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Dancing in Spite of Myself

Essays on Popular Culture

by Lawrence Grossberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 1997

In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg—well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies—has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one of the leading theorists of popular culture and, specifically, of rock music. Grossberg offers an...

Education in Popular Culture

Telling Tales on Teachers and Learners

by Roy Fisher, Ann Harris, Christine Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2008

Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The book provides an overview of education as it is represented...

Rock Music in American Popular Culture

Rock 'n' Roll Resources

by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Wayne S Haney
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

How does rock music impact culture? According to authors B. Lee Cooper and Wayne S. Haney, it is central to the definition of society and has had a great impact on shaping American culture. In Rock Music in American Popular Culture, insightful essays and book reviews explore ways popular culture items...

Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

A Postcolonial Outlook

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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013

This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and　cultural issues in film, cartoons,...

Introducing Japanese Popular Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018

Specifically designed for use on a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese...

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Popular Culture

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016

Since the 1990s there has been a dramatic increase in cultural flows and connections between the countries in the East Asian region. Nowhere is this more apparent than when looking at popular culture where uneven but multilateral exchanges of Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong and Chinese products...

Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel [3 volumes]

Pop Goes the Gospel

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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Evangelical Christians and Popular Culture: Pop Goes the Gospel addresses the full spectrum of evangelical media and popular culture offerings, even delving into lesser-known forms of evangelical popular culture such as comic books, video games, and theme parks. The chapters in this 3-volume work...

Feminism and Popular Culture

Investigating the Postfeminist Mystique

by Rebecca Munford, Melanie Waters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

When the term “postfeminism” entered the media lexicon in the 1990s, it was often accompanied by breathless headlines about the “death of feminism.” Those reports of feminism’s death may have been greatly exaggerated, and yet contemporary popular culture often conjures up a world in which...

American Taboo: The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture

The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture

by Lauren Rosewarne
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013

America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies. • Analyzes an enormous range of popular culture...

Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon [2 volumes]

The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon

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Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012

Mormons and Popular Culture: The Global Influence of an American Phenomenon provides an unprecedented, comprehensive treatment of Mormons and popular culture. Authored by a Mormon studies librarian and author of numerous writings regarding Mormon folklore, culture, and history, this book provides...

Pop Culture

The Culture of Everyday Life

by Shirley Fedorak
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2009

While usually associated with facets of commercial culture, pop culture can and must be analyzed as an important part of material, economic, and political culture. The author begins by defining popular culture, outlining criticisms, and examining the impact of globalization on pop culture. She then...

Representing Agency in Popular Culture

Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between

by Michelle Nicole Boyer-Kelly, David Buckingham, Ingrid E. Castro
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018

Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives,...

Violence in American Popular Culture [2 volumes]

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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015

Few topics are discussed more broadly today than violence in American popular culture. Unfortunately, such discussion is often unsupported by fact and lacking in historical context. This two-volume work aims to remedy that through a series of concise, detailed essays that explore why violence has...

Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth

Hard Times Today

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic...

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