Author: Fenwick, Tara / Edwards, Richard Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Actor-network theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of edu...
Author: Bennett, Peter / Kendall, Alex / McDougall, Julian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies...
Author: Bennett, Peter / Kendall, Alex / McDougall, Julian Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies...
Author: Hatfield, Charles Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the 1980s, a sea change occurred in comics. Fueled by Art Spiegel- man and Franoise Mouly's avant-garde anthology Raw and the launch of the Love Rockets series by Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernande...
Author: Bozovic, Miran Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Slovenian philosopher Miran Bozovic's An Utterly Dark Spot examines the elusive status of the body in early modern European philosophy by examining its various encounters with the gaze. Its range is i...
Author: N/A Publisher: IGI Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The universe is a massive system of systems -- for example, ecological systems, social systems, commodity and stock markets. These systems are complex, constantly adapting to their environment, and ma...
Author: Moore, Lindsey Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This groundbreaking book analyzes a wide range of literary and visual texts, many of which have not received treatment elsewhere, and promotes an emergent canon of women's writing and film.
Author: Cassidy, Kyle Publisher: Krause Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinio...
Description: Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The ...
Author: Leaver, Tama Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The ...
Author: Ivey, Bill Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unan...
Author: McKinley, Graham Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As remarkable for its intimate style as for its adroit use of theory, Beverly Hills, 90210 illustrates the way in which media both form and reflect cultural reality.
Author: Huq, Rupa Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P>In an aging world, is pop music any longer an automatic metaphor for youth culture? <i>Beyond Subculture</i> investigates a series of musically-centered global youth cultures, inc...
Author: Brown, Jeffrey A. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A history of the trailblazing comics that broke color barriers and portrayed African Americans in heroic storylines What do the comic book figures Static, Hardware, and Icon all have in common? Black...
Author: Hewitt, Hugh Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Blog" is short for "Web log"-an online site with time-dated postings, maintained by one or more posters, that features links and commentary. But that is like saying a car is a means of transportation...
Author: Sutton, Barbara Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Born and raised in Argentina and still maintaining significant ties to the area, Barbara Sutton examines the complex, and often hidden, bodily worlds of diverse women in that country during a period o...
Author: Arvidsson, Adam Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Drawing on rich empirical material, this revealing book builds up a critical theory, arguing that brands have become an important tool for transforming everyday life into economic value. When branding...
Author: Turner, Graeme Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This third edition of a popular text offers an accessible overview of the central themes: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse.
Author: Malbon, Ben Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Offering an informative and intimate insight into the world of clubbing and the experiences of clubbers, this book presents a clear academic framework for study in this field. Issues discussed include...
Author: Burhans, Dirk Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As an addition to our lists in popular culture, regional Americana, and food, Crunch offers a lively, eminently readable history of an iconic foodstuff--one that should appeal to scholars, general rea...
Author: Barnes, Natasha Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University of Michigan Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: We are witnessing in the last decade of the twentieth century more frequent demands by racial and ethnic groups for recognition of their distinctive histories and traditions as well as opportunities t...
Author: Brown, Jeffrey A. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms s...
Author: Marc, David Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's ch...
Author: Westhoff, Ben Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Acting as both investigative journalist and irreverent critic, Ben Westhoff journeys across the southern United States in a small Hyundai to document the phenomenon of southern hip-hop. The exclusive ...
Author: Strengell, Heidi Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on t...
Author: Davies, Lynn Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on the author's extensive research and experience of education in several areas afflicted by conflict, the book explores the relationship between schooling and social conflict and looks at confl...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The first volume to focus on the intersections of militarization, corporations, and education, Education as Enforcement exposed the many ways schooling has become the means through which the expansion...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Students arrive in our classrooms with complex sociocultural histories that include family, cultural, physical, social, emotional, and prior learning experiences. In order to be effective, schools mus...
Author: Ashley, Leonard Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Leonard R. N. Ashley delights readers with a collection of facts and folklore of the people of Queen Elizabeth I's era. He describes sports and pastimes, religion and superstition, cooking, life in to...
Author: Best, Joel Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Every kindergarten soccer player gets a trophy. Many high schools name dozens of seniors as valedictorians-of the same class. Cars sport bumper stickers that read "USA-Number 1." Prizes proliferate in...
Author: Hollander, Paul Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting va...
Author: Clark, Elizabeth Publisher: For Dummies Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Many people are mortified by their flirting skills and get flustered when dealing with people they're attracted to. This easy-to-follow manual to mastering the art of flirting offers indispensable adv...
Author: Beaty, Bart Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Too often remembered solely as the psychiatrist and cultural critic whose testimony in Senate subcommittees sparked the creation of the Comics Code, Fredric Wertham was a far more complex man. Author ...
Description: Hardcore Zen is not your typical "Zen" book. Brad Warner, the young punk who grew up to be a Zen master, spares no one -- just like Reality itself. This bold new approach to the Why of Zen Buddhism is...
