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This book argues that fictional television can educate audiences on complex communities and issues long after it has faded from the news cycle. Treme, to date, remains one of the most notable experiments of how post-Katrina New Orleans communities struggle to hold on to their cultural and historical essence.

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This book analyses the HBO program Treme from multiple perspectives and argues that the series' depictions of music, culture, cuisine, and identity are innovative and represent unique televisual storytelling strategies.

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Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy.

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Seib explores the many ways in which news coverage shapes the design and implementation of foreign policy. By influencing the political attitudes of opinion-shaping elites and the public at large, the news media can profoundly affect the conduct of foreign policy.

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Based on up-to-date original research, Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian Curtis, in particular.

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Based on up-to-date original research, Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian Curtis, in particular.

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Analyzes twentieth-century media and cultural theories as they relate to changes in political economy, communication technology, popular culture and collective consciousness in the United States. It argues that much of contemporary media environment is operating as Western ca...

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Analyzes twentieth-century media and cultural theories as they relate to changes in political economy, communication technology, popular culture and collective consciousness in the United States. It argues that much of contemporary media environment is operating as Western ca...

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This book examines the role of historians, novelists, directors, and their audiences in shaping twenty-first century versions of Henry VIII. It shows how popular stories and histories contribute to a change in how Henry VIII is seen and discusses the debates surrounding these changes.

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This book breaks down the stereotypes often expected of Korean popular culture, showing how the lines of gender, sexuality, and stereotype in Hallyu productions are often blurred to be palatable to Korean audiences or clarified to attract global audiences.

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Reaching out to a growing "new majority," Hijas Americanas highlights for the first time the nuances, complexities, and challenges of Latina femininity, sexuality, beauty and body image in this ground-breaking work

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This book explores the role of hip hop in grassroots changes occurring today in Africa. It argues that artists use hip hop to confront social structures and reveals the complexity and dynamic nature of African culture, the entanglements between local and global movements, and the synergy of youth mobilization.

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This book explores the role of hip hop in grassroots changes occurring today in Africa. It argues that artists use hip hop to confront social structures and reveals the complexity and dynamic nature of African culture, the entanglements between local and global movements, and the synergy of youth mobilization.

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Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the "Hippie Dictionary" entertains as much as it educates. And it wasn't just about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. These were the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs.

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"The first comprehensive collection of original studies that address the hipster and hipster culture from a range of Cultural Studies perspectives"--

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Provides an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: cuisine, travel, 'taste', sport, music, entertainment and much more.

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Provides an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: cuisine, travel, 'taste', sport, music, entertainment and much more.

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HIV on TV: Popular Cultures Epidemic is a critical analysis of the ways television has portrayed HIV. Spanning time, genres, and viewpoints HIV on TV offers a challenge for viewers, media writers, even political figures in the ways they think about, and frame, the continued epidemic that is HIV.