Popular Culture 30

In Solar Dance, acclaimed writer and scholar Modris Eksteins uses Vincent van Gogh as his lens for this brilliant survey of Western culture and politics in the last century. The long-awaited follow-……続きを見る

The last decade has marked the growing visibility and worldwide interest in Israeli cinema. Films such as Walk on Water, Or, My Treasure, Beaufort and Waltz with Bashir have been commercially and cr……続きを見る

Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century. Focusing on the visions of activists from C. L. R. Jam……続きを見る

In the first decade of the twentieth-century, many composers rejected the principles of tonality and regular beat. This signaled a dramatic challenge to the rationalist and linear conceptions of mus……続きを見る

Dragon Ball, creado por Akira Toriyama, es la serie manga y anime más reconocida de todo el mundo que destaca por haber entretenido a millones de fans de todo el globo. La rivalidad legendaria de lo……続きを見る

La barrière et le niveau : étude sociologique sur la bourgeoisie française moderne. Cet ouvrage est un grand classique de la sociologie contemporaine, et l’un des œuvres majeures d’Edmond Goblot. Bo……続きを見る

A historical account of the context, impact, and legacy of one of the most successful series in American television history. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Walt Disney Company's network……続きを見る

From Pong to Madden NFL to Wii Fit, Sports Videogames argues for the multiple ways that sports videogamesーalongside televised and physical sportsーimpact one another, and how players and viewers ma……続きを見る

From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” come……続きを見る

How to approach the Holocaust and its relationship to late twentieth-century society? While some stress the impossibility of comprehending this event, others attempt representations in forms as diff……続きを見る

The history of American journalism is marked by disturbing representations of people and communities of color, from the disgraceful stereotypes of pre-civil rights America, to the more subtle myths ……続きを見る

Many of the movies we love are best captured in their final scenes, from the Tracy-Hepburn love fest in Adam's Rib to the image of Dorothy back in her bed in Kansas. Turning the pages of this irresi……続きを見る

**A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of Entertainment Weekly's Top 10 Nonfiction Books of the Year 2011 A Time Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction book of 2011 A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of ……続きを見る

Where did the Dixie Chics disappear to for a while, and why did they disappear? Who decides who get to be little and big in entertainment? Here's what this author thinks... 続きを見る

The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift! New York Times bestselling author Wendy Northcutt is back, asking, Have we evolved at all? The answer: Not all of us. ……続きを見る

In The Gentrification of Nightlife and the Right to the City, Hae explores how nightlife in New York City, long associated with various subcultures of social dancing, has been recently transformed a……続きを見る

For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers e……続きを見る

The popular New Yorker writer combines the style of Mary Roach with the on-the-ground food savvy of Anthony Bourdain. Dana Goodyear’s narrative debut is a highly entertaining, revelatory look into t……続きを見る

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer origi……続きを見る

'Simultaneously frightening and hilarious' - *The Times The Men Who Stare at Goats* **reveals the extraordinary – and completely nutty – national secrets at the core of America's government. Often f……続きを見る

Pixar animator and Academy Award–nominated director Sanjay Patel (Sanjay’s Super Team) brings to life Hinduism’s most important gods and goddessesーand one sacred stoneーin fun, full-color illustrat……続きを見る

The volume contains ten articles, including a penetrating analysis of the application of Jewish price fraud law to the workings of the present-day marketplace. Diverse in their scope and focus, the ……続きを見る

Radical Street Performance is the first volume to collect together the fascinating array of writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street……続きを見る

This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their ……続きを見る

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish……続きを見る

This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', a……続きを見る

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and cri……続きを見る

Let’s face it–we all do geeky things, from checking e-mail obsessively to playing video games to tripping over our own feet. But here’s your chance to find out just how much of a geek you really are……続きを見る

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and univer……続きを見る

This collection of papers discusses the impact of diasporas on the articulations and practices of legal, political, cultural and social citizenship in their country of origin. While the majority of ……続きを見る