Popular Culture

'One of the finest accounts of the mysterious workings of grief I have ever read.' Helen Macdonald'Completely compelling.' Olivia Laing'Read it with awe and sorrow.' Fatima BhuttoAfter the sudden death of his father, Nick Blackburn embarks on a singular,...

From Destiny's Child to Lemonade, Homecoming, and The Gift, Beyonce Knowles-Carter has redefined global stardom, feminism, Black representation, and celebrity activism. This book brings together new work from sixteen international scholars to explore...

Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to...

The Queer Sixties assembles an impressive group of cultural critics to go against the grain of 1960s studies, and proposes new and different ways of the last decade before the closet doors swung open. Imbued with the zeitgeist of the 60s, this playful...

Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art.Beginning with an analysis of the...

**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** The first critical guide to cover the history, form and key critical issues of the medium, Webcomics helps readers explore the diverse and increasingly popular worlds of online...

"In this book, many of the depictions of what a girl gang is are not the most admirable. They are often belligerent, rude, violent, and lewd. But it sure does make for great art and entertainment. However, if you can overlook the vices of the girl gang,...

A bold exploration of modern psychedelic culture, its history, and future * Examines 3 modern psy-culture architects: chemist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, mycologist-philosopher Terence McKenna, and visionary artist Alex Grey * Presents a "History of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692847350Author Robert W Sullivan IVFormat PaperbackPage Count 668Imprint Deadwood Publishing, LLCPublisher Deadwood Publishing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Classical music is everywhere in video games. Works by composers like Bach and Mozart fill the soundtracks of games ranging from arcade classics, to indie titles, to major franchises like BioShock, Civilization, and Fallout. Children can learn about...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633451414Author Paola AntonelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern ArtWeight(grams) 640g

Ariel Leve and Robin Morgan's oral history 1963: The Year of the Revolution is the first book to recount the kinetic story of the twelve months that witnessed a demographic power shift-the rise of the Youth Quake movement, a cultural transformation...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998999524Author Jess ErskineFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Rolling Donut PressPublisher Rolling Donut PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 280mm *...

With stories of hysterical teenagers and obsessive fans killing for their heroes, fans and fandom get a bad press. The Adoring Audience looks deeper into fan culture, particularly as it relates to identity, sexuality and textual production.About the...

A collection of intensive discussions about the role of visual arts in public life The past decade has seen American culture deeply divided by debates over social identity, public morality, communal values and freedom of expression. A key focus of these...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963382719Author Annick SanjurjoFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Southern Cross PressPublisher Southern Cross PressWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to...

First Published in 1999. In What the Music Said, Mark Anthony Neal provides a timely study of from be-bop to Hip Hop. This book looks at the last fifty years of black popular music and provides an intriguing portrait of the existential and social forces...

"Wild Art" refers to work that exists outside the established, rarified world of art galleries and cultural channels. It encompasses uncatalogued, uncommodified art not often recognized as such, from graffiti to performance, self-adornment, and beyond...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955339882Author Xavier TapieFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Rebellion Books LtdPublisher Korero Books LLPWeight(grams) 990gDimensions(mm) 225mm * 275mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867195156Author Frank KozikFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 729g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444045Author George GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint New TexturePublisher New TextureSeries Men's Adventure LibraryWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781631404672Author Amy MebbersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design WorksSeries MLP Art is MagicWeight(grams)...

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...

The first NFT book that tells of the beginning of Crypto Art with 50 of the best artists in the movement. In the last year, crypto art has overwhelmed the world of digital art and beyond, involving collectors, museums, and auction houses, creating a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998895109Author Steven KeslowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Quillpop BooksPublisher Quillpop BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Highlighting intersections of gender, race, and class and their explosive encounters with Pop Art during the Long Sixties, this book offers a new critical reading of Pop for the 21st century. 'a brilliant and important corrective to much writing on...

A lavishly illustrated book that explores the language of curves that spans the human body, science, engineering, and artCurves are seductive. These smooth, organic lines and surfaces-like those of the human body-appeal to us in an instinctive, visceral...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781463550400Author Henry BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945710179Author MantracraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Castle P&pPublisher New Castle P&pWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 7mm

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara...

Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.About the AuthorDavid...

Original book of photographs and text by the noted director/writer/producer Brian Levant, presenting his extraordinary collection of animated feature and comic toys, including hundreds of iconic characters represented in figures, banks, games,...

In this new collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the marginal, she examines topics such...

-Focuses on what actually works in development practice, in order to inform and inspire practitioners and students -Impressive global reach, with a wide range of case studies drawn from across Algeria, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico,...

Jo Spence was one of Britain's pioneering photographers. This book is the first to reflect her unique contribution to photography and photographic theory.About the AuthorJo SpenceBook InformationISBN 9780415088848Author Jo SpenceFormat PaperbackPage...

Arthur Fellig's ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he became known as "Weegee," claiming that he functioned as a human Ouija board. Weegee documented better than any other photographer the crime, grit, and complex...

'Selfies' are everywhere - from Kim Kardashian, queen of the selfie, to the Queen of England photobombing the Australian hockey team's selfie in 2014, you can't open a newspaper, or visit a news website, without seeing one. Recent technology, such as the...

With ruminations on drawing, colour and caricature, on the political meaning of fairy-tales, talking animals and human beings as machines, Hollywood Flatlands brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.Focusing...

Jason Polan is on a mission to draw every person in New York, from cab drivers to celebrities. He draws people eating at Taco Bell, admiring paintings at the Museum of Modern Art, and sleeping on the subway. With a foreword by Kristen Wiig, Every Person...