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Secular Scripture (76 Edition)
by Northrop Frye  Publisher Comments Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his Anatomy of Criticism, a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the...
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Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism
by James B. Twitchell Publisher Comments Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles -- not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who...
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Refried Elvis : the Rise of the Mexican Counterculture (99 Edition)
by Eric Zolov Synopsis From the arrival of Elvis in Mexico during the 1950s to the emergence of a full-blown counterculture movement by the late 1960s and into the 70s, Zolov uses rock to illuminate Mexican history. Zolov shows rock music as a commodity, with influences shaped...
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Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture
by Timothy J Craig Synopsis A fascinating illustrated look at various forms of Japanese popular culture: pop song, jazz, enka (a popular ballad genre of music), karaoke, comics, animated cartoons, video games, television dramas, films and "idols" -- teenage singers and actors. As...
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Nightmare on Main Street : Angels, Sadomasochism, and the Culture of Gothic (97 Edition)
by Mark Edmundson Publisher Comments Once we've terrified ourselves reading Anne Rice or Stephen King, watching Halloweenor following the O. J. Simpson trial, we can rely on the comfort of our inner child or Robert Bly's bongos, an angel, or even a crystal. In a brilliant assessment of...
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Wanted Dead Or Alive (96 Edition)
by Richard Aquila Synopsis Wanted Dead or Alive presents the first ever comprehensive look at how the American West has been depicted in popular culture. Following Richard Aquila's introduction, which examines the birth and growth of the pop culture West in the context of American...
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Introduction To Theories of Popular Culture (2ND 04 Edition)
by Dominic Strinati Publisher Comments Reissue....
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America....
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The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States
by Jim Cullen Publisher Comments "Cullen's strength comes from his understanding of how the different strands of American society intertwine in imaginative, unpredictable ways ... The shape and vitality of pop culture's next era will depend, at least in part, on commentators like Cullen....
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Transforming Modernity : Popular Culture in Mexico (93 Edition)
by Nestor G. Canclini Publisher Comments Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Nestor Garcia Canclini addresses these...
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Claims To Fame : Celebrity in Contemporary America (94 Edition)
by Joshua Gamson Publisher Comments Moving from People magazine to publicists' offices to tours of stars' homes, Joshua Gamson investigates the larger-than-life terrain of American celebrity culture. In the first major academic work since the early 1940s to seriously analyze the meaning of...
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The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A., Mexico City, and Beyond (Vintage Departures)
by Ruben Martinez Publisher Comments Here is a convincing, often exhilarating vision of a new Latino culture that bubbles from San Salvador to L.A. and that embraces cumbia and hip-hop, anarchists and Catholic priests. The Other Side describes a future that--for some of us--has already...
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Culture, Inc. : the Corporate Takeover of Public Expression (89 Edition)
by Herbert I. Schiller Publisher Comments 'Most Americans take for granted that they live in an open society with a free market of ideas. But as Herbert Schiller reveals in Culture, Inc., the corporate arm has reached into every corner of daily life, and from the shopping mall to the art gallery,...
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Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
by Robert L Park Publisher Comments In a time of dazzling scientific progress, how can we separate genuine breakthroughs from the noisy gaggle of false claims? From Deepak Chopra's "quantum alternative to growing old" to unwarranted hype surrounding the International Space Station, Robert...
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Mirror on America
by Joan T. Mims
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Remix Reading & Composing Culture
by Catherine Latterell
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Cultural Theory and Popular Culture : Reader (3RD 06 Edition)
by John Storey
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Humor Prism in 20TH-century America (97 Edition)
by Joseph Boskin
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Xuxa the Mega Marketing of Gender Race &
by Amelia Simpson Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-231) and index....
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Popular Culture (99 Edition)
by Carla Freccero Publisher Comments From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An...
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