Popular Culture 5

America in the 1950s: the world was not so much a stage as a setpiece for TV, the new national phenomenon. It was a time when how things looked--and how we looked--mattered, a decade of design that ……続きを見る

Explores the weird world of lo-fi music to investigate its revolutionary potential and its ability to subvert what we think music can do. Homemade records, tape-hiss worship and a taste for a very p……続きを見る

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Chris Broad explores Japan in all its quirky glory..Endlessly fascinating!' Will Ferguson, author of Hokkaido Highway Blues 'Carves a unique path across Japan bringing him……続きを見る

Exploring key issues for the anthropology of art and art theory, this fascinating text provides the first in-depth study of community art from an anthropological perspective.The book focuses on the ……続きを見る

A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the number one New ……続きを見る

Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in order to find the seeds of radical transformation among its ruins. Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, te……続きを見る

AI and Popular Culture explores the development and social significance of artificial intelligence by looking at representations in fiction, film and television, as well as examining the effect of A……続きを見る

Slavoj Zizek is no ordinary philosopher. Approaching critical theory and psychoanalysis in a recklessly entertaining fashion, Zizek's critical eye alights upon a bewildering and exhilarating range o……続きを見る

Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking……続きを見る

"I enjoyed reading it. It certainly is a different look at David and his approach to everything" George Underwood, artist and friend of David Bowie. How To Think Like David Bowie offers an entertain……続きを見る

Por el carácter epicéntrico del Estado en el establecimiento y sostén de la dominación, la respuesta más transgresora y sustancialmente revolucionaria es antiestatal. Por más abundantes y mayoritari……続きを見る

Goku comienza una nueva aventura, y esta vez, su objetivo es conquistarse a sí mismo. En Dragon Ball Cultura Volumen 3: Batalla, desentrañarás el origen de la mentalidad de entrenamiento de Goku. Co……続きを見る

Ed Rosenthal is recognized as the leading expert on cannabis cultivation. His books have cumulatively sold over 1 million copies. The New York Times has described him as “the pothead’s answer to Ann……続きを見る

Playboy's Playmate for May 1966, Dolly Read, has an interesting story. Originally from Avon in England, she was discovered by Playboy photographer Pompeo Posar while working as a Bunny in the Chicag……続きを見る

Physical cultural studies (PCS) is a dynamic and rapidly developing field of study. This handbook offers the first definitive account of the state of the art in PCS, showcasing the latest research a……続きを見る

What is feminism? In this short, accessible primer, bell hooks explores the nature of feminism and its positive promise to eliminate sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. With her characteris……続きを見る

The Struggle for Asia 1828–1914 (1977) studies a classic case of rival imperialisms. British leaders tended to believe that Russian expansion threatened India; Russian leaders came to believe in a B……続きを見る

As more and more fans rush online to share their thoughts on their favorite shows or video games, they might feel like the process of providing feedback is empowering. However, as fan studies schola……続きを見る

Ty Cobb called baseball a “red-blooded game for red-blooded men,” warning that “molly coddles had better stay out.” By this, Cobb meant that baseball was the ultimate expression of the masculine ide……続きを見る

For a generation of teenage girls, Sassy magazine was nothing short of revolutionaryーso much so that its audience, which stretched from tweens to twentysomething women, remains obsessed with it to ……続きを見る

Is it ever acceptable to “borrow” culturally inspired ideas? Who has ownership over intangible culture? What role does power inequality play? These questions are often at the center of heated public……続きを見る

Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine ("zine") J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. decla……続きを見る

Civilization seems to move ever more toward the power of words over weapons. But many people, especially Americans, still believe wrongs in life can be righted with a fist or a gun or a bomb. Cultur……続きを見る

In The Soul of Anime, Ian Condry explores the emergence of anime, Japanese animated film and television, as a global cultural phenomenon. Drawing on ethnographic research, including interviews with ……続きを見る

Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix explores how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other social categories are represented in, and constructed by,……続きを見る

Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productio……続きを見る

This book takes an innovative fan studies approach to investigating one of the most pressing issues of contemporary times: polarization. Drawing on three years of observational data from Facebook po……続きを見る

For a Ruthless Critique of All that Exists takes as its point of departure two profound and interrelated phenomena. The first is the pervasive sense of what Mark Fisher had called “capitalist realis……続きを見る

The typical vision of the Middle Ages western popular culture represents to its global audience is deeply Eurocentric. The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones imagined entire medievalist worlds, b……続きを見る

This is NOT a traditional NYC Guidebook. In a regular NYC digital guide usually you find endless details about NYC buildings, NYC event spaces, NYC galleries, famous NYC places, or even some more th……続きを見る