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  • Mothers on American television

    From here to maternity

    by Kim Akass ...
    Mothers on American television takes an in-depth look at how motherhood is represented on some of the most popular television series produced this century. Adopting a feminist, Marxist, cultural studies and psychoanalytical approach, the book offers a history of the positioning of mothers within American society. It provides detailed analysis of The Sopranos, Sex and the City, The Handmaid’s Tale ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • TV's Betty Goes Global

    From Telenovela to International Brand

    Edited by Janet McCabe, Kim Akass ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    Premiering in 2006,Ugly Betty, the award-winning US hit show about unglamorous but kind-hearted Betty Suarez (America Ferrera),is the latest incarnation of a worldwide phenomenon that started life as a Colombian telenovela,Yo soy Betty,la fea, back in 1999. The tale of the ugly duckling has since taken an extraordinary global journey and become the most successful telenovela to date. This ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Quality TV

    Contemporary American Television and Beyond

    by Janet McCabe, Kim Akass ...
    Series series Reading Contemporary Television
    In his seminal book "Television's Second Golden Age", Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not "regular" TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped by digital technologies and defined by consumer choice and brand marketing, this book brings ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Television Finales

    From Howdy Doody to Girls

    by Sam Ford, Karen Hellekson, Ensley F. Guffey, David Diffrient, Martha P. Nochimson, Barbara Villez, K. Dale Koontz, Elizabeth L. Rambo, Erika Johnson-Lewis, Mitchell E. Shapiro, Keith Brand, Jeff Thompson, Lori Bindig, Sue Turnbull, Renee Middlemost, Mark Dawidziak, David Hinckley, Stephen Spignesi, Alice Leppert, Shelley Cobb, Hannah Hamad, Stacey Abbott, Katheryn Wright, Eric Gould, Ron Wilson, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick, Douglas Snauffer, Clinton Bryant, Michael Donovan, Jeffrey Bussolini, Stephanie Graves, Teresa Forde, Dean DeFino, Trisha Dunleavy, Nikki Stafford, Dana A. Heller, Stan Beeler, Cynthia Burkhead, Joanne Morreale, Asokan Nirmalarajah, J. Jeremy Wisnewski, Bill Yousman, Deborah Jermyn, Lincoln Geraghty, Michele Byers, Zeke Jarvis, Kim Akass, Amanda Potter, Gary R. Edgerton, Lynne Hibberd, Robert Thompson, Jason P. Vest, Amy M. Damico, Bill Brioux, Lynnette Porter, Adam Ochonicky, Joseph S. Walker, Gary Gravely, Brett Mills, Paul Wright, Lorna Jewett ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    Today more than ever, series finales have become cultural touchstones that feed watercooler fodder and Twitter storms among a committed community of viewers. While the final episodes of The Fugitive and M*A*S*H continue to rank among the highest rated broadcasts, more recent shows draw legions of binge-watching fans. Given the importance of finales to viewers and critics alike, Howard and ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Edited by Nick Marx, Matt Sienkiewicz ...
    From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers both foundational and cutting-edge work, Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz have assembled The Comedy ... Read more

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  • Framing Celebrity

    New directions in celebrity culture

    Edited by Su Holmes, Sean Redmond ...
    Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts.The authors ... Read more

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  • Girl on Girl

    How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

    by Sophie Gilbert ...
    From Atlantic critic and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sophie Gilbert, a blazing critique of how early-aughts pop culture turned women and girls against each other—and themselves—with disastrous consequences. An urgent read that addresses questions around the current regression of feminism.When did feminism lose its way? This question feels increasingly urgent in a moment of reactionary cultural and ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Chief Culture Officer

    How to Create a Living, Breathing Corporation

    by Grant McCracken ...
    Trenchantly on point and bursting with insight, anthropologist Grant McCracken shows American corporations how keeping a finger on the pulse of contemporary cultural trends can change their business practices for the better -- and ahead of the curve.Levi-Strauss, the jeans and apparel maker, missed out on the hip-hop trend. They didn't realize that those kids in baggy jeans represented a whole new ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud

    The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman

    by Anne Helen Petersen ...
    ****One of NPR’s Best Books of 2017**“Petersen's gloriously bumptious, brash ode to nonconforming women suits the needs of this dark moment. Her careful examination of how we eviscerate the women who confound or threaten is crucial reading if we are ever to be better.”—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of All the Single Ladies**From celebrity gossip expert and BuzzFeed culture ... Read more

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  • You Play the Girl

    On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages

    by Carina Chocano ...
    N ational B ook C ritics C ircle A ward Winner . "With dazzling clarity, [Chocano's] commentary exposes the subliminal sexism on our pages and screens."— O, The Oprah MagazineAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused ... ... Read more

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  • Wonder Women

    Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection

    by Debora L. Spar ...
    Fifty years after the Equal Pay Act, why are women still living in a man's world?Debora L. Spar never thought of herself as a feminist. Raised after the tumult of the 1960s, she presumed the gender war was over. As one of the youngest female professors to be tenured at Harvard Business School and a mother of three, she swore to young women that they could have it all. "We thought we could just ... Read more

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  • Culturematic

    How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas

    by Grant McCracken ...
    Welcome to Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football, Burning Man, the Ford Fiesta Movement, Rube Goldberg, NFL Films, Wordle, Two and a Half Men, a 10,000-Year Symphony, and ROFLCom Memes Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough IdeasA Culturematic is a little machine for making culture. It’s an ingenuity engine.Once wound up and released, the ... Read more

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