Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture, Paperback - Janell Hobson

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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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressIllustration(s): 15 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 49 bw illusNumber of pages: 330Collection: New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, ConceptsPublication...

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

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

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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 ...

Publisher: Cool Springs PressAuthor(s): Teri SpeightIllustration(s): 125+ color photosNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 2...

Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Ella Frances SandersNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 22Cover type: Paperba...

DescriptionHow transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to Asia Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodi...

In this authoritative, lively book, the celebrated Italian novelist and philosopher Umberto Eco presents a learned summary of medieval aesthetic id...

Reducere. A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Lyneise E. (Associate Professor of Art History, UNC Chapel Hill, USA) WilliamsIllustration(s): 9...

Reducere. More than thirty years have passed since the publication of All the Women are White, All the Blacks are Men, But Some of Us are Brave. Given the gr...

Reducere. From the theme resorts of Dubai to the jungles of Papua New Guinea, a disturbing but hilarious tour of the exotic east--and of the tour itselfSick ...

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to allevia...

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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Reducere. Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead--an age that claims mastery over the world but als...

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Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place inte...

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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 ...

Reducere. What is popular culture? Why study popular culture in an academic context? An Introduction to U.S. Popular Culture: People, Politics, and Power int...

Reducere. DescriptionOne of the first transnational, feminist studies of Canada's black beauty culture and the role that media, retail, and consumers have pl...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

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

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

This book examines and establishes the sociological relevance of the concept of populism and illuminates the ideological use of sport, leisure, and...

Reducere. Presents a professional dancer's personal journey over four decades, across three continents and 23 countries, and through defining moments in the ...

Overgrown industrial complexes, disused asylums, abandoned palaces and monasteries feature in this latest incendiary book from Carpet Bombing Cultu...

From romantic novelist Elinor Glyn in the 1920s to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle today, this collection examines some of the history, contemporary...

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the construction and contestation of popular culture in the late eighteenth and early nineteen...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusin...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe second edition of Popular Culture in American Historyupdates the text for a contemporary readership and exploresacademic development...

Reducere. "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king..." Shakespeare was repeating what the ancient Greeks had pioneered--if you wan...

Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Vividly tracing convergences of aesthetic theor...

Reducere. Is popular culture sinful or an imperfect reflection of God's creativity? Turnau helps us understand popular culture from a biblical perspective; w...

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...

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

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