Popular Culture Books
You are currently browsing 1–10 of 209 new and published books in the subject of Popular Culture — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 209 new and published books in the subject of Popular Culture — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
For books that are not yet published; please browse forthcoming books.
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology
Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture
Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...
Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to...
Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options...
Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series
Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized,...
Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...
Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’...
Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge