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Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste
Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste
by Herbert J. Gans
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Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Ganss brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the... (read more)

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Visual Culture: The Reader
Visual Culture: The Reader
by Jessica Evans
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`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three central aspects of the study of visual culture: the sign... (read more)

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Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (94 Edition)
Six Myths of Our Time : Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More (94 Edition)
by Marina Warner
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Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our... (read more)

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World Is a Text : Thinking, Reading and Writing About Visual and Popular Culture (3RD 09 - Old Edition)
World Is a Text : Thinking, Reading and Writing About Visual and Popular Culture (3RD 09 - Old Edition)
by Jonathan Silverman
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A cultural studies reader that directly engages the process of reading and writing about the "texts" one sees in public life.... (read more)

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Understanding Disney
Understanding Disney
by Janet Wasko
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Since the 1930s the Walt Disney Company has produced characters, images, and stories which have captivated audiences around the world. How can we understand the appeal of Disney products? What is it about the Disney phenomenon that attracts so many... (read more)

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Pyrotechnic Insanitarium : American Culture on the Brink (99 Edition)
Pyrotechnic Insanitarium : American Culture on the Brink (99 Edition)
by Mark Dery
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From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have... (read more)

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Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters (08 Edition)
Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop--and Why It Matters (08 Edition)
by Tricia Rose
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Hip-hop is in crisis. For the past dozen years, the most commercially successful hip-hop has become increasingly saturated with caricatures of black gangstas, thugs, pimps, and hos. The controversy surrounding hip-hop is worth attending to and examining... (read more)

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Blockbusters and Trade Wars : Popular Culture in a Globalized World (05 Edition)
Blockbusters and Trade Wars : Popular Culture in a Globalized World (05 Edition)
by Peter S. Grant
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At the same time that globalization geometrically expands the distribution of books, television programs, and other cultural products, the sources of expression are concentrating in fewer and fewer hands and it becomes harder and harder for small... (read more)

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Popular Culture in American History (01 Edition)
Popular Culture in American History (01 Edition)
by Jim (ed.) Cullen
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Popular Culture in American History collects the most widely cited and important writings on three hundred years of American popular culture. Each of the ten essays serves as a case study of a particular moment, issue, or form of popular culture, from... (read more)

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Cool Places : Geographies of Youth Cultures (98 Edition)
Cool Places : Geographies of Youth Cultures (98 Edition)
by Tracey Skelton
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Music, drugs, clubbing and travel--this is the popular image of what it means to be young. However, young people's lives are also busy with the everyday realities of home, school and work. The engaging essays in "Cool Places" explore the dichotomy of... (read more)

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You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture (09 Edition)
You've Come a Long Way, Baby: Women, Politics, and Popular Culture (09 Edition)
by Lilly Goren
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The landmark 2008 presidential and vice presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin brought the role of women in American leadership into sharper focus than ever before. These women and others such as Nancy Pelosi and Katie Couric who are... (read more)

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Popular Culture : Production and Consumption (01 Edition)
Popular Culture : Production and Consumption (01 Edition)
by Lee (ed.) Harrington
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This is a rich collection of contemporary perspectives on how culture is produced and commodified using current examples from music, television, magazines, sports, and advertising. Incorporating a variety of theoretical frameworks, the book addresses, in... (read more)

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End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America
End of the World as We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America
by Daniel Wojcik
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Collected for the first time, the essays that comprise Embedded With Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from a longtime organizer and "participatory labor journalist." Steve Early tackles the most pressing... (read more)

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Introduction To Studying Popular Culture (00 Edition)
Introduction To Studying Popular Culture (00 Edition)
by Dominic Strinati
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How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?<P>An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It... (read more)

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Mirror on America
Mirror on America
by Joan T. Mims
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Students come to college already equipped with plenty of knowledge about popular culture and are more than ready to talk about the topics that interest them. Mirror on America: Short Essays and Images from Popular Culture draws on that knowledge and... (read more)

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Trigger Happy : Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (00 Edition)
Trigger Happy : Videogames and the Entertainment Revolution (00 Edition)
by Steven Poole
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The Edge calls "Trigger Happy" a "seminal piece of work". For the first time ever, an aficionado with a knowledge of art, culture, and a real love of gaming takes a critical look at the future of our videogames, and compares their aesthetic and economic... (read more)

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Stephen King's Danse Macabre
Stephen King's Danse Macabre
by Stephen King
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Stephen King explores the phenomenon of horror in a century of film, television, radio, and literature. Who better than King to investigate what terrifies his fans?... (read more)

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Kinderculture (3RD 11 Edition)
Kinderculture (3RD 11 Edition)
by Shirley R. Steinberg
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This book reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that corporate marketing to youth has reshaped the experience of childhood into something that is prefabricated. Top scholars in education... (read more)

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Popular Culture : an Introductory Text (92 Edition)
Popular Culture : an Introductory Text (92 Edition)
by Jack Nachbar
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Popular Culture: An Introductory Text provides the means for a new examination of the different faces of the American character in both its historical and contemporary identities. The text is highlighted by a series of extensive introductions to various... (read more)

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Prosthetic Memory : Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (04 Edition)
Prosthetic Memory : Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (04 Edition)
by Alison Landsberg
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Instead of compartmentalizing American experience, the technologies of mass culture make it possible for anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, or gender to share collective memories -- to assimilate as personal experience historical events through which... (read more)

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