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  • Rolling

    Blackness and Mediated Comedy

    by Alfred L. Martin Jr., Anshare Antoine, Gerald R. Butters Jr., Ellen Cleghorne, Kelly Cole, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Ken Feil, Lisa Guerrero, Timothy Havens, Felicia D. Henderson0, Jacqueline Johnson1, Scott Poulson-Bryant2, Mel Stanfill3, Joshua Truelove4 ...
    Series series Comedy & Culture
    Since slavery, African and African American humor has baffled, intrigued, angered, and entertained the masses.Rolling centers Blackness in comedy, especially on television, and observing that it is often relegated to biopics, slave narratives, and the comedic. But like W. E. B. DuBois's ideas about double consciousness and Racquel Gates's extension of his theories, we know that Blackness resonates ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

    The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out

    by Sean P. Griffin ...
    The first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay communityFrom its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But the Walt Disney Company has also had a long and complex relationship to the gay and lesbian community that is only now ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • We See Each Other

    A Black, Trans Journey Through TV and Film

    by Tre'vell Anderson ...
    A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that's long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history's annals, and further contextualizes our present moment ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Saturday Night Live & American TV

    by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz, Ron Becker ...
    Thought-provoking and "undeniably interesting" essays on this cultural institution of comedy and what it says about our society ( Booklist).Since 1975, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" has greeted late night–TV viewers looking for the best in sketch comedy and popular music. SNL is the variety show that launched the careers of countless comedians, including Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley ...
    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • How to Watch Television, Second Edition

    Edited by Ethan Thompson, Jason Mittell ...
    Series Book 3 - User's Guides to Popular Culture
    A new edition that brings the ways we watch and think about television up to the presentWe all have opinions about the television shows we watch, but television criticism is about much more than simply evaluating the merits of a particular show and deeming it “good” or “bad.” Rather, criticism uses the close examination of a television program to explore that program’s cultural significance, ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $22.99 USD

  • Mad Men, Mad World

    Sex, Politics, Style, and the 1960s

    Edited by Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Lilya Kaganovsky, Robert A. Rushing ...
    Since the show's debut in 2007, Mad Men has invited viewers to immerse themselves in the lush period settings, ruthless Madison Avenue advertising culture, and arresting characters at the center of its 1960s fictional world. Mad Men, Mad World is a comprehensive analysis of this groundbreaking TV series. Scholars from across the humanities consider the AMC drama from a fascinating array of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • From Blackface to Black Twitter

    Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, & Gender

    by Jannette L. Dates, Mia Moody Ramirez ...
    From Blackface to Black Twitter: Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, & Gender traces the roots and fruits of comedy over the centuries to analyze and offer insights into the intersections of race, gender, and politics in humor that is by, for, and/or about black people. ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • Queer Country

    by Shana Goldin-Perschbacher ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    A Variety Best Music Book of 2022A No Depression Most Memorable Music Book of 2022A Library Journal Best Arts and Humanities Book of 2022A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2022A Boot Best Music Book of 2022A Ticketmaster Best Music Book of 2022A Happy Magazine</em... ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry

    Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America

    by Susan Somers-Willett ...
    Series series Anthropology series
    "For a lucid and thorough 'real-world' analysis of the movement from the ground-up--including its history, aesthetics, and culture, there is surely no better place to start than Somers-Willett's trailblazing book."--- Jerome Sala, Pleiades"Finally, a clear, accurate, and thoroughly researched examination of slam poetry, a movement begun in 1984 by a mixed bag of nobody poets in Chicago. At ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Essential HBO Reader

    by Gary R. Edgerton, Jeffrey P. Jones ...
    Series series Essential Readers in Contemporary Media and Culture
    Essays on the history of HBO, a company designed to please audiences instead of advertisers, and the impact of its distinctive programming: "Recommended." — ChoiceThe founding of Home Box Office in the early 1970s—when it debuted by telecasting a Paul Newman movie and an NHL game to 365 households in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—was a harbinger of the innovations that would transform television as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soul Thieves

    The Appropriation and Misrepresentation of African American Popular Culture

    by T. Brown, B. Kopano ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Considers the misappropriation of African American popular culture through various genres, largely Hip Hop, to argue that while such cultural creations have the potential to be healing agents, they are still exploited -often with the complicity of African Americans- for commercial purposes and to maintain white ruling class hegemony. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD