PI - Popular Culture 1

A história da cultura contemporânea em Portugal, no último volume da coleção História Contemporânea de Portugal: 1808-2000. Com organização de António Costa Pinto e Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro e colabora……続きを見る

Vincenzo Tomeo’s pioneering research in the 1960s and 1970s drew attention to the importance of popular culture in our understanding of the operation of the justice system. He was the first to recog……続きを見る

This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the power……続きを見る

Products of popular culture, romance novels have been largely devalued and scorned by cultural gatekeepers. Yet they lend themselves to a historical analysis of how societies attribute a precise pla……続きを見る

This book is based on the premise that love is not as spontaneous and free as one would have us believe. While it is true that love exists in all human communities, not all communities love in the s……続きを見る

This book analyzes the intricate relationship between football fans and clubs, presenting new approaches for those in charge to actively involve fans in club managementーa complex task often fraught……続きを見る

A hilarious, ambitious work of trenchant cultural criticism that traces the origins of today’s crisis of masculinity through . . . Michael Douglas’s oeuvre from the eighties and nineties How to be a……続きを見る

Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to the dominant American historical imagination, treating issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson's vision of an egalitarian ……続きを見る

This book provides an engaging insight into the responses of teenage audiences to British period drama, presenting original data collected from young people across England. Situated in relation to d……続きを見る

This new edition of the groundbreaking popular book from Susan J Napier, Anime from Akira to Howl's Moving Castle, is a must-have for both seasoned and new fans of anime.** Japanese animation is mor……続きを見る

一本「要燒掉的書」****? 一本震驚法國學界的書！ 社會學家布赫迪厄**（**Pierre Bourdieu）嚴謹而銳利的自我審視， 具體分析出身背景與人脈資源對於學術地位的影響。 《學術人》(Homo Academicus)是已故法國知名……続きを見る

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York. Through the voices of c……続きを見る

A long-overdue paean to the predominant musical form of the 70s and a thoughtful exploration of the culture that spawned it Disco may be the most universally derided musical form to come about in th……続きを見る

Drawing on examples from across the continent, this volume examines socially significant aspects of contemporary African popular cultureーincluding music cultures, fandoms, and community, mass, and ……続きを見る

Neste livro, o autor partilha o seu interesse e o seu conhecimento sobre os provérbios e adágios portugueses, que considera um tesouro da sabedoria popular. Através de uma pesquisa rigorosa e de uma……続きを見る

Adventures Across Space and Time brings together key academic, critic and fan writings about Doctor Who alongside newly-commissioned work addressing contemporary issues and debates to form a compreh……続きを見る

Leela sings while cutting grass on the hill-side. Her voice reverberates in akasha, unifying her song with all the elements. She expresses her lived experience to a friend nearby, who responds to he……続きを見る

The Evolution of Horror in the Twenty-First Century examines the intimate connections between the horror genre and its audience’s experience of being in the world at a particular historical and cult……続きを見る

A gripping, painfully honest and ultimately inspirational, New York Times bestselling memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. 'It’s a shame that Pin……続きを見る

This volume reveals the everyday actions of individuals and their reflections on their lives during the 1920s. The Jazz Age was a tumultuous time for Americans as they attempted to come to terms wit……続きを見る

On Extremity: From Music to Images, Words, and Experiences brings together transdisciplinary scholarship on sounds, images, words, and experiences (human and non-human) to reflect on the polysemic a……続きを見る

22 contributions de chercheurs européens et maghrébins pour cerner le "fait berbère" largement occulté par la recherche occidentale comme orientale pour des raisons idéologiques et qui touche le Mar……続きを見る

A dazzling work of personal travelogue and cultural criticism that ranges from the primitive to the postmodern in a quest for the promise and meaning of the psychedelic experience. While psychedelic……続きを見る

Fevered notes scribbled on napkins after first dates. Titillating text messages. It's-not-you-it's-me relationship-enders. In Other People’s Love Letters, Bill Shapiro has searched America’s attics,……続きを見る

Prominent examples from contemporary vampire literature expose a desire to re-evaluate and re-work the long-standing, folkloristic interpretation of the vampire as the immortal undead. This book exp……続きを見る

Mother Teresa was one of the most written about and publicised women in modern times. Apart from Pope John Paul II, she was arguably the most advertised religious celebrity in the last quarter of th……続きを見る

Symbols: A Universal Language looks at the story behind the world's most famous symbols, from the peace sign to the smiley. It shows just how much importance has been attached to the smallest and si……続きを見る

'They say you can always remember where you where when pivotal moments happen, such as losing your virginity or Elvis dying. Let me add another to the list: the moment I sang a duet to the the "Maca……続きを見る

Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immuneーor even willfully blindーto the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebutta……続きを見る

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some o……続きを見る