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  • Representations of Cults in US Popular Culture

    Lauren E. Shoemaker adopts a film studies approach to analyze the representation of cults in US popular culture, arguing that these portrayals play a dual role in both generating harmful stereotypes and, perhaps more importantly, examining structures of power that uphold oppressive systems.Whether adapting the stories of real-life cults for the screen or creating fictional ones that draw from ... Leer más

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  • The Mother of All Questions

    A collection of feminist essays steeped in "Solnit's unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity" ( The Los Angeles Review).In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the ... Leer más

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  • Vamps & Tramps

    New Essays

    The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time. ... Leer más

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  • Kill All Normies

    Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right

    de Angela Nagle ...
    Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the alt right ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle ... Leer más

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  • Homer Simpson Marches on Washington

    Dissent through American Popular Culture

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Conspiracy Theories

    Secrecy and Power in American Culture

    de Mark Fenster ...
    JFK, Karl Marx, the Pope, Aristotle Onassis, Howard Hughes, Fox Mulder, Bill Clinton, both George Bushes—all have been linked to vastly complicated global (or even galactic) intrigues. Two years after Mark Fenster first published Conspiracy Theories, the attacks of 9/11 stirred the imaginations of a new generation of believers. Before the black box from United 93 had even been found, there were ... Leer más

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  • Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture

    From Socrates to South Park, Hume to House

    What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God?Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture uses popular culture to illustrate important philosophical concepts and the work of the major philosophersWith examples from film, television, and music ... Leer más

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  • How to Be Normal

    " Erudite riffs on race, religion, masculinity and [more]. . . . A crisp set of essays that bring big social and cultural debates to a human level." —Kirkus ReviewsPhil Christman is one of the best cultural critics working today. Or, as a reviewer of his previous book, Midwest Futures, put it, "one of the most underappreciated writers of [his] generation." You may also know Phil from his columns ... Leer más

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  • The Other Side of Terror

    Black Women and the Culture of US Empire

    WINNER, 2022 John Hope Franklin Prize, given by the American Studies AssociationHONORABLE MENTION, 2022 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, given by the National Women's Studies AssociationReveals the troubling intimacy between Black women and the making of US global powerThe year 1968 marked both the height of the worldwide Black liberation struggle and a turning point for the global reach of American ... Leer más

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  • Subversive Horror Cinema

    Countercultural Messages of Films from Frankenstein to the Present

    de Jon Towlson ...
    Horror cinema flourishes in times of ideological crisis and national trauma--the Great Depression, the Cold War, the Vietnam era, post-9/11--and this critical text argues that a succession of filmmakers working in horror--from James Whale to Jen and Sylvia Soska--have used the genre, and the shock value it affords, to challenge the status quo during these times. Spanning the decades from the 1930s ... Leer más

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  • That Very Witch

    Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film

    That Very Witch explores the cyclical rise and fall of the cinematic witch in American culture and her relationship to feminist movements over time.Through historical analysis and dozens of case studies, Payton McCarty-Simas demonstrates how the cinematic witch's evolution across decades reflects major shifts in how feminism is perceived politically and interpreted (counter-)culturally in America. ... Leer más

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  • After the Fall

    American Literature Since 9/11

    de Richard Gray ...
    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    After the FallA common refrain heard since the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001 is that “everything has changed.” After the Fall presents a timely and provocative examination of the impact and implications of 9/11 and the war on terror on American culture and literature. Author Richard Gray – widely regarded as the leading European scholar in American literature – ... Leer más

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