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    A Cultural History of the Present

    “If the ’90s announced the end of history—as well as ideology, theory and critique—thankfully, the thinkers in this collection didn’t take heed” Beverley Best, author of The Automatic Fetish“A look into how the dreams and nightmares of the ’90s persist in our current popular and political culture … A certifiable page-turner” Karen Tongson, author of normpornThe 1990s were a cultural watershed, ... Read more

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  • Dead Pledges

    Debt, Crisis, and Twenty-First-Century Culture

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    Dead Pledges is the first book to explore the ways that U.S. culture—from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies—has responded to the collapse of the financialized consumer credit economy in 2008. Connecting debt theory to questions of cultural form, this book argues that artists, filmmakers, and writers have re-imagined what it means to owe and to own in a period when debt is what ... Read more

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  • Beneath the Wage

    Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work

    Series Book 10 - Near Futures
    Beneath the Wage retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automatedToday, 80 percent of U.S. workers do service work, from delivering takeout to mopping floors to teaching. Each time we are handed a bag of groceries or a cup of coffee, call for a cab or have our homework graded, we ... Read more

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    A volume of enlightening essays on how TV shows, movies, and music can change hearts and minds.Amid all its frenetic humor, the long-running animated hit The Simpsons has often questioned what is culturally acceptable, wading into controversial subjects like gay rights, the war on terror, religion, and animal rights. This subtle form of political analysis is effective in changing opinions and ... Read more

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    Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Present

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    A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistanceThe Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well ... Read more

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  • America on Film

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    The Fear of Fantasy and the Invention of Reality

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    **Honorable Mention for the Pop Culture Association AwardsIn a political moment when social panics over literature are at their peak, Dangerous Fictions is a mind-expanding treatise on the nature of fictional stories as cultural battlegrounds for power.**Fictional stories have long held an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. In Dangerous Fictions, Lyta Gold ... Read more

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  • Bad Environmentalism

    Irony and Irreverence in the Ecological Age

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