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  • Esports Motivations

    What's Driving the Fastest Growing Sports Phenomenon?

    by Lee K. Farquhar, Alexander E. Carter, Weiyue Chen, Yuya Kiuchi, Scott Parrott, Brian Petrotta, Brett Sherrick, Courteney Smith, Joar Svensson, Ryan Tan0, Bryan M. Trude1, Kenon A. Brown2, Dr. Ryan Rogers3 ...
    Series series Emerging Insights into Esports
    This edited volume explores the various and unique motivations driving the rapidly-growing esports industry, which attracts attention and financial investment from major sponsors, athletic organizations, and entertainment values. Contributors draw on a variety of perspectives and theoretical vantage points to examine the multitude of traditions, cultures, expectations, and rituals that different ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Playing on an Uneven Field

    Essays on Exclusion and Inclusion in Sports

    Edited by Yuya Kiuchi ...
    We expect sports to be fair and equal--everyone who tries out has a chance to play and everyone who plays hard has a chance to win. But is that really true? In reality, female athletes are paid far less than their male counterparts. Youth sports often cost too much for many families to participate in. African American athletes continue to face discrimination both on and off the field. Adaptive ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Fifty Shades and Popular Culture

    by Yuya Kiuchi ...
    Many fans loved Fifty Shades of Grey. Many others loved to hate it. E.L. James' trilogy of novels, and the film based on them, created a popular culture sensation, revealing much about a society that is both preoccupied with and scandalized by BDSM eroticism. Some critics argued that the franchise glorified kinky sex and normalized sexual abuse. Others praised it for illuminating consensual sexual ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Soccer Culture in America

    Essays on the World's Sport in Red, White and Blue

    Edited by Yuya Kiuchi ...
    What does the world's favorite sport mean in the United States? Despite the common belief that it is only a women's sport, an immigrants' sport, a small kids' sport--or that hating soccer is very American, the new essays in this volume attest that soccer indeed is a very American and very popular sport, around since the 1940s.The all-new essays address issues concerning the business of the game, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • The Young Are Making Their World

    Essays on the Power of Youth Culture

    Edited by Yuya Kiuchi, Francisco A. Villarruel ...
    Young people have long used popular culture to explore, define and express who they are. For many, popular culture is also a tool of survival. Gone are the days when proscriptive programs were needed for young people to transition to adulthood. Today, youth culture is communicated through information technology, particularly social media, enabling young people to engage the world. Yet, as always, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Race Still Matters

    The Reality of African American Lives and the Myth of Postracial Society

    Edited by Yuya Kiuchi ...
    Series series SUNY series in African American Studies
    Essays debunking the notion that contemporary America is a colorblind society.More than half a century after the civil rights era of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s, American society is often characterized as postracial. In other words, that the country has moved away from prejudice based on skin color and we live in a colorblind society. The reality, however, is the opposite. African Americans ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Music of Counterculture Cinema

    A Critical Study of 1960s and 1970s Soundtracks

    by Mathew J. Bartkowiak, Yuya Kiuchi ...
    Films produced in late 1960s and early 1970s America--along with later films focusing on that period--continue to frame our understanding of the counterculture era. The popular and experimental music of the day is central to the counterculture narrative on film, from the utopian Monterey Pop (1968) to the disenchantment of Gimme Shelter (1970). But the musical side of the movement was not ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Struggles for Equal Voice

    The History of African American Media Democracy

    by Yuya Kiuchi ...
    Reveals how African Americans used cable television as a means of empowerment.While previous scholarship on African Americans and the media has largely focused on issues such as stereotypes and program content, Struggles for Equal Voice reveals how African Americans have utilized access to cable television production and viewership as a significant step toward achieving empowerment during the post ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

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    by Michael Mandelbaum ...
    In The Meaning of Sports, Michael Mandelbaum, a sports fan who is also one of the nation's preeminent foreign policy thinkers, examines America's century-long love affair with team sports. In keeping with his reputation for writing about big ideas in an illuminating and graceful way, he shows how sports respond to deep human needs; describes the ways in which baseball, football and basketball ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The End of Bias: A Beginning

    The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias

    by Jessica Nordell ...
    **Finalist for the NYPL Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Lukas Book Prize, and the Royal Society Science Book PrizeNamed a Best Book of the Year by World Economic Forum, AARP, Greater Good, and** Inc.The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age.Discussions of un ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl

    The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family

    by Jeffrey Melnick ...
    With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, ... Read more

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  • Convergence Culture

    Where Old and New Media Collide

    by Henry Jenkins ...
    Winner of the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine Singer Kovacs Book Award2007 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleA classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channelsConvergence Culture maps a new territory: where old and new media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, and where the powers of the media producer and the power of th... ... Read more

    $26.59 USD