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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Culture in Networks
Book SynopsisToday, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere from the architecture of our brains to global transportation systems.Trade Review"It doesn't get better than this: an accessible treatment of an exciting but often abstruse topic by a leading figure in the field. Further, it organizes a wide range of materials to make a strong and compelling case. A wonderful contribution."—John Levi Martin, University of Chicago "This is a path-breaking book that brilliantly describes one of the most exciting intellectual developments in the contemporary human sciences – the melding of network science with the study of culture. McLean tackles this complex topic with clarity and precision, providing both a comprehensive review of the field and a coherent theoretical synthesis."—John Mohr, University of California, Santa Barbara "[T]his book, which beautifully blends the complex topics of cultural sociology and social network analysis... is written as both an informative exploration of the intersection between social networks and the study of culture, and a hopeful plea for the empirically rich exploration of 'network culture(s)' using both qualitative and quantitative methods.... Scholars and students looking for a book that will challenge them to engage with alternative approaches to the study of networks and culture will benefit from the combination of detailed inquiry and open-ended questions."—Information, Communication and SocietyTable of Contents1. Culture and Social Networks: A Conceptual FrameworkPART I: Fundamental Concepts2. The Nuts and Bolts of Networks, through a Cultural Lens3. Basic Culture Concepts, with a Networks InflectionPART II: Linkages of Networks with Culture4. Culture through Networks: Diffusion, Contagion, Virality, Memes5. Culture from Networks: The Network Genesis of Culture6. Networks from Culture: How Norms and Tastes Shape Networks7. Networks of Culture: Culture as Relational Structures8. Networks as Culture, or Networks and Culture FusedBibliographyNotes
£45.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Culture in Networks
Book SynopsisToday, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere from the architecture of our brains to global transportation systems.Trade Review"It doesn't get better than this: an accessible treatment of an exciting but often abstruse topic by a leading figure in the field. Further, it organizes a wide range of materials to make a strong and compelling case. A wonderful contribution."—John Levi Martin, University of Chicago "This is a path-breaking book that brilliantly describes one of the most exciting intellectual developments in the contemporary human sciences – the melding of network science with the study of culture. McLean tackles this complex topic with clarity and precision, providing both a comprehensive review of the field and a coherent theoretical synthesis."—John Mohr, University of California, Santa Barbara "[T]his book, which beautifully blends the complex topics of cultural sociology and social network analysis... is written as both an informative exploration of the intersection between social networks and the study of culture, and a hopeful plea for the empirically rich exploration of 'network culture(s)' using both qualitative and quantitative methods.... Scholars and students looking for a book that will challenge them to engage with alternative approaches to the study of networks and culture will benefit from the combination of detailed inquiry and open-ended questions."—Information, Communication and Society
£17.09
McGill-Queen's University Press Art as Revolt Thinking Politics through Immanent
Book SynopsisUsing philosophies of immanence – conceived by Deleuze, Braidotti, and others – and the arts to challenge contemporary capitalist ways of being human subjects.Trade Review"The essays in this collection creatively and rigorously demonstrate the wide applicability of the theories of Deleuze and Guattari in a wide variety of aesthetic contexts, and in so doing they refine and develop our understanding of these concepts." Suzanne M. Verderber, Pratt Institute
£26.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Hinterland Remixed Media Memory and the Canadian
Book SynopsisAn examination of the legacy and cultural afterlife of the Canadian 1970s in film, television, and the visual arts.Trade Review"Hinterland Remixed is as engaging as it is innovative and intelligent. I cannot overstate the quality, timeliness, and elegance of this work." Jennifer VanderBurgh, Saint Mary's University"We need this book. Not only does Hinterland Remixed provide extremely compelling readings of 1970s objects and contemporary works that revisit this decade's artifacts; it accomplishes the interpretive goal of bringing the past inside the present." Peter Urquhart, Wilfrid Laurier University
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Global Goes Local
Book SynopsisCovering topics from pop music in Korea to TV commercials in Malaysia, this collection shows how imported cultural forms have been invested with fresh meaning and transformed by local artists to result in new forms of assertion and resistance.Table of ContentsFigures Acknowledgments Asia and Global Popular Culture: The View from He Yong's GarbageDump / Richard King and Timothy J. Craig Part 1: Global versus Local -- Hybridity and Appropriationin Asian Popular Culture 1. Hulk Hogan in the Rainforest / Peter Metcalf 2. Hybridity and Disjuncture in Mainland Chinese Popular Music /Mercedes M. Dujunco 3. Under Attack: Mass Media Technology and Indigenous MusicalPractices in the Philippines / Michiyo Yoneno Reyes 4. Rocking East and West: The USA in Malaysian Music (An AmericanRemix) / Eric C. Thompson 5. Exploding Ballads: The Transformation of Korean Pop Music /Keith Howard Part 2: Political, Ideological, and Spiritual Tensions inAsian Popular Culture 6. The Poetics and Politics of Sister Drum: "Tibetan"Music in the Global Marketplace / Janet L. Upton 7. Television Drama in China: Engineering Souls for the Market /Michael Keane 8. Moral Advertising in Malaysian TV Commercials / Todd Joseph,Miles Holden and Azrina Husin 9. "You May Not Believe, But Never Offend the Spirits":Spirit-Medium Cults and Popular Media in Modern Thailand / PattanaKitiarsa 10. Revisioning Japanese Religiosity: Osamu Tezuka's Hi no tori(The Phoenix) / Mark MacWilliams Part 3: The Creation, Assertion, and Representation ofIdentity in Asian Popular Culture 11. Images of Asians in the Art of the Great Pacific War, 1937-45 /Nancy Brcak and John Pavia 12. To Fight the Losing War, to Remember the Lost War: The ChangingRole of Gunka, Japanese War Songs / Junko Oba 13. The Incantation of Shanghai: Singing a City into Existence /Isabel K.F. Wong 14. Cassettes, Bazaars, and Saving the Nation: The Uyghur MusicIndustry in Xinjiang, China / Rachel Harris Bibliography Credits Contributors Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Reclaiming Adat Contemporary Malaysian Film and
Book SynopsisWeaves a wealth of cultural theory into a rare analysis of Malay cinema and the work of new Malaysian anglophone writers.Trade ReviewOne of the most cogent analyses I have read on the cinema of a Southeast Asian country. Well-versed in both literary theory and film theory, what Khoo has accomplished is amazing. -- John A. Lent, author of Animation in Asia and the PacificTable of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Reclaiming Adat2 Malay Myth and Changing Attitudes Towards Nationalism: The Hang Tuah/Hang Jebat Debate3 DissemiNation of Malay/sia4 Malay/sian Films: Cinema of Denial5 Representations of the Modern Malay Woman of the 1990s6 What Is It To Be A Man? Violence in the Time of ModernityAppendix A: Cultural Representations of Hang Tuah and Hang JebatAppendix B: Primary FilmographyAppendix C: Secondary FilmographyNotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
MN - University of British Columbia Press Undercurrents
Book SynopsisUndercurrents engages the critical rubric of “queer” to examine Hong Kong’s screen, uncovering a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.Trade ReviewThis lucid and original book is the first dealing with queer cinema and queer culture in Hong Kong. By eschewing the conventional – and foreign – ideas of gay and lesbian identity for a more protean range of possibilities under the rubric of “queer,” Helen Hok-Sze Leung shows that Hong Kong’s screen culture includes a much richer and deeper queer vein than many observers have supposed. -- Chris Berry, co-author of China on Screen: Cinema and NationThere is nothing quite like Undercurrents currently available in the English language. Its archive – Hong Kong cultural productions including contemporary cinema, architecture, urban space, modern literature, icons from popular culture, and community-driven radio programming – is impressively wide-ranging and diverse. Its theoretical apparatus – bringing together queer theory and postcolonial studies – is equally remarkable. This is a beautifully conceived, crafted, and compelling book. -- David Eng, author of Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian AmericaTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1 Sex and the Postcolonial City2 Between Girls3 Trans Formations4 In Queer Memory5 Do It YourselfNotesBibliographyFilmographyDiscographyIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Thumbing a Ride Hitchhikers Hostels and
Book SynopsisAsking new questions about travel and risk taking as a rite of passage, this book examines the rise and fall of hitchhiking in the 1970s and the accompanying adult scrutiny of youth subculture.Trade ReviewThumbing a Ride explores hitchhiking’s resurgence in Canada during the 1970s, when the then-teenage Mahood took to the road, thumb stretched out, seeking rides. In her concise but wide-ranging study, the author focuses on the mobility of young Canadians, their willingness to take risks, and travel as a rite of passage. Summing Up: Recommended. -- R.C. Cottrell, California State University, Chico * CHOICE *Table of Contents1 Get your Motor Running: Risk, Ritual, and Rite of Passage Travel2 Thumb Wars: Adventure Hitchhiking3 Rucksack Revolution: Quest in the Age of Aquarius4 Cool-Aid: The Transient Youth Movement5 Crash Pads: Blue-Jean Bureaucrats versus the Canadian Youth Hostels Association6 Head Out on the Highway: Stories from the Trans-Canada Highway7 Car Sick: Hitchhiking Dos and Don’tsConclusion: The Vanishing Hitchhiker EulogyNotesIndex
£62.90
Baker Publishing Group Cinematic Faith
Book SynopsisAn expert on American culture explores how Christians can most profitably and critically hear, read, and view popular culture through the lens of film.Table of ContentsContents List of Movie Musings 1. Why a Christian Approach? 2. Culture Communicates: Biblical Principles for a Peculiar Means of Expression 3. Moviemaking Magic: Poetic Portals and the Power of Perspective 4. Creating an Illusion of Reality: Film Form and Content 5. Connecting the Dots: Style and Meaning 6. Redemption American-Style: The Melodramatic Vision 7. The Yellow Brick Road to Self-Realization: Classical Hollywood Cinema 8. A Man's Gotta Do What a Man's Gotta Do: American Action-Adventure Movies 9. Stop Taking My Hand! Gender and Mainstream Hollywood Epilogue Indexes
£20.69
Cornell University Press Singing the French Revolution
Book SynopsisLaura Mason examines the shifting fortunes of singing as a political gesture to highlight the importance of popular culture to revolutionary politics. Arguing that scholars have overstated the uniformity of revolutionary political culture, Mason uses...Trade ReviewThe author's research is impressive.... Mason's subject is important, her argument is effectively presented, and the story is interesting. * Journal of Modern History *
£71.10
Cornell University Press Russia at Play
Book SynopsisAn athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational...Trade ReviewFirst and foremost it is a recovery of little-known stories of Russian leisure activities, an effort to 'resurrect' what has largely 'vanished' from historical memory.... This recovery of the past is often quite celebratory (the author's pleasure in discovering and telling these tales of Russians 'at play' is apparent), yet this appreciation has interpretive weight. Louise McReynolds argues, against the well-known contempt for commercial entertainment by contemporary culturalist intellectuals, that Russia's growing commercial mass culture offered citizens facing a rapidly changing modern society much of value. Above all, it offered Russians opportunities to orient themselves as individuals and social beings, to fashion and adapt new identities, and to find refuge. * Slavic Review *In her well-researched and stimulating book, Louise McReynolds brings firmly to our attention the late tsarist leisure industry and show show it can deepen our understanding of Russian culture and society.... The book also has more than fifty well-chosen illustrations: street scenes, sports photos, photo-portraits (especially of actors), cartoons, and promotional pictures of resorts. * SEER *Table of ContentsThe origins of Russia's legitimate stage -- Commercializing the legitimate stage -- Sporting life as modern life -- The actress and the wrestler -- The Russian tourist at home and abroad -- "Steppin' out" in the Russian night at the fin-de-siaecle -- Inthe whirlwind of a waltz -- Tsarist Russia's dream factories.
£52.20
Cornell University Press Murder Most Russian
Book SynopsisHow a society defines crimes and prosecutes criminals illuminates its cultural values, social norms, and political expectations. In Murder Most Russian, Louise McReynolds draws on a fascinating series of murders and subsequent trials that took place in the wake of the 1864 legal reforms enacted by Tsar Alexander II. For the first time in Russian history, the accused were placed in the hands of juries of common citizens in courtrooms that were open to the press. Drawing on a wide array of sources, McReynolds reconstructs murders that gripped Russian society, from the case of Andrei Gilevich, who advertised for a personal secretary and beheaded the respondent as a way of perpetrating insurance fraud, to the beating death of Marianna Time at the hands of two young aristocrats who hoped to steal her diamond earrings.As McReynolds shows, newspapers covered such trials extensively, transforming the courtroom into the most public site in Russia for deliberation about legality and juTrade ReviewLouise McReynold's latest work reinforces her position as an important voice in scholarship on late imperial Russian culture and society.... Murder Most Russian makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of the development of the Russian legal system, the intersection of crime and culture, and the transition to modernity in late imperial Russia. -- Sharon A. Kowalsky * Slavic Review *McReynolds should be commended for the ways in which she integrates high political history with developments on the ground and uses cultural and social analysis to enrich her study of legal institutions. Artfully interweaving literaturese from several disciplines and historiography from different national contexts, Murder Most Russian lucidly tracks Russia's path toward its own unique form of modernity. -- Faith Hillis * Journal of Modern History *Murder defined the Russian fin de siècle. From Dostoevsky's homicidal literary creations, through the 1881 assassination of Alexander II, to a host of killings impelled by greed and lust, the Empire seemed to be plotting its path to modernity in blood. Murder Most Russian is a superb study of the jury trials for homicide ushered in by the legal reforms of the 1860s.... Each trial yields a portrait of a fiercely contested public realm in which ideas about gender, morality, science, the state, and individual sovereignty were all up for grabs.... With this subtle and imaginative book, Louise McReynolds allows readers to peer not only inside the trials themselves but beyond them, into the wider courtroom of Russian public opinion. -- Daniel Beer * Times Literary Supplement *This topic is not only luridly intriguing, but also gives great insight into the Russian cultural consciousness as the empire adapted itself to modern life. McReynolds's compelling book offers a homage to lively detective fiction and gruesome true-crime writing, while also providing an engaging history of crime's role in shaping Russian ways of seeing the world in the late imperial period. -- Eugenia Kapsomera Amditis * Slavic and East European Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Law and Order2. Criminology: Social Crime, Individual Criminal3. The Jurors4. Murder as One of the Middlebrow Arts5. Russia's Postrevolutionary Modern Men6. The "Diva of Death": Maria Tarnovskaia and the Degenerate Slavic Soul7. Crime Fiction Steps into Action8. True Crime and the Troubled Gendering of ModernityConclusionIndex
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Cornell University Press Publicitys Secret
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, media outlets in the United Statesmost notably the Internethave claimed to serve the public''s ever-greater thirst for information. Scandals are revealed, details are laid bare because the public needs to know. In Publicity''s Secret, Jodi Dean claims that the public''s demands for information both coincide with the interests of the media industry and reinforce the cynicism promoted by contemporary technoculture. Democracy has become a spectacle, and Dean asserts that theories of the public sphere endanger democratic politics in the information age.Dean''s argument is built around analyses of Bill Gates, Theodore Kaczynski, popular journalism, the Internet and technology, as well as the conspiracy theory subculture that has marked American history from the Declaration Independence to the political celebrity of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The author claims that the media''s insistence on the public''s right to know leads to the indiscriminate investigation and disseminTrade ReviewCultural theorist Jodi Dean's latest book tackles the issue of the public sphere in a refreshingly contemporary and relevant way by focusing on the role of the technological media in the exercise of public democracy.... One of the most interesting discussions in the book is that of subjectification in terms of a drive toward celebrity, which seems to suggest, in a Sartrean vein, that we experience existence only in the eyes of multiple beholders.... The book serves, however, to raise the question of what democracy would look like without the rational monolith of 'the public' and goes some way to clearing the ground that has served to bolster this (from Dean's perspective) dangerous avoidance tactic. -- Kieran Laird * Contemporary Political Theory *The World Wide Web has made those with access wary of surveillance, loss of privacy, identity theft, lurking, fraud, scams.... Ideology itself, in Dean's argument, has been fundamentally altered under the regime of technoculture. Communication is the new ideology; it has survived the most recent crash of Silicon Valley stock options and taken the place of production.... Dean speaks with an intelligent and important analytic voice about the seductions and dangers of the wired, media-drenched universe. In this universe, the rule of law has morphed into the rule of artificially manufactured public opinion, and what is not publicized does not exist. -- Julia Epstein * Women's Review of Books *Dean discusses how the popular belief in truth in reporting and fairness in the media is almost entirely a myth.... Dean's voice joins a number of other intellectuals such as Ishmael Reed, Joshua Micah Marshall, and Eric Alterman that have come out in favor of critical thinking in our age of Homeland Security Departments and the Office of Information Awareness. With a little luck maybe others will follow their lead. -- Chris Cobb * Leonardo *Dean's book coalesces a number of approaches to the public and publicity, ranging from political theory to psychoanalysis and cultural studies. It identifies a new and consequential amalgam of public and new technologies. It warns of the dangers posed by information overload and generalized skepticism. -- Esther Leslie * Radical Philosophy *For Dean, the modern, and now postmodern, public sphere has always been based upon the integral relationship between secrecy and publicity.... Revealing secrets legitimizes the public realm, a public, however, that never really exists. 'The public' is a simulated, technocultural construct that most people believe actually operates as a democratic representation of 'the people.' It does not. -- Wayne Gabardi * Perspectives on Politics *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Communicative Capitalism: The Ideological Matrix 1. Publicity's Secret 2. Conspiracy's Desire 3. Little Brothers 4. Celebrity's Drive Conclusion: Neo-DemocracyNotes Index
£23.99
Johns Hopkins University Press Comic Book Nation The Transformation of Youth
Book SynopsisComic Book Nation is at once a serious study of popular culture and an entertaining look at an enduring American art form.Trade ReviewA winner... a book that is trenchant, crisply written and absolutely jargon-free, with plenty of enthusiasm but no idolatry-and great fun to read... There should be a place for Comic Book Nation on the bookshelf of anyone who ever read comics for fun as a kid or has taken them seriously as an adult. -- Dennis Drabelle Washington Post Book World Comics fans ought to rejoice over this book. At a time of transition, with underground comics proliferating on the Web while major companies like Marvel try to pull themselves out of bankruptcy, Comic Book Nation offers a much-needed historical perspective. Tracing the industry's rise, Wright gives comics the scholarly attention they deserve, diligently filling in the back story of a medium that has both reflected and shaped American values for generations... Wright deserves credit for tackling the breadth of comics history, and he succeeds commendably in creating a testament to the genre's power. For anyone who has ever read comics or wanted to leap a building in a single bound, Comic Book Nation is worth a look. -- Damien Cave Salon Pow! Bam! Crash! Analysis! This insightful and highly entertaining political and cultural history [offers] an intelligent study not only of comics but of shifting attitudes toward popular culture, children, violence, patriotism, and America itself. Publishers Weekly (starred review) At last, a substantive book studying the effect of comic books on American culture and vice versa... [This] extremely well-organized book traces the genre's birth, expansions, and retractions from the 1930s to the present. The fascinating result highlights the increasingly intriguing interaction between pressing events in American society and what was written and published on colorfully paneled pages... A truly worthwhile study of comics as part of American culture. Library Journal (starred review) A fascinating history of comic books that is impressively researched, amply illustrated, smoothly written, carefully analyzed-and fun. It is a serious but not somber study, enlivened with droll humor and deft analogies. -- Neil A. Grauer Cleveland Plain Dealer Fluently animates the artistic, economic, and social history of comic books, from Superman as '30s hero of the downtrodden to debates over kids' consumption of violent imagery to fan culture. Paper Informative, humorous, and penetrating... [Wright's] theme is simple and persuasive: Comic books provide an acute lens through which to study shifts in popular culture, from World War II to Vietnam to the Reagan era. -- Jacob Heilbrunn Washington Monthly Solid... A well-documented comics-industry chronicle. Booklist An extremely well researched, engagingly written and long overdue attempt to evaluate the historical impact of comic books on American culture. -- Mike Tsichlis St. Louis Post-Dispatch This is a sweeping and ambitious history that is successful in explaining the business of comic book publishing and the ways in which the writers, artists, and publishers created an alternative world that appeals to many youthful readers... The book is well written and illustrated. -- Bernard Mergen Journal of American History I loved Wright's book...Wright succeeds in capturing my past-the smell of chestnuts, popcorn and bubble gum in Grampa's Mom and Pop store [where I bought comic books]-and making us value comics as important cultural artifacts, contributing to our concept of youth and nationhood. Since reading Comic Book Nation, I've rediscovered the joy of comics. -- Grant Tracey North American Review As interesting as it is well written, a serious comic fan might learn a few things NeedCoffee.com 2003 Wright's lively history of the form shows how comic books have molded as well as reflected young Americans as readers, consumers, citizens. -- Jennifer Howard Washington Post Book World 2003 Both educational and entertaining. Cercles 2005Table of ContentsContents: Preface Introduction Chapter 1: Superheroes for the Common Man: The Birth of the Comic Book Industry, 1933-1941 Chapter 2: Race, Politics, and Propaganda: Comic Books Go to War, 1939-1945 Chapter 3: Confronting Success: Comic Books and Postwar America, 1945-1956 Chapter 4: Youth Crisis: Comic Books and Controversy, 1947-1950 Chapter 5: Reds, Romance, and Renegades: Comic Books and the Culture of the Cold War, 1947-1954 Chapter 6: Turning Point: Comic Books in Crisis, 1954-1955 Chapter 7: Great Power and Great Responsibility: Superheroes in a Superpower, 1956-1967 Chapter 8: Questioning Authority: Comic Books and Cultural Change, 1968-1979 Chapter 9: Direct to the Fans: The Comic Book Industry since 1980 Epilogue: The Death of Superman or, Must There Be a Comic Book Industry? Spider-Man at Ground Zero: A 9-11 Postscript
£22.50
University of Toronto Press Literary Celebrity in Canada
Book SynopsisIn recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field of Canadian literature. Building on the argument that celebrity is a phenomenon firmly embraced by mainstream culture, Lorraine York examines it in relation to various tensions and conflicts within the literary community and beyond.Using as examples three contemporary literary celebrities, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Carol Shields, and four earlier popular writers, Pauline Johnson, Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, and L.M. Montgomery, York demonstrates that individual authors respond differently to fame in ways that can be contradictory and complex. She casts doubt on the notion of a specifically Canadian response to fame. Depending on the public interpretatTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Literary Celebrity? Earlier Literary Stardom in Canada Margaret Atwood's 'Uneasy Eminence': Negotiating with the Famous Michael Ondaatje and the 'Twentieth-Century Game of Fame' 'Arriving Late as Always': The Literary Celebrity of Carol Shields Walking the Walk: A ConclusionWorks CitedIndex
£33.30
University of Nebraska Press Making the American Body
Book SynopsisIf you thought the fitness craze was about being healthy, think again. In the first book to tell the full story of the American obsession with fitness and how we got to where we are today, Jonathan Black gives us a backstage look at an industry and the people that have left an indelible mark on the American body and the consciousness it houses.Trade Review“Making the American Body is a fascinating and informative sprint through the history of body worship from the classical Greeks to the present-day fanatics of fitness.”—Pat Jordan, author of A False Spring"In Making the American Body, Jonathan Black masterfully explores the many twists and evolutions of the fitness industry, from barbells to exercise machines to today's health clubs."—Jeff Friend, Foreword Reviews"An interesting history of physical fitness in America."—Karen Sutherland, Library Journal"An engrossing history of fitness in the United States. . . . A must-read for fitness buffs and beefy enough to whet the appetite of even the most inert couch potato."—Kirkus Reviews"The antecedents of the American fitness industry are varied and fascinating, and journalist Black . . . does a superb job of chronicling them."—Publishers Weekly"As a book for a popular audience, it will be of interest to diverse readers."—J. L. Croissant, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: A Night to Remember1. The Shape of History2. Selling the Body Beautiful, 19001930s3. America Shapes Up, 1930s1950s4. The Machine Age, 1960s1970s5. Gotta Move, 1960s1980s6. The Buff Culture, 1970s1990s7. Pumping Up Business, 1980s1990s8. Fitness Today9. Why Exercise?NotesIndex
£26.09
MK - Stanford University Press Image Icon Economy The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary
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Stanford University Press Image Icon Economy The Byzantine Origins of the
Book SynopsisThis book argues that the extraordinary force of the image in contemporary life-the contemporary imaginary-can be traced back to the Byzantine iconoclastic controversy of the eighth and ninth centuries.Table of ContentsContents @toc4:Translator's Acknowledgments ii Abbreviations ii Foreword ii Introduction ii @toc1:Part One: The Economy @toc2:1 Principal Themes 0 2 A Semantic Study of the Term "Economy" 00 @toc1:Part Two: The Iconic Economy @toc2:3 The Doctrine of the Image and Icon 000 4 Sacred Precinct and Profane Space 000 5 Iconic Space and Territorial Rule @toc1:Part Three: Idols and Veronicas @toc2:6 The Idol's "Delenda est" 7 Ghost Story 8 The Jew, Frontally and in Profile @toc4:Extracts from the Iconoclast "Horos" of Hieria (754) 000 Extracts from the Antirrhetics, by Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople 000 Notes 000 Bibliography 000 Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Icons, Byzantine, Semiotics
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Stanford University Press Promises to Keep
Book SynopsisMuch energy has been devoted to interpreting or changing legal rules to defending older business models against the threats posed by the new technologies. These efforts are failing and the entertainment industry has fallen into crisis. This book chronicles how we got into this mess and presents alternative proposals.Trade Review"Digital technologies have given society an extraordinary cultural potential. If that potential is to be made real, we must reconcile it with the legitimate and important claims of copyright. In this beautifully written and careful work, Fisher, more completely than anyone else, maps the choices that we might make. He argues for a choice that would produce enormous social good. And while not everyone will agree with the conclusions he draws, no one who cares seriously about creators or culture can ignore the framework that he has set. There are choices that we as a society must make. And as Rawls did in political theory, or Milton Friedman did in economics, Fisher provides an understanding that will color policy analysis for the generations to come."—Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School"The strength of this book is Fisher's willingness to step above the political fray to solve problems. He has produced one of the most important books in media studies and law in some years. It is refreshing, bold, and provocative. We need it badly." —Siva Vaidhyanathan, Director of Communication Studies, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University"This book provides the first comprehensive, accessible overview of the conflict surrounding music distribution and the emergence of digital communications networks, working towards a detailed proposal for how we could radically transform the way in which our society funds its music and film industries."—Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School"Fisher's proposal might be the best thing that ever happened to the cultural commons: the creators would be paid, while every individual would have unlimited access to every cultural creation." —The New York Times (January 25, 2004)"Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher has completed the first comprehensive examination of various alternative [compensation] models....Our thanks to Professor Fisher for his exhaustive research in making our choices clear."—The Register (February 1, 2004)"Promises to Keep is an intelligent call for reform in the entertainment industry's intellectual property business. . . . For those not fortunate enough to have taken Fisher's class on intellectual property at Harvard, this book is the next best thing. Perhaps better. Reading it is like joining him on an imaginary drive south along California's coastal highway from Silicon Valley to Hollywood. The destination is provocative, and the journey itself is spectacular and edifying."—Legal Times"...Fisher adds an important dimension to the history of plea bargaining precisely because he looks at it with a prosecutor's eye."—Michigan Law Review"Those who care about the future of the entertainment industry will find that time spent reading the book will be well-rewarded and—because it is so well-written—pleasurable, even if readers don't agree with the book's conclusions."—Entertainment Law Reporter"The most interesting aspect of the book is that it brings to the surface the very practical side of the copyright issue involving business considerations in the solutions it proposes."—Law and Politics Book Review“Fisher offers a unique perspective on a growing problem of how to capture the benefits of digital distribution while avoiding the inevitable legal implications that such dissemination ultimately raises.”—Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
£71.10
Stanford University Press Promises to Keep
Book SynopsisOver the years, changes in technology have generated an extraordinary array of new ways in which music and movies can be produced and distributed. This book states that, sadly, we have failed thus far to avail ourselves of these opportunities. It chronicles how we got into this mess and presents three alternative proposals on how to get out of it.Trade Review"Digital technologies have given society an extraordinary cultural potential. If that potential is to be made real, we must reconcile it with the legitimate and important claims of copyright. In this beautifully written and careful work, Fisher, more completely than anyone else, maps the choices that we might make. He argues for a choice that would produce enormous social good. And while not everyone will agree with the conclusions he draws, no one who cares seriously about creators or culture can ignore the framework that he has set. There are choices that we as a society must make. And as Rawls did in political theory, or Milton Friedman did in economics, Fisher provides an understanding that will color policy analysis for the generations to come."—Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School"The strength of this book is Fisher's willingness to step above the political fray to solve problems. He has produced one of the most important books in media studies and law in some years. It is refreshing, bold, and provocative. We need it badly." —Siva Vaidhyanathan, Director of Communication Studies, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University"This book provides the first comprehensive, accessible overview of the conflict surrounding music distribution and the emergence of digital communications networks, working towards a detailed proposal for how we could radically transform the way in which our society funds its music and film industries."—Yochai Benkler, Yale Law School"Fisher's proposal might be the best thing that ever happened to the cultural commons: the creators would be paid, while every individual would have unlimited access to every cultural creation." —The New York Times (January 25, 2004)"Harvard University Professor Terry Fisher has completed the first comprehensive examination of various alternative [compensation] models....Our thanks to Professor Fisher for his exhaustive research in making our choices clear."—The Register (February 1, 2004)"Promises to Keep is an intelligent call for reform in the entertainment industry's intellectual property business. . . . For those not fortunate enough to have taken Fisher's class on intellectual property at Harvard, this book is the next best thing. Perhaps better. Reading it is like joining him on an imaginary drive south along California's coastal highway from Silicon Valley to Hollywood. The destination is provocative, and the journey itself is spectacular and edifying."—Legal Times"...Fisher adds an important dimension to the history of plea bargaining precisely because he looks at it with a prosecutor's eye."—Michigan Law Review"Those who care about the future of the entertainment industry will find that time spent reading the book will be well-rewarded and—because it is so well-written—pleasurable, even if readers don't agree with the book's conclusions."—Entertainment Law Reporter"The most interesting aspect of the book is that it brings to the surface the very practical side of the copyright issue involving business considerations in the solutions it proposes."—Law and Politics Book Review“Fisher offers a unique perspective on a growing problem of how to capture the benefits of digital distribution while avoiding the inevitable legal implications that such dissemination ultimately raises.”—Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts
£19.94
Stanford University Press Ordinary Egyptians
Book SynopsisExamines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity.Trade Review"This refreshing new work fills a significant gap and opens a path for further research on how class and literary taste functioned in the early stages of Egyptian national identity formation. Fahmy places the vernacular more squarely in the center of discussions of the history of Egyptian nationalism and marks out useful signposts in showing how expressive culture articulates with other developments." -- Walter Armbrust * University of Oxford *"This is truly an excellent and original book. Fahmy deconstructs commonly held assumptions regarding the formation of nationalism, particularly in its early stages, providing a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of how agents propelled the formation of nationalism in Egypt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Its contribution to the field is indispensable." -- Israel Gershoni * Tel Aviv University *"Fahmy's work is a well-written and compelling argument to expand our thinking on the formation of Egyptian nationalism. By looking at new sources, found in the written and spoken colloquial Egyptian of everyday Egyptians, Fahmy has greatly added to the historiography of this topic. The author also shows that we must move beyond our Western European-centric notions of linguistic cultural nationalism if we are to wholly understand the formation of nationalism in the Arab world." -- Kelly M. McFarland * Washington Independent Review of Books *"Ordinary Egyptians is a gem in the collection of works on modern Egyptian history. Fahmy covers the rich topic of the colloquial media in Egypt when khedives and then the British governed Egyptian society, spotlighting those who wrote for newspapers, the theater, and the radio. An important book." -- Eve Troutt Powell * University of Pennsylvania *"[Fahmy's book] provides a model for creative but very solid historical studies. Fahmy asks an important question: What role did popular culture play in the formation of the modern Egyptian nation? He plunges into very real controversies over the vernacular versus literary Arabic and makes a clear and persuasive, though inevitably controversial case for that incredibly supple and quite beautiful Egyptian spoken dialect." -- Raymond William Baker * Middle East Journal *"Ziad Fahmy's Ordinary Egyptians offers a compelling alternative to an existing historiogrpahy that has mostly explored Egyptian nationalism from the vantage of elite culture." -- Aaron Jakes * Arab Studies Journal *
£81.90
Stanford University Press Ordinary Egyptians
Book SynopsisExamines how popular media and culture provided ordinary Egyptians with a framework to construct and negotiate a modern national identity.Trade Review"This refreshing new work fills a significant gap and opens a path for further research on how class and literary taste functioned in the early stages of Egyptian national identity formation. Fahmy places the vernacular more squarely in the center of discussions of the history of Egyptian nationalism and marks out useful signposts in showing how expressive culture articulates with other developments." -- Walter Armbrust * University of Oxford *"This is truly an excellent and original book. Fahmy deconstructs commonly held assumptions regarding the formation of nationalism, particularly in its early stages, providing a thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of how agents propelled the formation of nationalism in Egypt in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Its contribution to the field is indispensable." -- Israel Gershoni * Tel Aviv University *"Fahmy's work is a well-written and compelling argument to expand our thinking on the formation of Egyptian nationalism. By looking at new sources, found in the written and spoken colloquial Egyptian of everyday Egyptians, Fahmy has greatly added to the historiography of this topic. The author also shows that we must move beyond our Western European-centric notions of linguistic cultural nationalism if we are to wholly understand the formation of nationalism in the Arab world." -- Kelly M. McFarland * Washington Independent Review of Books *"Ordinary Egyptians is a gem in the collection of works on modern Egyptian history. Fahmy covers the rich topic of the colloquial media in Egypt when khedives and then the British governed Egyptian society, spotlighting those who wrote for newspapers, the theater, and the radio. An important book." -- Eve Troutt Powell * University of Pennsylvania *"[Fahmy's book] provides a model for creative but very solid historical studies. Fahmy asks an important question: What role did popular culture play in the formation of the modern Egyptian nation? He plunges into very real controversies over the vernacular versus literary Arabic and makes a clear and persuasive, though inevitably controversial case for that incredibly supple and quite beautiful Egyptian spoken dialect." -- Raymond William Baker * Middle East Journal *"Ziad Fahmy's Ordinary Egyptians offers a compelling alternative to an existing historiogrpahy that has mostly explored Egyptian nationalism from the vantage of elite culture." -- Aaron Jakes * Arab Studies Journal *
£20.89
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Narrating the Landscape
Book SynopsisRevealing the crucial role of print and visual culture in shaping the nineteenth-century United States, Narrating the Landscape offers fresh insight into the landscapes Americans beheld and imagined in this formative era.
£26.06
MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma Ernest Haycox and the Western
Book SynopsisIn this new book about Ernest Haycox's literary career, Richard Etulain tells the engrossing story of his rise through the ranks of popular magazine and serial fiction to become one of the Western's most successful creators.Trade ReviewThe distinguished western-U.S. historian Richard W. Etulain resurrects the neglected Western writer Ernest Haycox from undeserved obscurity. Etulain traces the development of Haycox's career from its origins in the 'pulps' and the 'slicks' in the 1920s and '30s to such illustrious historical novels as The Wild Bunch and Bugles in the Afternoon in the 1940s. Professor Etulain's critical study is definitive."" - Gary Scharnhorst, author of Owen Wister and the West
£23.70
University of Oklahoma Press Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bills Wild West
Book SynopsisThe unique posters that branded Buffalo Bill's Wild West as the true Wild West experience attracted patrons from around to the traveling show. Michelle Delaney showcases these posters in colour, many of which have never before been reproduced, pairing them with new research into previously inaccessible manuscript and photograph collections.Trade ReviewIn 'Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West', Michelle Delaney showcases these numerous posters in full color, many of which have never before been reproduced, pairing them with new research into previously inaccessible manuscript and photograph collections. Her study also includes Cody's correspondence with his staff, revealing the showman's friendships with notable American and European artists and his show's complex, modern publicity model. Beautifully designed, 'Art and Advertising in Buffalo Bill's Wild West' presents a new perspective on the art, innovation, and advertising acumen that created the international frontier experience of Buffalo Bill's Wild West."" - Midwest Book Review, Wisconsin Book Watch
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Blue Notes
Book SynopsisJazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. Sam Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the cultural narratives associated with it, noting how they have shaped readers' judgments and assumptions about the music.
£31.46
LSU Press Blue Notes Jazz Literature and Loneliness
Book SynopsisJazz can be uplifting, stimulating, sensual, and spiritual. Yet when writers turn to this form of music, they almost always imagine it in terms of loneliness. Sam Reese investigates literary representations of jazz and the cultural narratives associated with it, noting how they have shaped readers' judgments and assumptions about the music.
£999.99
Louisiana State University Press Before Fanfiction
Book SynopsisInvestigates the overlapping cultures of fandom and American literature from the late 1800s to the mid-1940s, exploding the oft-repeated myth that fandom has its origins in the male-dominated letter columns of science fiction pulp magazines in the 1930s.Trade ReviewBefore Fanfiction significantly expands, extends, revises, and reanimates our understanding of the multiple histories of fandom and, in particular, fan writing, through a consideration of other transformative literary practices. Edwards's boldly revisionist approach makes this book essential reading, decentering the white male science fiction fan conventions from fandom's origin stories, in favor of women's clubs, circles, and magazines of the early twentieth century." - Henry Jenkins, author of Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture"A vivid investigation of the historical bonds that link fandom, criticism, and creative practice. Edwards shows how the fan cultures of today are rooted in a matriarchal and thoroughly literary lineage that extends well beyond our contemporary mediaverse." - Sheila Liming, author of What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books"Before Fanfiction reenergizes fan studies in exciting new directions that promise to revolutionize the field. Revising the 'fandom creation myth,' Edwards establishes a lineage of fan audiences through varied genealogies, including early literary fan communities, letter columns in literary magazines, and fan mail. Exploring an intersectional history of fan culture, Edwards changes our understanding of fandom today and, relevantly, what fandom can be in the future. A must-read for fan scholars and audiences alike." - Paul Booth, professor of media and popular culture at DePaul University and author of Playing Fans: Negotiating Fandom and Media in the Digital Age
£62.10
Louisiana State University Press Intersectional Tech Black Users in Digital Gaming
Book SynopsisExamines blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Kishonna Gray highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized populations to stereotypical frames and limited narratives in video games.Trade ReviewIntersectional Tech is a groundbreaking contribution to the growing body of work on race and technology. Gray weaves together incisive structural critique with a nuanced handling of the daily life and experiences of Black gamers. We see how oppressive systems are stood up and circulated in gaming, yet also never lose sight of the continued ways people push back, create sustainable communities for themselves, and seek to dismantle these systems. This is a must read book.
£23.36
Louisiana State University Press Martial Culture Silver Screen
Book SynopsisAnalyses war movies for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape US national identity. The volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition.
£28.45
Louisiana State University Press The Other 1980s
Book SynopsisFans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the United States, but most critical discussions of the period still focus on books from prominent creators. This volume offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this robust era of ambitious comics publishing.
£28.45
Louisiana State University Press Christmas Past
Book SynopsisAs the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past.
£28.45
Louisiana State University Press The Tacky South
Book SynopsisAs a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South.
£69.30
Louisiana State University Press The Tacky South
Book SynopsisAs a way to comment on a person’s style or taste, the word ‘tacky’ has distinctly southern origins, with its roots tracing back to the so-called ‘tackies’ who tacked horses on South Carolina farms prior to the Civil War. The Tacky South presents eighteen fun, insightful essays that examine connections between tackiness and the American South.
£28.45
Louisiana State University Press Red Reckoning
Book SynopsisThough it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the US and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity.Trade ReviewRed Reckoning assembles a remarkable set of authors and essays—provocative, bold, controversial, and enlightening—which suggest how much the Cold War changed America." - Thomas A. Schwartz, author of Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography"The unsuspected corners of American society that this book explores make Red Reckoning a volume to savor." - Stephen J. Whitfield, author of The Culture of the Cold War"Red Reckoning is an excellent catalyst for revisiting so much of what the Cold War altered about American life and discussing how these changes now influence our present politics." - Jack Adam MacLennan, assistant professor of political science and graduate program director for National Security Studies at Park University"By examining the Cold War's impact on U.S. society, Red Reckoning helps illustrate the degree to which our rights, laws, government policies, social culture, entertainment, and even our national identity were transformed by Cold War fears and assumptions." - Ralph G. Carter, author of Essentials of U.S. Foreign Policy Making"Red Reckoning carefully explains how the military, economic, informational, and diplomatic perils of the struggles between the world's superpowers impacted domestic policy and family structures. I highly recommend it." - Maj. Gen. Byron S. Bagby (retired), former operations director of Joint Force Command Brunssum (NATO) and chief of staff for US Army, Europe
£28.45
Louisiana State University Press The Winter Dance Party
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£44.20
MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Golden State Golden Youth The California Image in Popular Culture 19551966
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£32.36
University of Pennsylvania Press Looking West
Book SynopsisIn Looking West, John D. Dorst examines a largely neglected pattern of seeing that stands in contrast to the universally familiar iconography.
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Demographic Vistas
Book SynopsisIn Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students and casual viewers alike. This updated edition includes a new foreword by Horace Newcomb and a new introduction by the author that discusses the ways in which the nature of television criticism has changed since the book's original publication in 1984. A new final chapter explores the paradox of the diminishing importance of over-the-air broadcasting during the period of television's greatest expansion, which has been brought about by complex technologies such as cable, videocassette recorders, and online services.Trade Review"A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American televsion." * American Studies International *"Demographic Vistas analyzes television in the tradition of a Gilbert Seldes or Michael Arlen. Exhibiting fluency in television history, theories of culture, and American literature, the book offers a thoughtful, idiosyncratic interpretation of television's life so far in American culture." * Critical Studies in Mass Communication *"Marc does a good job of drawing links between the American literary tradition and television themes, which illustrate that television texts are not isolated from the critical mainstream of American creative efforts. . . . These links illustrate that television texts offer themselves to much the same analytical forms as any other literary endeavor." * Southern Speech Communication Journal *Table of ContentsPreface to the 1984 Edition Foreword to the Revised Edition , by Horace Newcomb Introduction to the Revised Edition 1. Beginning to Begin Again 2. The Situation Comedy of Paul Henning: Modernity and the American Folk Myth in The Beverly Hillbillies 3. The Comedy of Public Safety 4. Gleason's Push 5. Self-Reflexive at Last 6. What Was Broadcasting? Appendix: Broadcast Network Prime Time Viewing Suggestions, 1984-96 Notes Bibliography Glossary Main Index Index of Television Series Index of Films Made for Theatrical Release
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Blood Read
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Blood Read is a fresh look at an old form, offering lively, lucid insights into the contemporary explosion of vampire fiction. Nothing else like it exists. This book should set the terms for discussion about vampires for some time to come."-Brian Attebery, Idaho State UniversityTable of ContentsForeword: Vampires—The Ancient Fear —Brian Aldiss Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: The Shape of Vampires —Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger 2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed -Nina Auerbach 3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door —Jules Zanger 4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction —Margaret L. Carter 5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother —Joan Gordon 6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry —Suzy McKee Charnas 7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood —Brian Stableford 8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction —Jewelle Gomez 9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire —Sandra Tomc 10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan —Nicola Nixon 11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld —Rob Latham 12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins —Miriam Jones 13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction —Trevor Holmes 14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire —Mari Kotani 15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire —Veronica Hollinger Notes Works Cited Films Cited Index List of Contributors
£21.59
MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Disco Divas
Book SynopsisThe 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. The essays in Disco Divas reveal that the 1970s, far from being an era of cultural stasis, were a time of great social change, particularly for women.
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Stir It Up Home Economics in American Culture
Book SynopsisStir It Up explores the changing aims of home economics while putting the phenomena of Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, Ty Pennington, and the "Mommy Wars" into historical context.Trade Review"Elias's account of the home economics movement focuses on its academic roots, its relationship to broader national policies, and the evolution of consumerism in the twentieth century. She does a marvelous job of demonstrating that what is now perceived as an obscure relic of an antique era was at its inception solidly mainstream, progressive, and pro-woman." * Journal of American History *"With her copious research and insights into the critical space of home economics in the early stages of the twenty-first century, Megan Elias opens many doors for future conversation. Much as its title proclaims, Stir It Up successfully does just that." * Women's Studies *"At a time when we're still grappling with questions about gender, domesticity, and consumerism, Elias's history of home ec provides a thought-provoking glimpse into a movement that has helped to shape our understanding of these very issues." * Bust *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Department of One's Own 2. At Home in the World 3. Future Homemakers of America 4. Burn Your Braziers Epilogue: Flip this Housewife Notes Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Pulse of the People
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pulse of the People masterfully marries political psychology scholarship and research methods with the growing literature on the ever increasing impact of Hip-Hop culture both nationally and globally." * Melanye Price, Rutgers University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Watch for the Hook Chapter 1. Behind the Music: Black Political Attitudes and Rap Music Chapter 2. Music and Political Resistance: The Cultural Foundation of Black Politics Chapter 3. It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop: Rap Music and Black Nationalism Chapter 4. Beyond the Music: Black Feminism and Rap Music Chapter 5. The Future of Politics: The Implications of Rap Music and Political Attitudes Conclusion. It's Still Bigger Than Hip-Hop: The Future of Rap and Politics Appendices 1. Political Rap Songs 2. HSAN and BPP Demands Notes Bibliography Discography Index Acknowledgments
£21.59
University of Pennsylvania Press Recipes for Thought Knowledge and Taste in the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Wall brilliantly restores an unfamiliar version of early modern domesticity. [Her] achievement . . . is to light up this earlier period, when England was the most dynamic site of recipe publication in Europe." * London Review of Books *"A nuanced and in many ways fresh account of how Renaissance recipes function as knowledge. . . . The book is a signal accomplishment that will prove as useful in the years to come as the recipes it analyzes proved to an earlier age." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Crammed with delightful discoveries, Recipes for Thought offers us a vibrant new picture of the early modern housewife as reader, writer, and knowledge producer and the kitchen as an arena of debate, experiment, and invention. Linking the kitchen to the lab and the pharmacy, the recipe to the poem and the play, Wendy Wall rejoins what has since been put asunder to re-create a world we not only lost but forgot about." * Frances Dolan, University of California, Davis *Table of ContentsPreface. The Appetizer Introduction. The Order of Serving Chapter 1. Taste Acts Chapter 2. Pleasure: Kitchen Conceits in Print Chapter 3. Literacies: Handwriting and Handiwork Chapter 4. Temporalities: Preservation, Seasoning, and Memorialization Chapter 5. Knowledge: Recipes and Experimental Cultures Coda Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press Recipes for Thought Knowledge and Taste in the
Book SynopsisSituated at the vital intersection of physiology, gastronomy, decorum, knowledge-production, and labor, recipes from the past allow us to understand the significant ways that kitchen work was an intellectual and creative enterprise.Trade Review"Wall brilliantly restores an unfamiliar version of early modern domesticity. [Her] achievement . . . is to light up this earlier period, when England was the most dynamic site of recipe publication in Europe." * London Review of Books *"A nuanced and in many ways fresh account of how Renaissance recipes function as knowledge. . . . The book is a signal accomplishment that will prove as useful in the years to come as the recipes it analyzes proved to an earlier age." * Renaissance and Reformation *"Crammed with delightful discoveries, Recipes for Thought offers us a vibrant new picture of the early modern housewife as reader, writer, and knowledge producer and the kitchen as an arena of debate, experiment, and invention. Linking the kitchen to the lab and the pharmacy, the recipe to the poem and the play, Wendy Wall rejoins what has since been put asunder to re-create a world we not only lost but forgot about." * Frances Dolan, University of California, Davis *Table of ContentsPreface. The Appetizer Introduction. The Order of Serving Chapter 1. Taste Acts Chapter 2. Pleasure: Kitchen Conceits in Print Chapter 3. Literacies: Handwriting and Handiwork Chapter 4. Temporalities: Preservation, Seasoning, and Memorialization Chapter 5. Knowledge: Recipes and Experimental Cultures Coda Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida An Incurable Past
Book SynopsisExamining history not as it was recorded, but as it is remembered, An Incurable Past contextualizes the classist and deeply disappointing post-Nasserist period that has inspired today’s Egyptian revolutionaries. Public performances, songs, stories, oral histories, and everyday speech reveal the ways in which ordinary people experience and remember the past.Trade Review“Spanning virtually the entire twentieth century and as timely as the outbreak of the 2011 ‘January Revolution,’ this work has much to say about where Egypt has been, who Egyptians are and, ultimately, where they may take their country.”—Joel Gordon, author of Nasser: Hero of the Arab Nation“A truly extraordinary accomplishment that is thought provoking, creative, and inspiring. Belli is the first in Middle Eastern studies to examine the cultural history of twentieth- century Egypt through the interactions between education and remembrance. Her revised theoretical approach is applicable not only to Middle Eastern societies and cultures, but to others worldwide.”—Israel Gershoni, Tel Aviv University“An interesting history of memory that is diverse, dynamic, and disparate. Makes an outstanding contribution to our understandings of Egyptian national identity and memory.”—Nancy L. Stockdale, University of North Texas
£21.56
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Zombies
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewCharlier deftly incorporates complex medical terminology with the voice of a storyteller." - Forbes
£14.36
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Dirty Harrys America Clint Eastwood Harry
Book SynopsisArgues that the Dirty Harry series sheds critical light on the culture and politics of the post-1960s era and locates San Francisco as the symbolic cultural battleground of the time. Joe Street maintains that the films themselves became active participants in the culture wars, paying particular attention to the films’ representation of crime, family and community, sexuality, and race.
£52.70
