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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sharon lockyer”
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  • Alternative Comedy Now and Then

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Oliver Double, Sharon Lockyer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Alternative Comedy Now and Then: Critical Perspectives is the first academic collection focusing on the history and legacy of the alternative comedy movement in Britain that began in 1979 and continues to influence contemporary stand-up comedy. The collection examines the contexts, performances and reception of alternative comedy in order to provide a holistic approach to examining the socio ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Screening the Undead

    Vampires and Zombies in Film and Television

    by Leon Hunt, Sharon Lockyer, Milly Williamson ...
    The vampire and the zombie, the two most popular incarnations of the undead, are brought together for a forensic critical investigation in Screening the Undead. Both have a long history in popular fiction, film, television, comics and games; the vampire also remains central to popular culture today, from literary 'paranormal romance' to cult TV and movie franchises - by turns romantic, tortured, ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Controversial Images

    Media Representations on the Edge

    by Feona Attwood, Vincent Campbell, I.Q. Hunter, Sharon Lockyer ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    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

  • Porno? Chic!

    how pornography changed the world and made it a better place

    by Brian McNair ...
    Porno? Chic! examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals.Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change in sexual politics and sex/gender relations in a ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Pretentiousness

    Why It Matters: An Essay

    by Dan Fox ...
    “A nimble case for pretentiousness as a willingness to take risks.” —The New York Times Book Review Pretentiousness is for anyone who has braved being different, whether that’s making a stand against artistic consensus or running the gauntlet of the last bus home dressed differently from everyone else. Pretentiousness is an essential ingredient in pop music and high art. Why do we choose ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    by T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mad Men

    Dream Come True TV

    Edited by Gary R. Edgerton ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    Don and Betty Draper live in a picture-perfect world. He is a hard-living advertising executive - a 'mad man' - on the fast track. She's a Bryn Mawr graduate and former fashion model, now a suburban princess, mother of three children. If they've everything, why are they so unhappy? Why is their dream come true not enough? This book explores, analyses, celebrates the world of "Mad Men" in all its ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • British Culture

    An Introduction

    by David P. Christopher ...
    This third edition of British Culture is the complete introduction to culture and the arts in Britain today. Extensively illustrated and offering a wider range of topics than ever before, David P. Christopher identifies and analyses key areas in language, literature, film, TV, social media, popular music, sport and other fields, setting each one in a clear, historical context.British Culture ... Read more

    $78.99 USD

  • The New Philistines

    (Provocations)

    by Sohrab Ahmari ...
    Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of identity. Visit any contemporary gallery, museum or theatre, and chances are the art on offer will be principally concerned with race, gender, sexuality, power and privilege.The quest for truth, freedom and the sacred has been thrust aside to make room for identity politics. Mystery, individuality and beauty are out; radical feminism, racial ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Art Into Pop

    by Simon Frith, Howard Horne ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music
    This book, first published in 1987, tells the intriguing and culturally complex story of the art school influence on postwar British popular music. Following Romantic attitudes from life class to recording studio, it focuses on two key moments – the early 1960s, when art students like John Lennon and Eric Clapton begin to play their own versions of American rock and blues and inflected youth music ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • The Ambivalent Internet

    Mischief, Oddity, and Antagonism Online

    by Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner ...
    This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play.Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the ambivalence of this expression: the fact that it is too unwieldy, too variable across cases, to be essentialized as old or new, vernacular or institutional ... Read more

    $22.00 USD