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Its been over thirty-five years since the irrepressible Fraggles first hit the screen in the beloved childrens television hit Fraggle Rock. Created...

Join the Fellowship of the Ring with the only official The Lord of the Rings tarot deck! Featuring original artwork inspired by classic tarot icono...

This exhilarating pop-up book invites you to relive the movie adventures of Hermione Granger, Ron Weasley, and the Boy Who LivedHarry Potteras you ...

From Jon Sopel, bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents, comes an incisive examination of post-Brexit Britain and what it m...

The success of modern sports, entertainment, political, and other cultural categories is driven by organizations ability to create and manage fando...

27th November 1918, London. Just 16 days after the end of the Great War, with the nation on its knees, Billie Carleton takes to the stage for the l...

Television shows that we might call prestige television represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes ex...

An A to Z guide to the trailblazing musician, fashion icon, Oscar-nominated actor and impassioned activist. Learn from Lady Gagas career experience...

Essential reading. ESQUIRE Both absorbing and highly illuminating  THE BOOKSELLER No one understands the intricacies of YouTube like Chris Stoke...

American painter Roy Lichtenstein (19231997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in la...

Explore the enduring influence of the Western the quintessential American film genre and its essential role in US and world culture. Follow the...

Superhero Rhetoric from Exceptionalism to Globalization: Up, Up and ...Abroad examines superhero narratives through the lens of American rhetoric a...

As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia...

In his new book, Charles Saatchi looks at hard-to-believe bewildering facts.Amongst the startling images, these mystifying hidden stories are expla...

Romans! Madrigals! The Dark Ages! Evolutions! Trumpets! The Oranges of The First World War!All of this (except trumpets) and more is covered in thi...

When rock star Bono told Oprah Winfrey that America is an ideal that is supposed to be contagious, the talk show host was moved to tears. Such an i...

One hundred key artefacts that encapsulate the Marvel Cinematic Universe in all its multifaceted magnificence.Explore Marvel Studios prop archives ...

With joy and grace to accompany the readers to have the translocal tour to visit about thirty-seven works, this monograph applies the academic crit...

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King! Follow Jack Skellington on his nightmarish journey into Christmas Town and back through the pages of this tiny s...

Thomas Merton proclaimed, over sixty years ago, that we were living in a post-Christian world. Since then, in an increasingly secular society where...

Critical discussion of cult cinema has often noted its tendency to straddle or ignore boundaries, to pull together different sets of conventions, n...

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future ...