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  • 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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    157,74 €

  • 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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    158,40 €

  • Hollywood Hates Hitler!
    Chris Yogerst
    In September 1941, a handful of isolationist senators set out to tarnish Hollywood for warmongering. The United States was largely divided on the possibility of entering the European War, yet the immigrant moguls in Hollywood were acutely aware of the conditions in Europe. After Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass), the gloves came off. Warner Bros. released the first dire...
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    158,37 €

  • Pandemic
    Steven R Martins
    On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the SARS COVID-2 (COVID-19) virus to be a worldwide pandemic. The news led to a reaction unlike anything we have seen before, utter pandemonium and governmental lockdown measures that brought most of the world to a stand still. As was expected, the church was not unaffected by the socio-cultural reaction, it too was subj...
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    9,29 €

  • Writing for Spectators and the Internet
    James Greene
    This book of essays presents actors within our historical and contemporary context, at the standpoint of the turn of a twenty-first century. We shall artistically and interpretively think of these societal actors, persons, ideas, authoritative activities, and otherwise as spectators. Being spectators ourselves, we shall add our own contemplation, imagination, and speculation. I...
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    16,73 €

  • Poverty in American Popular Culture
    Wylie Lenz
    In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared an ''unconditional war'' on poverty in the form of sweeping federal programs to assist millions of Americans. Two decades later, President Reagan drastically cut such programs, claiming that welfare encouraged dependency and famously quipping, ''Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won.'' These op...
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    79,21 €

  • The Rise and Fall of the Future
    Gordon Arnold
    Mid-20th century America envisioned a wondrous future of comfort, convenience and technological advancement. Popular culture--including World’s Fairs, science fiction and advertising--fed high hopes even when war and hardship threatened. American ingenuity and consumer culture promised to deliver flying cars, undersea cities, household robots and space travel. By the 1960s poli...
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    64,90 €

  • Momentous Mobilities
    Noel B Salazar
    Grounded in scholarly analysis and personal reflection, and drawing on a multi-sited and multi-method research design, Momentous Mobilities disentangles the meanings attached to temporary travels and stays abroad and offers empirical evidence as well as novel theoretical arguments to develop an anthropology of mobility. Both focusing specifically on how various societies and cu...
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    44,75 €

  • Roma dixit: Citas latinas
    Angela Maria Zanoner
    Las citas latinas nos permiten adentrarnos en nuestras raíces culturales, y nos proporcionan mensajes que sintetizan en pocas líneas la sabiduría y las claves del pensamiento de la Antigüedad. En este libro descubrirá un número considerable de citas con sus respectivas traducciones que le transmitirán todo el saber que encierran. Con un pliego final para apuntar sus favoritas y...
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    9,31 €

  • Los nuevos ceremoniales en Colombia
    Marcos González Pérez
    Contemporáneamente en Colombia han surgido otras formas de manifestación festiva o que escenifican su objeto celebrado con elementos de lo festivo, que se relacionan con lo político, lo social, lo cultural o lo histórico. El objeto central de este estudio es mostrar la relación de la fiesta o el ceremonial con los cambios sociales en Colombia, esencialmente a través del seguimi...
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    12,85 €

  • BRAMHAND KE BADE SAWALO KE SANKSHIPT JAWAB
    STEPHEN HAWKING
    दुनिया के प्रसिद्ध ब्रह्मांड विज्ञानी और अ ब्रीफ़ हिस्ट्री ऑफ़ टाइम के लेखक के ब्रह्मांड के सबसे बड़े प्रश्नों पर व्यक्त अंतिम विचार उनकी इस मरणोपरांत प्रकाशित पुस्तक में दिए गए हैं। ब्रह्मांड की उत्पत्ति कैसे हुई? क्या मानवता पृथ्वी पर अस्तित्व में रहेगी? क्या सौर मंडल से भी ज्यादा बौद्धिक जीवन कोई है? क्या आर्टिफ़िशल इंटेलिजेंस हमें नियंत्रित करेगा? अपने असाधारण करिअर में स्टीफन ...
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    18,77 €

  • AARAMBHIK BHARTIYA
    TONY JOSEPH
    हम भारतीय कौन हैं? हम कहाँ से आए थे? इन गहन सवालों के जवाबों को जानने के लिए पत्रकार टोनी जोसेफ़ 65,000 वर्ष अतीत में जाते हैं, जब आधुनिक मानवों या होमो सेपियन्स के एक समूह ने सबसे पहले अफ़्रीका से भारतीय उपमहाद्धीप तक का सफ़र तय किया था। हाल के डीएनए प्रमाणों का हवाला देते हुए वे भारत में आधुनिक मानवों के बड़े पैमाने पर हुए आगमन यानी ईरान से 7000 ईसा पूर्व और 3000 ईसा पूर्व के बीच...
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    24,47 €

  • From Factory Girls to K-Pop Idol Girls
    Gooyong Kim
    Focusing on female idols’ proliferation in the South Korean popular music (K-pop) industry since the late 1990s, Gooyong Kim critically analyzes structural conditions of possibilities in contemporary popular music from production to consumption. Kim contextualizes the success of K-pop within Korea’s development trajectories, scrutinizing how a formula of developments from the c...
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    54,58 €

  • Hippies, Skinheads, Rastas, Punks & Disco Dancing Bowie Boot Boys
    Ian Dobson
    It began in the 1950s with the Teddy Boys and went viral in the early 60s when the Mods and a new generation of Greasers began to do battle in usually sleepy seasidetowns. But between the summer of love in 67 and the riots of 85 the UK birthed a conveyor belt of more complex, often overlapping  youth styles.Not all Hippies were lentil eating clinically depressed vegetarians and...
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    31,37 €

  • Video Games, Crime and Next-Gen Deviance
    The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, freely available to read online. Drawing on the emerging deviant literature perspective, this book explores a range of culturally embedded harms and other activities to offer new insight on the idea that video games are intertwined with forms of deviancy. ...
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    45,95 €

  • Brute Force
    Dominic Lennard
    Considers how dangerous beasts in horror films illuminate the human-animal relationship. ...
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    41,98 €

  • Conversations with Joanna Scott
    Michael Lackey
    Joanna Scott (b. 1960) has been one of America's leading writers since the 1990s. Both critically acclaimed and winner of numerous prestigious awards, Scott's unique and probing vision and masterful writing has inspired readers to adjust their perceptions of life and of themselves. Her fiction jolts and illuminates, frequently exposing the degree to which the perverse i...
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    43,10 €

  • Mental Disorders in Popular Film
    Erin Heath
    Contemporary Hollywood films commonly use mental disorders as a magnifier by which social, political, or economic problems become enlarged in order to critique societal conditions. Cinema has a long history of amplifying human emotion or experience for dramatic effect. The heightened representations of people with mental disorder often elide one category of literal truths for t...
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    54,84 €

  • Sport Teams, Fans, and Twitter
    Brandi Watkins
    A strong relationship between sport fans and teams is an essential component for the success of the sport brand. This book provides an in-depth examination of the use of Twitter as a tool to enhance and maintain the fan-team relationship. As social media platforms have expanded beyond purely personal use, brands have had to adjust their strategic communication and marketing eff...
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    54,67 €

  • Photography and Death
    Jack Denham / Racheal Harris
    Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, this volume considers what death photography communicates about attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Focusing on American examples, topics are discussed alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen in celebrity death images and forensic photography. ...
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    84,85 €

  • A Book about the Film Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
    Darl Larsen
    This reference identifies and explains the cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python’s Meaning of Life, the Pythons’ third and final original feature as a complete group. In this resource, virtually every allusion and reference that appears in the film is identified and explained -from Britain’s waning Empire through the Winter of Discontent to Margar...
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    77,56 €

  • The four dimensions of power
    Mark Haugaard
    This is an original account of social/political power, which builds upon cutting edge social theory, including Steven Lukes and Michel Foucault. The book develops a four-dimensional model, in an accessible style with vivid examples. It is ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, academics and activist who wish to understand power and conflict. ...
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    42,97 €

  • Myth-Building in Modern Media
    A.J. Black
    Mythology for centuries has served as humanity’s window into understanding its distant past. In our modern world, storytelling creates its own myths and legends, in media ranging from the world of television and cinema to literature and comic books, that help us make sense of the world we live in today. What is the ''Mytharc''? How did it arise? How does it inform modern long...
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    57,52 €

  • One Race
    Steven R. Martins / Steven RMartins
    On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a middle-aged African American, was wrongfully killed by a Minneapolis police officer. His death sparked protests and riots across the United States of America, and raised questions as to how we should regard and respond to systemic racism. In this short book, Steven R. Martins provides a biblically informed response to racism, the matter of human...
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    9,10 €

  • Children’s Books on the Big Screen
    Meghann Meeusen
    In Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen proposes that a consistent trend can be found in movies adapted from children's and young adult books: that representations o...
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    158,54 €

  • Children’s Books on the Big Screen
    Meghann Meeusen
    In Children's Books on the Big Screen, Meghann Meeusen goes beyond the traditional adaptation approach of comparing and contrasting the similarities of film and book versions of a text. By tracing a pattern across films for young viewers, Meeusen proposes that a consistent trend can be found in movies adapted from children's and young adult books: that representations o...
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    50,38 €

  • Posthumanism in Young Adult Fiction
    Contributions by Torsten Caeners, Phoebe Chen, Mathieu Donner, Shannon Hervey, Angela S. Insenga, Patricia Kennon, Maryna Matlock, Ferne Merrylees, Lars Schmeink, Anita Tarr, Tony M. Vinci, and Donna R. WhiteFor centuries, humanism has provided a paradigm for what it means to be human: a rational, unique, unified, universal, autonomous being. Recently, however, a new philosophi...
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    49,87 €

  • Conversations with Graham Swift
    Donald P Kaczvinsky
    Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview from 2016 that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the collection spans Swift's more than thirty-five-year career as a wr...
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    158,58 €

  • Conversations with Graham Swift
    Donald P Kaczvinsky
    Conversations with Graham Swift is the first collection of interviews conducted with the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel Last Orders. Beginning in 1985 with Swift's arrival in New York to promote Waterland and concluding with an interview from 2016 that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, the collection spans Swift's more than thirty-five-year career as a wr...
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    43,12 €

  • Graphic Indigeneity
    Frederick Luis Aldama
    Contributions by Joshua T. Anderson, Chad A. Barbour, Susan Bernardin, Mike Borkent, Jeremy M. Carnes, Philip Cass, Jordan Clapper, James J. Donahue, Dennin Ellis, Jessica Fontaine, Jonathan Ford, Lee Francis IV, Enrique García, Javier García Liendo, Brenna Clarke Gray, Brian Montes, Arij Ouweneel, Kevin Patrick, Candida Rifkind, Jessica Rutherford, and Jorge SantosCultural wor...
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    52,52 €


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