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In The Politics of Identity, Stanley Aronowitz offers provocative analysis of the complex interactions of class, politics, and culture. Beginning with the premise that culture is constitutive of class identities, he demonstrates that while feminist...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781855145894Author Sabina Jaskot-GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint National Portrait GalleryPublisher National Portrait Gallery

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781720161547Author Rocket PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944633622Author Nancy J PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Synchronista LLCPublisher Synchronista LLCWeight(grams) 267gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789188369789Author Edwin PHADE SacasaFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag

Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle America...

K-pop's remarkable global popularity is no coincidence. Its success cannot be attributed to a talented individual or a set of favourable government policies but is instead the result of continuous innovation by risk-taking entrepreneurs.For the first...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683834847Author Insight EditionsFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight Editions

Machines called Mutoscopes offered quick shows for a penny from 1895 until as late as the 1970s, flipping cards to create the impression of a "moving picture." Associated with amusement piers and parks, and men's restrooms, these machines were notorious...

Focusing on prints (etchings, drypoints, color lithographs), Picasso and the Circus presents a pivotal moment in Picasso's early career, between his Blue and Rose Periods, when he was increasingly drawn to the subject of the circus in Paris. The book...

Performance Anxieties looks at the on-going debates over the value of psychoanalysis for feminist theory and politics--specifically concerning the social and psychical meanings of racialization. Beginning with an historicized return to Freud and the...

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...

Evelyn Dove embraced the worlds of jazz, musical theatre and, most importantly, cabaret, in a career spanning five decades from the 1920s through to the 1960s. A black British diva with movie star looks, she captivated audiences and admirers around the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506721880Author Michael Dante DiMartinoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

A unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artistOne of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he did. Indeed, he is so quotable that things he never said...

* The book demonstrates how a vernacular British performance form emerged as a hybrid of forms from Afro-American and minstrel, as well as French mime and Italian commedia dell'arte roots. * Theatre history is an essential part of theatre and drama...

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 visual arts in Wales are in ferment. The growing fascination in painters, installation artists, sculptors and those working in mixed and electronic media has been reflected both in booming sales and private gallery growth on the one hand and,...

Australian governments at all levels have been engaged with arts and culture in many different forms since the beginning of European settlement. The way this has occurred is documented and analysed here, both from an historical and critical perspective...

From the girl next door to sexy switch-blade sisters, the pin-up girls depicted in this collection of works by 15 of today's best artists boldly display the full spectrum of the genre. Through masterful use of color and media, both traditional and...

There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship to the spectator's gaze. Artists have...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781959411321Author Jack BenderFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Girl Friday ProductionsPublisher Girl Friday Productions

Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies offers numerous specific cultural analyses while...

Emoticons matter. Equal signs do, too. This book takes them seriously and shows how and why they matter. Digital Shift explores the increasingly ubiquitous presence of punctuation and typographical marks in our lives using them as reading lenses to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945710315Author MantracraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint New Castle P&pPublisher New Castle P&pWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 6mm

A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selcuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506714554Author Mike MignolaFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444311Author Samson PollenFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint 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 9781917285452Author Kagami Jigoku KobayashiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Bonefyre BooksPublisher Bonefyre BooksSeries Tokyo CinegraphixWeight(grams)...

We Started a Nightclub: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It is the story of the beginnings of the club that was the launching pad for countless talented performers, musicians, and artists-many at the earliest stages of...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506754581Author Jack KirbyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632865298Author Walter HoppsFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PlcWeight(grams) 663g

* This book curates new thinking through interviews with designers who are artists, producers, professors, partners, parents, and collaborators. This book is a place to observe how one career can contain many possibilities. * Would be recommended reading...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943444038Author George GrossFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint 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 9780544636347Author J. R. R. TolkienFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Houghton Mifflin

"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."...

For anyone who listens reverentially in the half-light to Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, or Morrisey, who wait anxiously for new albums from The Cure, Leonard Cohen, or The Blue Nile, who buy up catalogs of Nina Simone, Johnny Cash, or Scott Walker, who...

Batman has Robin. Captain America has Bucky. And Yankee Doodle has Dandy. Being a superhero is hard work, which is why so many comics characters rely on a sidekick- someone to watch the hero's back, help the hero search for clues, or, if nothing else,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636141008Author Chuck DFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

Geek art is the new pop art Characters from comics, movies, TV shows, and video games are a part of the collective imagination forever, so it's only natural that artists would begin integrating them into their work, giving birth to a new artistic...