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  • "Aid and Comfort"

    Jane Fonda in North Vietnam

    Jane Fonda's visit to Hanoi in July 1972 and her pro-North Vietnamese, anti-American conduct, especially her pose with an anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes and her propaganda broadcasts directed toward American troops, angered many Americans. In their eyes, she was guilty of treason, but she was never charged by the American legal system. Instead, she has made millions, been the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "B" Movies, Bad Movies, Good Movies

    In the days when cinema audiences insisted that movie programs include two features, plus shorts, plus a newsreel, plus trailers, plus a cartoon, the supporting feature was known in the film trade as a "B". On many occasions, the unheralded "B" movie turned out to be more entertaining than the "A" attraction. Many of Hollywood’s biggest stars, like John Wayne, Clark Gable, Alan Ladd and Carole ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "Daddy's Gone to War"

    The Second World War in the Lives of America's Children

    Looking out a second-story window of her family's quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the home front during the Second World War saw the enemy only in newsreels and the pages of Life Magazine, but ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • "Greed Is Good" and Other Fables

    Office Life in Popular Culture

    by Tony Osborne ...
    This book spans three centuries of popular entertainment and everyday culture, showcasing both mainstream and submerged channels and voices to examine how once reviled business values gained supremacy and poisoned the American spirit.The office in popular culture is often depicted as a topsy-turvy parallel universe where psychological disorders are legitimized as "managerial styles" and comically ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • "Ha ha," he said. "Ha ha."

    An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur

    Series series Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television
    Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Film and Television, this essay is about sitcoms. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • "I fart in your general direction!"

    Flatulence in Popular Culture

    This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture. A definitive taxonomy of farts details the characteristics of each variety, including barking spiders, cheek squeakers and green apple dirties. Philosophical positions on colonic expression are examined, from Confucius, Hume, Voltaire and the existentialists. Chapters cover a wide range of fart ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "I Will Not Be Erased": Our stories about growing up as people of colour

    by gal-dem ...
    “A radical, beautiful, world-changing collection of writing that we all need to read.” Scarlett Curtis, Feminists Don’t Wear Pinkgal-dem, the award-winning online and print magazine, is created by women and non-binary people of colour. In this life-affirming, moving and joyous collection of fourteen essays, gal-dem's talented writers use raw material from their teenage years – diaries, poems and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • "In Case Atom Bombs Fall"

    An Anthology of Governmental Explanations, Instructions and Warnings from the 1940s to the 1960s

    Edited by Michael Scheibach ...
    With the very real possibility of nuclear war looming on the horizon from 1945 to the early 1960s, both federal and local governments took on the responsibility of educating Americans on how to survive the expected blasts, residual fallout, and radiation poisoning. Duck and cover drills, bomb shelters, and evacuation plans became an integral part of every citizen's daily life. This book provides a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "La Rete è libera e democratica" Falso!

    by Ippolita ...
    Crediamo in una Rete libera, democratica, gratuita, trasparente, imparziale. Crediamo in una Rete rivoluzionaria, capace di rovesciare le gerarchie stabilite a favore di una partecipazione ampia, diffusa, popolare. Crediamo nella circolazione gratuita di contenuti, contro lo strapotere di cartelli mediatici e obsoleti detentori di copyright. Ci crediamo, ma niente di tutto questo è vero: Rete ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • "Our Bums"

    The Brooklyn Dodgers in History, Memory and Popular Culture

    by David Krell ...
    Baseball fans may know the story of the Brooklyn Dodgers, but they don't know the whole story. With a foreword by Branch Barrett Rickey (grandson of Branch Rickey), this book fills the void in Dodgers scholarship, exploring their impact on popular culture and revealing lesser-known details of the team's history.Personal stories are included from the fans who embraced Jackie Robinson, Pee Wee Reese ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "Singing a Different Tune"

    The Slavic Film Musical in a Transnational Context

    Series series Film and Media Studies
    A beneficiary of the pioneering incorporation of sound and synchronicity into cinema, the Hollywood musical became the most popular film genre in America’s thirties and forties. Its eastward migration resulted in a barrage of Polish screen musicals that relied on the country’s famous cabaret stars, while in the Soviet Union it inspired the audience-pleasing kolkhoz musicals of Ivan Pyr’ev and ... Read more

    $125.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • "The Best Response"

    An Essay from Eating the Dinosaur

    Series series Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society
    Originally collected in Eating the Dinosaur and now available both as a stand-alone essay and in the ebook collection Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society, this essay is about the best response to various situations. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • "Theatricals of Day"

    Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture

    by Sandra Runzo ...
    In her own private ways, Emily Dickinson participated in the popular entertainments of her time. On her piano, she performed popular musical numbers, many from the tradition of minstrelsy, and at theaters, she listened to famous musicians, including Jenny Lind and, likely, the Hutchinson Family Singers. In reading the Atlantic Monthly, the Springfield Republican, and Harper's, she kept up with the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • "Throw the book away"

    Reading versus Experience in Children's Fantasy

    Children's literature is an excellent way to educate children, on everything from social behavior and beliefs to attitudes toward education itself. A major aspect of children's literature is the importance of books and reading. Books represent adult authority.This book examines the role that books, reading and writing play in children's fantasy fiction, from books that act as artifacts of power ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • "We Didn't Start the Fire"

    Billy Joel and Popular Music Studies

    Series series For the Record: Lexington Studies in Rock and Popular Music
    Billy Joel has sold over 150 million records, produced thirty-three Top-40 hits, received six Grammy Awards, and been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Fans celebrate him, critics deride him, and scholars have all but ignored him. This first-of-its-kind collection of essays offers close analysis and careful insight into the ways his work has impacted popular music during the last fifty ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • #DearMillennials

    #DearMillennials, #1

    Series Book 1 - #DearMillennials
    #DearMillennials"A creative Generational Wisdom book project with a social mission of inviting millennials worldwide to join Texas inmate Timothy Strong in empowering millennials all over. In these pages Timothy introduces the #DearMillennials idea then gives his best wisdom in a few chapters and in invites millennials worldwide to submit their best life lessons, life hacks, dating advice and ... Read more

    Free

  • #DoNotDisturb

    How I Ghosted My Cell Phone to Take Back My Life

    by Jedediah Bila ...
    Have you ever looked at your email, then texts, then Facebook, then Twitter, then email, then Instagram, then Candy Crush, then texts, then Snapchat, then texts again, and now you’ve wasted the time you had set aside for more important things?Jedediah Bila has solved her own Obsessive Compulsive Tech Disorder, and she did it without throwing away her devices.It's time to switch on airplane mode ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • #MeToo and Beyond

    Perspectives on a Global Movement

    #NiUnaMenos#Aufschrei#LoSHABefore #MeToo became a massive global movement, these were the hashtags that represented activists from Ukraine to Peru who demanded accountability for the sexual violence and racism, xenophobia, and misogyny inflicted on women, transgender people, and girls. Led by activists such as Tarana Burke, who popularized the phrase "me too," these movements provided a call to ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • '80

    L'inizio della barbarie

    by Paolo Morando ...
    Troppo vicini per essere già storia. Sarà per questo che l'eredità italiana degli amati/odiati anni Ottanta stenta a trovare narratori. Paolo Morando ripercorre attraverso un racconto-reportage il decennio più ambiguo: vitale e al contempo feroce. Italians do it better: sono le parole d'ordine lanciate da una maglietta indossata da Madonna, mentre Paolo Rossi diventa il simbolo di un'Italia che ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 'Alternative' cultures and leisure

    Creating pathways for sustainable livelihoods

    Edited by Alan Law, Stephen Wearing ...
    Contemporary discourse on sustainability points to the need for substantial, if not radical, shifts in relations between productivity, environment, consumption and identities, in ways which bring or restore balance to the intersecting domains. The catchphrase of ‘sustainability’ has made its way into mainstream discourse on the heels of the ongoing global financial crisis and responses to global ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • 'Art Attack'. Das politische Potential der Street Art in revolutionären Momenten

    Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Universität Konstanz, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Abschlussarbeit beschäftigt sich mit Street Art als aufständischer Praxis in revolutionären Momenten. Gemeint sind damit Momente, in denen Massenproteste mit dem Potential und Ziel eines plötzlichen, radikalen und umfassenden Systemwandels geführt ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 'Bist du schon drin?' Selbstdarstellung und Netzwerkbildung über Internetplattformen (StudiVZ und Facebook)

    Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,8, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Institut für Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Internet gilt bei vielen Experten als eine der größten Veränderungen im Informationswesen und hat sich in den letzten 15 Jahren mit rasender Geschwindigkeit ausgebreitet. Es bietet ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • 'Cold War Culture' und christlicher Fundamentalismus in James Camerons Terminator 1 & 2

    Zur kulturellen Anschlussfähigkeit der Filme und ihrer Darstellung der Wissenschaft

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 1,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Mediensoziologie: Zur kulturellen Anschlussfähigkeit von Spielfilmen, 17 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In einer Zeit existentieller Bedrohung, den Zeiten des kalten Krieges, entstand ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • 'Dein Fernseher ist für dich da!'

    Soziale Arbeit im Fernsehen; hilfreiches Angebot oder mediale Inszenierung?

    Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, Fachhochschule Salzburg (Soziale Arbeit), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Fernsehen bedient bzw. konfrontiert seine ZuseherInnenschaft zunehmend mit lebensnahen und intimen Themen. Sendungen respektive Formate die sich mit den realen Geschichten des wirklichen Lebens beschäftigen, sind in den großen Bereich ... Read more

    $22.99 USD