Popular Culture

As social, locative, and mobile media render the intimate public and the public intimate, this volume interrogates how this phenomenon impacts art practice and politics. Contributors bring together the worlds of art and media culture to rethink their...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101871591Author Richard McGuireFormat HardbackPage Count 584Imprint PantheonPublisher Random House USA IncSeries Pantheon Graphic LibraryWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008987050Author Ruth FinneganFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 5mm

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979139369Author H B KoplowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Dome PublicationsPublisher Dome PublicationsWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978592417Author Jose ArguellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Foundation for the Law of TimePublisher Foundation for the Law of TimeWeight(grams)...

There's "western", and then there's "Western" - and where history becomes myth is an evocative question, one of several questions posed by Josh Garrett-Davis in What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination. Part cultural criticism, part history, and...

A probing and holistic meditation on the key question: Why do we continue to make art, and thus beauty, out of war? Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the...

This book, Evolving Synergies: Celebrating Dance in Singapore, is a noteworthy contribution to the discourse of the Singapore dance scene. It discusses the evolution of Singapore's dance landscape, and its place in the city-state's social, cultural and...

From The Wild Angels in 1966 until its conclusion in 1972, the cycle of outlaw motorcycle films contained forty-odd formulaic examples. All but one were made by independent companies that specialized in producing exploitation movies for drive-ins,...

A region explained through its tourist attractions and souvenirs. This collection of ten essays focuses on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders. The cultural ironies and contradictions that have arisen from southerners' efforts to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578733821Author Drake MastersFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Drake MastersPublisher Drake MastersWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 6mm

Engaging Art explores what it means to participate in the arts in contemporary society - from museum attendance to music downloading. Drawing on the perspectives of experts from diverse fields (including Princeton scholars Robert Wuthnow and Paul...

After numerous infidelities and a messy break-up, a burnt-out attorney joins the Peace Corps to reform and redeem himself. He finds peace in the serene plains and mountains of Tanzania, teaching villagers to fish--until he becomes attached to one of his...

Art criticism is spurned by universities, but widely produced and read. It is seldom theorized and its history has hardly been investigated. The State of Art Criticism presents an international conversation among art historians and critics that considers...

The Total Work of Art provides a broad survey that incorporates many canonical artists into a single narrative. With particular attention to the influence of the Total Work of Art on modern theatre and performance, this brief introduction will also be of...

Stephen Bann examines the arguments for the centrality of French modernist painting. He begins by focusing particularly on the notion of the modernist break, as it has been interpreted with regard to painters like Manet and Ingres. He argues that...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399579806Author Jon BonneFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 185mm * 133mm *...

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects on the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as 'ghost signs'). Contributors to this volume examine the complex relationships...

W.J.T. Mitchell - one of the founders of visual studies - has been at the forefront of many disciplines such as iconology, art history and media studies. His concept of the pictorial turn is known worldwide for having set new philosophical paradigms in...

This second book in the Routledge Docalogue series continues to model a new form for the discussion of documentary film, focusing on a new film and a different set of critical questions.Kedi (2016) is the first feature documentary by Turkish-American...

Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century.Lawrence Alloway ranks among...

Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book...

This book explores graphic narratives and comics in India and demonstrates how these forms serve as sites on which myths are enacted and recast. It uses the case studies of a comics version of the Mahabharata War, a folk artist's rendition of a comic...

This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring...

A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day's Night...

A massive underground sensation, The Big Lebowski has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. In this book, 21 fans and scholars address the film's influences-westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus-and its historical...

In A Feeling of Wrongness, Joseph Packer and Ethan Stoneman confront the rhetorical challenge inherent in the concept of pessimism by analyzing how it is represented in an eclectic range of texts on the fringes of popular culture, from adult animated...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039734Author Jay David BolterFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Muslims in the Western Imagination explores the ways in which Muslim men are depicted as monsters throughout history. Monsters help a society delineate who belongs in a social group and who, or what, is excluded. Even when Muslim monsters are symbolic,...

Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In "Occupy", W. J. T. Mitchel, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156031110Author Andy WarholFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 422gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 134mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388414111Author Nityananda MisraFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Bloomsbury IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

When Samuel Becketts work first appeared, it was routinely described, by Adorno amongst others, as a clear example of European high culture. However, this judgement ignored an aspect of Becketts work and its reception that is, arguably, not yet fully...

We Were There explores the symbiotic relationship between rock concert fans, the bands, and the photographer at music festivals. Sandy Carson's photographs candidly capture the true human experience of interacting with music. Sandy Carson is a...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942268444Author Alisa CalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Dylanna Publishing, Inc.Publisher Dylanna Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

Vivid images of the apocalypse proliferate throughout contemporary cinema, which pictures the death of civilization in wildly different ways. Some films imagine a future where humanity is wiped out entirely, while others envision humans as an endangered...

One of the secrets to Bruce Springsteen's enduring popularity over the past fifty years is the way fans feel a deep personal connection to his work. Yet even as the connection often stays grounded in details from his New Jersey upbringing, Springsteen's...

What does it take to become a journalist? How do journalists work, and is it possible to start your very own media outlet from scratch? A Journalism Handbook for Media Entrepreneurs provides a comprehensive guide to aspiring journalists looking to enter...

The Central Line Series documents and celebrates a selection of artworks commissioned and presented at a range of sites along the Central Line of the London Underground, intended to enhance the experience of traveling on the Tube.Projects include:...