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  • American Pie

    The Anatomy of Vulgar Teen Comedy

    by Bill Osgerby ...
    Series series Cinema and Youth Cultures
    American Pie represents the most commercially successful example of the vulgar teen comedy, and this book analyses the film's development, audience-appeal and cultural significance.American Pie (1999) is a film that exemplifies that most disparaged of movie genres – the vulgar teen comedy. Largely aimed at young audiences, the vulgar teen comedy is characterised by a brazenly over-the-top humour ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Youth Culture and the Media

    Global Perspectives

    by Bill Osgerby ...
    This expansive, lively introduction charts the connections between international youth cultures and the development of global media and communication.From 1950s drive-ins and jukeboxes to contemporary social media, the book examines modern youth cultures in their social, economic, and political contexts. Exploring the rise of young people as a distinct media market, the book examines the relation ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Action TV: Tough-Guys, Smooth Operators and Foxy Chicks

    Edited by Anna Gough-Yates, Bill Osgerby, Anna Gough Yates ...
    From re-runs of 'TV classics' like The Avengers or Starsky and Hutch, to soundtracks, club nights and film remakes such as Mission Impossible II, the action series is enjoying a popular revival. Yet little attention has been paid to the history, nature and enduring appeal of the action series, and its place in popular culture, past and present.Action TV traces the development of the action series ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Hebdige and Subculture in the Twenty-First Century

    Through the Subcultural Lens

    Edited by Keith Gildart, Anna Gough-Yates, Sian Lincoln, Bill Osgerby, Lucy Robinson, John Street, Peter Webb, Matthew Worley ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book assesses the legacy of Dick Hebdige and his work on subcultures in his seminal work, Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979). The volume interrogates the concept of subculture put forward by Hebdige, and asks if this concept is still capable of helping us understand the subcultures of the twenty-first century. The contributors to this volume assess the main theoretical trends behind ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • 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

    $64.99 CAD

  • Youth Culture and Social Change

    Making a Difference by Making a Noise

    Edited by Bill Osgerby, Sian Lincoln, Anna Gough-Yates, Peter Webb, Lucy Robinson, Keith Gildart, Matthew Worley, John Street ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book brings together historians, sociologists and social scientists to examine aspects of youth culture. The book’s themes are riots, music and gangs, connecting spectacular expression of youthful disaffection with everyday practices. By so doing, Youth Culture and Social Change maps out new ways of historicizing responses to economic and social change: public unrest and popular culture. ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

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    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Subcultural Theory

    Traditions and Concepts

    by J. Patrick Williams ...
    Subcultural phenomena continue to draw attention from many areas of contemporary society, including the news media, the marketing and fashion industries, concerned parents, religious, and other citizen groups, as well as academia. Research into these phenomena has spanned the humanities and social sciences, and the subcultural theories that underlie this work are similarly interdisciplinary. ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Media and Cultural Theory

    Edited by James Curran, David Morley ...
    Containing new thinking and original surveys, Media & Cultural Theory brings together leading international scholars to address key issues and debates within media and cultural studies.Through the use of contemporary media and film texts such as Bridget Jones’ Diary and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, and using case studies of the USA and the UK after September 11th, James Curran and David Morley ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • From entertainment to citizenship

    Politics and popular culture

    by John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott ...
    From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars – like Bono and Bob Geldof – who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Mixing Pop and Politics

    Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century

    Edited by Catherine Hoad, Geoff Stahl, Oli Wilson ...
    The political has always been part of popular music, but how does that play out in today’s musical and political landscape? Mixing Pop and Politics: Political Dimensions of Popular Music in the 21st Century provides an innovative exploration of the complex politics of popular music in its contemporary formations.Amid the shifting paradigms of power in the 2020s, the chapters in this book go beyond ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Transgender Marxism

    Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson, Elle O'Rourke ...
    The first collection of its kind, Transgender Marxism is a provocative and groundbreaking union of transgender studies and Marxist theory.Exploring trans lives and movements, the authors delve into the experience of surviving as transgender under capitalism. They explore the pressures, oppression and state persecution faced by trans people living in capitalist societies, their tenuous positions in ... Read more

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