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Madonna

Caroline Sullivan

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Madonna is the biggest-selling female recording artist of all time. With each pioneering album she...

Postfeminism(S) and the Fourth Wave: Turning Tides

Nicola Rivers

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This book addresses the current resurgence of interest in feminism - notably within popular culture...

Magic City Nights: Birmingham's Rock 'n' Roll Years

Andre Millard

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This exploration of rock 'n' roll music and culture in Birmingham, Alabama, is based on the oral...

Koontown Killing Kaper

Bill Campbell

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All the rappers in Koontown are being killed, and everybody thinks it is vampire crack babies who...

Concrete Concept: Brutalist Buildings Around the World

Christopher Beanland and Jonathan Meades

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No modern architectural movement has aroused so much awe and so much ire as Brutalism. This global...

African Appropriations: Cultural Difference, Mimesis, and Media

Matthias Krings

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Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese...

Technology and the West: A Historical Anthology from Technology and Culture

Terry S. Reynolds and Stephen H. Cutcliffe

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This anthology provides an overview of technology in Western civilization. Its 21 articles and...

Griffin Dunne recommended Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951) in Movies (curated)

Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951)

1951 | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir

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"It’s sort of the first–and I think still the best–about the media circus, the kind of the vulture culture of descending onto a place where’s child’s life is in danger, the “boy in the well” kind of thing, and how the press is either hoping that the kid dies or is heroically saved so they have a good story. They’re supposedly covering what they think will be a heartwarming story of bravery, but it’s really the darkest cynical tale about popular media culture. It was too dark for people to deal with at the time. Billy Wilder had such a heart of darkness in him, in such a funny way."

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