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It came from the 1950s! It came from the 1950s! Jones, Darryl "It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties, a… OL15951415W
Hand of fire Hand of fire Charles Hatfield "Jack Kirby (1917-1994) is one of the most influential and popular artists in comics history. With Stan Lee, he created the Fantastic Four and defined the drawing and narrative style of Marvel Comics… OL16014588W
New femininities New femininities Rosalind Gill "This volume brings together twenty original essays on the changes and continuities in gender relations and intersecting politics of sexuality, race, class and location. The book is located in debate… OL16134263W
Blue collar pop culture Blue collar pop culture M. Keith Booker "This book is about Blue Collar Pop Culture - From NASCAR to the Jersey Shore"-- OL16134866W
Berserk style in American culture Berserk style in American culture Kirby Farrell "As an idea, the berserk style is terrifying but also alluring in its promise that we can gain access to extraordinary resources by overthrowing inhibitions. Focusing on post-Vietnam America, using p… OL16151594W
Diego Rivera Diego Rivera Manuel Aguilar-Moreno "This revealing biography covers the life and art of painter Diego Rivera"-- OL16450957W
Gods like us Gods like us Ty Burr "How--and why--do we focus on those individuals we come to call stars? How does stardom both reflect and mask the person behind it? How have the image of stardom and our stars' images changed over th… OL16465032W
Body Style Body Style Theresa M. Winge "Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body … OL16521248W
Iconic Iconic Lakesia D. Johnson "A visual and narrative iconography of the Black female revolutionary across a variety of media texts and historical contexts"-- OL16564346W
Time, media and modernity Time, media and modernity Emily Keightley " A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is con… OL16699818W
The Psychopath Test The Psychopath Test Jon Ronson "In this madcap journey, a bestselling journalist investigates psychopaths and the industry of doctors, scientists, and everyone else who studies them. The Psychopath Test is a fascinating journey th… OL16795887W
UNCHARTED UNCHARTED Erez Aiden By teaming with Google, they were able to analyse the text of millions of books. The result was a new field of research and scientific tool, the Google Ngram Viewer. Charts trends in human history … OL17038409W
Trainwreck Trainwreck Sady Doyle "From Mary Wollstonecraft--who, for decades after her death, was more famous for her illegitimate child and suicide attempts than for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman--to Charlotte Brontë, Billie… OL19663953W
Brown boys and rice queens Brown boys and rice queens Eng-Beng Lim "A transnational study of Asian performance shaped by the homoerotics of orientalism, Brown Boys and Rice Queens focuses on the relationship between the white man and the native boy. Eng-Beng Lim unp… OL19704887W
A new leaf A new leaf Alyson Martin "In November 2012, voters in Colorado and Washington passed landmark measures to legalize the production and sale of cannabis for social use-a first not only in the United States but also the world. … OL19708370W
Tokyo geek's guide Tokyo geek's guide Gianni Simone Tokyo is ground zero for Japan's popular "geek" or otaku culture—a phenomenon that has now swept across the globe. This is the most comprehensive guide to Tokyo's geeky underworld ever produced. It p… OL19715408W
Superman in myth and folklore Superman in myth and folklore Daniel Peretti "How the Man of Steel leapt from panels and storyboards into folklore and myth"-- OL19742965W
Pen & ink Pen & ink Isaac Fitzgerald "Why did you get that tattoo? Every tattoo tells a story, whether the ink is meaningful or the result of a misguided decision made at the age of fourteen, representative of the wearer's true self or … OL19985176W
Latin numbers Latin numbers Brian Eugenio Herrera "Latin Numbers is a work of performance history, examining the way in which Latino actors on the 20th century stage and screen communicated and influenced American ideas about race and ethnicity. Bri… OL20021083W
Why I am not a feminist Why I am not a feminist Jessa Crispin Do you believe women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist ... or so the feminists keep insisting. Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contem… OL20054384W
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