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  • Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians

    An Anthology of Oral History Education

    by Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Michael Brooks, Patrick W. Carlton, Fran Chadwick, Margaret Smith Crocco, Jennifer Braithwait Darrow, Toby Daspit, Joseph DeFilippo, Susan Douglass, David King Dunaway, Sandy Eades, The Foxfire Fund, Inc., Amy S. Green, Ronald J. Grele, M. Gail Hickey, Cliff Kuhn, Erin McCarthy, Marjorie L. McLellan, Susan Moon, Charles Morrissey, John A. Neuenschwander, Rich Nixon, Irma M. Olmedo, Sandy Polishuk, Alessandro Portelli, Kimberly K. Porter, Troy Reeves, Donald A. Ritchie, Marie Scatena, David Sidwell, Ronald Simon, Alan Stein, Debra Sutphen, Kathryn Walbert, Glenn Whitman, John D. Willard, 5th, Linda P. Wood ...
    Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their own teaching. ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Imagining the Academy

    Higher Education and Popular Culture

    Edited by Susan Edgerton, Gunilla Holm, Toby Daspit, Paul Farber ...
    The essays in this book examine various forms of popular culture and the ways in which they represent, shape, and are constrained by notions about and issues within higher education. From an exploration of rap music to an analysis of how the academy presents and markets itself on the World Wide Web, the essays focus attention on higher education issues that are bound up in the workings and effects ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy

    Reading, Constructing, Connecting

    Edited by Toby Daspit, John A. Weaver ...
    Series series Pedagogy and Popular Culture
    This collection attempts to incorporate cultural studies into the understanding of schooling, not simply addressing how students read themselves as "members" of a distinct culture, but how they, along with teachers and administrators, read popular texts in general. The purpose of this book is to suggest some alternative directions critical pedagogy can take in its critique of popular culture by ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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    Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

    by Lynn Spigel, Angela McRobbie ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Queer Media Images

    LGBT Perspectives

    by Richard D. Besel, Kristin Comeforo, Jennifer Guthrie, Brittani Hidahl, Kristel Hladky, Richard Kenney, Zoe Kenney, Adrianne Kunkel, Lori Montalbano, Kristen Norwood, Valarie Schweisberger, Shannon Weber, John M. Wolf, Jason Zingsheim, Bruce E. Drushel, Rachel E. Silverman, Kimiko Akita ...
    Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents fifteen chapters that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • How Real Is Reality TV?

    Essays on Representation and Truth

    Edited by David S. Escoffery ...
    American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Struggling for Ordinary

    Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life

    by Andre Cavalcante ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Cultural Communication
    An in-depth look at the role of media in the struggle for transgender inclusionFrom television shows like Orange is the New Black and Transparent, to the real-life struggles of Caitlyn Jenner splashed across the headlines, transgender visibility is on the rise. But what was it like to live as a transgender person in a media environment before this transgender boom in television? While pop culture ... Read more

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  • Growing Up Postmodern

    Neoliberalism and the War on the Young

    by Jennifer Drake, Margaret Henderson, Angela E. Hubler, David M. Jones, Elizabeth Kleinfeld, Andrew Kurtz, Bill Osgerby, Jerry Phillips, Tim Scheie, Gary L. Smith, Astra Taylor, Henry A. Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. Goodman called for a revival of social investment in urban planning, public welfare, workplace democracy, free speech, racial harmony, sexual freedom, popular culture, and education to produce a society that could inspire young people, and an adult society ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Fans, Bloggers, and Gamers

    Exploring Participatory Culture

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Brings together the highlights of a decade and a half of groundbreaking research into the cultural life of media consumersHenry Jenkins's pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture and that they represent the vanguard of a new relationship with mass media. Though ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Rational Ritual

    Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge

    by Michael Suk-Young Chwe ...
    Why do Internet, financial service, and beer commercials dominate Super Bowl advertising? How do political ceremonies establish authority? Why does repetition characterize anthems and ritual speech? Why were circular forms favored for public festivals during the French Revolution? This book answers these questions using a single concept: common knowledge.Game theory shows that in order to ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Speech Communities

    by Marcyliena H. Morgan ...
    Series series Key Topics in Linguistic Anthropology
    What makes a speech community? How do they evolve? How are speech communities identified? Speech communities are central to our understanding of how language and interactions occur in societies around the world and in this book readers will find an overview of the main concepts and critical arguments surrounding how language and communication styles distinguish and identify groups. Speech ... Read more

    $35.29 USD