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A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy.

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As long as there has been culture, there has been counterculture. This study identifies the characteristics of countercultures, delving into history and myth to establish beyond doubt that countercultures share underlying principles: individualism, anti-authoritarianism and a belief in the possibility of personal and social transformation.

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A fun, fact-filled, and thoroughly researched journey of country and western dancing from the roots of Western Swing to Hank Williams, the Urban Cowboy two-step of John Travolta, and the nationwide sensation of country line dancing.

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In this book, Mackenzie also weighs in on celebrity cases, analyzing how they and their lawyers used the media to their advantage, or how they failed to do so.

Mackenzie is a consummate expert in the use of media relations in the court of law.

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This volume examines how the "Christian Science Monitor", an influential newspaper of the era, covered Joseph R. McCarthy and "McCarthyism" from the Senator's Lincoln Day speech in February 1950 through to his censure in December 1954.

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An anthropologist speculates on the origins of bizarre and mysterious human lifestyles, customs, and institutions throughout history.

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The National Organic Program regulates the current U.S. organic food and agriculture market, but states started adopting organic regulations in the 1970s. This book examines the diffusion of state organic food and agriculture legislation from 19762010 and identifies the consequences for state involvement in this policy domain.

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Who decides how, when, and where Americans fall in love and get married This book shows that Hollywood has often had the most powerful voice in demonstrating socially sanctioned ways of becoming a couple.

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Illustrates how the genre has reflected our ideas of crime and crime solving through the decades. This work provides a history of detective and police shows on television, along with production histories of seminal programs, and interviews with some of the most important writers and producers of crime television.

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Marching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism fought alongside the Anti-Nazi League against a resurgence of racist and fascist politics in 1970s Britain. This book analyses one of the biggest and most effective political mobilisations of the post-war period, demonstrating that popular music and mass protest can go hand in hand.

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Marching to the beat of punk rock and reggae, Rock Against Racism fought alongside the Anti-Nazi League against a resurgence of racist and fascist politics in 1970s Britain. This book analyses one of the biggest and most effective political mobilisations of the post-war period, demonstrating that popular music and mass protest can go hand in hand.

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"Critical Approaches to Superfoods examines the politics and culture of superfoods. It demonstrates how studying superfoods can reveal shifting concepts of nutritional authority, the complexities of intellectual property and bioprospecting, the role marketing agencies play in the agro-industrial complex, and more."--Back cover

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Explores crossover stardom, from early sound cinema to today, by examining popular male music stars who have crossed from music to cinema.

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A wide-ranging collection of writings on emerging political structures in cyberspace.

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This book examines the mediated construction of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) and its rise to public and political prominence by way of its direct connection with the NFL. More broadly, this book explores how this relationship situates in and through the sports/media complex.

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An anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavour using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the 'art nexus'. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill and artistic practice. It examines the integral role and concept of 'flavour' in everyday life.