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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginaries.

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Challenges the notion that modernization is a homogenizing process. This book contends that in the course of large-scale transformations communities often reproduce and strengthen distinctive cultural and social features. It focuses on the French farming community of 'Ste Foy' during a period of rapid change (1945-75).

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Building on the influential book The Social Construction of Technological Systems, this volume carries forward the project of creating a theory of technological development and implementation that is strongly grounded in both sociology and history.

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From comic books and computer music to gaming and blogging, nerdy women have their say in this witty collection that takes on the "boys only" clubs in science and technology and celebrates a woman's geek spirit

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A study of Australian cinema exploring the relationship between a series of films produced in different periods of Australian history that are linked by a common thread - the repeated image of sheep. It focuses on two key 'sheep films': ""The Squatter's Daughter"" (Hall, 1933) and ""Bitter Springs"" (Smart, 1950).

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Based on an analysis of Irish republican media outlets and interviews with the key activists that produced them, this book provides a snap shot of a political ideology in transition as it is moulded by the forces of the peace process and often violent internal ideological schism that threatened a return to the 'bad old days' of the troubles.

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This book provides a compelling picture of Irish republican activist media outlets like newspapers, magazines and Internet journals and the role that they played ideologically during the tumultuous years that followed the end of the 30-year civil war that was the Troubles and signing of the Good Friday Agreement. -- .

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What does money really stand for How can the abstractions of high finance be made visible Show me the money documents how the financial world has been imagined in art, illustration, photography and other visual media over the last three centuries in Britain and the United States. It tells the story of how artists have grappled with the increasing

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Signals in the Air: Native Broadcasting in America is the first book-length study of one of the most unique communications enterprises in U.S. history.

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Uses films and fan behaviour as windows to decode the cultural meanings of female adolescence from 1920 to 1950.

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This book provides a fascinating examination of one of the most notorious countercultures in the United States.

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Cosmetic surgery was once only associated with the rich and famous. This title argues that cosmetic surgery is the most provocative and controversial aspect of a 'makeover culture'. It examines a wide range of culture case studies from women's magazines, television, architecture and the Internet amongst others.

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Presenting an argument that cosmetic surgery is a provocative and controversial aspect of the makeover culture, this book examines various culture case studies from women's magazines, television, architecture and the Internet amongst others to dissect the realities of cosmetic surgery and culture.

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Introduction Temporality Spatiality Consumption/Commodification of Slowness The Politics of Slow Living: Slow Citizenship Case Study: Slow Food Case Study: Slow Cities Case Study: 'Virtual' Slowness: Slow Living Beyond Italy Conclusion: Rage Against the Bread Machine.

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Small Batch details the history and changing social implication of artisanal foods, from the days of early American settlers to the present explosion of small-batch and artisanal food businesses. Interviewing over fifty artisanal producers, Cope details the influences, challenges, and evolving identity of these modern craft industries.

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This volume focuses on debates and changes in small cinema industries, analyzing the impact of expansion and diversification of the cinematic product at local, regional, and global levels. Contributors use Western theoretical perspectives with a professional (mostly native) knowledge of the language, cultural realities, and film industry practices.

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"A vivid mural of the...new frontier of the mobile Web."-Fast Company

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