Popular Culture

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949646016Author Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Believer MagazinePublisher Believer MagazineWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

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...

What began as a small bonfire on a beach in San Francisco in 1986 has evolved into a cultural phenomenon of epic dimensions - the Burning Man event in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. At the end of August every year, around 70,000 people come together at...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614040071Author Brandi MilneFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Baby Tattoo BooksPublisher Baby Tattoo BooksWeight(grams) 864g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938073014Author Miranda JulyFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint McSweeney's PublishingPublisher McSweeney's PublishingWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm)...

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. ...

This book examines how freedom of speech is reflected in pop culture by looking at numerous examples of films, websites, television shows, and songs that have touched on-and impacted-this issue. It is easy to overlook the importance of freedom of...

Providing a detailed historical overview of animated film and television in the United States over more than a century, this book examines animation within the U.S. film and television industry as well as in the broader sociocultural context. From the...

Ben Jones, one third of the artist collective Paper Rad and progeny of Providence's Fort Thunder warehouse-based art scene, makes work that harks back to the Saturday morning cartoons and video games of the 1980s. Exploring the theme of masculinity,...

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better...

Reading the Art in Caldecott Award Books is a practical and easy-to-use reference handbook explaining what makes the art in Caldecott Medal and Honor books distinguished. It is a useful manual for librarians, teachers, and others who want to better...

Harold Schecter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art - the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean floor. He finds close connections between religious myth...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960270Author Robert WilliamsFormat HardbackPage Count 450Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780867197679Author Glenn BarrFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Last Gasp,U.S.Publisher Last Gasp,U.S.Weight(grams) 278g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622425Author Claudio AboyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865622371Author FanfareFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint S Q Publications,USPublisher S Q Publications,USWeight(grams) 214g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Benjamin Franklin Award (Coffee Table Books) 2020.Book InformationISBN 9781683835301Author Michele ClaptonFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Insight...

Why has the academy struggled to link advocacy for animals to advocacy for various human groups? Within cultural studies, in which advocacy can take the form of a theoretical intervention, scholars have resisted arguments that add "species" to race,...

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...

As recent history continues to show, France and the United states enjoy a love-hate relationship. Expressions of admiration and dismissal of one culture by the other are usually based on superficial judgments derived from well-worn clichZs that do little...

Towering billboards featuring photorealistic portraits of popular cinema stars and political leaders dominated the cityscape of Chennai, in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, throughout the second half of the twentieth century. Studying the...

The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost irrepressible growth in popularity and since the 2000s...

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...

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)...

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...

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

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,...

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...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999323175Author Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute The Beverly RogersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint The BelieverPublisher The Believer

In American Pietas, Ruby C. Tapia reveals how visual representations of racialized motherhood shape and reflect national citizenship. By means of a sustained engagement with Roland Barthes's suturing of race, death, and the maternal in Camera Lucida,...

Music videos today sample and rework a century's worth of movies and other pop culture artifacts to offer a plethora of visions and sounds that we have never encountered before. As these videos have proliferated online, they have become more widely...

From the New Yorker's inimitable first pop music critic comes this pioneering collection of essays by a conscientious writer whose political realm is both radical and rational, and whose prime preoccupations are with rock 'n' roll, sexuality, and above...

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...

With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: "a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of social, economic, and cultural life." Moving between...