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Popular Culture and High Culture: An Analysis and Evaluation of Taste
by Herbert J. Gans  Publisher Comments 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 Gans’s brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the...
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Visual Culture : the Reader (99 Edition)
by Jessica Evans Publisher Comments Visual Culture provides an invaluable resource of over 30 key statements from a wide range of disciplines, including four editorial essays which place the readings in their historical and theoretical context. Although underpinned by a focus on...
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Generation Ecstasy : Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture (98 Edition)
by Simon Reynolds 
Powells.com Staff Pick For those of you who think that the related electronic music scenes of house, techno, disco, rave, etc. are a "white" thing, this book will set you straight. Disco and house music emerged from the underground Black and Latin gay dance...
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Discovering Popular Culture (07 Edition)
by Anna Tomasino Synopsis This brief, provocative reader explores American popular culture from The Sopranos to the Simpsons, from MP3 players to comic books, from Andy Warhol to hip hop. Anyone who wants to understand what Americans are seeing, thinking, and doing in the 21st...
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Magic Kingdom : Walt Disney and the American Way of Life (97 Edition)
by Steven Watts Synopsis Part biography and part cultural analysis, this work sheds some light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt". It also digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and proving insights into his peculiar...
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink
by Mark Dery
Publisher Comments 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...
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Popular Culture in American History (01 Edition)
by Jim (ed.) Cullen Synopsis "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...
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Understanding Popular Culture (89 Edition)
by John Fiske Synopsis What is popular culture? How does it differ from mass culture? And what does popular "text" reveal about class, race, and gender dynamics in a society? In this bestselling work, Prof. Fiske takes a new approach to studying cultural artifacts....
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Popular Culture : Production and Consumption (01 Edition)
by Lee (ed.) Harrington Synopsis 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...
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Cultural Studies and Study of Popular Culture (2ND 03 Edition)
by John Storey Synopsis An accessible survey of the latest thought on popular culture--now revised, rewritten, and expanded throughout. Using case studies to illustrate the range of theories and methods that can be used to study contemporary popular culture, this book covers...
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Inventing the Public Enemy : the Gangster in American Culture (96 Edition)
by David E. Ruth Publisher Comments In this richly detailed account of mass media images, David Ruth looks at Al Capone and other "invented" gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. The subject of innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, scores of novels, and hundreds of Hollywood movies, the...
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Movies for the Masses : Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920S (92 Edition)
by Denise J. Youngblood Publisher Comments A pathbreaking study of Soviet cinema in the 1920s....
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News Culture
by Stuart Allan Publisher Comments A fascinating study of the modern media--and how it shapes our world News Culture is an introduction to the forms, practices, institutions, and audiences of journalism. It begins with a historical consideration of the rise of "objective" reporting in...
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Popular Culture : an Introductory Text (92 Edition)
by Jack Nachbar Synopsis "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...
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Media Virus!
by Douglas Rushkoff Publisher Comments The most virulent viruses today are composed of information. In this information-driven age, the easiest way to manipulate the culture is through the media. A hip and caustically humorous McLuhan for the '90s, culture watcher Douglas Rushkoff now offers...
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Recasting America : Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War (89 Edition)
by Lary (ed.) May Publisher Comments "The freshness of the authors' approaches . . . is salutary. . . . The collection is stimulating and valuable."—Joan Shelley Rubin, Journal of American...
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Rebellious Laughter : People's Humor in American Culture (97 Edition)
by Joseph Boskin Synopsis Joseph Boskin changes the way we think about the ordinary joke and its connection to historical forces. Claiming that humor in America is a primary cultural weapon, Boskin surveys and analyzes the multitude of joke cycles that have swept the country...
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Permitted and Prohibited Desires (00 Edition)
by Anne Allison Synopsis This study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes - or obentos - that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and...
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Living in a Technological Culture (95 Edition)
by Mary Tiles Synopsis Holding the promise of both emancipation and oppression, technology at once terrifies and disturbs the social order. Its dazzles, seduces, yet it also unsettles and raises the specter of the loss of human values and our replacement by machines and...
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Disney Discourse : Producing the Magic Kingdom (94 Edition)
by Eric (ed.) Smoodin Publisher Comments Hirohito and his Mickey Mouse watch, Goofy and Donald as our Goodwill Ambassadors: Disney Discourse is an interdisciplinary examination of the founder and his empire. These essays use an interdisciplinary approach to read through Disney's domestic...
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