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As timely as the latest tweet, this book tracks the digital revolution as a paradigm shift that is transforming popular culture in as yet unforeseen ways.

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A follow-up to the "Rise of the Blogosphere", which examined the historical context for the modern blog, this work provides an examination of the many aspects of the blogosphere, from the political to the professional to the personal, with many stops in between. It also includes: the personal blog; the political blog; and blogs and business.

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In BLONDE LIKE ME, Natalia Ilyin twists personal experience with cultural criticism to us the essential difference between having blonde hair and being a blonde.

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From dressing up to dressing down, this book exposes the complex ways that fashions and costumes render the body presentable in a range of social situations. It investigates the varied ways in which western and non-western clothes operate to give the body meaning. It is useful for those interested in style, costume, the body, gender or history.

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This title examines the way in which the dress acts on the body and is integral to our experience of embodiment. Exploring gender, photography, cultural history and modernity, this book analyzes sources from 1960's fashion photography to modern gay fashion and turn-of-the-century tailoring.

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Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of eleven years' research with urban subcultures from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

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Reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding identity, resistance, agency and fashion. The result of eleven years' research with urban subcultures from Europe, Australia, Asia and North America, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion, as well as sociology and cultural studies.

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In Bonfires of the American Dream, through close cultural studies of classic novels and films Atlas Shrugged, The Great Gatsby, Its a Wonderful Life, and The Wolf of Wall Street Daniel Shaviro helps to provide a better understanding of what went wrong culturally in America.

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Section two, "Testimonios," takes careful consideration of lives affected by the border, either as a finite place, alternate universe, or the framework of the border as a state-of-mind, through various historic and literary accounts of La Frontera.

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Bound to Bond: Gender, Genre, and the Hollywood Romantic Comedy looks at gender roles in a unique way--by examining what the last thirty years of romantic comedy films have argued, reflected, and implied.

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Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired debate that is unrivalled by any other article of clothing. This book examines the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women.

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Corsets, and the corseted body, have been fetishized, mythologized, romanticized. This Victorian icon has inspired debate that is unrivalled by any other article of clothing. This book examines the role of corsetry in the minds and lives of Victorian women.

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This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present. -- .

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This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and renegotiate historical source material, creating a queer politics of the present. -- .

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"This book demonstrates how, since the 1920s, fantasies and practices of seeing the 'brain at work' were and still are fundamentally impacted by the rise of new media technologies"--

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Alissa Quart takes the reader into the disturbing world of teen marketing, showing how they are taught to market to each other and where adults build careers out of insinuating their way into 'friendships' with teens in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to and talk about with each other.

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Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and variation of geography, climate and language. Brazilian Food explores the role of food in the construction of identity through key case studies, demonstrating how cuisine is a key element in attracting tourists and making aspects of culture known beyond Brazil's borders.

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Brazil is a nation of vast expanses and variation of geography, climate and language. Brazilian Food explores the role of food in the construction of identity through key case studies, demonstrating how cuisine is a key element in attracting tourists and making aspects of culture known beyond Brazil's borders.

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The decline of the Murdoch Empire, and who will take over when Rupert dies.