Popular culture (103)

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book modifies the concept of performativity with media theory in order to build a rigorous method for analyzing videogame performances. Beginning with an interdisciplinary exploration of performative motifs in Western art and literary history, t...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Performing Music History offers a unique perspective on music history and performance through a series of conversations with women and men intimately associated with music performance, history, and practice: the musicians themselves. Fifty-five celeb...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross Disciplinary Cultural Analysis makes the argument for studying everyday life through a combination of introductory theoretical approaches and a grouping of applications to specific aspects of American culture. T...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book investigates how persuasion relates to values in self-improvement literature, revealing the discursive practices used to persuade and engage their readers, and construct a credible persona. The author adopts a corpus-driven approach that en...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book continues the exploration of themes either neglected or devalued by others working in the field of philosophy and culture. The authors in this volume consider the domain of travel from the broadest and most diverse of philosophical perspect...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Podcasting: New Aural Cultures and Digital Media is the first comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of academic research exploring the definition, status, practices and implications of podcasting through a Media and Cultural Studies lens. By bri...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is about poison and poisonings; it explores the facts, fears and fictions that surround this fascinating topic. Poisons attract attention because they are both dangerous and  hard to discover. Secretive and invisible, they are a challenging...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:​This book provides a newer definition of political scandal and applies it in a way to remove “ordinary corruption” from the discussion. It then defines pop culture and examines how scandal and pop culture interact. The discussion addresses the ques...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:In Politics in Gotham, scholars from a variety of fields—political science, philosophy, law, and others—provide answers to the question: “What does Batman have to do with politics?” Contributors use the Batman canon, from the comics to the feature fi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:When Mona Lisa smiled enigmatically from the cover of the Italian magazine Epoca in 1957, she gazed out at more than three million readers. As Emma Barron argues, her appearance on the cover is emblematic of the distinctive ways that high culture was...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Welchen Beitrag leisten populäre Fernsehbilder zur symbolischen Grenzziehung zwischen Mehrheitsbevölkerung und marginalisierten Gesellschaftsgruppen? Cornelia Grobner zeigt dies exemplarisch anhand einer qualitativen Untersuchung von deutschsprachige...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book explores the video game Metal Gear Solid V’s exploration of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) through a careful analysis of its thematic elements and characters. It also considers the game’s complex take on post-9/11 history. ...