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Covering the years from 1945 to the present, this text explores Japanese popular culture, including film, cartoons, pop music, comedians, matinee idols, sumo wrestlers, gourmet fads, best sellers, discos and song contests. The author looks at the interconnections between phenomena.

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Explores how modern food manufacturers have hijacked the brains of millions by turning our meals into perfectly engineered portions of fat, salt and sugar, turning us into addicts in the process. With a focus on the problems in the UK and Europe, this title lays out a plan and tools for reclaiming control over our cravings.

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Damian Thompson highly evocative, brilliant and comprehensive account of apocalyptic belief was a phenomenal critical success upon hardback publication. This is the revised, updated edition in which Damian Thompson tackles subjects such as the millennium dome and the millennium bug;

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This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, socially conscious lyrics and a new authenticity.

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A lively and engaging read, The English Breakfast explores the history of England's culinary masterpiece from its early form, via its heyday in the Victorian and Edward eras through to the modern day all-day-breakfasts in a tin.

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Focuses on popular American entertainment. This book covers six forms of entertainment: vaudeville, recorded sound, radio, movies, television, and spectator sports. It is intended for students and general readers interested in the development and history of one of the largest and most lucrative industries.

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Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges.

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Ethical questions feature prominently on today's cultural and political agendas. The Ethics of Cultural Studies presents an ethical manifesto for Cultural Studies, an exploration of its current ethical and political concerns, and of its future challenges.

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Examines the role of ethics in new media with particular emphasis on specific contexts and applications This book engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development.

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Examines the role of ethics in new media with particular emphasis on specific contexts and applications. This work engages with enduring ethical questions while addressing critical questions concerning ethical boundaries at the forefront of new media development.

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Offers an informative look at the popularity of the Renaissance in 19th- and 20th-century America. This book explores the kinship that modern Americans feel with the period and the concept, and how they admire its creativity, beauty, and elegance. It also shows how Americans have embraced the 16th century as a model of culture and sophistication.

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The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the schizophrenic split theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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