`This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is……続きを見る
With the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the representation of Black women and the potential impl……続きを見る
The Complete Polysyllabic Spree is Nick Hornby's wickedly funny journey through reading
This is not a book of reviews. This is not a book that sneers at other books. This is a book about reading - a……続きを見る
著者:Jennifer W. Dickey
出版社: University of Arkansas Press
発売日: 2014年04月01日
More than seventy-five years after its publication, Gone with the Wind remains thoroughly embedded in American culture. Margaret Mitchell’s novel and the film produced by David O. Selznick have meld……続きを見る
With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern America: realit……続きを見る
著者:Nancy Kilpatrick
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年10月04日
What you don't know about goths could fill a book!
An artistic culture that revels in the Victorian romantic movement, The goth Bible brings to light the traditions and history of all that is goth. ……続きを見る
Media Depictions of Brides, Wives, and Mothers, edited by Alena Amato Ruggerio, explores how television, film, the internet, and other media variously perpetuate gender stereotypes. The contributors……続きを見る
著者:Meghan Laslocky
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2012年12月31日
The perfect anti-valentine: a whirlwind tour through love’s most crushing moments
What’s the best way to mend a broken heart? Forget ice cream, wine, and sappy movies. Journalist Meghan Laslocky adv……続きを見る
Mediated Images of the South: The Portrayal of Dixie in Popular Culture, edited by Alison F. Slade, Dedria Givens-Carroll and Amber J. Narro, is an anthology that explores the impact of the image of……続きを見る
In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by asking what the wedding becomes when you separate it from the idea of marriage. Freeman finds that weddi……続きを見る
著者:Jack Halberstam
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2011年09月19日
The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternativesーto conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known……続きを見る
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This collection revises, reframes, and deconstructs persistent critical binaries that have been p……続きを見る
著者:Joseph P. Laycock
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2015年02月12日
The 1980s saw the peak of a moral panic over fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons. A coalition of moral entrepreneurs that included representatives from the Christian Right, the f……続きを見る
著者:Martha Mockus
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2011年05月20日
Sounding Out: Pauline Oliveros and Lesbian Musicality examines the musical career of the avant-garde composer, accordionist, whose radical innovations of the 1960s, 70s and 80s have redefined the ae……続きを見る
As contemporary poets sing the glories of birds and birch trees, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste……続きを見る
著者:Deborah Hicks
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2013年01月03日
Can one teacher truly make a difference in her students’ lives when everything is working against them? Can a love for literature and learning save the most vulnerable of youth from a life of povert……続きを見る
Shifting understandings and ongoing conversations about race, celebrity, and protest in the twenty-first century call for a closer examination of the evolution of dissent by black celebrities and th……続きを見る
This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks ー including artists’ books, wordle……続きを見る
With a Foreword by Dr. Fishwick's student--Tom Wolfe.This book redefines popular culture in the light of the revolutionary changes brought about by the information revolution and the digital divide.……続きを見る
More so than any war in history, World War II was a woman’s war. Women, motivated by patriotism, the opportunity for new experiences, and the desire to serve, participated widely in the global confl……続きを見る
As religious fervor grows, Dr. Fishwick, a recipient of the Ray and Pat Browne Award for Lifetime Achievement from The American Culture Association, takes a sweeping look at religion in the United S……続きを見る
Social media technologies such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook promised a new participatory online culture. Yet, technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only e……続きを見る
The origins of, and in many ways the prototype for, modern reality programming can be traced to Real People, a show that premiered on the NBC network in April of 1979. An instant ratings success, Re……続きを見る
Why not take seriously the claim that Harry Potter's world intertwines with our own? In this timely yet otherworldly volume, more than a dozen scholars of international relations join hands to demon……続きを見る
Winner of the 2016 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work
Winner of the 2016 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Edited Collection in Popular Culture and American Culture by……続きを見る
Anti-Muslim racism with its attendant xenophobia and (the fear of) Salafist hostility are two of the most essential problems facing Europe today. Both result from the enormous failure of the contine……続きを見る
By the end of the 1960s, the Hollywood West of Tom Mix, Randolph Scott, and even John Wayne was passéーor so the story goes. Many film historians and critics have argued that movies portraying a myt……続きを見る
著者:Cracked.com
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年10月29日
You are an idiot.
Don't get defensive! It's not your fault. For decades your teachers, authority figures and textbooks have been lying to you. You do not have five senses. Your tongue doesn't have n……続きを見る
著者:Bronwen Dickey
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2016年05月10日
The hugely illuminating story of how a popular breed of dog became the most demonized and supposedly the most dangerous of dogsーand what role humans have played in the transformation.
When Bronwen ……続きを見る
How are childrenーand their parentsーaffected by the world's most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of inno……続きを見る