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Concise dictionary of popular culture / by Danesi, Marcel,1946-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The Concise Dictionary of Popular Culture covers the theories, media forms, fads, celebrities and icons, genres, and terms from popular culture. Each of the eight hundred entries is cross-referenced with other entries to highlight point of connection." - Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Dictionaries.; Popular culture;
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Alcohol in popular culture : an encyclopedia / by Black, Rachel,1975-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.This encyclopedia presents the many sides of America's ongoing relationship with alcohol, examining the political history, pivotal events, popular culture, and advances in technology that have affected its consumption. --from publisher description
Subjects: Alcoholic beverages; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Alcoholic beverage industry;
© c2010., Greenwood,
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More : the vanishing of scale in an over-the-top nation / by Bishop, Ronald,1961-;
"Gone are the days of enjoying life's simple pleasures for pleasure's sake. Twenty-first-century Americans are on a mission to cram every second of their earthly existence with significant accomplishments and momentous events. Even the most mundane undertaking must be approached with zeal, gusto, and expertise, or so the media persuade us to believe. Are we capable of doing anything casually anymore? This first book-length treatment of media's obsession with triviality, cultural critic Ronald Bishop calls into focus the role of media in the demise of scale -- the amount of effort, intensity, and significance with which we live -- in contemporary culture. Bishop argues that American audiences are assaulted with messages that the ordinary, and often private, aspects of our lives -- family, childhood, parenting, education, food, sports, home improvement -- must be showcased publicly and with extreme passion."--Publisher's description.Includes bibliographical references and index.Go forth and multiply -- Is breast best? -- Is zero tolerance tolerable? -- Only experts and fanatics need apply -- My drug of choice -- The tyranny of talking points -- Does Anthony Bourdain hate Rachael Ray? -- The museum of me -- Conclusions: thanks a lot, Tim McGraw.
Subjects: Culture.; Mass media and culture.; Popular culture.; Mass media.;
© c2011., Baylor University Press,
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September 11 in popular culture : a guide / by Quay, Sara E.; Damico, Amy M.;
Includes bibliographical references, discography, filmography, and index.Everyday life -- News and information -- Books -- Television -- Film -- Music -- Visual culture.
Subjects: September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001; September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media.;
© c2010., Greenwood,
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Religion and popular culture in America / by Forbes, Bruce David,editor.; Mahan, Jeffrey H.,editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : finding religion in unexpected places / Bruce David Forbes -- The origin(s) of Superman : reimagining religion in the Man of Steel / Dan W. Clanton, Jr. -- The Oriental monk in American popular culture / Jane Naomi Iwamura -- Adventure time and sacred history : myth and reality in children's animated cartoons / Elijah Siegler -- Monstrous Muslims : historical anxieties and future trends / Sophia R. Arjana -- The weight of the world : religion and heavy metal music in four cases / Jason C. Bivins -- Christmas is like a snowball / Bruce David Forbes -- Mipsterz : hip, American, and Muslim / Kristin M. Peterson, Nabil Echchaibi -- Megachurches, celebrity pastors, and the evangelical industrial complex / Jessica Johnson -- People of the picture book : PJ Library and American Jewish religion / Rachel B. Gross -- Meditation-on-the-go : Buddhist smartphone apps as video game play / Gregory Price Grieve -- It's about faith in our future : Star Trek fandom as cultural religion / Michael Jindra -- Shopping, religion, and the sacred "buyosphere" / Sarah McFarland Taylor -- Losing their way to salvation : women, weight loss, and the religion of thinness / Michelle M. Lelwica -- The "godding up" of American sports / Joseph L. Price -- Celebrity worship as parareligion : Bieber and the Beliebers / Pete Ward -- Yoga in popular culture : controversies and conflicts / Shreena Niketa Ghandi -- Mirror, mirror, on ourselves : Disney as a site of religio-cultural dialogue / Stephanie Brehm and Myev Rees -- Can watching a movie be a spiritual experience? / Robert K. Johnston -- Rap music and its message : on the contact between religion and popular culture / Anthony B. Pinn -- Broadswords and face paint : why Braveheart still matters / Curtis D. Coats and Stewart M. Hoover -- Discussion questions."Since 2000, Religion and Popular Culture in America has been one [of the] standard books used in teaching this area of study. Modestly updated in 2005, it continues to be taught in colleges, universities and theological schools across the continent. The basic four-part structure of Religion and Popular Culture in America remains sound and is a feature that appeals to many who have taught the volume. Section One, Religion in Popular Culture, examines the way traditional religious symbols, narratives, and forms of religious practice appear in popular culture. Section Two, Popular Culture in Religion, considers how religion takes on and is reshaped by styles and values of popular culture. Section Three, Popular Culture as Religion, explores the ways that aspects of popular culture and their reception might be considered to be forms of religion. Section Four, Religion and Popular Culture in Dialogue, introduces religiously based critiques of popular culture and ways that popular culture articulates common critiques of religion. The third edition maintains the structure and basic length of the current edition and retains Forbes' introductory framework and update versions of key essay. But they replace many of the more dated subjects with new material drawing on more contemporary examples. A concluding essay by Mahan organizes key insights from the essays and relates them to the theories of popular culture illuminated in the introduction"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Popular culture; Religion and culture;
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An intelligent person's guide to modern culture / by Scruton, Roger.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index.What is culture? -- Culture and cult -- Enlightenment -- The aesthetic gaze -- Romanticism -- Fantasy, imagination and the salesman -- Modernism -- Avant-garde and kitsch -- Surface and surfeit -- Yoofanasia -- Idle hands -- The devil's work -- Conclusions."Received by the British press with equal acclaim and indignation, this book sets out to define and defend high culture against the world of pop, corn, and popcorn. It shows just why culture matters in an age without faith, and gives an extended argument, drawing on philosophy, criticism, and anthropology, against the "post-modernist" world-view. Scruton offers a penetrating attack on deconstruction, on Foucault, on Nietzschean self-indulgence, and on the "culture of repudiation" which has infected the modern academy. But his book is not only negative. It is a celebration of the true heroes of modern culture and a call to the higher life."."The American edition of this famous and notorious work has been revised to take account of the controversy which it has inspired, and contains new material specially directed to Americans."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Culture.; Arts, Modern.; Civilization, Modern; Popular culture.;
© 2000., St. Augustine's Press,
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The Civil War in popular culture : [electronic resource] : Memory and meaning. by Kreiser, Lawrence A. Jr.;
Dividing the nation for four years, the American Civil War resulted in 750,000 casualties and forever changed the country's destiny. The conflict continues to resonate in our collective memory, and U.S. economic, cultural, and social structures still suffer the aftershocks of the nation's largest and most devastating war. Nearly 150 years later, portrayals of the war in books, songs, cinema, and other cultural media continue to draw widespread attention and controversy.In The Civil War in Popular Culture: Memory and Meaning, editors Lawrence A. Kreiser Jr. and Randal Allred analyze American depictions of the war across a variety of mediums, from books and film, to monuments and battlefield reunions, to reenactments and board games. This collection examines how battle strategies, famous generals, and the nuances of Civil War politics translate into contemporary popular culture. This unique analysis assesses the intersection of the Civil War and popular culture by recognizing how memories and commemorations of the war have changed since it ended in 1865.Electronic reproduction.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Collective memory ; Popular culture; Nonfiction.; Sociology.;
© 2014.,
On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=1497673 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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Baby boomers and popular culture : an inquiry into America's most powerful generation / by Cogan, Brian,1967-; Gencarelli, Thom.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.From Camelot to Watergate : ten years that changed the politics of boomer culture / William M. Knoblauch -- The whole world is watching : the SDS and student movement of the 1960s / Ed Tywoniak -- Breaking down doors : the Stonewall riots and LGBT rights / Anastacia Kurylo -- Wearing members only jackets : baby boomers and the shift from sharing in to buying into community / Todd Kelshaw -- Boomers in the global village / Michael Grabowski -- Let the games begin : baby boomers, capitalist ideology, and the containment of gender in sports television / Cheryl A. Casey -- "And now bringing you the good life, a word from our sponsors" : the changing face of television advertising from the sixties to the present day / Rebecca Kern -- Moving with the pictures : film viewing across the boomer era / Sheila J. Nayar -- Chilling to The big chill : representations of boomers in movies / Robert Hensley-King -- The new horror movie / Todd K. Platts -- Rock music on film : a selective chronology / Sarah Boslaugh -- "It's only rock-'n'-roll" : the rise of the contemporary popular music industry as a defining factor in the creation of boomer culture / Thom Gencarelli -- "In my life" : the transformative power of music and media during the rebellions of the 1960s / Robert Albrecht -- "Love is all you need" : why there will never be another Beatles / Phil Rose -- Bob Dylan and spectacle culture : yesterday and today / Salvatore J. Fallica -- "Come see about me" : why the baby boomers liked Stax but loved Motown / Gary Kenton -- Reading the boomers' reading : what did they read? Who did they read? Who wrote about them? / David Linton -- Equipment for living : the popularity and use of second-wave feminist literature among baby boomers / Kim Trager Bohley -- "After Life, the magazine, the splintering of the categories : boomers as a target audience" (including "Mau-mau-ing the press: the rise of 'new' journalism," "Rolling Stone: the magazine that marked a generation," and "Tom Wolfe, Gay Talese, and the 'new journalism' as literature") / Brian Cogan -- Soul on ice : the rise of minority literature / Christopher Allen Varlack -- The baby boom, the bomb, and outer space : growing up in a science fiction world / Lance Strate -- Marshall McLuhan and the making of a countercultural generation / James C. Morrison.Once upon a time, the members of the Baby Boomer generation were young, idealistic, and hungry to change the world. And they did create sweeping, irreversible changes throughout American society--but probably not in the ways their younger selves imagined they would. Now that the Boomers are in their late-adult or retirement years, their tremendous legacy can clearly be perceived. In retrospect, the paths the members of this generation took to come to power--and how they came to terms with that power--are also apparent. This single-volume work supplies a broad yet detailed critical guide to the Boomer Generation, containing essays on key people, moments, and phenomena not only during the Boomers' 1960s heyday but also their extensive influences on American culture decades afterward. The contributors address key topics such as the rise of feminism; Civil Rights; the Vietnam War and the anti-war movement; the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, and rock 'n roll; gay rights; idealism, narcissism, and materialism; the influence of television on America, and vice versa; and the transition of Boomers from being "Yippies" to "Yuppies." This work is an ideal text for students in undergraduate or graduate courses in television studies, media studies, cultural studies, and American studies; and is highly appropriate as a supplemental text in literature, history, and philosophy surveys.
Subjects: Popular culture; Baby boom generation;
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Bullies and mean girls in popular culture / by Oppliger, Patrice A.;
The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. One reason for this is that little attention has been paid to the role of the media and popular culture in adolescents' bullying and mean-girl behavior. This book addresses media role models in television, film, picture books, and the Internet in the realm of bullying and relational aggression. It highlights portrayals with unproductive strategies that lead to poor resolutions or no resolution at all. Young viewers may learn ineffective, even dangerous, ways of handling aggressive situations. Victims may feel discouraged when they are unable to handle the situation as easily as in media portrayals. They may also feel their experiences are trivialized by comic portrayals. Entertainment programming, aimed particularly at adolescents, often portray adults as incompetent or uncaring and include mean-spirited teasing. In addition, overuse of the term "bully" and defining all bad behavior as "bullying" may dilute the term and trivialize the problem. -- From publisher's website.Includes bibliographical references and index.Bullies and the media -- Mean girls and the media -- Film bullies -- Film mean girls -- Television bullies -- Television mean girls -- Television sitcoms -- Glee's bullies and mean girls -- Documentaries and talk shows -- Television reality shows -- Children's programs -- Children's literature -- Alternative media -- Pro-social and anti-bullying messages -- Analysis and recommendations.
Subjects: Bullies in mass media.; Bullying; Mass media and girls.; Girls in popular culture.;
© [2013], McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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Connecting social problems and popular culture : why media is not the answer / by Sternheimer, Karen.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-306) and index.Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Media phobia : why blaming popular culture for causing social problems is a problem -- Media phobia #1. Popular culture is dumbing down America -- Media phobia #2. Popular culture is ruining childhood -- Media phobia #3. Media violence causes real violence -- Media phobia #4. Popular culture promotes teen sex -- Media phobia #5. Popular culture promotes teen pregnancy and single parenthood -- Media phobia #6. Popular culture makes kids more materialistic than ever -- Media phobia #7. Popular culture may be hazardous to your health -- Media phobia #8. Popular culture promotes substance abuse -- Media phobia #9. Rap music promotes misogyny, homophobia, and racism -- Conclusion. Understanding social problems beyond popular culture : why inequality matters -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Subjects: Mass media; Popular culture; Mass media and culture; Social problems;
© c2010., Westview Press,
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