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Entanglements of the maghreb
This volume focuses on entanglements as a cross-field and cross-lingual concept to generate a new approach to the Maghreb region and its inner interdependencies as well as exchanges with other regions. Eminent researchers conceptualize entanglements through the description of various thematic fie...
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Entitled
An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture—museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras—to mirror European art. But today’s Amer...
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Everyday reading
Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American p...
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Expanded senses
Auf die vielerorts im Kontext der Neuen Bewegtbilder in Kino/TV/Netz/Kunst ausgerufene »Expansion der Sinne« reagiert der bilinguale Band mit einer umsichtigen Doppelbewegung.Zunächst gilt es, in einem genauen Befragen der für das Kino konstitutiven, »kinästhetischen« Erfahrung in der Filmwahrneh...
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Experiments of the mind
An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology—and their influence on the addictive nature of social mediaExperimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives. We engage with it, often unknowingly, whenever we download a health app, complete a Fac...
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Exploring the fantastic
The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The c...
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Extraordinary forms of aging
This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria.
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Faces of identity and memory
Across central and eastern Europe, the traces of vanished cultures remain. Empty, devastated synagogues, Orthodox, Greek and Roman Catholic churches serving as warehouses, fallen mansions, abandoned homes. Alongside the majority groups, there once lived minority and stateless communities, ultimat...
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Facing drag
A global, cross-media rethinking of drag – gender, race, and power from court spectacle to memes.
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Fail better
A smart, accessible look into the philosophy of baseball, with a focus on its lessons for a life best lived.
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Family in crisis?
Scholars of cultural, gender, and media studies, lawyers, sociologists, and historians discuss how today’s families cross borders and how cultural texts—sitcoms, films, novels, short stories, and political magazines from Europe and the U.S.—(de-)construct, take part in, and mirror family discourses.
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Fandom culture and the archers
Fandom Culture and The Archers looks beyond the popular success of the Archers to explore how the program, and the themes it discusses, are used in teaching, learning, research and professional settings, and how the Academic Archers fandom helps shape these real life impacts.
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Fantasy aesthetics
This book explores the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.
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Feasting our eyes
Feasting Our Eyes takes a second look at modern American food films to emphasize their conventional approaches to nation, gender, race, sexuality, and social status. Devoured visually and emotionally, these films are particularly effective defenders of the status quo.
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Fictional practices of spirituality i
This book provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality in the worlds of interactive, virtual worlds. Whether that be the digital realms of video games and VR applications or the imaginary spaces of life action role-playing and soul-searching p...
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Fictions of legibility
Gabriela Stoicea examines how the incidence and role of physical descriptions in German novels changed between 1771 and 1929 in response to developments in the study of the human face and body. By including discussions from medicine, epistemology, semiotics, and aesthetics, the book draws out the...
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Firestorm
It was believed that September 11th would make certain kinds of films obsolete, such as action thrillers crackling with explosions or high-casualty blockbusters where the hero escapes unscathed. While the production of these films did ebb, the full impact of the attacks on Hollywood's creative ou...
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Flapjacks and feudalism
Flapjacks and Feudalism: Social Mobility and Class in The Archers is an excavation into the family and class politics found in the clans of the residents of Ambridge, in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.
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Folklore in the digital age
?Folklore in the Digital Age shows how digital folklore transcends the boundaries of cyberspace and has very real effect on our everyday life in today's interconnected global world. Online and digital cultures are perhaps the most vivid aspects of globalization and while global multimedia culture...
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Food – media – senses
In order to acknowledge the material and media-related aspects of eating as a cultural praxis, experts from a range of disciplines share their special approaches.
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For antifascist futures
This book deepens our cultural and historical understanding of authoritarianism by focusing on important but often-overlooked aspects of antifascism rooted in internationalism and BIPOC resistance.
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For his eyes only
The first book-length anthology on femininity and feminism in the Bond series
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Foucault today
Bringing Foucault into in the 21st century – offering new perspectives for studying this French classic in contemporary philosophy and cultural studies.
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Free and natural
From Naked Juice® to nude yoga, contemporary society is steeped in language that draws a connection from nudity to nature, wellness, and liberation. This branding promotes a "free and natural" lifestyle to mostly white and middle-class Americans intent on protecting their own bodies—and those of ...
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From blofeld to moneypenny
Since its inception, 007 has captured the hearts of a worldwide audience, and the franchise is now available over multiple media platforms, including movie, comic strips, games, graphic novels and fashion statements. This edited collection examines the role that gender has played across the platf...
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From bomba to hip-hop
Neither immigrants nor ethnics, neither foreign nor "hyphenated Americans" in the usual sense of that term, Puerto Ricans in New York have created a distinct identity both on the island of Puerto Rico and in the cultural landscape of the United States. Juan Flores considers the uniqueness of Puer...
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From ritual to record
Originally published in 1978, From Ritual to Record was one of the first books to recognize the importance of sports as a lens on the fundamental structure of societies. In this reissue, Guttmann emphasizes the many ways that modern sports, dramatically different from the sports of previous eras,...
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Futures worth preserving
This collection of essays and artistic contributions problematizes the relationship between past-oriented practices of sustaining and future-oriented forms of remembering. The present becomes the moment in which both notions overlap: Cultures have to position themselves both in relation to what t...
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Games and bereavement
How can videogames portray love and loss? Games and Bereavement answers this question by looking at five videogames and carrying out a participatory design study with grievers. Sabine Harrer highlights possible connections between grief and videogames, arguing that game design may help make diffi...
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Games and rules
Why do we play games and why do we play them on computers? The contributors of »Games and Rules« take a closer look at the core of each game and the motivational system that is the game mechanics. Games are control circuits that organize the game world with their (joint) players and establish mot...
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Gaming the metaverse
This book outlines trace the term Metaverse through literary, media, and cultural history and provide insights into recent applications and their technical, social, cultural, and economic implications.
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Gasoline dreams
A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to helpbreak our petroleum dependencyWhat if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological or governmental but, rather, cultural? In other words, what if we ourselves could help to enact chan...
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Gender and action films
Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender.
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Gender and action films 1980-2000
Gender and Action Films 1980-2000 offers insights into the intertwined concepts of gender and action, and how their portrayal developed in the Action Movie genre during the final two decades of the twentieth century. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those inter...
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Gender and action films 2000 and beyond
Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
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Gender and contemporary horror in comics, games and transmedia
Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.
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Gender and contemporary horror in film
This edited collection focuses on gender and contemporary horror in film, examining how and if representations of gender in horror have changed.
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Gender and contemporary horror in television
Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, Th...
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Gender and female villains in 21st century fairy tale narratives
For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives o...
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Gender and parenting in the worlds of alien and blade runner
Gender and Parenting in the Worlds of Alien and Blade Runner is a comparative, gendered analysis study of Ridley Scott’s contributions to the genre of science fiction and horror cinema, showcasing how patriarchal and gendered expectations regarding women, usually associated with the past, still r...
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Gender and the male character in 21st century fairy tale narratives
Putting Prince Charming in the academic spotlight, this collection examines the evolution of male fairy tale characters across modern series and films to bridge a gap that afflicts multiple disciplines.
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Gender inequality in metal music production
In metal, it seems that women are nowhere but gender is everywhere. This title offers a sociological analysis of metal music's historical and global gender imbalance to investigate why this genre is such an impenetrable fortress for female musicians and how it could change.
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Gender, sex and gossip in ambridge
The Archers Academics are joined by former The Archers editor, Alison Hindell and actor Dr Charlotte Connor (a.k.a. Susan Carter), to examine the power of gossip in Ambridge, portrayals of love, marriage, motherhood, female education and career expectations, women's mental health and the hard-won...
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Gender, true crime and criminology
Interest in true crime as a form of popular entertainment has sky-rocketed in recent years. Gender, True Crime and Criminology challenges traditional definitions of the genre, expanding representations of victimhood and how we understand true crime audiences in gendered terms.
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Gendered domestic violence and abuse in popular culture
As binge-watching and streaming lead to increasing amounts of content and screen time, understanding how domestic violence and abuse is portrayed in popular culture and its impact on DVA in our society is more important than ever. This collection demonstrates how networked communication is influe...
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Genetic responsibility in germany and israel
Prenatal diagnosis, especially noninvasive prenatal testing, has changed the experience of pregnancy and prenatal care. This book presents conversations between leading scholars from Israel and Germany, featuring analyses of the reshaping of life by biomedicine and philosophical reflections on so...
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Gerontechnology
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. This book explains the diversity of older adults' approaches towards technology and provides recommendations for practitioners and designers seeking to connect with an aging...
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Girls
The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique "girl culture?" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence," and then argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too p...
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Globalizing cultures
Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume examines the way cultures and individuals oppose, resist and re-center globalization.
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