Hokusai X Manga: Japanese Pop Culture Since 1680
Sabine Schulze and Nora von Achenbach
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Anime and manga are powerful pop-culture phenomena, capturing people's imaginations in the pages of...
Pleasure and Restraint in Popular Culture
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Faced by the increasing divisiveness and volatility of electoral politics, and the rise of illiberal...
Sufi Music and Popular Culture: Songs of the Heart
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This book examines the role of music in Sufi ritual and its wider impact on Islamic culture and...
Dad Magazine: America's #1 Magazine for Pop Culture
Jaya Saxena and Matt Lubchansky
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This dad-centric satire looks like a real magazine (complete with fake ads, subscription deals, and...
America's Disaster Culture: The Production of Natural Disasters in Literature and Pop Culture
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Are we inside the era of disasters or are we merely inundated by mediated accounts of events...
The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture
Yannis Tzioumakis and Sian Lincoln
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A low-budget independent film made by a now defunct video company in the late 1980s, Dirty Dancing...
Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture
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The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular...
Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today
Peter Bennett and Julian McDougall
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Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational...
Becoming Vampire: Difference and the Vampire in Popular Culture
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Becoming Vampire is an interdisciplinary study of how the figure of the vampire in the twenty-first...