Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory is the first edited volume devoted to the Peabody Awards Collection, a unique repository of radio and TV programs submitted yearly since ……続きを見る
著者:Nick Crossley
出版社: Manchester University Press
発売日: 2019年12月23日
Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. Musical interactions are often also economic interac……続きを見る
An influential oil producer with a colorful and charismatic president at its helm since 1999, Venezuela is a vast, sometimes frustrating, but never dull country. It is one of the most complex countr……続きを見る
If the burlesque stripper, with her bawdy spirit and unruly insubordination, has emerged for many as a new 'empowering' model for the sexually aware woman, then she also strikes horror in the heart ……続きを見る
WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
'Gripping from the start, Written in Bone is superb' - Dr Richard Shepherd, author of Unnatural Causes
'No Scientist communicates better than Sue Black'……続きを見る
著者:Stephen Hamrick
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2020年02月19日
Contextualizing the duo’s work within British comedy, Shakespeare criticism, the history of sexuality, and their own historical moment, this book offers the first sustained analysis of the 20th Cent……続きを見る
Longing for an Absent God unveils the powerful role of faith and doubt in the American literary tradition. Nick Ripatrazone explores how two major strands of Catholic writers--practicing and cultura……続きを見る
著者:Tyler Bickford
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2020年04月03日
In the early years of the twenty-first century, the US music industry created a new market for tweens, selling music that was cooler than Barney, but that still felt safe for children. In Tween Pop ……続きを見る
Thomas Dick Sir Lauder's 'Highland Legends' is a collection of folklore and myths from the Scottish Highlands, written in a captivating and evocative literary style. The book immerses readers in the……続きを見る
Das Buch stellt die ökonomischen Zusammenhänge und Prozesse in der Musikwirtschaft dar und beleuchtet im Speziellen das Musikverlagswesen, die phonografische Industrie, den Live-Musiksektor, sekundä……続きを見る
Dining out used to be considered exceptional; however, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously considered a necessary subs……続きを見る
The old-fashioned, repressed, un-moisturized man has been banished to the hinterlands and a new breed is taking center stage. He is a man of style, sophistication, and security, just as strong and c……続きを見る
著者:Jack London
出版社: Diamond Book Publishing
発売日: 2020年06月05日
The book consists of seven essays on socialism. Much of the content derived from London's earlier trip to Europe, after hanging around the London slums, London had sallied off to Paris and Rome, whe……続きを見る
Photography represents a medium in which the moment of death can be captured and preserved, the image becoming a mechanism through which audiences are beguiled by the certainty of their own mortalit……続きを見る
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021
Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the fir……続きを見る
'The best knitwear, the best furniture design, the best fairy tales, the best female prime ministers... a book that anyone with an ounce of style will need to read.'
What links Sarah Lund and Lars v……続きを見る
Exploring the cultural and technical influence of the Atari VCS video game console, with examples from 6 famous game cartridges like Pac-Man, Combat, and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back!
The Atar……続きを見る
Challenging the study of both celebrity and the cinema, Mandy Merck argues that modern fame and film melodrama are part of the same worldview, one that cannot resolve the relation of personal worth ……続きを見る
This unique and timely collection examines childhood and the child character throughout Stephen King’s works, from his early novels and short stories, through film adaptations, to his most recent pu……続きを見る
A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the films of the legendary director. Labeled a recluse, a provocateur, and a perfectionist, Kubrick revolutionized fil……続きを見る
This book is an exploration of both mainstream and independent media. Grounded in qualitative methods, this book explores three trans masculine run YouTube channels alongside the streaming productio……続きを見る
This volume of essays provides a critical foray into the methods used to construct narratives which foreground antiheroines, a trope which has become increasingly popular within literary media, film……続きを見る
Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.
In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Kathryn Bond Stock……続きを見る
This book traces the turbulent history of queer visibility in the Irish media to explore the processes by which a regionally based media system shaped queer identities within a highly conservative a……続きを見る
This visionary book details the steep costs of our deepening crisis of distraction and reveals remarkable scientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus and sustained attention……続きを見る
There is no shortage of explanations for the longevity of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which has been interpreted as both religious allegory and frontier myth, with Crusoe seen as an example of the self……続きを見る
著者:Zack Kruse
出版社: University Press of Mississippi
発売日: 2021年02月01日
Steve Ditko (1927–2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on American……続きを見る
著者:William Patrick Day
出版社: The University Press of Kentucky
発売日: 2021年02月15日
While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire……続きを見る
Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop role-playing games (TRPG), and hobbyist historical ……続きを見る
Scholars of religion have begun to explore horror and the monstrous, not only within the confines of the biblical text or the traditions of religion, but also as they proliferate into popular cultur……続きを見る