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A coney island reader
Featuring a stunning gallery of portraits by the world's finest poets, essayists, and fiction writers--including Walt Whitman, Stephen Crane, José Martí, Maxim Gorky, Federico García Lorca, Isaac Bashevis Singer, E. E. Cummings, Djuna Barnes, Colson Whitehead, Robert Olen Butler, and Katie Roiphe...
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A poetics of neurosis
While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed ...
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A senior moment
Ageing and Memory are two cultural processes that establish their own relationships with time. They affect our ways of living, in the present, and for a future, as we move through life. This book focuses on the cultural mediations of ageing and memory, teasing out their complex and largely unpred...
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A token of my affection
Each year in the United States, millions of mass-produced greeting cards proclaim their occasional messages: "For My Loving Daughter," "On the Occasion of Your Marriage," and "It's a Boy!" For more than 150 years, greeting cards have tapped into and organized a shared language of love, affection,...
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Aesthetic temporalities today
Contributions from various disciplines examine the present and its plural conditions and meanings. They provide insights with special emphasis on the global present as well as on art and aesthetics from the eighteenth century until today.
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Affective worldmaking
This edited collection brings together essays on affect and narrative theory with a focus on the topics of gender and sexuality. It explores the power of narrative in literature, film, art, performance, and mass media, the construction of subjectivities of gender and sexuality, and the role of af...
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African film and literature
Analyzing a range of South African and West African films inspired by African and non-African literature, Lindiwe Dovey identifies a specific trend in contemporary African filmmaking-one in which filmmakers are using the embodied audiovisual medium of film to offer a critique of physical and psyc...
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After the american century
From Egyptian cyberpunk to dubbed versions of Shrek in Iran, this book examines the emergence of new forms of culture in circulation and their geopolitical implications.
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Against civilization
The primer of anarcho-primitivism.
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Ai and popular culture
AI and Popular Culture sheds light on how artificial intelligence has changed our world and helps you to understand where it might take us next.
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Along came google
An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's k...
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American pulp
A richly illustrated cultural history of the midcentury pulp paperback"There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes."—a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp...
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An all-consuming century
The unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer r...
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An organon of life knowledge
Can fiction teach us how to live? Drawing on short stories from the late nineteenth century to the present, Michael Basseler examines how knowledge about life and how to live it is generically constituted and, vice versa, how literary genres such as the short story are embedded in broader cultura...
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Andererseits – yearbook of transatlantic german studies
In this book, Andererseits provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies.
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Anime explosion!
One of the best overviews of the anime phenomenon, its history and cultural significance, ideal for surveys and in-depth study.
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Anonymity performance in electronic pop music
This study sketches two musico-artistic projects of anonymity performance as forms of immanent and particulate critical practice in the sense of Judith Butler and Michel Foucault. Adopting performance in a reflexive and performative writing style, this performance ethnography calls for a radical ...
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Appropriating history
Popular media plays an important role in collective imaginations of history. The volume investigates this phenomenon by examining examples from Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian popular cultures.
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Arab berlin
This book discusses Arab culture in Berlin to shed light on the dynamics of transformation with Arabs as agents, subjects, and objects of change in the spheres of politics, society and history, gender, demographics and migration, media and culture, and education and research.
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Arctic archives
This pioneering volume explores the Arctic as an important and highly endangered archive of knowledge about natural as well as human history of the Anthropocene. Focusing on the Arctic as an archive means not only to investigate it as a place of human history and memory but to take into account i...
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Art and economics in the city
Emerging forms of alternative economic frameworks are changing the structure of society, redefining the relationship between centre and periphery, and the social dynamics in the urban fabric. In this context, the arts can play a crucial role in formulating a concept of complex and plural citizens...
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Ascent to glory
Ascent to Glory is a groundbreaking study of One Hundred Years of Solitude, from the moment Gabriel García Márquez first had the idea for the novel to its global consecration. Using new documents from the author’s archives, Álvaro Santana-Acuña shows how García Márquez wrote the novel, going beyo...
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Assistive media
This book provides a unique perspective on assistance, situated at the intersection of media studies and disability studies.
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Australian metal music
This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question wha...
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Authority and trust in us culture and society
This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the U.S. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production.
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Autosociobiography
An extension of the scope of the literary phenomenon of autosociobiography beyond social class and a discussion of its validity in diverse cultural and historical contexts.
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Baby boomers, age, and beauty
Drawing from a variety of sources from ageing research, history and gender studies, this book is a rich exploration of the baby boomers - those coming of age in the sixties and now entering old age - the influences that have shaped how they perceive ageing appearance, define ageing and beauty, a...
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Ballet and taiji in practice
Starting from the contrast of two socially developed movement systems, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-à-vis the internal martial art of taijiquan (aka tai chi), Robert Mitchell plunges into the depths of what it means to practice these two ways of moving, identifying commona...
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Bally - a history of footwear in the interwar period
The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally’s corporate evolution. This book brings together the results of research on such topics as the economic importance of fashion, Bally’s fortunes in the U.S., the career of shoe design, the sourcing and use of materials, and the...
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Banding together
Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches? Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--rangin...
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Barbershops, bibles, and bet
What is the best way to understand black political ideology? Just listen to the everyday talk that emerges in public spaces, suggests Melissa Harris-Lacewell. And listen this author has--to black college students talking about the Million Man March and welfare, to Southern, black Baptists discuss...
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Becoming jewish in berlin
Vanessa Rau provides a captivating portrait and analysis of a new Jewish-Hebrew urban scene.
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Beer and racism
Beer in the United States has always been bound up with race, racism, and the construction of white institutions and identities. Given the very quick rise of craft beer, as well as the myopic scholarly focus on economic and historical trends in the field, there is an urgent need to take stock of...
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Before sound
In Before Sound, composer Tiziano Manca investigates the relationship between sounding body and musician.
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Beyond the beat
At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist? How might contemporary musicians sustain their artistic communities? Based on interviews with over seventy-five popular-music professionals in Nashville, Beyond the Beat loo...
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Big screens, small forms
Lisa Gotto presents a multifaceted collection of essays that explore thetransformational potential of digital media culture, contextualize itsmedia-technical conditions, and reflect on its social consequences.
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Biopolitics and historic justice
Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked. This book introduces the concept of “injuries of normality” to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice.
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Bit by bit
An innovative and accessible guide to doing social research in the digital ageThe rapid spread of social media, smartphones, and other digital wonders enables us to collect and process data about human behavior on a scale never before imaginable, offering entirely new approaches to core questions...
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Black & white & noir
Black & White & Noir explores America's pulp modernism through penetrating readings of the noir sensibility lurking in an eclectic array of media: Office of War Information photography, women's experimental films, and African-American novels, among others. It traces the dark edges of cult...
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Black metal, trauma, subjectivity and sound
This important book weaves together trauma, black metal theory and disability into a story of both pain and freedom. Drawing on her many years as a black metal guitarist, Jasmine Hazel Shadrack uses autoethnography to explore her own experiences of gender-based violence, misogyny and the healing ...
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Bodies of democracy
Amanda Machin considers six embodied modes of democratic politics: identification, deliberation, disagreement, protest, occupation and counsel. Drawing on diverse thinkers, she offers an absorbing illustration of the ways that human bodies are not only the disciplined objects of politics but also...
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Bollywood's india
Analyzes the role of the cinema’s most popular blockbusters in making, unmaking, and remaking modern India
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Bordertextures
This book proposes an understanding of borders as effects and generators of complex formations. By introducing the concept of bordertextures and the approach of bordertexturing, this edited collection opens up new and fine-tuned perspectives on borders and borderlands.
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Breaking the social media prism
A revealing look at how user behavior is powering deep social divisions online—and how we might yet defeat political tribalism on social mediaIn an era of increasing social isolation, platforms like Facebook and Twitter are among the most important tools we have to understand each other. We use s...
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Breathe – critical research into the inequalities of life
This volume explore different acts of suffocation and release. It show how the protection of bodies is unequally and ambivalently distributed.
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Breathing in manhattan
Christoph Ribbat tells the story of gymnastics instructor Carola Spitz, who escaped Nazi Germany in 1938 and In New York turned into Carola Speads, revered teacher of mindfulness.
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