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Memes and the Future of Pop Culture
Häftad, 2019
1277 kr
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Pop culture emerged in the first decades of the twentieth century as a reaction to the restrictive social traditions of colonial America. It spread quickly and broadly throughout the bustling urban centers of the 1920s—an era when it formed a partnership with technology and the business world. This …
Shopper's Paradise
Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture
Häftad, 2019
1240 kr
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Shopper’s Paradise: Retail Stores and American Consumer Culture deals with the cultural, social and economic impact of different kinds of retail stores on American society. It has sections on some of the most important retail genres, such as Internet stores (Amazon.com), department stores (Neiman …
Sign of the Joker: The Clown Prince of Crime as a Sign
Av Joel West
Häftad, 2020
1358 kr
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Listen to the podcast about this book.The Joker both fascinates and repels us. From his origin in Detective Comics in 1940, he has committed obscene crimes, some of the worst the Batman universe has ever known, and, conversely, fans have made him the topic of erotic and pornographic “fan fiction.” …
Mythic Imagination Today
The Interpenetration of Mythology and Science
Häftad, 2021
1240 kr
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Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This monograph brings alive our collective need for story to guide the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life. Whereas mythology is born primarily of perception and …
Smooth Sailing
An Ethnographic and Socio-semiotic Analysis of Tourism and Ocean Cruising
Häftad, 2022
1240 kr
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Written in an accessible style, with many photographs of important tourist sites and drawings by the author, Smooth Sailing provides an ethnographically informed introduction to the nature of tourism and an important aspect of tourism, ocean cruising. The bookdiscusses topics such as the nature of …
Fractured Jew
An Exploration of Modern Jewish Ontology via Identities in Popular Culture
Av Joel West
Häftad, 2022
1240 kr
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Historically Judaism has been called both a nation and a religion, yet there are those Jews who eschew the religious and national definitions for a cultural one. For example, while TV’s Mrs. Maisel is ostensibly a Jew, the actor playing her is not, and Mrs. Maisel’s actions are not always Jewish. …
Digital Fashion Communication
An (Inter)cultural Perspective
Av Alice Noris, Lorenzo Cantoni
Häftad, 2022
1110 kr
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Fashion is an integral part of popular culture, closely intertwined with tales, magazines, photography, cinema, television, music and sports...up to the emergence of dedicated exhibitions and museums. Fashion is undergoing a major digital transformation: garments and apparels are presented and sold …
Comedic Nightmare
The Trump Effect on American Comedy
Häftad, 2022
1086 kr
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The presidency of Donald J. Trump, has had a considerable impacts on American politics and society. One of these was his altering of the comedic mood in America, taking comedy away from many of its traditions. His presidency turned comedy into political weaponry, as comedians on the liberal side of …
Sports Semiotics
Häftad, 2023
1086 kr
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Sports Semiotics applies semiotics (and other disciplines, secondarily) to analyse the social, cultural, economic and psychological significance of sports. It includes a primer on semiotic theory, sections on the analysis of wrestling by Roland Barthes in his book Mythologies, as well as sections …
First-Person Shooter Videogames
Av Alberto Oya
Häftad, 2023
1110 kr
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This book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first-person shooter videogame genre. After providing an overview of the history of the first-person shooter videogame genre, Alberto Oya comments on the various defining peculiarities of this genre, namely the first-person …
Harlequin in Marketplace Culture
Häftad, 2025
1321 kr
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Since the late 19th century, the stock characters of the commedia dell'arte, especially Harlequin, Pulcinella and Pierrot, have been making frequent appearances in the world of material and cultural artifacts, in such categories as the entertainment industry, the food market, politics and …
Everyday Rituals in Contemporary Settings
The Semiotics of Space and Places of Consumption
Häftad, 2025
1327 kr
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A boutique, a cruise ship, a museum and a hotel all have something in common. But what? They are all places of consumption—not just in the narrow economic sense, but also as part of a broader cultural, emotional, and symbolic phenomenon.Drawing on a semiotic approach, this book explores how …
Seeds
Signals, Fragments, and Structures of Silence
Av Bill Zima
Häftad, 2026
1045 kr
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Seeds asks what must already be in place for thought, perception, and relation to begin. You enter a modular and recursive text built from signals, fragments, and Morse-based structures, where rhythm and interval operate as temporal engines and silence functions as condition rather than absence. …
In Front of the Camera
Cinematic Professions in the Italian Comics of the 1930s and 1940s
Häftad, 2026
944 kr
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Which comic book characters with cinematic themes appeared in Italian comics of the 1930s and 1940s? How did cinema intersect with adventure and humorous comics? Was cinema merely a side dish or a true protagonist? This book attempts to answer these questions by analyzing the long and original …
Japanese Self-Help Book Covers
Multimodal Cross-Cultural Translations
Häftad, 2026
920 kr
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Why does the same book look so different around the world? This study examines the global covers of the Japanese bestseller The Courage to Be Disliked. Using a new approach to Multimodal Discourse Analysis, it compares editions from Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and …
