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Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV Series: History as Fuel for Entertainment

Latin America’s Contested Pasts in Telenovelas and TV...

Author: Mónika Contreras Saiz ,  Stefan Rinke
ISBN: 9783111166506
Format: Hardback
$319.41

This interdisciplinary volume analyzes the historical culture of Latin American society embodied in telenovelas...  Read More >>

Grotesque Progeny: The Commodification of Dangerous and Endangered Children

Grotesque Progeny: The Commodification of Dangerous...

Author: Mark Heimermann
ISBN: 9781496853561
Format: Hardback
$229.00

In contemporary Western society, we are increasingly fascinated by narratives in which children are depicted as...  Read More >>

Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland

Contested Kingdom: Fan Attachment and Corporate Control...

Author: William McCarthy
ISBN: 9781496854735
Format: Hardback
$229.00

A groundbreaking study centered on the history of Disneyland and Disney theme park enthusiasts. Focusing on two...  Read More >>

Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain Lawmen, and the Search for Justice in the Early 1970s

Death in Briar Bottom: The True Story of Hippies, Mountain...

Author: Timothy Silver
ISBN: 9781469682860
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A mix of true crime, southern history, and personal storytelling, this book shows how, in the dark of night at a...  Read More >>

Italian Contemporary Screen Performers: Training, Production, Prestige

Italian Contemporary Screen Performers: Training, Production,...

Author: Luca Barra ,  Cristina Formenti
ISBN: 9783031673092
Format: Hardback
$116.41

Bringing together performance studies, celebrity studies, and media production studies, this open access book offers...  Read More >>

Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive

Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive

Author: Anthea Taylor (University of Sydney, Australia,)
ISBN: 9781138894716
Format: Paperback
$77.99

Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism and the Archive focuses on one of the world’s most famous feminists, using previously...  Read More >>

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination: Capitalism and Its Alternatives in Film and Television

How Popular Culture Destroys Our Political Imagination:...

Author: Eugene Nulman (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
ISBN: 9781032847702
Format: Paperback
$77.99

How Popular Culture Destroys our Political Imagination: Capitalism and its Alternatives in Film and Television explores...  Read More >>

Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar

Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in...

Author: Dima Issa (University of Balamand, Lebanon)
ISBN: 9780755641802
Format: Paperback
$59.99

An exploration of the role of Lebanese singer Fairouz in shaping Arab diasporic experience amidst a dynamic backdrop...  Read More >>

We Oughta Know: How Celine, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah Ruled the '90s and Changed Music

We Oughta Know: How Celine, Shania, Alanis, and Sarah...

Author: Andrea Warner ,  Vivek Shraya
ISBN: 9781770417748
Format: Paperback
$32.99

An essay collection that blends music and pop culture criticism, coming-of-age memoir, and feminist and '90s music...  Read More >>

Entrepreneurial Cosplay: Creating Identity, Building Identity, Brand and Business Acumen

Entrepreneurial Cosplay: Creating Identity, Building...

Author: Elizabeth Gackstetter Nichols (Drury University, USA) ,  Amy C. Lewis (Texas A&M University-San Antonio, USA)
ISBN: 9781032220888
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways...  Read More >>

Visual Culture in Contemporary China I

Visual Culture in Contemporary China I

Author: Zhou Xian
ISBN: 9781032541419
Format: Paperback
$83.99

As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture...  Read More >>

True Crime in American Media

True Crime in American Media

Author: George S. Larke-Walsh (University of Sunderland, UK)
ISBN: 9781032126678
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity...  Read More >>

Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film

Memory and the Gothic Aesthetic in Film

Author: Joana Jacob Ramalho
ISBN: 9783031736278
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This open access book defines the cinematic Gothic as an aesthetics of memory and exile. Drawing on film, memory,...  Read More >>

Critical Interculturality and Horizontal Methodologies in Latin America

Critical Interculturality and Horizontal Methodologies...

Author: Sarah Corona Berkin (University de Guadalajara) ,  Claudia Zapata
ISBN: 9781032397344
Format: Paperback
$83.99

In this edifying volume Sarah Corona and Claudia Zapata extrapolate the causes for the divisions between groups...  Read More >>

The K-Pop Phenomenon: Origins, Evolution, and Future -- Trace the History of First to Fifth-Generation Idols; Explore the Forces Behind the Global Sensation

The K-Pop Phenomenon: Origins, Evolution, and Future...

Author: Hallyu Press
ISBN: 9798989637980
Format: Paperback
$55.41

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Dhruva: From Silence to Stardom

Dhruva: From Silence to Stardom

Author: Sachin Kumar
ISBN: 9798304696180
Format: Paperback
$19.01

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Drag as Marketplace: Contemporary Cultures, Identities and Business

Drag as Marketplace: Contemporary Cultures, Identities...

Author: Mikko Laamanen (Oslo Metropolitan University) ,  Mario Campana (University of Bath)
ISBN: 9781529237443
Format: Hardback
$165.95

Now a multi-million-dollar industry blending art, politics, and entertainment, drag's popularity has soared in recent...  Read More >>

Something Wicked: Witchcraft in Movies, Television, and Popular Culture

Something Wicked: Witchcraft in Movies, Television,...

Author: Professor Douglas Brode ,  Dr. Leah Deyneka (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9798765122297
Format: Hardback
$190.00

An examination of Witchcraft and the figure of the Witch in film, television, and culture to understand how, why,...  Read More >>

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