Popular Culture 94

Consuming History examines how history works in contemporary popular culture. Analysing a wide range of cultural entities from computer games to daytime television, it investigates the ways in which……続きを見る

This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and mean……続きを見る

From HGTV and the Food Network to Keeping Up With the Kardashians, television is preoccupied with the pursuit and exhibition of lifestyle. Lifestyle TV analyzes a burgeoning array of lifestyle forma……続きを見る

Entre sus muchísimas páginas, y en este libro de forma muy gráfica, el escritor Eugenio Noel insistió hasta su última gota de tinta en detectar los males de la patria en una amalgama antropológica q……続きを見る

Abordar la relación que los escritores españoles mantuvieron con la televisión durante el franquismo es darse de bruces con dos paradojas: la de que la modernidad podía estar representada por quiene……続きを見る

La herencia social de los pueblos andinos es muy rica, variada y compleja. Su larga tradición tiene orígenes remotos e inciertos; sus pueblos lograron grandes avances civilizatorios y sus creencias ……続きを見る

La mirada al Mundial de Nelson Fredy Padilla es una mirada como con el rabillo del ojo, de medio lado, buscando temas distintos al relato o al comentario de las peripecias del juego. Sus crónicas se……続きを見る

¿Cómo existen, cómo se reproducen y cómo se transforman las identidades culturales en las sociedades humanas? Este libro avanza respuestas a estas preguntas, en un contexto en el que se atiende por ……続きを見る

Un gángster económico nos revela por qué la economía mundial se ha venido abajo y qué hay que hacer para rehacerla John Perkins, reconocido autor de Confesiones de un gángster económico y La histori……続きを見る

"Este trabajo se inscribe en el marco de un análisis relacional de la pobreza. Se trata de una perspectiva fructífera, en la medida en que posibilita la construcción de herramientas de abordaje del ……続きを見る

El despliegue de las TIC y la creciente producción de bienes culturales son fenómenos centrales de nuestro tiempo. ¿Cómo analizar su consumo como hecho social evitando determinismos que impiden ver ……続きを見る

Screen, Culture, Psyche illuminates recent developments in Jungian modes of media analysis, and illustrates how psychoanalytic theories have been adapted to allow for the interpretation of films and……続きを見る

A sweeping, interwoven story of how America fell in love with the Occult Here’s to My Sweet Satan is the first book to fully document the Occult craze of the 1960s and 1970s as a single pop culture ……続きを見る

Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich examination of how the fierce battle over cultura……続きを見る

This volume focuses on popular film, television, and online representations of contested corporealities and contributes to visual culture studies, disability studies, critical pedagogy, and medical ……続きを見る

This book serves as an accessible critical introduction to the broad category of American political television content. Encompassing political news and scripted entertainment, Political TV addresses……続きを見る

While the success of Disneyland is largely credited to Walt and Roy Disney, there was a third, mostly forgotten dynamo instrumental to the development of the parkーfast-talking Texan C. V. Wood. Thr……続きを見る

Ed Brubaker (b. 1966) has emerged as one of the most popular, significant figures in art comics since the 1990s. Most famous as the man who killed Captain America in 2007, Brubaker's work on company……続きを見る

Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiske’s classic text Power Plays Power Works remains both timely and insightful as a theoretically driven examination of the terrain where the……続きを見る

Bad clownsーthose malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten usーhave long been a cultural icon. This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why man……続きを見る

Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it. In this context, Fox exam……続きを見る

Against the Machine is a fascinating look at how the Internet is reshaping the way we think about ourselves and the world. Siegel explores how the internet affects culture and social life, particula……続きを見る

'Gaiman is god in the universe of story' Stephen Fry 'A perfect antidote to cynicism and a paean to the power of reading' Observer --- 'Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologu……続きを見る

More than fifty years after their founding, the Rolling Stones still tour and create new music as the world’s quintessential rock band. David Malvinni’s Experiencing the Rolling Stones: A Listener’s……続きを見る

Fair and Foul explores our love of sport, just as it reveals sport’s darker sideーthe influence of big business, corruption, price gouging, political maneuvering, gender bias, media grandstanding, a……続きを見る

Sports and popular music are synergistic agents in the construction of identity and community. They are often interconnected through common cross-marketing tactics and through influence on each othe……続きを見る

The Routledge History of American Foodways provides an important overview of the main themes surrounding the history of food in the Americas from the pre-colonial era to the present day. By broadly ……続きを見る

This book is about the future: Ireland’s future and feminism’s future, approached from a moment that has recently passed. The Celtic Tiger (circa 1995-2008) was a time of extraordinary and radical c……続きを見る

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of repres……続きを見る

This book is the first full-length critical study to explore the rapidly growing cadre of amateur-authored, independently-published, and niche-market picture books that have been released during the……続きを見る