Contemporary Culture – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 6

Harry Pitt Scott
Financial Petroleum Cultures

Financial Petroleum Culturesdraws upon literature, film, architecture, photography, infrastructure, advertisements, and financial reports to explore how financial narratives shape the future of energy and…

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August Wilson in Context

August Wilson is one of the twentieth century's most important and acclaimed playwrights. This volume demonstrates Wilson's significance to contemporary theatre, culture, and politics by providing fresh a…

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Joshua D Martin
Masculinity, Coloniality, and the Us-Mexico Border in Literature and Political Culture

Joshua D. Martin explores how four novels set in the nineteenth-century shortly after the creation of the modern-day US-Mexico border reveal a cultural continuum of masculinized violence and cultural grie…

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Priscilla Hobbs, Rebekah Lovejoy
The Heroic Shift

During the 21st century, the collective hero has emerged as the defining archetype in media, reflecting shifts in global society and the necessity of cultural evolution. Moving beyond the individualistic …

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Kate Gilchrist
Fantasies of Singledom

In Fantasies of Singledom, Kate R. Gilchrist examines how the representation of the single woman manifests itself in contemporary popular culture across the United Kingdom, the United States, and Europe, …

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Philip Cornwel-Smith
Very Bangkok

A follow-up to the bestselling Very Thai and a great guide to contemporary Thai culture. Unique thematic approach and colourfully illustrated and designed.Bangkok arrests the visitor with a bewildering ju…

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Shannon E. French
The Code of the Warrior

Combining ethics, history, and psychology, The Code of the Warrior examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures, arguing that today's warriors need a code to navigate the moral line between soldi…

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Shannon E French
The Code of the Warrior

Combining ethics, history, and psychology, this book examines historical and contemporary warrior cultures, arguing that today's warriors need a code to navigate the moral line between soldier and killer.…

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Leeroy Thornhill
Wildfire

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to Japan a…

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Calum Lister Matheson
Post-Weird

Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream is an ambitious look at how communities form when old forms of authority and meaning seem to be collapsing around us. This book goes…

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Francesco Sticchi
The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema

The book addresses the role of particular monstrous figures and apocalyptic scenarios in contemporary cinema and television and evaluates the political potential of horror and sci-fi narratives in our age…

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Calum Lister Matheson
Post-Weird

Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream is an ambitious look at how communities form when old forms of authority and meaning seem to be collapsing around us. This book goes…

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Jay Heinrichs
Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion

Show yourself who's in charge using the original art of persuasion, backed by contemporary pop culture examples that make transforming your habits and achieving goals easy, even fun-from the New York Time…

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Jay Heinrichs
Aristotle's Guide to Self-Persuasion

Show yourself who's in charge using the original art of persuasion, backed by contemporary pop culture examples that make transforming your habits and achieving goals easy, even fun---from the New York Ti…

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Michael Eskin,
The Emprise of Poetry

The Emprise of Poetryanalyzes the insidious entwinement of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in modern and contemporary German culture through the writings of one of its most acclaimed literary figures: D…

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Gothic Nostalgia

This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memoryare used to underpin and promote the ongoing culture wars and populist politics incontemporary popular culture. The es…

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Kylie Minogue

This pioneering study provides a critical appraisal of pop star Kylie Minogue. It argues that a study of this mononymous global pop icon and celebrity - as "Kylie," she takes her place alongside…

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The Philosophy of Philip Rieff

Arguing that Philip Rieff was a Freudian who departed in vital and fascinating ways from Freud, and a committed modern who nevertheless viewed modernity as a disaster, this book makes clear his thought tr…

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A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien

The new edition of the definitive academic companion to Tolkien's life and literature A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien provides readers with an in-depth examination of the author's life and works, covering…

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Dan Hicks
Every Monument Will Fall

'An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource…

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