Popular Culture

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...

This book is a bold and expressively designed treasure trove of information about the history of swearing. With its bold and expressive design, The F***ing History of Swearing is an outstanding visual feast. Swearing is and always has been regarded as...

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

Soldier Heroes explores the imagining of masculinities within adventure stories. Drawing on literary theory, cultural materialism and Kleinian psychoanalysis, it analyses modern British adventure heroes as historical forms of masculinity originating in...

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)...

For fifty years, graffiti and street art have been challenging conventions and stimulating debate around our perceptions of what constitutes art. As the genre enters its sixth decade, this ground-breaking book presents a new interpretation of where...

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...

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...

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 9781945710179Author MantracraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint New Castle P&pPublisher New Castle P&pWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 280mm * 216mm * 7mm

Fifteen years of Joe Brainard's illustrated appropriation of classic comic strip character, Nancy From 1963 to 1978, Joe Brainard created more than 100 artworks that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into a variety of...

You may know Bill Campbell's name, but chances are, you know his handiwork better, especially the Weird-Ohs models that burst on the pop culture scene in the 1960s. Enjoy looking back over the career of this colorful artist in over 700 brilliant photos...

In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the...

How do images hold and convey meaning? How do we understand them? What are they trying to say? How do they persuade and influence us? The author writes a complete account analyzing the meaning and construction of images, throughout history to present...

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,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087966762Author Chris CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

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,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985480707Author Hank HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Binary PublicationsPublisher Binary PublicationsWeight(grams) 286gDimensions(mm) 279mm *...

The official art book for the animated movie Luck. The Art and Making of Luck showcases, in beautifully illustrated detail, the concept art behind the story of the unluckiest girl in the world: Sam Greenfield. When Sam stumbles into the...

Digital Performance in Everyday Life combines theories of performance, communication, and media to explore the many ways we perform in our everyday lives through digital media and in virtual spaces.Digital communication technologies and the social norms...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647291822Author Riichi YokomitsuFormat HardbackPage Count 64Imprint Vertical Inc.Publisher Vertical Inc.

This revised and updated edition of a hugely successful book brings together the most valuable and stimulating writings on subcultures, from the early work of the Chicago School on 'deviant' social groups to the present day reasearch and theories.This...

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 *...

For most of the twentieth century, the private eye dominated crime fiction and film, a lone figure fighting for justice, often in opposition to the official representatives of law and order. More recently, however, the police have begun to take centre...

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...

In 2017, twenty-five years after its initial release, a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television. This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series and aims to elucidate some of the meanings of Twin Peaks:...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984879585Author Emily FlakeFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

Mona Hatoum creates events, videos, sculptures and installations that relate to the body, to language and to the condition of exile. Her most famous work Corps Etranger, first shown at the Tate Gallery when she was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995,...

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers explore the full range of Japanese comic styles, forms and traditions from its earliest texts to the internationally popular comics of...

Feminism is one of the most important perspectives from which visual culture has been theorized and historicized over the past forty years. Challenging the notion of feminism as a unified discourse, this second edition of The Feminism and Visual Culture...

In this volume, emerging and established scholars bring ethical and political concerns for the environment, nonhuman animals and social justice to the study of nineteenth-century visual culture. They draw their theoretical inspiration from the vitality...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506713533Author Square EnixFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9781981172603Author Matthew McCaffreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

"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."...

In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a...

The actual historical moments of birth of the various arts are not known. At most, significant changes of direction are distinguishable - and these are usually detected retrospectively. However, the founding of eurythmy, a new art of movement, has been...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781791943233Author Laura's Dot to Dot TherapyFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedSeries Dot to Dot...