Popular Culture

Considering a variety of female superhero narratives, including World War II-era Wonder Woman comics, the 1970s television programs The Secrets of ...

Love, Language, Place, and Identity in Popular Culture: Romancing the Other explores the varied representations of Otherness in romance novels and ...

This book is written in praise of the criminal; a unique kind of criminal, who is motivated not by personal gain, but ethical altruism. Deviant her...

Since it first aired in 1966, Star Trek led American television into a more progressive era by presenting a diverse cast interacting as equals, dem...

Gender and Environment in Science Fiction focuses on the variety of ways that gender and “nature” interact in science fiction films and fictions, e...

Can entertainment challenge divisive ideologies? Can we use theater, film, games, novels, and stories disarm the ideologies of fear? Ideological ...

The image of the meditating yogi has become a near-universal symbol for transcendent perfection used to market everything from perfume and jewelry ...

For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by “culture wars” waged between religious conservatives and secular l...

In a world in which political opportunity and liberation seem far away, the genre of science fiction grows in cultural importance and popularity. T...

“Literature of the Holocaust” courses, whether taught in high schools or at universities, necessarily cover texts from a broad range of internation...

Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and ...

Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time intersects considerations about children’s and youth’s agency with the popular ...

U2’s ongoing popular appeal is constructed in the spaces between band and fan, commercialism and community, spirituality and nihilism; finding mean...

This book critically situates the figure of the black female vampire in several fields of study including literary studies, cultural studies, gende...

Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular....

Imagining Slaves and Robots in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture: Reinventing Yesterday's Slave with Tomorrow's Robot is an interdisciplinary s...

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...

The second edition of iTake-Over: The Recording Industry in the Streaming Era sheds light on the way large corporations appropriate new technology ...

In this book Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel’s integration into global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses w...

Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic sc...

This book examines the psychological aspects of pop culture preferences, personality, and behavior from across sixteen research studies. The author...

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...

This groundbreaking study examines Muslim female superheroes within a matrix of Islamic theology, feminism, and contemporary political discourse. T...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

Already acknowledged by Metacritic and the Guinness World Records as the highest-rated series in the history of television, Breaking Bad has elicit...

A strong relationship between sport fans and teams is an essential component for the success of the sport brand. This book provides an in-depth exa...

In Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art, Ken Bielen explains how album cover art authenticates recording artists by using elements ...

This book is an introduction to the history of the concept and the institution of (fine) art, from its ancient Southern European roots to the estab...

Hardcore, Punk, and Other Junk: Aggressive Sounds in Contemporary Music, edited by Eric James Abbey and Colin Helb, is a collection of writings on ...

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

Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television examines depictions of Donald Trump and his fictional avatars in literatu...

Embodying Ecological Heritage in a Maya Community: Health, Happiness, and Identity provides an ethnographic account of life in a rural farming vill...

This is the first book to examine the cultural phenomenon of the roadhouse in mid 20th-century Britain and its impact on British leisure. The term ...

As we withdraw farther from American canonical literature and poetry and move closer to a re-appraisal of literature’s impact upon the arts through...

In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s P...

Representing Kink raises awareness about nonnormative texts and non-normative erotic practices and desires. It defines “kink” broadly, encompassing...

In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations ...

Once deemed an unworthy research endeavor, the study of sports fandom has garnered the attention of seasoned scholars from a variety of academic di...

Screaming for Change advances an understanding of punk rock by going beyond description of punk as a musical, political, social, and cultural genre...

Television, Social Media, and Fan Culture examines how fans use social media to engage with television programming, characters, and narrative as we...

Neoliberal Rhetorics and Body Politics: Plastinate Exhibits as Infiltration uses transnational feminist rhetorical analyses to understand how the g...

This essay collection examines the cultural and personal world of girls and women at a time when their lives, their person, their realities, and th...

This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally...

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

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

Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantast...