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Every Day, Everywhere
by Stuart Hirschberg  Publisher Comments With a thematic focus on global popular culture, this unique multi-genre reader offers students the opportunity to read, talk, and write about familiar topics of modern life....
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Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture (98 Edition)
by Dolores (ed.) Martinez Publisher Comments This is a lively discussion of Japanese popular culture from an anthropological perpective. An international team of authors considers a broad range of topics, including sumo, karaoke, manga, women's magazines, soccer and morning television. Through...
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Rethinking Popular Culture: Contemporary Perspectives in Cul
by Chandra Mukerji Publisher Comments Rethinking Popular Culture selects some of the best and most important recent work analyzing popular culture. Drawing upon recent developments in cultural theory and the exciting new techniques of critical analysis, the essays in this volume break down...
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Nobrow : the Culture of Marketing + the Marketing of Culture (00 Edition)
by John Seabrook Synopsis From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-...
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Consuming Russia : Popular Culture, Sex, and Society Since Gorbachev (99 Edition)
by Adele Marie Barker Synopsis With the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late 1980s, the Russian social landscape has undergone its most dramatic changes since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, turning the once bland and monolithic state-run marketplace into a virtual maze of...
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Inventing Popular Culture (03 Edition)
by John Storey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-139) and index....
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks Publisher Comments The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. Take a look at...
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Everyday Culture : Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World (08 Edition)
by David Trend Publisher Comments Everyday People examines the confluence of cultural and material possibility--the bringing together of thought and action in daily life. David Trend argues that an informed and invigorated citizenry can help reverse patterns of dehumanization and social...
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China Pop : How Soap Operas, Tabloids and Bestsellers Are Transforming a Culture (95 Edition)
by Jianying Zha Synopsis From her contact with a group of young novelists, film-makers and artists in China, Zha examines a range of developments largely unknown to Western readers. The result is an insight into the commercialization of China's cultural world and the anxiety...
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Here, There and Everywhere
by Reinhol Wagnleitner Synopsis Essays analyzing the stunning global success of American popular culture from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows to the Internet as the new American frontier....
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Reading the Popular (89 Edition)
by John Fiske Synopsis Designed as a companion to Understanding the Popular, Reading the Popular is a "series of readings" about today's cultural phenomena. The book highlights the conflicting responses popular culture can evoke....
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Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (03 Edition)
by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly...
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Manufacturing Tales : Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends (92 Edition)
by Gary A. Fine Synopsis The mouse in the Coke bottle, the promiscuous cheerleader, the exploding Pop Rocks candy, the Kentucky Fried Rat. If the ballad and the fairy tale were the archetypal folklore forms of an earlier age, such contemporary legends constitute the preferred...
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Mexican Postcards (Critical Studies in Latin American & Iberian Culture)
by Carlos Monsivais Synopsis In this first translation in book form of his work, Latin American social commentator Carlos Monsivais presents an extraordinary chronicle of contemporary life south of the Rio Grande, ranging over subjects as various as Latino hip hop, Dolores del Rio...
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Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life (97 Edition)
by Arthur A. Berger Synopsis Arthur Asa Berger??'s newest work, Narratives in Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life elucidates narrative theory and applies it to the reader??'s everyday experience with popular forms of mass media. Many professionals in the social sciences today...
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Life in America (04 Edition)
by Lee D. Baker Publisher Comments Life in America: Identity and Everyday Experience is a fascinating collection of readings that explores how people negotiate identity in the United States today. Brings together readings that provide a thoroughly engaging and fascinating look at central...
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No Respect : Intellectuals and Popular Culture (89 Edition)
by Andrew Ross Synopsis < P> The intellectual and the popular: Irving Howe and John Waters, Susan Sontag and Ethel Rosenberg, Dwight MacDonald and Bill Cosby, Amiri Baraka and Mick Jagger, Andrea Dworkin and Grace Jones, Andy Warhol and Lenny Bruce. All feature in Andrew...
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Advertising and Popular Culture (96 Edition)
by Jib Fowles Synopsis Is it possible that consumers exploit advertising even more so than advertising exploits and influences our culture? Author Jib Fowles argues that consumers look to advertising to provide them with images that can assist them in negotiating the personal...
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Dreamland Japan : Writings on Modern Manga (96 Edition)
by Frederik L. Schodt Publisher Comments Drawn in styles ranging from the crudely vulgar to the highly refined, and covering every genre from naive romance to high-tech cybervisions, manga (Japanese comics) are a sophisticated narrative art. In Japan, where manga were born, the art is today...
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Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
by Marina Warner Publisher Comments 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...
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