Popular Culture

An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology—and their influence on the addictive nature of social mediaExperimental cognit...

A daring collaboration among scholars, Black Sexual Economies challenges thinking that sees black sexualities as a threat to normative ideas about ...

As a music scene, punk rock faces an unfortunate stereotype which often assumes an overwhelming presence of aggression and indifference. Using inte...

The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television, comparing male twins to female twins and mal...

Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meaning, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and li...

Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed wit...

What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The Augmented Reality of Pokémon GO: Chronotopes, M...

In late 19th century England, Oscar Wilde popularized aestheticism, also known as art-for-art’s-sake – the idea that art, that beauty, should not b...

From the dust of the Montana plains to the farthest reaches of the cosmos, Terrence Malick’s films have enchanted audiences with transcendent image...

Since the Korean Wave phenomenon started in 1997, Hallyu has undergone many changes. Geographically, while Asia has been the largest cultural marke...

This interdisciplinary study examines the relationship between violence, empowerment, and the teenage super/heroine in comics and young adult fanta...

The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people wit...

Whether it’s “Flashback Friday” or “Throwback Thursday,” audiences are hungry for nostalgic film and television, and the streaming giant Netflix se...

A Generation Abandoned explores the disruptive cultural events especially of the past half century as these have undermined the confidence of the y...

HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premie...

In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgence...

This edited volume serves as a place for teachers and scholars to begin seeking ways in which popular culture has been effectively tapped for resea...

Social Media: Principles and Applications examines social media in interpersonal, mass-mediated, educational, organizational, and political setting...

The rise of consumerism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries radically changed the way we perceive ourselves and the world around us. And, a...

Advertising, Sex, and Post-Socialism explores the role of advertising and the consumption it promotes in changing cultural perceptions of sex and f...

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Th...

America is fascinated with celebrities—from chefs to athletes to television, movie, and rock stars, and even to people who are only famous for bein...

Born roughly between 1964 and 1980, Generation X has received much less critical attention than the two generations that precede and follow it: the...

This book explores the symbolic connections between Christianity and Heavy Metal music in the context of the secular West. Heavy Metal uses symbols...

As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following ...

It goes without saying that identity has long been a recurrent topic in studies of American culture. The struggle between group sameness and indivi...

The eight essays contained in Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture explore the portrayal of women and various philosophical responses to that...

Social Networking and Impression Management: Self-Presentation in the Digital Age, edited by Carolyn Cunningham, offers critical inquiry into how i...

Portrayals of Children in Popular Culture: Fleeting Images, edited by Vibiana Bowman Cvetkovic and Debbie Olson, is a collection which examines ima...

Death metal is one of popular music's most extreme variants, and is typically viewed as almost monolithically nihilistic, misogynistic, and reactio...

Media competes with public schools in terms of student engagement and time. However, the two needn't be mutually exclusive. The Pedagogy of Pop: Th...

Citizens everywhere are turning to multiple news sources to inform their daily decisions. In Brazil, an emerging global power and democracy, those ...

This anthology hosts a collection of essays examining the role of comics as portals for historical and academic content, while keeping the approach...

While some people find new opportunities in the postindustrial economy, many working-class men find their social and economic well-being collapse a...

A Transnational History of Punk Communities in Poland is a multi-regional study of the history and contemporary condition of two Polish punk commun...

Girls' Series Fiction and American Popular Culture examines the ways in which young female heroines in American series fiction have undergone drama...

The concept of “fandom” has been revolutionized over the past 20 years because of various technological, cultural, and communicative advancements. ...

Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, outsiders will have two versions of the Katrina experience. One version will be the images they recall from news...

Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the course of the last century revea...

An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy...

Each age produces its own Henry(s). This innovative study in popular culture examines how novels, films, TV-series and historiography shape new ver...

This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologi...

With the emergence of popular culture phenomena such as reality television, blogging, and social networking sites, it is important to examine the r...

The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday li...

The popularity of cable news, satire, documentaries, and political blogs suggest that people are often absorbing and dissecting direct political me...