Catálogo de libros: Estudios culturales

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  • Gender and Action Films
    Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond
    Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies. ...
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    136,10 €

  • Gender and Action Films 1980-2000
    Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies. ...
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    142,77 €

  • Dancing in the Forest
    Helen Hong
    Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the ''othered'' life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate t...
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    32,83 €

  • Dancing in the Forest
    Helen Hong
    Why do Koreans search for shamans? Confrontation with jarring reality, magnified in the context of immigration, pulls them to look for cultural roots in moral solidarity with their ancestors. Ancestral spirits travel by carrying culturally engrained remedial power to the ''othered'' life of the Korean immigrant community in the country of Protestantism. Korean shamans mediate t...
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    47,11 €

  • The Local Turn in Tourism
    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits. ...
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    72,22 €

  • The Local Turn in Tourism
    This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits. ...
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    193,82 €

  • Consuming Crisis
    Francesca Sobande
    This is an urgent project which uses the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to explore consumer culture, cultural citizenship and brand response. ...
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    18,90 €

  • Consuming Crisis
    Francesca Sobande
    This is an urgent project which uses the covid-19 pandemic as a case study to explore consumer culture, cultural citizenship and brand response. ...
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    76,00 €

  • Relocating the Sacred
    Niyi Afolabi
    Maps manifestations of the sacred and religious syncretism in Afro-Brazilian cultural forms. ...
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    121,33 €

  • Bob Dylan’s New York
    Dick Weissman
    A walking tour and history of Bob Dylan’s life and time in New York, from Greenwich Village to Woodstock. ...
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    18,38 €

  • Silent but Deadly
    Kirsten Bell
    An entertaining anthropological tour through the big answers to life’s little questions. Why do farts evoke laughter and disgust? Is the aversion to the left hand universal? Are dogs really humankind’s best friend? Why do we tip wait staff but not teachers? Can you still spot the difference between a Brit and an American by their teeth? In Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cu...
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    22,34 €

  • Wellness Culture
    Stephanie Alice Baker
    Stephanie Alice Baker traces the emergence of wellness culture as a trillion-dollar industry, situating the wellness industry in a historical and cultural context, examining how the internet has altered our relationship to wellness and the popular assumption that the internet has democratised knowledge and culture. ...
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    34,95 €

  • Lancashire Folk-Lore
    T. T. Wilkinson
    This vintage book contains a comprehensive encyclopedia of the folk-lore of Lancashire. The north of England has enjoyed a particularly rich history of folk-lore, having been influenced by the cultures of the Celts, Angles, Teutonic people, Scandinavians, the Normans, and more. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in English Folklore, and it would make f...
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    38,41 €

  • Folk Lore, Old Customs and Superstitions in Shakespeare Land
    J. Harvey Bloom
    This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on the customs and traditions of England, with information on its folklore, history, and more. From folk rhymes and funeral customs to brewing ale and the occult, this volume contains a wealth if information that will appeal to those with an interest in England and it’s people. Contents include: 'The Farmer and his Men', 'Family...
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    29,10 €

  • Culture and Human Thought
    Gary Edson
    Individuals often view 'culture' as activities beyond their interests, associating the concept with exclusivity or high art. To be cultured is often synonymous with engaging in physical expressions of art, like opera, a classical music concert, a museum exhibit or a theater performance. While culture does indeed extend to all these things, it is the internal processes of mem...
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    57,58 €

  • The Corruption of Play
    Christopher McMahon
    The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play. ...
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    136,19 €

  • Brave New Weed
    Joe Dolce
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    13,62 €

  • Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism
    Arthur Edward Waite
    This early work by Arthur Edward Waite was originally published in the early 20th Century and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Some Deeper Aspects of Masonic Symbolism’ is one of Waite’s writings on secret societies. Arthur Edward Waite was born on the 2nd of October, 1857 in America. After the death of his father, Waite and his mother return...
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    18,12 €

  • WHY BRITAIN ROCKED
    Elizabeth Sharkey
    Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World challenges the origins of ’Beatlemania’ by travelling deep into Britain’s history to trace the events that led to Britain’s twentieth century musical explosion. With rigorous in-depth research, new discoveries and original insights Why Britain Rocked: How Rock Became Roll and Took Over the World completely reframe...
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    55,22 €

  • Dystopian States of America
    Matthew Hill
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    141,11 €

  • The 1960s Cultural Revolution
    Joel Rhodes
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    82,33 €

  • Coats of Arms
    Marc Fountain
    With full-color pages accessible to readers of any age, this how and why quick-start guide explains knighthood and nobility and royalty, what coats of arms mean, how to create your own, and how to assemble those of your ancestors. Heraldry is the art and profession of creating designs within shield-shaped outlines meant to identify important individuals and their descendants, a...
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    19,67 €

  • Coats of Arms
    Marc Fountain
    With full-color pages accessible to readers of any age, this how and why quick-start guide explains knighthood and nobility and royalty, what coats of arms mean, how to create your own, and how to assemble those of your ancestors. Heraldry is the art and profession of creating designs within shield-shaped outlines meant to identify important individuals and their descendants, a...
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    31,23 €

  • SIERRA AND DESERT RAILS
    Fred Matthews
    A survey in black and white photos and text of the railroads of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains and the old minng lines in the desert just beyond the mountains, in the last steam era, from 1947 to 1959.  The two main-line routes, Donner Pass and the Feather River Route, were enjoying an Indian Summer of activity after World War II, with the postwar construction boom bringi...
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    9,94 €

  • Encountering Pennywise
    Whitney S May
    Contributions by Amylou Ahava, Jeff Ambrose, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Daniel P. Compora, Penny Crofts, Keith Currie, Erin Giannini, Diganta Roy, Hannah Lina Schneeberger, Shannon S. Shaw, Maria Wiegel, and Margaret J. Yankovich First published in 1986, Stephen King’s novel IT forever changed the legacy of the literary clown. The subject of a TV miniseries and a two-part...
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    42,99 €

  • LGBTQ+ Comics Studies Reader
    Alison Halsall
    Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, William S. Armour, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Camper, Tesla Cariani, Matthew Cheney, Hillary Chute, Edmond (Edo) Ernest dit Alban, Ramzi Fawaz, Margaret Galvan, Justin Hall, Alison Halsall, Lara Hedberg, Susanne Hochreiter, Sheena C. Howard, Rebecca Hutton, remus jackson, Keiko Miyajima, Chinmay Murali, Marina Rauchenbacher, Katharina Serles, ...
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    42,14 €

  • Nietzsche in Hollywood
    Matthew Rukgaber
    Argues that Nietzsche’s idea of the Übermensch was a central concern of filmmakers in the 1920s and 1930s. ...
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    121,61 €

  • Picturegoers
    Luke McKernan
    This book shows the impact of cinema on individuals across the globe, from the 1890s to the present day. It analyses and celebrates the audience’s point of view, shaped by time, experience and place, providing a rich, entertaining portrait of a medium that became so transformative because anyone, rich or poor, educated or not, could share in it. ...
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    113,28 €

  • Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index
    Allen H Redmon
    Rewatching on the Point of the Cinematic Index offers a reassessment of the cinematic index as it sits at the intersection of film studies, trauma studies, and adaptation studies. Author Allen H. Redmon argues that far too often scholars imagine the cinematic index to be nothing more than an acknowledgment that the lens-based camera captures and brings to the screen a reality t...
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    42,98 €


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