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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo The Post–Crash Decade of American Cinema – Wall
Book SynopsisCrisis defines the present cultural moment. From the environment, through migration, to democracy, a continuous state of emergency engulfs us – so much so that crisis appears to be one of the few things not in crisis. The Post-Crash Decade of American Cinema: Wall Street, the "Mancession" and the Political Construction of Crisis focuses on two instances of this overwhelming trend: the latest masculinity crisis and what helped trigger it – the 2008 global financial crash. Looking at selected American cinematic texts of culture from the subsequent ten years, depicting both the causes of the crash and its victims, the volume offers answers to the questions: how has (popular) culture, in particular literature and film, responded to the greatest economic upheaval since the Great Depression, and what conclusions can be drawn from this response?Timely, interdisciplinary and in-depth, this analysis combines literary and cultural studies, as well as feminist criticism, gender studies and masculinities studies with research on the latest history of political economy to interrelate such diverse phenomena as capitalism, "Wall Street culture", the "Mancession" myth, Donald Trump, pornography, patriarchy, neoliberalism, precarity, postfeminism, the fourth wave of feminism, the #MeToo movement, 9/11, home, housing studies, positive psychology, and happiness studies. Ultimately, the book problematises the very concept of "crisis", elucidating it as a powerful political construct.Topographies of (Post)Modernity: Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature in English> is a bilingual, English-Polish book series dedicated to publishing original research on 20th and 21st century literature in English. Monographs and collective volumes in the series address, but are not restricted to, the following research areas: literary genre studies, comparative literature, cultural poetics and transversality of ideas, as well as transnationalism of literature in English.Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART ONE: Wall StreetCHAPTER ONE The Super-CEO, the Financial Crash in Hollywood Cinema and the Preservation of Patriarchal Power in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street and Wall Street: Money Never SleepsCHAPTER TWO The Pornography of Corporate Capitalism: The Wolf of Wall StreetCHAPTER THREE A Funeral, Fun and Games, and the First Gun in Margin Call, The Big Short and Money Monster PART TWO: The “Mancession” CHAPTER FOUR The "Mancession" and Nostalgia for When "Men Knew Who They Were": Power Tools, More Guns and Moral Comfort in The Company Men and Hell or High WaterCHAPTER FIVE Home in 99 Homes and The Florida Project: Women and Children LastConclusionFilmographyBibliographyName IndexSubject Index
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Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Alice Inspiration
Book SynopsisAlice was created by British mathematician, photographer, and writer Lewis Carroll, inspired by the daughter of some friends. Carroll fantasized about taking the child to a parallel-reality world which he called "Wonderland". Alice has inspired movies, songs, video games, and all kinds of books. The book is a tribute to this fanciful girl and all the friends she meets along the way, including the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and the Mad Hatter. Each character shines in their own right and reveals its unique personality in each encounter with Alice. Twenty-eight illustrators offer us a personal version of each character, revealing something more of their art and aesthetic. Have a happy, creative journey to wonderland!
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Instituto Monsa de Ediciones Star Wars
Book SynopsisThe mere mention of the title Star Wars can evoke all kinds of feelings and memories in a person. The trilogy that thrilled everyone in the late 70s and early 80s, the highly criticised prequels from the early 2000s, and the newer sequels are just added fuel to make the work of George Lucas shine dazzlingly in our lives. This book is an illustrated tribute to the fictional universe created by George Lucas, in which readers will find forty portraits of its most outstanding characters, such as Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Leia Organa, Han Solo, Yoda, Chewbacca, R2-D2, C-3PO, Rey, Stormtrooper, and Wilhuff Tarkin - along with sixty unpublished alternative posters! Twenty-seven artists from around the world show us their most personal vision through one or more illustrations, additionally expressing in a sentence what Star Wars means to them. In this way, many artists achieve their desire to share their life and work, and return the favor to what has inspired them, in turn becoming part of the legend, for a long, long time.
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University of the West Indies Press Inna Di Dancehall: Popular Culture and the Politics of Identity in Jamaica
Book SynopsisThis work provides an accessible account of a poorly understood aspect of Jamaican popular culture. It explores the socio-political meanings of Jamaica’s dancehall culture. In particular, the book gives an account of the power relations within the dancehall and between the dancehall and the wider Jamaican society. Hope gives the reader an unmatched insider’s view and explanation of power, violence and gender relations in Jamaica as seen through the prism of the dancehall.Trade Review“The author presents a lively, perceptive, first-hand account of the evolution of Jamaican dancehall culture. Combining scholarship and anecdotal evidence, Hope delineates the complex web of socio-economic and political factors that shape cultural identity in the marginalized working-class communities out which contemporary popular culture arises.” — Carolyn Cooper, Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
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NUS Press Popular Culture Co-Productions and Collaborations
Book SynopsisThis wide-ranging volume is the first to examine the characteristics, dynamics and wider implications of recently emerging regional production, dissemination, marketing and consumption systems of popular culture in East and Southeast Asia. Using tools based in a variety of disciplines - organisational analysis and sociology, cultural and media studies, and political science and history - it elucidates the underlying cultural economics and the processes of region-wide appropriation of cultural formulas and styles.Through discussions of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Philippine and Indonesian culture industries, the authors in the book describe a major shift in Asia's popular culture markets toward arrangements that transcend autonomous national economies by organising and locating production, distribution, and consumption of cultural goods on a regional scale. Specifically, the authors deal with patterns of co-production and collaboration in the making and marketing of cultural commodities such as movies, music, comics, and animation.The book uses case studies to explore the production and exploitation of cultural imaginaries within the context of intensive regional circulation of cultural commodities and images. Drawing on empirically-based accounts of co-production and collaboration in East and Southeast Asia's popular culture, it adopts a regional framework to analyse the complex interrelationships among cultural industries. This focus on a regional economy of transcultural production provides an important corrective to the limitations of previous studies that consider cultural products as text and use them to investigate the ""meaning"" of popular culture.
£23.36
Information Age Publishing Hollywood or History?: An Inquiry-Based Strategy
Book SynopsisThe FOX television show The Simpsons has been around for over 30 years, with more than 700 episodes. A satirical, animated comedy, The Simpsons has millions of fans around the world and its numerous characters are instantly recognizable. Two of the main characters, children Bart and Lisa, are in elementary school and their educational experience is satirized frequently, with episodes taking place at Springfield Elementary and featuring their teachers, classmates, and administration--often with biting criticism of curriculum, privatization, and standardized testing, to name a few. The Simpsons also features episodes retelling historical events, where the family experiences different countries and cultures, and participates in the political process. The Simpsons is unique in that the show itself is also a historical source, having been on the air since 1989. Issues that were current in the early 1990s at the height of popularity of The Simpsons are now considered historical, and there is room in classrooms to critically analyze the show with students about whether the show has adapted well to the 2020s, particularly with the show's use of cultural stereotypes.This edited book offers a collection of classroom-ready tools based on the Hollywood or History? strategy and designed to foster historical inquiry through the careful use of episodes or clips from The Simpsons. This book will be organized by the 10 Themes of Social Studies as outlined by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS, 2010). Each of these 10 sections of the book feature two or three lesson plans from the massive catalog of The Simpsons. There is also an 11th section featuring two lesson plans using episodes of The Simpsons that satirize public education more broadly, which can be used by teacher candidates in methods classrooms to examine the realities of the history of public education and current issues that affect the profession.
£51.30
Information Age Publishing Hollywood or History?: An Inquiry-Based Strategy
Book SynopsisThe FOX television show The Simpsons has been around for over 30 years, with more than 700 episodes. A satirical, animated comedy, The Simpsons has millions of fans around the world and its numerous characters are instantly recognizable. Two of the main characters, children Bart and Lisa, are in elementary school and their educational experience is satirized frequently, with episodes taking place at Springfield Elementary and featuring their teachers, classmates, and administration--often with biting criticism of curriculum, privatization, and standardized testing, to name a few. The Simpsons also features episodes retelling historical events, where the family experiences different countries and cultures, and participates in the political process. The Simpsons is unique in that the show itself is also a historical source, having been on the air since 1989. Issues that were current in the early 1990s at the height of popularity of The Simpsons are now considered historical, and there is room in classrooms to critically analyze the show with students about whether the show has adapted well to the 2020s, particularly with the show's use of cultural stereotypes.This edited book offers a collection of classroom-ready tools based on the Hollywood or History? strategy and designed to foster historical inquiry through the careful use of episodes or clips from The Simpsons. This book will be organized by the 10 Themes of Social Studies as outlined by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS, 2010). Each of these 10 sections of the book feature two or three lesson plans from the massive catalog of The Simpsons. There is also an 11th section featuring two lesson plans using episodes of The Simpsons that satirize public education more broadly, which can be used by teacher candidates in methods classrooms to examine the realities of the history of public education and current issues that affect the profession.
£91.80
Information Age Publishing Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture
Book SynopsisDrawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice. Chapters address such topics as teaching about racism, domestic violence, structural violence, conflict analysis, decolonization, critiques of capitalism, and peacebuilding, showing how different forms of popular culture can be utilized to enhance student learning. Contributors provide both theoretical backgrounds and concrete lessons using TV, film, music, graphic novels, and more.
£48.45
Information Age Publishing Teaching Peace Through Popular Culture
Book SynopsisDrawing from many disciplinary areas, this edited volume illustrates the many ways that popular culture can be used to teach peace and justice. Chapters address such topics as teaching about racism, domestic violence, structural violence, conflict analysis, decolonization, critiques of capitalism, and peacebuilding, showing how different forms of popular culture can be utilized to enhance student learning. Contributors provide both theoretical backgrounds and concrete lessons using TV, film, music, graphic novels, and more.
£86.70
Udon Entertainment Corp Dark Souls III: Design Works
Book SynopsisCollecting the gritty and hair-raising artwork behind the critically-acclaimed DARK SOULS III in a prestigious hardcover tome. DARK SOULS III: DESIGN WORKS features armor and weapon designs, character concepts, enemies, bosses, environments, DLC artwork, and more!
£38.24
Woodfield Publishing The South Coast Beat Scene of the 1960s
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Ma Non Troppo Sed de sangre Vampiros zombis caníbales y hombres
Book SynopsisUn libro para temblar de miedo. Porque en é l aparecen caní bales, zombis, hombres lobo y otros...
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Samurai pop Entre la historia y la cultura
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Taylor & Francis From Jubilee to Hip Hop
Book SynopsisFrom Jubilee to Hip Hop includes 36 reading selections that underscore the breadth and variety of African American musical culture. Each of these selections relates something notable and interesting about African American musical culture since the Emancipation, whether it is Marian Anderson's recollection of the legendary 1939 DAR Constitution Hall debacle, or John Chilton's story of the impact of Louis Jordan's song, Caldonia.Table of Contents1) "Adrift on Stormy Seas: The Jubilee Singers and Their Songs" by J.B.T. Marsh 2) "Richards and Pringle's Original Georgia Minstrels and Billy Kersands, 1889-1895" by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff 3) "The Virginia Jubilee Singers in Bourke, Australia" (Anonymous) 4) "Conclusion", African Banjo Echoes in Appalachia: A Story of Folk Traditions by Cecelia Conway 5) "War on Ragtime" & "Suppression of 'Ragtime'" (Anonymous) 6) "Of The Sorrow Songs," from the Souls of Black Folks by W.E.B. Du Bois 7) "The Nineteenth Century Origins of Jazz" by Lawrence Gushee 8) "Marshall Lullaby" by Kip Lornell and Charles Wolfe 9) "The Scene and the Players in New York" by Tom Riis 10) "Jelly Roll Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton 11) "William Marion Cook" by Cary B. Lewis 12) "Ma Rainey and the Minstrels" by Charles Edward Smith 13) "Black Sacred Harp Singing in Southeast Alabama" by Hank Willett 14) "A Negro Explains 'Jazz'" (Anonymous) 15) "Paul Robeson, Musician" by Doris McGinty and Wayne Shirley 16) "Conflict and Resolution in the Life of Thomas Andrew Dorsey" by Michael Harris 17) "Fats Waller (Comedy Tonight)" by Gary Giddins 18) "'Dean of Afro-American Composers' or 'Harlem Renaissance Man': The New Negro and the Musical Poetics of William Grant Still" by Gayle Murchison 19) "Easter Sunday" by Marian Anderson 20) "Caldonia" by John Chilton 21) "Elder Beck's Temple" by William Russell 22) "T-Bone Blues: T-Bone Walker's Story in His Own Words" by T-Bone Walker 23) "The Impact of Gospel Music on the Secular Music Industry" by Portia K. Maultsby 24) "Singing in the Streets of Raleigh, 1963: Some Recollections" by Clyde Appleton 25) "Motown Calls 'The Rock & Roll Kid'" by Dennis Coffey 26) "Respect: 1964-1965" by Rob Bowman 27) "Clifton Chenier: 'They Call Me The King'" by Ben Sandmel 28) The Art of The Muscle: Miles Davis as American Knight and American Knave" by Gerald Early 29) "Evaluating Ellington" by Mark Tucker 30) "The P-Funk Empire" by Rickey Vincent 31) "Hip-Hop, Puerto Ricans and Ethno-racial Identities in New York" by Raquel Rivera 32) "Daughters of the Blues" by Cheryl Keys 33) "Media Interventions" by Maureen Mahon 34) "Black Artistic Invisibility: A Black Composer Talking 'bout Taking Care of the Souls Of Black Folks While Losing Much Ground Fast" by William Banfield 35) "Stepping Out an African Heritage" by Elizabeth Fine 36) "Rhythm and Bullshit?: The Slow Decline of R & B" by Mark Anthony Neal
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Oxford University Press Inhaling Spirit
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Oxford University Press Assimilation in American Life
Book SynopsisThe first full-scale sociological survey of the assimilation of minorities in America, this classic work presents significant conclusions about the problems of prejudice and discrimination in America and offers positive suggestions for the achievement of a healthy balance among societal, subgroup, and individual needs.Trade ReviewImportant and entirely admirable....Gordon's review of theories of Anglo-conformity, the melting pot, and cultural pluralism is the best I have ever seen. Specialists in intergroup relations will find Gordon's book a most useful addition to their personal bookshelves and an indispensable newcomer to their pedagogical repertoire. * American Sociological Review *
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Oxford University Press Baseball
Book SynopsisIn this first volume of two, Harold Seymour traces the growth of baseball from early English children''s games to the formation in 1903 of the two present-day professional major leagues. By investigating previously unexamined sources, he uncovers the real story of baseball''s evolution in the United States from a gentleman''s amateur sport of well-bred play followed by well-laden banquet tables into a professional sport where big leagues operate under their own rules. Offering countless colourful anecdotes and a wealth of new information, Seymour explodes many cherished myths. He unveils the influence of baseball on American business, manners, morals, social institutions and show business and sketches revealing portraits of the men who became the first professional players, club owners, and managers.Trade ReviewPraise for Volume I: "An important reference, very readable."--The New York Public Library "Indispensable."--Dr. Daniel Boorstin, Director, Library of Congress "Will remain the basic reference for baseball history."--New York Historical Review "First-rate history....[Seymour] gives a full picture of player salaries, of owner deceits, of public frenzy."--The Baltimore Sun "Half of what will be the most comprehensive, serious, authoritative, and sociological study of baseball ever put to paper."--San Francisco Chronicle "It puts baseball...firmly in the American picture....[An] admirable book."--The Times Literary Supplement (London) "[Seymour] has the intellectual's passion for facts, but he writes with the light touch of a sports writer."--New York Daily News "Stands in a class by itself."--St. Petersburg Times "Right off the bat, let me say that this history of baseball stands in a class by itself."--John Barkham, Saturday Review Syndicate "With great care the book tells how the game was born, struggled, survived, and prospered, despite bird-brained direction at the top, chicanery at all levels, bullying of players, player revolts, monopolistic and power tactics, scandals, rowdyism and even violence."--Providence Journal
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Oxford University Press Slayer Slang
Book SynopsisMichael Adams begins his book with a synopsis of the programme''s history and a defence of ephemeral language. He then moves to the main body of the work: a detailed glossary of slayer slang, annotated with actual dialogue and recorded in the style accepted by the American Dialect Society. The book concludes with a bibliography and a lengthy index, a guide to sources (novels based on the show, magazine articles about the show, and language culled from the official posting board) and an appendix of slang-making suffixes. Introduced by Jane Espenson, one of the show''s most inventive writers (and herself a linguist), Slayer Slang offers a quintessential example of contemporary youth culture serving as a vehicle for slang. bitca n [AHD4 bitch n in sense 2.a + a] Bitch 1997 Sep 15 Whedon When She Was Bad [Willow:] ''I mean, why else would she be acting like such a b-i-t-c-h?'' [Giles:] ''Willow, I think we''re all a little old to be spelling things out.'' [Xander:] ''A bitca?'' break and enterish adj [AHD4 sv breaking and entering n + -ish suff in sense 2.a] Suitable for crime 1999 Mar 16 Petrie Enemies I''ll go home and stock up on weapons, slip into something a little more break and enterish. [B] carbon-dated adj [fr. AHD4 carbondating + -ed] Very out of date 1997 Mar 10 Whedon Welcome to the Hellmouth [Buffy:] ''Deal with that outfit for a moment.'' [Giles:] ''It''s dated?'' [Buffy:] ''It''s carbon-dated.'' cuddle-monkey n [AHD4 cuddle v + monkey n in sense 2, by analogy fr. RHHDAS (also DAS3 and NTC) sv cuddle bunny ''an affectionate, passionate, or sexually attractive young woman''] Male lover 1998 Feb 10 Noxon Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered Every woman in Sunnydale wants to make me her cuddle-monkey. [X]Trade Review"If you're curious about the word 'ubersuck,' or just want to remember which episode you first heard it in, this is the place to look. As Buffy would say, it is not uncool."--Kansas City Star "While we were caught up in the drama of the battles against the undead...linguist Michael Adams was concentrating on the words. Slayer Slang is a combination dictionary of slayer slang/guide to the Buffyverse/textbook. Just consider it another sign Buffy will live forever."--Sacramento Bee "Even if you never watched the show, Slayer Slang provides major clueage about the formation of slang terms in general. Slang, after all, is where language vrooms and vibes--or, in the case of Buffy, where it vamps."--Hartford Courant "In applying linguistic analysis to the show, Adams not only shows how brilliant and innovative the writing was but also its toggling relationship to and influences upon popular culture."--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review "Will satisfy the inner geek of a Buffy fan."--Kansas City Star "If you're curious about the word 'ubersuck,' or just want to remember which episode you first heard it in, this is the place to look. As Buffy would say, it is not uncool."--Kansas City Star "With the meticulous precision of a Talmudic scholar, Michael Adams...records, classifies and analyzes the innovative slang and clever wordplay of the popular UPN series."--The Hartford Courant "Will satisfy the inner geek of a Buffy fan."--Kansas City Star "While we were caught up in the drama of the battles against the undead...linguist Michael Adams was concentrating on the words. Slayer Slang is a combination dictionary of slayer slang/guide to the Buffyverse/textbook. Just consider it another sign Buffy will live forever."--Sacramento Bee "Even if you never watched the show, Slayer Slang provides major clueage about the formation of slang terms in general. Slang, after all, is where language vrooms and vibes--or, in the case of Buffy, where it vamps."--Hartford Courant "In applying linguistic analysis to the show, Adams not only shows how brilliant and innovative the writing was but also its toggling relationship to and influences upon popular culture."--Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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Taylor & Francis Celebrity Audiences
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Taylor & Francis Art In The Age Of Mass Media
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Streaming Music investigates how the Internet is affecting young people’s uses of music in contemporary society, drawing on case studies from Moscow and Stockholm.
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