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  • American Cultural Studies

    An Introduction to American Culture

    Now in its fifth edition, American Cultural Studies continues to offer a critical introduction to key concepts, topics and methods in the study of United States culture, exploring subjects that include the city, ethnicity and immigration, religion, youth, and gender and sexuality.The fifth edition has been comprehensively revised to take account of developments in American culture during the past ... Read more

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  • Contradictions in Fan Culture and Club Ownership in Contemporary English Football

    The Game’s Gone

    Series series Emerald Points
    In an era of buyouts by consortia and sovereign wealth funds, the relationship between football clubs and their fan communities has never been under such strain.Examining models of football club ownership and how they clash with fan ideals, Contradictions in Fan Culture and Club Ownership in Contemporary English Football considers the fan – or at least, some idealised, all-encompassing image of ... Read more

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  • Clerks

    ‘Over the Counter’ Culture and Youth Cinema

    Series series Cinema and Youth Cultures
    This study of Kevin Smith’s debut film breaks new ground by exploring how Clerks sits at the intersection of political and cultural trends relevant to alternative youth cultures in the early 1990s.Clerks (1994) was born of and appeals to a specific youth subculture, with the multimedia ‘View Askewniverse’ developing out of the film’s initial release. Drawing on existing texts and movements such as ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885

    Jeffersonian Afterlives

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    In The Politics of Southern Pastoral Literature, 1785–1885: Jeffersonian Afterlives,Peter Templeton presents a wide-ranging and systematic evaluation of pastoral in the nineteenth-century Southern novel, offering an explicit appraisal of the philosophical and political rationale of pastoral literature alongside the existing body of research into the image of Jefferson following his death. Rather ... Read more

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  • Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter

    African American History and Representation

    Edited by Andrew Dix, Peter Templeton ...
    Violence from Slavery to #BlackLivesMatter brings together perspectives on violence and its representation in African American history from slavery to the present moment. Contributors explore how violence, signifying both an instrument of the white majority’s power and a modality of black resistance, has been understood and articulated in primary materials that range from slave narrative through ... Read more

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

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    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

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  • Futures of Black Radicalism

    With racial justice struggles on the rise, a probing collection considers the past and future of Black radicalismBlack rebellion has returned. Dramatic protests have risen up in scores of cities and campuses; there is renewed engagement with the history of Black radical movements and thought. Here, key intellectuals—inspired by the new movements and by the seminal work of the scholar Cedric J. ... Read more

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