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  • The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
    This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil. ...
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    180,19 €

  • Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi
    Joshua N. Azriel / Joshua NAzriel
    Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi: California’s Legal Efforts Impacting Free Press Rights is a detailed analysis of California’s anti-paparazzi laws aimed at protecting celebrities’ privacy. Joshua N. Azriel provides an ethnographic, First Amendment-based critique of the state’s privacy and anti-harassment laws and discusses the broader implications of these laws on free press ...
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    122,61 €

  • The Civil War on Film
    Peg Lamphier / Rosanne Welch
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    89,14 €

  • Netflix Nostalgia
    Netflix Nostalgia examines Netflix as both a creator and a distributor of nostalgic content, with contributions from scholars from around the world. The chapters examine the role of nostalgia in Netflix’s brand identity, ideological messages about nostalgia in Netflix content, and audience responses to nostalgia on the Netflix platform. ...
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    54,09 €

  • Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
    James S. Williams
    Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and ...
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    54,38 €

  • The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
    Vernon Lee
    Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1...
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    20,32 €

  • Martin, Maya, and Me
    Michael DePung
    Martin, Maya, and Me: A Brief Exploration of Social Injustice and its stories, opinions, and a bit of literary considerations help you explore your own beliefs about yourself, your relation to others—otherwise know as society—and social injustices to begin some much needed healing. What is your belief about who you are as an individual? How do you relate to the Other? Perhaps m...
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    17,95 €

  • The Encyclopedia of Quizzes
    Stephen R. Baker / Stephen RBaker
    THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUIZZESDevoted Exclusively to Facts15,000 SEPARATE ENTRIESThe novel format of The Encyclopedia of Quizzes provides a fun way to both acquire facts and to retrieve and retain them. They are presented as active participatory exercises designed to expand your knowledge base. Each of these 730 QUIZZES consists of an ensemble of 20 or more clues and response choi...
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    28,55 €

  • Keeping the faith
    Keith Gildart / Stephen Catterall
    This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the connections between class ...
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    157,04 €

  • Poverty in American Popular Culture
    Wylie Lenz
    In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an 'unconditional war' on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans. Two decades later, President Reagan drastically cut such programs, claiming that welfare encouraged dependency and famously quipping, 'Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.' These opp...
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    79,21 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the Future
    Gordon Arnold
    Mid-20th century America envisioned a wondrous future of comfort, convenience and technological advancement. Popular culture--including World’s Fairs, science fiction and advertising--fed high hopes even when war and hardship threatened. American ingenuity and consumer culture promised to deliver flying cars, undersea cities, household robots and space travel. By the 1960s p...
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    64,90 €

  • Hero and Hero-Worship
    In the aftermath of liberalization of Indian economy in 1991, the study of star-fan studies has experienced exponential expansion. Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India explores the areas of political, religious, film and cricket star fandoms; analyzing the rise of star formations and their consequent fandoms, star-fan bonds, as well as the physical and virtual space th...
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    68,31 €

  • Tweencom Girls
    Patrice A. Oppliger / Patrice AOppliger
    This book looks at the portrayals of girls on Disney and Nickelodeon tweencoms. It covers character tropes like main girls, mean girls, cheerleaders, and adults as well as special topics such as popularity, friendships, and girl power. ...
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    54,43 €

  • Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011
    Kendra R. Parker / Kendra RParker
    This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire within literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. It invites readers to take a closer look at the black female vampire figure and how that figure shapes and is shaped by cultural narratives about African American womanhood. ...
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    54,61 €

  • Critical Directions in Comics Studies
    Thomas Giddens
    Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia WysockiRecent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root--assumption...
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    49,58 €

  • Toxic Masculinity
    Contributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. TaylorThe superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they ...
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    50,24 €

  • Critical Directions in Comics Studies
    Thomas Giddens
    Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia WysockiRecent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root--assumption...
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    157,74 €

  • Toxic Masculinity
    Contributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. TaylorThe superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they ...
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    158,40 €

  • Hollywood Hates Hitler!
    Chris Yogerst
    In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering. The United States was largely divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first dire...
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    158,37 €

  • Pandemic
    Steven R Martins
    On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the SARS COVID-2 (COVID-19) virus to be a worldwide pandemic. The news led to a reaction unlike anything we have seen before, utter pandemonium and governmental lockdown measures that brought most of the world to a stand still. As was expected, the church was not unaffected by the socio-cultural reaction, it too was subj...
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    9,29 €

  • Writing for Spectators and the Internet
    James Greene
    This book of essays presents actors within our historical and contemporary context, at the standpoint of the turn of a twenty-first century. We shall artistically and interpretively think of these societal actors, persons, ideas, authoritative activities, and otherwise as spectators. Being spectators ourselves, we shall add our own contemplation, imagination, and speculation. I...
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    16,73 €

  • Momentous Mobilities
    Noel B Salazar
    Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cu...
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    44,75 €

  • Roma dixit: Citas latinas
    Angela Maria Zanoner
    Las citas latinas nos permiten adentrarnos en nuestras raíces culturales, y nos proporcionan mensajes que sintetizan en pocas líneas la sabiduría y las claves del pensamiento de la Antigüedad. En este libro descubrirá un número considerable de citas con sus respectivas traducciones que le transmitirán todo el saber que encierran. Con un pliego final para apuntar sus favoritas y...
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    9,31 €

  • Los nuevos ceremoniales en Colombia
    Marcos González Pérez
    Contemporáneamente en Colombia han surgido otras formas de manifestación festiva o que escenifican su objeto celebrado con elementos de lo festivo, que se relacionan con lo político, lo social, lo cultural o lo histórico. El objeto central de este estudio es mostrar la relación de la fiesta o el ceremonial con los cambios sociales en Colombia, esencialmente a través del seguimi...
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    12,85 €

  • BRAMHAND KE BADE SAWALO KE SANKSHIPT JAWAB
    STEPHEN HAWKING
    दुनिया के प्रसिद्ध ब्रह्मांड विज्ञानी और अ ब्रीफ़ हिस्ट्री ऑफ़ टाइम के लेखक के ब्रह्मांड के सबसे बड़े प्रश्नों पर व्यक्त अंतिम विचार उनकी इस मरणोपरांत प्रकाशित पुस्तक में दिए गए हैं। ब्रह्मांड की उत्पत्ति कैसे हुई? क्या मानवता पृथ्वी पर अस्तित्व में रहेगी? क्या सौर मंडल से भी ज्यादा बौद्धिक जीवन कोई है? क्या आर्टिफ़िशल इंटेलिजेंस हमें नियंत्रित करेगा? अपने असाधारण करिअर में स्टीफन ...
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    18,77 €

  • AARAMBHIK BHARTIYA
    TONY JOSEPH
    हम भारतीय कौन हैं? हम कहाँ से आए थे? इन गहन सवालों के जवाबों को जानने के लिए पत्रकार टोनी जोसेफ़ 65,000 वर्ष अतीत में जाते हैं, जब आधुनिक मानवों या होमो सेपियन्स के एक समूह ने सबसे पहले अफ़्रीका से भारतीय उपमहाद्धीप तक का सफ़र तय किया था। हाल के डीएनए प्रमाणों का हवाला देते हुए वे भारत में आधुनिक मानवों के बड़े पैमाने पर हुए आगमन यानी ईरान से 7000 ईसा पूर्व और 3000 ईसा पूर्व के बीच...
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    24,47 €

  • Hippies, Skinheads, Rastas, Punks & Disco Dancing Bowie Boot Boys
    Ian Dobson
    It began in the 1950s with the Teddy Boys and went viral in the early 60s when the Mods and a new generation of Greasers began to do battle in usually sleepy seasidetowns. But between the summer of love in 67 and the riots of 85 the UK birthed a conveyor belt of more complex, often overlapping  youth styles.Not all Hippies were lentil eating clinically depressed vegetarians and...
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    31,37 €

  • From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls
    Gooyong Kim
    Kim combines historical contextualization with political economy of the media and critical textual analysis to investigate the socio-ideological effects of K-Pop in the existing networks of power and domination in gender relations. He examines K-Pop female idols’ individualism and identity formation through the lens of Korea’s cultural politics. ...
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    54,58 €

  • Myth-Building in Modern Media
    A.J. Black
    Mythology for centuries has served as humanity’s window into understanding its distant past. In our modern world, storytelling creates its own myths and legends, in media ranging from the world of television and cinema to literature and comic books, that help us make sense of the world we live in today. What is the 'Mytharc'? How did it arise? How does it inform modern lon...
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    57,52 €

  • Video Games, Crime and Next-Gen Deviance
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, freely available to read online. Drawing on the emerging deviant literature perspective, this book explores a range of culturally embedded harms and other activities to offer new insight on the idea that video games are intertwined with forms of deviancy. ...
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    45,95 €


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