Cultura populara

Now in its fifth edition, this popular A-Z student reference book provides a comprehensive survey of key ideas and concepts in popular music cultur...

DescriptionFrom its origins in academic discourse in the 1970s to our collective imagination today, the concept of "rape culture" has resonated in ...

By focusing on such controversies and conflicts as the status of women, relations between the sexes, class antagonisms and the growth of a commerci...

In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the Uni...

DescriptionMary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless f...

Reducere. Popular Music in the Post-Digital Age explores the relationship between macro environmental factors, such as politics, economics, culture and techn...

Pop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the phenomenon ...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): James YekuIllustration(s): 50 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 292Publication date: 202...

Widely recognized as an immensely useful textbook for students of the major theories of popular culture, this is a critical assessment of how these...

From Parzival to The Da Vinci Code and Assassin's Creed, the Knights Templar have captivated artists and audiences for centuries. This study explor...

Reducere. During the early 1970s, the nation's turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin's kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city's progr...

Reducere. Alcanzar la felicidad forma parte de los objetivos de la vida de cada persona que habita en el mundo. Claro que, el concepto del alcance de la feli...

Contributor(s): Author: Nicole RafterAuthor: Michelle BrownFrom a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic an...

Reducere. DescriptionBringing a lively and accessible style to a complex subject, "Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls" explores the idea of the 'posthuman' and the way...

Reducere. When William F. Cody introduced his Wild West exhibition to European audiences in 1887, the show soared to new heights of popularity and success. W...

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Reducere. One of Kirkus Review's Best Nonfiction Books of the YearPowerful... Calling for Black women (in and out of the public eye) to be treated with empat...

Kyung Hyun Kim considers the recent global success of Korean popular culture-the Korean wave of pop music, cinema, and television also known as hal...

Through readings of postcolonial theory and examination of post-9/11 novels, film, and hip-hop music, this book studies how North African immigrant...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Richard KieckheferNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 15Cover typ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Guy P. HarrisonMaybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. O...

Reducere. Resist pays close attention to popular culture; it examines the political ramifications of Kanye West's support of Donald Trump, the significance o...

The supernatural has become extraordinarily popular in literature, television, and film. Vampires, zombies, werewolves, witches, and wizard have be...

Reducere. Popular Proverbs focuses on common proverbs and their role in daily life and culture. Arabs everywhere take great pride in the Arabic language, a p...

An exploration of our love affair with the Victorian vampire.Illustrations: 30 black and white illustrations

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DescriptionPop City examines the use of Korean television dramas and K-pop music to promote urban and rural places in South Korea. Building on the ...

Reducere. "Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... ...

Reducere. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is a history of popular folly by Scottish journalist Charles Mackay, first published in 1...

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Reducere. The Second Edition of Alan M. Schwitzer and Lawrence C. Rubin's Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Skills: A Popular Culture Casebook Approach compre...

This book brings together sociological, psychological, historical, cultural, and environmental ways of thinking about nonhuman animals and our rela...

The author puts forward a radical alternative to the endless complaints about reality TV, throwaway movies and violent video games. In this title, ...

Marriage is a central trope in popular portrayals of Germany's largest ethnic minority. In exploring Turkish-German matrimony in popular genres inc...

A lively account of how Nova Scotian literature and popular culture depict a messy and unfinished process of deindustrialization.

Early industrial Merthyr is synonymous with the darker side of the British urban experience. This work considers the efforts of dedicated civic "bo...

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Reducere. This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in contemporary American culture with particular attention to the fantasy of refusal, a d...

In the United States, people are deeply divided along lines of race, class, political party, gender, sexuality, and religion. Many believe that his...

In-depth reassessment of the recruitment, training, arming and ethos of the Home Guard.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Malcolm AtkinIllu...

Reducere. Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited exp...

Swashbuckling tales of valiant gauchos roaming Argentina and Uruguay were nineteenth-century Latin American bestsellers. But when the stories jumpe...

From nineteenth-century American art and literature to comic books of the twentieth century and afterwards, Chad A. Barbour examines in From Daniel...

The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi explores how sixteenth-century samurai leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi's continued and evolving presence in popular c...

Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

Reducere. From the worldwide phenomenon of The Da Vinci Code to the national best-seller Misquoting Jesus, popular culture is being bombarded with radical sk...

A general treatment of the major players and historical events of the Roman Empire during Jesus' life.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): St...

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Reducere. Speculative fiction--encompassing both science fiction and fantasy--has emerged as a dynamic field within Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, producing...

DescriptionThis book describes real-world killer robots using a blend of perspectives. Overviews of technologies, such as autonomy and artificial i...

This book interrogates the white savior industrial complex by exploring how America continues to present an imagined Africa as a space for salvatio...

Publisher: Daraja PressAuthor(s): Ernest Wamba-Dia-WambaNumber of pages: 62Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 8Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. Description"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the conscio...

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Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...