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America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies.

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Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural critically examines the way the holiday is portrayed on screen. From the secular to the sacred, the merry to the melancholic, the volumes unwraps close to 1000 films to explore what is revealed about culture, society, faith and festival.

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Drawing on the author's own experience as "the other woman" in an affair with am otherwise-committed man, this contemporary feminist study is the first to label the role of the two-timing male as "sexual terrorist."

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Written by an expert in media, popular culture, gender, and sexuality, this book surveys the common archetypes of Internet users-from geeks, nerds, and gamers to hackers, scammers, and predators-and assesses what these stereotypes reveal about our culture's attitudes regarding gender, technology, intimacy, and identity.

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Through reference to over six hundred scenes from film and televisionas well as a diverse and cross-disciplinary academic bibliographyMasturbation in Pop Culture investigates the role that masturbation serves within narratives.

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This book offers an erudite yet highly accessible exploration of the presence of sexual perversion in popular culture and its manifestation in everyday life.