Catálogo de libros: Estudios culturales

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  • Rum Rebels
    Martyna Halas / Rene van Hoven
    Behind Every Great Rum Is a Powerful Woman'An essential book, which shows that women are taking an increasingly important place in the world of rum, that they can be very talented producers, but that there is still a lot to do in terms of gender equality.' -Rum PorterOnce known as a sailor’s drink, rum has matured into a refined spirit. In some Caribbean countries, rum is offer...
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    19,24 €

  • Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970
    David Scott
    Design in Airline Travel Posters 1920-1970 offers an original insight into the structure of travel advertisements and the way recurrent motifs adapt to changing times and functions. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive image/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colo...
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    58,92 €

  • Emerging Dynamics in Audiences’ Consumption of Trans-media Products
    Carmen Spano
    The book investigates the new forms of agency possessed by national audiences with reference to two television texts: Mad Men (AMC, 2007-2015) and Game of Thrones (HBO, 2011-2019). Structured as a comparative study between two countries, Italy and New Zealand, the research aims to provide insights into the culturally specific similarities and differences that distinct audiences...
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    57,79 €

  • Jeff Lemire
    Dale Jacobs
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his tra...
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    42,94 €

  • Jeff Lemire
    Dale Jacobs
    In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario--his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and DC’s Who’s Who were on him as a developing comics fan, his first reading of Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, and his tra...
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    158,40 €

  • The quiet contemporary American novel
    Rachel Sykes
    This book explores the concept of ’quiet’ - an aesthetic of narrative driven by reflective principles - and argues for the term’s application to the study of contemporary American fiction. ...
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    35,76 €

  • AI and Popular Culture
    Lee Barron
    AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next. ...
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    33,46 €

  • Music Management, Marketing and PR
    Chris Anderton / James Hannam / Johnny Hopkins
    A guide to the study and practice of the music industries in the 21st century. Tying academic research to industry insight, it helps students understand the range of roles and institutions they need to know in order to manage artists and to promote and sell music. ...
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    53,09 €

  • Music Management, Marketing and PR
    Chris Anderton / James Hannam / Johnny Hopkins
    A guide to the study and practice of the music industries in the 21st century. Tying academic research to industry insight, it helps students understand the range of roles and institutions they need to know in order to manage artists and to promote and sell music. ...
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    152,04 €

  • Celebrities Against Violence
    Truman R. Keys
    Violence is more than an issue in America. It is a pandemic, its negative impacts and corrosive character are harming us whether we are a victim, a bystander or professional tasked with public health and safety. Violence affects us regardless of class or social standing. For decades, celebrities and well-known public figures have taken to the media to share their own experie...
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    42,52 €

  • The Darklands
    Brandon Oswald / Nancy Laning
    This unique and fascinating book reveals the Melanesia you never knew. When the French writer and poet Andre Breton observed odd sculptures for the first time from Melanesia, he wrote, 'You frighten. You amaze.' The five Melanesian islands of Fiji, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu were places that were not supposed to be discovered. Explorers feared...
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    13,20 €

  • Films of Delmer Daves
    Douglas Horlock
    Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly mono...
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    158,32 €

  • Films of Delmer Daves
    Douglas Horlock
    Delmer Daves (1904-1977) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for his dramas and Western adventures, most notably Broken Arrow and 3:10 to Yuma. Despite the popularity of his films, there has been little serious examination of Daves’s work. Filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier has called Daves the most forgotten of American directors, and to date no scholarly mono...
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    50,16 €

  • Searching For My Identity (Volume 2)
    Edward Winterhalder
    Volume 2 of Searching For My Identity is a chronological autobiography of an outlaw biker that covers his life from prominent leader of a notorious international motorcycle club in January 2001 to his redemption in December 2020. Intended for the general public and those in the academic community that find the outlaw biker aspects of anthropology, criminology, sociology, psycho...
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    28,91 €

  • Searching For My Identity (Volume 1)
    Edward Winterhalder
    Volume 1 of Searching For My Identity is a chronological autobiography of an outlaw biker that covers his life from troubled adolescent in the sixties to prominent leader of a notorious international motorcycle club in January 2001. Intended for the general public and those in the academic community that find the outlaw biker aspects of anthropology, criminology, sociology, psy...
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    28,91 €

  • Gambling in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
    Bob Harris
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    120,07 €

  • The Knights Templar in Popular Culture
    Patrick Masters
    From the Arthurian epic poem Parzival to Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Assassin’s Creed video game series, the Knights Templar have captivated artists and audiences alike for centuries. In modern times, the Templars have featured in many narrative contexts, evolving in a range of contrasting story roles: the grail guardian, the he...
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    57,50 €

  • space/self/world
    Blair Miller
    Using perhaps the most famous science fiction film ever made, what does it mean that we are determined by space? That the human individual was created by controlling its spatial environment(s)? Complicating matters further, that same control that defines us limits our understanding and the spaces themselves, to the extent that the individual itself is under command. space/self/...
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    22,29 €

  • Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives
    For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media. ...
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    142,77 €

  • The Politics of Fandom
    Hannah Mueller
    Fandom has been celebrated both as a harmonious, tolerant space and as apolitical and detached from reality. Yet fandom is neither harmonious nor apolitical. Throughout the past century, fandom has been shaped by recurring controversies and sparked by the emergence of new circles, platforms and discourses. Since the earliest days of science-fiction fandom, fans have concei...
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    64,85 €

  • Made in China
    Simon Gjeroe
    Simon Gjeroe became a father in China and suddenly had to deal with serious questions: Can you live with your wife if she has not showered for a month? Can you take your wife seriously if she starts wearing X-ray aprons? Do you really have to eat the placenta? In this extraordinary memoir, Simon answers all those questions and many more, highlighting the weird and wonderful wor...
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    21,09 €

  • Research Anthology on Fandoms, Online Social Communities, and Pop Culture
    Information R... Management Association
    The internet has grown to become one of the largest communication hubs in history. With its ability to share content and create community bonds, it has seen many fandoms and online social communities develop within the past decades. While there are some detriments to these communities, there are also many benefits and potential uses for the betterment of society. The Research A...
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    498,00 €

  • FIFTEEN LECTURES ON TRADITIONAL CHINESE CULTURE
    PENG-CHENG KUNG
    This book is edited based on a series of lectures on Chinese cultural history delivered at the Peking University in 2004. It stands out with its distinctive methodology and unique stand, and is popular with readers, with 17 reprints for the Chinese edition since 2006.Before the 1980s, traditional culture was often the target of criticisms and put in a negative light in China. A...
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    165,79 €

  • Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
    Mary J Magoulick
    Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in cont...
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    50,08 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    50,09 €

  • Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
    Mary J Magoulick
    Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in cont...
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    158,24 €

  • For No Reason at All
    Jeffrey A Hinkelman
    The years following the signing of the Armistice saw a transformation of traditional attitudes regarding military conflict as America attempted to digest the enormity and futility of the First World War. During these years popular film culture in the United States created new ways of addressing the impact of the war on both individuals and society. Filmmakers with direct experi...
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    158,25 €

  • Fantastic Cities
    Stefan Rabitsch
    Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Pan...
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    49,85 €

  • Fantastic Cities
    Stefan Rabitsch
    Contributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, Michael Fuchs, John Glover, Stephen Joyce, Sarah Lahm, James McAdams, Cynthia J. Miller, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Chris Pak, María Isabel Pérez Ramos, Stefan Rabitsch, J. Jesse Ramírez, A. Bowdoin Van Riper, Andrew Wasserman, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, and Robert Yeates Metropolis, Gotham City, Mega-City One, Pan...
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    158,00 €

  • The Boer In Peace And War
    Arthur M. Mann / Arthur MMann
    NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERSThe Boer In Peace And WarThis book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature.In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards:1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The comp...
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    7,82 €


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