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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 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... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Storey Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [130]-139) and index.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Reinhold 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.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Armbrust Publisher Comments Study of popular culture and the representation of modern life in Egypt.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $32.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (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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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.... (read more) List Price $71.75 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence W. Levine Publisher Comments "The future is certain," according to an old Soviet joke, "it is only the past that is unpredictable." But it is not solely in totalitarian societies that the past is contested terrain. Disagreements about the meaning and significance of past events and... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carole Kismaric Publisher Comments They're back! Growing Up with Dick and Jane reunites us with two old friends, Dick and Jane, who, for forty years, taught so many of us to read. Here's the all American brother and sister team. Look! It's Dick, in his striped polo shirts and shorts... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Victoria L. Pitts Publisher Comments ". . . a fascinating and sensitive look at body modification subcultures and the political debates surrounding them."-Patricia Clough, author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology "The book refreshingly moves the arresting... (read more) List Price $24.50 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John 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... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $54.95 Your price $41.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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