Cyborgs and Barbie Dolls: Feminism, Popular Culture and the Posthuman Body, Paperback - Kim Toffoletti

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Building on critiques of other sceptical scholars, the feminist, folkloristic approach of this book deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joan (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) OrmrodNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2021Dimens...

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...

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This book explores Larkin's engagement with popular culture both as a threat to poetic authority and as a necessary form of cultural capital. It re...

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DescriptionIn Empowered Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the deeply entwined relationship between popular feminism and popular misogyny as it plays out ...

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 ...

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

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DescriptionIn today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music an...

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Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncNumber of pages: 218Collection: Popular Culture and Everyday LifePublication date: 2007Dimensions: 159 x 237 x ...

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The essays in Goddesses and Monsters recognize popular culture as a primary repository of ancient mythic energies, images, narratives, personalitie...

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Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerg...

This extensively revised and expanded fifth edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to...

This book provides a fascinating and innovative insight into popular culture in the ancient world. It covers a diverse range of subjects and object...

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For courses in popular culture, media and society, and sociology of the media. Pop culture surrounds us. Its products are the movies we watch, the ...

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Reducere. Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminis...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media; 50 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 536Collectio...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emeritus Paul (University of Illinois, USA, and University of Tasmania, Australia.) Duncum...

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This is a cultural analysis and queer reading of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics providing an important exploration of the ways ...

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In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the ...

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Suitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the genera...