Popular Culture

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race,...

During its 33-season run, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001) left an indelible mark on millions of children and their caregivers. Perhaps n...

Speculative science fiction, with its underlying socio-political dialogue, represents an important intersection of popular culture and public disco...

Harry Potter has given the study of popular culture a unique platform for exploring the nature of human identity. Potter Studies is developing i...

Narratives based on conspiratorial and paranoid thinking have become increasingly prominent throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. From the pro...

Second Takes presents the history of English language cinema by focusing on cinematic remakes and on how cinema has been replaced by new forms o...

The 2011-2012 volume in the Cooperstown Symposium series is a collection of new scholarly essays that use baseball to examine topics whose import e...

Not only does history teach us about past civilizations but it also directs us to what future civilization has in store for us. It can also expose ...

Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D. Salinger, Jack Kero...

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across ...

'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can't think of a single pe...

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most famous album by the most famous band in the history of rock n roll. It became the soundtrack for t...

Everyone always seems to be talking about the end of the worldY2K, the Mayan apocalypse, blood moon prophecies, nuclear war, killer robots, you nam...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

From the four corners of the world, parents gather their children, pack their suitcases, and make the journey to Disney World in central Florida. H...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of models and bottles to reveal how beautiful young wome...

Winston Churchill famously described the political alliance between the US and UK as a ''special relationship'', but throughout the cultural histor...

In recent years queer identities have become increasingly visible in Irish cinema, a shift that can be linked to political, economic and social cha...

The zombie--popular culture's undead darling--shows no signs of stopping. But as it develops to suit changing audience tastes, its characteristi...

From his first year in the majors, George Herman Babe Ruth knew he could profit from celebrity. Babe Ruth Cigars in 1915 marked his first attemp...

Action figures are more than toys or collectibles--they are statements on race, gender, class, body positivity and more. This collection of nine...

Often considered to be in opposition, American popular culture and popular religion are connected, forming and informing new ways of thinking, w...

Vincent van Gogh continues to fascinate more than a century after his death in 1890. Yet how much of what is commonly known about this world-ren...

Winner of the Urban History Association's 2005 Best Book in Non-North American Urban History Award. In traditional Chinese cities, a lively stree...

In recent years, shapeshifting characters in literature, film and television have been on the increase. This has followed the increased use of such...

Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere of...