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Arthur Redding

Pulp Virilities and Post-War American Culture

This book interrogates the repertoire of masculine performance in popular crime fiction and cinema from the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. This critical survey of the back alleys of pulp culture reveals American ma…

Rachel Randall

Paid to Care: Domestic Workers in Contemporary Latin American Culture

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their e…

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Filipino American Sporting Cultures

"The book ethnographically captures Filipina/o Americans' participation in sporting cultures and the negotiation of identities in various sporting spaces. It covers a well-known and globally-popular boxin…

Barbara Jane Brickman

Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture

Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! examines a larger-than-life lesbian menace in mid-century media embodied in five queer icons—the sicko…

Barbara Jane Brickman

Suffering Sappho!: Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture

Offering the first major consideration of lesbian camp in American popular culture, Suffering Sappho! examines a larger-than-life lesbian menace in mid-century media embodied in five queer icons—the sicko…

Constancio R. Arnaldo Jr.

Filipino American Sporting Cultures

"The book ethnographically captures Filipina/o Americans' participation in sporting cultures and the negotiation of identities in various sporting spaces. It covers a well-known and globally-popular boxin…

Shira Wolosky

The Bible in American Poetic Culture

Although the Bible is the foundation of American poetic tradition, there is no study of the Bible as an ongoing force in American poetry. Not only a source of imagery, allusion, rhythm and style, the Bibl…

James Craig Holte

Pandemics in American Popular Culture

From Cold War-era fears of biological warfare to zombie plagues as metaphors for contagion to portrayals of recent experiences with Covid-19, pandemics have featured prominently in American popular cultur…

A Companion to Latin American Literature and Culture

A COMPANION TO LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SECOND EDITION Cutting-edge and insightful discussions on Latin American literature and culture This newly revised second edition of A Companion to L…

Sean Travers

Trauma in American Popular Culture and Cult Texts, 1980-2020

This book examines trauma in late twentieth- and twenty-first century American popular culture. Trauma has become a central paradigm for reading contemporary American culture. Since the early 1980s, an ex…

Jon Kung

Kung Food: Chinese American Recipes from a Third-Culture Kitchen

"An exciting and unexpected collection of 100 recipes that re-examines Chinese American food Jon Kung grew up as a "third-culture" kid: Born in Los Angeles, raised in Hong Kong and Toronto, and now living…

Defiant State

Broken Hearts - Broken Bones (Eco Vinyl)

Kentucky meets New Mills via Portland: Wuchtiger UK'82-Brecher, das Debüt-Album von Defiant State aus Somerset, KY erinnert auf den ersten Blick stark an Criminal Damage. Sprich, man bedient sich identisc…

Andrew Ball

The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption

Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period 1840-1940, …

Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

"A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects from the Smithsonian collections"--

Steve Hauschildt

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Smithsonian Asian Pacific American History, Art, and Culture in 101 Objects

A rich and compelling introduction to the history of Asian Pacific American communities as told through 101 objects, from a fortune cookie baking mold to the debut Ms. Marvel comic featuring Kamala Khan …

Eric Mottram

Blood on the Nash Ambassador

Essays on American culture from the 19th to the late 20th centuries: guns, cars, films, poetry, music, poltiics.

The 49 Americans

We Know Nonsense

Anlässlich seines 15-jährigen Bestehens vermeldet das Label Staubgold die Wiederveröffentlichung des kompletten Backkatalogs der The 49 Americans. Die britische Do-it-yourself-Supergroup wurde von Andrew …

Martin Halliwell

Transformed States

Transformed States offers a timely history of the politics, ethics, medical applications and cultural representations of the biotechnological revolution, from the Human Genome Project to the Covid-19 pand…