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Book SynopsisPopular Culture: A User's Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them. Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary and tools to analyze popular culture suitable for the study of popular culture across a range of disciplines, from literary theory and cultural studies to philosophy and sociology Covers a broad range of important topics including the underlying socioeconomic structures that affect media, the politics of pop culture, the role of consumers, subcultures and countercultures, and the construction of social reality Examines the ways in which individuals and societies act as consumers and agents of popular culture Table of ContentsPreface: A User’s Guide to Popular Culture: A User’s Guide ix Acknowledgments xiii 1 Introducing Popular Culture 1 Approaching Popular Culture 1 Defining Popular Culture 2 Popular Culture Invades the Classroom 12 The Americanization of Popular Culture 14 The Decolonization of Culture 15 Culture and Economics—The Postindustrial Revolution 17 Why This? Why Now? Why Me? A Couple of Final Arguments for the Importance of Studying Popular Culture 18 Coffee as Popular Culture 19 And It All Boils Down To…What Is in a Cup of Coffee? 27 Suggestions for Further Reading 28 2 The History of Popular Culture 29 Taking It from the Streets 29 Making the Streets Safe for Commerce 30 Popular Recreation before 1830 31 Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution 32 Popular Recreation and Resistance 38 The Production of Commercial Mass Culture—the Birth of the Culture Industry 43 Continuities and Changes 49 Suggestions for Further Reading 55 3 Representation and the Construction of Social Reality 57 Truth2Power 57 Constructing a Crisis—the Discourse of Violent Youth 58 Signification—the Production of Social Sense 59 Representing the Youth Crisis 63 Truth2Power: The Politics of Representation 75 Contexts of Representation 79 Representation in Contemporary Culture 86 Suggestions for Further Reading 89 4 The Production of Popular Culture 91 The Business of Culture 91 “Money Changes Everything”: The Pitfalls of Thinking about Production 93 The Culture Industry Thesis 96 Shifting Modes of Cultural Production 106 Cultural Production Today 112 Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing 122 5 The Consuming Life 123 Back to “Normal” 123 A Brief History of Consumer Culture 126 Consumption as Distinction 135 Consumption, Desire, and Pleasure 140 The Politics of Consumption 142 Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing 148 6 Identity and the Body 151 Identity—a Necessary Fiction? 151 The History of Identity—Some Different Theories 153 Hegemonic Masculinity, Postfeminism, and the Third-Wave 161 LGBTQ+ 168 Different Bodies, Different Selves? 172 Altered States 176 Suggestions for Further Reading 182 7 Identity, Community, Collectivity 183 Who Do You Want Me to Be? 183 “The People Who Are Ours” 187 Modern Identities: Nation, Empire, and Race 191 Nation and Empire 197 Postcolonial Identities 200 Postnational Identities: Melted, Frozen, Reconstituted 204 Community or Collectivity? 210 Suggestions for Further Reading 212 8 Subcultures and Countercultures 213 The Mainstream and Other Streams 213 Subcultures and Countercultures: What Is the Difference? 217 Popular Representations of Subcultures and Countercultures 221 The Politics of Subcultures 229 Suggestions for Further Reading 240 9 Space, Place, and Globalization 243 (Dis)Locations of Popular Culture 243 Private versus Public Space 246 Inside Out 255 The Big Picture: Globalization? 262 Is Globalization Real? 264 Globalization and Popular Culture 271 Globalization: What’s Next? 279 Suggestions for Further Reading 279 10 Popular Culture in the Twenty]First Century 281 In with the New? 281 Many Popular Cultures? 283 New Technology and Its Discontents 287 Lost Generation? 301 What Is Next? 309 Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing 310 Glossary 311 Works Cited 327 Index 345

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Book SynopsisA Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies offers scholars and fans an accessible and engaging resource for understanding the rapidly expanding field of fan studies. International in scope and written by a team that includes many major scholars, this volume features over thirty especially-commissioned essays on a variety of topics, which together provide an unparalleled overview of this fast-growing field. Separated into five sectionsHistories, Genealogies, Methodologies; Fan Practices; Fandom and Cultural Studies; Digital Fandom; and The Future of Fan Studiesthe book synthesizes literature surrounding important theories, debates, and issues within the field of fan studies. It also traces and explains the social, historical, political, commercial, ethical, and creative dimensions of fandom and fan studies. Exploring both the historical and the contemporary fan situation, the volume presents fandom and fan studies as models of 21st century production and consumption, and identifies Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1Paul Booth Part I Histories, Genealogies, Methodologies 11 1 Fandom, Negotiation, and Participatory Culture 13Henry Jenkins 2 Foundational Discourses of Fandom 27Daniel Cavicchi 3 Literature Fandom and Literary Fans 47Alexandra Edwards 4 The Fan Experience 65Karen Hellekson 5 Soap Fans, Revisited 77C. Lee Harrington and Denise Bielby 6 Not My Lifeblood: Autoethnography, Affective Fluctuations and Popular Music Antifandom 91Ross Garner 7 Representations of Fans and Fandom in the British Newspaper Media 107Lucy Bennett 8 Ethics in Fan Studies Research 123Ruth A. Deller Part II Fan Practices 143 9 Make Space for Us! Fandom in the Real World 145Lynn Zubernis and Katherine Larsen 10 Nostalgia, Fandom and the Remediation of Children’s Culture 161Lincoln Geraghty 11 Fan Fashion: Re‐enacting Hunger Games through Clothing and Design 175Nicolle Lamerichs 12 Slash/Drag: Appropriation and Visibility in the Age of Hamilton 189Francesca Coppa 13 “Becoming a Part of the Storytelling”: Fan Vidding Practices and Histories 207Katharina Freund Part III Fandom and Cultural Studies 225 14 “Angry False‐Teeth‐Chattering Mayhem”: Synecdochic Fandom, Representation and Performance in Mature Woman Fandom of British Professional Wrestling 227Tom Phillips 15 It’s About Who You Know: Social Capital, Hierarchies and Fandom 243Bertha Chin 16 Ontological Security and the Politics of Transcultural Fandom 257Lori Morimoto 17 Fandom and Otaku 277Miranda Ruth Larsen 18 Otaku Pedestrians 289Marc Steinberg and Edmond Ernest dit Alban 19 The Unbearable Whiteness of Fandom and Fan Studies 305Mel Stanfill 20 Who Do You Mean by “Fan?” Decolonizing Media Fandom Identity 319Rukmini Pande 21 Racebending and Prosumer Fanart Practices in Harry Potter Fandom 333Jessica Seymour Part IV Digital Fandom 349 22 Tumblr Pedagogies 351Melanie E.S. Kohnen 23 Active Fandom: Labor and Love in The Whedonverse 369Casey J. McCormick 24 “May We Meet Again”: Social Bonds, Activities, and Identities in the #Clexa Fandom 385Mélanie Bourdaa 25 Of Spinoffs and Spinning Off 401Louisa Stein 26 #AskELJames, Ghostbusters, and #Gamergate: Digital Dislike and Damage Control 415Bethan Jones 27 Red Pillers, Sad Puppies, and Gamergaters: The State of Male Privilege in Internet Fan Communities 431Katie Wilson 28 “Fate Has a Habit of Not Letting Us Choose Our Own Endings”: Post‐object Fandom, Social Media and Material Culture at the End of Hannibal 447Rebecca Williams Part V The Future of Fan Studies 461 29 Understanding Which Fandom? Insights from Two Decades as a Music Fan Researcher 463Mark Duffett 30 Implicit Fandom in the Fields of Theatre, Art, and Literature: Studying “Fans” Beyond Fan Discourses 477Matt Hills 31 Janeites and Sherlockians: Literary Societies, Cultural Legitimacy, and Gender 495Roberta Pearson 32 Porn Consumers as Fans 509Alan McKee 33 Kant/Squid (The Fanfiction Assemblage) 521Anne Jamison 34 Interdisciplinarity in Fan Studies 539Tisha Turk Index 553

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Book SynopsisInvestigating the trail of philosophical leads in HBO's chilling True Detective series, an elite team of philosophers examine far-reaching riddles including human pessimism, Rust's anti-natalism, the problem of evil, and the flat circle'. The first book dedicated to exploring the far-reaching philosophical questions behind the darkly complex and Emmy-nominated HBO True Detective series Explores in a fun but insightful way the rich philosophical and existential experiences that arise from this gripping show Gives new perspectives on the characters in the series, its storylines, and its themes by investigating core questions such as: Why Life Rather Than Death? Cosmic Horror and Hopeful Pessimism, the Illusion of Self, Noir, Tragedy, Philosopher-Detectives, and much, much more Draws together an elite team of philosophers to shine new light on why this genre-expanding show has inspired such a fervently questioning fan-base Table of ContentsIntroduction: Welcome to the Psychosphere ix Jacob Graham and Tom Sparrow Part I “It’s All One Ghetto, Man … a Giant Gutter in Outer Space”: Pessimism and Anti-natalism 1 1 Why Life Rather than Death? Answers from Rustin Cohle and Arthur Schopenhauer 3 Sandra Shapshay 2 Grounding Carcosa: Cosmic Horror and Philosophical Pessimism in True Detective 11 Christopher Mountenay 3 Hart and Cohle: The Hopeful Pessimism of True Detective 22 Joshua Foa Dienstag 4 Loving Rust’s Pessimism: Rationalism and Emotion in True Detective 31 Rick Elmore 5 Rust’s Anti-natalism: The Moral Imperative to “Opt Out of a Raw Deal” 42 Chris Byron Part II “we Get the World We Deserve”: Cruelty, Violence, Evil, and Justice 53 6 Where Is the Cruelty in True Detective? 55 G. Randolph Mayes 7 Nevermind: Subjective and Objective Violence in Vinci 65 Luke Howie 8 Naturalism, Evil, and the Moral Monster: The Evil Person in True Detective 76 Peter Brian Barry 9 “But I Do Have a Sense of Justice”: Law and Justice in the Bleak World of Vinci 87 Beau Mullen Part III “everybody’s Nobody”: Consciousness, Existence, and Identity 97 10 A Dream Inside a Locked Room: The Illusion of Self 99 Evan Thompson 11 I Am Not Who I Used to Be, But Am I Me? Personal Identity and the Narrative of Rust 108 Andrew M. Winters 12 “The Light Is Winning” 120 Sarah K. Donovan 13 The Tragic Misstep: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Last Midnight 132 Daniel P. Malloy Part IV “this Is My Least Favorite Life”: Noir, Tragedy, and Philosopher-detectives 143 14 The Tragedy of True Detective Season Two: Living Our “Least Favorite Lives” 145 Alison Horbury 15 The Noir Detective and the City 158 Chuck Ward 16 Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero 169 Daniel Tutt Part V “Time Is a Flat Circle”: Time in True Detective 177 17 Time Is a Flat Circle: Nietzsche’s Concept of Eternal Recurrence 179 Lawrence J. Hatab 18 Eternal Recurrence and the Philosophy of the “Flat Circle” 186 Paul A. DiGeorgio Known Associates 196 Index 201

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Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to key theories and debates in popular cultural studies. This title presents a reasoned argument about the distinctive contribution that theology can make to the study of popular culture. It is suitable for beginning students and more advanced researchers.Trade Review“This presumes some level of bricolage, but I think it is safe to say this seems normal in the modern West. As Lynch argues, in so far as theology is concerned with “issues of truth, goodness, evil, suffering, redemption, and beauty” ( 37) then it becomes clear that popular culture, as it is engaged with similar themes, is an important field of investigation for theologians, and thus for anyone interested in the study of religions.” (International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2012) “It offers an engaging and well-informed synthesis of contemporary theological reflection in the context of today’s popular culture … An excellent volume that will serve the discussion of theology and popular culture well.” Jeff Keuss, Northwest Graduate School "Lynch has written an excellent introduction for dialogue between theology and popular culture. . . This book is useful in undergraduate or graduate courses in religion and popular culture, media studies or individuals interest in critical reflection on theology and popular culture." Religious Studies Review "What is 'popular' about popular culture? What is the relationship between religion and popular culture? Why would a theologian, or anyone involved in the study of religion, give attention to popular culture? The work of theologians and others related to popular culture often begs such questions. Lynch's book is important in that it puts such questions in perspective. This book clarifies the exchange between religion and popular culture and what scholars have made of the interconnections. Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is an intriguing and insightful study. I highly recommend it." Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University "This is an excellent introduction to the field of cultural studies as a whole, as well as providing a clear map of the ways in which theology and religious studies have sought to engage with popular culture." Third Way “Lynch’s discussion of the definitions of popular culture provides an excellent introduction to the topic, and his rationale for theology joining other academic disciplines in the serious study of popular is convincing… Informed throughout by a wide reading in the literature of popular culture, this book deserves careful consideration for any course focusing on the understanding of theology and popular culture.” Choice "Those of us who have plunged deeply (and boldly, if somewhat unpreparedly) into the murky interdisciplinary waters of studying theology and popular culture will no doubt be grateful to have Gordon Lynch as a lifeguard, throwing us a lifeline of method and theory for which we were desparately searching." Gaye Williams Ortiz, Augusta State University, Journal of Contemporary Religion "Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is a well-structured volume which competently deals with the work of a wide range of theologians, philosophers and cultural researchers. This will, therefore, be an extremely valuable book for students and other readers." Crucible, July-Sept 2006Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface. 1 What is “Popular Culture”?. 2 Why Should Theologians and Scholars of Religion Study Popular Culture?. 3 Machines, TVs, and Shopping: The Shape of Everyday Life in Contemporary Western Society. 4 Can Popular Culture Be Bad For Your Health?. 5 Developing a Theological Approach to the Study of Popular Culture. 6 An Author-Focused Approach to Studying Popular Culture: Eminem and the Redemption Of Violence. 7 Text-Based Approaches To Studying Popular Culture: “Homer The Heretic” and Civil Religion. 8 An Ethnographic Approach to Studying Popular Culture: The Religious Significance of Club Culture. 9 Taking Steps Towards A Theological Aesthetics of Popular Culture. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding Theology and Popular Culture is one of the first books to give an overview of the key issues and methods in this field of study.Trade Review“This presumes some level of bricolage, but I think it is safe to say this seems normal in the modern West. As Lynch argues, in so far as theology is concerned with “issues of truth, goodness, evil, suffering, redemption, and beauty” ( 37) then it becomes clear that popular culture, as it is engaged with similar themes, is an important field of investigation for theologians, and thus for anyone interested in the study of religions.” (International Journal for the Study of New Religions, 2012) “It offers an engaging and well-informed synthesis of contemporary theological reflection in the context of today’s popular culture … An excellent volume that will serve the discussion of theology and popular culture well.” Jeff Keuss, Northwest Graduate School "Lynch has written an excellent introduction for dialogue between theology and popular culture. . . This book is useful in undergraduate or graduate courses in religion and popular culture, media studies or individuals interest in critical reflection on theology and popular culture." Religious Studies Review "What is 'popular' about popular culture? What is the relationship between religion and popular culture? Why would a theologian, or anyone involved in the study of religion, give attention to popular culture? The work of theologians and others related to popular culture often begs such questions. Lynch's book is important in that it puts such questions in perspective. This book clarifies the exchange between religion and popular culture and what scholars have made of the interconnections. Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is an intriguing and insightful study. I highly recommend it." Anthony B. Pinn, Rice University "This is an excellent introduction to the field of cultural studies as a whole, as well as providing a clear map of the ways in which theology and religious studies have sought to engage with popular culture." Third Way “Lynch’s discussion of the definitions of popular culture provides an excellent introduction to the topic, and his rationale for theology joining other academic disciplines in the serious study of popular is convincing… Informed throughout by a wide reading in the literature of popular culture, this book deserves careful consideration for any course focusing on the understanding of theology and popular culture.” Choice "Those of us who have plunged deeply (and boldly, if somewhat unpreparedly) into the murky interdisciplinary waters of studying theology and popular culture will no doubt be grateful to have Gordon Lynch as a lifeguard, throwing us a lifeline of method and theory for which we were desparately searching." Gaye Williams Ortiz, Augusta State University, Journal of Contemporary Religion "Understanding Theology and Popular Culture is a well-structured volume which competently deals with the work of a wide range of theologians, philosophers and cultural researchers. This will, therefore, be an extremely valuable book for students and other readers." Crucible, July-Sept 2006Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables. Preface. 1 What is “Popular Culture”?. 2 Why Should Theologians and Scholars of Religion Study Popular Culture?. 3 Machines, TVs, and Shopping: The Shape of Everyday Life in Contemporary Western Society. 4 Can Popular Culture Be Bad For Your Health?. 5 Developing a Theological Approach to the Study of Popular Culture. 6 An Author-Focused Approach to Studying Popular Culture: Eminem and the Redemption Of Violence. 7 Text-Based Approaches To Studying Popular Culture: “Homer The Heretic” and Civil Religion. 8 An Ethnographic Approach to Studying Popular Culture: The Religious Significance of Club Culture. 9 Taking Steps Towards A Theological Aesthetics of Popular Culture. Notes. Bibliography. Index

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Book SynopsisRe-reading Popular Culture is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture. Includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity Traces its topics across a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children''s television and games Clearly and accessibly written for the student, scholar, and general reader. Trade Review“A bold book, written with passion and verve, that challenges us to take a serious look at the role of popular culture in creating citizenship and democracy. It is that rare thing: a brilliant book for studying methods but also a political call for engagement.” Christine Geraghty, University of Glasgow "Hitting all the highlights of popular culture analysis, Joke Hermes reasserts the thesis that popular culture is a domain in which we practice the reinvention of who we are, while acknowledging the pitfalls of such a belief." Andrea Press, University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments. Introduction Popular culture/cultural citizenship. 1 Ethnicity, football and the nation. 2 Negotiating global popular culture. 3 Conservative feminism and the detective novel. 4 Masculinity and the merits of textual analysis as part of an audience study. 5 Critical viewership. 6 Children and media. 7 Popular culture: a modern and a postmodern genealogy. Concluding remarks. References. Index

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Book SynopsisMinerva's Night Out presents series of essays by noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy, motion pictures, and popular culture. Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect on philosophical issues relating to modern film and popular culture Authored by one of the best known philosophers dealing with film and popular culture Written in an accessible manner to appeal to students and scholars Coverage ranges from the philosophy of Halloween to Vertigo and the pathologies of romantic love Trade Review“The combination of his well-deserved reputation with the subject matter will ensure that the volume has a widespread appeal, from academic philosophers to students of popular culture and the consumers of mass art.” (British Journal of Aesthetics, 1 September 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Philosophy and the Popular Arts 1 Section I The Philosophy of Mass Art 7 1 The Ontology of Mass Art 9 2 Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception 29 3 The Ties that Bind: Characters, the Emotions, and Popular Fictions 40 4 Character, Social Information, and the Challenge of Psychology 64 Section II The Philosophy of Motion Pictures 83 5 Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy 85 6 The Problem with Movie Stars 106 7 Cinematic Narrative 122 8 Cinematic Narration 133 9 Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film 145 Section III Philosophy and Popular Film 159 10 Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Case of Sunset Boulevard 161 11 Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love 183 12 What Mr Creosote Knows about Laughter 194 13 Memento and the Phenomenology of Comprehending Motion Picture Narration 203 Section IV Philosophy and Popular TV 221 14 Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology 223 15 Sympathy for Soprano 234 16 Consuming Passion: Sex and the City 247 Section V Philosophy on Broadway 267 17 Art and Friendship 269 18 Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, or The Justification of Literature 276 Section VI Philosophy across Popular Culture 289 19 The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween 291 20 The Grotesque Today: Preliminary Notes toward a Taxonomy 302 21 Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation 324 Index 348

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Book SynopsisThe Myth of Popular Culture In this fascinating examination of popular culture, esteemed cultural critic Perry Meisel shatters conventionally held notions about the division between high and low culture with the provocative theory that popular culture has sustained dialectical rhythms. Meisel's deft critical analysis of three enduring cultural traditions the American novel, Hollywood, and British and American rock music leads us to question the very concept of the division between high and low culture. Meisel begins his engaging discussion by refuting philosopher Theodor Adorno's assertion that high culture is dialectical and pop is not, showing that popular culture does indeed have a conversation both with its sources and with cultural authority as a whole. In the final section, Meisel turns his attention to Bob Dylan, a figure who, more than any other, shows what it means to synthesize and revise all traditions music, poetry, iconography and transform them completelTable of ContentsPreface: The Resistance to Pop Acknowledgments Part I "The Battle of the Brows" 1. A History of High and Low "Highbrow," "Lowbrow," "Middlebrow" "Folk" and "Soul" Dante’s Republic "General Converse": Johnson and the Long Eighteenth Century "Similitude in Dissimilitude" Keats and Mediocrity Culture and Anarchy in the UK "The Battle of the Brows" "Kitsch" The Myth of Popular Culture 2. Pop Culture in the Spectator Poems of the People Canons and "Camp" Base and Superstructure, Soma and Psyche 3. Pop and Postmodernism The Social Self Andy Warhol "Hey, Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair" Part II Dialectics of Pop 4. The Death of Kings: American Fiction from Cooper to Chandler "Paleface" and "Redskin," Cowboy and Dandy Pathfinding: Cooper and Mark Twain Labor, Leisure, Love: Melville, James, Hemingway Transatlantic: Raymond Chandler 5. Knock on Any Door: Three Histories of Hollywood Ars Gratia Artis Benjamin, Bazin, Eisenstein Dialectics of Directing: Hawks, Welles, Scorsese Dialectics of Acting: Barrymore, Bogart, Brando Blonde on Blonde: Harlow and Monroe Hang ’Em High: Welles, Lewis, Eastwood 6. The Blues Misreading of Gospel: A History of Rock and Roll A Scandal in Bohemia Jazz Myth, Jazz Reality Soul Synthesis Plugging In Buddy Holly and the British Invasion The Body English Part III The World of Bob Dylan 7. Dylan and the Critics Falling The Limits of Typology Dylan as Poet 8. Words and Music Fractions "Slippin’ and Slidin’" Dylan and Deferred Action 9. Dylan Himself The Death of the Author The Grand Tour and the Middle Passage Hortatory 10. The Three Icons: Sinatra, Presley, Dylan Iconography and Gender The Fedora as Phallus Elvis as Bobbysoxer "My Darling Young One" Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis timely assessment of the evolution of masculine culture will be welcomed and debated by social and intellectual historians for years to come.Trade ReviewPettegrew... casts a challenge against conventionally accepted Darwinian notions of brutishness as an essential and natural male trait. He argues that male dominance and aggression are not predestined by instinct, but culturally and ideologically constructed, desired, and performed through time... This book contributes to intellectual and cultural history on gender and manhood. Choice Pettegrew's book remains rigorous and passionate in its narration of the historic appeal as well as the immediate dangers of de-evolutionary masculinity. -- Jennifer Travis American Historical Review Ambitious study... valuable in exploring the vast cultural production of masculine instinct as a fact of life. -- Woody Register Labor History To Pettegrew's great credit, his study looks both forward and back: at the way masculinity was naturalized as aggressive in turn-of-the-century society; and, perhaps more importantly, at the extent to which modern-day historians, scientists, and ordinary citizens deploy discourses of evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and psychology in a misplaced effort to read gender as the offspring of biology and society. -- Martin A. Berger Journal of American History Will be of interest to scholars of cultures of violence and middle-American masculinity. He offers a solid history of the naturalizing revelry of men in the violence they do. -- Neal King American Journal of Sociology It will spark debate within the field for its bold explanation of why modern men feel as though violence is both their burden and right. -- Ryan Anderson H-SHGAPE, H-Net Reviews [A] vivid, massively researched history of 'hyper-masculine' sensibility at the turn of the twentieth century... An instructive and provocative view of men's dark side. -- Peter Filene Men and Masculinities This fascinating and ambitious study explores how an aggressive 'de-evolutionary' model of masculinity was woven into a broad range of American institutions... Pettegrew brings together feminist theory, 'an anthropological ironist perspective' and a wealth of gender studies scholarship to investigate the development of a pervasive mindset of brutish masculinity within a rich selection of archival and popular cultural materials... This well-researched and engaging volume will certainly enrich the ever-growing field of men's studies. -- Christina Jarvis Gender and HistoryTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The De-Evolutionary Turn in U.S. MasculinityDarwin and Evolutionary Psychology, Then and NowJohn Dewey, Pierre Bourdieu, and Masculinity as a Habit of Mind"The Caveman within Us" and the Masculinist Culture of Mimicry1. Rugged IndividualismFrederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis: Origins, Composition, and MeaningsTurner's Influence on the Social Psychology of the CityRadical Individualism: Masculinist Art, Angst, and Alienation in the CityDudism, Cowgirl Feminism, and the Search for Authenticity in the "Old West"2. Brute FictionsThe American Literary Genre of Hunting and KillingReading for Plot: Call of the Wild, The Virginian, and the New Male ReadershipIrony, Atavism, and Other Variations on the De-Evolutionary Theme3. College FootballThorstein Veblen and the Rise of "Exotic Ferocity" in American College FootballVictor Turner, Stanford Football, and Hypermasculine Liminal SubjectsClifford Geertz at the Big Game: "Thick Description" of Football as the Cultural Equivalent of War4. War in the HeadCivil War Memory, Blood Sacrifice, and Modern American Fighting SpiritOf Rough Riders, Blood Brothers, and Roosevelt the BerserkerWar as Sport for Doughboys, Golden Boys, and SlackersPostscript: Marine Corps Spirit and the U.S. Warrior Class, 1941–20035. Laws of Sexual SelectionRace, Lynch Law, and the Manly ProvocationMarriage, Cultural Defense in The People v. Chen, and the Heat-of-Passion Defense in TexasCompulsory Heterosexuality, the Charles Atlas Muscle-Beach Fable, and Sexual Dimorphism UnboundEpilogue: Irony, Instinct, and WarIrony, Sam Fussell's Muscle, and Masculinity as a "Parodic Tableau Vivant"Instinct, Deep Masculinity, and the Decline of MalesThe Iraq War, Hypermasculinity, and the Metaphor of DiseaseNotesEssay on SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisRzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.Trade ReviewRzepka's close reading of Leonard's fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author. Library Journal Few people are as versed in Elmore Leonard's world as Charles Rzepka. BU TodayTable of ContentsPreface1. Being Cool2. Being Other(s)3. Plays Well with Others4. ChorusesConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisChildren's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literaturewhen it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genTrade Review[Abate's] most foundational argument is that the genre of children's literature for adults exists at all. Abate's study moves well beyond the genre itself to include cultural analysis of the shifting, often contradictory boundaries of childhood and adulthood."—American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups1. "A Book for Obsolete Children": Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults2. Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction3. Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book4. Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship 5. Learning Left from Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition6. Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about ParenthoodConclusion. Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for AdultsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisChildren's literature isn't just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children's literaturewhen it's written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach's Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids Allowed, Michelle Ann Abate examines a constellation of books that form a paradoxical new genre: children's literature for adults. Distinguishing these books from YA and middle-grade fiction that appeals to adult readers, Abate argues that there is something unique about this phenomenon. Principally defined by its form and audience, children's literature, Abate demonstrates, engages with more than mere nostalgia when recast for grown-up readers. Abate examines how board books, coloring books, bedtime stories, and series detective fiction written and published specifically for adults question the boundaries of genTrade Review[Abate's] most foundational argument is that the genre of children's literature for adults exists at all. Abate's study moves well beyond the genre itself to include cultural analysis of the shifting, often contradictory boundaries of childhood and adulthood."—American Literary HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A Is for Adult: Coloring Books, Bedtime Stories, and Picture Books for Grown-Ups1. "A Book for Obsolete Children": Dr. Seuss' You're Only Old Once! and the Rise of Children's Literature for Adults2. Off to Camp: Mabel Maney's The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse, the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, and Fanfiction3. Material Matters: Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers as a Board Book4. Baby Talk: Barbara Park's MA! There's Nothing to Do Here!, Fetal Personhood, and Child Authorship 5. Learning Left from Right: Goodnight Bush, Don't Let the Republican Drive the Bus!, and the Broadside Tradition6. Not Kidding Around: Go the F**k to Sleep and the New Adult Honesty about ParenthoodConclusion. Both Radical and Reinforcing: The Complicated Cultural Significance of Children's Literature for AdultsNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisHowhaunted by the idea that their suburban homes were under siegethe second generation of suburban residents expanded spatial control and cultural authority through a strategy of productive victimization. The explosive growth of American suburbs following World War II promised not only a new place to live but a new way of life, one away from the crime and crowds of the city. Yet, by the 1970s, the expected security of suburban life gave way to a sense of endangerment. Perceived, and sometimes material, threats from burglars, kidnappers, mallrats, toxic waste, and even the occult challenged assumptions about safe streets, pristine parks, and the sanctity of the home itself. In Neighborhood of Fear, Kyle Riismandel examines how suburbanites responded to this crisis by attempting to take control of the landscape and reaffirm their cultural authority. An increasing sense of criminal and environmental threats, Riismandel explains, coincided with the rise of cable television, VCRs, DungeTrade Review[Neighborhood of Fear] stands out in its insistence on taking popular culture seriously. By examining suburban victim narratives, Riismandel reveals how some of the most privileged Americans have continually leveraged cultural power into political gain.—Los Angeles Review of BooksRiismandel's work is a meaningful contribution to the ever-expanding field of urban studies, providing a deep dive into the history of the modern suburbs and their integral role in shaping the political landscape of American culture.—SmithsonianTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Age of the Nimby: Environmental Hazard and Spatial Power on the Suburban Landscape2. Neighborhood of Fear: Toxic Suburbia, Affective Practice, and the Invisible Prison3. "Fear Stalks the Streets": Home Security, Kidnapping, and the Making of the Carceral Suburb4. Punks, Mallrats, and Out-of-Control Teenagers: Production and Regulation of Suburban Public Space5. Parental Advisory—Explicit Content: Popular Occulture and (Re)Possessing the Suburban HomeEpilogueNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA rousing, poignant look at the cultural history of rock & roll during the early 1960s. Received Gold for the IPPY Book Award in the Catergory of Popular Culture by the Independent PublisherIn the early 1960s, the nation was on track to fulfill its destiny in what was being called the American Century. Baby boomers and rock & roll shared the country's optimism and energy. For one brief, shining moment in the early 1960s, both President John F. Kennedy and young people across the country were riding high. The dream of a New Frontier would soon give way, however, to a new reality involving assassinations, the Vietnam War, Cold War crises, the civil rights movement, a new feminist movement, and various culture wars. From the former host of NPR's Rock & Roll America, Richard Aquila's Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America offers an in-depth look at early 1960s rock & roll, as well as an unconventional history of Kennedy's America through the lens of popular music. Based on extensive researchTrade Review[Aquila] presents to readers what he contends is the vibrant, innovative, and contextually assorted music scene during the time span of 1959 to 1964.Readers will be delighted by the knowledgeable Aquila's survey of a period not completely covered by his earlier works.—Library JournalTable of ContentsIntroduction: Only in America Part I. New Directions for Early 60s Rock & Roll Chapter 1. "It's Now or Never": Rock & Roll Enters a New Decade Chapter 2. "What Does a Girl Do?" The Girl Group Revolution of the Early 60s Chapter 3. "Heat Wave": Motown's Hot Sounds for Young America Chapter 4. "Surfin' Safari": Surf Music, Car Songs, and the Mythic WestPart II. Old Styles Rock On Chapter 5. "On Broadway": R&B Rock Takes Center Stage Chapter 6. "Let's Have a Party!": Rockin' the Country Chapter 7. "A Teenager in Love": Veteran Pop Rockers in the Early 60s Chapter 8. "Take Good Care of My Baby": Pop Rock's Second Wave Chapter 9. "Wild Weekend": Top Tunes, News, and WeatherPart III. Rockin' on the New Frontier Chapter 10. "God, Country and My Baby": Rock & Roll and the Culture of the Cold War Chapter 11. "This Magic Moment": Rock & Roll in Kennedy's AmericaAcknowledgmentsInterviewsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe evil mastermind—and master of disguise—Fu Manchu has long threatened to take over the world. In the past century, his dastardly plans have driven serialized novels, comic books, films, and TV. Yet this sinister Oriental character represents more than an invincible criminal in pop culture; Fu Manchu became the embodiment of the Yellow Peril. Serial Fu Manchu provides a savvy cultural, historical, and media-based analysis that shows how Fu Manchu’s irrepressibility gives shape to—and reinforces—the persistent Yellow Peril myth. Ruth Mayer argues that seriality is not merely a commercial strategy but essential to the spread of European and American fears of Asian expansion.Tracing Fu Manchu through transnational serials in varied media from 1913 to the 1970s, Mayer shows how the icon evolved. She pays particular attention to the figure’s literary foundations, the impact of media changes on his dTrade Review"Mayer's book is fascinating look at not only the concept of seriality but a reminder that when the character Fu Manchu debuted in 1912 in a story and began his life as a serial the following year, China was regarded by the West as a backward, troubled mess. Thus, this book is worth reading for those interested in popular culture and the intersection in fictional form of East and West... This is a solid contribution to cultural studies." - Critical MarginsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1 Going Serial: Fu Manchu, the Yellow Peril, and the Machinic Momentum of Ideology2 Enter Fu Manchu: The Transatlantic Periodical Press and the Circulation of Stories and Things3 Image Power: Seriality, Iconicity, and the Filmic Fu Manchus of the 1930s4 Machinic Fu Manchu: Popular Seriality and the Logic of Spread 5 Evil Chinamen: Yellow Peril Comics and the Ideological Work of Popular Seriality6 The End of the Assembly Line: Seriality, Ideology, and Popular CultureReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shaped South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and fashion. One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a range of literature, visual art, and live performance. Through careful analyses of novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, young adult literature, performance art by Shailja Patel, beauty and adornment practices, as well as objects of popular culture including an Indian American fashion doll, Reddy challenges fashion and beauty as a set of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices. She argues instead that beauty and fasTrade Review“Fashioning Diaspora is essential reading for scholarship on beauty. Reddy introduces a shift the field has long needed, as she reads beauty as embodied practice alongside cultural signifier; as produced within networks of social power and yet complicating them with its own disruptive logic. This is an analysis both critical and appreciative of its topic, and in its nuance a fine example of ‘why the humanities matter’ for making sense of neoliberal, transnational, material realities.”—erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Fashioning Diaspora is an extraordinary intervention into the joint fields of Asian American studies and feminist and queer theory. Reddy makes important contributions, and her book is distinguished by fresh, original readings of a diverse archive of South Asian American public culture. This innovative constellation of texts not only enables us to see how the archive constitutes a historical source for narratives of South Asian migration but also produces a state of feeling: what she argues is the feeling of beauty.”—Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College, and author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America“Vanita Reddy has now made it very difficult to think about the South Asian diaspora without paying attention to the subjects, objects, discourses, and practices of beauty that animate it. Moving seamlessly from discussions of the ‘exceptional beauty’ of literary heroines like Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine to the transformation of Delhi and Mumbai into new fashion capitals, Reddy’s compelling readings and vast archive of ‘beautiful forms’ leave us much wiser about how aesthetic desires and demands have shaped South Asians’ everyday practices of belonging.”—Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of FashionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beauty Matters 1 Excepting Beauty and Negotiating Nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine 2 Prosthetic Femininity, Flexible Citizenship and Feminist Cosmopolitics in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri3 Fashioning Diasporic Citizens in Literary Youth Cultures of Fashion and Beauty4 Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Media5 Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shailja Patel’s Migritude Epilogue: Fashioning Diasporic Futures

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Book SynopsisIn her insightful study, Fashioning Diaspora, Vanita Reddy carefully maps how transnational itineraries of Indian beauty and fashion shaped South Asian American cultural identities and racialized belonging from the 1990s through the first decade of the twenty-first century. She observes how diasporic subjects engage with and respond to various encounters with Indian beauty and fashion. One of the first books to consider beauty and fashion as a point of entry into an examination of South Asian diasporic public cultures, Fashioning Diaspora examines a range of literature, visual art, and live performance. Through careful analyses of novels by Bharati Mukherjee and Jhumpa Lahiri, young adult literature, performance art by Shailja Patel, beauty and adornment practices, as well as objects of popular culture including an Indian American fashion doll, Reddy challenges fashion and beauty as a set of dematerialized, overly commodified cultural practices. She argues instead that beauty and fasTrade Review“Fashioning Diaspora is essential reading for scholarship on beauty. Reddy introduces a shift the field has long needed, as she reads beauty as embodied practice alongside cultural signifier; as produced within networks of social power and yet complicating them with its own disruptive logic. This is an analysis both critical and appreciative of its topic, and in its nuance a fine example of ‘why the humanities matter’ for making sense of neoliberal, transnational, material realities.”—erin Khuê Ninh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian American Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature“Fashioning Diaspora is an extraordinary intervention into the joint fields of Asian American studies and feminist and queer theory. Reddy makes important contributions, and her book is distinguished by fresh, original readings of a diverse archive of South Asian American public culture. This innovative constellation of texts not only enables us to see how the archive constitutes a historical source for narratives of South Asian migration but also produces a state of feeling: what she argues is the feeling of beauty.”—Bakirathi Mani, Associate Professor, Department of English Literature, Swarthmore College, and author of Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America“Vanita Reddy has now made it very difficult to think about the South Asian diaspora without paying attention to the subjects, objects, discourses, and practices of beauty that animate it. Moving seamlessly from discussions of the ‘exceptional beauty’ of literary heroines like Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine to the transformation of Delhi and Mumbai into new fashion capitals, Reddy’s compelling readings and vast archive of ‘beautiful forms’ leave us much wiser about how aesthetic desires and demands have shaped South Asians’ everyday practices of belonging.”—Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu, Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of FashionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Beauty Matters 1 Excepting Beauty and Negotiating Nationhood in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine 2 Prosthetic Femininity, Flexible Citizenship and Feminist Cosmopolitics in the Fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri3 Fashioning Diasporic Citizens in Literary Youth Cultures of Fashion and Beauty4 Oppositional Economies of Fashion in Experimental Feminist Media5 Histories of the Cloth and Sartorial Sentiment in Shailja Patel’s Migritude Epilogue: Fashioning Diasporic Futures

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Book SynopsisFirst published in 1995, Caribbean Currents has become the definitive guide to the distinctive musics of this region of the world. This third edition of the award-winning book is substantially updated and expanded, featuring thorough coverage of new developments, such as the global spread of reggaeton and bachata, the advent of music videos, the restructuring of the music industry, and the emergence of new dance styles. It also includes many new illustrations and links to accompanying video footage. The authors succinctly and perceptively situate the musical styles and developments in the context of themes of gender and racial dynamics, sociopolitical background, and diasporic dimensions. Caribbean Currents showcases the rich and diverse musics of Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, the lesser Antilles, and their transnational communities in the United States and elsewhere to provide an engaging panorama of

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Book SynopsisExamines how people improve their lives by participating in a rebellious music-based subcultureTrade Review“Kim Kattari’s outstanding study gives psychobilly its justly deserved attention—not only as a historical genre rooted in dissatisfaction and rebellion, but as a complex, living subculture positioned deep on the musical margins. Kattari’s fieldwork brings together dozens of interviews to illuminate the scene, and then she sharpens her analytical gaze on psychobilly’s transgressive performative properties. Steeped in horror, shock, and dark, campy humor, psychobilly emerges in Kattari’s book as an immersive style that relishes the power of taboo. Psychobilly is the definitive study of this fascinating subculture.”—Theo Cateforis, Associate Professor of Music History & Cultures at Syracuse University and author of Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

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Book SynopsisExamines how people improve their lives by participating in a rebellious music-based subcultureTrade Review“Kim Kattari’s outstanding study gives psychobilly its justly deserved attention—not only as a historical genre rooted in dissatisfaction and rebellion, but as a complex, living subculture positioned deep on the musical margins. Kattari’s fieldwork brings together dozens of interviews to illuminate the scene, and then she sharpens her analytical gaze on psychobilly’s transgressive performative properties. Steeped in horror, shock, and dark, campy humor, psychobilly emerges in Kattari’s book as an immersive style that relishes the power of taboo. Psychobilly is the definitive study of this fascinating subculture.”—Theo Cateforis, Associate Professor of Music History & Cultures at Syracuse University and author of Are We Not New Wave?: Modern Pop at the Turn of the 1980s

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Book SynopsisMaking the Scene is a history of 1960s Yorkville, Toronto's countercultural mecca.Trade Review'Making the Scene is a crackling good read... Henderson brings historian's eye for detail to the proceedings and also a socio-anthropologist's penchant for primary research, making Making the Scene a compelling and stimulating read... A detached, non-sentimental and objective account of Canada's most lively countercultures and the impact that resonates to this day.' -- Zachary Houle Popmatters: July 12, 2011 Brilliantly conceived and engaging, Stuart Henderson's Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s, argues that counterculture is performed by actors "within", not outside, of the cultural process...This book is a masterful piece about an important episode in Canadian youth culture and ideological history. -- CHA Clio Prize Committee 'Making the Scene presents a rich variety of contemporary and retrospective depictions woven together with more general ruminations upon the nature of the place, performance, and projection onto the screen of wider popular culture that was, at the time, Canada's preeminent "hip" neighbourhood...This capably documented and artfully told account of hip Yorkville in the 1960s makes an indispensable contribution.' -- Mike Mowbray Canadian Journal of Sociology; vol 37:03:2012 'Stuart Henderson has provided a richly layered history of some of the people and cultural trends of Canada's 1960.' -- Michael Boudreau Canadian Historical Review, vol 94:02:2013Table of ContentsPART ONE: Setting the Scene, to 1963 * Remaking the Scene * Getting to Yorkville PART TWO : Performing Yorkville, 1964-66 * Riots, Religion, & Rock'n'Roll * Are You Here To Watch Me Perform? PART THREE : Under Yorkville's Spell, 1967 * Village Politics and the "Summer of Love"* Authenticity among the Fleurs du Mal PART FOUR: Hold it, It's Gone, 1968-70 * Social Missions in the Teen-Age Jungle * Toronto's Hippie Disease PART FIVE: Conclusion * An Immense Accumulation of Spectacles Where They Landed Works Cited Notes

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Book SynopsisUnlike most introductory texts that take a topical approach to studying sociology, this smart, challenging, and accessibly written text looks at the core principles of the discipline, making links to a contemporary context.Trade ReviewEngaging, accessible, and written in a lively and often humorous style. Highly recommended. -- CHOICE An introduction to the discipline and an exercise in critical thinking and learning. -- Teaching SociologyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Part One: Why Think Sociologically? 1. Visions and Profiles of Students Today 2. Generation Z and the Promise of Sociology 3. The Light of Reason: Higher Education's Challenges Part Two: The Classical Tradition 4. Marx and the Dialectic of Dynamic, Unstable Social Formations 5. Marx, the Communist Manifesto, and Modernity 6. From Descartes to Durkheim: Toward a Science of Society 7. Durkheim and the Systematic Study of Social Facts 8. Weber and the Interpretive Understanding of Social Action 9. The Spirit of Capitalism, Modernity, and the Postmodern World Part Three: Sociology and Contemporary Popular Culture 10. Culture and Critique 11. The Dialectics of Popular Culture 12. Rock 'n' Roll as Complex Culture 13. The Promise of Sociology Glossary of Key Terms and Names Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster.Trade Review"The Myth of the Age of Entitlement helps to puncture the invented entitled status that has been foisted onto millennials and provides an array of examples where millennials are bucking this myth, demanding their democratic entitlements, and telling the Margaret Wentes of the world to STFU (an acronym that Cairns also helpfully spells out on page 133)." -- Nora Loreto, Briarpatch MagazineTable of Contents1. The Age of Entitlement? 2. Democratic and Oppressive Entitlements 3. Zeroed Down: The Flexible Millennial Worker 4. Austerity U: Teaching and Resisting Disentitlement on Campus 5. Millennial Blowout: Eco-disentitlement vs. Ecological Justice 6. Everything for Everybody Appendix: A Note on Methodology Glossary Reference List

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Book SynopsisTop scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture.Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface I Performance, Fashion, and the Politics of the Popular 1 Historicizing the Popular and the Feminine: The Rape of the Lock and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Tiffany Potter, UBC) 2 'The Assemblage of every female Folly': Lavinia Fenton, Kitty Clive and the Genesis of Ballad Opera (Berta Joncus) 3 Politics and Gender in a Tale of Two Plays (Paula Backscheider) 4 Celebrity Status: The Eighteenth-Century Actress as Fashion Icon (Jessica Munns) 5 Fanning the Flames: Women and Politics (Elaine Chalus) II Women, Reading, and Writing 6 The Culinary Art of Eighteenth-Century Women Cookbook Authors (Robert James Merrett) 7 Women and Letters (Isobel Grundy) 8 Writing Bodies in Popular Culture: Eliza Haywood and Love in Excess (Holly Luhning) 9 Women Reading and Writing for The Rambler (Peter Sabor) 10 'The Most Dangerous Talent': Riddles as Feminine Pastime (Mary Chadwick) 11 Comic Prints, the Picturesque and Fashion: Seeing and Being Seen in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Timothy Erwin) III Eighteenth-Century Women in Modern Popular Culture 12 Mother and Daughter in Beryl Bainbridge's According to Queeney (Martha F. Bowden) 13 The Agency of Things in Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin (Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace) 14 'Would you have us laughed out of Bath?': Shopping Around for Fashion and Fashionable Fiction in Jane Austen Adaptations (Tamara S. Wagner) 15 Visualizing Empire in Domestic Settings: Designing Persuasion for the Screen (Andrew Macdonald and Gina Macdonald) 16 From Pride and Prejudice to Lost in Austen and Back Again: Reading Television Reading Novels (Claire Grogan) Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisRena Bivens takes the reader inside TV newsrooms to explore how news organisations are responding to the paradigmatic shifts in media and communication practices.Trade Review"Digital Currents is a fascinating and detailed look at the inner mechanisms of television news production, news organizations, and journalistic labour, as they navigate the many challenges and opportunities of an era of declining budgets, vibrant forms of citizen journalism, and innovative uses of social media." -- Leslie Regan Shade, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto "A timely reaffirmation of the power and continued relevance of broadcast news in a fast-evolving media ecology. What is particularly impressive about this book is the way that the author looks at how technology impacts many different aspects of the news production process in complex and unexpected ways. Bivens's work represents a major contribution to the ongoing debate around journalism and new technology." -- Mike Berry, School of Journalism, Media, and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University 'Rena Bivens offers a commendably clear and robust analysis of the changing processes and structures of news production and dissemination... She has laid a strong foundation for considering the dynamic impact of technology on audiences and our most powerful news medium.' -- Richard Sambrook Digital Journalism August 2014 'Excellent new book by Carleton University communications scholar Rena Bivens... Digital Currents is like a probing forensic examination of today's news culture that will be appreciated by media scholars and journalists as well as individuals and groups that want to understand better how the media works.' -- Tony Burman Literary review of Canada, vol 22:05:2014 'A rich and insightful account of television news today. Rena Bivens' account of digital media and television news provides meaningful contributions to journalism and communications theory.' -- Michael W. Kearney International Journal of Communication vol 8:2014Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Chapter 1: Digital Media, Cultural Shifts and Television News Production * The Public's Arrival * Focus of this Book * A Note on Causation: Technologies and Society * User-Generated Content and Citizen Journalism * Social Networking Services * Television News Organizations: The Hierarchical Structure * Canada versus the UK * General Path and Control Structure of a Television News Item * Bulletins, 24-hour News and Convergence * Structure of this Book Chapter 2: Constraining News Production: The View from the 20th Century * Evaluating the Literature * The Two Phases of Research: An Obsession with Constraints * Exposing the Social Construction of News * Planning Routines: Relevance of the News Diary * The Importance of Logistics * Society's Information Producers * The Reign of News Agencies * Pre-Packaged PR News * The Requirements of Objectivity and Impartiality * The Relationship between Objectivity and Sources * Official Sources and Production Routines * Internal and External Pressures * Policy, Routinized Meetings and Editorial Control * Incorporating External Pressure into Daily Practice * Ensuring Conformity within News Organizations * Complexities of the Broadcaster-State Relationship * Instances of Direct Government Intervention * Shared News Values * Images * Importance, Interest and Entertainment * Size, Proximity and Race * Immediacy * Considering the Audience * Summary Chapter 3: The Technology - Autonomy-Constraint Model * Description of the Model * Phases of News Production * Autonomy-Constraint Ratio * Analysis Using the TAC Model and Ratio * Low Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Transmission Phase - Television * Balanced Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Transmission Phase - Digital Media * Balanced Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Intake/Selection and Assignment Phase * Balanced Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Storywriting Phase * High Autonomy-Constraint Ratio: Newsgathering Phase * Summary Chapter 4: Intake Phase - Information Producers and News Flow * Established Actors * News Agencies * Other News Organizations * Official Sources and the Public Relations Industry * News Bureaus * Unconventional Actors * News Flow Patterns * Development of Public News Production * Social Media * Breaking News * Organizational Changes * Credibility and the 'Bloggers versus Journalists' Debate * Summary Chapter 5: Selection and Assignment Phase * Executive Producers and the Assignment Relationship * General Assignment Reporters * Beat Reporters: The Parliamentary Correspondent * Foreign Correspondents * Investigative Journalism * Digital News Agency Feeds and Social Networking * Inside the Editorial Conference * Institution-Driven News * Creating Themes and Adding the Personal Element * Subjectivity * Line-up * Retaining Flexibility * News Values * Images: UGC, Social Media and Digital Graphics * Interest and Importance * Proximity * Immediacy and Being First * Complicating Factors: Online News, Social Media and Conglomeration * Speed versus Accuracy * Immediacy and Being Live * Summary Chapter 6: Newsgathering, Storywriting and Transmission Phases * Issues of Control * Implicit versus Explicit Control * Editorial Control * Presenters * Packages * Lives * J-Blogging * Social Networking Services * Language * Top-Down Control * Selecting Sources, Challenging Officials and Maintaining Balance * Digital Media and Newsgathering * Research * Locating Sources * Resistance versus the New Cohort * Newsroom Technologies and Storywriting * Non-Linear Editing * Server Technology * Speed and Cost * Improved Workflow * Archival Material * Transmission and Immediacy * Transmitting from the Field * Critiques of Live Coverage * Social Networking Services * Summary Chapter 7: External Pressures - Audiences, Governments and PR * Audiences * Judging Audience Needs * Linking Immediacy to Audience Expectations * Interactivity * Complaints * Campaigns, Evidence and Blogs * Exposuregates and Retaining Credibility * Government and PR Pressures * Public Relations: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict * Resisting Pressure * Lack of Context and History * Time Constraints and the Nature of Television * Audience Attention Spans * Top-Down Pressure * Solutions: Go Online? * Summary Chapter 8: Making News: Power, Journalists and the Public Appendix: List of Interviews References

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to make the link between popular culture and social problems. Drawing on historical and topical examples, the authors apply an innovative theoretical framework to examine how facets of popular culture shape how we think about, and respond to, social issues.Trade Review"A fresh perspective on the construction of social problems, not found in traditional textbooks. Students from any major will find new and applicable ways of thinking about social problems in our culture and media." Amie Levesque, University of Denver, USA"The best book for social problems if you want to connect with students who are immersed in popular culture." David Altheide, Emeritus Regents' Professor, Arizona State University"An original method of classifying the various ways social problems and popular culture intersect. Anyone who reads this book is likely to come away a more thoughtful consumer of all sorts of news and entertainment media." Joel Best, University of Delaware, USA"Offering up-to-the-minute illustrations of cultural trends and accessible explanations of enduring sociological concepts, Maratea and Monahan deftly explore how corporations, politicians, advocates and activists use popular culture to shape the public’s response to social problems." Jared Del Rosso, University of Denver, USATable of ContentsIntroduction; Understanding Social Problems and Popular Culture; Blaming Popular Culture for the Existence of Social Problems; Spreading Problem Claims Through Popular Culture; Popular Culture and Pushback; Marketing Social Problems Through Popular Culture; Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisIn this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped post-World War II New York City. Tochterman reveals how elite culture producers, planners and theorists, and elected officials drew on and perpetuated the fear of death to press for a new urban vision.

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Book SynopsisFor the majority of the twentieth century, Americans thought of the past as foundational to, but separate from, the present, and they learned and thought about history in informational terms. But Rymsza-Pawlowska argues that the popular culture of the 1970s reflected an emerging desire to engage and enact the past on a more emotional level.

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Book SynopsisExplores the intense and ultimately fleeting moment in 1980s America when the future looked Japanese. From autoworkers to anime fans, Consuming Japan introduces new unorthodox actors into foreign-relations history, demonstrating how the flow of all things Japanese contributed to the globalizing of America in the late twentieth century.

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Book SynopsisVaudeville was America's most popular commercial amusement from the mid-1890s to the First World War. Telling the story of this pioneering art form's rise and decline, David Monod looks through the apparent carnival of vaudeville performance and asks: what made the theater so popular and transformative?

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Book SynopsisExplores the interaction between culture and economics during the transition from Keynesianism in the mid-1960s to the triumph of neoliberalism in the 1980s. Daniel Robert McClure tracks the perception that a great neoliberal reckoning might restore America's repressive racial, sexual, gendered, and classed foundations in the wake of the 1960s.

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Book SynopsisDomestic Disturbances examines the treatment of the traditional immigrant narrative in popular culture, illuminating the possibilities of alternative stories by reading Chicana/Latina-produced texts through a new interpretation of the immigrant paradigm.Trade Review"While Latina/o studies scholars will welcome the opportunity to learn about the important work being down by Latina "genealogists" (Mata's term), the book also has the potential to be a valuable pedagogical tool...Mata is an engaged and engaging writer. Her writing is perceptive, sophisticated, and rigorous." * MELUS: The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter One. Dream a Little American Dream: A Traditional Story-Book RomanceChapter Two. Cleaning Up After the National Family, and What a Mess They MakeChapter Three. Laboring Bodies, Laboring Spaces in theHospitality IndustryChapter Four. Calling All Superheroes: Recasting the Immigrant SubjectConclusion. Resistance: A Growing MovementNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisExamining a range of popular cultural production, from music and dance to theater and film, this book explores how transatlantic and inter-American artistic exchanges redefined Brazilian identity, especially the perception of race.Trade Review"Brazil's racial identity and comprehensive sense of self cannot be fully grasped without the performative transnational vantage that this book profitably adopts…Overall, the volume is attractive, the writing is consistently smooth, and the illustrations are splendid. The reading is rewarding and makes one want to know more and, tellingly, somehow to access these charged historical performances." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"Exciting [and] readable…Shaw's research presents Rio as the culturally fluid, cosmopolitan port city it has been since the Portuguese court first arrived and as the disturbing, sad, joyous, riotous, and frenetically carnivaleque mestiço face of Brazil in good times and bad." * Hispania *"Shaw’s forthright discussion of race and racial prejudice within [Latin America] and Europe is refreshingly honest and provides welcome examples of Afro-Brazilians who manipulated oppressive systems to claim a place within Brazilian society." * Latin American Research Review *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Afro-Brazilian Performance on Rio de Janeiro’s Popular Stages from the 1880s to the Long 1920s 2. The Rio de Janeiro–Paris Performance Axis in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century: Duque, the Oito Batutas, and the Question of “Race” 3. The Teatro de Revista in Rio de Janeiro in the Long 1920s: Transnational Dialogues and Cosmopolitan Black Performance 4. The Cultural Migrations of the Stage and Screen Baiana, 1889–1950s Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular culture and the American superhero, All New, All Different? explores a topic that until now has only received more discrete examination. Considering Marvel, DC, and lesser-known texts and heroes, this illuminating work charts eighty years of evolution in the portrayal of race in comics as well as in film and on television.Beginning with World War II, the authors trace the vexed depictions in early superhero stories, considering both Asian villains and nonwhite sidekicks. While the emergence of Black Panther, Black Lightning, Luke Cage, Storm, and other heroes in the 1960s and 1970s reflected a cultural revolution, the book reveals how nonwhite superheroes nonetTrade ReviewAn invaluable resource for textual examples of the handling of race in American superhero comics and for considering the kinds of characters and stories featuring racial minorities that were common to the different eras it covers. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *The authors’ consideration of race [in All New, All Different?] is holistic, framing the genre over time and providing the reader with a means to understand the superhero archetype and to consider the limitation of racial liberalism in the United States...All New, All Different? offers an important narrative about the gradations around race in superhero comics and the broader society. * American Historical Review *[All New, All Different?] is an incredibly useful text...an inside look at the ever-changing landscape of comics, and audiences will be enlightened by how attitudes have developed right along with it. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *[Austin and Hamilton's] contribution is more than just compiling a damning narrative. The authors read their material through the history of race in America and alongside a slew of recent scholarship on comics…[All New, All Different?] offers useful insights and ways to read nonwhite superhero tales from the 1960s onward...the scope of the work is impressive. * Journal of American History *Table of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Into the “Gutters” 1. “World’s Finest”? The Wartime Superhero and Race, 1941–1945 2. Struggling for Social Relevance: DC, Marvel, and the Cold War, 1945–1965 3. “We’re All Brothers!”: The Ideal of Liberal Brotherhood in the 1960s and 1970s 4. Guess Who’s Coming to Save You? The Rise of the Ethnic Superhero in the 1960s and 1970s 5. “Something for Everyone”: The Superteam in the Age of Multiculturalism, 1975–1996 6. Replacement Heroes and the Quest for Inclusion, 1985–2011 7. Something Old, Something New: Heroes Reborn and Reimagined, 1990–2015 Coda: Born Again (and Again and Again . . . and Again and Again . . .) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis engaging collection explores the multi-media intersections of comics, film, television, and popular culture over the last century, ranging from Felix the Cat to Black Panther.Trade Review"This is an indispensable contribution to scholarship on comic books, film, and the synergetic nature of adaptation." * CHOICE *"A rich group of essays that represent diverse academic fields, including technoculture, film studies, theater, feminist studies, popular culture, and queer studies." * New Books in Film *"[Comics and Pop Culture’s] 19 contributors deftly sidestep the ‘Are superhero movies cinema?’ debate – which usually leads to pointless semantic hair-splitting – and instead focus on diverse examples (from American Splendor, to Modesty Blaise and Scott Pilgrim) to illustrate the two mediums’ complex intersections." * Film International *"Grant and Henderson have collected a fascinating and novel group of essays that challenge conventional notions of adaptation and raise interesting questions for the future of adaptation studies...The variety of subject matter makes this a wonderful read for those interested in comics, film, pop culture, or adaptation theory." * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *"Comics and Pop Culture is an unapologetic celebration of the historical, cultural, and processual affect of comics and film by academics who are fans of the subjects of which they write…it provides a wonderful start to a conversation that other scholars may pick up to investigate in other ways. In that aspect, it proves itself to be a valuable resource for the ongoing scholarship around the things we love to study: comics, film, and pop culture." * Popular Culture Studies Journal *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction (Barry Keith Grant and Scott Henderson) Part One. Issues and Debates The Crossroads of Infinity, or Universum Incognitum (Scott Bukatman) From Adaptation to Extension: A History of Comics Adapting Films, 1976–2015 (Blair Davis) Take the Movie Home! How the Comic Book Tie-In Anticipated Transmedia Production (Liam Burke) Manga, Anime, Adaptation: Economic Strategies, Aesthetic Specificities, Social Issues (Chris Reyns-Chikuma) Genre and Superhero Cinema (Aaron Taylor) Destroying the Rainbow Bridge: Representations of Heterosexuality in Marvel Superhero Narratives (Miriam Kent) Mutatis Mutandis: Constructing Fidelity in the Comic Book Film Adaptation (Jason Rothery and Benjamin Woo) “We Roller Coaster Through . . .”: Screenwriting, Narrative Economy, and the Inscription of the Haptic in Tentpole Comic Book Movies (Julian Hoxter) Adaptation and Seriality: Comic Book to Television Series Adaptations (Sherryl Vint) Part Two. Panels and Frames Felix in—and out of—Space (J. P. Telotte) A Comic Book Life/Style: World Building in American Splendor (Matt Yockey) The Extraordinary Career of Modesty Blaise (James Chapman) Authenticity and Judge Dredd on Film (J. Mark Percival) CGI as Adaptation Strategy: Can a Digitally Constructed Spider-Man Do Whatever a Hand-Drawn Spider-Man Can? (James C. Taylor) Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Texts: Adaptation, Form, and Transmedia Co-creation (John Bodner) Transmedia Adaptation and Writing in the Margins: A Graphic Expansion of George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (Aviva Briefel) Agency and Intertextuality: Tank Girl, Subcultural Aesthetics, and the Strong Female Protagonist (Scott Henderson) Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation (Jeffrey A. Brown) Contributors Index

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Book Synopsis2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself—seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality. Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and filmTrade ReviewInsightful...Peppard’s assemblage shows just how varied and multivalent superhero media is, as well as highlighting the diversity of experiences and interpretations of it. Supersex is a broad cultural survey of superheroes, with insights that are beguiling fuel for the critical imagination. * Foreword Reviews *Peppard's introduction is a brilliant overview of the history of superhero bodies that perfectly sets the stage for the essays that follow, and the epilogue by Richard Harrison is an inspired piece that provides a satisfying summation for this eclectic collection. Supersex is intelligent and entertaining and, for comics fans, it opens new avenues for thinking about how superheroes affect readers and culture. * Comic Book Yeti *If the stated task of assembling a volume dedicated to 'unpacking the superhero genre’s complicated relationship with sexuality' does seem not impressive enough, Peppard has also managed to curate a book that is utterly enjoyable to read. In other words, the sexiness of this collection is tied not only to its intellectual contributions, but also to its affective power—at times I felt downright naughty for reveling in Supersex as much as I did...[Supersex is] strong...from cover to cover. * Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society *This thoughtful, up-to-date collection pursues questions anyone who studies superheroes will want to answer...We can do more—and this volume can help us do more—to spot, to interpret, and sometimes even to champion the exceptions, the comics that work on behalf of the readers who want them, against the now all too familiar hetero-patriarchal rules. * Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics *Supersex offers an in-depth starting point to examine superhero sexuality and eroticism...The chapters are not just a collection, but a dialogue that allows for a subjective multiplicity that ultimately provides a rich tapestry of insights that are interlinked even (or especially) when they are contradictory...[Supersex] offers a wonderful exploration of the contradictions inherent to supersex. * Journal of American Studies *From the queering of costume to weapons and war, shapeshifting characters, and buddy systems, Supersex takes the subject to places not usually explored, creating a solid foundation for future scholars and critics...Supersex is a long, rich academic book; however, it’s highly accessible and written with enthusiasm and verve...curious readers seek something a little weightier and will find plenty to ponder. * Women Write about Comics *[A] fantastic collection...Supersex presents an intriguing and analytical look at a topic that has been taboo for many scholars. The breadth of the chapters makes it an invaluable text for the future of superhero studies, sexuality studies, queer studies, and any intersections between these fields. Furthermore, many of these essays will hopefully become jumping off points for future analytical responses to sexuality within superhero comics. * ImageTexT *Table of Contents Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard) Part I. Comics 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds) 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey) 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm (J. Andrew Deman) 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson) 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska) 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander) Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann) 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale) 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Anna F. Peppard) 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown) 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan) 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks) 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz) Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison) Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisWinner, William M. LeoGrande Prize, Center for Latin American andLatino Studies at American University, 2022For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism—above all, the works of Gabriel García Márquez—where ghosts told stories about the country’s violent past and warned against a similarly gruesome future.Decades later, the story of violence in Colombia is no less horrific, but the critical resources of magical realism are depleted. In their wake comes 'spectral realism.' Juliana Martínez argues that recent Colombian novelists, filmmakers, and artists—from Evelio Rosero and William Vega to Beatriz González and Erika Diettes—share a formal and thematic concern with the spectral but shift the focus from what the ghost is toward what the specter does. These works do not speak of ghosts. Instead, they use the specter to destabilize reality byTrade Review[Haunting without Ghosts] is a book written with critical patience to regard the disturbing presence of the specters of enforced disappearance, the violently and intentionally silenced or erased from Colombian history...Haunting without Ghosts not only can teach scholars, but also cultural practitioners who wish to deal with the ethical issues of the representation of historical and structural violence...It is a book to take to heart the harrowing muted cries of the voiceless. * KULT Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Evelio Rosero’s Spectral Landscapes of Disappearance Chapter 2. Beyond Vision: Haptic Perception and Contested Spaces in the Films of William Vega, Jorge Forero, and Felipe Guerrero Chapter 3. The Revenants: Deferred Burials and Suspended Mourning in the Works of Juan Manuel Echavarría, Beatriz González, and Erika Diettes Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive biography of Robert E. Howard, the enigmatic creator of Conan the Barbarian and progenitor of the sword and sorcery genre, who published hundreds of short stories and poems before taking his own life at the age of thirty.Trade ReviewVick’s deep dive work, using previously unknown research and documents, definitely builds on the two prior Howard bios...in Renegades & Rogues, this 'mysterious' Texas scribe gets his most complete story arc told. * Houston Press *Vick manages to offer a biography of Robert E. Howard that marks a new phase for academic scholarship about Howard...Vick employs a vast array of sources to establish the details of Howard’s life. * SFRA Review *A tour de force of [Robert E. Howard's] life and thought. * Modern Age *Table of Contents Introduction. Who Is Robert E. Howard? Chapter 1. Pioneering Stories: The Family of Robert E. Howard Chapter 2. From Birth to Bagwell Chapter 3. Cross Cut and Burkett Chapter 4. The Birth of a Writer Chapter 5. Tattlers and Yellow Jackets Chapter 6. Pulp Fictioneer Chapter 7. The Other Side of the Counter Chapter 8. A New Species of Fantasy Chapter 9. Friends and Letters Chapter 10. Novalyne Price Chapter 11. Broken on the Plowshare of Fate Chapter 12. The Aftermath Chapter 13. Writing a Legacy: Selected Stories Chapter 14. Full Circle: The Publishing Journey of a Barbarian Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book Synopsis2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Popular and American Culture, Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)2023 Ray and Pat Browne Best Edited Reference/Primary Source Work in Popular Culture Award (Honorable Mention), Popular and American Culture Association (PACA) / Popular Culture Association (PCA)2023 Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations (SWPACA)A revisionist history of women''s pivotal roles as creators of and characters in comic books.The history of comics has centered almost exclusively on men. Comics historians largely describe the medium as one built by men telling tales about male protagonists, neglecting the many ways in which women fought for legitimacy on the page and in publishers' studios. Despite this male-dominated focus, women played vital roles in the early history of comics. The story Trade ReviewComic Book Women is a necessary counterweight to...male-centric [comic book creator] biographies...Brunet and Davis take a fresh look at the early days of comics, focusing on the women who helped to build up the industry—and who were subsequently erased from the history books. * Book Riot *A comprehensive look at the important role female creators played in the production of the media in the Golden Age of Comics...Comic Book Women is thoughtful and well-researched, guiding us to not only reexamine comics history but also to push for more accountability and intersectionality in the modern canon. * ANTIGRAVITY Magazine *Comic Book Women recognizes the often-unremembered women characters and creators of the industry while recognizing their sometimes problematic roles. * Technical Communication *The depth and breadth of this heavily illustrated book is stunning. This is a groundbreaking contribution to the field…Essential. * CHOICE *An ambitious, exhaustive work that works to change how women have been perceived in the field of comics and document their contributions to the medium. . . the book serves as a foundational work in comics scholarship and brings women’s work into the mainstream research. Covering all possible genres, it is comprehensive and a must-read for any comics fans. * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of ContentsForeword by Trina Robbins Introduction Chapter 1. Superhero Comics Chapter 2. Jungle Comics Chapter 3. Crime Comics Chapter 4. Horror Comics Chapter 5. Western Comics Chapter 6. Title Characters Chapter 7. Science Fiction Comics Chapter 8. Romance Comics Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn After the PostCold War eminent Chinese cultural critic Dai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its socialist past, profoundly shaped by the Cold War. Drawing on Marxism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, and feminist theory, Dai examines recent Chinese films that erase the country's socialist history to show how such erasure resignifies socialism's past as failure and thus forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism. She outlines the tension between China's embrace of the free market and a regime dependent on a socialist imprimatur. She also offers a genealogy of China's transformation from a source of revolutionary power into a fountainhead of globalized modernity. This narrative, Dai contends, leaves little hope of moving from the capitalist degradation of the present into a radical future that might offer a more socially just world.Trade Review"This volume is one of the best publications of its kind, not only because of the brilliance of the original essays, but also because of the excellent translation and editing that come across as judicious as one reads it." -- Jessica Yeung * China Perspectives *"This is a challenging book by an author at the top of her game. Insightful and cosmpolitan in its range, the book shows that public intellectuals in China are managing to find a voice. The editors have done the author and readers a fine service." -- Paul Clark * China Journal *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel xiii Introduction / Translated by Jie Li 1 Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories 1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen 25 2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo 47 Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity 3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle 67 4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li 91 Part III. The Spy Genre 5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery 109 6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 127 Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl 141 Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel 160 Notes 167 Selected Works of Dai Jinhua 181 Bibliography 183 Translators' Biographies 189 Index 191

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Book SynopsisDai Jinhua interrogates history, memory, and the future of China as a global economic power in relation to its Cold War past to show how the recent erasure of the country's socialist history signifies socialism's failure and forecloses the imagining of a future beyond that of globalized capitalism.Trade Review"This volume is one of the best publications of its kind, not only because of the brilliance of the original essays, but also because of the excellent translation and editing that come across as judicious as one reads it." -- Jessica Yeung * China Perspectives *"This is a challenging book by an author at the top of her game. Insightful and cosmpolitan in its range, the book shows that public intellectuals in China are managing to find a voice. The editors have done the author and readers a fine service." -- Paul Clark * China Journal *Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface / Carlos Rojas vii Acknowledgments xi Editor's Introduction / Lisa Rofel xiii Introduction / Translated by Jie Li 1 Part I. Trauma, Evacuated Memories, and Inverted Histories 1. I Want to Be Human: A Story of China and the Human / Translated by Shuang Shen 25 2. Hero and the Invisible Tianxia / Translated by Yajun Mo 47 Part II. Class, Still Lives, and Masculinity 3. Temporality, Nature Morte, and the Filmmaker: A Reconsideration of Still Life / Translated by Lennet Daigle 67 4. The Piano in a Factory: Class, in the Name of the Father / Translated by Jie Li 91 Part III. The Spy Genre 5. The Spy-Film Legacy: A Preliminary Cultural Analysis of the Spy Film / Translated by Christopher Connery 109 6. In Vogue: Politics and the Nation-State in Lust, Caution, and the Lust, Caution Phenomenon in China / Translated by Erebus Wong and Lisa Rofel 127 Finale. History, Memory, and the Politics of Representation / Translated by Rebecca E. Karl 141 Interview with Dai Jinhau, July 2014 / Lisa Rofel 160 Notes 167 Selected Works of Dai Jinhua 181 Bibliography 183 Translators' Biographies 189 Index 191

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Book SynopsisDrawing on numerous examples from popular culture, Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out in advertising, online and multi-media platforms, and nonprofit and commercial campaigns, showing how feminism is often met with a backlash of harassment, assault, and institutional neglect.Trade Review"Empowered adroitly examines the context in which popular feminism is transformed into hateful and misogynistic rage." -- Elisabeth Woronzoff * Popmatters *"Sarah Banet-Weiser offers an informative and readable account of popular feminism and popular misogynistic reactions to it. . . . Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." -- M. Morrissey * Choice *"Empowered offers an extremely timely and critical perspective toward understanding the current topology of feminism and misogyny in popular US culture and can benefit a wide range of readers. With its various tangible examples to illuminate the theorization of popular feminism and misogyny, general readers who don’t have prior knowledge on feminist research could enjoy reading it." -- Dasol Kim * International Journal of Communication *"Empowered presents insightful as well as bold arguments on the current status of popular feminism and its networked natures with popular misogyny." -- Younghan Cho * International Journal of Communication *"Banet-Weiser’s engaging and clear prose, alongside her use of many contemporary examples from a number of cultural contexts, make the book accessible enough for advanced undergraduate or graduate students while still offering cogent and theoretically grounded argumentation to scholars." -- Laura L. Beadling * Journal of American Culture *"Empowered is a crucial and much needed contribution to the debate around contemporary popular feminism and misogyny. In not shying away from exposing both the neoliberal influences of popular feminism, and from investigating the conflictual but nevertheless close entanglements between popular feminist and misogynist thought, Banet-Weiser provides an important keystone towards the reinvention of feminism as a radical and intersectional political project in the contemporary era." -- Hannah Mueller * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *"Empowered is elegant, compelling, and provides an incisive critique of our times—a zeitgeist characterized in equal parts through inspired momentum on matters of gender justice and, simultaneously, met with vitriolic resistance at almost every turn. Empowered theorizes a significant relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny; it also illuminates how Millennial and Gen Z generations arrive at mediated understandings of feminism." -- Michelle Flood * Feminist Media Studies *“In Empowered, Sarah Banet-Weiser develops a framework for understanding the dynamics between what she calls ‘popular feminism and popular misogyny.’ Banet-Weiser signals that to understand popular feminism, we must explore it through its relationship with the other side of the coin: that is, misogyny…. [Empowered is] interesting, well crafted, and well written.” -- Ea Høg Utoft * Signs *“Taking seriously popular feminism and popular misogyny as sites of struggle, Banet-Weiser deftly addresses the increased popularity of feminism in the contemporary moment and the virulent backlash of misogyny situating both within a corporate, capitalist economy of visibility.” -- Jeremiah Favara * Women's Studies International Forum *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. The Funhouse Mirror 41 2. Shame: Love Yourself and Be Humiliated 65 3. Confidence: The Con Game 92 4. Competence: Girls Who Code and Boys Who Hate Them 129 Conclusion: Rage 171 Notes 187 References 193 Index 211

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Book SynopsisSince its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character—a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado explores complex questions about class identity, modernization, and state violence. In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America''s Global Comic—first published in Argentina in 2014 and appearing here in English for the first time—Isabella Cosse analyzes the comic''s vast appeal across multiple generations. From Mafalda breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to readers to express her opposition to the 1966 Argentine coup, to Spanish students'' protest signs bearing her face, to the comic''s cult status in Korea, Cosse provides insights into the cartoon''s production, circulation, and incorporation into social and political conversations. Analyzing howTrade Review“This is transnational cultural history at its best. Isabella Cosse takes us on a global journey to reveal how and why a simple comic strip that began in Argentina in the 1960s found resonance and took root in Western Europe during the early 1970s, became a unifying symbol of Latin America's ‘continental identity’ in the 1980s, and evolved into a mass-marketed icon whose namesake—the puckish, prepubescent, feminist rebel, Mafalda—is today recognized the world over.” -- Eric Zolov, author of * The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties *“Mafalda combines the best traditions of Latin American social and political history. A brilliant discussion of gender and the political seriousness of humor, this book ingeniously invites the audience to ‘read the funny pages’ while taking students on a rigorous analytical journey about the politics of Latin American modernity. Just like Mafalda herself.” -- Heidi Tinsman, author of * Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States *“In this important sociopolitical/cultural study (first published in Spanish in 2014, here smoothly translated by Pérez Carrara), Cosse demonstrates—with a nod to Freud, Bakhtin, and other ‘humorists’—how a simple comic strip about a 1960s middle-class little girl speaks to generations of Argentines and transcends national borders… Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- J. Walker * Choice *"Mafalda was widely disseminated throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond; Cosse attributes the comic strip’s enduring popularity to its universal, humanistic humor and to the utopian nostalgia evoked by allusions to the hopeful, youthful 1960s. In explaining Malfalda’s relative obscurity in the United States, Cosse suggests that the cartoon’s social commentaries are too subtle for many American readers." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“Cosse’s contribution to the social and cultural historiography is invaluable.... Her research rests on a solid, innovative methodology and on primary sources that until recently had not enjoyed the status accorded to other, canonical repositories used by professional historians.” -- Paula Halperin * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Cosse’s book is a crucial contribution to the study of popular culture and humor in Latin America.... [Mafalda] is a model for historians studying popular culture.” -- Matías Hermosilla * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Isabella Cosse has produced a thoroughly researched, analytically robust, and well-written work.... [Mafalda] is an important read not only to understand the national and international impact of the comic strip itself, but also to experience Cosse’s masterful application of social and political analysis to make an important contribution to the history of humor in society.” -- Jeffery Morris * Journal of Global South Studies *“Cosse’s extraordinary and paradigmatic book ... is clearly written and well-structured.” -- Juan Poblete * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisPatrick Galbraith examines Japanese “otaku,” their relationships with fictional girl characters, the Japanese public's interpretations of them as excessive and perverse, and the Japanese government's attempts to co-opt them into depictions of “Cool Japan” to an international audience.Trade Review“In this tremendous book, Patrick W. Galbraith brings to life the relatively unknown world of Japanese popular culture. His voice shines throughout thoughtful interviews, detailed ethnography, sensitive portraits of people characterized as ‘otaku,’ and nuanced readings of videogames and interactive fiction. An impressive contribution to the field of manga and anime studies.” -- Ian Condry, author of * The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story *“This book offers nothing less than a thorough rethinking of normative sexuality and alternative sexualities through the figure of the otaku and their practices. It's everything that the fields of Japan studies, queer theory, and media history need at this moment. A virtually flawless and captivating read.” -- Marc Steinberg, author of * Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan *"This thoughtful investigation of hegemonic masculinity and its alternatives at the margins of imagination is well-sourced with cultural and academic research as well as personal experience." -- R. Tait-Ripperdan * Choice *“Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan is a meticulously researched book...[and] a strong contribution to the field of Japanese popular culture.” -- Emma E. Cook * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“This is an excellent and thought-provoking text which will no doubt take its rightful place in the canon of manga, anime, and otaku studies. . . . The narrative [Galbraith] weaves contains just the right amount of academic theoretical discourse, reflections on his personal involvement in the movement, more as a participant than as a participant observer, and a solid history of Japanese (sub-)culture over the last 50 years.” -- Holger Briel * Japanese Studies *Table of ContentsDedication / Acknowledgments ix Introduction. "Otaku" and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan 1 1. Seeking an Alternative: "Male Sōjo Fans since the 1970s 20 2. "Otaku" Research and Reality Problems 49 3. Moe: An Affective Response to Fictional Characters 76 4. Akihabara: "Otaku" and Contested Imaginaries in Japan 127 5. Maid Cafés: Relations with Fictional and Real Others in Spaces Between 184 Conclusion. Eshi 100: The Politics of Japanese, "Otaku," Popular Culture in Akihabara and Beyond 227 Notes 261 Bibliography 289 Index 311

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Book SynopsisSince its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character—a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador Lavado explores complex questions about class identity, modernization, and state violence. In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America''s Global Comic—first published in Argentina in 2014 and appearing here in English for the first time—Isabella Cosse analyzes the comic''s vast appeal across multiple generations. From Mafalda breaking the fourth wall to speak directly to readers to express her opposition to the 1966 Argentine coup, to Spanish students'' protest signs bearing her face, to the comic''s cult status in Korea, Cosse provides insights into the cartoon''s production, circulation, and incorporation into social and political conversations. Analyzing howTrade Review“This is transnational cultural history at its best. Isabella Cosse takes us on a global journey to reveal how and why a simple comic strip that began in Argentina in the 1960s found resonance and took root in Western Europe during the early 1970s, became a unifying symbol of Latin America's ‘continental identity’ in the 1980s, and evolved into a mass-marketed icon whose namesake—the puckish, prepubescent, feminist rebel, Mafalda—is today recognized the world over.” -- Eric Zolov, author of * The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties *“Mafalda combines the best traditions of Latin American social and political history. A brilliant discussion of gender and the political seriousness of humor, this book ingeniously invites the audience to ‘read the funny pages’ while taking students on a rigorous analytical journey about the politics of Latin American modernity. Just like Mafalda herself.” -- Heidi Tinsman, author of * Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States *“In this important sociopolitical/cultural study (first published in Spanish in 2014, here smoothly translated by Pérez Carrara), Cosse demonstrates—with a nod to Freud, Bakhtin, and other ‘humorists’—how a simple comic strip about a 1960s middle-class little girl speaks to generations of Argentines and transcends national borders… Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.” -- J. Walker * Choice *"Mafalda was widely disseminated throughout the Spanish-speaking world and beyond; Cosse attributes the comic strip’s enduring popularity to its universal, humanistic humor and to the utopian nostalgia evoked by allusions to the hopeful, youthful 1960s. In explaining Malfalda’s relative obscurity in the United States, Cosse suggests that the cartoon’s social commentaries are too subtle for many American readers." -- Richard Feinberg * Foreign Affairs *“Cosse’s contribution to the social and cultural historiography is invaluable.... Her research rests on a solid, innovative methodology and on primary sources that until recently had not enjoyed the status accorded to other, canonical repositories used by professional historians.” -- Paula Halperin * Hispanic American Historical Review *“Cosse’s book is a crucial contribution to the study of popular culture and humor in Latin America.... [Mafalda] is a model for historians studying popular culture.” -- Matías Hermosilla * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Isabella Cosse has produced a thoroughly researched, analytically robust, and well-written work.... [Mafalda] is an important read not only to understand the national and international impact of the comic strip itself, but also to experience Cosse’s masterful application of social and political analysis to make an important contribution to the history of humor in society.” -- Jeffery Morris * Journal of Global South Studies *“Cosse’s extraordinary and paradigmatic book ... is clearly written and well-structured.” -- Juan Poblete * American Historical Review *

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Book SynopsisTyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the tween pop music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture.Trade Review“A pathbreaking contribution that will reach and be relevant to a wide audience, Tween Pop is the first book to treat the tween pop explosion of the 2000s as a cohesive phenomenon. I have no doubt that it will reach a wide audience while repositioning music as central to childhood studies and demanding for children's music a central place in the study of popular music as a whole.” -- Diane Pecknold, author of * The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry *“Tyler Bickford masterfully describes a ‘tween moment’ in American public culture, examining those young music consumers who teeter between childhood and adolescence, and the attention of the popular music industry in reconceptualizing music for them in this critical growth stage. This highly original and ambitious book is a substantial contribution to ethnomusicology, sociology, media studies, education, and child studies, and convincingly clarifies the struggle of the culture industries to convert childhood into a cultural identity all its own.” -- Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington“Tween Pop offers valuable new directions in many areas across multiple disciplines. The scholarship here should remain beneficial for quite some time. . . . I urge readers to pick up this book now and make the most of it.” -- Christopher A. Medjesky * Journal of Popular Culture *“Tween Pop is well-researched, expertly written, and thorough, and it includes supporting images. It is an essential text for those wanting to understand the important tween audience and its continuing impact on popular music.” -- Kathy Merlock Jackson * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Tween Moment 1 1. Singing Along 41 2. Music Television 56 3. "Having It All" 87 4. The Whiteness of Tween Innocence 106 5. The Tween Prodigy at Home and Online 140 Conclusion. After the Tween Moment 167 Notes 187 References 197 Index 221

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Book SynopsisFarzaneh Hemmasi draws on ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles and musical and textual analysis to examine how the pop music, music videos, and television made by Iranian expatriates express modes of Iranianness not possible in Iran.Trade Review“In this important book Farzaneh Hemmasi offers a novel reading of Iranian exilic pop music, raising insightful conceptual questions about the notion and significance of pop culture and diasporic imagination. By taking pop music seriously, she opens up a space for conversations about transnational networks of artistic production, the construction of nationhood and nationalism, and the politics of identity.” -- Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, author of * Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment *“Tehrangeles Dreaming deftly analyzes what circulates and translates around and across this most complex and refractive of diasporic spaces. It is a subtle book, a model of how to weave popular music and dance into a field still largely dominated by film and literature. And a real pleasure to read. That shesh-o-hasht groove can be felt on every page.” -- Martin Stokes, author of * The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music *“Farzaneh Hemmasi’s book is a deft and insightful analysis of Tehrangeles, viewed as a geography, a music scene, a pop industry, a transnational cultural production field, and a post-revolutionary diasporic cultural formation…. Conceptually rich, theoretically nuanced, with its lucid demonstrations of the mobilization of affect, Hemmasi’s Tehrangeles Dreaming makes a valuable contribution to a wide range of scholarship.” -- Mehdi Semati * Cultural Studies *“Tehrangeles Dreaming offers a compellingly argued and accessibly written ethnography of exile, cultural production, and the politics of identity in the Iranian context. It no doubt will be useful for those in ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural studies, and Middle East Studies...” -- Amy Malek * International Journal of Middle East Studies *“[Tehrangeles Dreaming] is an invaluable contribution to the study of Iranian popular culture.... Hemmasi is a truly powerful narrator in her ethnographic work and she provides a profoundly deep and pointed analysis....” -- Siavash Rokni * Lateral *“[Tehrangeles Dreaming] is particularly interesting when it discusses the impact of Tehrangeles pop on Iranians within, in political, social and moral terms.... The writing is engaging, filled with stories about fieldwork and encounters.” -- Laetitia Nanquette * Abstracta Iranica *“Tehrangeles Dreaming makes significant contributions to the scholarship on both American musical multiculturalism and the music of the Islamic world. . . . Farzaneh Hemmesi is to be commended for her clear and captivating first book.” -- Anna K. Rasmussen * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Capital of 6/8 38 2. Iranian Popular Music and History: Views from Tehrangeles 67 3. Expatriate Erotics, Homeland Moralities 98 4. Iran as a Singing Woman 122 5. A Nation in Recovery 153 Conclusion: Forty Years 186 Notes 201 References 223 Index 235

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Book SynopsisIn the early years of the twenty-first century, the US music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but that still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop Tyler Bickford traces the dramatic rise of the tween music industry, showing how it marshaled childishness as a key element in legitimizing children's participation in public culture. The industry played on long-standing gendered and racialized constructions of childhood as feminine and white-both central markers of innocence and childishness. In addition to Kidz Bop, High School Musical, and the Disney Channel's music programs, Bickford examines Taylor Swift in relation to girlhood and whiteness, Justin Bieber's childish immaturity, and Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana and postfeminist discourses of work-life balance. In outlining how tween pop imagined and positioned childhood as both intimate and public as well as a cultural identity to be marketed to, Bickford demonstrates the importance of children's music to core questions of identity politics, consumer culture, and the public sphere.Trade Review“A pathbreaking contribution that will reach and be relevant to a wide audience, Tween Pop is the first book to treat the tween pop explosion of the 2000s as a cohesive phenomenon. I have no doubt that it will reach a wide audience while repositioning music as central to childhood studies and demanding for children's music a central place in the study of popular music as a whole.” -- Diane Pecknold, author of * The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry *“Tyler Bickford masterfully describes a ‘tween moment’ in American public culture, examining those young music consumers who teeter between childhood and adolescence, and the attention of the popular music industry in reconceptualizing music for them in this critical growth stage. This highly original and ambitious book is a substantial contribution to ethnomusicology, sociology, media studies, education, and child studies, and convincingly clarifies the struggle of the culture industries to convert childhood into a cultural identity all its own.” -- Patricia Shehan Campbell, University of Washington“Tween Pop offers valuable new directions in many areas across multiple disciplines. The scholarship here should remain beneficial for quite some time. . . . I urge readers to pick up this book now and make the most of it.” -- Christopher A. Medjesky * Journal of Popular Culture *“Tween Pop is well-researched, expertly written, and thorough, and it includes supporting images. It is an essential text for those wanting to understand the important tween audience and its continuing impact on popular music.” -- Kathy Merlock Jackson * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Tween Moment 1 1. Singing Along 41 2. Music Television 56 3. "Having It All" 87 4. The Whiteness of Tween Innocence 106 5. The Tween Prodigy at Home and Online 140 Conclusion. After the Tween Moment 167 Notes 187 References 197 Index 221

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