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  • Midlife Creativity and Identity
    Philip Miles
    This book explores the artistic routines and inspirations of amateur and professional musicians, fine artists and literary authors experiencing midlife. Based on ethnographic insight, it argues that creativity is driven by the pursuit of a ’mezzanine’ in-between state where the anarchy of possibility is an antidote to the realities of middle age. ...
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    52,97 €

  • Entertaining Entrepreneurs
    Daniel Horowitz
    The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy. Against this backdrop, the hit reality show Shark Tank premiered in 2009. Featuring ambitious entrepreneurs chasing support from celebrity investors, the show offered a version ...
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    126,93 €

  • Entertaining Entrepreneurs
    Daniel Horowitz
    The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle class, and strengthened the position of the very wealthy. Against this backdrop, the hit reality show Shark Tank premiered in 2009. Featuring ambitious entrepreneurs chasing support from celebrity investors, the show offered a version ...
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    38,07 €

  • Makeup in the World of Beauty Vlogging
    This collection studies beauty vlogging as a phenomenon operating at the intersection of celebrity culture, digital communities, and the cosmetics industry. Exploring subjects ranging from race and gender to disability and religion, the chapters examine how the genre has impacted social media landscapes and gender expression. The contributors analyze how beauty vlogging makes c...
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    143,00 €

  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (B&W)
    Frances Jones
    ’The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in cultur...
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    59,04 €

  • The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer (Premium Color)
    Frances Jones
    ’The Alphorn through the Eyes of the Classical Composer’ is the first and definitive book to be written about the alphorn in English. It has been written with English-speaking readers in mind, as it examines the extensive interest of primarily non-Swiss composers, writers and artists in the alphorn as a symbol of the Alps, the influence and significance of the alphorn in cultur...
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    76,65 €

  • Abecedário de personagens do Folclore Brasileiro
    JANUÁRIA CRISTINA ALVES
    Este livro reúne 141 personagens significativas e recorrentes do nosso folclore, com um recorte que busca contemplar a diversidade de origens - indígena, africana, europeia e oriental - como elemento constituinte da cultura brasileira. ...
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    53,18 €

  • Culture matters
    This book examines the ways cultural connections, constructs, and representations have impacted the history of the Anglo-American special relationship. Its multidisciplinary approach illuminates the mosaic of cultural connections that have simultaneously influenced elite decision-making and sculpted popular attitudes toward and expectations of the special relationship. ...
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    157,07 €

  • Haunted Histories in America
    Nancy Hendricks
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    140,99 €

  • See! Hear! Cut! Kill!
    Wickham Clayton
    Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. To date, it includes twelve movies, a television show, comic books, and video games, among other media. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing "Friday the 13th," Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical asp...
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    50,20 €

  • See! Hear! Cut! Kill!
    Wickham Clayton
    Sean S. Cunningham and Victor Miller's Friday the 13th franchise is one of the most successful horror film franchises in history. To date, it includes twelve movies, a television show, comic books, and video games, among other media. In SEE! HEAR! CUT! KILL! Experiencing "Friday the 13th," Wickham Clayton explores several aspects of the films including how the technical asp...
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    158,36 €

  • Folklore Recycled
    Frank de Caro
    Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts starts from the proposition that folklore--usually thought of in its historical social context as 'oral tradition'--is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in their fiction or poetry, taking plots, as an example, from a folktale. Visual artists may concentrate on depicting folk ...
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    50,16 €

  • No Kids Allowed
    Michelle Ann Abate
    Children’s literature isn’t just for children anymore. This original study explores the varied forms and roles of children’s literature--when it’s written for adults. What do Adam Mansbach’s Go the F**k to Sleep and Barbara Park’s MA! There’s Nothing to Do Here! have in common? These large-format picture books are decidedly intended for parents rather than children. In No Kids...
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    47,40 €

  • Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change
    Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad
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    44,39 €

  • The Cultural Construction of Monstrous Children
    This innovative and interdisciplinary collection of essays considers examples of monstrous children since the 16th century to the present, spanning real-life and popular culture, to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic, anomalous child as naughty, dangerous, or just plain evil. ...
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    180,19 €

  • Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi
    Joshua N. Azriel / Joshua NAzriel
    Restricting Los Angeles Paparazzi: California’s Legal Efforts Impacting Free Press Rights is a detailed analysis of California’s anti-paparazzi laws aimed at protecting celebrities’ privacy. Joshua N. Azriel provides an ethnographic, First Amendment-based critique of the state’s privacy and anti-harassment laws and discusses the broader implications of these laws on free press ...
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    122,61 €

  • The Civil War on Film
    Peg Lamphier / Rosanne Welch
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    89,14 €

  • Animals and Ourselves
    The relationship between humans and animals has always been strong, symbiotic and complicated. Animals, real and fictional, have been a mainstay in the arts and entertainment, figuring prominently in literature, film, television, social media, and live performances. Increasingly, though, people are anthropomorphizing animals, assigning them humanoid roles, tasks and identities....
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    66,16 €

  • Netflix Nostalgia
    Whether it’s 'Flashback Friday' or 'Throwback Thursday,' audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix serves up shows from the past that satisfy this craving, in addition to producing original contemporary content with nostalgic flavor. As a part of the series 'Reboots, Remakes and Adaptations' originated by series editors Dr. Carlen ...
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    54,09 €

  • Patterns of American Popular Heroism
    James G. Shoopman
    The American popular hero has deeply bipolar origins: Depending on prevailing attitudes about the use or abuse of authority, American heroes may be rooted in the traditions of the Roman conquerors of The Aeneid or of the biblical underdog warriors and prophets. This book reviews the history of American popular culture and its heroes from the Revolutionary War and pre-Civil W...
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    71,79 €

  • Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema
    James S. Williams
    Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Régina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Newton I. Aduaka, Jean-Pierre Bekolo and Mati Diop, who have begun to reassess and ...
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    54,38 €

  • Martin, Maya, and Me
    Michael DePung
    Martin, Maya, and Me: A Brief Exploration of Social Injustice and its stories, opinions, and a bit of literary considerations help you explore your own beliefs about yourself, your relation to others—otherwise know as society—and social injustices to begin some much needed healing. What is your belief about who you are as an individual? How do you relate to the Other? Perhaps m...
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    17,95 €

  • The Beautiful - An Introduction to Psychological Aesthetics
    Vernon Lee
    Violet Paget (1856–1935), also known under the pseudonym Vernon Lee, was a French-born British writer famous for her supernatural fiction and contributions to the field of aesthetics. She also wrote more than a dozen books on a variety of subjects ranging from music to travel, and today she is best remembered for her original ideas and amusing use of irony. First published in 1...
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    20,32 €

  • The Encyclopedia of Quizzes
    Stephen R. Baker / Stephen RBaker
    THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF QUIZZESDevoted Exclusively to Facts15,000 SEPARATE ENTRIESThe novel format of The Encyclopedia of Quizzes provides a fun way to both acquire facts and to retrieve and retain them. They are presented as active participatory exercises designed to expand your knowledge base. Each of these 730 QUIZZES consists of an ensemble of 20 or more clues and response choi...
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    28,55 €

  • Keeping the faith
    Keith Gildart / Stephen Catterall
    This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of the connections between class ...
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    157,04 €

  • Hero and Hero-Worship
    In the aftermath of liberalization of Indian economy in 1991, the study of star-fan studies has experienced exponential expansion. Hero and Hero-Worship: Fandom in Modern India explores the areas of political, religious, film and cricket star fandoms; analyzing the rise of star formations and their consequent fandoms, star-fan bonds, as well as the physical and virtual space th...
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    68,31 €

  • Tweencom Girls
    Patrice A. Oppliger / Patrice AOppliger
    Tweencom Girls analyzes the different ways character tropes are portrayed in media targeted at eight- to twelve-year-olds, particularly female characters, over the last twenty-five years. The book focuses particularly on sitcoms produced by the cable giants Disney Channel and Nickelodeon because of their popularity and ubiquity. It provides extensive examples and alternative in...
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    54,43 €

  • Black Female Vampires in African American Women’s Novels, 1977-2011
    Kendra R. Parker / Kendra RParker
    This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gender studies, and critical race studies. Black female vampires continue to appear as important literary devices and revealing indicators of cultural attitudes and trends about African American women’s bodies. This book examines five nov...
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    54,61 €

  • Critical Directions in Comics Studies
    Thomas Giddens
    Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia WysockiRecent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root--assumption...
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    49,58 €

  • Toxic Masculinity
    Contributions by Daniel J. Connell, Esther De Dauw, Craig Haslop, Drew Murphy, Richard Reynolds, Janne Salminen, Karen Sugrue, and James C. TaylorThe superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they ...
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    50,24 €


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