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  • Tales of a Tiller Girl Part 1 of 3

    by Irene Holland ...
    A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her ... Read more

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  • O' my Gawd! Shut up! It's Naomi (Campbell)! Circa 98'

    Ode to the greatest age of my generation, the era of the Super Model. (People let's face it Naomi, Kate, Christie, Linda and Cindy when Versaci was still here on planet earth.) O my Gawd, I only hope he was saved in Jesus name. But before I go off on a self-righteous Pentecostal Holy Ghost tangent - Truth be told, they were the holy grail of style, fashion and grace. The last two decades of the ... Read more

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  • Commodifying Violence in Literature and on Screen

    The Colombian Condition

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book traverses the cultural landscape of Colombia through in-depth analyses of displacement, local and global cultures, human rights abuses, and literary and media production. Through an exploration of the cultural processes that perpetuate the "darker side" of Latin America for global consumption, it investigates the "condition" that has led writers, filmmakers, and artists to embrace ... Read more

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  • Fifty Great Things to Come Out of the Midlands

    by Robert Shore ...
    Celebrate the heart of Britain in this fun and informative mini-ebook.Rugby, Walkers Crisps, Conkers. These are just a handful of the many great things to have come out of the Midlands. In this celebratory list, journalist and loyal Midlander Robert Shore counts down fifty of the best gifts the Midlands has given the world.Knowledge no Midlander – nay, Brit! – should be without.From the author of ... Read more

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  • Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa

    1930s–1990s

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa.Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe that track the fortunes of nonhegemonic whites during the era ... Read more

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  • Turismo, cultura e desenvolvimento

    As discussões sobre turismo e cultura têm suscitado crescente interesse pelas dinâmicas dos processos que afetam ao desenvolvimento de regiões e lugares. O desafio posto pelos autores do livro é contribuir no debate teórico/conceitual para explicação do turismo e da cultura enquanto fenômeno e realidade empírica de forma a promover o desenvolvimento voltado ao ser humano e o aprofundamento das ... Read more

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  • Stuff Every Geek Should Know

    by Quirk Books ...
    Series series Stuff You Should Know
    Packed with tips, articles, and how-tos on everything from performing Jedi mind tricks to creating your own cosplay gear to wooing the geek of your dreams, Stuff Every Geek Should Know is an indispensable guide to life, the universe, and everything geeky. Featuring content from Quirk's nerdiest titles plus all-new, never-before-seen good stuff from the geekiest bloggers in the known universe. ... Read more

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  • Gender in Japanese Popular Culture

    Rethinking Masculinities and Femininities

    Edited by Sirpa Salenius ...
    This open-access essay collection brings together a range of viewpoints on gender from a diverse group of international scholars based in Finland, Belgium, Japan, Singapore, and Australia. The focus is, in particular, on gender performativity and non-binary or non-normative gender. The essays examine the ways in which gender can be depicted, perceived, and understood in Japanese popular culture. ... Read more

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  • Celebrity Bromances

    Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas

    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity ‘bromances,’ interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity, and authenticity.The authors examine how the performance of intimate male friendships functions within broadly ‘Western’ celebrity culture from three primary perspectives: construction ... Read more

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  • Medievalism: a Critical History

    The field known as "medievalism studies" concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? ... Read more

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  • Intoxication

    An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry

    For two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves?Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate ... Read more

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  • Locating Imagination in Popular Culture

    Place, Tourism and Belonging

    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming ... Read more

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  • Entertainment Underground Magazine

    Entertainment Underground Magazine is a magazine that caters to the underground/unsigned artist. ... Read more

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  • From Shtetl to Stardom

    Jews and Hollywood

    Edited by Michael Renov, Vincent Brook ...
    Series series The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review
    The influence of Jews in American entertainment from the early days of Hollywood to the present has proved an endlessly fascinating and controversial topic, for Jews and non-Jews alike. From Shtetl to Stardom: Jews and Hollywood takes an exciting and innovative approach to this rich and complex material.Exploring the subject from a scholarly perspective as well as up close and personal, the book ... Read more

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  • Algorithmuskulturen

    Über die rechnerische Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit

    Hochfrequenzhandel, Google-Ranking, Filterbubble - nur drei aktuelle Beispiele der Wirkmacht von Algorithmen. Der Band versammelt Beiträge, die sich mit dem historischen Auftauchen und der mittlerweile allgegenwärtigen Verbreitung von Algorithmen in verschiedenen Bereichen des sozialen Lebens beschäftigen. Sie nehmen die Wechselbeziehungen algorithmischer und nicht-algorithmischer Akteure und ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy

    Series series Routledge Studies in Indigenous Peoples and Policy
    This book examines how Indigenous Peoples around the world are demanding greater data sovereignty, and challenging the ways in which governments have historically used Indigenous data to develop policies and programs.In the digital age, governments are increasingly dependent on data and data analytics to inform their policies and decision-making. However, Indigenous Peoples have often been the ... Read more

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  • Citizenship Excess

    Latino/as, Media, and the Nation

    by Hector Amaya ...
    Series Book 29 - Critical Cultural Communication
    “Drawing on the Athenian tradition of ‘wielding citizenship as a weapon to defend a contingently defined polis,’ Hector Amaya has crafted an elegant and sophisticated analysis of the contemporary policies designed to contain and criminalize Latina/os. Citizenship Excess demonstrates that he is one of the leading Latina/o Media Scholars today.”—Angharad N. Valdivia, General Editor of the ... Read more

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  • Comic-Con Heroes: The Fans Who Make the Greatest Show on Earth

    by Joe Wilcox ...
    Knowledge@Wharton, University of Pennsylvania's online business journal, calls San Diego Comic-Con the “Super Bowl of pop culture”. The convention is the required pilgrimage for artists, actors, filmmakers, producers or screenwriters. Each year 130,000 fans gather, and where they go Hollywood follows. News coverage weighs heavily to celebrities, even though they are outnumbered thousands to one ... Read more

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  • Görsel Kültür

    by Mücahit Yaz ...
    “Söz uçar yazı kalır” der atalarımız ama artık “söz de uçtu görsel olan kaldı” demenin zamanı çoktan gelip geçiyor. Günümüz teknoloji ve sosyal medya anlayışı doğrultusunda şekil alan toplum artık yönünü belirlerken pusulasını daha çok görsel imgelere göre belirliyor. İhtiyaçlarını karşılarken görsel imgelerin bolca yer aldığı ayrıntılı çekimlerin yapıldığı alışveriş uygulamalarını tercih ediyor, ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion

    A Case Study of Chinese Reality TV

    by Wei Dong ...
    Series Book 28 - Critical Studies in Media and Communication
    Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the affective meaning-making mechanism in the multimodal text of Chinese reality TV. The focus lies on the ways in which emotions are appropriated and disciplined by regimes of power and identity, and the ways in which affect - in this case ... Read more

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  • The Popular and the Sacred in Music

    Music, as the form of art whose name derives from ancient myths, is often thought of as pure symbolic expression and associated with transcendence. Music is also a universal phenomenon and thus a profound marker of humanity. These features make music a sphere of activity where sacred and popular qualities intersect and amalgamate. In an era characterised by postsecular and postcolonial processes ... Read more

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  • Nation, Ethnicity and Race on Russian Television

    Mediating Post-Soviet Difference

    Russia, one of the most ethno-culturally diverse countries in the world, provides a rich case study on how globalisation and associated international trends are disrupting, and causing the radical rethinking of approaches to, inter-ethnic cohesion. The book highlights the importance of television broadcasting in shaping national discourse and the place of ethno-cultural diversity within it. It ... Read more

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  • #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

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  • The Opinions You Must Hold

    Etiquette In A Left-Wing World

    by Michael Rolls ...
    It’s happened over and over again. You’ve gone to a swanky party or a lovely dinner date or your pleasant friends Ian and Joan have had you over for wine and biscuits or you went with colleagues to an after-work barbecue. You had, like everyone else, a couple glasses of wine or a beer or two and everyone was chatting away nicely. It was all going fine, as it always does, until the subject of the ... Read more

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