Popular culture (103)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is a comprehensive study of Nordic Noir television drama from the 1990’s until today. The authors introduce the history of contemporary Nordic Noir from the perspective of place, production and location studies. The chapters include reading...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book examines the role of comics in the perpetuation of the myth of the American West. In particular, it looks at the ways in which lone central characters, and their acts of violence, are posited as heroic. In doing so, the book raises question...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This volume addresses the rich and varied thoughts, concepts, approaches and leisure practices in sixteen countries of three continents---Australia, Asia and Africa. The chapters showcase the diversity in the forms and ways in which the idea and prac...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as they appear i...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Eva-Maria Lessinger beschreibt, wie der Klatsch in den Massenmedien als mediale Adaption alltäglicher Klatschgespräche theoretisch und historisch aus dem Face-to-Face-Klatsch abgeleitet werden kann und welche Gemeinsamkeiten, Unterschiede und Inter...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Das Buch analysiert die Hintergründe der BBC-TV-Serie Sherlock und versucht dabei verschiedene Themengebiete abzustecken: Psychoanalytisch, gendertheoretisch, literaturwissenschaftlich und filmwissenschaftlich wird der Versuch unternommen, den ungehe...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book is the first to take comedy seriously as an important aspect of the popular mockumentary form of film and television fiction. It examines the ways in which mockumentary films and television programmes make visible—through comedy—the perform...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:National Identity in 21st-Century Cuban Cinema tours early 21st-century Cuban cinema through four key figures—the monster, the child, the historic icon, and the recluse—in order to offer a new perspective on the relationship between the Revolution, c...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This collection brings together perspectives drawn from a range of international scholars who have conducted research into the applications of neo-tribal theory. The concept of the neo-tribe was first introduced by the French sociologist Michel Mafes...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Am 8. September 1966 schrieb die NBC Fernsehgeschichte: An diesem Tag strahlte der US-amerikanische Fernsehsender die erste Folge einer neuen Science-Fiction-Serie aus, mit einer Geschichte über eine außerirdische Lebensform, die Salz zum Überleben b...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book takes a journey into the new and exciting created by a the wave of Indian comedians today, described affectionately here as the New Indian Nuttahs, and looks at what these tell us about identity, “Indianness”, censorship, feminism, diaspora...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This edited collection explores the meaning of feminism in the contemporary moment, which is constituted primarily by action but also uncertainty. The book focuses on feminist modes of activism, as well as media and cultural representation to ask que...