Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture
Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter and Bob Batchelor
Book
Despite the increasing variety of heroic women portrayed in film, television, and other popular...
Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture
Book
A powerful female, preadolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming...
China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization
Book
Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
Book
WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of...
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos and Harry G. West
Book
In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose...
Space Oddities: Women and Outer Space in Popular Film and Culture, 1960-2000
Book
Space Oddities examines the representation of women in outer space films from 1960 to 2000, with an...
Satellite Sisters: Women's Humor, Health, Wellness, Pop Culture, Parenting, News
Podcast
Satellite Sisters is a pep talk for modern women. Writer Lian Dolan, Business Leader Liz Dolan and...
A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and Agata Zarzycka
Book
Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a...
Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland: Locality, Identity and Culture
Book
For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in...