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Books narrated by Barbara Deering

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    Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold, The

    Unabridged

    10 hours 30 min

    Following her Oscar nomination, tabloid cover girl Jackie Gold has been offered the role of a lifetime. At the height of her career, her equally famous boyfriend and current People’s “Sexiest Man of the Year” has a proposal of his own. It’s enough to make a pack of bloodthirsty paparazzi push her over the edge.The year is 1999, and Jackie fights for her life while the press and public speculate on ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic

    Advancing New Perspectives

    Series series Media, Culture, and the Arts
    Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through a collection of essays from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives. It includes varied subject ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Grease

    Gender, Nostalgia and Youth Consumption in the Blockbuster Era

    Series series Cinema and Youth Cultures
    This book offers the first in-depth look at the history, social context, and industrial practices behind this teen musical phenomenon to suggest that social change, especially in terms of gender and sexuality, comes to the surface despite the film’s retro setting, blockbuster business model, and apparent nostalgic tone. The vast audience for this film over the last thirty-five years and the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

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  • Hot Stuff

    Disco and the Remaking of American Culture

    by Alice Echols ...
    Disco thumps back to life in this pulsating exploration of the culture and politics of the glitterball world.In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the once-innocent question, “Do you wanna dance?” became divisive, even explosive. What was it about this much-maligned music that made it such hot stuff? In this incisive history, Alice Echols captures the felt experience of the Disco ... Read more

    Was $26.99 CAD Now $18.99 CAD

  • Feminism and Pop Culture

    Seal Studies

    by Andi Zeisler ...
    Series series Seal Studies
    Whether or not we like to admit it, pop culture is a lens through which we alternately view and shape the world around us. When it comes to feminism, pop culture aids us in translating feminist philosophies, issues, and concepts into everyday language, making them relevant and relatable. In Feminism and Pop Culture, author and cofounder of Bitch magazine Andi Zeisler traces the impact of feminism ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hairspray

    by Dana Heller ...
    By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie.Represents the first scholarly work on any of film director John Waters' filmsIncorporates original interview material with the directorReveals meanings embedded in the film's narrative ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Smothered in Hugs

    Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries

    by Dennis Cooper ...
    "In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe." — New York Times Book Review"His work belongs to that of Poe, the Marquis de Sade, Charles Baudelaire, and Georges Bataille, other writers who argued with mortality." — San Francisco Chronicle"There's a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gods Like Us

    On Movie Stardom and Modern Fame

    by Ty Burr ...
    WITH 8 PAGES OF BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHSHow—and why—do we obsess over movie stars? How does fame both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars’ images altered over a century of cultural and technological change? Do we create celebrities, or do they create us?Ty Burr, film critic for The Boston Globe, answers these questions in this lively and ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • Men to Boys

    The Making of Modern Immaturity

    by Gary Cross ...
    Adam Sandler movies, HBO's Entourage, and such magazines as Maxim and FHM all trade in and appeal to one character-the modern boy-man. Addicted to video games, comic books, extreme sports, and dressing down, the boy-man would rather devote an afternoon to Grand Theft Auto than plan his next career move. He would rather prolong the hedonistic pleasures of youth than embrace the self-sacrificing ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • It's Not TV

    Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

    Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in particular) is positioned as an alternative to network offerings, consistently regarded as the premier site for what has come to be called "quality television."This collection of new essays by an international group of media scholars argues that HBO, as part ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Queer Images

    A History of Gay and Lesbian Film in America

    Series series Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series
    From Thomas Edison's first cinematic experiments to contemporary Hollywood blockbusters, Queer Images chronicles the representation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. The most up-to-date and comprehensive book of its kind, it explores not only the ever-changing images of queer characters onscreen, but also the work of queer filmmakers and the ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • America on Film

    Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

    A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuriesAmerica on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. Celebrated authors and academics Harry M. ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD