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Author | : Lane Crothers |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742566835 |
A third edition of this book is now available. Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this concise and insightful book explores the ways American popular products such as movies, music, television programs, fast food, sports, and even clothing styles have molded and continue to influence modern globalization. Lane Crothers offers a thoughtful examination of both the appeal of American products worldwide and the fear and rejection they induce in many people and nations around the world. Concluding with a projection of the future impact of American popular culture, this book makes a powerful argument for its central role in shaping global politics and economic development.
Author | : LeRoy Ashby |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 713 |
Release | : 2006-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813123976 |
With Amusement for All contextualizes what Americans have done for fun since 1830, showing the reciprocal nature of the relationships among social, political, economic, and cultural forces and the ways in which the entertainment world has reflected, changed, or reinforced the values of American society.
Author | : Shilpa Dave |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2016-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1479867098 |
6. David Choe's "KOREANS GONE BAD": The LA Riots, Comparative Racialization, and Branding a Politics of Deviance -- Part II. Making Community -- 7. From the Mekong to the Merrimack and Back: The Transnational Terrains of Cambodian American Rap -- 8. "You'll Learn Much about Pakistanis from Listening to Radio": Pakistani Radio Programming in Houston, Texas -- 9. Online Asian American Popular Culture, Digitization, and Museums -- 10. Asian American Food Blogging as Racial Branding: Rewriting the Search for Authenticity
Author | : Kathleen Franz |
Publisher | : Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Amusements |
ISBN | : 9780495911722 |
MAJOR PROBLEMS IN AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE, International Edition is part of a highly respected series of edited collections of primary documents and scholarly essays designed for use in history courses at the undergraduate level. The basic goal of these texts is to provide students and instructors with the most distinguished, readable, and stimulating writing available: essays centered on major historical questions, complemented by related primary source materials.
Author | : Rachel Lee Rubin |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0814775535 |
Immigration and American Popular Culture looks at the relationship between American immigrants and the popular culture industry in the twentieth century. Through a series of case studies, Rachel Rubin and Jeffrey Melnick uncover how particular trends in popular culture-such as portrayals of European immigrants as gangsters in 1930s cinema, the zoot suits of the 1940s, the influence of Jamaican Americans on rap in the 1970s, and cyberpunk and Asian American zines in the 1990s-have their roots in the complex socio-political nature of immigration in America. Supplemented by a timeline of key events, Immigration and American Popular Culture offers a unique history of twentieth-century U.S. immigration and an essential introduction to the study of popular culture.
Author | : Shilpa Dave |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2005-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0814719627 |
From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to ofaux Asiano fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural landscape and have now become an integral part of the vernacular of popular culture.
Author | : Robert C. Cottrell |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2009-09-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 076562835X |
Traces the evolution of American popular culture over the past two centuries. In a lengthy chronology of landmark events, and ten chapters, each revolving around the lives of two individuals who are in some way emblematic of their times, this provides a window on the social, economic, and political history of US democracy from the antebellum period to the present.
Author | : Arthur A. Natella, Jr. |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0786451483 |
This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American traditions still characterize much of the social and artistic heritage of the Latin American countries. Several chapters provide detailed accounts of daily life, including descriptions of contemporary dress, mealtime traditions, transportation, and traditional ways of conducting business. Other chapters focus on the cultural significance of the popular music, art, and literature prevalent in each Latin American country. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author | : Paul Arthur Cantor |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2012-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 081314082X |
Popular culture often champions freedom as the fundamentally American way of life and celebrates the virtues of independence and self-reliance. But film and television have also explored the tension between freedom and other core values, such as order and political stability. What may look like healthy, productive, and creative freedom from one point of view may look like chaos, anarchy, and a source of destructive conflict from another. Film and television continually pose the question: Can Americans deal with their problems on their own, or must they rely on political elites to manage their lives? In this groundbreaking work, Paul A. Cantor explores the ways in which television shows such as Star Trek, The X-Files, South Park, and Deadwood and films such as The Aviator and Mars Attacks! have portrayed both top-down and bottom-up models of order. Drawing on the works of John Locke, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and other proponents of freedom, Cantor contrasts the classical liberal vision of America -- particularly its emphasis on the virtues of spontaneous order -- with the Marxist understanding of the "culture industry" and the Hobbesian model of absolute state control. The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture concludes with a discussion of the impact of 9/11 on film and television, and the new anxieties emerging in contemporary alien-invasion narratives: the fear of a global technocracy that seeks to destroy the nuclear family, religious faith, local government, and other traditional bulwarks against the absolute state.
Author | : Jenn Brandt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2018-01-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1501320580 |
The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.