Popular Culture

The epic made simple. The miracle in the mundane. One day, while browsing an antique store in Helena, Montana, photographer Tyler Knott Gregson stumbled upon a vintage Remington typewriter for sale. Standing up and using a page from a broken book he was...

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 9780865620391Author San julianFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 265g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622395Author FanfareFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 218g

Examines how the making, marketing and performance of new Islamic music genres relate to Islamic discourse and thought, through a case study of Awakening, an Islamic media company formed in London.About the AuthorJonas Otterbeck, Professor of Islamic...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783749783267Author Forever InkedFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint InfinityouPublisher InfinityouWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783347001930Author Forever InkedFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint InfinityouPublisher InfinityouWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037640586Author Delia BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981528042Author Chet MintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886630756Author Insight EditionsFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint InsightsPublisher InsightsWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 224mm * 152mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789077207185Author Luc TuymansFormat PaperbackImprint StockmansPublisher Stockmans

Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics from the 1960s to the present day. Kirby is credited...

Mickey Mouse: Emblem of the American Spirit tells the compelling story of how Walt Disney's beloved graphic alter ego, the most enduring pop icon ever created, was born, how it soon took on a life of its own, and became an instantly recognisable figure...

While on tour as a photographer for numerous punk, hardcore, and indie bands (including Jeff Rosenstock, Minus the Bear, Cursive, Alkaline Trio, Har Mar Superstar, Lawrence Arms, Selby Tigers, Mike Park and more) , Japanese photographer Hiro Tanaka spent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997653625Author Shepard FaireyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint AMMO Books LLCPublisher AMMO Books LLC

Popular culture in the 1990s often primarily reflected millennial catastrophic anxieties. The world was tightening, speeding up, and becoming more dangerous and dangerously connected. Surely it was only a matter of time before it all came crashing down. ...

Egyptian cities and villages abound with an enormous wealth of khatt, or calligraphic script, ranging from casual scrawls and scribbles to elaborately-painted colourful murals. These historical and contemporary versions of urban lettering, varying in...

Artistic residency has become widely adopted in Western countries while only recently having become popular and well-supported within Taiwan. This book explores the challenges that this form of art practice faced in contemporary Taiwan from the...

Africa In Stereo examines the role that African American music has played in the pan-Africanist imagination since the end of the nineteenth century. Throughout, Jaji marshals a wide array of critical, archival, literary, visual, and sonic sources to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062795557Author James CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm) 239mm *...

A noted comics artist himself, Santiago Garcia follows the history of the graphic novel from early nineteenth-century European sequential art, through the development of newspaper strips in the United States, to the development of the twentieth-century...

Horror films strive to make audiences scream, but they also garner plenty of laughs. In fact, there is a long tradition of horror directors who are fluent in humor, from James Whale to John Landis to Jordan Peele. So how might horror and humor overlap...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300267808Author Rafael SchacterFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University PressWeight(grams) 1724gDimensions(mm)...

This collection aims to map a diversity of approaches to the artform by creating a 360 Degrees view on the circus. The three sections of the book, Aesthetics, Practice, Culture, approach aesthetic developments, issues of artistic practice, and the...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142180297Author Will GompertzFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 652gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 137mm * 29mm

First published in 1988. This book shows how censorship as a set of institutions, practices and discourses was involved in the struggle over the nature of cinema in the early twentieth century. It also reveals the part played in this struggle by other...

This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great Depression.Cory Pillen focuses on several issues addressed repeatedly in the roughly...

For a concise edition of his legendary arts dictionary of information and opinion, the distinguished critic and arts historian Richard Kostelanetz selects entries from the 2018 third edition. Typically he provides intelligence unavailable anywhere else,...

This book examines a range of visual expressions of Black Power across American art and popular culture from 1965 through 1972. It begins with case studies of artist groups, including Spiral, OBAC and AfriCOBRA, who began questioning Western aesthetic...

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...

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,...

For over seventy-five years, Archie and the gang at Riverdale High have been America's most iconic teenagers, delighting generations of readers with their never-ending exploits. But despite their ubiquity, Archie comics have been relatively ignored by...

This book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music...

As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all...

Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo-shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological...

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...

This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with...

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...

This, the fourth book in the series 'Celebrating Dance in Asia and the Pacific', explores the current dance scene in Australia from a wide perspective that mirrors the creative engagement of artists with Australian culture and the landscape. It looks at...

Women have been making art for centuries, yet their work has been seen as secondary or has gone unrecognized altogether. Women Making Art asks why this is so, and what it would take for us to realize the extent of women's extraordinary contribution to...