The Publishers Weekly
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1234 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Puffy, Xena, Quentin, Uma, and 10,000 Other Names for Your New Millennium Baby
Author : Joal Ryan
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780452280915
Book Description
A collection of names for the millennium baby presents information on origins, definitions, spelling variations, sources of inspiration, and trivia, including the names selected by celebrities for their own offspring.
Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters
Author : S. Maddison
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 25,17 MB
Release : 2000-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780333776629
Book Description
Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters is a provocative account of the importance of women and cross-gender identification in gay male culture. It offers a range of cultural readings from Tennessee William's classic A Streetcar Named Desire and Forster's 'gay' novel Maurice through Pulp Fiction , queer lifestyle magazines, Roseanne , slash fan fiction and Jarman's Edward II to Almodovar's camp classic Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown . Theoretically sophisticated, yet passionate, accessible and opinionated, Fags, Hags and Queer Sisters takes issue with many of the sacred cows of contemporary gay politics, and offers a number of new concepts in lesbian and gay theory.
Forthcoming Books
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 37,53 MB
Release : 1999-04
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Book Description
The Essential Cult TV Reader
Author : David Lavery
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813181496
Book Description
The Essential Cult TV Reader is a collection of insightful essays that examine television shows that amass engaged, active fan bases by employing an imaginative approach to programming. Once defined by limited viewership, cult TV has developed its own identity, with some shows gaining large, mainstream audiences. By exploring the defining characteristics of cult TV, The Essential Cult TV Reader traces the development of this once obscure form and explains how cult TV achieved its current status as legitimate television. The essays explore a wide range of cult programs, from early shows such as Star Trek, The Avengers, Dark Shadows, and The Twilight Zone to popular contemporary shows such as Lost, Dexter, and 24, addressing the cultural context that allowed the development of the phenomenon. The contributors investigate the obligations of cult series to their fans, the relationship of camp and cult, the effects of DVD releases and the Internet, and the globalization of cult TV. The Essential Cult TV Reader answers many of the questions surrounding the form while revealing emerging debates on its future.
Millennial Monsters
Author : Anne Allison
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,76 MB
Release : 2006-06-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0520245652
Book Description
Millennial Monsters explores the global popularity of Japanese consumer culture--including manga (comic books), anime (animation), video games, and toys--and questions the make-up of fantasies nand capitalism that have spurred the industry's growth.
Contemporary Hollywood Stardom
Author : Thomas Austin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780340809372
Book Description
This book offers a reappraisal of star studies in light of the arrival of the internet and the explosion in materials such as glossy magazines and merchandise meaning that stars are visible as never before. It explores the political economy of stardom, questions of performance, the effect on stardom of convergence between the film industry and other leisure industries, and the role of audiences.
An Introduction to Visual Culture
Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 0415158761
Book Description
The author traces the history and theory of visual culture asking how and why visual media have become so central to contemporary everyday life. He explores a wide range of visual forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, television, cinema, virtual reality, and the Internet while addressing the subjects of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, the body, and the international media event that followed the death of Princess Diana.
Plenitude
Author : Grant David McCracken
Publisher : Periph. Fluide
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Cultural pluralism
ISBN : 9780968225103
Book Description
Cult Television
Author : Sara Gwenllian-Jones
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780816638314
Book Description
A television series is tagged with the label "cult" by the media, advertisers, and network executives when it is considered edgy or offbeat, when it appeals to nostalgia, or when it is considered emblematic of a particular subculture. By these criteria, almost any series could be described as cult. Yet certain programs exert an uncanny power over their fans, encouraging them to immerse themselves within a fictional world. In Cult Television leading scholars examine such shows as The X-Files; The Avengers; Doctor Who, Babylon Five; Star Trek; Xena, Warrior Princess; and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to determine the defining characteristics of cult television and map the contours of this phenomenon within the larger scope of popular culture. Contributors: Karen Backstein; David A. Black, Seton Hall U; Mary Hammond, Open U; Nathan Hunt, U of Nottingham; Mark Jancovich; Petra Kuppers, Bryant College; Philippe Le Guern, U of Angers, France; Alan McKee; Toby Miller, New York U; Jeffrey Sconce, Northwestern U; Eva Vieth Sara Gwenllian-Jones is a lecturer in television and digital media at Cardiff University and co-editor of Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media. Roberta E. Pearson is a reader in media and cultural studies at Cardiff University. She is the author of the forthcoming book Small Screen, Big Universe: Star Trek and Television.
