Popular Culture category: 4839 books
The Civil War in Popular Culture
Memory and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest...
How Canadians Communicate III
Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
What does Canadian popular culture say about the construction and negotiation of Canadian national identity? This third volume of How Canadians Communicate describes the negotiation of popular culture across terrains where national identity is built by producers and audiences, government and industry,...
World Politics on Screen
Understanding International Relations through Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2014
Increasingly resistant to lessons on international politics, society often turns to television and film to engage the subject. Numerous movies made in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries reflect political themes that were of concern within the popular cultures of their times. For example, Norman...
Identity Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan
A Sajiao Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In the past two decades, a uniform representation of cutified femininity prevails in the Taiwanese media, evidenced by the shift of Taiwan’s popular cultural taste from a Chinese-centered tradition to a mixed absorption from neighboring cultural capitals in the global market. This book argues that...
by Tony Osborne
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012
The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically depraved bosses torment those who do the actual work. During the 1950s, the Beats chose denim and the open road over gray flannel suits...
Materiality and Popular Culture
The Popular Life of Things
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Amidst the boom in global interest in Japanese popular culture, the utilization of popular...
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
Amnesia, Nostalgia and Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Transnational Memory and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia explores the significance of transnational popular culture in the formation and mediation of collective memories across the region. It looks at case studies including: the politics of cinematic remembering of Hong Kong films on Southeast...
Race and Popular Fantasy Literature
Habits of Whiteness
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2015
This book illuminates the racialized nature of twenty-first century Western popular culture by exploring how discourses of race circulate in the Fantasy genre. It examines not only major texts in the genre, but also the impact of franchises, industry, editorial and authorial practices, and fan engagements...
The End of Cool Japan
Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Today’s convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those...
Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream
Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
The many con men, gangsters, and drug lords portrayed in popular culture are examples of the dark side of the American dream. Viewers are fascinated by these twisted versions of heroic American archetypes, like the self-made man and the entrepreneur. Applying the critical skills he developed as a...
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The Vietnam War in Popular Culture: The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life [2 volumes]
The Influence of America's Most Controversial War on Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
How did the experience of the Vietnam War change the United States, not just in the 1950s through the 1970s, but through to today? What role do popular music and movies play in how we think of the Vietnam War? How similar are the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and now Syria—to the Vietnam...
African Youth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Identity Quest
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The contributors approach the subject from an interdisciplinary...
The New Heroines: Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st-Century Popular Culture
Female Embodiment and Technology in 21st-Century Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories. It's an irresistible concept: the heroine who seems just like every other, but under the surface, she has the potential to change the world. This book examines the cultural significance of teen...