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by William D. Romanowski  Publisher Comments Grounded in Christian principles, this accessible and engaging book offers an informed, fascinating approach to popular culture. Romanowski provides affectionate yet astute analyses of familiar, well-loved movies, television characters, musicians, and... (read more)  List Price $19.99 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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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?<P>In this new edition of Herbert Gans's brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $45.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald J. Devine Publisher Comments American values and institutions are under stress, from terrorist attacks by opposing worldviews abroad to widespread domestic skepticism that American traditions are more valuable than others. In this book, Donald Devine asks whether these values can... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.50 (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 $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bakari Kitwana Publisher Comments Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Fiske Publisher Comments 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 $33.95 Your price $26.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M. M. Manring Publisher Comments The figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to illustrate distinct social phenomena, including racial oppression and class identity. In the early twentieth century, the mammy became immortalized as... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mitchell K. Hall Publisher Comments American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era--from Leave it To Beaver to All in the Family and from Bobby Darin to Bob Dylan. In Crossroads, historian Mitchell K. Hall explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Morris Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-193) and index.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leroy Ashby Publisher Comments With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture?from minstrel shows to... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price $30.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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 $17.99 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Tomasino Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven Watts Publisher Comments Part biography and part cultural analysis, Steven Watts's The Magic Kingdom sheds new light on the cultural icon of "Uncle Walt". Watts also digs deeply into Disney's private life, investigating his roles as husband, father, and brother and providing... (read more) List Price $29.95 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 $27.50 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kenneth A. Myers Publisher Comments A magnificent and timely book. Fresh, witty, informative, trenchant, and eminently sane, Ken Myers's book is a must for thoughtful evangelicals....I only hope there are enough of them left to read it.--Os... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee (ed.) Harrington Publisher Comments 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 $38.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dominic Strinati Publisher Comments How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have?<P>An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It... (read more) List Price $43.25 Your price $26.00 (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 $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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