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Cover of Anti-Communism and Popular Culture in Mid-Century America
by Cyndy Hendershot
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2015

Not long after the Allied victories in Europe and Japan, America’s attention turned from world war to cold war. The perceived threat of communism had a definite and significant impact on all levels of American popular culture, from government propaganda films like Red Nightmare in Time magazine...
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Popular Culture as Art and Knowledge

A Critique of Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democracy

by George A. Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019

This volume settles the debate between analytic and continental philosophy. It turns to art, more specifically popular culture, to demonstrate the validity of continental philosophy. Drawing on the philosophy of Georg Hegel (perhaps the most important of continental philosophers), James Kreines holds...
Cover of Scientology in Popular Culture: Influences and Struggles for Legitimacy
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017

For more than 60 years, Scientology has claimed alternative religious status with a significant number of followers, despite its portrayals in popular culture domains as being bizarre. What are the reasons for the vital connections between Scientology and popular culture that help to maintain or challenge...
Cover of Mental Illness in Popular Culture
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017

Mental health professionals and advocates typically point a finger at pop culture for sensationalizing and stigmatizing mental illness, perpetuating stereotypes, and capitalizing on the increased anxiety that invariably follows mass shootings at schools, military bases, or workplaces; on public transportation;...
Cover of Adorno on Popular Culture
by Robert W. Witkin
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Robert W. Witkin unpacks Adorno's notoriously difficult critique of popular culture in an engaging and accessible style, looking first at the development of the overarching theories of authority, commodification and negative dialectics. He then goes on to consider Adorno's writing on specific aspects of popular culture such as radio, film and popular music.
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Rock Music in American Popular Culture III

More Rock 'n' Roll Resources

by Frank Hoffmann, B Lee Cooper, Wayne S Haney
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014

Rock Music in American Popular Culture III: More Rock ’n’Roll Resources explores the fascinating world of rock music and examines how this medium functions as an expression of cultural and social identity. This nostalgic guide explores the meanings and messages behind some of the most popular...
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Homer Simpson Marches on Washington

Dissent through American Popular Culture

by Joseph J. Foy, Timothy M. Dale, Jamie Warner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

The Simpsons questions what is culturally acceptable, showcasing controversial issues like homosexuality, animal rights, the war on terror, and religion. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and attitudes on a large scale. Homer Simpson Marches on Washington explores...
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Hollywood vs. America

Popular Culture And The War on Tradition

by Michael Medved
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011

Why does our popular culture seem so consistently hostile to the values that most Americans hold dear? Why does the entertainment industry attack religion, glorify brutality, undermine the family, and deride patriotism? In this explosive book, one of the nation's best known film critics examines...
Cover of The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture

The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture

Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV

by Paul A. Cantor
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy,...
Cover of Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia
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Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011

Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized, pleasure-filled,...
Cover of Latino/a Popular Culture
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002

Cover artwork by Diane Gamboa. Credit-Click here Latinos have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. While the presence of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture in the United States buttresses the much-heralded Latin Explosion, the images themselves...
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Matters of Gravity

Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century

by Scott Bukatman
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2003

The headlong rush, the rapid montage, the soaring superhero, the plunging roller coaster—Matters of Gravity focuses on the experience of technological spectacle in American popular culture over the past century. In these essays, leading media and cultural theorist Scott Bukatman reveals how popular...
Cover of National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life
by Tim Edensor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines...
Cover of Modern Blackness

Modern Blackness

Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica

by Deborah A. Thomas, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2004

Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an ongoing struggle in Jamaica between the values associated...
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