Popular Culture category: 4839 books
Disability and Popular Culture
Focusing Passion, Creating Community and Expressing Defiance
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
As a response to real or imagined subordination, popular culture reflects the everyday experience of ordinary people and has the capacity to subvert the hegemonic order. Drawing on central theoretical approaches in the field of critical disability studies, this book examines disability across a number...
Marriage in Turkish German Popular Culture
States of Matrimony in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
During the first decade of this millennium Germany’s largest ethnic minority—Turkish Germans—began to enjoy a new cultural prominence in German literature, film, television and theater. While controversies around forced marriage and “honor” killings have driven popular interest in the situation...
by Lane Crothers
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this concise and insightful book explores the ways American popular products such as movies, music, television programs, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded and continue to influence modern globalization. Lane Crothers offers a thoughtful...
Hip Hop's Amnesia
From Blues and the Black Women's Club Movement to Rap and the Hip Hop Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the spirituals, classic blues, ragtime, classic jazz, and bebop? What did rap music and hip hop culture inherit from the Black Women’s Club Movement, New Negro Movement, Harlem Renaissance, Hipster Movement, and Black Muslim Movement? How did black...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance...
Covering Niagara
Studies in Local Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
Covering Niagara: Studies in Local Popular Culture closely examines some of the myriad forms of popular culture in the Niagara region of Canada. Essays consider common assumptions and definitions of what popular culture is and seek to determine whether broad theories of popular culture can explain...
Organizations and Popular Culture
Information, Representation and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage reflexively...
by Tai Wei Lim, Wen Xin Lim, Xiaojuan Ping;Hui-Yi Tseng
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book aims to provide comprehensive empirical and theoretical studies of expanding fandom communities in East Asia through the commodification of Japanese, Korean and Chinese popular cultures in the digital era. Using a multidisciplinary approach including political economy, East Asian studies,...
Africa in the American Imagination
Popular Culture, Radicalized Identities, and African Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2012
In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated...
Homer Simpson Goes to Washington
American Politics through Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2008
The modern landscape of American entertainment is filled with commentary on the state of the union. Many people now get their news from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report instead of Fox or CNN, and satirical political films such as Bulworth and Wag the Dog resonate with audiences and reviewers...
Hop on Pop
The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Hop on Pop showcases the work of a new generation of scholars—from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies—whose writing has been informed by their ongoing involvement with popular culture and who draw insight from their lived experiences as critics, fans, and consumers....
Popular Culture
Introductory Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
For courses in popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media.
Pop culture surrounds us. Its products are the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read; they are on our televisions, phones, and computers. We are its fickle friend, loving to hate it and hating...
Popular Culture
A User's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Popular Culture: A User’s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape that surrounds them.
Moves beyond the history of pop culture to give students the vocabulary...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
A Companion to Popular Culture is a landmark survey of contemporary research in popular culture studies that offers a comprehensive and engaging introduction to the field.
Includes over two dozen essays covering the spectrum of popular culture studies from food to folklore and from TV to technology
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