Popular Culture

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908175793Author Kuang ChuFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint CYPI PressPublisher CYPI PressWeight(grams) 921gDimensions(mm) 259mm * 211mm * 18mm

Nineteenth-century Paris is often celebrated as the capital of modernity. However, this story is about cultural producers who were among the first to popularize and profit from that idea. Graphic Culture investigates the graphic artists and publishers...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927979303Author Pamela McCollFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Grafton and Scratch PublishersPublisher Grafton and Scratch PublishersWeight(grams)...

A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories and ideas in cultural studies. The book examines the work of Raymond Williams, Lacan and Hoggart, among Others, And Explores Notions Of...

Bring favorite scenes from the Harry Potter films to life with the first official Wizarding World watercolor book.Harry Potter: Watercolor Magic includes over 30 easy-to-complete watercolor projects featuring fan-favorite characters, creatures, places,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781617754951Author Jay RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us...

Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space.About the AuthorIain ChambersBook InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622517Author Fastner & LarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,US

In Anime's Media Mix, Marc Steinberg convincingly shows that anime is far more than a style of Japanese animation. Beyond its immediate form of cartooning, anime is also a unique mode of cultural production and consumption that led to the phenomenon that...

While the questions of ethics have become increasingly important in recent years for many fields within the humanities, there has been no single volume that seeks to address the emergence of this concern with ethics across the disciplinary spectrum...

Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that...

Embracing studies of football fans across Europe, this book tackles questions of power, national and regional identities, and race and racism, highlighting the changing role of fans in the game. Combining new approaches to the study of fan culture with...

This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual...

The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and...

An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art...

'For a dead man, Elvis Presley is awfully noisy. His body may have failed him in 1977, but today his spirit, his image, and his myths do more than live on: they flourish, they thrive, they multiply.'Why is Elvis Presley so ubiquitous a presence in US...

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...

Over the past twenty-five years the relationship between art and advertising has become increasingly varied and complex, with artists appropriating the billboards and neon displays of the ad world, and advertising strategies borrowing both the tactics...

Wonder Woman was created in the early 1940s as a paragon of female empowerment and beauty and her near eighty-year history has included seismic socio-cultural changes. In this book, Joan Ormrod analyses key moments in the superheroine's career and views...

The relationship between the arts and marketing has been growing ever more complex, as the proliferation of new technologies and social media has opened up new forms of communication. This book covers the broad and involved relationship between the arts...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593541821Author Nick HornbyFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Computers are at the heart of war as we know it and this visionary overview of cyber war in the twenty-first century studies how electronics have changed the way we fight. Using informatics and chaos theory, this is a disarming, yet enthralling read...

Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorDona Schwartz is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Waucoma Twilight: Generations...

'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area...

"Cultural Studies"is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg,...

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.About the AuthorProfessor Lawrence Grossberg,...

Analyses a wide range of film and still photographs to explore culturally dominant images and how they work. Extensively illustrated, this challenging collection of essays is essential reading for all students of media and women's studies.About the...

Drunk with the Glitter examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. In particular, it explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and...

This book explores the fascinating and complex interactions between the ways that culture and education operate within and across societies. In some cases, education is imagined as an integrated part of general cultural phenomena; in others, educational...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933354927Author Jay RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Akashic Books,U.S.Publisher Akashic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 682g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788889431634Author Valerio DehoFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint DamianiPublisher DamianiWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934781142Author Art SpiegelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's Publishing

Twenty-first century fashion practice has become increasingly borderless and diverse in the digital era, calling into question the very boundaries that define fashion in the Western cultural context. Borderless Fashion Practice: Contemporary Fashion in...

**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...

The barest awareness of the ubiquity and influence of the media today provides proof enough that our fate is in the hands of the image. But when and how was this fate sealed? Image, Icon, Economy considers this question and recounts an essential thread...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839880Author Monique PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Insight EditionsPublisher Insight EditionsSeries Harry PotterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622258Author Matt DixonFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 220g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622234Author Barbara JensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 220g