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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWe enjoy laughing at The Room, but to stop there would reflect poorly on us as an audience. Something so singular and immense deserves loving attention and careful study, and that's what we find in this rich and delightful collection of essays. -- Matthew Strohl, author of Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies, Professor of Philosophy at the University of MontanaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Let's Toss the Ball Around, by Adam RosenPart I: Cliché and Convention, Misapplied1. Chris-R's Gun: The Room as an Unconscious Parody of Hollywood Film Conventions, by Carter Soles2. Do You Understand Life? Do You? Tommy Wiseau and the Anti-Method Acting Style, by James Curnow3. "She Can't Love Anyone": The Evil Women and Tormented Men of The Room, by Lenika CruzPart II: Unlocking The Room4. Is The Room Worse than Vertigo? The Aesthetic Philosophy of "So Bad it's Good", by James MacDowell5. Everybody Betray Me! Revenge, Reverse Revenge, and Slave Morality in The Room, by John Dyck6. Anything for My Princess: Using Don Quixote to Bring (Some) Coherence to The Room, by Adam Rosen7. Crypto-Wiseaulogy: Uncovering Stanley Kubrick, Jewishness, and Judaism in The Room, by Nathan AbramsPart III: Cult and the (Class)Room8. I Just Like to Watch You Guys: How Screenings of The Room Give People Permission to Perform, by Ellen Wright9. The Room in the Classroom: How I Use a Bad Movie to Teach Good Filmmaking, by Ross Morin10. For the Love of Cult, Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Build My Own Screening of The Room, by Amanda Ann KleinPart IV: Fan Reception11. How Can They Say This About Me? Riffing Johnny, Lisa, and Denny in Online Homebrew Commentaries of The Room, by Matt Foy12. "Can We Please Not Talk about James Franco?": How The Disaster Artist Threatened The Room's Fanbase, by John Donegan13. I'm Tired, I'm Wasted: The Room as a Waste of Time, by Ernest MathijsPart V: Constructing Tommy Wiseau14. Oh Man, I Just Can't Figure You Out: Building the Persona of Tommy Wiseau through The Disaster Artist, by Hario Satrio Priambodho15. I'm an American, Just Like You: The Room and American Cinema, Identity, and Masculinity, by Landon Palmer16. To Err Is Human, to Auteur, Divine: Tommy Wiseau as Auteur, by Renee Middlemost17. I Don't Have a Friend in the World: The Lonely Authenticity of Tommy Wiseau, by Keith Kahn-HarrisWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized booklets would spawn an entire industry practically overnight. In Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games, commonly known as RPGs, blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the 2010s. Going far beyond D&D, this heavily illustrated tome covers more than three hundred different RPGs that have been published in the last five decades.Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground features (among other things) bunnies, ghostbusters, soap operas, criminal bears, space monsters, political intrigue, vampires, romance, and, of course, some dungeons and dragons. In a decade-by-decade breakdown, Horvath chronicles how RPGs have evolved in the time between their inception and the present day, offering a deep and gratifying glimpse into a hobby that has changed the way we think about games and play.

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Book SynopsisA richly illustrated, encyclopedic deep dive into the history of roleplaying games.When Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson released Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, they created the first roleplaying game of all time. Little did they know that their humble box set of three small digest-sized booklets would spawn an entire industry practically overnight. In Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground, Stu Horvath explores how the hobby of roleplaying games, commonly known as RPGs, blossomed out of an unlikely pop culture phenomenon and became a dominant gaming form by the 2010s. Going far beyond D&D, this heavily illustrated tome covers more than three hundred different RPGs that have been published in the last five decades.Monsters, Aliens, and Holes in the Ground features (among other things) bunnies, ghostbusters, soap operas, criminal bears, space monsters, political intrigue, vampires, romance, and, of course, some dungeons and dragons. In a decade-by-decade breakdown, Horvath chronicles how RPGs have evolved in the time between their inception and the present day, offering a deep and gratifying glimpse into a hobby that has changed the way we think about games and play.The deluxe edition will include a foil-stamped cover and slipcase with a cloth binding, a ribbon, gilded edges, and an 8.5x11-inch card stock poster of the regular edition.

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on aspects of the Korean Wave and Korean media products that are less discussedKorean literature, webtoon, and mukbang. It explores the making of these Korean popular cultural products and how they work and engage media recipients regardless of their different national, cultural, and geographical backgrounds.Drawing on narrative theory and cultural studies, the book makes a compelling argument about how to analyze the production and consumption of Korean media within and beyond its national boundary with critical eyes. The author shows how transmedial narrative studies (narrative studies across media) offers analytical and theoretical lenses through which one can interpret new and emerging media forms and contents. Furthermore, she explores how these forms and contents can be better understood when they are contextualized within specific time and place using the cultural, social, and political concepts and precepts of the region. ThTrade Review“Hyesu Park presents innovative and distinctive approaches in understanding less-privileged areas in the transnationality of the Korean Wave. By uniquely positioning herself as literary scholar, she aptly analyzes three different forms of popular culture, literature, webtoon, and mukbang within the genealogy of Korean literature. Her unique and rich research provides new insights on the convergence of narrative, media, and Korea, which is rare, but makes the book valuable and enjoyable.” — Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada“The export of Korean culture around the world is one of the most salient transmedial influences in the 21st century. In this path-breaking work, Dr. Park examines digital and cultural forces that have shaped and filtered the rise of the Korean Wave. Through a novel application of narrative theory, she examines webtoons, graphic narratives, fiction and mukbang videos to display how global audiences have come to feel, imagine, think and identify with Korean popular culture. By using semiotic and technical approaches, Dr. Park demonstrates how the digital circulation and remix culture of Korean media has produced inclusive storyworlds for a global audience. Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbangprovides a perceptive account of the network effect of a dramatic new addition to Asian cultural studies.” — Maya Dodd, Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at FLAME University, India“Hyesu Park presents innovative and distinctive approaches in understanding less-privileged areas in the transnationality of the Korean Wave. By uniquely positioning herself as literary scholar, she aptly analyzes three different forms of popular culture, literature, webtoon, and mukbang within the genealogy of Korean literature. Her unique and rich research provides new insights on the convergence of narrative, media, and Korea, which is rare, but makes the book valuable and enjoyable.” — Dal Yong Jin, Distinguished SFU Professor at Simon Fraser University, Canada“The export of Korean culture around the world is one of the most salient transmedial influences in the 21st century. In this path-breaking work, Dr. Park examines digital and cultural forces that have shaped and filtered the rise of the Korean Wave. Through a novel application of narrative theory, she examines webtoons, graphic narratives, fiction and mukbang videos to display how global audiences have come to feel, imagine, think and identify with Korean popular culture. By using semiotic and technical approaches, Dr. Park demonstrates how the digital circulation and remix culture of Korean media has produced inclusive storyworlds for a global audience. Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang provides a perceptive account of the network effect of a dramatic new addition to Asian cultural studies.” — Maya Dodd, Assistant Dean of Teaching, Learning, and Engagement at FLAME University, IndiaTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Korean Literature Wave: Transcultural and Transnational Reading of The Vegetarian and Bad Friend 2. Korean Webtoon Wave: Narratological, Technological, and Medial Innovations of Korean Digital Comics 3. Korean Mukbang Wave: Making Sense of Eating and Broadcasting and Its Techno-Mediated Narrative Environment

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Book SynopsisâWhitenessâ is a politically constructed category which needs to be understood and dismantled because the system of racism so embedded within our society harms us all. It has profound implications for human psychology, an understanding of which is essential for supporting the movement for change. This book explores these implications from a psychoanalytic and Jungian analytic perspective.The âfragilityâ of whiteness, the colour-blind approach and the silencing process of disavowal as they develop in the childhood of white liberal families are considered as means of maintaining white privilege and racism. A critique of the colonial roots of psychoanalytic theories of Freud and Jung leads to questioning the de-linking of the individual from society in modern day analytic thinking. The concept of the cultural complex is suggested as a useful means of connecting the individual and the social. Examples from the authorâs clinical practice as well as from public life are used to illTrade Review'Helen Morgan in The Work of Whiteness brilliantly takes to task the role of white privilege within social and psychoanalytical communities. Through her writing she reaches across the Atlantic to include the consciousness raising works of American authors such as Robin DiAngelo who have sought to turn our gaze to the essential, necessary engagement of whites in a collective self-reflective motion. This motion allows author Morgan as well as other whites in the field of psychoanalysis to adhere to the long-overdue necessity of admitting social and political influences into the psychological realm. This white inward gaze also relieves Africanist individuals of remaining the problem of racism of which Du Bois spoke. Morgan’s book adds much to our sparse collection of those white authors within the field of psychoanalysis who endeavour to bring hope to the challenges of racism. We welcome her unique, rich, powerful voice that calls for us to be awake to the increasing global demands for racial equity.'Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A., LP, Author of The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race'Helen Morgan has written a challenging, compassionate, thoughtful, erudite and profoundly incisive book which directs our gaze to the largely hidden and uncomfortable phenomenon of whiteness. Her thinking crosses boundaries and disciplines in a fluid but always coherent way. This is not just a book about psychoanalysis and racism, but engages us all to reflect on deep and often damaging assumptions and preconceptions shaping and driving our personal, clinical and social lives. Her work is the culmination of many years of therapeutic, organisational and leadership experience, from which she extrapolates and translates so that we can all learn. In this area there are only a few genuinely probing and creatively disruptive texts, but this is another and I encourage our institutions, trainings and clinical communities to promote and disseminate it.'Andrew Cooper, Professor of Social Work at the Tavistock Centre and University of East London, Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Author of Conjunctions: Social Work, Psychoanalysis and Society'The Work of Whiteness is a major addition to the psychoanalytic literature on race, racism and colonialism. Writing from personal and professional experience as a leading Jungian analyst, and fully acknowledging the tarnished history of her profession, Helen Morgan shows how we might understand white privilege and the defences around "white fragility" that perpetuate racism even in apparently liberal contexts. This is a vital book for all of us who want to better understand how whiteness does its work.'Stephen Frosh, Professor in the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck, University of London, Author of Those Who Come After: Postmemory, Acknowledgement and Forgiveness'This book is a gift to all of us, because whiteness is an under-examined notion that distorts humanity. European colonisation of the Americas, Africa, India, the Middle East, Australia among other parts of the world, has led to an entrenched and unconscious assumption that white is superior. With a psychoanalytic lens, Helen Morgan’s book goes beneath the surface of whiteness to explore its nature and provide truths that should be faced by all of us, especially those who work in the helping professions.'Frank Lowe, Consultant Social Worker and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist, Tavistock Clinic, Editor of Thinking Space: Promoting Thinking About Race, Culture, and Diversity in Psychotherapy and Beyond"Morgan offers us a trenchant critique of the difficulties the psychoanalytic profession has in addressing racist bias in its theory, training and practice. The discipline has much to offer overall, but risks being sidelined if it does not address its whiteness and the shame, guilt and ‘guiltiness’ inherent in this. Token conversations about diversity are called out and suggestions offered as to ways forward. Alongside new theorising on the development and perpetuation of racist psychic and social structures, Morgan calls on white people - white counsellors and psychotherapists in particular - to reexamine their certainties, check their privilege, face up to their discomfort and denial around race and get on with the work that urgently needs to be done."Clea McEnery West, Psychodynamic PracticeTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Whiteness 2. The legacy of slavery 3. Race and racism 4. The disavowal of whiteness 5. Freud and Jung 6. The racial complex 7. Racism and the psychoanalytic profession 8. Race and supervision Epilogue: the work of whiteness

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Book SynopsisHow do musicians play and talk to audiences? Why do audiences listen and what happens when they talk back? How do new (and old) technologies affect this interplay? This book presents a long overdue examination of the turbulent relationship between musicians and audiences. Focusing on a range of areas as diverse as Ireland, Greece, India, Malta, the US, and China, the contributors bring musicological, sociological, psychological, and anthropological approaches to the interaction between performers, fans, and the industry that mediates them. The four parts of the book each address a different stage of the relationship between musicians and audiences, showing its processual nature: from conceptualisation to performance, and through mediation to off-stage discourses. The musician/audience conceptual division is shown, throughout the book, to be as problematic as it is persistent.Table of ContentsJonathan P.J. Stock – Foreword: AudiencingIoannis Tsioulakis & Elina Hytönen-Ng – Introduction to Musicians and AudiencesPART I: CONCEPTUALISING THE AUDIENCE-PERFORMER ENGAGEMENT Bruce Johnson – In the Body of the Audience Laura Leante – Observing Musicians/Audience Interaction in North Indian Classical Music Performance Mary Louise O’Donnell & Jonathan Henderson – ‘One Step Above the Ornamental Greenery’: A Survivor’s Guide to Playing to an Audience Who Does Not Listen PART II: LIVE RELATIONSHIPS: NEGOTIATIONS OF PERFORMANCE Elina Hytönen-Ng – Contemporary British Jazz Musicians’ Relationship with the Audience: Renditions of We-Relations and Intersubjectivity Barbara Bradby – Performer-Audience Interaction in Live Concerts: Ritual or Conversation? Andrew Pace – Refiguring Maltese Heritage through Musical Performance: Audience Complicity and the Role of Venues in Etnika’s Stage Shows PART III: TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIATIONS: THE VIRTUAL AND THE MATERIAL Hillegonda C. Rietveld – Authenticity and Liveness in Digital DJ Performance Richard Osborne – That’s Me in the Spotlight: Audiences and Musicians on Screen Ioannis Tsioulakis – ‘Soon You’ll Wish They Would Shut Up!’: The Digitised Political Voices of Music Stars and their Audiences in Recession Greece PART IV: OFF-STAGE DISCOURSES AND THE POWER OF FANDOM Nancy Bruseker – ‘Where are the girls of the old brigade?’: Vesta Tilley and Her Female Audience in Correspondence Mark Duffett – From Secret Fantasies to Social Systems: Re-reading Starlust as a Portrait of the Dedicated Popular Music Audience Walter van de Leur – Afterword: ‘Moved to the point where she could no longer contain herself’: Ellington and Audience Interaction at the Newport Jazz Festival

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and âœOthernessâ. Analysing the career profiles of three crossover performers â Ali Zafar, Fawad Khan, and Mahira Khan â as a relevant case study, it unites critical globalization studies with soft power theory in exploring the potential of popular culture in conflict resolution.The book studies the representation and reception of these celebrities, while discussing themes such as the meaning of being a Pakistani star in India, and the consequent identity politics that come into play. As the first comprehensive study of Pakistani crossover stardom, it captures intersections between political economy, cultural representation, and nationalist discourse, at the same time reflecting on larger questions of identity and belonging in an age of globalization.Crossover Stars in the Hindi Film Industry will be indispensable to researchers of film studies, media and cultural studies, popular culture and performance, peace and area studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be of interest to enthusiasts of Indian cinematic history.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A historical legacy 3. Globalization, new political economies, and cultural change 4. Aspirational affects and boundary crossing: Ali Zafar, the Pakistani ‘Prince of Pop’ 5. A crossover romance: Female fandom and Fawad Khan, Pakistan’s ‘reel’ gentleman 6. I am not your feminist: Mahira Khan and the re-scripting of Pakistani womanhood, Islam and globalization 7. A fragile union: moving forward, facing backward

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Book SynopsisResisting the News brings together unique insights from activists and alternative-media users to offer a distinctive perspective on the problems of journalism todayand how to fix them.Using critical-cultural theory and, in particular, the conceptual frameworks of ritual communication and interpretive communities, this book examines how audiences filter their interpretations of mainstream news through the prisms of their identities and experiences with alternative media and political protest. Jennifer Rauch gives voice to alternative-media audiences and illuminates the cultural resources, values, assumptions, critical skills, and discursive strategies through which they make sense of their news environments. Drawing on a 15-year research project, Rauch employs a variety of qualitative, quantitative, and quasi-ethnographic methods, including focus groups, media-use diaries, close-ended surveys, and open-ended questions, to paint a layered portrait of liberal and conservaTrade Review"News audiences tend to be talked at rather than talked with. But Jennifer Rauch has done the hard yards of seeking out and listening to those people who choose to consume alternative news media. The fascinating result blends empirical rigour with theoretical nuance, delivering insights of great value to scholars, journalists and citizens alike." -- Tony Harcup, University of Sheffield"News audiences tend to be talked at rather than talked with. But Jennifer Rauch has done the hard yards of seeking out and listening to those people who choose to consume alternative news media. The fascinating result blends empirical rigour with theoretical nuance, delivering insights of great value to scholars, journalists and citizens alike."Tony Harcup, Emeritus Fellow in Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, UK"Jennifer Rauch has bestowed upon us a highly innovative and timely roadmap for understanding alternative media and their audiences. This deeply empirical and eminently readable book is perfect for students, researchers, activists, and anyone who dares to believe a better media system is possible."Victor Pickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USATable of Contents1. Popular Theories of Mainstream and Alternative News 2. The Probability of Resistance in Empirical News Audiences 3. Parsing Divergent Responses to Mainstream News 4. Lay Theories about the Mass Audience for News 5. Lay Theories of the Political Economy of News 6. Activist Interactions With Mainstream Journalism 7. Alternative Media Rituals and Subcultural Capital 8. News Omnivores, Hybrid Media, and Alternative Ideals 9. Partisan Interpretations of Media Problems and Solutions 10. Journalism in an Age of Alternatives

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults, examining their visual and cultural identity constructs.Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces and places, framed by new materialism, social media, popular and material culture. The overarching emphasis of the collection is on youth and young adults' strategies for engaging in and with the world, becoming a someone, and belonging, in settings that include a juvenile arbitration program, an artist community, high schools, universities, families and social media.This truly interdisciplinary and international collection will have resonance not just within cultural and media studies, but also in education, aTrade Review"Fiona Blaikie has assembled and edited an excellent international collection. The book highlights how youth navigate tensions between marginalities, lived realities, and the demands of school, work and family; how they ‘story’ their everyday lives, including through place-, meme-, and video-making; and their experiences of profound exclusions around race, gender and sexuality. This book feels fresh and urgent as Blaikie has ensured that diverse young people’s viewpoints and experiences figure prominently, discussed through cutting-edge critical and new materialist theorizing. The prominence of arts-based methodologies is also exciting; the art is innovative, moving, instructive and often enmeshed in the entire fabric of a chapter. I love this collection and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in current youth studies."- Rebecca Raby, Brock University, Canada"This collection has multiple dimensions. It contributes to debates about the geopolitics of knowledge-production by attending closely to the importance of contexts around the world. It engages with the gendered interest in subjectivities and meaning-making by introducing non-human elements and the theoretical encouragements of postmaterialism to add further complexity and angle to our understanding. It invites readers to use new concepts such as worlding to expand their appreciation of the narratives that people develop to explain themselves. It expands a lexicon of gender and of ways of seeing and looking and asks us to embrace senses, celebrating as it does, creativity, difference, light and colour."- Robert Morrell, University of Cape Town, South Africa"This wisely edited volume brings together a distinguished, visionary and international group of scholars engaging with some of the most significant and pressing social and cultural questions of our time. The contributors to this volume boldly orient readers to environments and expressive forms shaping people’s everyday lives within a global context. I am confident that this collection of essays will inform current and future thinking by those concerned with the creation, interrogation and dissemination of expressive culture."Doug Blandy, University of Oregon, USA"Fiona Blaikie’s edited anthology takes us into contemporary youth cultures through humanistic research across international contexts. These research narratives embody the voices of young people who speak about nuanced sites of engagement and belonging on their own terms from emic true-to-life perspectives. Simultaneously, these chapters also create new spaces for research and researchers, pioneering sites of reflexivity and representation which engender respect and communion rather than "othering." Blaikie’s keen insights and choices in the curation of these poignant accounts reveal young adult perspectives of authentic being, providing entry into participant worlds heretofore unexplored."- Christine Staikidis, University of Northern Illinois, USA"Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth is an anthology of the world worlding, such as youth (re)enacting with/in social media sites, schools for boys in Canada and young women in India navigating how to dress in the male-dominated engineering classrooms or girls redressing themselves in U.S. juvenile arbitration—all blending the material/physicality of embodied affect and the semiotics (sign systems of language and images) of being in and of the world. Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth explores what matters today to youth and young adults in the process of fostering new ontological dispositions of being and belonging in the world that counter the current socio-political agendas of hate, bullying, sexism, racism, and religious persecution. The stories matter because they attend to specific experience, place, encounters, and active engagement with the materiality of context inseparable from semiotic constructs. The anthology is a must-read primer on non-representational new materialism theory to consider how the world is affecting youth and how youth are affecting the world, and to generate speculative fabulations of possible ethical futures."- Karen Keifer-Boyd, The Pennsylvania State University, USA"Dr. Blaikie is to be congratulated for bringing together such a thoughtful collection of diverse voices, revealing the complexities and nuances of youth life and learning in a global context. Surprisingly, little research has been done pertaining to the communities of youth given attention in this book. Dr. Blaikie and her colleagues bring marginalized youth to the center of the discussion, which could push such research forward in important ways. The collection has some absolute gems, like O’Donoghue’s and Ringrose’s investigations of masculinities, Ivashkevich’s chapter on adjudicated girls, and McLaughlin-Alcock’s look at artists in Jordan among others. After conducting decades of youth research inside schools and out, this collection caused me to think about potential new projects, which is my criterion for the best thing a book can do for a researcher."- Kerry Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA"This wonderful collection of international and inter-disciplinary chapters offer youth researchers new ways of doing situated, ethical, political and response-able research on mediated youth cultures. From re-storying belonging via poetic inquiry with refugee youth to addressing the embodied traumas of idealised classed and racialised femininity through digital media making with young women in a first-time offender programme, each chapter moves and transports the reader to engage with some complex micro-assemblages of youth culture across diverse spaces and places. Collectively the chapters also powerfully illustrate the necessity and challenge of weaving critical post-theories with art-ful methodologies that make the more-than of how research praxis can build to in-form more equitable worldings of a youth justice to come. This is a volume to learn from, become-with and make matter."- EJ Renold, Cardiff University, United KingdomTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Contextualizing Embodiments in Space and Place 1. Becoming Somebody in Boys’ Schools: The Significance of Place 2. Worlding Youth: Visual and Narrative Vignettes Embodying Being, Becoming, and Belonging 3. About Facing the Other: The Impression Management of Young LGBTQ Adults in Contemporary Vietnam 4. Reconciling Divergent Realms in the Lives of Marginalized Students Part Two: Making and Engaging 5. Boys and Their Memes: Exploring Networked Homosocial Masculinity 6. Race, Gender, Sexuality in South African Teenage Girls’ Construction of ‘Porn Stars’ 7. A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent-Child Generativity 8. Storied Matter: Research on Young People’s Felt, Sensed and Storied Designs 9. "I Love My Body": Adjudicated Girls Confront Their Embodied Traumas and Idealized Female Representations Through Digital Media Making Part Three: Becoming and Belonging 10. Becoming Professional, Being Respectable: The Politics of College Dressing in South India 11. Living a Queer Life in Vietnam 12. Politics of Belonging Among Young Public Artists in Amman, Jordan 13. Trans-Languaging and Wonder: A Poetic Inquiry into Newcomer Belonging.

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Book SynopsisIn Challenging Inequality in South Africa: Transitional Compasses leading scholars of South Africa explore creative possibilities to challenge structures of economic, social and political power that produce inequality. Through concrete empirical examples of movements, workers' struggles, initiatives, and politics in challenging inequality, the authors illustrate transitional compasses' that go beyond protest politics to a generative' politics, a politics of building the alternatives in the interstitial spaces of capitalism. The conceptual framing is oriented around the way in which power is produced and reproduced through intricate relationships between hegemonic projects and everyday life. While power underpins all social relations, it is often taken for granted, as it is frequently hidden behind other social relations. Resistance to power emerges through engendering counter-hegemonic projects that are intertwined with alternative everyday practices. The authors highlight sources oTable of Contents1. Transitional Compass: anti-capitalist pathways in the interstitial spaces of capitalismMichelle Williams and Vishwas Satgar2. New dawn or end of labour?: from South Africa’s East Rand to EkurhuleniEdward Webster and Thomas Englert3. The transformative power of civil society in South Africa: an activist’s perspective on innovative forms of organizing and rights-based practicesMark Heywood4. Climate and food inequality: the South African Food Sovereignty Campaign responseVishwas Satgar and Jane Cherry5. Democracy as a transitional compass: women’s participation in South Africa and Kerala, IndiaMichelle Williams 6. The crisis of waged work and the option of a universal basic income grant for South AfricaHein Marais7. Happiness, wellbeing and ecosocialism – a radical humanist PerspectiveDevan Pillay

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Book SynopsisFor many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race offers in one comprehensive volume newly written articles on race from the worldâs leading analytic and continental philosophers. It is, however, accessible to a readership beyond philosophy as well, providing a cohesive reference for a wide student and academic readership. The Companion synthesizes current philosophical understandings of race, providing 37 chapters on the history of philosophy and race as well as how race might be investigated in the usual frameworks of contemporary philosophy. The volume concludes with a section on philosophical approaches to some topics with broad interest outside of philosophy, like colonialism, affirmative action, eugenics, immigration, race and disability, and post-racialism.By clearly explaining and carefully organizing the leading current philosophical thinking on race, this timely collection will help define the subject and bring renewed understanding of race to students and researchers in the humanities, social science, and sciences.Trade Review"This important and timely volume addresses foundational questions concerning the impact of racial ideologies and practices on the development of Western philosophy. These interventions, profound in their ontological, epistemological and political implications, will be of keen interest to philosophers and other scholars working to better grasp the enduring legacies of racism."--Steven Gregory, Columbia University"A timely and telling collection on the philosophy of race in the critical tradition. The volume grapples in the terms of both the European and counter-European philosophical traditions concerning the driving questions of race and racism today. This is a critically valuable study of philosophical canons and disciplinary practices regarding race. A volume that is as productive to think about as it is to teach."--David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine

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Book SynopsisIn this book on higher education the contributors make The Black Lives Matter (#BLM) their focus and engage in contemporary theorizing around the issues central to the Movement: Black Deprivation, Black Resistance, and Black Liberation.The #BLM movement has brought national attention to the deadly oppression shaping the everyday lives of Black people. With the recent murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd from state-sanctioned violence by police, the public outrage and racial unrest catapulted #BLM further into the mainstream. Institutional leaders (e.g., provosts, department heads, faculty, campus administrators), particularly among white people, soon began realizing that anti-Blackness could no longer be ignored, making #BLM the most significant social movement of our time. The chapters included in this volume cover topics such as white institutional space and the experiences of Black administrators; a Black transnational ethic of Black Lives Matter; depictions oTable of ContentsIntroduction - Black Deprivation, Black Resistance, and Black Liberation: the influence of #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) on higher educationChayla Haynes, Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Meseret F. Hailu and Saran Stewart1. When the levees break: the cost of vicarious trauma, microaggressions and emotional labor for Black administrators and faculty engaging in race work at traditionally White institutionsMyntha Anthym and Franklin Tuitt2. Teaching a transnational ethic of Black Lives Matter: an AfroCubana Americana’s theory of CalleAmalia Dache3. Student resistance movements in higher education: an analysis of the depiction of Black Lives Matter student protests in news mediaMeseret F. Hailu and Molly Sarubbi4. Racially liberatory pedagogy: a Black Lives Matter approach to education Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Joshua Abreu and Abdul Abad5. A message for faculty from the present-day movement for black livesChayla Haynes and Kevin J. Bazner6. Theorizing Black women’s experiences with institutionsanctioned violence: a #BlackLivesMatter imperative toward Black liberation on campusLori D. Patton and Nadrea R. Njoku7. Black Liberation research: qualitative methodological considerationsSaran Stewart and Chayla Haynes

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Book SynopsisThis in-depth study of one of the twenty-first century's most acclaimed films, The Social Network: Youth Film 2.0 considers the contribution of David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin's film to the understanding of youth' in a contemporary, digital age. The book starts by situating The Social Network within the contexts of youth film', arguing that it challenges and reshapes the boundaries of this genre by rethinking the notion of youth' itself in the present century. It goes on to consider in detail the aesthetics at work in the film, arguing for its critical and reflexive use of an accelerated' audio-visual style, in order to capture both the new visual regimes of the personal computer era, and the ethical and intellectual ambiguities of Facebook itself as a creation. Finally, it locates the film within the broader visual styles and fashion codes of a late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century consumer culture that incorporates and commodifies rebellion and diTable of ContentsIntroduction Much Too Young – The Social Network and Twenty-First-Century Youth Film 1 From Harvard to Palo Alto: The Values of Education in Youth Cinema and The Social Network 2 Move Fast and Break Things: Ambivalences of Speed and Hacker Aesthetics 3 ‘I’m CEO, Bitch’: The Conundrum of Capital 4 You Don’t Get to Two Billion Friends Without Making a Few More Enemies: Critical Legacies of The Social Network Epilogue The Last Word?

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Book SynopsisMigrants squats are an essential part of the corridors of solidarity' that are being created throughout Europe, where grassroots social movements engaged in anti-racist, anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics coalesce with migrants in devising non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. This book focuses on migrants' self-organised housing strategies in Europe and the collective squatting of buildings and land.In these spaces contentious politics and everyday social reproduction uproot racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles emerging in these spaces disrupt host-guest relations, which often perpetuate state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining technologies. The solidarities and collaborations between undocumented and documented activists in these radical spaces enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against and within citizenship. These do not only reverse forms of exclusion and repression, but produce ungovernable resources, alliTable of ContentsIntroduction: citizenship as inhabitance? Migrant housing squats versus institutional accommodation 1. Enforcing and disrupting circular movement in an EU Borderscape: housingscaping in Serbia 2. For ‘common struggles of migrants and locals’. Migrant activism and squatting in Athens 3. Urban commons and freedom of movement: the housing struggles of recently arrived migrants in Rome 4. The micropolitics of border struggles: migrants’ squats and inhabitance as alternatives to citizenship 5. Bordering through domicide: spatializing citizenship in Calais 6. Migrants’ inhabiting through commoning and state enclosures. A postface

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Book SynopsisThis innovative textbook applies basic dance history and theory to contemporary popular culture examples in order to examine our own ways of moving inand throughculture. By drawing on material relevant to students, Dance in US Popular Culture successfully introduces students to critical thinking around the most personal of terrain: our bodies and our identities. The book asks readers to think about: what embodied knowledge we carry with us and how we can understand history and society through that lens what stereotypes and accompanying expectations are embedded in performance, related to gender and/or race, for instance how such expectations are reinforced, negotiated, challenged, embraced, or rescripted by performers and audiences how readers articulate their own sense of complex identity within the constantly shifting landscape of popular culture, how this shapes an active senseTable of ContentsIntroduction Jennifer Atkins and Carlee Sachs-Krook PART I: Popular Dance as Primary Source 1. Locating Popular Dance and Dance in Popular Culture Jessica Ray Herzogenrath and Bhumi B. Patel Chapter 1 Case Studies: The Invented Choreographies of the Tomahawk Chop Kellen Hoxworth Popular Dance Cultural Masters Ariyan Johnson Do the Hustle: A Saturday Night Reclamation Abdiel Jacobsen Bestowing Blessings and Cultivating Community: Lion Dancing in Boston’s Chinatown Casey Avaunt ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ Watching from Another Place: Outside Perceptions of American Popular Culture Elena Benthaus and Dara Milovanović Chapter 1: Next Steps and Your Move! 2. Describing Dance, Writing Moving Worlds Dahlia Li Chapter 2 Case Studies: In the Interest of Health and Cooperation: Women Dancing "The Most Important College Interests" Jessica Ray Herzogenrath Dammn Baby! Janet Jackson Dances Pop Feminism Elizabeth Bergman Resistance in Rhythm: The Shim Sham Shimmy Kat Echevarría Richter Queerness, Closure, and the Finale Dance in It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Miya Shaffer Chapter 2: Next Steps and Your Move! PART II: Stereotypes and Spectatorship 3. Interpreting (Multi)racial Movements in Popular Dance Miya Shaffer Chapter 3 Case Studies: From a Black Cinderella and Filipino Prince to a Career in Commercial Dance Beverly Bautista Plasticity in Lexus’s Black Panther Commercial: Choreographing Blackness as Other through Visual Echoing Kelly Bowker Riverdance: Remaking Race Natasha Casey ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ The Law of the Jungle: A Conversation with Philip Ancheta about Performing for Walt Disney World Chapter 3: Next Steps and Your Move! 4. Male Bodies and Masculinity in Popular Dance Brandon Calleja Shaw Chapter 4 Case Studies: Macho Sensibilities: A Dancer’s Autoethnographic Journey Yebel Gallegos The Nicholas Brothers: Dancing Masculinity in Down Argentine Way (1940) Pamela Krayenbuhl Manning the Pit: Techniques of White Masculinity in Hardcore Punk Moshing Emily Kaniuka Bey-Boy: Channing Tatum, Mimesis, and a Test of Masculinity Nicholas Richardson Chapter 4: Next Steps and Your Move! 5. Femininity and Female Empowerment in Commercial Dance: Shakira and J. Lo at Super Bowl LIV Juliet McMains Chapter 5 Case Studies: Subverting Body Ideals: Abject, Tactile Film Style in John Waters’s Hairspray Roxanne Hearn Dancing Girls and Dance Moms: Performing Femininity on the Dance Competition Stage Karen Schupp #Burberry and the Utility of Black Femininity Ronya-Lee Anderson Toying with Chauvinism: Parody in Anna Nikki’s Pole Classique Routine Carlee Sachs-Krook Chapter 5: Next Steps and Your Move! 6. Spectacle, the Gaze, and Agency in Popular Dance Colleen T. Dunagan Chapter 6 Case Studies: "Fosse Meets Fetish": When Fosse Goes (Really) Kinky Dara Milovanović Spectacular Choreographies of Epic Proportions: Ricki Starr the Ballet-Dancing Wrestler Laura Katz Rizzo Sparkling Subversion Catherine Cabeen Belly Dance as Restaurant Entertainment Somya Jatwani ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ "Far Across the Distance": A Competition Judge’s Perspective from behind the Table Madeline Kurtz Chapter 6: Next Steps and Your Move! PART III: Recognitions and Revisions 7. Popular Dance and Intersectionality Jeremy Guyton and Celeste Landeros Chapter 7 Case Studies: Naomi Osaka’s Hafuness and Polycultural Dance Moves Maïko Le Lay "Como La Flor": Selena’s Animation of Intersectional Identity Anabel Bordelon Gender Is a Drag: Performing Hybridity on RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Maxi Challenge "Prancing with the Queens" Bhumi B. Patel ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ Resistance, Resilience, Overcoming a Lot: Talking with NaTonia Monét about Performing in the Broadway Musical Tina Chapter 7: Next Steps and Your Move! 8. Mass Media and Social Circulations of Popular Dance Laura H. C. Robinson Chapter 8 Case Studies: "They’re the Same Picture": Repetition as Political Critique in Instagram Dance Memes Miya Shaffer Legitimization and Circulation of Hip-Hop Dance in "Real Talk: Hip-Hop Education for Social Justice" Maïko Le Lay "Just Stick to the Flamenco": Flamenco on NBC’s World of Dance Amy Schofield Dancing Doctors and TikTok Meme-ography: Pointing Toward Female Health Access Amanda Gabaldon ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ Everybody has a Dream: Talking with Taz Loft about Filming In the Heights (2021). Chapter 8: Next Steps and Your Move! 9. Close Up: Step-Touch in New Orleans Popular Dance Rachel Carrico and Latanya D. Tigner Chapter 9 Case Studies: Is He… You Know… Aaron C. Thomas Meghan Trainor’s "All About That Bass": A White Girl’s Booty Anthem Colleen T. Dunagan B-Girl Sunny and the Performativity of the Gaze Sherril Dodds Varsity Spirit’s Propertied, White Settler Femininity Sammy Roth Chapter 9: Next Steps and Your Move! 10. The Politics of Popular Movements Irvin Manuel Gonzalez Chapter 10 Case Studies: New Deal Rhythm : Hollywood Chorus Girls Get Political Anna Waller "To Exist is to Survive Unfair Choices": The OA and Queer Acts of Protest Bhumi B. Patel Orderly Chaos: Moshing in SLC Punk! Adrian S. A. Manning Asserting Indigenous Agency Beyond Colonial Spatialities through RainbowGlitz’s Burlesque Love Medicine Evangelina Macias Chapter 10: Next Steps and Your Move! 11. Popularizing "American-ness" Tria Blu Wakpa Chapter 11 Case Studies: Ballet at the Movies or Dancing on the Limits of American-ness: Thalia Zanou Anna Leon Romanticizing the Old South in the Confederate Pageant Teresa Simone Experimenting with Lady J: A Trans Take on Drag J. Davenport, PhD Welcome to America: Reassigning Appropriation through Choreography in Soft Power Laura London Waringer ~POP CULTURE CONVERSATION~ closet disco: a meditation Jeremy Guyton Chapter 11: Next Steps and Your Move!

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Book SynopsisThis interdisciplinary volume explores the girlâs voice and the construction of girlhood in contemporary popular music, visiting girls as musicians, activists, and performers through topics that range from female vocal development during adolescence to girlsâ online media culture. While girlsâ voices are more prominent than ever in popular music culture, the specific sonic character of the young female voice is routinely denied authority. Decades old clichÃs of girls as frivolous, silly, and deserving of contempt prevail in mainstream popular image and sound. Nevertheless, girls find ways to raise their voices and make themselves heard. This volume explores the contemporary girlâs voice to illuminate the way ideals of girlhood are historically specific, and the way adults frame and construct girlhood to both valorize and vilify girls and women. Interrogating popular music, childhood, and gender, it analyzes the history of the all-girl band from the Runaways to the present; the changing anatomy of a girlâs voice throughout adolescence; girlâs participatory culture via youtube and rock camps, and representations of the girlâs voice in other media like audiobooks, film, and television. Essays consider girl performers like Jackie Evancho and Lorde, and all-girl bands like Sleater Kinney, The Slits and Warpaint, as well as performative 'girlishness' in the voices of female vocalists like Joni Mitchell, BeyoncÃ, Miley Cyrus, Taylor Swift, Kathleen Hanna, and Rebecca Black. Participating in girl studies within and beyond the field of music, this book unites scholarly perspectives from disciplines such as musicology, ethnomusicology, comparative literature, womenâs and gender studies, media studies, and education to investigate the importance of girlsâ voices in popular music, and to help unravel the complexities bound up in music and girlhood in the contemporary contexts of North America and the United Kingdom. Table of ContentsPART IVoice and Agency 1 I’m with the Band: Redefining Young Feminism 15 LUCY O’BRIEN 2 Girls at Work: Gendered Identities, Sex Segregation,and Employment Experiences in the Music Industry 37 MARION LEONARD 3 "I Love Beyoncé, but I Struggle with Beyoncé": Girl ActivistsTalk Music and Feminism 56 LYN MIKEL BROWN AND DANA EDELL WITH MONTGOMERY JONES, GEORGIA LUCKHURST, AND JONEKA PERCENTIE PART IIVoice and Vocality 4 "These Stupid Little Sounds in Her Voice": Valuing andVilifying the New Girl Voice 77 DIANE PECKNOLD 5 Girls and Puberty: The Voice, It Is a-Changin’;A Discussion of Pedagogical Methods for theTraining of the Voice through Puberty 99 BARBARA FOX DEMAIO 6 The Curse of the "O mio bambino caro": Jackie Evancho as Prodigy, Diva, and Ideal Girl 113 DANA GORZELANY-MOSTAK 7 Authority, Ability, and the Aging Ingénue’s Voice 143 ALEXANDRA APOLLONIPART IIIVoice and Authenticity 8 Performing Pop Girlhood on Disney Channel 171 MORGAN BLUE 9 When Loud Means Real: Tween Girls and the Voices of Rock Authenticity 191 SARAH DOUGHER 10 YouTube, Twerking and You: Context Collapse andthe Handheld Copresence of Black Girls and Miley Cyrus 208 KYRA D. GAUNT PART IVVoice and Narrative 11 The Counterpoint of Aging and Coming of Age in the Mother–Daughter Duets of Tori Amos and Natashya Hawley 235 LORI BURNS 12 Listen to the Mockingjay: Voice, Identity, and Agency in

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Book SynopsisA frenetic account of Britney Spears?s historic rise and equally tragic fall, from Jeff Weiss, LA''s Hunter S. Thompson.America, 2003: A country at war, its shiny veneer beginning to crack. Von Dutch and The Simple Life dominate. And on the cover of every magazine, a twenty-one-year-old pop star named Britney Spears. Tracking her every move for a third-tier gossip rag in Los Angeles is a young writer who for all practical purposes let''s call Jeff Weiss, who took whatever job he could to pursue his dream of being a ?serious? writer. He''d instead become a firsthand witness to the slow tragedy of a changing nation, represented in spirit by ?the coy it-girl at the end of history.?Years later, after finally making it as a celebrated cultural critic, Weiss presents Waiting for Britney Spears, a gonzo, nostalgic, and mostly true recounting of Britney''s rise and fall during his years in the tabloid underbelly of Los Angeles. Weiss follows America?s sweetheart through Vegas superclubs and Malibu car chases, annulled marriages and soul-crushing legal battles, all the way to Britney?s infamous 2007 VMA performance. As Weiss lives through the years leading to Britney?s conservatorship, he observes, with peerless style, cringe-inducing fashion waves, a destructive culture of celebrity surveillance, and a country whose decline is embodied by the devastating downturn of its former golden child.With the narrative flair that established him as a singular chronicler of modern pop culture, Weiss goes for broke in Waiting for Britney Spears, a roaring Künstlerroman of celebrity, obsession, morality, and the last great pop star.

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Book SynopsisHadrian''s reign (AD 117-138) was a watershed in the history of the Roman Empire. Hadrian abandoned his predecessor Trajan''s eastern conquests - Mesopotamia and Armenia - trimmed down the lands beyond the lower Danube, and constructed new demarcation lines in Germany, North Africa, and most famously Hadrian''s Wall in Britain, to delimit the empire.The emperor Hadrian, a strange and baffling figure to his contemporaries, had a many-sided personality. Insatiably ambitious, and a passionate Philhellene, he promoted the ''Greek Renaissance'' extravagantly. But his attempt to Hellenize the Jews, including the outlawing of circumcision, had disastrous consequences, and his ''Greek'' love of the beautiful Bithynian boy Antinous ended in tragedy.No comprehensive account of Hadrian''s life and reign has been attempted for over seventy years. In Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Anthony Birley brings together the new evidence from inscriptions and papyri, and up-to-date and in-deTrade Review'Birley has certainly done [Hadrian] justice in this finely detailed, scholarly and closely argued biography ... This is a superb addition to the excellent Routledge series of imperial biographies.' - Peter Jones, Literary Review'Birley is scrupulous. His grasp of epigraphy and numismatics, his diligence in flowing the vestiges of imperial travel, and his patent sense of fairness in evaluating the scappy ancient literature on Hadrian enable him to construct a narrative of the Emperor's life which renders all previous efforts obsolescent.' - Nigel Spivey, Times Literary Supplement'A learned yet very readable book.' - JACT Review'Birley's book is essential for the Hadrian researcher.' - Gay Times'An excellent, and long overdue, biography ofone of the greatest amd most accomplished of the Roman emperors.' - Kirkus Reviews'Elegantly decked out with coin portraits, photographs, sculptures and maps, this readable bio will appeal to history buffs' - Publishers weekly'Mr Birley is an excellent guide to the facts of Hadrian's career, and of the careers of many of his contemporaries' - Jasper Griffin, The Spectator 1997'This book is well worth the price both to read and as a work of reference. It contains useful photographs, details abour coins, bibliography and index, and also contains excellent maps.' - Gay and Lesbian HumanistBirley ia an excellent companion to the myth of a characteristically complex man' - The Herald (Glasgow)'Birley brings this cipher to life with gusto, Hadrian's childhood and early career, his imperial reign and subsequent travels through every corner of his empire, step by step, stone by stone, until the redaer, too, is exhausted by Hadrian's (and Birley's) seemingly irrepressible energy' - Josephine Balmer, New Statesman and Society"...This is a historical work that must rank amongst the most important biographies of the Roman emperors; it deserves to be read as much for its account of Hadrian's restless travelling through the provinces as for its analysis of policies and matters of state." - British Archaelogy'Birley has now produced a volume rich in detail, imaginative in interpretation, sane and sensible in judgement. ...This is an extremely learned book, often challenging.' - The Classical Outlook/Fall 1998Table of ContentsPreface. List of illustrations. List of maps. Introduction: The Emperor Hadrian. 1. A Childhood in Flavian Rome 2. The Old Dominion 3. The Military Tribune 4. Principatus et Libertas 5. The Young General 6. Archon at Athens 7. The Parthian War 8. The New Ruler 9. Return to Rome 10. To the German Frontier 11. Hadrian's Wall 12. A New Augustus 13. Return to the East 14. A Summer in Asia 15. A Year in Greece 16. Pater Patriae 17. Africa 18. Hadrianus Olympius 19. Death in the Nile 20. Athens and Jerusalem 21. The Bitter End Epilogue: Animula Vagula Blandula Stemma. Abbreviations and Notes. Bibliography. Index: (Persons; Peoples & Places; Subject)

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Book SynopsisTony Myers provides a clear and engaging guide to Zizek's key ideas, explaining the main influences on Zizek's thought, most crucially his engagement with Lacanian psychoanalysis, using examples drawn from popular culture and everyday life.Table of ContentsPart 1: Why Zizek? When Zizek Shudders (We Don't Have To): Popular Culture and Philosophy? Is This Not The Way To Read Zizek? Subject Of A Biography: Biography Of A Subject; This Book Part 2: Key Ideas Who Are Zizek's Influences And How Do They Affect His Work? What Is A Subject And Why Is It So Important? What Is So Terrible About Postmodernity? How Can We Distinguish Reality From Ideology? What Is The Relationship Between Men And Women? Why Is Racism Always A Fantasy? Part 3: After Zizek The Curse of Jacques: Limitations On The Influence of Zizek; Leftism; Universal Criticism; The Retroactive Zizek

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Book SynopsisDrawing on texts from the writings of Fanon and Orwell to Ali G. and The Office, After Empire, Paul Gilroy explores Britain's failure to come to terms with the loss of its empire and pre-eminent global standing.Trade Review'This is a work of startling range, insight and originality' - Stephen Howe, The Independent'[A] perceptive book.' - Andy Beckett, The GuardianTable of ContentsPart 1: The Planet 1. Race and the Right to be Human 2. Cosmopolitanism Contested Part 2: Albion 3. Has it Come to This? 4. The Negative Dialectics of Conviviality

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Book SynopsisThis third edition of British Culture is the complete introduction to culture and the arts in Britain today. Extensively illustrated and offering a wider range of topics than ever before, David P. Christopher identifies and analyses key areas in language, literature, film, TV, social media, popular music, sport and other fields, setting each one in a clear, historical context.British Culture enables students of British society to understand and enjoy a fascinating range of contemporary arts through an examination of current trends, such as the influence of business and commerce, the effects of globalization and the spread of digital communications. This new edition features: fully revised and updated chapters analyzing a range of key areas within British culture new chapters on cyberculture, heritage and festivals extracts from novels and plays. This student-friendly edition also strengthens rTrade Review"This is an excellent introductory text for students of contemporary British society and culture. The work is engagingly and clearly written, providing readers with not only an accessible summary of relevant topics but also a range of helpful case-studies. Recently updated, this study should continue to serve as the standard work in this field."Peter Donaldson, University of Kent, UK"British Culture (3rd edition) provides a "complete introduction to culture and the arts," placed in the context of major developments in the political, social and economic history of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland—as well as the United Kingdom’s changing relations to Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and the wider world—since 1945. Anyone interested in the increasingly plural and complex character of 21st-century Britain will find it an instructive and engaging study. British Culture is a versatile accomplishment, and can be profitably read from front to back, or, for more targeted research, approached by individual chapters or sections. Its organization makes it readily accessible as both a survey and a reference."Richard Floyd, University of Virginia, USA"Unlike many who proffer an introduction to Britain’s culture, Christopher focusses on its enviable products. He casts the work of writers and journalists, film and television makers, fashion designers and musicians against a half century of social and political history. A fine book for courses which locate British Literature within a wider context."Simon Cook, Utrecht University, The NetherlandsTable of ContentsList of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Timeline. 1. The Social and Cultural Context 2. Language in Culture 3. Cyberculture 4. Newspapers, Magazines and Journalism 5. Literature 6. Theatre 7. Cinema 8. Television and Radio 9. Art and Architecture 10. Popular Music and Fashion 11. Sport 12. Heritage and Festivals. Glossary. Index.

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Book SynopsisIssues in African American Music: Power, Gender, Race, Representation is a collection of twenty-one essays by leading scholars, surveying vital themes in the history of African American music. Bringing together the viewpoints of ethnomusicologists, historians, and performers, these essays cover topics including the music industry, women and gender, and music as resistance, and explore the stories of music creators and their communities.Revised and expanded to reflect the latest scholarship, with six all-new essays, this book both complements the previously published volume African American Music: An Introduction and stands on its own. Each chapter features a discography of recommended listening for further study. From the antebellum period to the present, and from classical music to hip hop, this wide-ranging volume provides a nuanced introduction for students and anyone seeking to understand the history, social context, and cultural impact of African American music.Trade Review"With this latest edition of their landmark collection, Portia Maultsby and Mellonee Burnim have once again shown why they have been leading ethnomusicologists for decades. Deftly organized and updated with robust case studies, Issues in African American Music documents the fruit of the interpretive turn in African American music studies, joining historical inquiry with powerful, smartly argued opinion. This book will define the field for the next generation of scholars, activists, students, and fans."—Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., author of Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop "This indispensable anthology builds on the scholarship of Maultsby and Burnim's first volume, expanding its critical and theoretical scope and reach. By focusing on ways to approach reading multiple genres, as well as the intersecting politics of black music and mass culture, the impact of gender on black musicking, and the trajectories of black sonic activism, Issues in African American Music underscores the lasting influence, centrality, and historical depths of these expressive forms that sit at the heart of American culture."—Daphne Brooks, author of Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910Table of ContentsPART I: INTERPRETING MUSIC 1. Performing Blues and Navigating Race in Transcultural Contexts (Susan Oehler Herrick)2. New Bottle, Old Wine: Whither Jazz Studies? (Travis A. Jackson)3. The Politics of Race Erasure in Defining Black Popular Music Origins (Portia K. Maultsby)4. Negotiating Blackness in Western Art Music (Olly Wilson)PART II: MASS MEDIATION5. Crossing Musical Borders: Agency and Process in the Gospel Music Industry (Mellonee V. Burnim)6. Industrializing African American Popular Music (Reebee Garofolo)7. The Motown Legacy: Homegrown Sound, Mass Appeal (Charles E. Sykes)8. Stax Records and the Impulse Toward Integration (Rob Bowman)9. Uptown Sound—Downtown Bound: Philadelphia International Records (John A. Jackson)10. "And the Beat Goes On": SOLAR—The Sound of Los Angeles Records (Scot Brown)11. Tyscot Records: Gospel Music Production as Ministry (Tyron Cooper)PART III: GENDER 12. Voices of Women in Gospel: Resisting Representations (Mellonee V. Burnim)13. Are All the Choir Directors Gay? Black Men’s Sexuality and Identity in Gospel Performance (Alisha Lola Jones)14. Women in Blues: Transgressing Boundaries (Daphne Duval Harrison)15. Jazz History Remix: Black Women from "Enter" to "Center" (Sherrie Tucker)16. The Reception of Blackness in "women’s music" (Eileen M. Hayes)17. African American Women and the Dynamics of Gender, Race, and Genre in Rock ’n’ Roll (Maureen Mahon)18. "Ain’t Nuthin’ But a She Thang": Women in Hip Hop (Cheryl L. Keyes)PART IV: MUSICAL AGENCY—AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC AS RESISTANCE19. The Antebellum Period: Communal Coherence and Individual Expression (Lawrence W. Levine)20. Civil Rights Period: Music as an Agent of Social Change (Bernice Johnson Reagon) 21. The Post-Civil Rights Period: The Politics of Musical Creativity (Mark Anthony Neal)

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Book SynopsisReading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic power in contemporary America. Its recurrent theme is the continuing, complicated significance of race in American society. Contributors: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Judith Butler; Sumi K. Cho; Kimberle Crenshaw; Mike Davis; Thomas L. Dumm; Walter C. Farrell, Jr.; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ruth Wilson Gilmore; Robert Gooding-Williams; James H. Johnson, Jr.; Elaine H. Kim; Melvin L. Oliver; Michael Omi; Gary Peller; Cedric J. Robinson; Jerry Watts; Cornel West; Patricia Williams; Rhonda M. Williams; Howard Winant.Trade Review". . . very impressive . . . These works are not about race and urban uprising. They are about all of us, not the American Dream but the American Real." -- The SanDiego Review"The book Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising offers a timely reminder that the beating of Rodney King, the outcome of the Simi Valley trial of the police officers involved in it, and the subsequent uprisings in response to the verdict are best understood in social, cultural, economic, and political contexts. The authors demonstrate that a critical analysis of popular representations of these events can illuminate the larger subject of race relations in American society. The book suggests that a multidisciplanary approach is needed to appreciate fully the vast and interlocking dimensions of the problem." -- Gail Lee Dubrow, Journal of the AmericanPlanning Association

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Book SynopsisIn Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and blissed out. A celebration of rave''s quest for the perfect beat definitive chronicle of rave culture and electronic dance music.Trade Review"Worthy. As a straightforward timeline account of rave culture-the DJs, the drugs, the choons, the clubs, the clobber-Generation Ecstasy succeeds. Tracing the music. Reynolds shows that he certainly knows his stuff." -- Now, Toronto"For anyone who has been to a rave or bought a techno CD, this book is an excellent complement. Reynolds does a great job throughout, even making this book readable for those who know littel or nothing about techno and rave culture." -- Dead Trees Review"Invaluable." -- Toronto Star"The single best book about rave culture." -- TheRoverfront Times"A classic chronicle of the Nineties rave movement." -- James Hunter, Rolling Stone"Ground-breaking." -- Metro, San Jose"Generation Ecstasy serves as an important cultural critique, a detailed record that brings us up to date on a dynamic social experiment in progress." -- Stephen Sande, The San Francisco Chronicle"Find yourself a nice comfy couch, put the kettle on and dive into one of the most detailed and passionate accounts of the underground youth subculture referred to as generation ecstasy. Simon Reynolds thinks around this whole topic like no other. Generation Ecstasy is the definitive chronicle of a revved-up, colorful youth subculture that might just be defining a spiritual revolution of sorts." -- Red Journal"An impressively detailed and well-informed chronology of the last decade's transatlantic nightclub soundtrack..." -- Alex Bellos, Newsday"Lucid, comprehensive, and smart...Generation Ecstasy is the best available way into what has always been a closed-to-the-grownups world." -- Simon Frith, VillageVoice"Reynolds captures plenty of the thrilling madness of the scene, the drugs, the music, the fuck-the-system energy and all their head-spinning implications... A definitive volume on a wide world of music." -- Will Hermes, HoustonPress"Generation Ecstasy is a more than essential work, helping us to come to terms with a way of life which has defined so many and left its mark on so many more. Simon Reynolds has achieved the near impossible: represented the diverse genres and subgenres of modern dance culture with loving care, while telling the big story in a lucid, stimulating, and thought-provoking way. You've just got to get a look at this one." -- Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting"A great achievement from a world class writer." -- iDTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1: A Tale of Three Cities Chicago House, and New York Garage, 1980-90; 2: Digital Psychedelia Sampling and the Soundscape; 3: Living a Dream Acid House and Uk Rave, 1987-89; 4: Everything Starts with an e Ecstasy and Rave Music; 5: Twenty-Four-Hour Party People “Madchester,” Positivity, and the Rave 'n' Roll Crossover, 1988-91; 6: 'Ardkore, you know the Score the Second Wave of Rave, 1990-92; 7: America the Rave us Rave Culture, 1990-92; 8: Fight for your Right to Party Spiral Tribe and the Crusty-Raver Movement, 1991-97; 9: Feed your Head Intelligent Techno, Ambient, and Trance, 1990-94; 10: Slipping into Darkness the UK Rave Dream Turns to Nightmare, 1992-93; 11: The Future Sound of Detroit Underground Resistance, + 8, and Carl Craig, 1990-96; 12: In our Angelhood Rave as Counterculture and Spiritual Revolution; 13: Roots 'n' Future Jungle Takes over London, 1993-94; 14: In the Mix DJ Culture and Remixology, 1993-97; 15: Marching into Madness Gabba and Happy Hardcore, 1992-97; 16: Crashing the Party American Rave's Descent into the Darkside, 1993-97; 17: Sounds of Paranoia Trip-Hop, Tricky, and Pre-Millennium Tension, 1990-97; 18: War in the Jungle Intelligent Drum and Bass Versus Techstep, 1994-97; 19: Fuck Dance, Let's Art the Post-Rave Experimental Fringe, 1994-97

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Book SynopsisBack with a vengeance, collage superstar Cold War Steve goes viral, casting a scathing view on the past year on Plague Island.Trade Review'The modern-day William Hogarth' - Ricky Gervais'The George Grosz of our sorry time' - Bonnie Greer

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Book SynopsisAn irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the 2000s in the age of Hot Topic, Creed, and frosted lip gloss—from the James Beard Award-nominated writer of the Catapult column Store-Bought Is Fine”Tacky is about the power of pop culture—like any art—to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one''s commitment to good taste. These fourteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation''s obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we hate to love—snakeskin pants, Sex and the City, Cheesecake Factory''s gargantuan menu—into kinder and sharper perspective. Each essay revolves around a different maligned (and yet, Rax would argue, vital) cultural artifact, providing thoughtful, even romantic meditations on desire, love, and the power of nostalgia.

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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.

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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!

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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....

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