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  • Getting a Life

    The Social Worlds of Geek Culture

    by Benjamin Woo ...
    Comic book superheroes, fantasy kingdoms, and futuristic starships have become inescapable features of today's pop-culture landscape, and the people we used to deride as "nerds" or "geeks" have ridden their popularity and visibility to mainstream recognition. It seems it's finally hip to be square. Yet these conventionalized representations of geek culture typically ignore the real people who have ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Comics World

    Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics

    Edited by Benjamin Woo, Jeremy Stoll ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 COMICS STUDIES SOCIETY EDITED BOOK PRIZEContributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin WooThe Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Point of Sale

    Analyzing Media Retail

    by Daniel Herbert, Derek Johnson, Emily West, Greg Steirer, Heikki Tyni, Olli Sotamaa, Elizabeth Affuso, Avi Santo, Ethan Tussey0, Meredith A. Bak1, Courtney Brannon Donoghue2, Tim J. Anderson3, Lynn Comella4, Benjamin Woo5, Nasreen Rajani6, Erin Hanna7, Evan Elkins8, Marc Steinberg9 ...
    Point of Sale offers the first significant attempt to center media retail as a vital component in the study of popular culture. It brings together fifteen essays by top media scholars with their fingers on the pulse of both the changes that foreground retail in a digital age and the history that has made retail a fundamental part of the culture industries. The book reveals why retail matters as a ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

    Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

    by Benjamin Woo, Bart Beaty ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Scene Thinking

    Cultural Studies from the Scenes Perspective

    Edited by Benjamin Woo, Stuart Poyntz, Jamie Rennie ...
    How is cultural activity shaped by the places where it unfolds? One answer has been found in the ‘scenes perspective’, a development within popular music studies that explains change and transformation within musical practices in terms of the social and institutional histories of scenes. Scene Thinking: Cultural Studies from the Scenes Perspective takes up this framework – and the mode of analysis ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Status and Culture

    How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

    by W. David Marx ...
    **"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, New York Times“[Status and Culture] consistently posits theories I'd never previously considered that instantly feel obvious.” —Chuck Klosterman, author of The Nineties“Why are you the way that you are? Status and Culture explains nearly everything about the things you choose to be—and how the society we live in takes shape in the process ... Read more

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  • In Love with Art

    Francoise Mouly's Adventures in Comics with Art Spiegelman

    by Jeet Heer ...
    Series series Exploded Views
    Françoise Mouly, an editor and publisher of uncommon taste and creativity, and an artist in her own right, has spent nearly four decades transforming comics. With her husband, Art Spiegelman, Mouly founded the landmark magazine RAW, which showcased artists such as Chris Ware, Charles Burns and Sue Coe, and, along with Spiegelman's Maus, brought an avant-garde sensibility to the popular art form. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    Was $27.99 USD Now $21.99 USD

  • True Story

    What Reality TV Says About Us

    by Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD ...
    Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium—and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexualityWhat do we see when we watch reality television?In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV-lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Club Cultures

    Music, Media and Subcultural Capital

    by Sarah Thornton ...
    This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves. ... Read more

    $24.95 USD

  • Media and Participation

    A Site of Ideological-Democratic Struggle

    by Nico Carpentier ...
    Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies ... Read more

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