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Book SynopsisCelebrities in the United States have drawn significant attention and resources to the complex issue of human traffickinga subject of feminist concernand they are often criticized for promoting sensationalized and simplistic understandings of the issue. In this comprehensive analysis of celebrities' anti-trafficking activism, however, Samantha Majic finds that this phenomenon is more nuanced: even as some celebrities promote regressive issue narratives and carceral solutions, others use their platforms to elevate more diverse representations of human trafficking and feminist analyses of gender inequality. Lights, Camera, Feminism? thus argues that we should understand celebrities as multilevel political actors whose activism is shaped and mediated by a range of personal and contextual factors, with implications for feminist and democratic politics more broadly.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: Celebrities, Feminism, and Human Trafficking 1 • Theory and Methods: Celebrity Feminism, Performance, and Political Representation 2 • Performing Feminism: Celebrities’ Anti-trafficking Activism, 2000–2016 3 • White Saviors and Activist Mothers: Ashley Judd, Jada Pinkett Smith, and the Sex Trafficking of Women and Girls 4 • Latin Lovers and Tech Guys: Ricky Martin, Ashton Kutcher, and Variations of Male Celebrity Feminism 5 • Anti-trafficking Ambassadors: Julia Ormond, Mira Sorvino, and the UNODC Conclusion: Celebrity, Power, and Political Accountability Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisThis text brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last 20 years, centring on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture.Trade Review"In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once again that he is one of our leading public political intellectuals. Every page is filled with the passion of his commitment both to social and economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collection combines insightful readings of how specific films operate in the current social context and original reflections on the central theoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studies today. This is a book that will move both students and teachers." Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics. In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasure and power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are always intertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers a refreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity of intellectual imagination. This is real cultural criticism." Sut Jhally, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Breaking in to the Movies: An Introduction. Part I: Reclaiming the Political in Popular Culture. 1. Norma Rae: Character, Class, and Culture. 2. Hollywood Film and the Challenge of Neofascist Culture. 3. Lina Wertmuller: Film and the Dialectic of Liberalism. 4. Looking for Mr. Goodbar: Gender and the Politics of Pleasure. Part II: Hollywood Film and the War on Youth. 5. Slacking Off : Border Youth and Postmodern Education. 6. Culture, Class, and Pedagody in Dead Poets Society. 7. Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films. 8. The Politics of Pedagogy, Gender, and Whiteness in Dangerous Minds. 9. Media Panics and the War Against "Kids": Larry Clark and the Politics of Diminished Hopes. Part III: Race and the Culture of Violence in Hollywood Films. 10. Racism and the Aesthetic of Hyper-real Violoence: Pulp Fiction and other Visual Tragedies. 11. Multiculturalism and the Cultural Politics of Race in 187. 12. Brutalized Bodies and Emasculated Politics: Fight Club, Consumerism, and Masculine Violence. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis text brings together Henry A. Giroux's best-known essays from the last 20 years, centring on important subjects on the cultural studies and pop culture agenda, including violence, race, class, gender, identity, politics, and children's culture.Trade Review"In this collection of essays, Henry Giroux demonstrates once again that he is one of our leading public political intellectuals. Every page is filled with the passion of his commitment both to social and economic justice and to theoretical rigor. This collection combines insightful readings of how specific films operate in the current social context and original reflections on the central theoretical and methodological issues facing cultural studies today. This is a book that will move both students and teachers." Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Henry Giroux is one of our most penetrating cultural critics. In Breaking in to the Movies, he demonstrates how pleasure and power, entertainment and public pedagogy, are always intertwined in the culture of global capitalism. Giroux offers a refreshing approach in a field often characterized by a paucity of intellectual imagination. This is real cultural criticism." Sut Jhally, University of MassachusettsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Breaking in to the Movies: An Introduction. Part I: Reclaiming the Political in Popular Culture. 1. Norma Rae: Character, Class, and Culture. 2. Hollywood Film and the Challenge of Neofascist Culture. 3. Lina Wertmuller: Film and the Dialectic of Liberalism. 4. Looking for Mr. Goodbar: Gender and the Politics of Pleasure. Part II: Hollywood Film and the War on Youth. 5. Slacking Off : Border Youth and Postmodern Education. 6. Culture, Class, and Pedagody in Dead Poets Society. 7. Children's Culture and Disney's Animated Films. 8. The Politics of Pedagogy, Gender, and Whiteness in Dangerous Minds. 9. Media Panics and the War Against "Kids": Larry Clark and the Politics of Diminished Hopes. Part III: Race and the Culture of Violence in Hollywood Films. 10. Racism and the Aesthetic of Hyper-real Violoence: Pulp Fiction and other Visual Tragedies. 11. Multiculturalism and the Cultural Politics of Race in 187. 12. Brutalized Bodies and Emasculated Politics: Fight Club, Consumerism, and Masculine Violence. Index.

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Book SynopsisInformed by theories of nostalgia, collective memory, cultural nationalism, and gender, this book draws on the author's extensive fieldwork in probing the practice of identity-making and the processes at work when Japan becomes Japan.

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Book SynopsisIn this exploration of the 20th-century civil rights and black power eras, Martin uses cultural politics as a lens through which to understand the African-American freedom struggle. In freedom songs, in the exuberance of an Aretha Franklin concert, in Faith Ringgold’s exploration of race and sexuality, the personal and social became the political.Trade ReviewWaldo E. Martin, Jr. draws on the development of postwar black aesthetic-cultural forms to read African-American political history. He argues that what developed between the 1940s and 1970s was a ‘distinctive black cultural politics’ where culture and politics overlapped and merged… He keeps the reader focused on his central themes of hope and possibility for black political and cultural struggle between 1940 and 1979 and the drive for freedom, equality, and justice underlying cultural politics and the political culture… No Coward Soldiers constitutes a strong addition to cultural studies and analyses of African-American politics alike. While it doesn’t seek to replace more detailed historical studies of black power and civil rights that already exist, it does provide a new outlook on those histories. It is indeed an important book that ought to be read by academics and students with an interest in either or both disciplines. -- Kalbir Shukra * Ethnic and Racial Studies *No Coward Soldiers…is a fine representation of contemporary efforts in history, ethnic studies, and American studies to examine the cultural dimensions of politics, the politicization of culture, and the interaction between the two arenas… The work is a remarkable synthesis in its analysis of different facets of black culture. Martin’s canvas is rather extensive. Besides examining the artistic and political aspects of blues, spirituals, jazz, soul, rock and roll, funk, and hip-hop, he looks at sports heroes and the works of artists in different media. -- Douglas Henry Daniels * Journal of American History *Through concise and cogent observations grounded in wide-ranging interdisciplinary research, Waldo Martin’s No Coward Soldiers makes a singular contribution to the literature on African-American life since World War II. Devoting special attention to music and other aspects of popular culture, Martin illuminates many of the central concerns that remain unresolved as Americans continue to debate the meaning of race. This insightful book deserves a wide readership. -- Clayborne Carson, editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. and author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960sWaldo Martin takes up the charge being led by a growing number of scholars who understand the symbiotic connections between the Civil Rights/Black Power movements and black expressive culture in a myriad of forms. Throughout the highs and lows of their freedom struggle, black Americans—in song and dance, poetry and painting, sermon and sculpture—constructed mighty cultural armature on the front lines of a social revolution. With rigor and verve, No Coward Soldiers captures the richness and complexity of that historical moment. -- Deborah E. McDowell, University of Virginia, author of Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin

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Book SynopsisLinking the study of business and politics, Haynes reconstructs the passionate and protracted debate over the development of the book trade in nineteenth-century France. In tracing the contest over literary production in France, Haynes emphasizes the role of the Second Empire in enacting—but also in limiting—press freedom and literary property.Trade ReviewIn this impressively researched and clearly written book on the publishing industry in nineteenth-century France, Haynes argues for the surprising role of the Second Empire in liberalizing the literary market, the centrality of state policy rather than market forces in the deregulation of the industry, and the dynamic role of entrepreneurs in lobbying for reforms. Lost Illusions is an original and important study of the transformation of the literary marketplace from the First Empire to the Third Republic. -- Gregory S. Brown, University of Nevada, Las VegasTable of Contents* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgments * Introduction: The Dawn of the Information Marketplace * The Birth of the Publisher * The Battle between Corporatists and Liberals * Laurent-Antoine Pagnerre and the Publishing Coterie * The Cercle de la Librairie * Louis Hachette and the Defense of the Publisher * The Divorce between State and Market * Epilogue: The Effects of Liberalization * Notes * Index

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Book SynopsisIn Framing Muslims: Stereotyping and Representation after 9/11, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin dissect how stereotypes that depict Muslims as an inherently problematic presence in the West are constructed, deployed, and circulated in the public imagination, producing an immense gulf between representation and a considerably more complex reality.Trade ReviewIn this rich and methodical deconstruction of the thick frame that surrounds nearly all discussions about Muslim minorities in British and American culture today, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin have exposed the dark power of stereotyping Muslims to the light by scrutinizing everything from "terror" television shows to Muslim leaders' own stereotypes. As an example of cultural studies, the book is exemplary. As an intervention into some of the most urgent political debates of our day, it is both compelling and necessary. -- Moustafa Bayoumi, author of How Does It Feel To Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in AmericaAbsorbing, disquieting, and compelling, Framing Muslims alerts us to the new and alarming ways that, in the aftermath of 9/11, 'Muslims' have come to represent a political problem waiting to be solved. With clarity, urgency and forensic skill, Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin explore and celebrate ways out of 'the frame' while unravelling the regulatory agendas of fanatics and liberal reformers alike that are currently breathing new life into discredited stereotypes. Essential wisdom for all who care and are daring to write about Islam, racism, and the politics of commodified multiculturalism today. -- Gerald MacLean, co-author of Britain and the Islamic WorldFraming Muslims is an enlightening book. It is sure to make us more critical of the power and influence of media in shaping our views on Muslims and Islam. Peter Morey and Amina Yaqin deserve applause for their worthy effort. -- Joseph Richard Preville * Saudi Gazette *Groundbreaking...Drawing on their diverse backgrounds in English and Urdu literary and cultural studies, Morey and Yaqin examine...[how] veils, beards, men at prayer, and minarets stand in for Muslims in all their heterogeneity and complexity...[An] illuminating work. -- Claire Chambers * Times Higher Education *The book makes a notable contribution by going beyond events in the U.S. to examine reactions in Great Britain to the 2005 bombings of the London public transportation system. The authors take a psychoanalytic approach to their examination of the sources of stereotype and negative depiction, thus offering an interesting perspective that had not previously been fully explored. Furthermore, they consider the impact of positive stereotyping. They conclude that both positive and negative depictions of Muslims have revolved around religion, tradition, modernity, and 'clash of civilizations.' -- G. C. David * Choice *

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Book SynopsisIn Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first centuries. Frost explores how various constituencies have repeatedly molded and deployed representations of individual athletes, revealing that sports stars are socially constructed phenomena.

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Book SynopsisGreil Marcus delves into three distinct episodes in the history of American commonplace song and shows how each one manages to convey the uncanny sense that it was written by no one. In these seemingly anonymous productions, we discover three different ways of talking about the United States, and three separate nations within its borders.Trade Review[This] volume find[s] Marcus doing what he does best: hearing what you didn’t hear or nailing precisely what you did. -- David Cantwell * New Yorker *[Marcus’s] book is a prose poem describing American popular culture’s embodiment in the media. -- Nigel Smith * Times Literary Supplement *[Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations is] wonderful: emblematic of Marcus’s interest in how words and melodies find truths that survive the centuries, or appear likely to… He just makes your spine tingle with the feeling he has for music and the things he can perceive in it. -- Danny Eccleston * Mojo *Superb. -- Rob Sheffield * Rolling Stone *Greil Marcus may be the single most influential American music critic of the past half century. A compelling stylist and seemingly omnivorous listener, reader, and viewer of Americana, he teases out echoes of American art and of U.S. history’s spiritual dimensions to find a depth in pop forms that few others seek as seriously… Brisk and brilliant. -- Josh Garrett-Davis * Los Angeles Review of Books *Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations is elegant and focused… [It] examines the commonplace as a subject and a way of being, as a language anyone might use and a way of listening that’s true to ordinary life and all its plainness, order, customs, and moments of the unexpected. The ordinary begins with performance, the singer’s work, and in Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations, Marcus is keenly attuned to the details of that work—to words but also to sounds, the way notes drop off, rhythms shift, the way a guitar (Wiley’s) can be ‘round, heavy, a stone that in an instant sinks to the bottom of a lake.’ …Few risk writing this way about music anymore; it’s alien, almost obscene to give inflection the weight of meaning it receives here. -- Robert Loss * Los Angeles Review of Books *Wildly, lyrically, Marcus writes in Three Songs of seemingly ‘authorless’ compositions—songs by no one that belong to everyone, that change as they appear and reappear with new interpreters… In this alluring mystico-musicology, songs bend singers to their disembodied will, not vice versa. -- Sara Marcus * New Republic *Greil Marcus walks a fine line between grand, romantic, almost dreamy poetic prose and analysis. The enterprise could easily have turned purple, but he does it with consummate skill: distinctive and readable, capturing the sense of a nation haunted by its songs. And the notion that the ultimate accolade might be an artist’s work acquiring anonymity is all the more resonant in an age of cheap fame. -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald *Three Songs, Three Singers, Three Nations is a beautiful and hypnotic treatise about how songs journey from origin to ether, from nowhere to everywhere, from a single voice to a common one. As always, Marcus writes with an exhilarating musicality that posits the reader inside the notes, directly upon the sonic road itself, at once both visceral and transcendent. -- Carrie BrownsteinGreil Marcus remains pop’s most visionary writer, following the thread that flows like the ghostly Mississippi beneath America’s musical traditions. He’s always essential reading. -- Bruce Springsteen

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Book SynopsisThe rise of webtoons has altered the Korean cultural market due to the growth of transmedia storytellingthe flow of a story from the original text to various other platforms, such as films, television, and games. Understanding Korean Webtoon Culture demonstrates the dynamics between structural forces and textual engagement in global media.Trade ReviewAs the first book-length study of webtoons, Jin’s monograph has a lot to offer to scholars and students interested in cultural globalization and media convergence in relation to digital technologies. The book is well-written and a joy to read. Any reader, with or without relative academic background, can benefit from it. -- Haixia Man * International Journal of Communication *

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Book SynopsisWhen Jimi Hendrix died, the idea of a black man playing lead guitar in a rock band seemed exotic. Yet ten years earlier, Chuck Berry had stood among the most influential rock and roll performers. Why did rock and roll become white? Jack Hamilton challenges the racial categories that distort standard histories of rock music and the 60s revolution.Trade ReviewFrom Little Richard and Chuck Berry to the Dominoes, Ike Turner, and Howlin’ Wolf, rock and roll’s founding figures were African American, yet ‘rock’ as we know and hear it now is coded white…In some of his sharpest passages, Hamilton shows how much rockism’s whiteness depended on [the] confining ideas of blackness…He contributes a new and valuable piece to a larger and still contentious project: the struggle against the essentialization of racial and ethnic identity. -- Colin Vanderburg * Los Angeles Review of Books *Ambitious and rewarding… Just around Midnight seeks to tell the story of [black] erasure [from rock ‘n’ roll], and it does so quite compellingly by bringing together artists and songs that our implicitly segregationist narratives have encouraged us to keep apart. -- Kevin J. H. Dettmar * Chronicle of Higher Education *Extraordinary…Hamilton doesn’t pretend to have all the answers in Just around Midnight but he asks all the right questions. It challenges so much of what we’ve taken for granted about rock and roll history that one reading won’t do…Any future book that deals with the social and racial aspects of popular music in the 20th century will have to contend with Just around Midnight. The bar has been raised. -- Adam Ellsworth * Arts Fuse *Brilliant…[A] valuable engagement with the unheard narrative of race in rock and roll. -- Emma Rees * Times Higher Education *To the age-old cries that ‘rock is dead,’ Jack Hamilton’s book says, ‘Think again!’ Just around Midnight considers the often-elided racial mythologies, cross-cultural intimacies, and racially-charged aesthetic obfuscations that haunt the foundations of American popular music culture. For anyone who remains easily seduced by the romance of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame canon-building, this book is a necessary read. -- Daphne Brooks, Yale UniversityThis new listening to the black-and-white racial politics of rock in the 1960s is full of rich insights, provocative thinking, and persuasive writing. As the revolutions of critical race and ethnic studies continue to reveal new generations of critics born in their wake, revisitations of rock history like this one will be crucial to rethinking the musical past. -- Josh Kun, University of Southern CaliforniaAs musically detailed as it is theoretically expansive, Just around Midnight reveals that popular music of the 1960s was defined by more vibrant interracial collaborations and more violent anti-black erasures than we could have imagined. This is a beautifully written and provocatively argued work of intellect, heart, and soul. -- Emily Lordi, University of Massachusetts AmherstAs Jack Hamilton makes clear in this exceptionally perceptive work, the most common way to talk about race in rock music is to not talk about it at all…Hamilton’s text is bold, sophisticated, and brilliant. For anyone looking for a book challenging conventional narratives of music history, this is a fantastic candidate. -- Joshua Friedberg * PopMatters *

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Book SynopsisEmerging in the 1920s, the Japanese pop scene gained a devoted following, and the soundscape of the next four decades became the audible symbol of changing times. In the first English-language history of this Japanese industry, Hiromu Nagahara connects the rise of mass entertainment with Japan’s transformation into a postwar middle-class society.Trade ReviewTokyo Boogie-Woogie is a wonderfully insightful and nuanced history that traces the emergence of Japan’s media-saturated popular culture within the nation’s development as a modern, middle-class society. It will make a strong contribution to the field of modern Japanese history and pop music and pop culture studies. An impressive work. -- Christine Yano, author of Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek across the PacificTokyo Boogie-Woogie will have you stomping your feet in applause. This masterful history portrays the Japanese music industry as a major force crafting popular consciousness between 1920 and 1950. As Nagahara shows, intellectuals and government censors on both the right and the left soon got in on the act, exploiting the political potential of popular tunes in unexpected ways. -- Julia Adeney Thomas, author of Reconfiguring Modernity: Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political IdeologyFar more than a history of popular song, Tokyo Boogie-Woogie offers a trenchant examination of the growth of Japanese mass culture in the context of the complex and intimate relationship between industry, elite critics, and the regulatory state. Among many surprising episodes, cases such as that of popular music censor-cum-connoisseur Ogawa Chikagorō, or the performance of the American World War I song ‘Over There’ at a Japanese state event in 1943, cast the issue of wartime censorship in an entirely new light. This is a landmark work of twentieth-century Japanese cultural history. -- Jordan Sand, author of Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces, Local Histories, Found ObjectsAlways stimulating. -- James McNair * The National *Nagahara provides a well-documented study of how modern Japanese pop media developed a foundation in the masses that neither the government nor critics could control…Tokyo Boogie-Woogie stands as a well-developed cultural history of Japanese popular culture as the nation progressed through modernity. -- Gregory Smith * PopMatters *Highly informative and lucidly written…Will offer many insights to students of contemporary popular and media culture, who will find it particularly useful for thinking about the genealogical force of the idea of ‘popular music’ as a socially powerful truth. -- Shunsuke Nozawa * Monumenta Nipponica *

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Book SynopsisIn its early days, rap was understood as the poetry of the “inner city,” which usually meant New York. Few expected anything as hard-edged as gangsta rap to emerge from Los Angeles, home of surf and sun. Felicia Viator tells the story of LA’s self-styled “ghetto reporters,” whose music forced America to see an urban crisis it preferred to ignore.Trade Review[Viator’s] understanding of the hip-hop music and the musicians that first emerged from the streets of L.A. in the ’80s is deep and profound. * LA Weekly *Much more than the story of the creation of gangsta rap, the rise of NWA, or the history of early West coast rap in general. It’s a cultural history. What one is left with at the book’s end is the powerful idea of how art can be formed out of pain and suffering, and how injustice can be the crushing weight that can incite change. * Under the Radar *Zero[es] in on how economic devastation and militarized policing bred a subgenre whose extreme lyrics were fueled by indigence…A fast-paced and engaging read for music fans, history buffs, and anyone with an interest in social justice…Eye-opening. * KQED *Rattling hatchback trunks and terrifying suburban parents, gangsta rap went harder and further than everything that preceded it. Suddenly, everyone was listening and the media wagons began to circle…Viator excavates this music's unique political, social, and mercantile origins. -- Raymond Cummings * The Wire *This book was really fun to read…[Viator] gives a comprehensive, interesting view of how this genre came to change our culture. * Los Angeles Review of Books Radio Hour *Viator’s conclusions about the cultural impact of Hip-Hop resonate today—they are accurate, timely, and timeless… By confronting the harsh realities of LA race relations and police brutality from the ’60s to the ’80s, To Live and Defy in LA sees Gangsta Rap as an important way to understand how systemic racism has worked (and works) in America today. -- Deanna Costa * Arts Fuse *Rich with drama and details, To Live and Defy in LA tells the story of Los Angeles hip-hop during the eighties, a much-mythologized but often misunderstood period. -- Hua Hsu, author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure across the Pacific[An] engaging history of gangsta rap’s emergence and eventual commercial success. -- Katherine Rye Jewell * The Metropole *There have been other gangsta rap histories, but what makes this one excellent are the many candid stories about crucial groups like the Coalition Against Police Abuse, Macola Records, and KDAY 1580 AM radio. This is a deep dive into a legendary era that is often misunderstood. * L.A. Taco *Viator’s book is more than a history of hip-hop, it’s a meticulously researched cultural and political portrait of Los Angeles at a pivotal time. * Epiphany *Viator explains how the rapid rise of West Coast rap became engulfed in the culture wars of the late 1980s and 1990s and shaped perceptions of the 1992 LA uprising. * New Books Network *This book is smoothly written and is a useful primer in outlining the rise of a form of music that has come to define South Los Angeles nationally, if not globally. -- Gerald Horne * Southern California Quarterly *Shows how LA rap was, from its beginning, an artistic response to police power…A thorough and timely study of an important intersection between music and social conditions, because the ascendance of gangsta rap since the 1980s reflects the rise of militarized policing over that same span, and we’ve seen all too clearly in recent years why it continues to resonate. -- Nicholas Stoia * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *A deep analysis of cultural practices in the spatial and political context in which these sources emerged…Viator offers a blueprint for study that leaves room for historians to address the significance of other artists, like Tupac Shakur, and aspects of the culture that further illustrate rap’s force in late twentieth-century American popular culture and politics. -- Austin McCoy * Pacific Historical Review *A tour de force of novel material and insights, combined with convincing argumentation for why these subjects matter. To Live and Defy in LA is a thorough and compelling contribution to hip-hop history. -- James G. McNally * Journal of Popular Music Studies *

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Book SynopsisWesterners tend to equate political action with revolution and open criticism, leading to concerns that the less outspoken citizens of nonliberal societies are brainwashed, complicit, or paralyzed by fear. Jing Wang shatters this myth, showing how online activists in China are quietly building powerful coalitions for incremental social change.Trade ReviewDrawing on firsthand experience and rich data, The Other Digital China reveals a vast gray zone of nonconfrontational activism for social change. This mundane activism is propelled by social media and practiced by NGOs, entrepreneurs, state actors, programmers, and ordinary citizens. Written in spirited prose, this important book brings provocative new perspectives into the debates on digital politics and society. -- Guobin Yang, University of PennsylvaniaA very important book. Jing Wang’s exploration of how certain kinds of NGOs are using China’s hyperactive media tools to engage in novel forms of social action ‘for good’ is extremely innovative and provides wonderfully rich empirical descriptions of contemporary social life. Everyone who cares about politics and media systems in China should be paying attention to what Wang calls ‘Activism 2.0.’ -- Judith B. Farquhar, University of ChicagoThis book offers a unique and timely perspective on social media and civil society in China. The author builds on her own experiences to show how the use of digital technologies has given rise to new forms of civic engagements. Jing Wang provides ample examples of how the post-1980s and post-1990s generations are drawn to the culture of ‘tech4good’ and social media for social good thanks to the affordances of new technologies. -- Marina Svensson, Lund UniversityOffers a way forward for those in China—and perhaps elsewhere—who want to make progress within a totalitarian state…Truly thought provoking in a way that few books are. -- Kentaro Toyama * China Review International *[Those] wishing to understand and participate in future social change in China will find this book an invaluable roadmap. -- Jacob Pagano * Critical Inquiry *A timely documentation of the rapidly changing world of Chinese civic life aided by the social media. -- Dan Chen * Journal of Chinese Political Science *

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Book SynopsisThere are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. And two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. From McDonald's and Coca-Cola to free markets and foreign policy, this book looks closely at the conflicts and contradictions of France's relationship to American politics and culture.Trade Review"[R]equired reading for anyone interested in relations between the world's two oldest republics."--Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs "[D]emonstrates with chilling clarity the pattern of US hegemony."--David Hanley, Times Higher Education "In this erudite study examining Franco-American relationships in the 1980s-90s on foreign policy, economics, and popular culture, Kuisel shows that US domestic and foreign policies were a deterrent to France's national identity."--Choice "Richard Kuisel does a masterful job of highlighting and trying to make sense of numerous paradoxes surrounding the unique and complex French fears about Americanization at the turn of the millennium."--Sophie Meunier, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "[E]ven the most traditional practitioners of U.S. diplomatic history, and likewise U.S. foreign-policy makers, will have much to learn from this revealing and masterful account of the French 'ways.'"--Alessandro Brogi, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "[T]his is a marvelous book, a work of imaginative and sustained scholarship, bold and far-reaching in its scope, shrewd and incisive in its interpretation, a book in which the heady accumulation of detail in no way interferes with the elaboration of a clear big picture. One might question some aspects of certain conclusions, but there is no getting away from the fact that Kuisel is the absolute master of his subject. This is a book which will become a reference for scholars of France for generations to come."--Jolyon Howorth, H-Diplo Roundtable Reviews "Kuisel offers a highly engaging and meticulously documented analysis... Kuisel is ... very persuasive in elucidating why the USA serves as an indispensable foil for France."--Gino Raymond, French Studies "In a fitting sequel to his classic Seducing the French, Richard Kuisel offers a wide ranging and thought-provoking look at the final two decades of a century-long 'asymmetrical rivalry' between France and the United States. His portrait of the eighties and nineties--focusing especially on diplomatic, economic, and cultural conflicts--raises important questions about how scholars conceptualize anti-Americanism and its impact on policy making."--Richard Langer, Diplomatic History "Kuisel's superbly researched analysis adds depth and texture to big and small instances of French impatience with the unquestioned--and unquestioning might of the world's only remaining superpower at the close of the last century. American travelers will meet the book with knowing smiles, no doubt, while academics will be grateful for gaining perspective on the occasional grilling inflicted by French colleagues."--Doina Pasca Harsanyi, Historian "[F]uture historians ... will be indebted to Kuisel for this readable yet detailed analysis of French views on American politics, economics, and popular culture in the late twentieth century... [H]is long and meticulously researched work ... will become, as are his other works, a must-read for historians of society, culture, and diplomacy in the late twentieth-century."--Rebecca Pulju, H-France Forum "The French Way as a very important contribution... Kuisel offers a rich, even colorful, narrative of political history, international relations ... business and, to some extent cultural, history. That is no small feat... Kuisel deserves much praise for taking on a topic and an era that most of the rest of us, slipping back and forth between history and memory, experienced and therefore feel all too qualified to assess."--Stephen L. Harp, H-France Forum "Richard Kuisel clearly belongs to the most prominent American authors who are responsible for our current state of historical knowledge... Kuisel's book, which is conceptually challenging, methodologically sound, and empirically reliable, has much to offer."--Helke Rausch, H-France ForumTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii A Note on Anti-Americanism xix Chapter 1: America a la Mode: The 1980s 1 Chapter 2: Anti-Americanism in Retreat: Jack Lang, Cultural Imperialism, and the Anti-Anti-Americans 45 Chapter 3: Reverie and Rivalry: Mitterrand and Reagan-Bush 99 Chapter 4: The Adventures of Mickey Mouse, Big Mac, and Coke in the Land of the Gauls 151 Chapter 5: T aming the Hyperpower: The 1990s 209 Chapter 6: The French Way: Economy, Society, and Culture in the 1990s 271 Chapter 7: The Paradox of the Fin de Siecle: Anti-Americanism and Americanization 329 Reflections 377 Notes 391 Index 473

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the 2019 PROSE Award in Textbook / Social Sciences, Association of American Publishers""Winner of the AAPOR Book Award, American Association for Public Opinion Research""Salganik is one of the first natural-born computational social scientists, a sociologist whose doctoral work was one of the early landmark projects in the field. Bit by Bit is 90% textbook, 10% biography, putting into personal context issues that Salganik was among the first to wrestle with. . . . The text is clearly written--even breezy, in parts. It puts the reader in the shoes of the researcher: What decisions were made, why, and were those the best choices? It is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or graduate class in methodology, with a rigorous, mathematical appendix and a range of useful problems at the conclusion of each chapter."---David Lazer, Science"This is a book to return to time and again. . . . Bit by Bit should be widely read by those engaging in social research, as well as beyond."---Farida Vis, Times Higher Education"An enticing and important field guide to the new frontier of digital social research that will be of interest whether one is trying to figure out how to do more evidence-based policymaking or simply sell more toothpaste online. Impeccably organized and beautifully written in clear and accessible prose, the book doubles as a methods textbook for university students studying social and data sciences (or any field where research is at the center)."---Beth Noveck, Forbes"Given the book’s breadth, it is a recommended read for all scholars interested in the role that the internet and big data can play in social research."---Tatsiana Amosaya, Canadian Journal of Sociology"The implications and potential for social science arising from the availability of large amounts of data have been comparatively overlooked. This book provides a welcome insight into what can be achieved, and also an exemplar curriculum for graduate studies."---Thomas King, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society"A timely and important must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of social science and big data."---Magdalena Wojcieszak, International Journal of Press/Politics"Salganik offers what is truly a Swiss Army knife for learning and teaching computational social science. The book is equal parts explanation of what computational social science is, lessons on how to do computational social science, and recommendations for how computational social science should grow as an interdisciplinary field."---Marshall A. Taylor, Teaching Sociology"This is an easy review. Buy this book. No matter your competence in data analysis, your experience in running experiments, or your ability to understand research papers, you will find nuggets of information that will be useful for your development as an economist – professional or not."---Ian Bright, Society of Professional Economists

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Book SynopsisThe author presents an in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan.Trade Review"A critical guide for new directions in the sociology of the arts."---Amanda Koontz, Contemporary Sociology"Entitled tackles a fascinating new dimension, exploring how the definition of art in the United States has broadened over time while remaining unmistakably elite. . . . [A] powerful theory of artistic legitimation that brings us to a much deeper understanding of art in the United States."---Raquel Jimenez, Contexts Magazine"Entitled [is] an authoritative, eye-opening, and astonishingly detailed look at the power struggle over the boundaries of art, as conducted over approximately the last two centuries of American cultural life."---C. Thi Nguyen, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism"The book is full of startling nuggets."---Josephine Livingstone, Times Literary Supplement"[Entitled] traces the almost 200-year-old story of how the objects and performances that educated Americans today consider art came to be 'sacralized' as art. Weaving together historical research with theoretical insights from the sociology of culture, Entitled narrates the transformation in American elite tastes from quasi-European highbrow snobs to omnivorous cosmopolitans"---Sergio Cabrera, Social Forces

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This one is a bit of a curio for jazz followers, many of whom might be drawn to the book via the Miles Davis name on the cover"---Peter Gamble, Jazz Journal"Art Rebels is a significant achievement. It is careful, considered, reasoned, and eye-opening."---Clayton Childress, Symbolic Interaction"[T]he defamiliarization of art through these reseeings and retellings makes for a mind-changing and instructive experience." * Choice *"By examining the ineffable area linking individualism and commercialism, civic and racial consciousness, Lopes contributes a nuanced and timely account of the unlikely mix of 'tradition and the individual talent'."---Adriana-Cecilia Neagu, American British and Canadian Studies

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Book SynopsisAt a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat looks at artist activists--those visionaries who createTrade ReviewShortlisted for the 2016 ASAP Book Prize, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present "This innovative sociological study of the Nashville music scene explores the business realities of an industry that has been radically changed by technology... His findings are encouraging because they reveal an environment in which many artists support one another in their quest for individualistic attainment."--Choice "Anyone who wishes to read a remarkably grounded analysis of how cultural work--in this case music--is changing, and about the roles of both artist entrepreneurs and trade union activists in pursuing a community-encompassing response, will find this book a wonderful read and an eye-opener for students in multiple fields: the sociology of occupations, the economics and sociology of the arts, arts management studies, industry studies, and labor relations. That Cornfield also offers a conceptual framework for thinking about structures and strategy is an extra plus."--Ann Markusen, ILR ReviewTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix Chapter 1. Creating Community in an Individualistic Age 1 Chapter 2. Artist Activism: Building Occupational Communities in Risky Times 17 Chapter 3. Self-contained, Self-expression: The Transformative Generation of Enterprising Artists 34 Chapter 4. Identities in Play: The Contemporary Generation of Enterprising Artists 65 Chapter 5. Creating Social Spaces for Artists: Pathways to Becoming an Artistic Social Entrepreneur 93 Chapter 6. Artist Advocates: The Corporate and Entrepreneurial Generations of Arts Trade Union Activists 121 Chapter 7. Community, Agency, and Artistic Expression 150 Appendix. Interview Schedule 166 Notes 173 Bibliography 191 Index 203

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Book SynopsisWho branded painting in the Pop age more brazenly than Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha? And who probed the Pop revolution in image and identity more intensely than they? This book presents an interpretation of Pop art through the work of these Pop Five.Trade Review"Foster's book offers the most sustained demonstration to date of the once contested belief that, far from merely reproducing their source materials, Pop paintings reinvent them... Foster shines here... His great pages on $he (1958-61 ...) are unmatched in their grasp of tabular painting."--Anne Wagner, London Review of Books "Foster is an erudite analyst of the five artists he has chosen--Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha--and an illuminating guide to their paintings and sculpture... For readers interested in placing Pop art in the contexts of postmodernist and postructuralist theories of subjectivity, Foster's book will be an important reference work. But for a general reader more interested in the history and evolution of Pop, The First Pop Age is most provocative for the ideas half-hidden or unstated in the text about Pop's rise and fall, ideas suggested by Foster's juxtapositions of artists and works and his increasing emphasis on the traumatic, distressed, and apocalyptic strains in Pop imagery."--Elaine Showalter, Literary Review "Foster digs deep into the work of five pop painters: Richard Hamilton, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha, paying particular attention to the formal qualities and often complex processes they used to create their paintings. This marks a shift from traditional readings of pop, which privilege subject matter over form... Revolutionary... Foster expertly leads us through the intricacies of one of art history's most popular movements."--Anny Shaw, Art Newspaper "[Foster] brilliantly weaves a history of five Pop artists, including Andy Warhol, to detail his proposition that Pop Art, as much as it came as a reaction to the pressures of modernity, was centrally concerned with the role of the image in contemporary culture."--Joel Kuennen, ArtSlant "The First Pop Age presents a fresh and highly engaging take on one of the most worked-over movements in the history of art... Any book by Foster, Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, is something of an event in art history circles and The First Pop Age is no exception. It is lavishly illustrated throughout."--Cassone Magazine "Drawing on historical and theoretical contexts, this volume explores how these artists (Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, and Ed Ruscha) exploited new subjects and media in the context of traditional art forms. Richly illustrated with numerous color reproductions, the book also reveals how the work of these key figures evidenced an ambiguous attitude toward mass culture and high art."--Choice "Copiously illustrated, the book is full of sharp insights into Pop social contexts as well as the art itself. And it reminds us why the style takes its name from 'popular.'"--Dan Bischoff, Newark Star-Ledger "In The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha, Hal Foster tries to bring thinking back to Pop Art by arguing that it began with thinking--specifically, the same kind of thinking that could save art today... Foster truly excels when he takes on Warhol, who sits at the center of all things Pop like a bewigged Satan at the frosty center of Dante's Hell, with all things Pop eventually feeding down to him... Hal Foster's The First Pop Age makes the Pop Artists of years gone by seem not only much more serious than ever, but also much more seriously relevant to our image-confused modern consciousness than ever."--Bob Duggan "Anyone seeking a crisp argument for the importance of contemporary art history should welcome the introduction of Hal Foster's latest book, The First Pop Age... [Foster's] set of claims, briskly laid out, offers a model for what art history might now aim to achieve... [The First Pop Age] is the definitive book on Pop and subjectivity. It is a book we have needed for some time. It is only a bonus, then, that The First Pop Age is such a pleasure to read. Foster's voice is lively and bright; one has the feeling of listening to a series of captivating scholarly talks, ideas tumbling out as if effortlessly. The compact volume is simply designed but lushly illustrated, a perfect size for toting and dipping into, one essay at a time... [A]n excellent book--a significant contribution to the huge literature on Warhol... The First Pop Age is a virtuosic summation of thoughts Foster has been working on for years, and cumulatively it offers some of art history's most piercing characterizations of recent capitalist subjectivity... It is no surprise that Foster has produced such a powerful account. He has been a major figure in modernist art history for thirty years--having demonstrated just how richly valuable art can be as a means for understanding twentieth-century experience... [T]his book is indispensible. We will not soon find a better or more convincing statement of the ways in which popular culture has fashioned a new subject."--Joshua Shannon, Art JournalTable of ContentsHomo Imago 1 Chapter 1: Richard Hamilton, or the Tabular Image 17 Chapter 2: Roy Lichtenstein, or the Cliche Image 62 Chapter 3: Andy Warhol, or the Distressed Image 109 Chapter 4: Gerhard Richter, or the Photogenic Image 172 Chapter 5: Ed Ruscha, or the Deadpan Image 210 Pop Test 249 Notes 253 Photography and Copyright Credits 321 Subject Index 323 Title Index 335

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Book SynopsisWhy do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South TexTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012 "Banding Together is an essential read for fans of popular music, thanks in no small part to Lena's wealth of music knowledge, as the book draws together the studies of music communities and music genres into a coherent whole."--Martin James, Times Literary Supplement "This book should be required reading for anyone interested in the role of music--all music--in culture. Although Lena's focus is on the rise of 20th-century American popular idioms, the questions she asks are appropriate for and applicable to a number of significant canons... A significant contribution to the literature."--Choice "Sociologists of music, as well as musical practitioners and fans, will find in Banding Together an engaging story about the commonalities shared by a variety of musical genres, despite their inherent stylistic differences. Through its wealth of examples, the book puts flesh on the otherwise counterintuitive contention that artistic creativity is a collective endeavor. Yet it goes beyond this well-established sociological observation to demonstrate how these musical art-worlds share a strikingly unified developmental grammar."--Amir Goldberg, American Journal of Sociology "Lena demonstrates a remarkable scope of knowledge in American popular music. Integrating it with a wide research body in cultural sociology, she delivers a delightful reading for sociologists who are popular music fans. The clear analysis, rich examples and insightful observations should make this book a staple in music sociology and indeed in cultural sociology as a whole."--Motti Regev, SociologicaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Chapter 1: Music Genres 1 What Is a Theory of Sociocultural Classification? 4 What Are Genre Forms and How Are They Identified? 8 Organizations and Money 10 Genre Ideals and Style 15 What Genres Are Not 20 Outline of the Book 22 Chapter 2: Three Musics, Four Genres: Rap, Bluegrass, and Bebop Jazz 27 Avant-garde Genres 28 Scene-based Genres 33 Industry-based Genres 41 Traditionalist Genres 46 After the Tradition 52 Conclusion 55 Chapter 3: Music Trajectories 65 Two Genre Trajectories 69 Scene-based Origins 74 IST Trajectories 76 On Genre Trajectories 84 Inhibiting Factors on Musical Trajectories 86 Absorption into Other Musics, Other Streams 86 Niche Music 91 The Racist Organization of Musical Production 98 Conclusion 109 Chapter 4: The Government-purposed Genre 117 Attributes of Government-purposed Genres 119 China 120 Chile 128 Nigeria 132 Serbia 136 Conclusion 139 Chapter 5: On Classification Systems 145 Classification in Music 146 Toward a Model of Classification Systems 156 On Science, Markets, and Memory 160 The Future of Music 164 In Closing 168 Notes 171 References 205 Index 233

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Book SynopsisA classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures--the motor-bike boys and the hippies. The motor-bike boys were working-class motorcyclists who listened to the early rock 'n' roll of the late 1950s. In contrast, the hippies were middle-class drug users with long hair and aTrade Review"A forgotten treasure trove that needs to be recovered."--Mats Trondman, Anna Lund, and Stefan Lund, European Journal of Cultural Studies "Willis masterfully shows how objects and selves interact, indicating to one another the available paths to follow... I hope a new generation of scholars reads this updated edition and aims to follow its path."--Claudio E. Benzecry, Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsMoments Preface to the 2014 Edition xi 1 Introduction: Profanity and Creativity 1 Part One 13 2 The Motor-Bike Boys 15 3 The Motor-Bike 69 4 The Golden Age 82 Part Two 105 5 The Hippies 107 6 The Experience of Drugs 177 7 The Creative Age 201 8 Conclusions: Cultural Politics 223 Epilogue 239 Theoretical Appendix 247 Notes 267 Index 273

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Book SynopsisA surprising and revealing look at how today's elite view their own wealth and place in society From TV's real housewives to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on easy street? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-dTrade Review"There's a lot of abstract talk about the 1 percent, but how do they really live? The sociologist Rachel Sherman’s new book, Uneasy Street: The Anxieties of Affluence, draws on her interviews with 50 wealthy New Yorkers to give us a sense. Sherman takes a dispassionate approach to find out how those who are 'benefitting from rising economic inequality' experience 'their own social advantages.' She elicits her subjects’ thoughts about work and productivity, charitable giving, marital discord and more. Worthwhile humanizing ensues, as do plenty of squirm-inducing moments."---John Williams, New York Times Book Review"We don’t know as much about affluent people as we think we do. Caricatures abound, but the socioeconomically lucky don’t often offer themselves up for study. That all changed with Rachel Sherman’s Uneasy Street. Nominally a sociologist, Sherman has written what is really a psychological study, and I’ve found myself returning to it frequently to remind myself of uncomfortable questions that lurk just below the surface of the lives of people who have much more than average. . . . The voyeurism here is minimal; the judgment nearly nonexistent. But with each reading, I’m a little more unsettled, in the best possible way."---Ron Lieber, New York Times"Ms. Sherman's book does take absorbing measure of what has become a corrosive reality in New York: the tendency among well-off people to regard their circumstances as entirely ordinary 'Manhattan poor' as others have put it."---Ginia Bellafante, New York Times"Sherman offers something new and surprising: a look inside the 1 per cent's minds. . . . She shifts our understanding of today’s dominant class."---Simon Kuper, Financial Times"There have been many cogent analyses of income inequality. Sociologist Rachel Sherman's welcome addition probes the psychology and socio-economics of affluence."---Barb Kiser, Nature"Sherman's analysis is informative, insightful, and nuanced."---Glenn Altschuler, Psychology Today"Although it is easy to judge the rich for [their] 'anxieties', Rachel Sherman suggests that this often distracts us from examining the wider 'systems of distribution that produce inequality'."---Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education"Uneasy Street is an important book. It is an all too rare empirical study of how the rich see themselves."---Daniel Ben-Ami, Spiked Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[A] new and revolutionary publication... Digital Keywords serves as an in-depth interrogation of the meaning and development of digitised language... Those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of the modern, digital world we all inhabit would be well advised to begin by taking a look at this book. Just as Keywords made its way firmly onto reference shelves in the 1970s, so too will Digital Keywords today."--Jade Fell, Engineering and Technology "This a good springboard to spark a discussion about the cultural and social significance of a select set of words in the context of a computer-mediated society and culture."--ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction, Benjamin Peters xiii 1 Activism, Guobin Yang 1 2 Algorithm, Tarleton Gillespie 18 3 Analog, Jonathan Sterne 31 4 Archive, Katherine D. Harris 45 5 Cloud, John Durham Peters 54 6 Community, Rosemary Avance 63 7 Culture, Ted Striphas 70 8 Democracy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen 81 9 Digital, Benjamin Peters 93 10 Event, Julia Sonnevend 109 11 Flow, Sandra Braman 118 12 Forum, Hope Forsyth 132 13 Gaming, Saugata Bhaduri 140 14 Geek, Christina Dunbar-Hesterv 149 15 Hacker, Gabriella Coleman 158 16 Information, Bernard Geoghegan 173 17 Internet, Thomas Streeter 184 18 Meme, Limor Shifman 197 19 Memory, Steven Schrag 206 20 Mirror, Adam Fish 217 21 Participation, Christopher Kelty 227 22 Personalization, Stephanie Ricker Schulte 242 23 Prototype, Fred Turner 256 24 Sharing, Nicholas A. John 269 25 Surrogate, Jeffrey Drouin 278 Appendix: Over Two Hundred Digital Keywords 287 About the Contributors 291 Index 297

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association""Swift and insightful. . . . O'Brien effectively shows teenage Muslim Americans to be an unjustly persecuted minority, delving into the psychology of how they behave in reaction to their outsider status in order to paint a portrait of social anxiety and strained assimilation that is universal in its power." * Publishers Weekly *"Surprising and disarming." * New Statesman *"O’Brien, who converted to Islam as an adult, unlocks numerous insights and generates stimulating questions as he observes how these Muslim teenagers negotiate their culturally contested lives." * Christian Century *"[T]he book is intimate and is surprisingly enjoyable to read. The boys featured are very much real and the struggles—and triumphs—they experience are rendered potently. While slogging through endlessly, unnecessarily dense academic readings, it can be easy to forget that reading can be both smooth and impactful at the same time. In short: I both grew and had fun reading Keeping it Halal." * Journal of the History of Ideas blog *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mirror, Mirror is a short, relaxed book, for the educated lay reader... Reading him, we feel as if we were sitting in a comfortable chair, after dinner, listening to our friend Blackburn tell us not so much about politics or social history as about what lies behind them: morals--that is, what we owe to others, as opposed to what we want for ourselves... [H]is prose is clear. It is also unostentatious."--Joan Acocella, New Yorker "Blackburn writes on vanity, pride and amour proper with deep insight."--Marina Gerner, Times Literary Supplement "[A] lucid and graceful philosophical probing of self-consciousness... Simon Blackburn's Mirror, Mirror is a very fine and brilliant book, full of the sort of measured analysis and keen insight you might expect from that excellent University of Cambridge philosopher... Blackburn is not just a sure and supremely knowledgeable narrator in whom we can have utmost confidence, but one with a quirky ear, alert to the curious side note and irrefutable detail that can make his sometimes dusty discipline gleam with a new sheen and edge."--Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education "[O]ne of the best popularisers of his discipline."--The Economist "[T]he energy of his prose is generally exhilarating, and often funny... [A]n agile, learned tour of the emotions and attitudes that human beings have towards their own and other selves. Drawing on an eclectic array of texts from literature, psychology and philosophy, Blackburn examines the ways in which a healthy self-respect, and pride in one's real achievements, can tip into vanity, envy and hubris. In doing so he puts the heat not only on the richest 1 per cent, but on us all, and all our follies."--Hannah Dawson, Prospect "Blackburn never waxes memoiristic; he uses the first person sparingly. Still, the book implies a quest, Socrates-like, for self-knowledge--by no means to be confused with what Narcissus was after."--Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed "Guiding us gracefully through the philosophers and writers of subjectivity ... Blackburn's book is quietly insistent on the potency of rigorous thinking about subjectivity in the face of a deluded, hubristic and dangerous narcissism... Blackburn makes his points with seriousness and severity, but also with a quietly lyrical sensitivity to the necessity of self-respect as a foundation for the respect of others... An admirable calling for philosophers, psychologists and students of myth alike."--Helen Tyson, Literary Review "Simon Blackburn explores the complex phenomena surrounding selves and self-regard, offering deep insights into notions like pride, ambition, vanity, authenticity, and much else."--newbooksinphilosophy.com "Showing the ways pride and shame work together is Blackburn at his best... This is a book by a philosopher who knows the history of ideas as well as anyone working today, written in Blackburn's witty, accessible, self-deprecating style. I recommend it with enthusiasm. With my own tendency toward misanthropy, I closed the book envying him his evident respect for and even love of other human beings."--Clancy Martin, Chronicle of Higher Education "Blackburn's grasp on the subject is impeccable and his lucid narrative is loaded with nuggets of wisdom... The book provides enough resources for self-correction, a search for true self, based on a hard process of analysis, discovery and purification."--Cover Drive Blog "Quoting Miss Piggy and Wittgenstein with equal ease, Blackburn maps the terrain of self-love in its many manifestations from self-esteem to vanity, narcissism, and beyond."--Choice "Writing in his usual witty style, Blackburn weaves together insights from Greek mythology, popular culture, literature, and the history of philosophy to develop a remarkably seamless discussion."--Lorraine Besser-Jones, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Blackburn's tone is light-hearted and often entertaining, and I don't doubt the book's appeal to a generalist audience wishing to take pleasure in a well-crafted distillation of philosophical ideas of the good life."--Julie Walsh, Centre for Medical Humanities "Blackburn's wide ranging, engaging, and deeply thoughtful volume is admirable for many reasons, but above all else, one hopes, it is a tool to help liberate the human imagination."--Troy Jollimore, Philosophers' Magazine "I found Blackburn's treatment of issues surrounding self-love and self-consciousness to be engaging, readable, and thought-provoking, and the book is therefore recommended."--Philip T. Yanos, PsycCRITIQUES "Blackburn's wide-ranging, engaging, and deeply thoughtful volume is admirable for many reasons, but above all else, one hopes, it is a tool to help liberate the human imagination."--Troy Jollimore, Philosophers' MagazineTable of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Self: Iris Murdoch and Uncle William 12 Chapter 2 Liriope's Son 35 Chapter 3 Worth It? 44 Chapter 4 Hubris and the Fragile Self 61 Chapter 5 Self-Esteem, Amour Propre, Pride 79 Chapter 6 Respect 109 Chapter 7 Temptation 132 Chapter 8 Integrity, Sincerity, Authenticity 163 Chapter 9 Envoi 187 Notes 191 Index 203

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Harrison White Book Award, Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association""[Centola’s] ideas have exciting implications for social engineering, whether related to vaccination adoption in the developing world or a reduction of energy use in the West. . . . [They] present an appealing possibility to meet one of the challenges of democracy in the internet age."---Nina Jankowicz, New Scientist"Overall the book is well written and engaging, with plenty of discussion about the experiments that go into the conclusions, and on reading it, it is clear that there is a lot more to be done so that we can better implement lasting health strategies, and political engagement amongst many, many other complex behaviours."---Jonathan Shock, Mathemafrica"Overall, How Behavior Spreads is a must-read for researchers who are interested in social networks, social change, communication and technology, and computational social science. The lessons drawn from the book can also help health workers, movement activists, managers, user experiences designers to improve the success of diffusion and induce behavior change within a community."---Yu Xu, Information, Communication & Society

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Book Synopsis"Engaging and insightful. O'Brien provides rich descriptions of the cultural work these teenagers do in their efforts to be both good Muslims and fully American."--Mark Chaves, author of American Religion.n.Trade Review"Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Religion Section of the American Sociological Association""Swift and insightful. . . . O'Brien effectively shows teenage Muslim Americans to be an unjustly persecuted minority, delving into the psychology of how they behave in reaction to their outsider status in order to paint a portrait of social anxiety and strained assimilation that is universal in its power." * Publishers Weekly *"Surprising and disarming." * New Statesman *"O’Brien, who converted to Islam as an adult, unlocks numerous insights and generates stimulating questions as he observes how these Muslim teenagers negotiate their culturally contested lives." * Christian Century *"[T]he book is intimate and is surprisingly enjoyable to read. The boys featured are very much real and the struggles—and triumphs—they experience are rendered potently. While slogging through endlessly, unnecessarily dense academic readings, it can be easy to forget that reading can be both smooth and impactful at the same time. In short: I both grew and had fun reading Keeping it Halal." * Journal of the History of Ideas blog *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The importance of this study is . . . that while most research so far om social inequality and status reproduction (as distinct from upward social mobility) has considered thewe phenomena as restricted to one country, it is now shown that the elite students of China are part of the dynamics of elite status reproduction on a global scale."---Bart Dessein, Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"If you believe (like I do) that the “Subway Drawings” are the bedrock of Haring’s achievement, this slim volume will reinforce that notion—or wholly convince you."---Richard Polsky, ArtNet"This trim art book showcases some of Keith Haring's most elusive art: his chalk on black paper drawings that were created on the walls of the New York City subways. . . . The collected art is vintage Haring: goofy, bold, political and accessible."---Kevin Howell, Shelf Awareness

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A penetrating, well-considered look behind the polished scenes of the influencer industry." * Kirkus *"Emily Hund’s remarkable book is a timely contribution. . . . Hund’s book arrives at a point when the influencer industry has penetrated the mainstream ​​to an unprecedented degree. It is a fascinating moment to reflect on a role which finds itself at the interface between a number of societal transformations."---Mark Carrigan, LSE Review of Books"[The Influencer Industry] should be read by anyone who desires a greater knowledge of the influencer industry, as well as any course on media industries and internet culture."---Mariah L. Wellman, Media Industries Journal

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Book SynopsisFor millions of moviegoers unable to see the original stage version of West Side Story, director Robert Wise’s adaptation was a cinematic gift that brought a Broadway hit to a mass audience. Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz argues that Wise’s film was not only hugely popular, but that it was also an artistic triumph that marked an important departure in the history of American movie making.

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Book SynopsisThe narrative of Confederate exceptionalism, this book argues, updates two uniquely American mythologies - the Lost Cause and American exceptionalism - blending their elements with discourses of racial neoliberalism to create a seeming separation between the Confederacy and racist systems.Trade ReviewIf we’re to understand why, in the wake of murderous events in Charleston and Charlottesville, significant numbers of Americans embrace the contentious symbols of an aborted proslavery nation, we must Subject their worldview to high-caliber critical scrutiny. In a Series of compelling case studies Nicole Maurantonio skillfully uncovers the mind-Set of neo-Confederates in the contemporary United States. This opportune study is truly a book for our troubled times." - Robert Cook, author of Civil War Memories: Contesting the Past in the United States since 1865"In Confederate Exceptionalism Nicole Maurantonio takes a fresh and exciting approach to a familiar Subject. Drawing on her expertise in qualitative methods and discursive analysis, Maurantonio explores the current landscapes of Confederate memory and deepens readers’ understanding of the rhetorics and persistent emotional power of Confederate exceptionalism. Throughout, Maurantonio’s distinctive focus on the present day and her engaging voice and style make Confederate Exceptionalism an important and exciting addition to the rich body of scholarship on Civil War memory." - Matthew Mace Barbee, author of Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory: History of Richmond, Virginia’s Monument Avenue, 1948–1996

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Book SynopsisExamines depictions of and by Catholics in American popular culture during the critical period between the Great Depression and the height of the Cold War. Anthony Burke Smith surveys the popular films, television, and photojournalism of the era that reimagined Catholicism as an important, even attractive, element of American life.Trade ReviewSmith’s ambitious and exemplary work demonstrates decisively for all time that Catholics were not only integral players in the formation of modern American popular culture, but that the role of Catholicism itself in the national popular culture was a major issue in the production of that same culture. . . . A wonderfully exciting book that will be widely hailed as a landmark achievement, confirm the author’s stature as the leading scholar of Catholic popular culture, and be consulted by scholars and their students for decades to come." - James T. Fisher, author of Communion of Immigrants: A History of Catholics in AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Priests, Gangsters, and Cowboys: Catholic Outsiders, American Insiders, and the Struggle over National Community1. The Catholic Front: Religion, Reform, and Culture in Depression-Era America2. A New Deal in Movie Religion: The Public Sphere of Catholic Films3. Cool Catholics in the Hot American Melting Pot: Going My Way, Bing Crosby, and Hollywood’s New Faith in Consensus4. Pro-Life Catholics: The Representation of Catholicism in Life Magazine, 1936-19605. Performing Catholicism in an Age of Consensus: Fulton J. Sheen, Television, and Postwar America6. From Public Dilemmas to Private Virtues: Leo McCarey, Hollywood Comedy, and the Household of Americanization7. John Ford’s Irish American Century: Ethnicity, Catholicism, and the Borderlands of National IdentityEpilogue: Catholics and the American Community at the Turn of a New CenturyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe last decade has witnessed the phenomenal growth of the men''s magazine market, raising important questions of a more general kind. What is the significance of the rise of men''s lifestyle magazines for gender politics? Are we witnessing a backlash against feminism or are they merely harmless fun? Why did lsquo;new man'' give way to the lsquo;new lad''? What political issues do these questions raise within the context of the information society? Making Sense of Men''s Magazines is an original study which enables us to understand the appeal of men''s magazines, the ways in which they are constructed and understood, and many of the complex questions they raise for both men and women. Through interviews with editors and key production staff, an analysis of the content of men''s magazines and focus group interviews, this work seeks to lsquo;make sense'' of this cultural phenomenon. The authors give particular attention to the gendered and commercial character of men''s Trade Review"The authors shy away from one-dimensional arguments of ideology, hegemony, and resistance to provide a more nuanced argument based on ambiguity, ambivalence, and contradiction ... Making Sense of Men's Magaines is clearly written and presented. As such it represents an attractive option for course adoptations on both sides of the Atlantic..." American Journal of Sociology "[A] creative and informative study." Transactions of the British GeographersTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1 Introduction. Reading Magazines. Theorizing Masculinities. Consumption, the Media and Audience Studies. 2 The Media and the Market. The Magazine Market. Contemporary Media Debates. Conclusion: the Instability of Hegemonic Masculinities. 3 Editorial Work. Magazines and Cultural Power. Interviewing the Editors. Editorial Insecurities. Commercial Imperatives Versus Editorial freedom. The 'Necessary Evil' of Advertising. Responding to the Market or Creating a Niche?. Sexy or Pornographic?. 4 Questions of Content. Boys Love Their Girls. Don't You Want Me?. Lexicons of Love or Operator's Manual?. Consumption and the Sociology of the Body. Men's Health Magazines, Anxiety and the Body. Irony and the Cultural Politics of Masculinity. 5 Readings. Discourses and Dispositions. Discursive Repertoires. Constructed Certitude. Discursive Dispositions. Cultural Capital. An Ambivalent Space. 6 Conclusion. Mediated Cultural Power. Masculinity and Contemporary Gender Relations. Commercial Culture. Appendices. Notes. References. Index.

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Book Synopsis* A clearly written and comprehensive account of the extraordinary rise of men's magazines * Draws on original research based on interviews with magazine staff and with readers * A major contribution to the understanding of the role of men's magazines in contemporary lifestyle culture. .Trade Review"The authors shy away from one-dimensional arguments of ideology, hegemony, and resistance to provide a more nuanced argument based on ambiguity, ambivalence, and contradiction ... Making Sense of Men's Magaines is clearly written and presented. As such it represents an attractive option for course adoptations on both sides of the Atlantic..." American Journal of Sociology "[A] creative and informative study." Transactions of the British GeographersTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. 1 Introduction. Reading Magazines. Theorizing Masculinities. Consumption, the Media and Audience Studies. 2 The Media and the Market. The Magazine Market. Contemporary Media Debates. Conclusion: the Instability of Hegemonic Masculinities. 3 Editorial Work. Magazines and Cultural Power. Interviewing the Editors. Editorial Insecurities. Commercial Imperatives Versus Editorial freedom. The 'Necessary Evil' of Advertising. Responding to the Market or Creating a Niche?. Sexy or Pornographic?. 4 Questions of Content. Boys Love Their Girls. Don't You Want Me?. Lexicons of Love or Operator's Manual?. Consumption and the Sociology of the Body. Men's Health Magazines, Anxiety and the Body. Irony and the Cultural Politics of Masculinity. 5 Readings. Discourses and Dispositions. Discursive Repertoires. Constructed Certitude. Discursive Dispositions. Cultural Capital. An Ambivalent Space. 6 Conclusion. Mediated Cultural Power. Masculinity and Contemporary Gender Relations. Commercial Culture. Appendices. Notes. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisComputer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids'' stuff: the majority of players are now adults, and the market is constantly broadening. The visual style of games has become increasingly sophisticated, and the complexities of game-play are ever more challenging. Meanwhile, the iconography and generic forms of games are increasingly influencing a whole range of other media, from films and television to books and toys. This book provides a systematic, comprehensive introduction to the analysis of computer and video games. It introduces key concepts and approaches drawn from literary, film and media theory in an accessible and concrete manner; and it tests their use and relevance by applying them to a small but representative selection of role-playing and actionTrade Review"This valuable text is always informed by serious research, analysis and careful thought." -- Julian McDougall, Media Education Assocation Newsletter 'Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play will be valuable for teachers and students who want to familiaize themselves with the core concepts and important debates within the merging field of games studies. But it does more than that - couping format analysis of games with an ethnographic perspective on games-playing showing how the same games studies can be read through multiple conceptual frameworks. If recent writing in games studies has seemed polarized, this book maps the middle ground between the warring positions.' -- Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Computer Games challenges the notion that games are "just for fun" by introducing a readable tome for observers and players of Pong to Perfect Dark. A comprehensive and useful breakdown of what students of games studies should focus on and how they should go about doing it.' -- Aleks Krotoski, Technology Journalist and ResearcherTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Studying computer games 2. Defining game genres 3. Games and narrative 4. Play and pleasure 5. Space, navigation and affect 6. Playing roles 7. Reworking the text: online fandom 8. Motivation and online gaming 9. Social play and learning 10. Agency in and around play 11. Film, adaptation and computer games 12. Games and Gender 13. Doing game analysis Notes Games Cited References Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a systematic, comprehensive introduction to the analysis of computer and video games. It introduces key concepts and approaches drawn from literary, film and media theory in an accessible and concrete manner; and it tests their use and relevance by applying them to a representative selection of games.Trade Review"This valuable text is always informed by serious research, analysis and careful thought." -- Julian McDougall, Media Education Assocation Newsletter 'Computer Games: Text, Narrative and Play will be valuable for teachers and students who want to familiaize themselves with the core concepts and important debates within the merging field of games studies. But it does more than that - couping format analysis of games with an ethnographic perspective on games-playing showing how the same games studies can be read through multiple conceptual frameworks. If recent writing in games studies has seemed polarized, this book maps the middle ground between the warring positions.' -- Henry Jenkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 'Computer Games challenges the notion that games are "just for fun" by introducing a readable tome for observers and players of Pong to Perfect Dark. A comprehensive and useful breakdown of what students of games studies should focus on and how they should go about doing it.' -- Aleks Krotoski, Technology Journalist and ResearcherTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1. Studying computer games 2. Defining game genres 3. Games and narrative 4. Play and pleasure 5. Space, navigation and affect 6. Playing roles 7. Reworking the text: online fandom 8. Motivation and online gaming 9. Social play and learning 10. Agency in and around play 11. Film, adaptation and computer games 12. Games and Gender 13. Doing game analysis Notes Games Cited References Index

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Book SynopsisA major new book in the Polity series of publications which make available Adorno's previously unpublished writings. This volume comprises some of Adorno's most important writings on music and radio and deals with themes for which he is particularly well known, such as the critique of the culture industry.Trade Review‘Scrupulously reconstructed by Robert Hullot-Kentor, Adorno's bold and ambitious attempt to write a critical physiognomy of radio music is both a document of its time and provocation to ours.' Martin Jay, University of California, BerkeleyTable of ContentsPreface: Prolegomenon to a Reconstruction of Current of Music - Second Salvage. Acknowledgments. 1 Radio Physiognomics. 2 A Social Critique of Radio Music. 3 The Radio Symphony: An Experiment in Theory. 4 Analytical Study of the NBC Appreciation Hour. 5 'What a Music Appreciation Hour Should Be. Plans for a music education program, Radio Broadcasts on WNYC and Drafts. 6 'On Popular Music' : Draft Material and Text. 7 Musical Analyses of Hit Songs. Further material:. A The Radio Voice. B Memorandum on Lyrics in Popular Music. C Experiment on: Preference for Material or Treatment of two Popular Songs. D The Problem of Experimentation in Music Psychology. E Note on Classification. F On the Use of Elaborate Personal Interviews for the Princeton Radio Research Project. G The Problem of a New Type of Human Being. H Some Remarks on a Propaganda Publication of NBC. I Theses about the Idea and Form of Collaboration of the Princeton Radio Research Project.. Discography. Index of names

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Book SynopsisFor over four decades, Martin Scorsese has been the chronicler of an obsessive society, where material possessions and physical comfort are valued, where the pursuit of individual improvement is rewarded and where male prerogative is respected and preserved. Scorsese has often described his films as sociology and he has a point: his storytelling condenses complex information into comprehensible narratives about society. In this sense, he has been a guide through a dark world of nineteenth century crypto-fascism to a fetishistic twentieth century in which goods, fame, money and power are held to have magical power. Author of Tyson: Nurture of the Beast and Beckham, Ellis Cashmore turns his attention to arguably the most influential living film- maker to explore how Scorsese envisions America. Greed, manhood, the city and romantic love feature on Scorsese''s landscape of secular materialism. They are among the themes Cashmore argues have driven and inform ScorsesTrade Review"A valuable and accessible contribution to Scorsese studies. Published at the very moment in which Scorsese's relevance as a contemporary Hollywood filmmaker has understandably been questioned in some quarters, Cashmore's book repositions the director's films as culturally significant objects and thereby promises to broaden the parameters of future studies." Film-Philosophy "Martin Scorsese's America is a remarkable study focused not only on an individual but on a creator of a vision." Film Ireland "The author accessibly makes a case for the director as a key chronicler of (male) America." Total Film "Cashmore has written a book on Scorsese that should appeal to fans, and provides a solid introduction to a decent critical analysis of the bulk of his work. Academically it's thorough, with enough references that it would serve as a perfect keystone text ... a pleasant read." Eye for Film 'Ellis Cashmore acknowledges Scorsese as a visionary of modern cinema and hails him as the world's greatest living film maker ... Cashmore provides an easily accessible insight into Scorsese's catalogue of cinematic classics, including Goodfellas and Casino, as well as his lesser-known documenataries and television shows ... [Martin Scorsese's America] is aimed at a wide range of film fans, from students to avid cinema goers.' Express & Star "With this innovative study of his films, Ellis Cashmore has raised Martin Scorsese to the ranks of key chroniclers of American society. As Frank Capra was the voice of the Depression era and John Ford revealed America as shaped by World War II and its aftermath, Scorsese provides an on-going interpretation of the past forty years: rock and roll, Reaganism, civil rights, feminism, and the revision of the American dream. Cashmore tells us a great deal about both Scorsese and America." Richard A. Blake, Boston College "Ellis Cashmore's Martin Scorsese's America probes the cinematic oeuvre of one of the world's major film directors, ferreting out his recurrent themes, obsessions, and visions of contemporary life in the United States. Capturing the variety and diversity of Scorsese's work, Cashmore provides an illuminating portrait of a major cineaste and makes the case that Scorsese should be seen as one of the great U.S. directors whose visions of American life are as incisive and insightful as many great literary artists." Douglas Kellner, UCLATable of ContentsONE: INTRODUCTION -GRAND, DARK, AMERICAN VISION TWO: DREAM GONE TOXICTHREE: WHOSE LAW? WHAT ORDER?FOUR: MINDS AND THE METROPOLISFIVE: PAWNS IN THEIR GAMESIX: WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT SEVEN: FAMILY VALUESEIGHT: IDEA OF A MANNINE: WOMEN LOSETEN: SUBMISSION TO ROMANCEELEVEN: PRICE OF MONEY- CONCLUSIONFilmographyBibliography

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Book SynopsisPaparazzi photography has emerged as a key element in today s media landscape. This book charts the historical and cultural significance of the industry, profiles its protagonists and discusses how its imagery of celebrity have become a major part of media consumption.Trade Review"Kim McNamara has written an excellent and most useful book. Drawing on a rich vein of information from her industry research as well as from the academic literature, McNamara�s Paparazzi is indispensable for anyone wanting to properly understand the contemporary production and circulation of celebrity."Graeme Turner, University of Queensland"In this fascinating and important study Kim McNamara takes issue with the familiar image of the paparazzi as the invasive hooligans of contemporary journalism. Drawing on first hand research in LA, London and Sydney, she explores the working lives of the paparazzi, the structure of the industry, and the way in which social media are transforming celebrity photography. A fresh, insightful and readable book that has much to teach us about news organisations today - highly recommended."Rosalind Gill, City University LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Paparazzi: A Genealogy 2. Paparazzi and Media Practices 3. Agencies and Image Markets 4. Paparazzi and Celebrity News 5. Paparazzi and Photographic Genres 6. Celebrities, Photography, and Privacy Conclusions References

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Book SynopsisYouTube is now firmly established as the dominant platform for online video, and it continues to be a site of both experimentation and conflict among media industries, creators and audiences. First published in 2009, this was the first book to take YouTube seriously as a media and cultural phenomenon.Table of Contents Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments 1 How YouTube Matters 2 YouTube and the Media 3 YouTube’s Popular Culture 4 The YouTube Community 5 YouTube’s Cultural Politics 6 YouTube’s Competing Futures Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisPop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques.Trade Review"Spirited, thought-provoking and replete with original perspectives that use music as a prism for understanding cultural politics and cross-border impact on traditional art forms." The Hindu "A very fine piece of work, which makes an original contribution both to our understanding of popular music and to our understanding of the global cultural order. It provides a new perspective on how sounds are produced, circulated and experienced." John Street, University of East Anglia "In this highly original book, Professor Regev considers how exploring pop-rock both taps and enriches sociological theory. Regev�s study is both empirically nuanced and theoretically sophisticated. It illuminates music as a fundamental and dynamic material of social life. As Regev shows, pop-rock�s emergence is nothing less than the re-figuration of world culture." Tia DeNora, Exeter University "Motti Regev expertly provides a much needed take on pop-rock, the field(s) in which it is produced and enjoyed, and its global diffusion. He uses the case of pop-rock to cast empirical light on aesthetic cosmopolitanism and artistic legitimation. The result is a book that is highly informative and refreshingly engaging." Professor Timothy Dowd, Emory University "This is an exceedingly important book. It really does move the fields of music and sociology on by showing how the figurative musical world we live in today is literally a musical world." Journal of World Popular MusicTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Theories and Concepts 1 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: A Theoretical Framework 4 Characterizing Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism 6 Theoretical Framework 9 Rock, Pop, and Popular Music 17 Structure of the Book 23 Methodological Note 26 2 Expressive Isomorphism 28 Pop-Rock Styles and Genres 32 Pop-Rock Divas 33 Rock Auteurs 35 Progressive Rock 37 Punk and Metal 38 Electronic Dance Music 40 Hip-Hop 41 Ethnic Rock/New Folk 43 Dominance of the Musical Public Sphere 46 Legitimation Discourse 50 Ritual Classification: Tradition vs. Pop-Rock 52 Ritual Periodization: The “Birth of Rock” 54 3 A Field of Cultural Production 57 Working of the Field 59 Production of Meaning 61 Pop-Rock’s Ideology of Art 65 Mechanisms of Change and Innovation 75 Avant-Gardism 76 Commercialism 78 The Spiral of Expansion 80 Structure of the Field 83 National (Sub-) Fields of Pop-Rock Music 87 4 Long-Term Event of Pop-Rockization 91 Events 93 The Musical Event 95 The Historical Musical Event of Pop-Rock 96 Agency 97 Early “Pre-History” 106 Consecrated Beginning 108 Consolidation and Rise to Dominance 113 Diversification, Internationalization, Glorification 117 5 Aesthetic Cultures 123 Subcultural Scenes to Aesthetic Cultures 126 Aesthetic Cultures 129 Forms of Pop-Rock Knowledge 131 Early Participation 133 Global Microstructures 136 Internet Platforms 138 The Pop-Rock Intelligentsia 142 Indie/Alternative Pop-Rock 142 Alternative Pop-Rock on the Web 146 An Extended Case: Israeli Cognoscenti 148 6 Sonic Vocabularies, Spaces, and Bodies 158 Sonic Vocabularies 161 Tones and Timbres 162 Museme Stacks and Strings 165 Global Electro-Amplified Soundscapes 168 Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Bodies 172 Actants of Intercultural Phenomenological Proximity 177 References 180 Index 195

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Book SynopsisPop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred. Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and related techniques. The history of pop-rock extends from the emergence of rock''n''roll in the 1950s to a variety of contemporary fashions and trends rock, punk, soul, funk, techno, hip hop, indie, metal, pop and many more. This book offers a highly original account of the emergence of pop-rock music as a global phenomenon in which Anglo-American and many other national and ethnic variants interact in complex ways. Pop-rock is analysed as a prime instance of ''aesthetic cosmopolitanism'' that is, the gradual formation, in late modernity, of world culture as a single interconnected entity in which different social groupings around the world increasingly share common ground in their aesthetic perceptions, expressive forTrade Review"Spirited, thought-provoking and replete with original perspectives that use music as a prism for understanding cultural politics and cross-border impact on traditional art forms." The Hindu "A very fine piece of work, which makes an original contribution both to our understanding of popular music and to our understanding of the global cultural order. It provides a new perspective on how sounds are produced, circulated and experienced." John Street, University of East Anglia "In this highly original book, Professor Regev considers how exploring pop-rock both taps and enriches sociological theory. Regev�s study is both empirically nuanced and theoretically sophisticated. It illuminates music as a fundamental and dynamic material of social life. As Regev shows, pop-rock�s emergence is nothing less than the re-figuration of world culture." Tia DeNora, Exeter University "Motti Regev expertly provides a much needed take on pop-rock, the field(s) in which it is produced and enjoyed, and its global diffusion. He uses the case of pop-rock to cast empirical light on aesthetic cosmopolitanism and artistic legitimation. The result is a book that is highly informative and refreshingly engaging." Professor Timothy Dowd, Emory University "This is an exceedingly important book. It really does move the fields of music and sociology on by showing how the figurative musical world we live in today is literally a musical world." Journal of World Popular MusicTable of ContentsPreface vii 1 Theories and Concepts 1 Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism: A Theoretical Framework 4 Characterizing Aesthetic Cosmopolitanism 6 Theoretical Framework 9 Rock, Pop, and Popular Music 17 Structure of the Book 23 Methodological Note 26 2 Expressive Isomorphism 28 Pop-Rock Styles and Genres 32 Pop-Rock Divas 33 Rock Auteurs 35 Progressive Rock 37 Punk and Metal 38 Electronic Dance Music 40 Hip-Hop 41 Ethnic Rock/New Folk 43 Dominance of the Musical Public Sphere 46 Legitimation Discourse 50 Ritual Classification: Tradition vs. Pop-Rock 52 Ritual Periodization: The “Birth of Rock” 54 3 A Field of Cultural Production 57 Working of the Field 59 Production of Meaning 61 Pop-Rock’s Ideology of Art 65 Mechanisms of Change and Innovation 75 Avant-Gardism 76 Commercialism 78 The Spiral of Expansion 80 Structure of the Field 83 National (Sub-) Fields of Pop-Rock Music 87 4 Long-Term Event of Pop-Rockization 91 Events 93 The Musical Event 95 The Historical Musical Event of Pop-Rock 96 Agency 97 Early “Pre-History” 106 Consecrated Beginning 108 Consolidation and Rise to Dominance 113 Diversification, Internationalization, Glorification 117 5 Aesthetic Cultures 123 Subcultural Scenes to Aesthetic Cultures 126 Aesthetic Cultures 129 Forms of Pop-Rock Knowledge 131 Early Participation 133 Global Microstructures 136 Internet Platforms 138 The Pop-Rock Intelligentsia 142 Indie/Alternative Pop-Rock 142 Alternative Pop-Rock on the Web 146 An Extended Case: Israeli Cognoscenti 148 6 Sonic Vocabularies, Spaces, and Bodies 158 Sonic Vocabularies 161 Tones and Timbres 162 Museme Stacks and Strings 165 Global Electro-Amplified Soundscapes 168 Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Bodies 172 Actants of Intercultural Phenomenological Proximity 177 References 180 Index 195

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Book SynopsisAmericans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture s celebrity mania.Trade Review"Andrea McDonnell's sympathetic study of celebrity magazines brings a fresh and original approach to what she calls 'the popular feminine'. With humor and understanding she shows what the magazines mean to their twenty-something readers as they engage with the challenges and contradictions of being female at that particular moment in their lives. An essential read for all students of gender and popular culture." Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan "Andrea McDonnell's book is a real treat. Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines offers a much needed integration and update of the study of women’s popular culture by integrating reader, writer and textual perspectives in a strong analysis." Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam "An outstanding analysis of the explosive rise and appeal of celebrity magazines in the early twenty-first century. Exceptionally well-written, thoughtful and nuanced, this study breaks new ground in identifying the types of visual strategies the magazines deploy, which kinds of normative messages are most salient in them, and why these magazines, despite being recognized as 'trashy', have enormous appeal to young women. Highly recommended." Susan Douglas, University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction: Celebrity Gossip Magazines in American Popular Culture 1. Gendering Celebrity Gossip 2. All About Us: Celebrity Gossip Magazines and the Female Reader 3. Stars on Earth: The Paradox of Ordinary Celebrity 4. Making Morality Meaningful 5. Ambiguously Truthful Conclusion: On Pleasure and the Popular Appendices References

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Book SynopsisAmericans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture s celebrity mania.Trade Review"Andrea McDonnell's sympathetic study of celebrity magazines brings a fresh and original approach to what she calls 'the popular feminine'. With humor and understanding she shows what the magazines mean to their twenty-something readers as they engage with the challenges and contradictions of being female at that particular moment in their lives. An essential read for all students of gender and popular culture." Paddy Scannell, University of Michigan "Andrea McDonnell's book is a real treat. Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines offers a much needed integration and update of the study of women’s popular culture by integrating reader, writer and textual perspectives in a strong analysis." Joke Hermes, University of Amsterdam "An outstanding analysis of the explosive rise and appeal of celebrity magazines in the early twenty-first century. Exceptionally well-written, thoughtful and nuanced, this study breaks new ground in identifying the types of visual strategies the magazines deploy, which kinds of normative messages are most salient in them, and why these magazines, despite being recognized as 'trashy', have enormous appeal to young women. Highly recommended." Susan Douglas, University of MichiganTable of ContentsIntroduction: Celebrity Gossip Magazines in American Popular Culture 1. Gendering Celebrity Gossip 2. All About Us: Celebrity Gossip Magazines and the Female Reader 3. Stars on Earth: The Paradox of Ordinary Celebrity 4. Making Morality Meaningful 5. Ambiguously Truthful Conclusion: On Pleasure and the Popular Appendices References

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