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Lockwood Press Receptions of the Ancient Near East in Popular
Book SynopsisThis book is an enthusiastic celebration of the ways in which popular culture have consumed aspects of the ancient Near East to construct new realities. The editors have brought together an impressive line-up of scholars-archaeologists, philologists, historians, and art historians-to reflect on how objects, ideas, and interpretations of the ancient Near East have been remembered, constructed, reimagined, mythologized, or indeed forgotten within our shared cultural memories. The exploration of cultural memories has revealed how they inform the values, structures, and daily life of societies over time. This is therefore not a collection of essays about the deep past but rather about the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Black & white illustrations throughout.Table of ContentsForeword, Paul Collins Preliminary Considerations, Agnès Garcia-Ventura and Lorenzo Verderame Visual Arts Pedro Azara and Marc Marín Mesopotamia in Miró. Miró in Mesopotamia Jean M. Evans Case Studies in the Popular Reception of the Tell Asmar Sculpture Hoard Silvana Di Paolo Images of Ruins as Metaphorical Places of Transformation: The Case of Persepolis Performing Arts Kerstin Droá-Krupe Artaserse: An Ancient Oriental Ruler on Modern Opera Stages? Valeska Hartmann When Imitation Became Reality: The Historical Pantomime Sardanapal (1908) at the Royal Opera of Berlin Daniele Federico Rosa Ye Go to Thy Abzu: How Norwegian Black Metal Used Mesopotamian References, Where It Took Them from, and How It Usually Got Them Wrong Film and Television Kevin McGeough "Babylon's Last Bacchanal": Mesopotamia and the Near East in Epic Biblical Cinema Eva Miller He Who Saw the Stars: Retelling Gilgamesh in Star Trek: The Next Generation Lorenzo Verderame Evil from an Ancient Past and the Archaeology of the Beyond: An Analysis of the Movies The Exorcist (1973) and The Evil Dead (1981) Novels and Comics Jana Myná?ová and Pavel Ko?ínek The Ancient Near East in Czech Comics and Popular Culture: The Case of Jáchym and the Printer's Devil Luigi Turri Gilgamesh, The (Super)Hero Francesco Pomponio Mystery Literature and Assyriology Ryan Winters Ancient Aliens, Modern Cosmologies: Zecharia Sitchin and the Transformation of Mesopotamian Myth Archaeologist in the Middle Davide Nadali The (In)visibility of Archaeology Juan-Luis Montero Fenollós Imagining the Tower of Babel in the Twenty-First Century: Is a New Interpretation of the Ziggurat of Babylon Possible? Silvia Festuccia Athletic Disciplines in the Ancient Near East: Representation and Reconstruction Afterword. Memory and Memories: From the Ancient Near East to the Modern West Frances Pinnock Contributors Subject Index
£26.12
Random House USA Inc El Tarot Deck: Millennial Loter�a Edition
Book SynopsisThe classic game of Loter�a drew a lot of inspiration from the ancient practice of Tarot. This deck explores the similarities between these two timeless traditions with a modern twist�finally reuniting these long lost primos to help you reconnect with your Latinx magic. One common misconception is that Tarot is a practice used only to predict the future, but this Millennial Loter�a Tarot Deck is specifically designed to help you better understand your present and get in touch with your heritage. The only person in charge of your future is you, so the guidebook accompanying this 78-card tarot deck focuses on self-reflection and inspiration for your goals, all done with a sprinkle of Millennial Loter�a humour.
£27.00
Wooden Books Altered States: Minds, Drugs and Culture
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£8.50
Belt Publishing Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me
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£22.40
Leyline Publishing The Psychology of the Last of Us Endure and
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£18.99
Fidelis Publishing, LLC Toward a More Perfect Union: The Moral and
Book SynopsisIt has sadly become evident that over the past seventy years, Americans have become increasingly ignorant of our nation's founding principles. Civic education and American history have either not been taught or have been deliberately mistaught throughout our nation's public—and in numerous cases, even our private—education system. This lack of education or misinformation has placed our nation in great peril, and we are seeing the consequences unfold daily in our corporate boardrooms, halls of power, and streets. This book is the prescription for returning our nation to a healthy culture for all.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY TRASHING OUR PAST ORIGINAL ZINN DIVIDED WE FALL THE PERILS OF CONSTITUTIONAL IGNORANCE UNITED WE STAND
£20.66
Rutgers University Press 1980: America's Pivotal Year
Book Synopsis1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: America's Pivotal Year puts the news events of the era—everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism—into conversation with the year’s popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot J.R., cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans’ attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s. Praise for Jim Cullen's previous Rutgers University Press books: "Informed and perceptive" —Norman Lear on Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters "Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today." —Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams on Martin Scorsese and the American Dream "This is a terrific book, fun and learned and provocative....Cullen provides an entertaining and thoughtful account of the ways that we remember and how this is influenced and directed by what we watch." —Jerome de Groot, author of Consuming History on From Memory to HistoryTrade Review"That 1980 was a pivotal year in American politics is well-established. But just as important were cultural shifts and media evolutions emerging in the same period; leaving the 1970s behind, 1980's popular culture pointed to a distinct and discernible future. When viewed through the lens of popular culture Ronald Reagan's political success in 1980 and events occurring in the ensuing decade become more clearly explainable. Jim Cullen's 1980: American Culture in Transition offers a well-written, engaging, and thoughtful review of the era." — Michael J. Socolow, Author of Six Minutes in Berlin: Broadcast Spectacle and Rowing Gold at the Nazi Olympics "With 1980: American Culture in Transition, Jim Cullen has provided important context on the relationship between American political theater in the late 1970s, its correlating representational texts, and concurrent movements in the development of contemporary media industries."— Josh Shepperd, Assistant Professor of Media Studies at the University of Colorado BoulderTable of ContentsIntroduction: Facing Janus Chapter 1 / On the Cusp: American Politics and Culture in 1979 Chapter 2 / Wind Shear: The Political Cultures of 1980 Chapter 3 / The Closing of Heaven’s Gate: Hollywood in Transition Chapter 4 / Starting Over: Pop Music’s Future Goes Back to the Past Chapter 5 / Ebb and Flow: Tidal Shifts in Broadcast Television Chapter 6 / Turning the Page: The Publishing Industry in 1980 Chapter 7 / Inflection Point: Autumn, 1980 Conclusion: Inaugurating the Eighties Acknowledgments Notes About the author Index
£23.39
Random House USA Inc The Come Up: An Oral History of the Rise of
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£18.00
Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale Marvel's Box of Super Heroes: The 80th
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£20.39
Penguin Putnam Inc Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor
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£22.40
Third Editions The Works of Fumito Ueda
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£22.90
Third Editions The Impact Of Akira
Book SynopsisAn in-depth anaylsis of the iconic and best-selling cyberpunk manga.
£22.90
Classiques Garnier Culture Godot: En Attendant Godot de Samuel
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£50.03
Classiques Garnier Saison. La Revue Des Series
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£18.57
Bohlau Verlag Achtzehntes Jahrhundert popular: Eighteenth
Book SynopsisAnlässlich ihres 40-jährigen Jubiläums widmet die Österreichische Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts ihr Jahrbuch 2022 Repräsentationen von Aufklärung und dem 18. Jahrhundert in Comics und Graphic Novels. Zwar ist die Rezeption historischer Inhalte in der Populärkultur ein etabliertes Forschungsfeld, doch haben die Text-Bild-Narrationen dieses Mediums verglichen etwa mit Computerspielen bislang kaum Aufmerksamkeit gefunden.Neben den fachwissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen zu diesem Themenkomplex beinhaltet das Jahrbuch auch weitere Beiträge zur Aufklärungsforschung im öffentlichen Diskurs sowie Projekt- und Tagungsberichte, Miszellen und Rezensionen.
£60.49
Bohlau Verlag Die Phänomenologie der Flugreise: Wahrnehmung und
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£54.79
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kultur Unterwegs: Relevanz Einer Instanz:
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£51.68
Universitatsverlag Winter Ireland: Literature, Culture, Politics
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£25.03
Universitatsverlag Winter Making America: The Cultural Work of Literature
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£50.00
Universitatsverlag Winter The Sixties Revisited: Culture - Society -
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£79.80
Universitatsverlag Winter Millennial Perspectives: Lifeworlds and Utopias
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£51.30
Universitatsverlag Winter Cultures of Economy - Economics of Culture
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£46.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Media Cultures
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£46.00
Universitatsverlag Winter U.S. American Culture as Popular Culture
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£92.63
Universitatsverlag Winter Toward a New Metropolitanism: Reconstituting
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£61.00
Universitatsverlag Winter The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience
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£69.35
Universitatsverlag Winter Intercultural America
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£50.00
Universitatsverlag Winter All Others Pay Cash: Dollar Bills and Their
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£69.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Civilizing America: Manners and Civility in
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£62.70
Universitatsverlag Winter Religion, Secularity and Cultural Agency
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£24.92
Universitatsverlag Winter Ideology in American Sports: A Corpus-Assisted
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£46.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Reshaping the Maze - Rewriting the Minotaur:
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£33.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Treasure in Literature and Culture
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£41.00
Universitatsverlag Winter Poetik Und Politik Der Lesbarkeit in Der
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£46.00
V&R Unipress Retroaktive Avantgarde: Manifeste Des Diskurspop
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£81.80
V&R unipress GmbH Parodistische Konstellationen von
Book SynopsisIf the culture of remembrance of National Socialism and the Holocaust is to be more than the political clearing away of past guilt, it must be relevant to the present and compatible with the media-cultural memory of current generations. The objects from literature, film, art and comics examined here (Christian Kracht: Faserland, Thomas Meinecke: Hellblau, Alexander Kluge/Gerhard Richter: December, Quentin Tarantino: Inglourious Basterds, Jean-Luc Godard: Histoire(s) du cinéma, Zbigniew Libera: Lego. Concentration Camp, Walter Moers: Adolf. Äch bin wieder da!!, Der Bonker) form a poetics of parodic constellations that recognize the historical catastrophe of the Holocaust as radical alterity and make it visible in its unavailability using pop-cultural and post-modern methods and makes accessible. The parodic constellations aimed at discursive opening thus refute the apparent incompatibility of pop culture/postmodernism and the culture of remembrance.
£76.05
V&R unipress GmbH Ost-westlicher Kulturtransfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur
Book SynopsisDer Band erkundet den wenig beachteten kulturellen Transfer in der deutschsprachigen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur und ihren Medien mit Mittel-, Südost- und Osteuropa. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie sich der Austausch auf dem Buchmarkt vollzieht und wie kinder- und jugendliterarische Texte dabei sprachlich, diskursiv oder ideologisch adaptiert werden. Ins Blickfeld rücken die Semantik und Pragmatik des Übersetzens, die Rolle von multilingualen Vermittler: innen sowie mediale Aspekte der Illustrationskunst. Die Beiträge diskutieren kulturelle Aneignungsprozesse und Asymmetrien, die Spezifik bilateraler Literaturbeziehungen sowie die Wirkungsgeschichte einzelner Werke.The volume explores the cultural transfer in German Children's and Young Adult Literature with Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe. So far, this process has received little attention. The volume therefore aims to provide insight into the complex circulation of literature on the book market and into the linguistic, discursive or ideological adaptation of the texts for children und young adults. In detail, it charts the processual logic of both selection and translation, the role of multilingual literary ambassadors and the aspects of illustration practice. The thorough analysis of cultural intersections and asymmetries allows conclusions about the popularity of certain works, the dynamics of their reception, and, above all, the specificity of literary relations.
£70.51
V&R unipress GmbH Palaestra.: Kolonialismus, Literatur und Film
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£84.72
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Sophistication: Zwischen Denkstil und Pose
Book SynopsisThere was always a promise of liberation in pop. But his anti-hierarchical moment was counteracted by his loudest advocates in the Federal Republic of the 80s. At that time, authors such as Diedrich Diederichsen, Rainald Goetz or Thomas Meinecke developed the pop-intellectual, performative discourse form of Sophistication, which juggled allusion with exquisite educational fruits from high and popular culture. Their witty combination of criticism and aesthetics was at the same time a proven elitistic means of narcissistic distinction. As a self-staging technique that relied on the weapons of taste, as the first fundamental analysis of this form of communication shows, it was closer to the exclusionist bourgeois habit of sophistication and the intellectual aristocratic attitude of some conservative revolutionaries of the interwar period than their representatives, who like to take on the politically progressive side, were closer On the rubble of the bourgeois cultural canons, which were attacked by the countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s, the new educated bourgeoisie of pop did not build comprehensive schools, but private boarding schools for those taste elites who could afford the school fees to be paid in the form of pop intellectual knowledge capital.
£47.99
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La historia de Lego. Como un juguete despertó la
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£19.96
Editorial Oceano de Mexico El El Vino Cork Dork
£13.20
Berenice 6 Monologos de Humor Y Una Cancion Desesperada
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£21.41
Instituto Monsa de Ediciones New Tattoo, The
Book SynopsisTattoos are more than just ink on skin; they are a window into the soul of those who wear them. The New Tattoo is packed with glorious full-colour photographs that explore the amazing range and creativity of designs that can be found in today's tattoo culture, and shows how tattoo artists are influenced by art, fashion and contemporary culture from around the world.
£25.54
Edicions de La Universitat de Lleida Institut de Ciencies de L'Educacio La nostra cultura.
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£33.02
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Editorial Cabaret Voltaire Mártires de la belleza
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£25.15
Viella Italian Pop Culture: Media, Products, Imageries
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£35.73
BIS Publishers B.V. Storytelling on Steroids: 10 stories that
Book SynopsisStorytelling is pop culture’s `weapon’ of choice to connect, engage and ultimately convince. Every TV ad a compelling movie? Every Facebook post a contagious piece of content? Every infographic a work of art? Yes, please. Tell me where to sign up! Right now, this very minute, a junior copywriter is adding “storyteller” to his Facebook profile. There is a gaming developer doing the same on LinkedIn. A PR agent is casually including “teller of stories” in his Twitter bio. Graphic designers, journalists, editors, broadcasters, coders, model makers, set designers, ginormous brands, ocean explorers, astronauts, schoolteachers, CEOs, marketing directors, creative consultants and trend watchers are peppering their websites, blogs and email signatures with the word “storytelling.” In Storytelling on Steroids, editor and adman John Weich finds out why. Where did all this storytelling come from? Why are so many professionals suddenly so eager to spread the storytelling gospel? And who blazed the trail for an Age of Storytelling in mainstream communication? In his compact, fast-moving book, Weich explores the iconic brands, cultural movements and social technologies that have contributed most to storytelling’s rise in mainstream creativity and communication. Along the way, he calls out countless pop culture darlings to make his case: Batman, Banksy, Tomb Raider, TED Talks, Radiohead, Jay-Z, BMW and New York Times infographics. He even raves about a powerful little campaign about the worst hotel in the world. What we’re experiencing isn’t a radical new movement but a storytelling renaissance, one fueled by addictive technologies, the abundance of choice and … you! You and the billion others engaged in the most massive and shamelessly personal storytelling experiment in the history of humankind: social media.Trade Review"Need to enhance your brand's performance? Take this steroid.” - Rob Schwarz, Global Creative President TWBA Worldwide "Storytelling on Steroids will give even the most ad-hardened civilians a great insight into how the modern world works." - Wallpaper magazine "John Weich has written an exceptionally well crafted book that delves into the motivation, craft, timing, culture, mechanics and myths of modern storytelling. By drilling down into specific case studies, he's provided insight to inspire rather than a roadmap to mindlessly follow. A must read for those looking to create and connect in this space." - Susan Bonds, CEO & Founder, 42 Entertainment
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