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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nicholas carnes”
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  • The Cash Ceiling

    Why Only the Rich Run for Office—and What We Can Do about It

    by Nicholas Carnes ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Political Behavior
    Why working-class Americans almost never become politicians, what that means for democracy, and what reformers can do about itWhy are Americans governed by the rich? Millionaires make up only three percent of the public but control all three branches of the federal government. How did this happen? What stops lower-income and working-class Americans from becoming politicians? The first book to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • White-Collar Government

    The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

    by Nicholas Carnes ...
    Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has spent less than two percent of his or her adult life in a working-class job. Why is it that most politicians in America are so much better off than ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    The Infinity Saga

    by Lilly J. Goren ...
    Series series Politics and Popular Culture
    The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) is the most expansive and widely viewed fictional narrative in the history of cinema. In 2009, Disney purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, including its subsidiary film production company, Marvel Studios. Since then, the MCU—the collection of multimedia Marvel Studios products that share a single fictional storyline—has grown from two feature films to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Politics of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Volume 2

    Into the Multiverse

    Edited by Nicholas Carnes, Lilly J. Goren ...
    Series series Politics and Popular Culture
    A new volume of essays exploring the on-screen politics and real-world implications of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s expansion into the multiverse.As the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) moved on from the Thanos storyline, it became more political than ever—both on screen and off.Following up on their first volume about the politics of the MCU, editors Nicholas Carnes and Lilly J. Goren are back ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

    by Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin ...
    A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuriesAmerica on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. Celebrated authors and academics Harry M. ... Read more

    $46.00 USD

  • Black Women in Sequence

    Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

    by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Mixed-Race Superheroes

    by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Eric L. Berlatsky, Gregory T. Carter, Chris Gavaler, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Nicholas E. Miller, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Jorge J. Santos, Kwasu David Tembo0, Corrine Esther Collins1, Jasmine Mitchell2, Adrienne Resha3 ...
    American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe

    Essays on the Social, Cultural and Geopolitical Domains

    Edited by William L. Svitavsky, Daniel Fandino, Julian C. Chambliss ...
    The Marvel Cinematic Universe--comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts--has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots. Beyond considerable box office achievements, the success of Marvel's movie studios has opened up dialogue on social, economic and political concerns that challenge established values ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Reclaiming Popular Documentary

    by Christie Milliken, Steve F. Anderson, Ezra Winton, Patricia Aufderheide, Zoë Druick, Devon Coutts, Sabiha Ahmad Khan, Anthony Kinik, Michael Brendan Baker, Allison de Fren, Jonathan Kahana, Shilyh Warren, S. Topiary Landberg, Landon Palmer, Dylan Nelson, Alexandra Juhasz, Rick Prelinger, George S. Larke-Walsh ...
    The documentary has achieved rising popularity over the past two decades thanks to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. Despite this, documentary studies still tends to favor works that appeal primarily to specialists and scholars.Reclaiming Popular Documentary reverses this long-standing tendency by showing that documentaries can be—and are—made for mainstream or commercial audiences. ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The New Mutants

    Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics

    by Ramzi Fawaz ...
    Series Book 1 - Postmillennial Pop
    **2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book PrizeFinalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies AssociationWinner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT Studies**How fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions.In 1964, noted literary critic Leslie ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Working-Class Comic Book Heroes

    Class Conflict and Populist Politics in Comics

    Edited by Marc DiPaolo ...
    Contributions by Phil Bevin, Blair Davis, Marc DiPaolo, Michele Fazio, James Gifford, Kelly Kanayama, Orion Ussner Kidder, Christina M. Knopf, Kevin Michael Scott, Andrew Alan Smith, and Terrence R. WandtkeIn comic books, superhero stories often depict working-class characters who struggle to make ends meet, lead fulfilling lives, and remain faithful to themselves and their own personal code of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Black Panther

    Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon

    by Terence McSweeney ...
    Series series Reframing Hollywood
    Named a Nonfiction Book Awards Gold Winner by the Nonfiction Authors AssociationGold Winner of the 2022 eLit Book Award for Popular CultureWinner of a National Indie Excellence Award in the category of “Movies & TV”Book of the Year 2021 in African Studies awarded by CESTAFWinner of the 2022 Best Book Award in the category of “Performing Arts”Black Panther is one... ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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