Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. — 256 p. — ISBN10: 0691181810; ISBN13: 978-0691181813 An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the...
Charles River Editors, 2019. — 140 p. Christmas is the most important holiday of the year. After the corresponding days that exalt the national pride of each country, such as Independence Day in the United States, Victory Day in Russia, or Bastille Day in France, it's December 25 that articulates the life, the work and the economy in much of the world, including many...
Santa-Barbara: Greenwood/ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 354 p. The wide impact that the imagined alien has had upon Western culture has not been surveyed before; in many cases the essays in Aliens in Popular Culture are the first written on the topic. The book is a compendium of short entries on notable uses of aliens in popular culture across different media and platforms by almost 90...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers , 2016. — 313 p. — ISBN10: 1442253118, 13 978-1442253117. The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms of popular culture. From Afropop and Anime to Oprah Winfrey and the X-Files, the book provides more than just accessible definitions. Each of the more than 800 entries...
Greenwood Press, 2002. — 315 p. — ISBN 0–313–31822–0. This book is an attempt to separate reality from dramatic license in popular culture’s treatment of science and of some of the technologies deeply influenced by it. Each of its eighty-one entries deals with a science-related object, idea, person, process, or concept. Each briefly sum- marizes the current understanding of the...
Article published in «Science Fiction Studies» — 2010 — Vol. 37 — No. 1 (March) — pp. 16-22. In the late 1970s, Robert Scholes and Eric Rabkin published Science Fiction: History, Science, Vision, a work that heralded the maturation of the American academy with regards to the genre as an object of serious study. Parts of this pioneering work stand up to contemporary scrutiny....
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 265 p. — ISBN10: 023052477X, ISBN13: 978-0230524774 Through the analysis of examples that range from cutting-edge Hollywood blockbusters to viral films on the internet, and from Victorian cinema to the present, the contributors to this volume discuss the ways in which thinking about technology is crucial to understanding cinema’s forms, significance...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-1-349-44888-3, ISBN: 978-1-137-28308-5 Animation, Embodiment and Digital Media articulates the human experience of technology-mediated animated phenomena in terms of sensory perception, bodily action and imaginative interpretation, suggesting a new theoretical framework with analyses of exemplary user interfaces, video games and...
McFarland & Company, 2013. — 315 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7864-4601-8 Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess and the Frog...
Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. — 188 p. — ISBN: 0-8476-9109-8 How are children — and their parents — affected by the world’s most influential corporation? Henry A. Giroux explores the surprisingly diverse ways in which Disney, while hiding behind a cloak of innocence and entertainment, strives to dominate global media and shape the desires, needs, and futures of today’s children....
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. — xx+523 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4438-2867-3. James Bond in World and Popular Culture: The Films are Not Enough provides the most comprehensive study of the James Bond phenomena ever published. The 40 original essays provide new insights, scholarship, and understanding to the world of James Bond. Topics include the Bond girl, Bond related video...
Ph.D. thesis. — York: Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, 1998. — 317 p. Vikings are a vibrant part of modern popular culture. Although the Viking Age ended nearly a millennium ago, today Viking images are everywhere, functioning as tourist attractions, marketing devices, role models, and sources of regional/national pride and identity. This thesis examines the...
Chile: Siglo XX Editores, 1971. Este libro es una crítica marxista a la empresa de entretenimientos de Walt Disney y a su mundo de fantasías. La tesis de los autores es que este mundo aparentemente inocente, en realidad es un medio desde el cual Disney pretende instaurar el Capitalismo y el modo de vida de EE.UU. Para el análisis los autores se basan en las historietas...
Reaktion Books, 2018. — 272 p. — ISBN: 1789140048. From Jurassic Park to Sue the T-Rex and Barney, our dino love affair is as real, as astonishing, and as incomprehensible as the gargantuan beasts themselves. At once reptilian and avian, dinosaurs enable us to imagine a world far beyond the usual boundaries of time, culture, and physiology. We envision them in diverse and...
Routledge, 1980 / Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. — 312 p. The volume as a whole was edited, on behalf of the Centre, by an Editorial Group consisting of Steve Baron, Michael Denning, Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andy Lowe and Paul Willis. The present volume is divided into four main sections. They deal with ethnographic work, the media, language and English studies.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. — 154 p. The Face of the Slender Man Here There Be Monsters Open-Sourcing Horror The Digital Campfire The Slender Man Who Loved Me Facing the Slender Man
Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 284 p. — ISBN: 1501338536. Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond. Having announced plans to extend its production of connected texts in cinema, network and online television until at least 2028, the new aesthetic...