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The American Villain: Encyclopedia of Bad Guys in Comics, Film, and Television provides one go-to reference for the study of the most popular and iconic villains in American popular culture.

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This book explores the interconnectedness of the cultural zeitgeists around the anthropocene and the undead showing how the latter reveals increasing cultural anxieties over who and what constitutes humanity in the twenty-first century and whether it has a place in any possible post-Anthropocene futures.

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In The Anti-Heroine on Contemporary Television: Transgressive Women, Molly Brost explores what types of behaviors and characteristics cause female characters to be labeled anti-heroines, how anti-heroines differ from anti-heroes, and how the label reflects society's attitudes toward and beliefs about women.

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This wide-ranging exploration of the apocalypse in Western culture seeks to understand how we have come to be so preoccupied with spectacular visions of our own annihilation-offering abundant examples of the changing nature of our imagined destruction, and predisposing readers to discover many more all around them.

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The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation. -- .

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The art of record is an insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict reality, and to comment on it, have provoked disagreement from the 1920s to the present day.

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In an age transformed by industrialism, the flaneur drifted through city streets, inspired and repelled by the surrounding scenes of splendor and squalor. This work examines this often elusive figure in the particular contexts of Weimar Germany and the intellectual sphere of Walter Benjamin, with whom the concept of flanerie is often associated.

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[Crouch's] personality, his persona, manifests itself with such force that one is compelled to enter into a kind of active dialogue... Animated and stimulating. -Washington Post

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Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

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Asia Pacific in the Age of Transnational Mobility addresses and discusses the challenges of community and identity in the evolving transnational migrant and ethnographic landscapes of the region in the era of social media.

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This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history.

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This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history.

Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture.

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An essential reference for students, curators and scholars of fashion, cultural studies, and the expanding range of disciplines that see fashion as imbued with meaning far beyond the material.

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How an ordinary mammal manipulated nature to become technologically sophisticated city-dwellers-and why our history points to an optimistic future in the face of environmental crisis

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This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.

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Examines the ways the internet is threatening the rule of some of the planet's most repressive governments, including in countries such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Cuba, Egypt and Syria. This book discovers the ways that Western multinationals are assisting the restriction of information in these countries.

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