Cultural theory and popular culture: a reader
Exploring the interface between the cultural poliics of the Black Power and Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, Amy Ongiri shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative mo…
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This book looks at how the original Star Trek became a cultural phenomenon, generating numerous spin-offs and feature films and inspiring multiple series, films, books, etc. In addition to the shows creation and its place in science fiction, the author looks at the series throug…
This book looks at how the original Star Trek became a cultural phenomenon, generating numerous spin-offs and feature films and inspiring multiple series, films, books, etc. In addition to the show's creation and its place in science fiction, the author looks at the series throu…
What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace corsets, leather vests, brass gears and gadgets, mechanical clocks, the look appears across popular culture, in movies, art, fashion, and literatu…
"Examines the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history, literature, and film"--.
Global Asian American popular cultures
"Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints...such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and Sriracha hot sauce...have opened up new ways of understanding ho…
Global Asian American popular cultures
by Oren, Tasha G., Nishime, LeiLani, Dave, Shilpa
"Asian Americans have long been the subject and object of popular culture in the U.S. The rapid circulation of cultural flashpoints--such as the American obsession with K-pop sensations, Bollywood dance moves, and Asian fusion cuisine--have opened up new ways of understanding ho…
"Quest narratives are as old as Western culture. In stories like 'The Odyssey', 'The Lord of the Rings', 'Star Wars' and 'Harry Potter', men set out on journeys, fight battles and become heroes. Women traditionally feature in such stories as damsels in need of rescue or as the p…
"Explores the memories generated and histories constructed by the transnational circulation of popular media texts amongst East Asia and between East and Southeast Asia. It looks at the impact of nostalgia and heritage within popular culture over the decades"--
"Explores the memories generated and histories constructed by the transnational circulation of popular media texts amongst East Asia and between East and Southeast Asia. It looks at the impact of nostalgia and heritage within popular culture over the decades"--
Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalised the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host of social and religious movements based upon claims of the fantastical. And yet, in spite of this widespread enthusiasm, the academi…
If Rhythm Science was about the flow of things, Sound Unbound is about the remix--how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create. In Sound Unbound, Rhythm Science author Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal…
