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Oprah winfrey and the glamour of misery
Oprah Winfrey is the protagonist of the story to be told here, but this book has broader intentions, begins Eva Illouz in this original examination of how and why this talk show host has become a pervasive symbol in American culture. Unlike studies of talk shows that decry debased cultural standa...
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Paratextualizing games
This anthology examines paratexts that gaming cultures have produced as well as the way in which paratexts influence the development of games. How is knowledge about games generated and shaped today and how do boundaries between (popular) criticism, journalism, and scholarship have started to blur?
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Patrimonialization on the ruins of empire
This book shows that states adopted substantially different approaches towards their Ottoman architectural inheritance.
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Performing the digital
How is performativity shaped by digital technologies – and how do performative practices reflect and alter techno-social formations? "Performing the Digital" explores, maps and theorizes the conditions and effects of performativity in digital cultures. Bringing together scholars from performance ...
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Photography and death
Examining a spectrum of post-mortem images, this volume considers what death photography communicates about attitudes related to dying, mourning and the afterlife. Focusing on American examples, topics are discussed alongside contemporary representations of death, as seen in celebrity death image...
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Photography changes everything
Photography Changes Everything offers a provocative rethinking of photography's impact on our culture and our daily lives. Compiling hundreds of images and responses from leading authorities on photography, it offers a brilliant, reader-friendly exploration of the many ways in which photographs p...
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Pictorial appearing
The proliferation of digital technology has changed our visual perception and the way we interpret terms such as 'representation', 'immersion', and 'virtuality'.Kresimir Purgar examines some of the topics fundamental to an understanding of the contemporary culture of images. The principal thesis ...
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Pihkal
PIHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known And Loved) is a classic in the psychedelic genre by psychopharmacologist Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, co-authored with his partner Ann, which provides details of his research, synthesis, and investigations into the use of a range of psychedelic compounds for the...
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Poetic resurrection
This study of the Bronx in American popular culture traces a complex dialogue on its past, present, and future. Sina Nitzsche argues that popular culture functioned as a poetic resurrection of the Bronx, which preceded, promoted, and facilitated the spatial revival of the borough and inspired oth...
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Popular music in contemporary bulgaria
On the crossroads between the cultural influences of perceived global models and local specificity, entangled in webs of post-communist complexity, Bulgarian popular music has evolved as a space of change and creativity on the edge of Europe. An ethnographic exploration, this book accesses insigh...
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Popular music, popular myth and cultural heritage in cleveland
This book presents a case study of popular music heritage to address why, and how, Cleveland, Ohio has claimed to be the "birthplace of rock 'n' roll" and became the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It explores the role of radio DJs, record stores, concerts and myths in shaping the relatio...
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Postcolonial repercussions
The anthology gathers heterogeneous approaches to emancipatory forms of ontological listening as well as pleas for critical fabulation and a practice of care. It tells us about opportunities, perspectives and the (im)possibility of decolonised listening.
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Postdramatic dramaturgies
This book compiles lectures by the world’s leading practitioners of postdramatic theater from East Asia and the German-speaking world, which were given at Asia’s only dramaturgy degree program at The Central Academy of Drama in Beijing 2018/19. It includes English-language scripts of the discusse...
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Postmigration
The concept of “postmigration” has recently gained importance in the context of European societies’ obsession with migration and integration along with emerging new forms of exclusion and nationalisms. This book introduces ongoing debates on the developing concept of postmigration and how it can ...
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Postsocialist landscapes
Formerly socialist countries have gone through manifold transformations while remnants of socialism remain ubiquitous. The volume explores various spaces of the postsocialist landscape, describing the concreteness and intimacy of some of the places that span across and even beyond of what is left...
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Power relations in black lives
According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key con...
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Practices of speculation
This volume offers innovative ways to think about speculation at a time when anticipation of catastrophe shapes public discourse. Its chapters interrogate hegemonic ways of shaping the present through investments in the future, while also looking at speculative practices that reveal transformativ...
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Practicing and placing imaginaries
What does Imagination do? How does it affect our reality and the places we experience? Answers from sociology, philosophy, literary and cultural studies.
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Pre-code hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood explores the fascinating period in American motion picture history from 1930 to 1934 when the commandments of the Production Code Administration were violated with impunity in a series of wildly unconventional films—a time when censorship was lax and Hollywood made the most of ...
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Processing choreography
Told from the perspective of the dancers, Processing Choreography is an ethnography of William Forsythe’s Duo project. Considering how the choreography of Duo emerges through practice and changes over two decades, Elizabeth Waterhouse offers a nuanced picture of creative cooperation and instituti...
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Professor risley and the imperial japanese troupe
The true tale of an American impresario, Japanese acrobats, and a circus tour adventure; richly illustrated.
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Programming creativity
Jan Sebastian Zipp examines the concept of creativity in large IT companies in times of digital change, including new ways of working or potential artificial creativity with no human interaction. This study contributes vital foundations for a critical engagement with today's prevailing understand...
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Re-discovering age(ing)
Since Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the ›wise teacher,‹ fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volu...
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Reality television
Reality television is shown worldwide, features people from all walks of life and covers everything from romance to religion. It has not only changed television, but every other area of the media. So why has reality TV become such a huge phenomenon, and what is its future in an age of streaming a...
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Reality tv
This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor.
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Realms of royalty
This collection introduces new directions in researching contemporary European monarchies by suggesting theoretical approaches to recent developments and new perspectives on royal families' interactions with their subjects. With its interdisciplinary analyses, the book is a timely answer to the r...
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Religion and film
Religion and Film introduces readers to both religious studies and film studies by focusing on the formal similarities between cinema and religious practices and on the ways they each re-create the world. S. Brent Plate shows that by paying attention to the ways films are constructed, we can shed...
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Remembering future disasters
An ethnographic exploration of the multiple ways in which disasters and time are co-constituted in the Peruvian Andes.
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Resilience stories
Today, “resilience” is among the most repeated buzzwords. Hamideh Mahdiani challenges a reductionistic understanding by questioning the dominance of life sciences in defining an age-old concept and by problematizing the neglected role of life writing in fostering resilience.
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Resilient bodies, residual effects
Sandra Noeth examines the entangled experiences of borders and collectivity through the perspective of bodies. Analyzing contemporary artistic work from Lebanon and Palestine, she shows how borders and collectivity are constructed and negotiated through choreographic, corporeal, movement-based, a...
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Resonant fabrics
Marvin Heine explores soundscapes as they shape, and are shaped by urban cultures and particular ways of listening.
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Rethinking infrastructure across the humanities
This book demonstrates infrastructuralist perspectives as an important transdisciplinary approach within the humanities.
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Revolutionary nostalgia
Long regarded as a maudlin mental state, nostalgia is everywhere and has been reimagined as a signifier of good mental health. It is no longer the bailiwick of right-wing reactionaries but a crucible of critical thinking and revolutionary intent. This book explores the revolution in nostalgia and...
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Rich people things
Keeping up with the American elite can be tiring. This is the layman's guide to how the wealthy maintain control.
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Rocking st. petersburg
Focusing on Germany's post-Soviet emigrant community and their "Russendisko," this volume portrays St. Petersburg's vibrant music scene as an electrifying platform for exchange. Its findings illuminate Soviet and post-Soviet popular music history and Russia's relationship with the Ukraine. The te...
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Sayonara amerika, sayonara nippon
From the beginning of the American Occupation in 1945 to the post-bubble period of the early 1990s, popular music provided Japanese listeners with a much-needed release, channeling their desires, fears, and frustrations into a pleasurable and fluid art. Pop music allowed Japanese artists and audi...
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Scale matters
This volume brings together scholars from diverse fields, working on different geographical areas and time periods, to engage with scale-conscious questions regarding human sociality, culture, and evolution.
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Screening economies
This volume explores the ethical, aesthetic, and ideological dimensions of economic representation, addressing essential questions: What are the roles of mass and new media? How do the arts contribute to critical discourse on the global techno-economic complex? It brings theoretical debate and ar...
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Sensing collectives
The book investigate how aesthetics and politics are entangled, both in building and disrupting collective orders, in governance and innovation. This ranges from populist rallies and artistic activism over alternative lifestyles and consumer culture to corporate PR and governmental policies.
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Sentimental fabulations, contemporary chinese films
What is the sentimental? How can we understand it by way of the visual and narrative modes of signification specific to cinema and through the manners of social interaction and collective imagining specific to a particular culture in transition? What can the sentimental tell us about the precario...
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Sentimental state(s)
Starting with the double-meaning of the word state, which signifies both a condition and a political entity. This book provides a cross-cultural and cross-media discussion of the role of the sentimental in political culture.
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Shaky ground
Alice Echols has never shied away from controversy. Long before it was fashionable, she wrote searing critiques of antiporn feminism. Her subsequent books about the 1960s are trenchant and provocative, and written with unflinching honesty. Now she maps an alternative history of contemporary Ameri...
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Shared habitats
The interactions among artistic, technical, scientific, living, and nonliving things have inspired new artistic approaches. The contributors to this volume either relate to theoretical discourses raised by artworks, show how young artists today approach cultural issues, or develop situations of l...
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Shared heritage revisited
This book explores the intersection of cultural heritage and nationality in societies that are characterized by national, multi-national, and post-national concepts.
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Shielding
This collection offers conceptual approaches towards bodies becoming shields by addressing the idea of bodily integrity, both in a material sense and with regard to the symbolic and ethical relations that a body entangles.
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Similarity
This volume is a collection of papers based on the idea that the concept of similarity could offer a new, alternative approach in culture studies, as compared to the hitherto dominant paradigm of difference. The concepts of identity and otherness are both becoming ever more questionable, not leas...
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Situated in translations
This volume sheds light on composite cultural and heterotypical translation processes across various media, such as texts, films, graphic novels, theater, and dance performances. The authors explore the cultural contexts of diverse media milieus in order to explain how cultural communities come i...
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Skateboarding between subculture and the olympics
The inclusion of skateboarding as an official discipline in the 2020 Olympic Games marks the pinnacle of a decades-long process of commercialization and sportification. This anthology creates an analytical framework for understanding the fundamental conflict between skateboarding’s core ethos and...
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Sociophobia
César Rendueles argues that technology has caused us to lower our expectations for personal relationships and political action. Sociophobia questions the cyber-fetishist dogma that lulls us into inflating the virtues of our passive relationship with technology in an ambitious reassessment of poli...
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