Popular Culture

Big Beat was once one of the biggest, but ironically, perhaps most misunderstood musical movements of the Mid-Late 1990's, lead by some of the bigg...

A hit television show about a fictitious rock band, The Monkees (1966-1968) earned two Emmys-Best Comedy Series and Best Director. Capitalizing on ...

Young people have long used popular culture to explore, define and express who they are. For many, popular culture is also a tool of survival. G...

Wonder women, G.I. Janes, and vampire slayers increasingly populate the American cultural landscape. What do these figures mean in the American cul...

From his first appearance in 1912, Tarzan became a multimedia franchise whose cultural influence extended well beyond mere entertainment. The or...

Although known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first ...

Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samuel Johnson school, doesn'...

India's population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own cultur...

Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant p...

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo...

Break out the candy canes! Holly Jolly is a colorful sleigh ride through the history of Christmas, from its religious origins to its emergence as a...

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account...

''A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes'' Guardian''Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture, illuminat...

This book offers an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to fiction, reality, and narrativity applied to television series from all over th...

In this remarkable book, David-Emil Wickström traces the transcultural flow of popular music production emanating from St. Petersburg, a central hu...

Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures cinematic Mo...

Since its inception 30 years ago, the Street Fighter video gameseries from Capcom has thrived based on a lethal combination of innovation,style and...

In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own...

When journalist and author Alison Stewart was confronted with emptying her late parents overloaded basement, a job that dragged on for months, it g...

From YouTubes Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet videos massive impact on our world ...

There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the fi...

A Different Germany looks at German film, popular literature, theatre, garden culture, and other manifestations of popular culture as examples of h...

Now is an opportune moment to consider the shifts in youth and popular culture that are signalled by texts that are being read and viewed by young ...

A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible i...

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men explores the changing depiction of superheroes from the comic books of the 1930s to the cinematic present. In this anth...