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Tor Publishing Group Raw Dog
Book SynopsisA NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER!Now in paperback with a brand-new author introduction!Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critiquecomedian Jamie Loftus''s debut, Raw Dog, will take you on a cross-country road trip in the summer of 2021, and reveal what the creation, culture, and class influence of hot dogs says about America now.A Best Book of the Year from NPR and Vulture. Featured in: NPR Weekend Edition Bon Appétit Oprah Daily Glamour NY Mag Splendid Table The Wall Street Journal Eater Betches USA Today Boston Globe Eater Slate The Next Big Idea Club Buzzfeed and more Wise and funny ANDY RICHTER Revealing, funny, sad, horny, and insatiably curious SARAH MARSHALL A wild ride ROBERT EVANS Deeply incisive and hilariously honest JACK O'BRIEN Gonzo yet vulnerable GABE DUNN Hot dog Moby-Dick BRANSON REESE One of the freshest and most insightful new comedic voices of this decade. LINDSAY ELLIS Hot dogs. Poor people created them. Rich people found a way to charge fifteen dollars for them. They're high culture, they're low culture, they're sports food, they're kids'' food, they're hangover food, and they're deeply American, despite having no basis whatsoever in America''s Indigenous traditions. You can love them, you can hate them, but you can't avoid the great American hot dog.Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs is part investigation into the cultural and culinary significance of hot dogs and part travelogue documenting a cross-country road trip researching them as they're served today. From avocado and spice in the West to ass-shattering chili in the East to an entire salad on a slice of meat in Chicago, Loftus, her pets, and her ex eat their way across the country during the strange summer of 2021. It's a brief window into the year between waves of a plague that the American government has the resources to temper, but not the interest.So grab a dog, lay out your picnic blanket, and dig into the delicious and inevitable product of centuries of violence, poverty, and ambition, now rolling around at your local 7-Eleven.This paperback edition includes Jamie''s road trip map and illustrations by the author throughout, in addition to a brand-new author introduction.Raw Dog will leave you nourished. BuzzFeedYou will certainly never read a funnier book about taking a hot dog-themed road trip across America. GlamourA journey both silly and profound. Vulture, Best Books of 2023
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Metropolitan Books My Body
Book SynopsisINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERMy Body offers a lucid examination of the mirrors in which its author has seen herself, and her indoctrination into the cult of beauty as defined by powerful men. In its more transcendent passages . . . the author steps beyond the reach of any ''Pygmalion'' and becomes a more dangerous kind of beautiful. She becomes a kind of god in her own right: an artist.Melissa Febos, The New York Times Book ReviewA deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our timeEmily Ratajkowski is an acclaimed model and actress, an engaged political progressive, a formidable entrepreneur, a global social media phenomenon, and now, a writer. Rocketing to world fame at age twenty-one, Ratajkowski sparked both praise and furor with the provocative display of her body as an unapologeti
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Lulu.com The Cultural Gutter
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Lulu.com The Psychgeist of Pop Culture
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W. W. Norton & Company The Extinction of Experience
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Hanover Square Press Ill Be There for You
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Hanover Square Press Good Game No Rematch
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Webcomics
Trade ReviewSean Kleefeld’s Webcomics, an entry in the Bloomsbury Comics Studies series, is essential because it remedies the lack of a high-level account of webcomics. It allows the reader to survey the entire field and to see the common threads that link seemingly disparate genres together ... I hope that other future scholarly works, by Kleefeld or others, will complement Kleefeld’s perspective by offering more critical and theoretically informed analyses of webcomics. For such works, however, Kleefeld’s Webcomics represents an essential starting point. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *I’ve always been a great fan of Sean Kleefeld’s writing: its clarity, its circumspection, and the measured quality of his tone. Kleefeld is an ideal writer to chronicle the rise of modern webcomics. He patiently explores not just the nascent realities of an industry in flux but all of the roads not taken, all of the false starts and dead ends, with the perspicacity an unformed future demands. In Kleefeld’s hands, defining what comics looks like today is less a sorting out process for the ages than a mad crash down a steep hill hoping to scoop up some village's bouncing wheel of cheese set loose on the valley below. By the time you’re through, you’ll know just what set of circumstances won the day, and what set didn’t and what might be yet to come. The longer you take to find and read your own copy is the amount of time I get to be smarter than you. * Tom Spurgeon, Publisher and Managing Editor, The Comics Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Historical Overview Social and Cultural Impact Ubiquity Technology Conflicts with Newspaper Strips Audience Participation Education/Social Causes Formats Financing Key Texts Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio Penny Arcade by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins Questionable Content by Jeph Jacques Stand Still. Stay Silent. by Minna Sundberg The Adventures of Gyno-Star by Rebecca Cohen Dumbing of Age by David M. Willis Empathize This by Tak Shiota et al. Critical Uses Discussing Webcomics Webcomics as a Genre? Genres in Webcomics Defining Success Success: Easier or More Difficult? The Negative Side of Creator Access Permanence vs. Etherialness Paratexts Appendix Solution Squad Lesson Plan Glossary Resources
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Uniform
Book SynopsisUniform: Clothing and Discipline in the Modern World examines the role uniform plays in public life and private experience. This volume explores the social, political, economic, and cultural significance of various kinds of uniforms to consider how they embody gender, class, sexuality, race, nationality, and belief. From the pageantry of uniformed citizens to the rationalizing of time and labour, this category of dress has enabled distinct forms of social organization, sometimes repressive, sometimes utopian. With thematic sections on the social meaning of uniform in the military, in institutions, and political movements, its use in fashion, in the workplace, and at leisure, a series of case studies consider what sartorial uniformity means to the history of the body and society.Ranging from English public school uniform to sacred dress in the Vatican, from Australian airline uniforms to the garb worn by soldiers in combat, Uniform draws attention to a visual and material Trade ReviewWhat does it mean to wear a uniform? How does uniformity transform bodies? These are just two of the questions addressed in this book. The answers are revealing, complex, and utterly compelling. A "must read" for anyone curious about the power of clothes in the modern world. * Joanna Bourke, Birkbeck, University of London, UK *Rigorous, theoretically rich, transnational and transhistorical in scope, this book brings exciting new perspectives to the study of dress, institutions and disciplinary power. * Ilya Parkins, University of British Columbia, Canada *Innovative and fascinating … a much needed approach to uniform as embedded social practice. * Sophie Woodward, University of Manchester, UK *[A]n invaluable resource for students of fashion, clothing, dress history and cultural studies. * Kevin Almond, University of Leeds, UK *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments 1 Understanding Uniform: An Introduction - Jane Tynan and Lisa Godson Part One: Uniforming Political Movements 2 The Public Order Act: Defining Political Uniform in 1930s Britain - Annebella Pollen 3 Revolutionary Culture, Girl Power, and the Red Guard Uniform During the Chinese Cultural Revolution - Li Li Part Two: Uniforming Institutions 4 Uniform Adoption in English Public Schools, 1830–1930 - Kate Stephenson 5 Dissolving Vatican Uniform Hegemony: The Marist Road to Dress Freedom - William J. F. Keenan Part Three: Uniforming Leisure 6 Fashionably Rational: The Evolution of Uniformed Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain - Geraldine Biddle-Perry 7 Uniformity in Fashion Practices During the Modernization Period in Turkey - F. Dilek Himam Part Four: Uniforming Workers 8 Uniforming the Corporate Body in the City of London - Samira Guerra 9 A Cast of Thousands: Martin Grant and the New Qantas Uniform - Prudence Black Part Five: Uniforming Fashion 10 Overalls: Functional, Political, Fashionable - Djurdja Bartlett 11 Utility Chic: Where Fashion and Uniform Meet - Jane Tynan Part Six: Uniforming the Military 12 Military Uniform and Lethal Targeting in International Law on Armed Conflict - Amin Parsa 13 Military Uniforms and Women in the Ulster Defence Regiment - Stephen Herron Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Noël Carroll and Film
Book SynopsisMario Slugan is Postdoctoral Associate Fellow in the Department of Film and Television Studies and the Department of German Studies at the University of Warwick, UK researching film philosophy and film history. He is the author of Montage as Perceptual Experience: Berlin Alexanderplatz from Döblin to Fassbinder (2017) and the managing editor of an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Institutional Context 2. Film Theory 3.Assessment of Theory 4. Analytic and Cognitivist Debates 5. Interpretation and Filmmaking 6. Philosophy of Art Conclusion Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Portugals Global Cinema
Book SynopsisMariana Liz is a Research Fellow at ICS-ULisboa, in Portugal. She is the author of Euro-Visions: Europe in Contemporary Cinema (2016) and co-editor of Women's Cinema in Contemporary Portugal (2020) and The Europeanness of European Cinema: Identity, Meaning, Globalization (2015).Trade ReviewThis collection of essays on Portuguese cinema is both proof of how studies of Portuguese cinema by now can be seen as constituting an established field, as well as an indispensable tool for further inquiries into a growing body of works ... it is certain to be considered required reading for some time to come. * Portuguese Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Framing the Global Appeal of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema – Mariana Liz 1. Filming Narratives Becoming Events: Documentary and the ‘Emplotments’ of the Carnation Revolution – Luís Trindade 2. Our Beloved Month of August: Between the Filming of the Real and the Reality of Filming – Rui Gonçalves Miranda 3. Political Oliveira – Randal Johnson 4. Portugal, Europe and the World: Geopolitics and the Human Condition in Manoel de Oliveira’s Films – Carolin Overhoff Ferreira 5. Amália: Stories of a Singer and Tales of a National Cinema – Anthony de Melo 6. La Cage dorée: a Franco-Portuguese Comedy of Integration – Ginette Vincendeau 7. Portugal and Europe: Cinema and the City in a Postcolonial Context – Mariana Liz 8. Contextualizing Pedro Costa’s Digital Filmmaking – Nuno Barradas Jorge 9. Broken Links: The Cinema of Teresa Villaverde – Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin 10. Mysteries of Raúl Ruiz’s Portugal: Territory, Littoral and Memory Bridge – Michael Goddard 11. White Faces / Black Masks: The White Woman’s Burden in Pedro Costa’s Down to Earth – Hilary Owen 12. Light Drops: Portugal Critically Reviewing the Colonial Past? – Paul Melo e Castro 13. Colonialism as Fantastic Realism in Tabu – Lúcia Nagib 14. Luso-Brazilian Co-Productions: Rescue and Expansion – Natália Pinazza
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC To Boldly Go
Book SynopsisDjoymi Baker is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at RMIT University, Australia.With a background in the television industry, she writes on myth in popular culture, film and television genres, the ethics of non-human representation, and children's screen cultures. She is the co-author of The Encyclopedia of Epic Films (2014).Trade ReviewThis is lively, engaging academic writing at its very best … Summing Up: Highly recommended. * G.A. Foster, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Myth & Early US TV Chapter 2: The New Mythology Chapter 3: Star Trek Title Sequences As Cosmology Chapter 4: Fans, Bards, & Rituals Conclude… Then Reboot Afterword Index
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Disney Book Publishing Inc. The Imagineering Story
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Palgrave Macmillan Godzilla on My Mind
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Palgrave Macmillan JapanAmerica
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University Press of the Pacific Anarchism Its Philosophy and Scientific Basis
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Simon & Schuster One Scandalous Story
Table of ContentsContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Scandal in the News, Then and Now Whitewater, Where It All Began A Player in the Scandal Circus: January 13-15, 1998 "Something About Perjury": January 16, 1998 An Incredible Seven-Hour Dialogue: January 17, 1998 Enter Mr. Drudge: January 18, 1998 The Gathering Storm: January 19, 1998 The Ginsburg Quote: January 20, 1998 One Sexy Scoop: January 21, 1998 Stampede: January 22, 1998 Greenroom Chatterboxes: January 23, 1998 "Breaking News": January 24, 1998 Peekaboo: January 25, 1998 Gossip Masquerades As News Needed -- A Few Good Men and Women NotesIndex
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Simon And Schuster Group USA Pimpology
Book SynopsisKen Ivy reveals the unwritten rules that took him rfom the ghetto streets to the executive suites.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Spectralities Reader Ghosts and Haunting in Contemporary Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisMaría del Pilar Blanco is University Lecturer in Spanish American Literature and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination (2012). Esther Peeren is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, queer television, translation theory and the chronotopic dimension of diaspora. Her first book, entitled Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond appeared in 2007 with Stanford University Press and she also co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (2007). Currently, she is developing a project on spectrality in contemporary literature, television and film.Trade ReviewFrom Freud’s and Adorno’s rejection of the occult, to Derrida’s rehabilitation of the spectral turn, this volume presents a compelling argument for a continued interest in the noisy ghosts of our culture. Not content to limit their remit, the editors have chosen brilliant extracts that explore trauma, memory and history, tracing the spectral through literary theory and criticism, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and economics. It is a book which is strong enough to include an auto-critique of its structuring concept, while showing why that concept still remains vital today. An invaluable collection on the uncanny and the ghostly which should haunt its readers for years to come. * Dr. Pamela Thurschwell, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Sussex, UK *In this compelling anthology, editors María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren bring together core texts on the study of ghosts, spectres, and haunting as cultural manifestations ... A dynamic corpus of perspectives that challenges, and delights, with its range and depth -- Kirsten Møllegaard, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, USA * Folklore *The Spectralities Reader is a welcoming invitation to the recent séance with our unfinished past. Its editors prove to be perfect spirit guides, providing steely clarity to a realm that often befuddles and bewitches. -- Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Permissions María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Introduction: Conceptualizing Spectralities I. The Spectral Turn María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Spectral Turn / Introduction Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Spectrographies Colin Davis, État Présent: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, from Introduction: The Spectral Turn Julian Wolfreys, Preface: On Textual Haunting Roger Luckhurst, from The Contemporary London Gothic and the Limits of the “Spectral Turn” II. Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary / Introduction Avery F. Gordon, from her shape and his hand Achille Mbembe, from Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola Arjun Appadurai, Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai Peter Hitchcock, from ( ) of Ghosts III. The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media / Introduction Tom Gunning, To Scan a Ghost: The Ontology of Mediated Vision Jeffrey Sconce, from Introduction to Haunted Media Akira Mizuta Lippit, from Modes of Avisuality: Psychoanalysis – X-ray – Cinema David Toop, from Chair creaks, but no one sits there Allen S. Weiss, Preface: Radio Phantasms, Phantasmic Radio IV. Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race / Introduction Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from Ghostwriting Carla Freccero, Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past Sharon Patricia Holland, from Introduction: Raising the Dead Renée L. Bergland, from Indian Ghosts and American Subjects V. Possessions: Spectral Places María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Possessions: Spectral Places / Introduction Anthony Vidler, Buried Alive Ulrich Baer, To Give Memory a Place: Contemporary Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition David Matless, A Geography of Ghosts: The Spectral Landscapes of Mary Butts Giorgio Agamben, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living among Specters VI. Haunted Historiographies María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Haunted Historiographies / Introduction Judith Richardson, A History of Unrest Jesse Alemán, The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest Alexander Nemerov, Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History Index
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Continuum Publishing Corporation Digimodernism
Book SynopsisA bold new challenge to postmodern theory The increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical mode and the privileging of fingers and thumbs inherent in its use. Beginning with the Internet (digimodernism''s most important locus), then taking into account television, cinema, computer games, music, radio, etc., Kirby analyzes the emergence and implications of these diverse media, coloring our cultural landscape with new ideas on texts and how they work. This new kind of text produces distinctive forms of author and reader/viewer, which, in turn, lead to altered notions of authority, ''truth'' and legitimization. With users intervening physically in the creatiTrade Review[Digimodernism] provides a convincing explanation for the plethora of cultural phenomena and practices Kirby groups under digimodernism… Kirby’s concepts and examples offer a challenging new lens through which to investigate the world. -- Catriona Bonfiglioli, Media Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia * Discourse & Communication *Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Arguable Death of Postmodernism; 2. The Digimodernist Text; 3. A Prehistory of Digimodernism; 4. Digimodernism and Web 2.0; 5. Digimodernist Aesthetics; 6. Digimodernist Culture; 7. Toward a Digimodernist Society?; Conclusion - Endless; Notes; Works Cited.
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DK Star Wars How Not to Get Eaten by Ewoks and Other
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Armed with Abundance Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War
Book SynopsisPopular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma. By contrast, in Armed with Abundance, Meredith Lair focuses on the noncombat experiences of US soldiers in Vietnam, redrawing the landscape of the war so that swimming pools, ice cream, visits from celebrities, and other ""comforts"" share the frame with combat.
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Lulu.com Chemin de Grasse
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Superhero Costume
Trade ReviewThe book is a smoothly written, highly accessible and, above all, richly informative text that addresses a crucial gap in scholarly knowledge and offers some unexpected food for thought. * Studies in Costume and Performance *This is a very interesting book ... It provides a chain of interesting ideas that invite reflection on the relationship between the fact and fiction of superhero costumes, and give some useful hints of what to consider when designing costumes for superhero characters. * The Comics Grid *A rigorous and wide-ranging exploration of this important topic. * Mike Carey, comic book writer *Smart and accessible, Brownie and Graydon’s exploration of the superhero costume is a welcome addition to the fields of media, sociology, cultural studies and politics. Meticulous analysis of well-selected case studies is situated within a lively discussion of contemporary identity politics, reminding readers of popular culture’s important role in organizing our understanding of the world, and our place within it. * Helen Warner, University of East Anglia, UK *Accessible and academic — this research explores the familiar images of superhero appearances, diving into layers of meaning in the logos, tights, and vivid colors. What is revealed is the powerful relationship between the costume, the wearer, and the popular image. * Monica Sklar, University of Minnesota, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction Part 1: Origins and Evolution Chapter 1: Superman: Codifying the Superhero Wardrobe Physical Labour and the Construction of Masculinity Performance in Combat The Costume as Biography Superman the Brand The Archetype and his Imitators Chapter 2: Identity, Role and The Mask The Mask and Issues of Identity The Identity of the Mask Power, Authority and the Privileged Few Face-ism How Dress Defines Role The Deceit of the Masquerade Chapter 3: Evolution and Adaptation: Form v. Function ‘Sucked Into Silliness’ Real-life References: The historical and the sporting. Technology and Utility The Pursuit of Credibility: Hyperrealism and assemblage The Decline of the Costume Part 2: Identities and Ideals Chapter 4: Wearing The Flag: Patriotism and globalization Stars and Stripes… and Spandex Conflicted Identities: Nation v. Race Exoticism and Primitivism in Batman Incorporated Chapter 5: Dressing Up, Dressing Down: A Spectacle of Otherness, and the Ordinariness of the Civilian Alter-ego Performing Ordinariness Playing to the Reader Unmasking Clark Kent Self-Objectification Method in the Masquerade Chapter 6: Channelling The Beast Physiognomy and Anthrozoomorphism The Bird Men Ritual and the Animal Spirit Part 3: Harsh Realities Chapter 7: Superheroes and the Fashion of Being Unfashionable Fashion Outsiders The Gender Divide The Cycle of Superhero Fashion Evolution into Eternity Chapter 8: Superhero Cosplay Participatory Fandom / Imaginative Reconstruction ‘I’m your biggest fan’: Competition and Authenticity Spectatorship and the Cosplay Spectacle Sewing and Making: Masculinity and Manufacture Chapter 9: Real-life Superheroes Masked Vigilantes and The Reality of Costumes Masks and Manifestos Parent Power Part 4: Case Studies Introduction to Case Studies Chapter 10: Watchmen Deconstructing the Costume Men without Humanity Masks without Men Chapter 11: Iron Man Who is Iron Man? Automated Dressing The Hyper-abled Hero Chapter 12: X-Men Uniforms and Unity The Yellow ‘X’: Marking the Mutant ‘Other’ Notes Bibliography
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AuthorHouse Understanding Pakistani Culture
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Xlibris Corporation Development in Unity Volume One Compendium of Works of Daasebre Prof Emeritus Oti Boateng 1
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Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Rudolph Valentino Justin Bieber the Beatles and My Female Role Model 40 Poems
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University Press of Mississippi Godfather of the Music Business
Book SynopsisTells the story of one of the most notorious figures in the history of popular music, Morris Levy (1927-1990). At age nineteen, he cofounded the nightclub Birdland in Hell's Kitchen, which became the home for a new musical style, bebop. In 1957, he founded a record label, Roulette Records. Roulette featured many of the significant jazz artists who played Birdland but also scored top pop hits.Trade ReviewOne of Steven van Zandt’s picks for his ten favorite music books of 2016""[A] colorful account of that sinister svengali, Morris Levy. . . . Carlin’s concise narrative successfully arcs Levy’s rags to riches rise."" - Mike Jurkovic, Elmore""Scrupulously even-handed, Carlin eschews the sensational in favor of sober business history, meticulously detailing key aspects of Levy’s forty-year career."" - Jonathan Karp, Jewish Review of Books""Four stars. Richard Carlin’s brilliant research digs up intriguing stories. . . . Totally fascinating."" - Fred Dellar, Mojo""Richard Carlin has written an eye-opening, behind-the-scenes study of jazz and popular music through the fascinating (and checkered) career of Morris Levy. Digging deep into a variety of sources, Carlin has added fascinating, often highly personal, details to the history of popular music during the latter half of the twentieth century. This is a messy and revealing story, with an assortment of criminal types and sprinkled with many interesting photos."" - Ronald D. Cohen, editor of Alan Lomax, Assistant in Charge: The Library of Congress Letters, 1935–1945, published by University Press of Mississippi""The FBI always figured Morris Levy was the front man for the syndicate in the record business. This beloved, feared music man finally gets the epic biography he deserves in Richard Carlin’s fascinating Godfather of the Music Business."" - Joel Selvin, author of Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and Blues
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Oz behind the Iron Curtain Aleksandr Volkov and
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how the works of both L. Frank Baum and Aleksandr Volkov evolved from being popular children's literature and became compelling and enduring cultural icons in both the US and USSR / Russia, despite being dismissed and ignored by critics, scholars, and librarians for many years.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi China in the Mix Cinema Sound and Popular
Book SynopsisScarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing image, culture, and identity in Chinese film and media. China in the Mix fills a critical void with the first book on the sound, languages, scenery, media, and culture in post-Socialist China.
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University Press of Mississippi Hollywood Hates Hitler
Book SynopsisMany works of American film history only skim the surface of the 1941 investigation of Hollywood. In Hollywood Hates Hitler!, Chris Yogerst examines the years leading up to and through the Senate Investigation into Motion Picture War Propaganda, detailing isolationist senators' relationship with the America First movement.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Cards The Evolution and Power of Tarot
Book SynopsisOffers a review of the history of Tarot from its roots as a game to its supposed connection to ancient Egyptian magic, through its place in secret societies, and to its current use in meditation and psychology. Specific areas of popular culture - art, television, movies, and comics - are each given a chapter in which to survey the use of Tarot.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi TwentyFirstCentury Southern Writers New Voices
Book SynopsisAn anthology of critical essays, this volume introduces a new group of fiction writers from the American South. These fresh voices, like their twentieth-century predecessors, examine what it means to be a southerner in the modern world.
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University Press of Mississippi I Can Read It All by Myself
Book SynopsisIn the late 1950s, Ted Geisel took on the challenge of creating a book using only 250 unique first-grade words, something that aspiring readers would have both the ability and the desire to read. The result was an unlikely children''s classic, The Cat in the Hat. But Geisel didn''t stop there. Using The Cat in the Hat as a template, he teamed with Helen Geisel and Phyllis Cerf to create Beginner Books, a whole new category of readers that combined research-based literacy practices with the logical insanity of Dr. Seuss. The books were an enormous success, giving the world such authors and illustrators as P. D. Eastman, Roy McKie, and Stan and Jan Berenstain, and beloved bestsellers such as Are You My Mother?; Go, Dog. Go!; Put Me in the Zoo; and Green Eggs and Ham. The story of Beginner Books--and Ted Geisel''s role as president, policymaker, and editor of the line for thirty years--has been told briefly in various biographies of Dr. Seuss, but I Can Read It All by Myself: Th
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Robert Kirkman Conversations
Book SynopsisRobert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead, yet Kirkman represents much more than this single comic book title. Robert Kirkman: Conversations gives insight to his journey and explores technique, creativity, collaboration, and the business of comics as a multimedia phenomenon.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Black Panther Interrogating a Cultural
Book SynopsisBlack Panther is one of the most successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. Terence McSweeney explores the film from a range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to African and African American studies.
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University Press of Mississippi Selling Folk Music
Book SynopsisSelling Folk Music: An Illustrated History highlights commercial sources that reveal how folk music has been packaged and sold to a broad, shifting audience in the United States. Folk music has a varied and complex scope and lineage, including the blues, minstrel tunes, Victorian parlor songs, spirituals and gospel tunes, country and western songs, sea shanties, labor and political songs, calypsos, pop folk, folk-rock, ethnic, bluegrass, and more. The genre is of major importance in the broader spectrum of American music, and it is easy to understand why folk music has been marketed as America''s music. Selling Folk Music presents the public face of folk music in the United States via its commercial promotion and presentation throughout the twentieth century. Included are concert flyers; sheet music; book, songbook, magazine, and album covers; concert posters and flyers; and movie lobby cards and posters, all in their original colors. The 1964 hootenanny craze, for eTrade ReviewThe work will underline the importance of such sources and perhaps encourage their preservation.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi The Golden Age Musicals of Darryl F. Zanuck The
Book SynopsisThe first book devoted to the musicals of Daryl F. Zanuck. The volume spotlights how he placed his personal imprint on the genre and how - especially at Twentieth Century-Fox - he nurtured and showcased several blonde female stars who headlined the studio’s musicals.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Confessions of a Southern Beauty Queen
Book SynopsisProvides a peek into a world struggling through the civil rights movement, reeling from the death of JFK, and cutting loose with the musical innovations from Memphis and Detroit. This story, marked with tragedy and triumph, mirrors that of a growing and evolving South, where change never comes easy.
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Joe R. Lansdale
Book SynopsisBrings together interviews from newspapers, magazines, and podcasts conducted throughout Joe R. Lansdale’s career. The collection includes conversations between Lansdale and other noted peers like Robert McCammon and James Grady; two podcast transcripts that have never before appeared in print; and a brand-new interview, exclusive to the volume.
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Open Road Media Goodbye Natalie Goodbye Splendour
Book Synopsis The shocking true crime story of a beloved Hollywood star gone too soon—told by the captain of the boat on which Natalie Wood spent her last night. Goodbye Natalie, Goodbye Splendour is the long-awaited, detailed account of events that led to the mysterious death of Hollywood legend Natalie Wood off the coast of Catalina Island on November 28, 1981. It is a story told by a haunted witness to that fateful evening: Dennis Davern, the young captain of Splendour, the yacht belonging to Wood and husband Robert Wagner. Davern initially backed up Wagner’s version of that evening’s events through a signed statement prepared by attorneys. But Davern’s guilt over failing Natalie tormented him. Davern reached out to his old friend Marti Rulli, and little by little, at his own emotional pace, he revealed the details of his years in Wood’s employ, of the fateful weekend that Natalie died, and of the eve
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media
Book SynopsisThe emergence of social media in the early 21st century promised to facilitate new DIY cultural approaches, emphasizing participation and democratization. However, in recent years these platforms have been criticized as domineering and exploitative. For DIY musicians in scenes with lengthy histories of cultural resistance, is social media a powerful emancipatory and democratizing tool, or a new corporate antagonist to be resisted?DIY Music explores the significant challenges faced by artists navigating this fraught cultural landscape. How do anti-commercial musicians operate in the competitive, attention-seeking world of social media? How do they deal with a new abundance of data and metrics? How do they present their activity as cultural resistance? This book shows that a platform-enabled DIY approach is now the norm for a wide array of cultural practitioners; this DIY-as-default landscape threatens to depoliticize the call to do-it-yourself.Trade ReviewIn DIY Music and the Politics of Social Media, Jones presents a rich account of how social media is used in DIY music scenes and how scene participants committed to a genuine DIY ethos connected with political and cultural resistance negotiate the tensions and contradictions this produces. Going beyond presentation and analysis of the situation that exists, Jones presents ideas for new and innovative ways for music cultures to exist online that do not involve simply accepting the way of doing things presented to us by the major platforms. * Catherine Strong, Senior Lecturer, BA (Music Industry), RMIT University, Australia *Surely this is the definitive study of the politics of alternative music in our time. It’s also an agenda-setting contribution to studies of social media. Part of the book’s brilliance is that Jones writes so clearly and compellingly across such a wide range of challenging areas, including musical aesthetics, social theory, internet studies, the cultural importance of locality, and debates among musicians and fans. * David Hesmondhalgh, Professor of Media, Music and Culture, University of Leeds, UK *Table of Contents1. The problem 2. The past: a history of DIY music in three case studies 3. The personal: intimacy and identity work on social media 4. The players: gatekeeping, authority, and ownership within the scene 5. The public: elucidating difference and performing politics 6. The popular: metrics, measurements, and the DIY imagination 7. The platform: self-sufficiency and the political economy of social media 8. The plan: envisioning alternative platforms
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Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Adult Themes
Book SynopsisBetween the late 1950s and mid-1970s, British cinema experienced an explosion of X-certificated films. In parallel with an era marked by social, political, and sexual ferment and upheaval, British filmmakers and censors pushed and guarded the permissible limits of violence, horror, revolt, and sexuality on screen. Adult Themes is the first volume entirely devoted to the exploration of British X certificate films across this transformative period, since identified as the long 1960s'. How did the British Board of Film Censors, harried on one side by the censorious and moralistic, and beset on the other by demands for greater artistic freedom, oversee and manage this provocative body of films? How did the freedoms and restrictions of the X certificate hasten, determine, and reshape post-war British cinema into an artistic, exploitational, and unapologetically adult medium? Contributors to this collection consider these central questions as they take us to swinging parties, on youthTrade ReviewAdult Themes offers a full range of fascinating insights into Britain’s film culture across the long 1960s, specifically the deployment of the X certificate as a means of mapping previously uncharted territory in an increasingly permissive social climate. Taking in such varied films as Peeping Tom, The Party’s Over, Secrets of a Windmill Girl, 10 Rillington Place and Zee and Co, made and released during John Trevelyan’s liberalised leadership of the British Board of Film Censors, the twelve chapters (plus a thoughtful editors’ introduction) provide new perspectives on how films of this era responded to, mediated, and sometimes anticipated attitudinal change - or directly challenged the status quo – by means of the new possibilities granted to them by the ‘X’. Highly recommended reading for those interested in British cultural history, the Sixties, censorship and regulation, and the always contested cinematic terrains of sex and violence, crime and horror. * Melanie Williams, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK *I well remember the British X certificate and how I sneaked into my first one -- Circus of Horrors (1960) -- in those distant days of yesteryear. These co-editors and their contributors have performed an indispensable job in covering such a wide area and providing information that will form indispensable reading for generations to come. Well-researched, expertly written in clear and concise ways and attuned to significant issues of culture and history, this will become a definitive work in this area for years to come. * Tony Williams, Professor of Film and Literature, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: ‘Passed As Only Suitable for Exhibition to Adult Audiences: X’ Anne Etienne (University College Cork, Ireland), Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton, UK), and Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) 1. Green Penguin Films Kim Newman (Independent Scholar) 2. The Commercial Idealism of Controversial Cinema: Raymond Stross and the Censorship of The Flesh Is Weak Christopher Weedman (Middle Tennessee State University, USA) 3. Colour, Realism and the X Certificate: Horrors of the Black Museum and Peeping Tom Sarah Street (University of Bristol, UK) 4. Mediating Desire: Karel Reisz’s Adaptation of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning Simon Lee (Texas State University, USA) 5. Lolita, Censorship, and Controversy: The Archival Remains of the Dispute Between Canon L. J. Collins and Stanley Kubrick James Fenwick (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 6. Paternalism, Bohemianism, and the X Certificate: The Party’s Over and the Pre-Swinging Set Kevin M. Flanagan (George Mason University, USA) 7. Mediatising Modernity: Femininity in the X-Rated Swinging London Film Moya Luckett (Texas State University, USA) 8. What Are the X-Rated Secrets of the Windmill Girls? Adrian Smith (Independent Scholar) 9. The Potent Sexuality of the Middle-Aged Woman: Alice Aisgill, Karen Stone, Zee Blakeley and Ruby Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London, UK) 10. Censoring Carmilla: Lesbian Vampires in Hammer Horror Claire Henry (Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand) 11. ‘The horror film to end all horror films’: 10 Rillington Place and the British Board of Film Censors’ Shifting Policy on True Crime TimSnelson (University of East Anglia, UK) 12. Class and Classification: The British Board of Film Censors’ Reception of Horror at the Time of the Festival of Light Benjamin Halligan (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Contributors Index
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