著者:Jack Zipes
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年02月01日
Can fairy tales subvert consumerism? Can fantasy and children's literature counter the homogenizing influence of globalization? Can storytellers retain their authenticity in the age of consumerism? ……続きを見る
Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat)……続きを見る
Studies of contemporary black women are rare and scattered, and are often extensions of a legacy beginning in the 19th century that characterized black women as domineering matriarchs, prostitutes, ……続きを見る
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,5, FernUniversität Hagen, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...] Wir alle leb……続きを見る
Invisible Hands in Cultural Markets shines unprecedented light on the activity of talent representatives and production professionals in the American and French film and television industries. Agent……続きを見る
This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés abo……続きを見る
Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Media, Art, Music, grade: 1,3, University of East London (BUSINESS SCHOOL), course: Global Music Production & Distribution, language: English,……続きを見る
From Lincoln-themed cocktails and waffle-parlors to high-tech museums and steamy romance novels, the image of Abraham Lincoln so permeates the national imagination that we now find him in the unlike……続きを見る
著者:Lisa McCormick
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Although competitions in classical music have a long history, the number of contests has risen dramatically since the Second World War, all of them aiming to launch young artists' careers. This is n……続きを見る
著者:Chuck Klosterman
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2016年06月07日
New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understan……続きを見る
著者:Jack M. Treadway
出版社: Penn State University Press
発売日: 2015年10月20日
The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in……続きを見る
著者:Rick Shefchik
出版社: University of Minnesota Press
発売日: 2015年11月07日
If you didn’t experience rock and roll in Minnesota in the 1960s, this book will make you wish you had. This behind-the-scenes, up-close-and-personal account relates how a handful of Minnesota rock ……続きを見る
著者:Jack Lule
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2013年06月03日
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
Is "goth music" a genre, and if so, how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasses a broad range of musical substyles, from gloomy Batcave ……続きを見る
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,15, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Beim Beobachten der Hip-Hop-Video……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
Social Networking: Redefining Communication in the Digital Age fulfills a pressing demand in social network literature by bringing together international experts from the fields of communication, ne……続きを見る
著者:Bill McKibben
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年09月03日
“Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.”
ーーThe New York Times
Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on eve……続きを見る
著者:Nick Douglas
出版社: HarperCollins
発売日: 2009年08月25日
The first authorized Twitter book, Twitter Wit is a collection of the most clever one-liners posted on the massively popular social networking and micro-blogging website. Featuring a foreword by Twi……続きを見る
Whether on water, pavement, or fluffy white powder, the history of surfing,skateboarding, and snowboarding is a landscape filled with rugged personalities, exotic locales, wild innovation, and most ……続きを見る
Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young……続きを見る
著者:Janis L. McKay
出版社: University of Nevada Press
発売日: 2016年04月12日
From 1940 to 1989, nearly every hotel on the Las Vegas Strip employed a full-time band or orchestra. After the late 1980s, when control of the casinos changed hands from independent owners to corpor……続きを見る
To say that children matter in Steven Spielberg's films is an understatement. Think of the possessed Stevie in Something Evil (TV), Baby Langston in The Sugarland Express, the alien-abducted Barry i……続きを見る
The career of the prolific pop artist Prince has become inextricably intertwined with the history of popular music since the late 1970s. This multi-instrumental icon, who remains one of the highest-……続きを見る
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1999 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Comics als Sp……続きを見る
Concise and Abridged Edition
In this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by j……続きを見る
著者:Jackie Shead
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年05月13日
Exploring how Margaret Atwood’s fiction reimagines the figure of the detective and the nature of crime, Jackie Shead shows how the author radically reworks the crime fiction genre. Shead focuses on ……続きを見る
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
From the acclaimed author of The Information and Chaos, a mind-bending exploration of time travel: its subversive origins, its evolution in literature and science, and i……続きを見る
It is common to hear heavy metal music fans and musicians talk about the “metal community”. This concept, which is widely used when referencing this musical genre, encompasses multiple complex aspec……続きを見る