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  • Imagining "We" in the Age of "I"

    Romance and Social Bonding in Contemporary Culture

    Edited by Mary Harrod, Suzanne Leonard, Diane Negra ...
    Winner, MeCCSA Edited Collection of the Year**, MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards 2022**In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and sexuality, work and mobility patterns and especially technology have provoked interest in perceived threats to social bonding on a global scale. This edited collection explores the fracturing of couple culture but also its persistence.Looking at a ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Wife, Inc.

    The Business of Marriage in the Twenty-First Century

    by Suzanne Leonard ...
    Series Book 8 - Critical Cultural Communication
    A fascinating look at the changing role of wives in modern AmericaAfter a half century of battling for gender equality, women have been freed from the necessity of securing a husband for economic stability, sexual fulfillment, or procreation. Marriage is a choice, and increasingly women (and men) are opting out. Yet despite these changes, the cultural power of marriage has burgeoned. What was once ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Fifty Hollywood Directors

    Edited by Suzanne Leonard, Yvonne Tasker ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Fifty Hollywood Directors introduces the most important, iconic and influential filmmakers who worked in Hollywood between the end of the silent period and the birth of the blockbuster. By exploring the historical, cultural and technological contexts in which each director was working, this book traces the formative period in commercial cinema when directors went from pioneers to industry ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    Meanings and Messages

    by Carla Stalling Huntington ...
    Tracing the African American dance from the Diaspora to the dance floor, this book covers a social history germane not only to the African American experience, but also to the global experience of laborers who learn lessons from hip hop dance. Examining hip hop dance as text, as commentary, and as a function of identity construction within the confines of consumerism, the book draws on popular ... Read more

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  • Problematic

    How Toxic Callout Culture Is Destroying Feminism

    by Dianna E. Anderson ...
    From Beyoncé’s Lemonade to The Force Awakens to the 2016 Ghostbusters reboot, the entertainment industry seems to be embracing the power of women like never before. But with more feminist content comes more feminist criticism—and it feels as if there’s always something to complain about.Dianna E. Anderson’s incisive Problematic takes on the stereotype of the perpetually dissatisfied feminist. Too ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Interrogating Postfeminism

    Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture

    by Lynn Spigel, Angela McRobbie ...
    Series series Console-ing Passions
    This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series 10 Years Younger. Broadly defined, “postfeminism” encompasses a set of assumptions that feminism has ... Read more

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  • How Real Is Reality TV?

    Essays on Representation and Truth

    Edited by David S. Escoffery ...
    American viewers are attracted to what they see as the non-scripted, unpredictable freshness of reality television. But although the episodes may not be scripted, the shows are constructed within a deliberately designed framework, reflecting societal values. The political, economic and personal issues of reality TV are in many ways simply an exaggerated version of everyday life, allowing us to ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Reality TV

    A Philosophical Examination

    Edited by PhD Wendy N. Wyatt, PhD Kristie Bunton ...
    Reality television is continuing to grow, both in numbers and in popularity. The scholarship on reality TV is beginning to catch up, but one of the most enduring questions about the genre-Is it ethical?-has yet to be addressed in any systematic and comprehensive way.Through investigating issues ranging from deception and privacy breaches to community building and democratization of TV, The Ethics ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • 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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  • A Sentimental Education

    by Hannah McGregor ...
    How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life.Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the ... Read more

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  • We Were Feminists Once

    From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement

    by Andi Zeisler ...
    Feminism has hit the big time. Once a dirty word brushed away with a grimace, "feminist" has been rebranded as a shiny label sported by movie and pop stars, fashion designers, and multi-hyphenate powerhouses like Beyoncé It drives advertising and marketing campaigns for everything from wireless plans to underwear to perfume, presenting what's long been a movement for social justice as just ... Read more

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  • Silent Movies

    The Birth of Film and the Triumph of Movie Culture

    by Peter Kobel ...
    Drawing on the extraordinary collection of The Library of Congress, one of the greatest repositories for silent film and memorabilia, Peter Kobel has created the definitive visual history of silent film. From its birth in the 1890s, with the earliest narrative shorts, through the brilliant full-length features of the 1920s, Silent Movies captures the greatest directors and actors and their ... Read more

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