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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... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $1.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price $37.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $37.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margo Demello Publisher Comments Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In Bodies of Inscription Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shirley Steinberg Publisher Comments America is a corporatized society defined by our culture of consumerism. One of the groups most targeted by corporations is children and youth. TV, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and fast food are all directed specifically at consumers under 18.... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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.... (read more) List Price $39.25 Your price $25.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Denise J. Youngblood Publisher Comments A pathbreaking study of Soviet cinema in the 1920s.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price $31.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Curtis A. Keim Publisher Comments For most Americans, the mention of Africa immediately conjures up images of safaris, wild animals, strangely dressed "tribesmen," and impenetrable jungles. Few think to question these perceptions or ask how they came to be so deeply lodged in the... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $25.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $45.95 Your price $34.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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