentsContents: Introduction by Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud, and Maria Wyke Chapter 1: "Oppositions, Anxieties, and Ambiguities in the Toga Movie" by William Fitzgerald Chapter 2: "The Roman Empire in American Cinema after 1945" by Martin Winkler Chapter 3: "Seeing Red: Spartacus as Domestic Economist" by Alison Futrell Chapter 4: "I, Claudius: Projection and Imperial Soap Opera" by Sandra R. Joshel Chapter 5: "'Infamy! Infamy! They've All Got It in for Me!': Carry on Cleo and the British Camp Comedies of Ancient Rome" by Nicholas Cull Chapter 6: "Brooklyn on the Tiber: Roman Comedy on Broadway and in Film" by Margaret Malamud Chapter 7: "Serial Romans" by Martha Malamud Chapter 8: "Shared Sexualities: Roman Soldiers, Derek Jarman's Sebastiane, and British Homosexuality" by Maria Wyke Chapter 9: "Living Like Romans in Las Vegas: The Roman World at Caesar's Palace" by Margaret Malamud and Donald T. McGuire, Jr. Bibliography Filmography
£43.20
Johns Hopkins University Press Being and Becoming Visible Women Performance and
Book SynopsisInstructors in feminist, cultural, and media studies who are looking for global perspectives will find that this fresh and provocative volume encourages students to see new connections among a variety of trends in contemporary scholarship.Trade Review"Being and Becoming Visible is a remarkable compilation of previously published articles that examine female representation from feminist perspectives in a variety of performative and visual media across geographical and disciplinary boundaries. The collection is a valuable text for use in courses that focus on visual culture, representation, gender identity, and the media." - Jill Bystydzienski, The Ohio State University"Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Feminist Exhibitionism: When the Women's Studies Professor Is a CuratorPart I: Spectators, Spectacles, and Cultural IconsChapter 2. Diana Doubled: The Fairytale Princess and the PhotographerChapter 3. Alice Neel's Portraits of Mother WorkChapter 4. Practical Perfection? The Nanny Negotiates Gender, Class, and Family Contradictions in 1960s Popular Culture Chapter 5. Millions "Love Lucy": Commodification and the Lucy PhenomenonPart II: Explicit Selves, Explicit BodiesChapter 6. Fractured Borders: Women's Cancer and Feminist TheaterChapter 7. Representing Domestic Violence: Ambivalence and Difference in What's Love Got to Do with ItChapter 8. The Missing Story of Ourselves: Poor Women, Power, and the Politics of Feminist RepresentationChapter 9. Fashion Photography and Women's Modernity in Weimar Germany: The Case of Yva Part III: Iconographies of Communal IdentityChapter 10. Iconographies of Gender, Poverty, and Power in Contemporary South African Visual CultureChapter 11. Cultural Trauma, Memory, and Gendered Collective Action: The Case of Women of the Storm Following Hurricane KatrinaChapter 12. The Representation of the Indigenous Other in Daughters of the Dust and The PianoList of Contributors
£57.60
Stanford University Press Lex Populi
Book SynopsisThis is a book about jurisprudenceor legal philosophy. The legal philosophical texts under consideration areto say the leastunorthodox. Tolkien, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, Legally Blonde, and others are referenced as instances of what the author calls lex populipop law. Here, however, issues of legal philosophy are heavily coded, for few of these pop cultural texts announce themselves as expressly legal. Lex Populi reads these texts jurisprudentially, with an eye to their hidden legal philosophical meanings, enabling connections such as: Tolkien''s Ring as Kelsen''s grundnorm; vampire slaying as legal language''s semiosis; and Hogwarts as substantively unjust. Lex Populi attempts not only a jurisprudential reading of popular culture, but also a popular rereading of jurisprudence, removing it from the legal experts in order to restore it to the public at large: a lex populi by and for the people.Trade Review"With unmatched eloquence, with veritable clusters of mots justes, and with an unerring ear for the symptoms of legal anxiety in popular texts, MacNeil walks the reader through his intricate and intensely intelligent interpretations of a blazing diversity of texts, tragic, comic, epic, satirical, sci-fi and more." -- Media & Arts Law Review"In obeying the form of critical cultural jurisprudence [Lex Populi] succeeds in invoking the visceral. That is, it resounds in the deep registries that drive the very subject-matter of the book itself, animations of the world that are more real than lived existence. For this stylistic achievement in a field which has become notorious for over-complex, technical performances, MacNeil should be celebrated... MacNeil presents the possibility of revolutionising jurisprudence. He offers a way for jurisprudence to actively engage with the 'masses' and in that engagement finds not only a stronger voice, but facilitates other voices on the 'people's law.'" -- Griffith Law Review"William MacNeil's book is that rarest of rarae aves – a serious legal study that is fun to read. As its name implies, the book examines "'People's law' or, more loosely, 'pop law'" (1) – law as reflected by contemporary popular culture... By recognizing how popular culture reflects legal structures we can learn not only how society implicitly understands, or misunderstands, law but also gives legal theorists a way of re-examining and rethinking jurisprudence." -- Social Science Research Network"What can pop culture contribute to the rights debate? Quite a lot, MacNeil argues. And... his unconventional analysis holds up remarkably well." -- Australian Literary Review"The prose is lively, witty, and challenging, full of puns and cultural references that pay a careful reader... Parallel to how Murphy Brown provoked conversation about single parenting, MacNeil believes we can brng jurisprudential issues into public dialogue with the aid of popular culture." -- Law and Politics Book Review"MacNeil's work is essential to understanding the relationship between jurisprudence and popular culture. Lex Populi offers a rich web of allusions to cultural theory and legal scholarshi, and witty readings of works of popular culture." -- Desmond Manderson * McGill University *"With wit and charm, William MacNeil has fashioned a compelling, insightful, and subtle account of law's relationship to popular culture. This scholarly and stylish work challenges the conventional separation of law from its popular representations, and traces their complex interconnection as we move from the age of law in the books to the era of law in and as the image." -- Alison Young * University of Melbourne *"Imagine a politically progressive, lawyerly, version of comedian and commentator Dennis Miller, steeped in the hippest post-modern theory, and you get some sense of the hyper-kinetic tone of William P. MacNeil's original, readable, and ebullient volume MacNeil does a fine job of demonstrating the pervasiveness of the law as a recurring (often implicit) theme unfolding across the pop culture landscape." -- Mark Andrejevic, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies * University of Queensland *Table of Contents@fmct: Contents @toc4:Acknowledgments iii List Of Abbreviations iii @toc2:Introduction: Toward an Intertextual Jurisprudence 1 1. Kidlit as Law 'n Lit: Harry Potter and the Scales of Justice 000 2. You Slay Me! Buffy as Jurisprude of Desire 000 3. "The First Rule of Fight Club Is--You Do Not Talk About Fight Club!" The Perverse Core of Legal Positivism 000 4. One Recht to Rule Them All! Law's Empire in the Age of Empire 000 5. Precrime Never Pays! Law and Economics in Minority Report 000 6. Critically Blonde: Law School as Training for Hersteria 000 7. "It's the Vibe!" The Common Law Imaginary Down Under 000 8. Million Dollar Terri: "The Culture of Life" and the Right to Die 000 Conclusion: Whither Lex Populi? A Law by and for the People 000 @toc4:Notes 000 References 000 Index 000
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Louisiana State University Press The Other 1980s
Book SynopsisFans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators. This volume offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this robust era of ambitious comics publishing.
£76.50
University Press of Kentucky Apostles of Rock The Splintered World of
Book SynopsisSmith, DC Talk, and Sixpence None the Richer climb the mainstream charts, Jay Howard and John Streck talk about CCM as an important movement and show how this musical genre relates to a larger popular culture.
£25.65
Rutgers University Press Reel Vulnerability Power Pain and Gender in
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism.” -- Dennis Bingham * author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre *"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that we rethink Hollywood’s uses of pain and victimization as entrees to gender." -- Susan Jeffords * University of Washington *“Probing and insightful prose combined with brilliant textual analysis makes Reel Vulnerability a welcome and original addition to gender film criticism.” -- Dennis Bingham * author of Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre *"By challenging the assumption that the suffering body is vulnerable, Hagelin creates an alternate logic for feminist scholars that demands that we rethink Hollywood’s uses of pain and victimization as entrees to gender." -- Susan Jeffords * University of Washington *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I1. The Furies, The Men, and the Method2. Victimized, Violent, and DamnedPart II3. The Body at War4. Matthew Shepard’s Body and the Politics of Queer VulnerabilityPart III5. The Violated Body after 9/116. Vulnerability by ProxyAfterwordNotesBibliographyIndex
£105.40
Rutgers University Press Making the Scene in the Garden State Popular
Book SynopsisExplores New Jersey's musical heritage through stories about the musicians, listeners and fans who came together to create sounds from across the popular music spectrum. From the beginnings of recording in Thomas Edison's factories to Bruce Springsteen and beyond, the book examines the sounds, sights and textures of music in New Jersey.Trade Review"The New Jersey music stories told in these pages are often punctuated by chance occurrences, dumb luck, unexpected brilliance, and a little magic. They also give us a view into the bigger patterns of cultural and historical change that are far more than a local matter. From MacLeod's 'scenes' come bigger shifts. Read this and be reminded of the ways in which popular (and sometimes unpopular!) music and the people who make it, listen to it, and dream through it do things out there on the margins that, finally, reshape the center." -- Warren Zanes * author of Petty: The Biography *"Music History was Made Here" by Tom Wilk * New Jersey Monthly *"Exploring New Jersey's Musical History" by Gary Wein * NJ Stage *"History of Jersey music, Jersey ‘Lips,' virtual Hudson events: recommendations to pass the time" by Jim Testa https://www.nj.com/hudson/2020/03/history-of-jersey-music-jersey-lips-virtual-hudson-events-recommendations-to-pass-the-time.html * NJ.com *"In many ways, MacLeod hits his finest notes [by] providing readers with useful miniature stories about the lives and times of Jersey Shore musicians and their audiences. Chockful of new information and helpfully resourced with the fruits of countless interviews, Making the Scene in the Garden State should enjoy a large audience both for the book’s scholarly value, as well as for its engaging anecdotes about New Jersey’s role in changing American musical culture for all time." * New Jersey Studies *"MacLeod offers a useful local cultural history that will enrich understanding of twentieth-century America for undergraduates and general-audiences alike. Meanwhile, professional scholars can add Making the Scene in the Garden State to their list of works that shine a light into the nation's unjustly overlooked corners." * Journal of American History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making Scenes 1. Thomas Edison and the First Recording Studio 2. The Victor Talking Machine Company and the Scene at Home 3. Jazz at the Cliffside: The Studios of Rudy Van Gelder 4. Transylvania Bandstand and Rockin’ with the Cool Ghoul 5. The Upstage Club and the Asbury Park Scene 6. “Drums Along the Hudson”: The Hoboken Sound Conclusion: Making the Scene in the Twenty-First Century Acknowledgments Notes Index
£19.49
Wayne State University Press Justice on Demand True Crime in the Digital
Book SynopsisOffers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Tanya Horeck examines a range of audiovisual true crime texts, and considers the extent to which the genre has come to epitomize participatory media culture.
£80.75
Taylor & Francis Prisoner Reentry in the 21st Century
Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking edited volume evaluates prisoner reentry using a critical approach to demonstrate how the many issues surrounding reentry do not merely intersect but are in fact reinforcing and interdependent. The number of former incarcerated persons with a felony conviction living in the United States has grown significantly in the last decade, reaching into the millions. When men and women are released from prison, their journey encompasses a range of challenges that are unique to each individual, including physical and mental illnesses, substance abuse, gender identity, complicated family dynamics, the denial of rights, and the inability to voice their experiences about returning home. Although scholars focus on the obstacles former prisoners encounter and how to reduce recidivism rates, the main challenge of prisoner reentry is how multiple interdependent issues overlap in complex ways. By examining prisoner reentry from various critical perspectives, this volume depTable of ContentsList of TablesList of ContributorsIntroduction: Critical Reentry in the 21st CenturyKEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS AND CALVINJOHN SMILEYSECTION IInstitutions, Community, and Reentry1 Halfway Home: The Thin Line Between Abstinence and the Drug CrisisLIAM MARTIN2 Triaging Rehabilitation: The Retreat of State-Funded Prison ProgrammingALLISON GORGA3 The State’s Accomplices? Organizations and the Penal StateNICOLE KAUFMAN4 Idaho: A Case Study in Rural ReentryDEIRDRE CAPUTO-LEVINE5 Life Courses of Sex and Violent Offenders After Prison Release: The Interaction Between Individual- and Community-Related FactorsGUNDA WOESSNER, KIRA-SOPHIE GAUDER, AND DAVID CZUDNOCHOWSKISECTION IIHealth, Embodiment, and Reentry6 Mothers Returning Home: A Critical Intersectional Approach to ReentryREBECCA REVIERE, VERNETTA D. YOUNG, AND AKIV DAWSON7 Release From Long-Term Restrictive HousingLINDA CARSON8 Resilient Roads and the Non-Prison Model for WomenL. SUSAN WILLIAMS, EDWARD L. W. GREEN, AND KATRINA M. LEWIS9 Alcohol Use Disorder: Programs and Treatment for Offenders Reentering the CommunitySARA BUCK DOUDE AND JESSICA J. SPARKS10 Carceral Calisthenics: (Body) Building a Resilient Self and Transformative Reentry MovementALBERT DE LA TIERRASECTION IIIGender, Criminality, and Reentry11 Black Women Excluded From Protection and Criminalized for Their ExistenceKEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS12 The Gendered Challenges of Prisoner ReentryHALEY ZETTLER13 An Intersectional Criminology Analysis of Black Women’s Collective ResistanceNISHAUN T. BATTLE AND JASON M. WILLIAMS14 Gender Differences in Programmatic Needs for JuvenilesLAURIN PARKER AND KYLIE PARROTTA15 Prison Is a Place to Teach Us the Things We’ve Never Learned in LifeBREEA WILLINGHAMSECTION IVAccess, Rights, and Reentry16 “. . . Except Sex Offenders”: Registering Sexual Harm in the Age of #MeTooDAVID BOOTH17 Reentry in the Inland Empire: The Prison to College Pipeline With Project ReboundANNIKA YVETTE ANDERSON, PAUL ANDREW JONES, AND CAROLYN ANNE MCALLISTER18 The Politics of Restoring Voting Rights After IncarcerationTANEISHA N. MEANS AND ALEXANDRA HATCH19 Restoration of Voting Rights: Returning Citizensand the Florida ElectorateKENESHIA GRANT20 Perpetual Punishment: One Man’s Journey Post-IncarcerationTOMAS R. MONTALVO AND JENNIFER MARIE ORTIZSECTION VVoices, Agency, and Reentry21 Thoughts, Concerns, and the Reality of Incarcerated WomenCALVINJOHN SMILEY AND KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASS22 Reflections on Reentry: Voices From the ID13 Prison Literacy ProjectHALLE M. NEIDERMAN, CHRISTOPHER P. DUM, AND THE ID13 PRISON LITERACY PROJECT23 Being Held at Rikers, Waiting to Go UpstateMARQUES M.24 Reentry, From My PerspectiveABDUL-HALIM N. SHAHID25 The Journey of a Black Man Enveloped in PovertySTEVEN PACHECO26 My First 24 Hours After Being ReleasedJOSE LUMBRERASSECTION VIActivism, Liberation, and Reentry27 Money for Freedom: Cash Bail, Incarceration, and ReentryCALVINJOHN SMILEY28 Agents of Change in Healing Our CommunitiesLIZA CHOWDHURY, JASON DAVIS, AND DEDRIC “BELOVED” HAMMOND29 Rehabilitation Is Reentry: Breathing Space, a Product of Inmate DreamsROBERT GAROT30 Making Good One Semester at a Time: Formerly Incarcerated Students (and Their Professor) Consider the Redemptive Power of Inclusive EducationJAMES M. BINNALL, IRENE SOTELO, ADRIAN VASQUEZ, AND JOE LOUIS HERNANDEZ31 “I Can’t Depend on No Reentry Program!”: Street-Identified Black Men’s Critical Reflections on Prison ReentryYASSER ARAFAT PAYNE, TARA MARIE BROWN, AND CORRY WRIGHTConclusion: What’s Next for Critical ReentryCALVINJOHN SMILEY AND KEESHA M. MIDDLEMASSIndex
£128.25
Duke University Press The Korean Popular Culture Reader
Book SynopsisThis collection provides a timely and essential foundation for studying Korean popular culture ("K-pop") by looking at its global popularity, relation to the contemporary cultural landscape, and historical roots.Trade Review"A must-read for scholars, students, and fans alike, this path-breaking volume explores the vitality and diversity of Korean popular culture. Through an international collection of experts, we discover the importance of both local contexts of production and the global reach of Korean film, TV, dance, music, and more. It's a stunning work that will stand as the cornerstone of an emerging field."—Ian Condry, author of The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan's Media Success Story"This volume is a pleasurable and intellectually stimulating excursion across the many genres of Korean popular culture. Bringing essays originally written in English together with well-chosen and beautifully translated Korean-language essays, The Korean Popular Culture Reader is a vibrant contribution to the field. This who's who of Korean cultural studies will certainly enjoy a wide readership."—Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation“Lively and informative. . . . One of the most comprehensive looks at hallyu, phenomena past and present.” -- Bill Drucker * Korean Quarterly *“There is plenty of interesting material for those interested in Korea. . . . The book doesn’t lack for intriguing topics, which also include challenges facing the country’s drive to market Korean food abroad, media portrayals of female Korean athletes and the country’s unique gaming culture. . . . Korea’s standing on the international stage and the challenges of explaining sudden cultural phenomena such as the ‘Gangnam Style’ craze seem to necessitate the need for better contextualization of hallyu. The Korean Popular Culture Reader is welcome in this respect." -- Kim Young-jin * Korea Times *"It is exciting to observe the emergence of an academic field in relation to a new historical situation. The move to establish a field of Korean popular culture studies resembles the formation of British cultural studies in the 1960s through research on the politics of postwar mass culture. This past year sadly witnessed the passing of Stuart hall, but the publication of The Korean Popular Culture Reader is a substantial tribute to hall’s far-reaching legacy." -- John R. Eperjesi * Amerasia Journal *"Telling as much about Korea, its society and history, as about popular culture, The Korean Popular Culture Reader should satisfy the intellectual thirst of scholars and students in Korean studies, cultural studies, and Asian studies." -- Youjeong Oh * Journal of Asian Studies *“[T]his volume nurtures the readers with a generous abundance of information on Korean popular culture. It is well designed and thoughtfully presented and makes a convincing contribution to a growing body of literature on Korean studies, media studies, and anthropology. It is a must-read book for those who desire a common introduction to the diverse local cultural landscape and those interested in popular culture in tandem with Korean society and culture.” -- Dal Yong Jin * Pacific Affairs *“The Korean Popular Culture Reader is a rich interdisciplinary cultural studies text. . . . The breadth of the volume is refreshing. . . . [It] fills a void in Korean cultural studies in English, and should reach a wide audience. I am hopeful that it will be read not only by Korean Studies scholars and used in Korean Studies classes, but that its general high quality and thoughtful presentation will allow it to reach those working on other areas of East Asia, and to be used in broader East Asian Studies university courses.” -- Bonnie Tilland * Acta Koreana *Table of ContentsPreface / Youngmin Choe vii Introduction. Indexing Korean Popular Culture / Kyung Hyun Kim 1 Part 1. Click and Scroll 15 1. The World in a Love Letter / Boduerae Kwon 19 2. Fisticuffs, High Kicks, and Colonial Histories: The Ambivalence of Modern Korean Identity in Narrative Comics / Kyu Hyun Kim 34 3. It All Started with a Bang: The Role of PC Bangs in South Korea's Cybercultures / Inkyu Kang 55 4. As Seen on the Internet: The Recap as Translation in English-Language K-Drama Fandoms / Regina Yung Lee 76 Part 2. Lights, Camera, Action! 99 5. Regimes within Regimes: Film and Fashion Cultures in the Korean 1950s / Steven Chung 103 6. The Quasi Patriarch: Kim Sûng-ho and South Korean Postwar Movies / Kelly Jeong 126 7. The Partisan, the Worker, and the Hidden Hero: Popular Icons in North Korean Film / Travis Workman 145 8. Face Value: The Star as Genre in Bong Joon-ho's Mother / Michelle Cho 168 Part 3. Gold, Silver, and Bronze 195 9. Bend It Like a Man of Chosun: Sports Nationalism and Colonial Modernity of 1936 / Jung Hwan Cheon 199 10. "She Became Our Strength": Female Athletes and (Trans)national Desires / Rachael Miyung Joo 228 Part 4. Strut, Move, and Shake 249 11. Young Musical Love of the 1930s / Min-Jung Son 255 12. Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Group Sound Rock / Hyunjoon Shin and Pil Ho Kim 275 13. The Popularity of Individualism: The Seo Taiji Phenomenon in the 1990s / Roald Maliangkay 296 14. Girls' Generation? Gender, (Dis)Empowerment, and K-pop / Stephen Epstein and James Turnbull 314 Part 5. Food and Travel 337 15. South Korean Advertising as Popular Culture / Olga Fedorenko 341 16. The Global Hansik Campaign and Commodification of Korean Cuisine / Katarzyna J. Cwiertka 363 17. Back Seung Woo's Blow Up (2005–2007): Touristic Fantasy, Photographic Desire, and Catastrophic North Korea / Sohl Lee 385 Bibliography 407 Contributors 431 Index 435
£27.90
Fordham University Press Gasoline Dreams
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsForeword by Imre Szeman | vii Introduction | 1 1 Petroculture | 13 2 Big, Oily Dreams | 49 3 Attachment | 77 4 Quilting Point | 107 5 Petrotemporality | 139 6 Scenarios | 169 7 Excess | 185 8 The Beach | 211 Afterword by Mark Simpson | 239 Acknowledgments | 243 Notes | 247 Bibliography | 253
£12.99
University of Hawai'i Press Queer Transfigurations
Book SynopsisThe boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity. Queer Transfigurations is the first detailed examination of the BL media explosion across Asia.
£66.60
Oldcastle Books Ltd Dracula
Book SynopsisFew fictional characters have proven to be as enduringly popular as the legendary Count Dracula. In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram Stoker's masterpiece of horror....
£9.49
Feral House,U.S. Voluptuous Panic
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£28.04
Quick American a division of Quick Trading Co ,U.S. Psilocybin Magic Mushroom Guide
Book SynopsisClassic manual on home cultivation of psilocybin mushrooms - a musty-have for any enthusiast.
£17.06
Taylor & Francis RaceGenderClassMedia
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of this popular textbook considers diversity in the mass media in three main settings: Audiences, Content, and Production.The book brings together 55 readings â the majority newly commissioned for this edition â by scholars representing a variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Together, these readings provide a multifaceted and intersectional look at how race, gender, and class relate to the creation and use of media texts, as well as the media texts themselves. Designed to be flexible for use in the classroom, the book begins with a detailed introduction to key concepts and presents a contextualizing introduction to each of the three main sections. Each reading contains multiple 'Itâs Your Turn' activities to foster student engagement and which can serve as the basis for assignments. The book also offers a list of resources â books, articles, films, and websites â that are of value to students and instructors.This volume is an essential introduction to interdisciplinary studies of race, gender, and class across both digital and legacy media.Table of Contents1. Laying a Foundation for Studying Race, Gender, Class, and the Media Part 1: Audiences 2. Media Effects 3. Audience Studies Part 2: Content 4. Journalism and Advertising 5. Film and Television 6. Music and Digital Media Part 3: Production 7. Media Industries and Producing Media Content 8. Epilogue and Resources
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Taylor & Francis Critical Ancient World Studies
Book SynopsisThis volume explores and elucidates Critical Ancient World Studies, a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern ‘West’.Table of ContentsIntroductions; 1. Towards a Manifesto for Critical Ancient World Studies – Mathura Umachandran and Marchella Ward; 2. Critical Muslim Studies and the Remaking of the (Ancient) World – S. Sayyid and AbdoolKarim Vakil; Critical Epistemologies; 3. Reading for Diasporic Experience in the Delian Serapeia– Helen Wong; 4. Recentering Africa in the Study of Ancient Philosophy: The Legacy of Ancient Egyptian Philosophy – Nicholas Chukwudike Anakwue; 5. Epistemic Injustice in the Classics Classroom – Ashley Lance; Critical Philologies; 6. Comparative Philology and Critical Ancient World Studies – Krishnan J. Ram-Prasad; 7. Forging the Anti-Lexicon with Hephaestus – Hannah Silverblank; 8. Sappho’s Body as Archive: Towards a Deep Lez Philology – Ella Haselswerdt; Critical Time and Critical Space; 9. Colonial Cartography and the Classical Imagination: Mapping Critique and Dreaming Ancient Worlds – Mathura Umachandran; 10. Away from "Civilisational" Heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean: Embracing Classical and Islamic Cultural Co-presences and Simultaneous Histories at the Parthenon and Ayasofya – Lylaah L. Bhalerao; 11. Queer Time, Crip Time, Woman Time, Sick Time, Sleepy Time, Muslim Time… Remaking Temporality Beyond "the Classical" – Marchella Ward; Critical Approaches; 12. A Loss of Faith Brings Vertigo: Icarus, Black and Queer Embodiment and the Failure of the West – Patrice Rankine; 13. Critical Reception Studies: The White Feminism of Feminist Reception Scholarship – Holly Ranger; 14. The Anti-radical Classicism of Karl Marx’s Dissertation – Kiran Pizarro Mansukhani; Afterword(s); In the Jaws of CAWS: A Response – Dan-el Padilla Peralta.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd True Crime in American Media
Book SynopsisThis book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America. As a collection of new scholarship on the development, scope, and character of true crime in twenty-first century American media, analyses stretch across film, streaming/broadcast TV, podcasts, and novels to explore the variety of ways true crime pervades modern culture. The reader is guided through a series of interconnected topics, starting with an examination of the contemporary success of true crime, the platforms involved, the narrative structures and engagement with audiences, moving on to debates on representation and the ethics involved in portraying both victims and perpetrators of crime within the genre. This collection provides new critical work on American true crime media for Table of ContentsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Beyond Entertainment: Podcasting and the Criminal Justice Reform "Niche"2. Chasing the Truth: Making a Murderer, Historical Narrativity and the Global Netflix Event3. True Crime Adaptations and the Many Faces of the Atlanta Monster4. True Crime, True Representation? Race and Injustice Narratives in Wrongful Conviction Podcasts5. Unresolved - Narrative Strategies in an Unsolved True Crime: Depictions of the JonBenét Ramsey Killing6. Breaking Silences, or Perpetuating Myths: Images of Mafia Violence in True Crime Documentary7. 'Exquisitely Criminal Production Music’: Television, Ethics and the Sound of True Crime8. Barthes's "Grand Project" and the Negative Capability of Contemporary True Crime: On Errol Morris’s A Wilderness of Error9. My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic‐Narrative Search for the Origins of Evil10. Forensic Fandom: True Crime, Citizen Investigation and Social Media11. "What Else Can I Add?": Inverting the Narrative through Female Perspectives in Falling for A Killer, My Favorite Murder, and Murder, Mystery & MakeUp.
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Taylor & Francis African Luxury Branding
Book SynopsisBringing together critical race, queer and decolonial analytical approaches, visual analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis, this book explores the discursive strategies deployed by African luxury brands in an age of cross-platform, intertextual branding.Building on literature examining the aesthetics and politics of African luxury, this book demonstrates how leading African luxury brands create visual material speaking to complex sensibilities of culture, nature, and future. Iqani shows how powerful brand narratives and strategies reveal ethical and ideological messages that function to re-position Africa in an increasingly congested global marketplace of ideas. In acknowledging that there is a strong political validity to recognizing the importance of African brands staking their claim in luxury, this book also problematizes the role these brands play in the promotion of luxury discourses, advancing the project of capitalism and their contribution to broader patterns of
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Taylor & Francis The Black Curator
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Women Comedians in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisThis book offers a thorough examination of digital work by women comedians in the US, exploring their use of digital media to perform jokes, engage with fans, remake their reputations, and become political activists. This book argues that despite its many adverse effects, digital work is changing comedy, empowering women to create new comic forms and negotiate the contentious political climate incited by former President Donald. J. Trump. Chapters are focused on video podcasting, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and the streaming platform Netflix each containing informative case studies on significant women comedians who use them, including Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, Leslie Jones, Mindy Kaling, Colleen Ballinger, Lilly Singh, Ms. Pat, Whitney Cummings, Issa Rae, and others. To understand their strategies, this book examines the popularity of their digital content, their career outcomes in television and film, as well as the ups and downs of their critical reputations Table of Contents1. Advantages and Adverse Effects: How Digital Work Empowers Women Comedians in Trump’s America 2. Women Comedians’ Video Podcasting on YouTube: How Complex Authenticity Cultivates Fans 3. Women Comedians Trapped on TikTok: The Opportunities and Limitations of Cringey, Intersectional Comedy 4. Witty Women on Twitter: Collaborative Reputation Making, Anti-Fandom, and Harnessing the Trolls 5.Conformity with Comic Subversion: How Women Comedians Shape their Reputations using Instagram 6.Women Comedians’ Working Practices on YouTube: The Sometimes-Difficult Transition to Television 7. Netflix’s Calculated Risks in Comedy: Unlikely Women’s First Stand-up Specials 8. Trump’s War with Women Satirists on Television: How Carnivalesque Comedy Generates Digital Redistribution 9. Participatory Audiences in Trump’s Cancel Culture: How Women Comedian-Activists Survive and Earn Prestige 10. Conclusions
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Understanding Video Games
Book SynopsisThe fifth edition of this pioneering textbook takes video game studies into the next decade, highlighting changes in mobile, social, and casual gaming.This book introduces students to both the major theories used to analyze games, such as ludology and narratology, and the commercial and organizational aspects of the game industry. Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, this student-friendly text also explores the aesthetics of games, evaluates the cultural position of video games, and considers the potential effects of both violent and serious games. This new edition includes updates to the history, statistics, and developments in the vast game studies landscape throughout. The book has been expanded with additional theory, research, and insights from scholars around the world, making it more inclusive and broadening its global perspective.Extensively illustrated and featuring discussion questions, a glossary of key terms, and a detailed video game history
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Taylor & Francis The Language of Food Through the Lens of East
Book SynopsisThe Language of Food: Through the Lens of East Asian Films and Drama invites readers into the fascinating world where food culture and language intersect, revealing how each dish communicates beyond mere taste.Through East Asian films and television shows, this book uncovers the rich tapestry of 'food languages' embedded within East Asian cultures. Divided into three parts â Base, Ingredients, and Seasoning â this book provides a structured exploration of this phenomenon. The Base section offers philosophical and historical context, while the Ingredients section delves deeper into specific themes, using examples from film and television drama to illustrate the nuanced communication inherent in food culture. Finally, the book is 'seasoned' with linguistic insights and a practical food words glossary, aiding readers in navigating the intricate verbal and cultural nuances at play. This illuminating resource goes beyond the realm of food itself, offering a profound underst
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Disney Theme Parks and Americas National
Book SynopsisDisney Theme Parks and America's National Narratives takes a public history approach to situating the physical spaces of the Disney brand within memory and identity studies. For over 65 years, Disney's theme parks have been important locations for the formation and negotiation of the collective memory of the American narrative. Disney's success as one of America's most prolific storytellers, its rise as a symbol of America itself, and its creation of theme parks that immerse visitors in three-dimensional versions of certain American values and historic myths have both echoed and shaped the way the American people see themselves. Like all versions of the American narrative, Disney's vision serves to reassure us, affirm our shared values, and unite a diverse group of people under a distinctly American identityor at least, it did. The book shows how the status Disney obtained led the public to use them both as touchstones of identity and as spaces to influence the Table of ContentsPart 1: Establishing Disney Parks as Sites of American Identity 1. Disney and American Folklore: Disney tells American History 2. Disney Diplomacy and Morale: Disney Symbolizes America 3. Disneyland and Walt Disney World: Experiencing "History" and "Identity" at Disney Parks 4. Mickey Mouse/White House: Celebrating American Identity at Disney Parks Part 2: Negotiating American Identity at the Disney Parks 5. Protest at the Parks: Changing America Via Disney 6. Retheming: Visualizing a Changing America at Disney Parks 6. Conclusion: A New Understanding of "Disneyfication"
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and
Book SynopsisThis handbook provides a comprehensive overview and holistic analysis of the intersection between tourism and popular culture. It examines current debates, questions and controversies of tourism in the wake of popular culture phenomena and explores the relationships between popular culture, globalization, tourism and mobility. In addition, it offers a cross-disciplinary, cutting edge review of the character of popular cultural production and consumption trends, analyzing their consequences for tourism, spatial strategies and destination competitiveness. The scope of the volume encompasses various expressions of popular culture such as cinema, TV shows, music, literature, sports and heritage. Featuring a mix of theoretical and empirical chapters, the handbook problematizes and conceptualizes the ties and clusters of popular cultural actors, thereby positioning tourism within the wider context of creative economies, cultural planning and multimodal technologies. Written Trade Review‘The Routledge Handbook of Popular Culture and Tourism takes an interdisciplinary and global view of the growing phenomenon of fan tourism, alternating and integrating lenses ranging from economics to politics, geography to identity, media studies to leisure studies. Each essay takes the reader along on a journey to many corners of the world, to discover the various expressions of popular culture that inspire our fascination and our passions.’ Lynn Zubernis, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA‘Paying particular attention to media/sports/music fandom, along with varied definitions of popular culture, Christine Lundberg and Vassilios Ziakas have collected together a host of important, innovative studies. Whether defining videogame tourism, analysing the fan-as-flâneur, or developing work on royal tourism, this Handbook offers a timely, authoritative, and international guide to the (academic) journeys and (synontological) destinations that are generated across contemporary pop culture.’ Matt Hills, University of Huddersfield, UKTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1 Setting the Stage: Foundations of Popular Culture Tourism 1. What is Popular Culture? 2. Tourism and Popular Culture: Socio-cultural Considerations. 3. Synontological Spaces. 4. Apocalypto and the End of Days: Basking in the Maya’s Shadow. 5. The Commodification of Narco-violence through Popular Culture and Tourism in Medellin, Colombia. Part 2 Broadening the Scope: Popular Culture Tourism Expressions 6. Popular Culture Tourism: Films and Tourist Demand. 7. Film Tourism in the Golden Age of Television. 8. Imagining the Medieval in the Modern World: Film, Fantasy and Heritage. 9. Tuning in – Setting the Scene for Music Tourism. 10. Fado as a Popular Culture Expression in the Context of a Tourist City. 11. Transactional Bodies: Dance, Tourism, and Idea(l)s of Cubanness. 12. The Voyeur at Leisure: Flânerie in a Miniature city – The Urban Phenomena of Madurodam. 13. Technology Adoption and Popular Culture Sport Tourism. 14. Hunters, Climbers, Flâneurs: How Video Games Create and Design Tourism. 15. The Peculiar Attraction of Royalty for Tourism and the Popular Culture Construction of ‘Royal Tourism’. 16. Sun, Surf, Sex, and the Everyday: Subverting the Tourist Gaze with Gold Coast Narrative Fiction. 17. Fandom and its Afterlife: Celebrity Cemetery Tourism. Part 3 Performing Fan Cultures: Popular Culture Tourism Fandoms 18. Passing Through: Popular Media Tourism, Pilgrimage, and Narratives of Being a Fan. 19. A Thai Star’s Appeal to Chinese Fans and its Impact on Thailand Popular Culture Tourism. 20. On the Road —Again: Revisiting Pop Music Concert Tourism. 21. Music Fans as Tourists: The Mysterious Ways of Individual and Social Dimensions. 22. "There Were Only Friendly People and Love in the Air": Fans, Tourism and the Eurovision Song Contest. 23.The (Promotional) Value of Public-Spiritedness: Irish Football Fans at Euro 2016. Part 4 Getting on the Map: Popular Culture Tourism and Place-making 24. #LiteraryMe: The Legacy of the Bloomsbury Group on London’s Literary Village. 25. "I Went to India to Find Myself": Tracing World Cinema’s Neoliberal Orientalisms. 26. The Force Meets the Kittiwake: Shooting Star Wars on Skellig Michael. 27. The Narrative Capital of the Place: How the Millennium Narratives Generate Place-related Values and Attract Tourists to Sweden. 28. A ‘Touristed Landscape’: Speculations about ‘Consuming History’, Using a Case Study of an Australian Folk Hero. 29. Spain as the Scenery of Mass Tourism Phenomena – Between Elite Tourism and Popular Culture Tourism: The Image of the Country through Cinema and Photography. 30. Playing at Home: Popular Culture Tourism and Place-making in Japan. 31. Travelling to Icons or Icons on Travel: Displacement and Representation of Places in Movies. 32. The Indianization of Switzerland: Destination Transformations in the Wake of Bollywood Films. Part 5 Establishing a Common Ground: Popular Culture Tourism and Destination Management 33. Film Tourism Stakeholders and Impacts. 34. Film Tourism Collaborations: A critical Analysis of INTERREG Destination Development Projects. 35. Growing Competition for Screen Tourists Activates New Destination Marketing Tactics. 36. (G)A(i)ming at the Throne: Social Media and the Use of Visitor-Generated Content in Destination Marketing. 37. The Influence of Culinary Movies as a Popular Culture Tourism Phenomenon in Shoot Destinations. 38. Visitor Experiences of Popular Culture Museums in Islands: A Management and Policy Approach. 39. Lifestyle Tourism: Combining Place Attachment and Involvement in a Destination Management Approach. 40. Destination Development in the Wake of Popular Culture Tourism: Proposing a Comprehensive Analytic Framework. Conclusion: Building a Research Agenda for Popular Culture Tourism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Stanislavsky and Race
Book SynopsisStanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's system and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.This collection of essays from leading figures in the field of actor training stands not only as a resource for a new area of academic enquiry, but also for students, actors, directors, teachers and academics who are engaged in making inclusive contemporary theatre. In seeking to dismantle the dogma that surrounds much actor training and replace it with a culturally competent approach that will benefit our entire community, the system is approached from a range of perspectives featuring the research, reflections and provocations of 20 different international artists interrogating Stanislavsky's approach through the lens of race, place and identity.Stanislavsky and is a series of multi-perspectival collections that bring the enduring legacy of StanislavTable of Contents1. Re/Gaining Trust: The "System" and the System of Actor TrainingSylvan Baker, Zuri Eshun and James PalmA Reflection on Re/Gaining Trust: Revelation and ResponsibilityJoe Wilson, Jr2. Black British Perspectives, Pedagogy and Power: Addressing the Canon through S.P.H.E.R.E.Gemma Crooks and Erica Jeffrey3. Logunedé in Salem: Making Sense of Stanislavsky’s Last Experiments in Contemporary Brazil Diego Moschkovich 4. Emotion Memory versus Physical Action: Towards Anti-racist Pedagogies that Make Way for Critical PraxisEvi Stamatiou5. Breaking Away: Latinidad and Moving Beyond the "System"Marissa Chibás, Michelle Jasso and Tlaloc Rivas with Siiri ScottA Reflection on Breaking Away: Looking through All Kinds of Windows Sandra Marquez6. A Jewish Journey: Stanislavsky’s "System" to the American MethodConrad Cohen7. The Intracultural Project: Creating an Inclusive Rehearsal Room Beyond StanislavskyKristine Landon-Smith and Dominic HingoraniA Reflection on The Intracultural Project: Mabuhay as an Act of ResistanceJames Cooney 8. Stanislavsky, Rose McClendon and Reparations: Whiteness, Professionalization and Reframing Amateurism in the Theater of the United StatesAmy Steiger9. I Ain’t Studyin’ Stanislavsky: We Are the Key to Reimagining 21st-Century Actor Training Monica White Ndounou
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Taylor & Francis Con Artists in Cinema
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City
Book SynopsisDrawing on urban and community resilience literature, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place offers a detailed qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the philosophy and practices of the city's urban prepper subculture.With a special focus on the height of the pandemic in New York, this book considers the city's unique position as the pandemic's first epicenter in the United States. It also explores the lived experience of enduring the pandemic as reflections of class division, considering key themes, including the exodus of the wealthy, sheltering in place for the middle class, the inability to leave high-risk neighborhoods for the poor, and sheltering-in-place practices and community resilience efforts by New York preppers. It analyzes the importance of good government and an engaged citizenry in developing an agenda for the city's continued recovery and its future, under
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Intersectionality Political Economy and Media
Book SynopsisThis textbook considers the critical relationship between gender, race, and class and the political economy of media, providing an accessible introduction for students.Carolyn M. Byerly integrates gender, race, and class analysis in posing an intersectional political economy (IPE) of media theory, and demonstrates how that theory applies in examining communication laws, policies, technology, and other aspects of media today. By synthesizing feminist and critical race theories with more traditional class analysis, this book offers a unified approach to examining the media. Individual chapters delve into communication policy, ownership, governance, labor, and technology issues, with a concluding chapter that explores future research. The book situates citizen challenges to the media's control by a small power elite within a dialectic of struggle and highlights specific campaigns that have pursued successful policy and media reform. Several short case studies by other authors il
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Psychosis of Race
Book SynopsisThe Psychosis of Race offers a unique and detailed account of the psychoanalytic significance of race, and the ongoing impact of racism in contemporary society.Moving beyond the well-trodden assertion that race is a social construction, and working against demands that simply call for more representational equality, The Psychosis of Race explores how the delusions, anxieties, and paranoia that frame our race relations can afford new insights into how we see, think, and understand race's pervasive appeal. With examples drawn from politics and popular culturesuch as Candyman, Get Out, and the music of Kendrick Lamarcritical attention is given to introducing, as well as explicating on, several key concepts from Lacanian psychoanalysis and the study of psychosis, including foreclosure, the phallus, Name-of-the-Father, sinthome, and the objet petit a. By elaborating a cultural mode to psychosis and its understanding, an original and critical exTrade Review'The Psychosis of Race usefully intervenes upon contemporary theories of race and racism. By drawing attention to a psychotic structure that underlies the anxieties, delusions, and fantasies that spur racial violence in our present historical moment, this study takes Lacanian psychoanalysis in directions it has not fully explored.'Sheldon George, author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of Race'In arguing that our relationship to race is organized by the psychic structure of psychosis, Jack Black both aptly diagnoses our contemporary moment and puts forward an “ethical sensibility” for overcoming race and racism’s psychic hold. Specifically, through an accessible exposition of key Lacanian concepts and original analyses of popular cultural artifacts, The Psychosis of Race sets us on the path to forging creative and agentic possibilities for overcoming our attachment to race as a futile attempt to secure our place within an unreliable socio-symbolic field.'Jennifer Friedlander, author of Real Deceptions: The Contemporary Reinvention of Realism 'In this truly invigorating and critical analysis, Jack Black utilizes the vocabulary of terms developed by Jacques Lacan for the treatment and conceptualization of psychosis and applies them, in a distinctive cultural mode, to the psychical life of racialization, racism, and racial identity. In so doing, he moves us beyond the “post race” consensus and the shortcomings of equal representation as adequate responses to racist social structure. He highlights the distinctive analytical potential of thinking our psychical entanglements with race in terms that are uniquely illuminating.'Derek Hook, author of Six Moments in Lacan and co-editor of Lacan on Depression and MelancholiaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Race is (not) a social construction 1. Interrogating the social construction of race 2. The non-sense of race 3. Racial extimacy Part II: Race and the structure of psychosis 4. Lacan and psychosis 5. The object a of race 6. Psychosis and lack: A nothing made something 7. Race and foreclosure 8. Psychosis and the Other 9. Paranoia and the racist fantasy Part III: Ethics, lack, and doubt 10. A space for politics 11. Beyond race? The radical temporality of creative doubt 12. Kendrick Lamar and the psychosis of race
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Taylor & Francis TV Shows and Nonplace
Book SynopsisThis book scrutinizes the relationship between contemporary TV shows and space, focusing on the ways in which these shows use and narrate specific spatial structures, namely, spaces far away from traditional metropolises.Beginning with the observation that many shows are set in specific spatial settings, referred to in the book as âœnonplace territoriesâ â e.g., North Jersey, New Mexico, or rural and suburban Western Germany â the author argues that the link between such nonplace territories and shows such as The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, or Dark is so intense because the narrative structure functions similarly to these territories: flat, decentralized, without any sense of structure or stable hierarchy. The book takes three different perspectives: first, it looks at the rationale for combining TV shows and nonplace territories from the viewpoint of narrative strategy. It then thinks through what these strategies mean for practicing architects. Finally, it approaches the arguments made before from a âœuserâ perspective: what does this narrative mirroring of social-spatial reality in places such as Albuquerque or Jersey City mean for people living in these places?This new approach to architecture and space on screen will interest scholars and students of television studies, screen architecture, media and architectural theory, and popular culture.
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Taylor & Francis The Sex Pistols on Screen
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Welbeck Publishing Group Limited Good OldFashioned Values
Book SynopsisPacked tighter than Peter''s pants after a clam chowder binge with the funniest quotes and most mind-blowing facts from your favorite animated show, this book is your one-stop shop to the absurdly hilarious world of Family Guy. Winner of nine Emmy awards and highly-praised for its satirical take on American culture and societal issues, Family Guy continues to resonate with audiences of all ages and consistently ranks among the highest-rated animated series on television. Join Stewie, Brian, Lois, Meg, and the whole Griffin gang as they serve up laughs faster than you can say giggity. From Peter''s classic Freakin'' sweet! to Stewie''s diabolically witty zingers, we''ve got enough juicy quotes and trivia to make you spit out your Quahog clam chowder. Whether you''re a seasoned Quahogian or just discovering the joys of Family Guy, this book is a goldmine of quotable moments and irreverent, boundary-pushing humour that makes Family Guy the pop culture phenomenon that we can''t help but love.So grab your copy, crack open a cold Pawtucket Patriot Ale (or maybe just a root beer), and get ready to laugh, cringe, and quote along with the Griffins like never before. It''s gonna be freakin'' epic!I''m like a superhero, but without the super.- Peter Griffin.
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SAGE Publications Inc Guide to Digital Innovation in the Cultural and
Book SynopsisThe digital age has brought significant changes to the cultural and creative industries, making it challenging to keep up with the latest trends. TheGuide to Digital Innovation in the Cultural and Creative Industryis an informative resource that can help you navigate the revolution. It not only provides a comprehensive understanding of how digital transformation affects existing industries but also outlines emerging business opportunities. Whether you're an experienced professional or a beginner, this book is an essential resource that will equip you with the knowledge and tools you need to succeed in the rapidly evolving landscape of the cultural and creative industries. Dive into: Democratizing creation: Discover how digital tools break down barriers and empower creators of all levels. From platforms to possibilities: Explore online video streaming, ebook publishing, virtual museums, and more, witnessing the rise of innovative
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Popular Musicology and Identity
Book SynopsisPopular Musicology and Identity paves new paths for studying popular music's entwinement with gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, locality, and a range of other factors. The book consists of original essays in honour of Stan Hawkins, whose work has been a major influence on the musicological study of gender and identity since the early 1990s. In the new millennium, musicological approaches have proliferated and evolved alongside major shifts in the music industry and popular culture. Reflecting this plurality, the book reaches into a range of musical contexts, eras, and idioms to critically investigate the discursive structures that govern the processes through which music is mobilised as a focal point for negotiating and assessing identity. With contributions from leading scholars in the field, Popular Musicology and Identity accounts for the state of popular musicology at the onset of the 2020s while also offering a platform for the further advancement of the critTrade ReviewPopular Musicology and Identity attests to Stan Hawkins’s visionary approach in collaborating and bonding with today’s and tomorrow’s leading voices on matters popular. This volume is required reading for anyone interested in how gender, sexuality, class, and identity are expressed through – and manipulated by – popular music’s tools, artists, and audiences. Nina Eidsheim (UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music)Over the last 25 years Stan Hawkins' subtly subversive musicology has revealed a rich new pop world of sexual show-offs and dandies. This collection of essays is an affectionate and instructive exploration of that world, a celebration of the fluidity of the borderlands between art and entertainment, surface and depth, truth and invention, and the look and the sound of music. Simon Frith (University of Edinburgh)From nineteenth-century British music hall through Nordic cool to cultural celebrity in Canada, this is a fitting tribute to Stan Hawkins’s pioneering musicological imagination; linking pop sounds to the multiple identities and varied voices of its performers. It is a compelling compendium; evidence of Hawkins’s major contribution to Northern European and Transatlantic music scholarship.Keith Negus (Goldsmiths, University of London)Table of ContentsIntroduction: a musicology of popular music and identityKAI ARNE HANSEN, EIRIK ASKERØI, AND FREYA JARMAN1 The British dandy on the popular musical stage (1866–1915)DEREK B. SCOTT2 ‘She Said She Said’: the influence of feminine ‘voices’ on John Lennon’s music 32MATTHEW BANNISTER AND MEGAN ROGERSON-BERRY3 The classical closetSUSAN MCCLARY4 Perfect duet? Paradoxes of gender representation and mixedgender collaborations on the Billboard charts from 1955 to 2017BARBARA BRADBY5 The pleasure(s) of the pop text: subversion and theatricality in Cloroform and Tove LoJON MIKKEL BROCH ÅLVIK6 ‘Everyone is a little bit gay’: LGBTIQ activism in Finnish pop music of the 21st century SUSANNAVÄLIMÄKI7 ‘Keeping it real’, ‘Keeping it dandy’? Male blackness and the popular music mainstreamANNE DANIELSEN8 Global success, identitarian performance, and Canadian popular musicWILL STRAW9 ‘Very’ British: a pop musicological approach to the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Always on My Mind’SHARA RAMBARRAN10 Pulp: a paradigm for perversion in pornosonic popKENNETH SMITH11 Regina Spektor’s Small Bill$: the cute and the manic-zany as body-political strategiesJOHN RICHARDSON AND ANNA-ELENA PÄÄKKÖLÄ12 Masculinity and the illness narrative in Pain of Salvation’s In the Passing Light of DayLORI BURNS
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Taylor & Francis Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
Book SynopsisThis book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements on race and representation. Approaching Fantasy as a significant element of popular culture, it visits the struggles over race, racism, and white privilege that are enacted within creative works across media and the communities which revolve around them. While scholars of Science Fiction have explored the genreâs racialized constructs of possible futures, this book is the first examination of Fantasy to take up the topic of race in depth. The bookâs interdisciplinary approach, drawing on Literary, Cultural, Fan, and Whiteness Studies, offers a cultural history of the anxieties which haunt Western popular culture in a century eager to declare itself post-race. The beginnings of the Table of ContentsIntroduction: Re-thinking Genre, Thinking About Race 1. Founding Fantasy: J. R. R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard 2. Forming Habits: Derivation, Imitation, and Adaptation 3. The Real Middle Ages: Gritty Fantasy 4. Orcs and Otherness: Monsters on Page and Screen 5. Popular Culture Postcolonialism 6. Relocating Roots: Urban Fantasy 7. Breaking Habits and Digital Communication Afterword
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Star Power
Book SynopsisAre celebrity politics the spice of American public life or a pox on policy progress? This book identifies and measures the attributes of celebrities that make them well-equipped to win campaigns and yet poorly prepared to govern effectively. The framers of the U.S. Constitution worried about the propensity of an undereducated public to elect unqualified entertainers rather than fit characters to government positions. Celebrities have come to play an increasingly central role in the American political process as fundraisers, surrogates, and as candidates themselves, yet remain a sorely understudied topic in political science. Through a multimethod approach that includes qualitative analysis, novel public opinion surveys, and survey experiments, this book assesses whether Americans are more likely to vote for celebrities than well-known traditional politicians and the implications of these preferences for democracy in the U.S. Perfect for students, scholars, and interested citizens, Trade Review"Lauren Wright has written a timely and important book. A reality game show host is in the Oval Office amid speculation of other glitterati considering a challenge. Wright raises the critical question of whether the skills of celebrities have any relevance to those required for political leadership and governance. A Princeton University lecturer, she combines the rigorous research of an academic intellectual with a keen understanding of practical politics gleaned from her participation and earlier writings. This is must reading for anyone interested in political leadership today." - Albert R. Hunt, former Washington Bureau Chief and Executive Editor of The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News "It was perhaps inevitable that in a culture as obsessed with celebrity as ours, we would someday end up with one in the White House. Is Donald Trump an aberration and a corrective, or a sign of things to come? Lauren Wright explores how the world of politics and celebrity have become so intertwined, and where this may be taking us." - Karen Tumulty, Columnist, The Washington Post"Lauren Wright has written the opening salvo to the age of celebrity politics. Set within a historic framework, her study combines her own research, scholarly literature, and astute analysis to warn Americans of the very dangers the framers feared when they created the US Constitution: demagoguery, ill-informed decision making, and self-interested, autocratic rule. Who's to blame and what do we do about It? Read Wright's innovative, well written and thought-provoking book to find out." - Stephen J. Wayne, Georgetown University"Donald Trump wasn’t the first celebrity to win an election, and he won’t be the last. Lauren Wright helps explain why celebrities run for office and why many voters will support them. Her conclusion is a troubling one: Celebrities have the tools to entertain voters, but not the tools to govern effectively. This is a timely and important book." - John Sides, George Washington UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. A Short History of a Longstanding Obsession 2. In Their Own Words: Why Celebrities Run 3. Celebrities, They’re Not Like Us 4. Do Voters Prefer Celebrity Candidates to Politicians? 5. The Death of U.S.? Appendix Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC NeverEnding Watchmen
Book SynopsisWhat began with Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' landmark graphic novel, Watchmen (1987) is no longer a single story, but rather a cross-platform, multi-media franchise, including a role-playing game and video game, a motion comic, a Zack Snyder movie, and a series of comic book prequels and sequels, as well as a prestige HBO TV series. Will Brooker explores the way that Watchmen expanded over time from the mid-1980s to the present day, drawing on theories of adaptation, intertextuality and deconstruction to argue that each addition subtly changes our understanding of the original. Does it matter whether these adaptations are faithful'? Can they ever be, as they cross over into another medium? How does each version enter a dialogue with the others? And as Damon Lindelof's series ran parallel to an entirely distinct comic book Watchmen sequel, Doomsday Clock, how do readers and viewers make sense of these conflicting narratives? Can we relate the unstable, shiftTrade ReviewAlthough there has certainly been a great deal of critical ink spilled fawning over Watchmen over the years, Brooker broadens our understanding of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark series by examining the network of texts that contribute to the Watchmen matrix, revealing new insights, inspirations and intertexts that expose the beating heart that pumps through the veins and capillaries of one of the most feted and celebrated texts of Western popular culture. It is, quite simply, the best book I’ve encountered on the topic. -- William Proctor, Bournemouth University, UKA masterful study of all-things-Watchmen, from Moore and Gibbons’s original tale to its sequels, prequels, adaptations and parodies. From comics to cinema to television to games and beyond, Brooker’s expert insights guide us through the enduring relevance of Watchmen across eras, platforms and media. -- Blair Davis, DePaul University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction 1.1986-1988: Watchmen the Graphic Novel and the Role-playing Game 2.2008-2009: Watchmen the Motion Comic, the Movie and the Video Game 3.2012-2015: Before Watchmen and Pax Americana 4.2017-2019: Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt, Doomsday Clock and HBO’s Watchmen Conclusion Bibliography Index
£21.84
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Origins of the Film Star System
Book SynopsisDrawing on a wide range of archival sources, Andrew Shail traces the emergence of film stardom in Europe and North America in the early 20th century. Modifying and supplementing Richard deCordova's account of the birth of the US star system, Shail describes the complex set of economic circumstances that led film studios and actors to consent to the adoption of a star system. He then explores the film industry's turn, from 1908, to making character-based series films. He details how these characters both prefigured and precipitated the star system, demonstrating that series characters and the firmament' of film stars are functionally equivalent, and shows how openly fictional characters still provide the model for real' film stars.Trade ReviewThe Origins of the Film Star System includes an impressive bibliography and reproductions of rarely seen publicity photographs and posters … Shail's book stands as a monumental achievement, demonstrating the dynamism of historiography while arguing for the necessity of looking beyond American modes and machinations of the early star system. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. * CHOICE *Shail has provided a fresh account of the emergence of the star system, impressively systematic in its argumentation, that could easily become the new standard for the next thirty years. -- Charlie Keil, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: A New Run at the Story Chapter 1: Europe Chapter 2: North America Chapter 3: What Happened Next? Chapter 4: Causality Part II: Another Run at the Story Chapter 5: The Series Character Chapter 6: The Series Character and the Star System Chapter 7: The Ontology of Film Stardom Conclusion Works Cited
£24.69
Edinburgh University Press Gooey Media
Book SynopsisExplores the influence of the graphic user interface on contemporary screen mediaTrade Review"With sparkling prose, Nick Jones provides a multi-plane illumination of graphic user interfaces their provenance, aesthetics, inter-medial connections, and how they shape experience, imagination, and creative labour. Gooey Media should be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand this key layer of our screen lives, and its aesthetic links across our media ecology." -Lisa Bode, The University of Queensland
£76.50
