Popular Culture 88

The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion……続きを見る

Diana Dors is a legen. Her fame has survived the adored Fifties' celebrity to today's cult figure. She is arguably the biggest star the UK has produced, not only for her acclaimed body of work but f……続きを見る

(A5, 215 PÁGINAS) - Não resta-nos dúvidas de que “Saber é Poder”, frase esta proferida por Francis Bacon (1561-1626), um dos fundadores do chamado método indutivo de investigação científica. No mund……続きを見る

Many introductory texts claim to make sociology relevant to student interests. Perhaps no other text has done this so completely - and engagingly - as Connecting Sociology to Our Lives. Tim Delaney ……続きを見る

This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. It argues that wh……続きを見る

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming village in southern Belize, focusing on the connections……続きを見る

Does hockey provide a better understanding of the differences between Canadian and Québécois nationalisms? Is there a fundamental relationship between the hockey arena and the political arena? What ……続きを見る

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist bra……続きを見る

In Popular Culture and Everyday Life Phillip Vannini and Dennis Waskul have brought together a variety of short essays that illustrate the many ways that popular culture intersects with mundane expe……続きを見る

Since the 1990s, artists and art writers around the world have increasingly undermined the essentialism associated with notions of "critical practice." We can see this manifesting in the renewed rel……続きを見る

Daniela Katzenberger macht sich auf die Suche nach dem richtigen Kater fürs Leben. Doch wo lernt man den kennen, wie stellt man fest, ob es auch der Richtige ist, und wie übersteht man den ersten St……続きを見る

Female athletes are too often perceived as interlopers in the historically male-dominated world of sports. Obstacles specific to women are of particular focus in A Locker Room of Her Own. Race, sexu……続きを見る

For over a decade, Magnus Hastings has been photographing the world's greatest drag superstars and asking each of them a simple question: Why drag? The result is this mesmerizing volume in which the……続きを見る

'A terrific and important book . . . it's a great, fresh take on how the 21st century is transforming the way we select everything from food to music' David Bodanis, author of E=MC2 In the past two ……続きを見る

Mechademia 10 revolves around a maelstrom of events: the devastation of 3/11ーthe earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear reactor crisesーand the ongoing environmental disasters that have recently overtake……続きを見る

Celebrity culture, health care, and travel attract attention in America’s media-saturated society. These worlds curiously intersect in the study of medical tourism. Although the US touts some of the……続きを見る

Love her or hate her, Taylor Swift has become one of the most celebrated and instantly recognizable recording superstars on the planet. But today, there are two distinct camps that surround the coun……続きを見る

Come take a closer look at ordinary footwear, like sneakers, or children's toys and Saturday cartoon TV shows, or make a comparison between Don Quixote and John Rambo of the Sylvester Stallone movie……続きを見る

The cultural and performative turns in social theory have enlivened sociology. For the first time these new developments are fully integrated into new approaches to the sociology of the arts in this……続きを見る

"An extraordinary book which makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the potential power for healing and goodness in 'television entertainment'." Arlie Hochschild, author of The Time Bind……続きを見る

"New Jews'?" is the first comprehensive study of American Jewish identity in Hollywood movies of the new millennium. Despite the argument that we live in a "post-racial" society with supposedly "new……続きを見る

It didn t take long for Barack Obama to make his mark as the biggest political star to ever occupy the White House. Over the course of his two terms in office, Obama has injected the American presid……続きを見る

Arthur Asa Berger′s newest work, Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life elucidates narrative theory and applies it to the reader′s everyday experience with popular forms of mass med……続きを見る

This novel is an acute, darkly comic portrayal of changing times and sexual mores, and the baby boomer generation in the shadow of mid-life crisis. Novelist Max Napier didn't set out to make a mess……続きを見る

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER As seen on Apple TV - 1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything The Sixties ended a year late - on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wi……続きを見る

The story of the greatest British sit-com and its enduring appeal. When we laugh at Dad's Army we laugh at ourselves, and nearly fifty years after it was first broadcast, millions of us are still la……続きを見る

Are You a Fangirl? • Do you survive boring classes or meetings by imagining your favorite TV couple making out? • Have you posted a lengthy diatribe on the Internet defending a fictional character? ……続きを見る

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. Crucial Interventions follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the very best exampl……続きを見る

Espionage in British Fiction and Film Since 1900 traces the history and development of the British spy novel from its emergence in the early twentieth century, through its growth as a popular genre ……続きを見る

**Jon Ronson's captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame. 'So enjoyable . . . you can be having a laugh while understanding a social phenomenon ……続きを見る