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Focusing on the idiosyncrasies of Hispanic culture, this work shows that understanding cultural nuances is as important as language learning for communication and social interaction.

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This work describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australian's enjoyment of sand and surf. The ways in which artists, writers, film-makers and the advertising industry have depicted the beach are examined for the light they throw on the beach's significance.

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From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics.

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This volume examines scouting-the largest voluntary movement for girls-in its first century of existence, seeking to understand how the organization has lasted and how it has changed.

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Game designers, authors, artists, and scholars discuss how roles are played and how stories are created in role-playing games, board games, computer games, interactive fictions, massively multiplayer games, improvisational theater, and other "playable media."

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Fully updated, innovative textbook on the relationship between popular culture and religion, exploring secularization in America and the way religion functions in postmodern society.

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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .

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This book examines the thought of Abdennour Bidar, MalekChebel, Leila Babes, AbdelwahabMeddeb and Dounia Bouzar. In doing so it investigates how these five figures allcontribute in their diverse and varying ways to broader understandings of therelationship between Islam and secularism in contemporary French society. -- .

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"A book length study of how fans have been depicted in mass media"--

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This book develops a theory of comedy by analyzing the television situation comedy Seinfeld and demonstrating how comedy presents a comic vision of the world, one that embraces human nature and its place in the world despite all the frustrations of everyday human life.

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Provides a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions.

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Provides a comparative study of how drinks and drinking, as embodied semiotic and material forms, mediate modern social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink through a series of modular but connected ethnographic discussions.

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This collection addresses the burgeoning interest in the body as a site of affective and somatic, as well as sociocultural, communication. It explores what performers do with bodies in practice, rehearsal, and performance and how that translates to audiences and their sociopolitical contexts.

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Debates public sphere, a concept introduced by Jurgen Habermas that has led theorists to grapple with such polarities as public and private, polity and personality, citizenship and subjection. This work sets out to challenge the Enlightenment opposition of reason and sentiment as the fundamental grid for understanding American political culture.

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This book offers an exploration of the comprehensive impact of the events of September 11, 2001, on every aspect of American culture and society.

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Marshall Fishwick acknowledges that the impression of popular culture as being full of fads and follies which change every season, sometimes month-by-month, is superficially true, but basically and historically incorrect.

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From the unexpected origins of mobile phones, microwave ovens and plastic packaging to the links between Barbie and US missile systems and why Niue, Polynesia is the phone-sex capital of the world, this is a fascinating examination of how much of modern life can be directly traced to one of three questionable aspects of human activity - war, porn, and the fast food industry.

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Essays examine how the mass media represents sexuality, gender, and identity and how it intervenes in our perception of popular culture.

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This provocative book takes a look at children's consumption of sexualized media messages while providing parents, teachers, and professionals with strategies for abating their influence.