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  • The Bundy Archive

    Genealogies of White Masculinity

    by Bryan J. McCann ...
    Series series Horror and Monstrosity Studies Series
    Since his first arrest in 1975, Ted Bundy has been the most ubiquitous serial killer in US popular culture. He is the subject of seven feature films and miniseries, several televised documentaries and podcasts, numerous true crime books, and myriad other texts trading in the saga of a man who kidnapped, raped, and murdered at least thirty white women and girls in the Pacific Northwest, Utah, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Mark of Criminality

    Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era

    by Bryan J. McCann ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Illustrates the ways that the “war on crime” became conjoined—aesthetically, politically, and rhetorically—with the emergence of gangsta rap as a lucrative and deeply controversial subgenre of hip-hopIn The Mark of Criminality: Rhetoric, Race, and Gangsta Rap in the War-on-Crime Era, Bryan J. McCann argues that gangsta rap should be viewed as more than a damaging reinforcement of an era’s worst ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • João Gilberto and Stan Getz's Getz/Gilberto

    by Bryan Daniel McCann ...
    Series series 33 1/3 Brazil
    Most die-hard Brazilian music fans would argue that Getz/Gilberto, the iconic 1964 album featuring "The Girl from Ipanema," is not the best bossa nova record. Yet we've all heard "The Girl from Ipanema" as background music in a thousand anodyne settings, from cocktail parties to telephone hold music. So how did Getz/Gilberto become the Brazilian album known around the world, crossing generational ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Narrated by Joel Richards ...
    Series series Ten Moments That Shaped

    Unabridged

    9 hours 18 min

    What do nineteenth–century fiction, early twentieth–century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Throes of Democracy

    Brazil since 1989

    by Doctor Bryan McCann ...
    Series series Global History of the Present
    In the 1980s, Brazil emerged from two decades of military dictatorship and embarked on an experiment in full democracy for the first time in the nation's history Since then, Brazilians have sought to live up to the ideals of this experiment while negotiating dramatic economic and cultural transformations.In The Throes of Democracy Bryan McCann gives a panoramic view of this process, exploring the ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Hard Times in the Marvelous City

    From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Beginning in the late 1970s, activists from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro challenged the conditions—such as limited access to security, sanitation, public education, and formal employment—that separated favela residents from Rio's other citizens. The activists built a movement that helped to push the nation toward redemocratization. They joined with political allies in an effort to institute an ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology

    by Paul Mccarthy, Lindsey Burns, Bryan McCann, Sahen Gupta ...
    Training and Supervision in Sport and Exercise Psychology presents a labyrinth of choices and challenges for trainees and supervisors, such as training and supervision mixing the science of doing sport and exercise psychology with the art of judgement and decision-making to deliver services to athletes. With a multitude of skills to master and competencies to gain, trainees and supervisors need ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

    A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    by B.J. Barickman ...
    Series series Diálogos Series
    2023 Honorable Mention, Warren Dean Prize in Brazilian HistoryIn From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Cities From Scratch

    Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America

    Edited by Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, Javier Auyero ...
    This collection of essays challenges long-entrenched ideas about the history, nature, and significance of the informal neighborhoods that house the vast majority of Latin America's urban poor. Until recently, scholars have mainly viewed these settlements through the prisms of crime and drug-related violence, modernization and development theories, populist or revolutionary politics, or debates ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Hello, Hello Brazil

    Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

    by Bryan McCann ...
    “Hello, hello Brazil” was the standard greeting Brazilian radio announcers of the 1930s used to welcome their audience into an expanding cultural marketplace. New genres like samba and repackaged older ones like choro served as the currency in this marketplace, minted in the capital in Rio de Janeiro and circulated nationally by the burgeoning recording and broadcasting industries. Bryan McCann ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Rio de Janeiro

    by Bryan McCann ...
    Series series Ten Moments That Shaped
    What do nineteenth-century fiction, early twentieth-century popular music, 1930s soccer, 1950s film comedy, 1960s experimental art and 1970s soap operas have in common with one another? Each reveal the deep patterns structuring social and cultural life in Rio de Janeiro. Bringing a fresh perspective to one of the most visited cities in South America, Bryan McCann explores each manifestation in ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook