Popular Culture

'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' Pete Townshend A Band with Built-In Hate pictures The Who through the prism of pop art and the levelling of high and low culture it brought about. Peter Stanfield guides us through the British pop revolution as it...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780786713646Author Kenneth GoldsmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Avalon Publishing GroupPublisher Avalon Publishing GroupWeight(grams)...

The American Fraternity is a mysterious photo and ritual book that lifts the veil on America's oldest and most influential male tradition. The text comes from a decaying ritual manual from a prominent college fraternity. Seventy-five percent of modern U...

Shakespeare, The Movie brings together an impressive line-up of contributors to consider how Shakespeare has been adapted on film, TV, and video, and explores the impact of this popularization on the canonical status of Shakespeare.Taking a fresh look at...

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...

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 9781944633622Author Nancy J PriceFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Synchronista LLCPublisher Synchronista LLCWeight(grams) 267gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

This inspirational gift book filled with Bob Ross-themed challenges for art and life will bring the painter's philosophy to your world in a whole new way.When the iconic artist calls us to take out our two-inch brush, we know it means one thing: This is...

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...

How the Vietnam War changed American artBy the late 1960s, the United States was in a pitched conflict in Vietnam, against a foreign enemy, and at home-between Americans for and against the war and the status quo. This powerful book showcases how...

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...

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...

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506722412Author SNKFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint 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 9781845831196Author Stephen James WalkerFormat PaperbackImprint Telos Publishing LtdPublisher Telos Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622661Author Blas GallegoFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,US

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368018715Author Jeff KurttiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Disney EditionsPublisher Disney Book Publishing Inc.

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...

The ultimate fashion bible for manga and anime artists!Create realistic-looking outfits and one-of-a-kind looks for your manga and anime characters, or design amazing creations for any cosplay event. Author Rabimaru is Japan's leading fashion illustrator...

Through an astonishing series of interviews, Gay Men's Style will take you on a dizzying journey through shops, bars, clubs, gyms, workplaces and global city streets. Based on the lived experience of gay men of all ages from the UK, USA, Europe,...

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...

"I've always looked upon cartooning as comedy's last frontier. I have done stand-up, sketches, movies, monologues, awards show introductions, sound bites, blurbs, talk show appearances, and tweets, but the idea of a one-panel image with or without a...

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...

Magnificent hardcover art books featuring the incredible images and lore of Magic: The Gathering (R)! Danger and adventure await in these pages, lavishly illustrated with the award-winning art of Magic: The Gathering (R)! The seventh book in VIZ Media's...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781976482946Author Theodore AshfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997383Author Jacques BoyreauFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 606g

Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983686689Author Laura's Dot to Dot TherapyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840686715Author Pep PentangeliFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Creation BooksPublisher Creation Books

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867198867Author Annie OwensFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.

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...

Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the...

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

The legendary Samurai, and the sharp-edged katanas they mastered, are the point of this thrill-seeking guide to drawing swordfights, battle scenes and skirmishes.The Complete Guide to Drawing Dynamic Manga Sword Fighters provides a highly detailed series...

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...