Richard W. Slatta “The Mythical West: An Encyclopedia of Legend, Lore, and Popular Culture"

ABC-Clio | 2001-10-01 | ISBN: 1576071510 | 400 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB

A sequel to Richard Slatta's popular Cowboy Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 1994), The Mythical West demonstrates how major western figures, events, and places have been…

Sheila Whiteley, "Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture"

Edinburgh University Press (2008) | English | ISBN: 0748628096 | 235 pages | PDF | 2.69 MB

How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This book is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores…

Pendergast, «St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture»

St. James Press | ISBN: 1558624015 | 2000 | PDF | 784 pages | 13.62 MB

Sometimes, when I’m wandering in an art museum looking at the relics of an ancient civilization, I find myself wondering how a future society would represent a defunct American…

Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture

The MIT Press | ISBN 026274015X | 1992-09-08 | PDF | 188 pages | 2.31 MB

Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements in Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan through the…

National Identity, Popular Culture and Everyday Life

Berg Publishers | ISBN 1859735193 | 2002-11-11 | PDF | 224pages | 817 kB

The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how…

The Trouble with Nature: Sex in Science and Popular Culture

Publisher: University of California Press | Number Of Pages: 455 | Publication Date: 2003-05-01 | ISBN: 0520236203 | 3 MB

Roger N. Lancaster provides the definitive rebuttal of evolutionary just-so stories about men, women, and the nature of desire in this spirited…

Gale Group | 1999-12 | ISBN:1558624007 | 3250 pages | PDF | 55 MbThis encyclopedia focuses on American popular culture, examining the post- World War II era in over 2700 alphabetical essays in the following broad categories: film, music, print culture, social life, sports, television and radio, and art and…

Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Popular Culture

Greenwood Press | 2007-12-30 | ISBN: 0313335990 | 328 pages | PDF | 3,6 MB

Rupert Everett follows in the footsteps of Rock Hudson and others who starred in multimillion dollar films. George Michael and k.d.lang have been the creative forces behind dozens of hit…

Linnell Secomb, Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture

Edinburgh University Press | ISBN 0253219477 | 2007 | PDF | 2 MB | 185 pages

Philosophy and Love introduces readers to philosophical reflections on love from Plato to the present. Bringing philosophy together with popular cultural analysis, Linnell Secomb provides an…

A. Bowdoin Van Riper, "Science in Popular Culture"

Greenwood Press | ISBN: 0313318220 | June 30, 2002 | PDF | 224 pages | 1.6 MB

“Spaceships travel through time at lightspeed, piloted by human clones and talking animals. Serious injuries are healed with the wave of a medical gizmo. The media makes…