Popular Culture

First published in 1975, The Cage was a graphic novel before there was a name for the genre. Considered an early masterpiece of the genre, the Canadian cult comic has been out of print for decades. The new edition includes an introduction by Canadian...

Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized contexts. This interdisciplinary study of the media brings together essays by...

Opera's Second Death is a passionate exploration of opera - the genre, its masterpieces, and the nature of death. Using a dazzling array of tools, Slavoj Zizek and coauthor Mladen Dolar explore the strange compulsions that overpower characters in Mozart...

This second collection of gorgeously illustrated artworks highlights events fromvolumes 10 through 15 of the main story. The definitive edition also includesillustrations from volumes 1 through 3 of Sword Art Online: Progressive, as well as artfrom...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506741031Author MattelFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

In recent decades, culture--the values, attitudes, beliefs, and myths of a particular society and the objects through which they are organized--has earned prominent stature in the annals of American history. The United States often brings to mind Uncle...

This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection - that is also...

In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692315552Author Catherine GlackinFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Ard Rua PressPublisher Ard Rua PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm * 3mm

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century...

A complete narrative history of the weird and wonderful world of Underground Comix-now in paperback! In the 1950s, comics meant POW! BAM! superheroes, family-friendly gags, and Sunday funnies, but in the 1960s, inspired by these strips and the satire of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955125154Author Robert K. ElderFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Hat & Beard, LLCPublisher Hat & Beard, LLC

South Korean cinema is a striking example of non-Western contemporary cinematic success. Thanks to the increasing numbers of moviegoers and domestic films produced, South Korea has become one of the world's major film markets. In 2001, the South Korean...

The most wide-ranging and up-to-date volume available on the enigmatic and controversial graffiti artist, this deeply researched and highly personal tribute explores how Banksy continues to defy accepted wisdom about artistic success, growing only more...

Focusing on Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Lana del Rey, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femininity, such as maintaining a physique that conforms to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958305Author Charlotte RodgersFormat PaperbackPage Count 155Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 226g

Cham, real name Count Amedee de Noe and a serious rival to Daumier, may have been the epitome of a celebre inconnu, a famous unknown. He is one much deserving, at last, of this first account of his huge oeuvre as a caricaturist. This book concentrates on...

The pop icon Miley Ray Cyrus is a famed singer, songwriter and actor. Having begun her career as the beloved Hannah Montana on Disney Channel, the singer has created an extensive discography, comprised of chart-topping hits such as 'The Climb', 'Wrecking...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496086341Author Michael John EldridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass...

Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards Winner of American Book Fest's 2020 Best Book Awards in Women's IssuesA full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and...

Popular music is far more than just songs we listen to; its meanings are also in album covers, lyrics, subcultures, voices and video soundscapes. Like language these elements can be used to communicate complex cultural ideas, values, concepts and...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784756249647Author Macoto TakahashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pie International Co., Ltd.Publisher Pie International Co., Ltd.

With no formal training, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960 1988) succeeded in developing a new and expressive style to become one of the most influential artists in the postmodern revival of figurative during the 1980s. In a series of notebooks from the early...

From the age of Aristotle to the age of AIDS, writers, thinkers, performers and activists have wresteled with what "performance" is all about. At the same moment, "performativity"--a new concept in language theory--has become a ubiquitous term in...

'Where can the human animal seek its energy in this era of lockdowns and social distancing? Dodge may help us to find out' Guardian'If you're a fan of Maggie Nelson's work, you'll like this book. It's truly beautiful' DazedIs love a force akin to...

A collection of timely new scholarship, Repair: Sustainable Design Futures investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the environment. Repair is an act, metaphor, and...

In this strikingly original work, Stephen Moore considers God's male bodies--the body of Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, and the Father of Jesus Christ, and Jesus himself in the New Testament--and our obsessive earthly quest for a perfect human form. God's...

Cybernetic-Existentialism: Freedom, Systems, and Being-for-Others in Contemporary Arts and Performance offers a unique discourse and an original aesthetic theory. It argues that fusing perspectives from the philosophy of Existentialism with insights from...

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was...

With a dozen games released over the past 20 years, The Legend of Heroes is a mainstay of Japanese RPGs from pioneering game developer Nihon Falcom. Now, the gorgeous character art from the newest games in this legendary series is collected in this...

Official companion book to the Netflix TV series featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with cast and crew. Based on the worldwide phenomenon from Sunrise Inc., Cowboy Bebop is the jazz-inspired, genre-bending...

Warm yourself by the fire and hear the story of how Hearthstone came to be, growing from a small-team project to the worldwide success that it is today with more than 50 million players. The Art of Hearthstone offers an in-depth glimpse into the...

It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. Punk Rock So What?brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music...

"Meticulously researched and beautifully produced." Times Literary Supplement "A big and beautiful book." Journal of British Studies "A definitive history of the sports shoe." Amber Butchart, fashion historian "A necessary book [and] a great read."...

Dolly Parton is a superstar, singer, songwriter, actress, business mogul, and philanthropist. Since the 1960's Dolly has maintained an unparalleled level of success and multi-generational popularity. With her recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of...

Detailed, step-by-step instructions for recreating a classic 1960s Mustang with LEGO elements. The build, designed by famous Technic inventor Sariel, includes working steering, and operable doors and hood, as well as plenty of ideas for customisation...

The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.About the AuthorDonna J. Haraway is Professor...

This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader, includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies. With general and thematic section...

The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew Ross's...