Popular Culture
"The Fashion Reader"
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Designed for students, scholars, and those interested in contemporary fashion. This book brings together the key writings on the subject, covering the history, culture, and business of fashion. The extracts are drawn from a range of sources - books, professional and academic journals, magazines, interviews and exhibition catalogues. With illustrations. Paperback, 480 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 1042g.
Author: (Welters, Linda, ed.)
ISBN: 1845204867
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Popular Culture
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"Feminism in Popular Culture"
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Tackles the hot topic of how women see and empower themselves in contemporary society. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 216 x 138 mm. Weight: 35g.
Author: (Hollows, Joanne, ed.)
ISBN: 1845202236
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Popular Culture
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"Food"
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"Alphabet City" series; Food is essential to our sense of place and our sense of self, but our food habits are shifting. This book examines and imagines these changes, with projects by writers and artists that explore cultural and emotional resonance of food, from the everyday Dada of mashed potatoes and Jell-O to rocket science of food eaten by astronauts in space. With 100 colour illustrations. Hardback, 320 pages. Size: 168 x 127 mm. Weight: 421g.
Author: (Knechtel, John, ed.)
ISBN: 0262113090
Publisher: Mit Press Ltd
Date: 2007 (United States)
Readership: Professional & Vocational Popular Culture
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"Found"
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Collects items that have been lost, dropped, cast aside or simply forgotten in a rush. Every item in this title tells a part of a different story. It reminds us what being human is all about. Paperback, 160 pages. Size: 199 x 183 mm. Weight: 436g.
Author: (Rothbart, Davy, ed.)
ISBN: 184403657X
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Geek Chic"Smart Women in Popular Culture
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Mainstream society has often had a deeply rooted fear of intelligent women. Why do brilliant women make society ill at ease? Focusing on the US, this book explores this question in the context of the past several years, putting forward an argument that more intelligent women are appearing in popular culture than ever before. With illustrations. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 309g.
Author: (Inness, Sherrie A., ed.)
ISBN: 1403979030
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Undergraduate Popular Culture
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"Hooligan Wars"Causes and Effects of Football Violence
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"Mainstream Sport" series; This title looks behind the easy answers to football hooliganism by comparing England's fan culture to football supporters' experience in France, Germany and Holland. The role of fascist groups, the effect of media coverage and the impact of all-seater stadiums are reviewed. Paperback, 240 pages. Size: 198 x 129 mm. Weight: 458g.
Author: (Perryman, Mark, ed.)
ISBN: 1840186704
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
Date: 2002 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"India's Popular Culture"
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Presents essays that explore the role of imagery in Indian popular culture across such diverse topics as religious and social symbolism; national identity; film, theatre and photography; and architecture and urban living. This title also includes: Of Gods and Globes: territorialization of Hindu deities, and The Family Archive: photo-narratives. With 100 full-colour, plus 24 b&w illustrations. Hardback, 128 pages. Size: 304 x 241 mm. Weight: 1084g.
Author: (Jain, Jyotindra, ed.)
ISBN: 8185026815
Publisher: Marg Publications,India
Date: 2008 (India)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Innocent"
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"Great Brand Stories" series; Paperback, Weight: 211g.
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ISBN: 1905736576
Publisher: Cyan Books
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Interpreting Everyday Culture"
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"Arnold Publication" series; Introduces first and second year University students to cultural studies approaches to everyday life. This textbook takes a look at the familiar yet strangely intriguing terrain of daily life in modern, industrialized societies. It raises a series of questions, including: What is lifestyle, exactly, and when and why was it invented? With glossary. Paperback, 256 pages. Size: 235 x 159 mm. Weight: 419g.
Author: (Martin, Fran, ed.)
ISBN: 0340808527
Publisher: Hodder Education
Date: 2003 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Jackie Annual"All Your Favourites
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Contains quizzes, such as 'Are You Nice or Nasty?', advice, including 'A Jackie Guide to Kissing', fashion stories, pop and TV news, and a cautionary reader's true experience photo story 'I Tried to Change Him'. With artworks, colour & b/w white photos throughout. Hardback, 144 pages. Size: 271 x 195 mm. Weight: 756g.
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ISBN: 1853756261
Publisher: Prion Books Ltd
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Jackie Magazine"The Seventies
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Teen magazine Jackie sold over 1 million copies every week during the seventies. Dear Cathy and Claire was THE problem page of the 1970s, and arguably the most iconic problem page of all time. Boy trouble, horoscopes, make-up, fashion tips, the agony of falling out with your best friend, and more boy trouble. With 300 colour/b/w photographs. Hardback, 160 pages. Size: 341 x 255 mm. Weight: 1236g.
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ISBN: 1853755869
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Date: 2005 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Jackie's Dear Cathy and Claire"The Best of the Iconic Agony Aunts
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With nowhere else to turn, each week hundreds of girls went to the considerable effort of putting pen to paper and finding a stamp, and would then turn to the Cathy and Claire page to find solutions to their problems. This book, reproduced from the original magazine, features the most resonant of those letters. With 50 b/w photographs. Hardback, 112 pages. Size: 145 x 138 mm. Weight: 788g.
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ISBN: 1853756032
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Date: 2006 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Made in Newcastle"
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"Visual Culture" series; Covers aspects of the visual history of the North East and tells the story of a changing identity and the role of the region in the development of post-war culture. With 20 b&w photographs. Paperback, 200 pages. Size: 232 x 155 mm. Weight: 375g.
Author: (Fawcett, Hilary, ed.)
ISBN: 1904794262
Publisher: Northumbria University Press
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Popular Culture and Political Identity in the Arab Gulf States"
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"Soas Middle East Issues" series; Explores the dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression and their relationships with political authority. Paperback, 144 pages. Size: 210 x 135 mm. Weight: 223g.
Author: (Alsharekh, Alanoud, ed.)
ISBN: 0863566928
Publisher: Saqi Books
Date: 2008 (United Kingdom)
Readership: General (Us: Trade) Popular Culture
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"Pornification"Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture
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Presents an international overview of how pornography - from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates and proliferates through our media. Exploring music videos, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, this work analyses the transformation of porn in media and its impact on our culture. With 40 bw illus.. Hardback, 220 pages. Size: 234 x 156 mm. Weight: 458g.
Author: (Paasonen, Susanna, ed.)
ISBN: 1845207033
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Date: 2007 (United Kingdom)
Readership: Tertiary Education (Us: College) Popular Culture
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