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Ohio State University Press Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism
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Ohio State University Press Makeover Nation The United States of Reinvention
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University of Arizona Press Saints Statues and Stories A Folklorist Looks at
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University of Minnesota Press Sport and Leisure Cultures
Book SynopsisA sweeping analysis of sport culture's global, national, and local impact.Table of ContentsContents AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Analyzing Sport and Leisure Cultures Part I: Global Themes1. Magnificent Trivia: Olympic Spectacle, Opening Ceremonies, and Some Paradoxes of Globalization2. Sport, Politics, and Identities: Comparative Sports Cultures3. FIFA and the Men's World Cup: The Expansion of the Global Football Family Part II: National Studies4. Sport, Cultural Diversity, and National Identity: The Swiss Case5. Stateside Football: The Men's World Cup USA '94 and Its Legacy6. Eastern Promise?: Football in the Societies and Cultures of the Middle and Far East Part III: Local Cultures7. Patterns of Consumption in Sport and Leisure Cultures: Urban Space and Suburban Fears8. The Politics of Men's Leisure: Northern English Working-Class Culture in the 1930s9. Continuities and Change in Male Working-Class Leisure: The Case of Knur-and-Spell Conclusion: Observations and Research DirectionsNotesBibliographyIndex
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Artificial Kingdom
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Household Words Bloomers sucker bombshell scab
Book SynopsisA study of how certain words act as indices of political and social change, perpetuating anxieties and prejudices even as those ways of thinking have been seemingly resolved or overcome by history. This book specifically discusses six words whose meanings are mistakenly understood to be "common sense."
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MP - University Of Minnesota Press Mechademia 6 User Enhanced
Book SynopsisAs passive consumers of manga and anime become active users of cultural commodities, this volume explores the possibilities of, and challenges for, engagementTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionThomas LamarreCountering DomesticationUnder the Ruffles: Shôjo and the Morphology of PowerFrenchy LunningGirliness Is Next to Godliness: Lolita Fandom as Sacred Criminality in the Novels of Takemoto NovalaBrian BergstromBeyond Domesticating Animal LoveChristine L. MarranExploited and Mobilized: Poverty and Work in Contemporary MangaMatthew PenneyCommodity-LifeTezuka Is Dead: Manga in Transformation and Its Dysfunctional DiscourseItô GôTranslated and with an Introduction by Miri NakamuraHow Characters Stand Out Miyamoto HirohitoTranslated by Thomas LamarreManga Translation and IntercultureCathy SellSpeciesism Part 3: Neoteny and the Politics of LifeThomas LamarrePhoto PlayOut of the Closet: The Fancy PhenomenonPhotography by Rio SaitôIntroduction by Frenchy LunningDesiring EconomiesAnatomy of Permutational Desire, Part 2: Bellmer's Dolls and Oshii's GynoidsLivia Monnet Desire in Subtext: Gender, Fandom, and Women’s Male-Male Homoerotic Parodies in Contemporary JapanKumiko SaitoThe Sacrificial Economy of Cuteness in Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in SpaceEmily RaineFlower Tribes and Female Desire: Complicating Early Female Consumption of Male Homosexuality in Shôjo MangaJames WelkerUntimely EffectsTransformation of Semantics in the History of Japanese Subcultures since 1992Miyadai ShinjiTranslated by Shion KonoWith an Introduction by Thomas LamarreThe Logic of Digital GamingAden EvensTsuge Yoshiharu and Postwar Japan: Travel, Memory, and NostalgiaYoshikuni IgarashiImplicational Spectatorship: Hara Setsuko and the Queer JokeYuka KannoReview and CommentaryWar for Entertainment: The Sky CrawlersAndrea HorbinskiVolition in the Face of AbsurdityBrian RuhThe Past Presents the Future: Toward the TerraPaul Jacksonトレンド TorendoWherein the Author Documents Her Experience as a Porcelain DollLisa BlauersouthContributorsCall for Papers
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University of Minnesota Press CoinOperated Americans
Book SynopsisVideo gaming: it's a boy's world, right? That's what the industry wants us to think. Why and how we came to comply are what Carly A. Kocurek investigates in this provocative consideration of how an industry's craving for respectability hooked up with cultural narratives about technology, masculinity, and youth at the video arcade.From the dawn of tTrade Review"Carly A. Kocurek provides a fascinating cultural history of arcade gaming and, in doing so, offers keen insight into our ongoing conversations around gender and gaming. This is a must read for those interested not only in game studies but in the evolution of American boyhood."—T.L. Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"An excellent study of the early history of the video game industry and how it came to define the gamer as male."—Library Journal"The great contribution of Kocurek’s Coin-Operated Americans is its attempt to historicize a relationship that often appears natural to cultural gatekeepers and other onlookers, not to mention reactionary “gamers” themselves."—Public Books"This detailed study provides a lucid, compelling narrative that will interest a very diverse audience."—CHOICE"Coin-Operated Americans is an invaluable contribution for those interested in the intersection among media, technology, and critical questions surrounding children and youth."—Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"Kocurek invites readers to imagine the sensory environment of the early arcade, its sights and sounds, which serves as a vivid backdrop for the compelling cultural history the book chronicles."—Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth"Productive contributions to studies of masculinity, and to studies of gender and digital play more broadly."—Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality "Coin-Operated Americans will make an excellent addition to undergraduate courses on gender studies, American culture, and the recent past."—Oral History ReviewTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments Introduction1. The Microcosmic Arcade: Playing at the Cultural Vanguard 2. Gaming’s Gold Medalists: Twin Galaxies and the Rush to Competitive Gaming3. Adapting Violence: Death Race and the History of Gaming Moral Panic4. Anarchy in the Arcade: Regulating Coin-Op Video Games5. Play Saves the Day: TRON, WarGames, and the Gamer as Protagonist6. The Arcade Is Dead, Long Live the Arcade: Nostalgia in an Era of Ubiquitous Computing7. The Future Is Now: Changes in Gaming CultureNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Simultaneous Worlds
Book SynopsisSimultaneous Worlds challenges the notion that science fiction cinema is largely a Western genre by focusing on cinemas and cultures from Cuba to North Korea that are not traditionally associated with science fiction. This is the first volume to bring a transnational, interdisciplinary lens to science fiction cinema.Trade Review"Jennifer L. Feeley and Sarah Ann Wells have done a marvelous job of bringing together established scholars with emerging voices to create a unique critical collection on global science fiction cinema, which they show is neither an impossible dream nor an artificial unity, but rather a major way to think about science fiction cinema in the new millennium."—N. Katherine Hayles, Duke University"A detailed filmography and robust index make the book practical for the classroom"—CHOICETable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJennifer Feeley and Sarah Ann WellsPart I. Intermediality and New Media Economies1. Scan Lines: How Cyborgs FeelThomas Lamarre2. What Is Estranged in Science Fiction Animation?Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr.3. Famous for Fifteen Minutes: Permutations of Science Fiction Short FilmPaweł Frelik4. Forms of Journey and Archive: Remaking Science Fiction in Contemporary Artist-Filmmakers’ ProjectsJihoon KimPart II. Traveling Science Fiction: Translation, Adaptation, and Interpretation5. Media Heterotopias and Science Fiction: Transnational Workflows and Transgalactic Spaces in Digitally Composited EcosystemsHye Jean Chung6. F. P. 1 and the Language of a Global Science Fiction CinemaJ. P. Telotte7. Enthiran, the Robot: Sujatha, Science Fiction, and Tamil CinemaSwarnavel Eswaran PillaiPart III. Spatial and Temporal Alternative Modernities in the Global South8. Polytemporality in Argentine Science Fiction Film: A Critique of the Homogenous Time of Historicism and ModernityJoanna Page9. Virtual Immigrants: Transfigured Bodies and Transnational Spaces in Science Fiction CinemaEverett Hamner10. Walking Dead in Havana: Juan of the Dead and the Zombie Film GenreEmily A. MaguirePart IV. Techno-Capitalism and Techno-Desires: The Gendered Affect of Post-Cyborgs11. Who Does the Feeling When There’s No Body There?: Critical Feminism Meets Cyborg Affect in Oshii Mamoru’s InnocenceSharalyn Orbaugh12. The Invention of Romance: Park Chan-wook’s I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OkaySteve Choe13. A Disenchanted Fantastic: The Pathos of Objects in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Air DollMichelle ChoPart V. National, International, Intergalactic: Socialist and Post-Socialist Science Fiction Cinema14. Alien Commodities in Soviet Science Fiction Cinema: Aelita, Solaris, and Kin-dza-dza!Jillian Porter15. Parodies of Realism at the Margins of Science Fiction: Jang Jun-hwan’s Save the Green Planet and Sin Sang-ok’s PulgasariTravis Workman16. Media and Messages: Blurred Visions of Nation and Science in Death Ray on a Coral IslandNathaniel IsaacsonSelect FilmographyContributorsIndex
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University of Minnesota Press Celebrity and Power
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction to the Second Edition. Celebrity in the Digital Era: A New Public IntimacyCelebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary CulturePrefacePart I1. Tracing the Meaning of the Public Individuals2. Conceptualizing the Collective: The Mob, the Crowd, the Mass, and the Audience3. Tools for the Analysis of the Celebrity as a Form of Cultural PowerPart II4. The Cinematic Apparatus and the Construction of the Film Celebrity5. Television’s Construction of the Celebrity6. The Meanings of the Popular Music Celebrity: The Construction of Distinctive Authenticity7. The System of CelebrityPart IIIThe Embodiment of Affect in Political CultureConclusion: Forms of Power/Forms of Public SubjectivityCoda: George, Celebrities, and the Shift in Political/Popular CultureNotesIndex
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Vanderbilt University Press American Ballads
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Rizzoli International Publications Andy Warhol
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John Wiley & Sons On Interpretation Sociology for Interpreters of
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Bauhan (William L.),U.S. Dwelling in Possibility Searching for the Soul of
Book SynopsisA search for the ordinary qualities that make some houses a home, and some public places welcoming.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Personal Places
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Antique Advertising Encyclopaedia Antique
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Advertising Clocks
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Persea Books Inc Dying in the Scarecrows Arms
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MP-ARK University of Arkansas Jim W.Corder on Living and Dying in West Texas
Book SynopsisJim W Corder will be remembered by students and colleagues at Texas Christian University for his writing, teaching, and original thinking. His numerous publications include ""Lost in West Texas"" (1988), ""Chronicle of a Small Town"" (1989), and ""Yonder: Life on the Far Side of Change"" (1992).Trade ReviewCorder's final memoir makes a significant contribution to the 'literature of aging.' Students of creative nonfiction, of regional history (West Texas especially), of popular culture, of the 'problem' of self-identity in postmodernism, and of the 'arts' of living (and preparation for dying) will want to read this book. - Craig A. Meyer, Ohio University
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Japan in Crisis Essays on Taisho Democracy
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Rethinking Schools Rethinking Popular Culture and Media
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Random House USA Inc Ill Have What Shes Having My Adventures in
Book SynopsisA hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and famous--from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail egg concoctions to Jackie Kennedy's baked potato and Beluga caviar regimen--Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on sea vegetables; and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk. Where there is a Hollywood starlet offering nutritional advice, there is a diet Rebecca Harrington is willing to try. Facing a harrowing mix of fainting spells, pimples, and salmonella, Harrington tracks down illegal haggis to imitate Pippa Middleton, paces her apartment until the wee hours drinking ten Diet Cokes à la Karl Lagerfeld, and attempts something forbiddingly known as the Salt Water Flush to channel her inner Beyoncé. Rebecca Harrington risks kitchen fires and mysterious face rashes, all in the name of di
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Taylor & Francis Film Form and Culture Fourth Edition
Book SynopsisFilm, Form, and Culture (4th edition) offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores film from part to whole; from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrative. It then examines those narratives (both fiction and non-fiction) as stories and genres that speak to the culture of their time and our perceptions of them today. Composition, editing, genres (such as the gangster film, the Western, science fiction, and melodrama) are analyzed alongside numerous images to illustrate the discussion. Chapters on the individuals who make films - the production designer, cinematographer, editor, composer, producer, director, and actor - illustrate the collaborative nature of filmmaking.This new edition includes: An expanded discussion of the digital 'revolution in filmmaking: exploring the movement from celluTrade Review"Kolker's lucid, accessible style gives this book a pace and energy that sets it apart. Among the many introductory film textbooks, Film, Form, and Culture captures the reader's attention at first glance, and holds it throughout. Robert Burgoyne, Professor of Film Studies, University of St Andrews "Film, Form and Culture is a thoughtful, ambitious, and thorough introductory textbook that is also an absolute pleasure to read. Put simply, this richly illustrated book makes it easy to understand how to take film seriously. It is scaled to a manageable size and scope for classroom use, providing a comprehensive set of tools and skills with which to approach the study of film. Kolker introduces his reader to film and art history, theories of representation, genres and international cinemas, and the vocabulary with which to discuss moving images. True to its title, the book provides a framework with which to understand and engage with the way that form and culture interact through the medium of film. Kolker pulls off a rare feat with Film Form and Culture: he has provided teachers at any level with a readable and immensely useful book that is also rigorously intellectual. I have used earlier editions of Film, Form and Culture in my introductory film classes and I’m delighted to now be able to use this updated edition. This is a fantastic introductory book by one of the field’s foremost thinkers that will be appreciated by anyone wishing to better understand what makes films tick." Marsha Gordon, Associate Professor, Film Studies, North Carolina State University "Robert Kolker is both a brilliant analyst of film and a great teacher. He manages to explain and use complex concepts in limpid prose, and his effortless blend of textual and contextual approaches to cinema is a model to us all." Toby Miller, Professor of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University and Sir Walter Murdoch Professor of Cultural Policy Studies, Murdoch University "Robert Kolker’s Film, Form, and Culture (4th edition) is a lucidly written textbook for undergraduate students who are beginning their film and media studies programs. Kolker takes the readers on a tantalizing journey in which they will encounter film language, grammar, history, theory and the broader issues of culture and ideology. The book does not get bogged down in jargon and theoretical trapeze walks. Its purpose is to teach students to unpack the artifice of cinema by learning the analytical tools to take the scenes apart and then figuring out how the audience puts them all together. The students will also learn the fact that film developed all over the world, almost at the same time, and form and style have been evolving ever since in different cultural contexts to render a rich body of work for all to see. " Manjunath Pendakur, Professor, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Image and Reality 2. Formal Structures: How Films Tell Their Stories 3. The Building Blocks Of Film I: The Shot 4. The Building Blocks of Film II: The Cut 5. The Story Tellers of Film I 6. The Storytellers of Film II: Acting 7. The Storytellers of Film III: The Director 8. International Cinema 9. The Stories Told By Film I 10. The Stories Told by Film II 11. Film as Cultural Practice Glossary Index
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Picador USA How to Find Fulfilling Work
Book SynopsisA practical and inspirational guide to examining your career and deciding whether it truly makes you happythis book will show you the steps it takes to find a job that truly makes you thrive.The desire for fulfilling work is one of the great aspirations of our age. This book reveals explores the competing claims we face for money, status, and meaning in our lives. Drawing on wisdom from a variety of disciplines, cultural thinker Roman Krznaric sets out a practical guide to negotiating the labyrinth of choices, overcoming fear of change, and finding a career in which you thrive. Overturning a century of traditional thought about career change, Krznaric reveals just what it takes to find life-enhancing work.The School of Life is dedicated to exploring life''s big questions in highly-portable paperbacks, featuring French flaps and deckle edges, that the New York Times calls damnably cute. We don''t have all the answers, but we will direct you toward
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Picador The KandyKolored TangerineFlake Streamline Baby
Book SynopsisAn excellent book by a genius. Kurt VonnegutA generation-defining portrait of the 1960s by the master of New Journalism.Tom Wolfe raised the banner for his high-octane brand of New Journalism with The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, his first book of essays, which collects stories from corners of 1960s America that few had described before. With a thrilling flair for detail, Wolfe creates an indelible portrait of the erafrom the burgeoning ersatz glamor of Las Vegas, to the hot-rodding world of car customizers, to a close-up look at the working lives of New York City doormen.These essays are a testament to Wolfe's unparalleled ability to capture the zeitgeist on the page, bringing it to life with colorful and unusual characters and an inimitable ear for a new kind of American idiom. The force and depth of his writing endures decades after his debut, reaffirming, yet again, his role as a foundational figure in
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St Martin's Press Your Caption Has Been Selected
Book SynopsisA behind-the-scenes look at The New Yorker cartoon caption contest, its history, how it''s judged, and the secrets to writing a winning captionEvery week, thousands of people enter The New Yorker cartoon caption contest in hopes of seeing their name and caption in print. But only one person has made it to the finalists' round an astounding fifteen times and won eight contests: Lawrence Wood, also known as the Ken Jennings of caption writing.What''s Wood''s secret? What makes a caption good or bad? How do you beat the crowd? And most important, what makes a caption funny?Packed with 175 of the magazine''s best cartoons and featuring a foreword by Bob Mankoff, former cartoon editor of The New Yorker and creator of the caption contest, Your Caption Has Been Selected takes you behind the scenes to learn about the contest's history, the way it's judged, and what it has to say about humor, creativity, and good writing. Lawr
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Henry Holt & Company Tinderbox
Book SynopsisTinderbox tells the exclusive, explosive, uninhibited true story of HBO and how it burst onto the American scene and screen to detonate a revolution and transform our relationship with television forever. The Sopranos, Game of Thrones, Sex and the City, The Wire, Succession...HBO has long been the home of epic shows, as well as the source for brilliant new movies, news-making documentaries, and controversial sports journalism. By thinking big, trashing tired formulas, and killing off cliches long past their primes, HBO shook off the shackles of convention and led the way to a bolder world of content, opening the door to all that was new, original, and worthy of our attention. In Tinderbox, award-winning journalist James Andrew Miller uncovers a bottomless trove of secrets and surprises, revealing new conflicts, insights, and analysis. As he did to great acclaim with SNL in Live from New York
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St Martin's Press The 2000s Made Me Gay
Book SynopsisFrom The Onion and Reductress contributor, this collection of essays is a hilarious nostalgic trip through beloved 2000s media, interweaving cultural criticism and personal narrative to examine how a very straight decade forged a very queer woman A Lambda Literary Award Finalist Honest, funny, smart, and illuminating. Anna Drezen, co-head writer of SNLIf you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book. Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress Today's gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but former gay teenager Grace Perry did not have that luxury. Instead, she had to search for queerness in the (largely straight) teen cultural phenomena the aughts had to offer: in Lindsay Lohan's fall from grace, Gossip Girl, Katy Perry's I Kissed A Girl, country-era Taylor Swift, and Seth Cohen jumping on a coffee cart
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Henry Holt & Company Inc The Death of the Artist
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St Martin's Press Shooting Midnight Cowboy
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Henry Holt & Company Inc Glitter Every Day
Book SynopsisThe Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom Andy Cohen, the New York Times bestselling author and host of Watch What Happens Live comes an inspiring collection of daily quotes from the larger-than-life women that defined his life, offering inspiration, affirmation, and (just enough) intoxication to make any day shine bright the perfect gift for the holidays! Andy Cohen has made a career, and a life, out of making the ordinary extraordinary. The inspiration for this fabulous view of the world has always come from the incredible women (from his mother to Madonna) he loves. In Glitter Every Day Andy shares his most needed words of wisdom from his favorite icons for every day, just in time to kick off the new year!Andy not only gathers 365 sayings and quotes from the icons, thought leaders, Real Housewives and legendary celebs that fuel his fun, he writes about the people and experiences that have made him live one of the most joyous l
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Magic in the Air
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WW Norton & Co Mix It Up
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Hyperion Art of Coloring Hocus Pocus
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Hyperion Art of Coloring The Golden Girls
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Hyperion Art of Coloring Schoolhouse Rock
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Penguin Random House Group Dream Chasing
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Sirius Entertainment Oasis When Are You Getting Back Together
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Myth of the Superhero
Book SynopsisTranslated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context.Trade ReviewBest suited for students of literary studies looking for cultural and ideological analysis; the general reader will glean useful insight into Superman's psyche. Library Journal Even though this is a rather thin volume, it refers to a multitude of aspects that place the superhero in the role of a fighter for tolerance, diversity and justice; the blueprints of their actions, however, were designed hundreds of years ago. -- Dr. A. Ebert PopCultureShelf.com The Myth of the Superhero is a work that should stand as a touchstone within institutional comics studies, while at the same time being an accessible and highly relevant text for casual and fanboy/girl readers. -- Derek Royal Comics Alternative Arnaudo's book is an interesting analysis of some of the commonly overlooked significances of one of the most important media in modern pop culture. The criticism of the superhero comic book in regard to its dialogues with mythology is particularly perceptive, and sets up Arnaudo's discussion of the ways in which it can be used to portray and challenge ethical and cultural ideas. -- Jason Archbold Media International AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Myth and Religion2. Ethics and Society3. Epic and NeobaroqueConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Myth of the Superhero
Book SynopsisTranslated for the first time into English, The Myth of the Superhero looks beyond the cape, the mask, and the superpowers, presenting a serious study of the genre and its place in a broader cultural context.Trade ReviewBest suited for students of literary studies looking for cultural and ideological analysis; the general reader will glean useful insight into Superman's psyche. Library Journal Even though this is a rather thin volume, it refers to a multitude of aspects that place the superhero in the role of a fighter for tolerance, diversity and justice; the blueprints of their actions, however, were designed hundreds of years ago. -- Dr. A. Ebert PopCultureShelf.com The Myth of the Superhero is a work that should stand as a touchstone within institutional comics studies, while at the same time being an accessible and highly relevant text for casual and fanboy/girl readers. -- Derek Royal Comics Alternative Arnaudo's book is an interesting analysis of some of the commonly overlooked significances of one of the most important media in modern pop culture. The criticism of the superhero comic book in regard to its dialogues with mythology is particularly perceptive, and sets up Arnaudo's discussion of the ways in which it can be used to portray and challenge ethical and cultural ideas. -- Jason Archbold Media International AustraliaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Myth and Religion2. Ethics and Society3. Epic and NeobaroqueConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Harry Potter and the Millennials
Book SynopsisGierzynski's captivating analysis of media's impact on political views, combined with the enjoyable Potter story details, makes for an irresistible project that social scientists can use to work a little magic in their classrooms.Trade ReviewThe book is great fun. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Isn't It Just a Story?1. The Subtle (and Not-So-Subtle) Political Lessons of Harry Potter2. Learning the Lessons of the Wizarding World3. Do the Politics of Harry Potter Fans Reflect Those of the Wizarding World?4. The Role of Harry Potter in the Political Developmentof MillennialsConclusion: Fiction, Reality, and PoliticsAppendixesA. Research MethodologyB. The QuestionnaireC. Regression AnalysesD. Model of Harry Potter Effects with CoefficientsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press From Madman to Crime Fighter
Book SynopsisFrom Madman to Crime Fighter is the most comprehensive study of the image of the scientist in Western literature and film.Trade ReviewHer approach is to correlate developments in science and technology over the following seven centuries with descriptions of how scientists have been portrayed in contemporaneous literature, and more recently in fascinating read.—Times Higher EducationThis is a wonderful book, both in the sense of being a pleasure to read and being full of wonders.—SAGE BlogIn this update, Haynes has extended her purview to accommodate the growth in scholarship on science and popular culture, especially in the area of film, which has occurred in the twenty years since the publication of the first edition... Anyone wishing to design a course on science or the scientist (however he or she may define these terms) in literature, cinema or popular culture, set either in a single era or over a span of time, could easily get away with using this new volume as a one-stop shopping catalogue for primary sources.—Neeraja Sankaran, Independent Scholar, British Society for Literature and ScienceTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Evil Alchemists and Doctor Faustus2. Bacon’s New Scientists3. Foolish Virtuosi4. Newton5. Arrogant and Godless6. Inhuman Scientists7. Frankenstein and the Creature8. Victorian Scientists9. The Scientist as Adventurer10. Efficiency and Power11. The Scientist as Hero12. Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know13. The Impersonal Scientist14. Scientia Gratia Scientiae15. Robots, Androids, Cyborgs, and Clones16. Pandora’s Box17. The Scientist as Woman18. Idealism and ConscienceConclusionAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Gamer Nation
Book SynopsisExplores how games actively influence the ways people interpret and relate to American life. In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown between gunfighters. Rich in Western folklore, the game seemed perfect for the American market; players easily adapted to the new technology, becoming pistol-wielding pixel cowboys. One of the first successful early arcade titles, Gun Fight helped introduce an entire nation to video-gaming and sold more than 8,000 units. In Gamer Nation, John Wills examines how video games co-opt national landscapes, livelihoods, and legends. Arguing that video games toy with Americans' mass cultural and historical understanding, Wills show how games reprogram the American experience as a simulated reality. Blockbuster games such as Civilization, Call of Duty, and Red Dead Redemption repackage the past, refashioning Trade ReviewThis book could prove useful for those interested in the impact of video games in the contemporary perception of America such as scholars and professionals in the fields of communication, political activism, and other social sciences.—Communication Booknotes QuarterlyTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction. A New Realm of PlayChapter One. Games and New Frontiers Chapter Two. Playing Cowboys and Indians in the Digital Wild West Chapter Three. Cold War Gaming Chapter Four. 9/11 Code Chapter Five. Fighting the Virtual War on TerrorChapter Six. Grand Theft Los Angeles Chapter Seven. Second Life, Second America Conclusion. Converging Worlds NotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Doctor Who Fooled the World
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRiveting . . . Readers who love a good debunking will find Deer's narrative logical, exciting, and enraging.—Publishers WeeklySeldom has any new book been more timely than The Doctor Who Fooled the World At times the book reads more like a thriller than a journalistic investigation—The Sunday TimesAt a time when the World Health Organization lists 'vaccine hesitancy' as one of the top ten threats to global health, this stunning work sounds an urgent message and demonstrates the essential role of investigative journalism in uncovering the truth.—Foreword ReviewsExposing researchers who lie, cheat and fake their data often requires the work of courageous whistleblowers or tenacious investigative journalists. Enter Brian Deer, an award-winning reporter for the Sunday Times of London—The Wall Street JournalAlthough many people think they know this now-infamous story, it is likely they are unaware of all its dramatic details. Curious lay readers and vaccine experts alike are sure to learn something worthwhile from Deer's well-chronicled account.—Paul A. Offit, ScienceMind-boggling . . . Every chapter drops your jaw.—BigThinkRiveting . . . a compelling portrait of hubris and the terrible dark shadow it can cast.—Saad B. Omer, NatureEvocative . . . an incredible story.—Chemistry WorldThe author not only exposes major flaws in the study itself, he also describes high-pressure tactics used to recruit the young patients and the harmful, invasive procedures used to gather samples.—Eric Hoffer Award CommitteeTable of ContentsPrologue: ResurrectionPart 1. Big Ideas1. The Guinness Moment2. It Must Be Measles3. Quests Collide4. The Pilot Study5. Child Four6. A Moral IssuePart 2. Secret Schemes7. Everybody Knows8. First Contact9. The Deal10. Trouble in the Labs11. Spartanburg Science12. Asked and Answered13. Turn of the Century14. On Capitol Hill15. Letting Go 16. The Bridge17. UnblindedPart 3. Exposed18. Assignment19. Cracking the Coombe20. The Spoiler21. Texas22. Nothing As It Seems23. Sesame Street24. Enterocolitis25. We Can Reveal26. Cry Smear27. An Elaborate FraudPart 4. Avenged28. Rock Bottom29. Payback Time30. Vaxxed31. Wakefield's World32. Cause and AffectEpilogue: A Wonderful DoctorTimelineNote to ReadersAcknowledgmentsIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Wrong
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA compelling exploration of the psychological factors behind misinformation and belief.—Library JournalDannagal Goldthwaite Young's insightful book Wrong investigates the political and philosophical reasons why people rely on information that they know is false.—Foreword ReviewsAn intriguing deep dive into the current American information environment.—Publishers WeeklyMisinformation has been a topic of increasing concern in recent years, and in Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, Dannagal Goldthwaite Young examines the unique cultural structures in the United States that make its citizens particularly susceptible.[Wrong] offers valuable insight and works to strengthen democracy and the social connectedness still possible in the United States.—Shelf AwarenessRecognizing how deep this crisis goes leaves us in a difficult place. Getting people to reject demonstrable lies isn't simply a matter of bludgeoning them with facts. As the communications scholar Dannagal Goldthwaite Young writes in 'Wrong: How Media, Politics and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation' (2023), the impulse to berate and mock people who believe conspiratorial falsehoods will typically backfire....Building trust requires cultivating...social connection instead of torching it. But extending compassionate overtures to people who believe things that are odious and harmful is risky too.—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPART I1. "People Like Us Believe These Things."2. How do we Know What we Know?3. America's Asymmetrical Identity Alignment4. I'm One of Them: Social Identity5. The Epistemic Divide: "People Like Us Understand the World This Way."PART II6. How Political News Rewards Identity Performances and Activates Identity Threat7. Separate Me: Identity Distillation through Partisan Media8. Curate Me: Identity Distillation Through Social Media9. Solutions to Identity-Driven Wrongness
£23.96
F&W Publications Inc Harry Potter The Unofficial Guide to the
Book SynopsisA legacy of magical treasures! Since 1997 with the publication of the first book, Harry Potter has cast a spell over millions of Muggles around the world--not the least of all bewitched collectors. Harry Potter: The Unofficial Guide to the Collectibles of Our Favorite Wizard conjures rare, extraordinary and magical treasures sprung from the Potter books and movies, and even the imaginations of fans. In its enchantingly visual pages, you'll discover delightful riches including author J.K. Rowling's writing chair that sold at auction for almost $400,000, first-edition books, original art, movie posters, film props, exclusives, limited-edition items, fun fandom pieces, and other wonders to behold. So with a whisper of 'accio' and a flick of your wand, summon forth the fascinating, the fantastical and the fabulous found in Harry Potter: The Unofficial Guide to the Collectibles of Our Favorite Wizard.
£18.04
Chronicle Books Before the Internet Journal
Book SynopsisA hilarious illustrated journal from New York Times bestselling author and iconic New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.
£10.43
Chronicle Books I Fought the Law
Book SynopsisPlayfully irreverent photos reveal the strangest laws from each of the 50 states.Trade Review"Did you know that in Alabama, it’s illegal to carry an ice-cream cone in your back pocket? Or that in Hawaii, you can be arrested for putting a coin in your ear? And that in Kentucky, it’s illegal to lick a toad? Olivia Locher explores where these strange laws come from in her tongue-in-cheek book I Fought The Law. It’s illustrated with gorgeous photos — breaking the law has never looked so good." Daily Mail
£15.10
