China in the Mix: Cinema, Sound, and Popular Culture in the Age of Globalization
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Scarce attention has been paid to the dimension of sound and its essential role in constructing...
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...
Football and Colonialism: Body and Popular Culture in Urban Mozambique
Nuno Domingos and Harry G. West
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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
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Space Oddities examines the representation of women in outer space films from 1960 to 2000, with an...
A Dark California: Essays on Dystopian Depictions in Popular Culture
Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice and Agata Zarzycka
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Focusing on portrayals of California in popular culture, this collection of new essays traces a...
The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack: Victorian Urban Folklore and Popular Cultures
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WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of...
Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
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Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted...
Popular Catholicism in 20th-Century Ireland: Locality, Identity and Culture
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For much of the 20th century, Catholics in Ireland spent significant amounts of time engaged in...
Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture
Nathan Abrams and Phyllis Lassner
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Jews and Jewishness in British Film, Television, and Popular Culture is the...