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This balanced examination looks at America's pervasive celebrity culture, concentrating on the period from 1950 to the present day.

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The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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Offers an account of the ways in which, through time, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to stories. The book presents a range of views and provides insights into how people shape and are shaped by the landscape.

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Offers an account of the ways in which, through time, the Stonehenge landscape has been used and re-used, invested with new meanings, and has given rise to stories. The book presents a range of views and provides insights into how people shape and are shaped by the landscape.

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This title studies how "The Twilight Zone", "The Prisoner", "Twin Peaks" and "The X-Files" display many of the central characteristics that critics and theorists have associated with postmodernism, including fragmentation of narratives and characters and multiplicity of genre.

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This second annual review of international newspaper and periodical history is a further continuation of the Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History. This annual also describes important sources, gives a succinct annual review of newspaper history, and reviews noteworthy new books in newspaper and periodical history.

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This lively and stimulating resource book for students of cultural studies traces the formation of the field in Britain and its subsequent development internationally.

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A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives, as they crowd the pages of modern literature.

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A groundbreaking theory of materialism which reconsiders the role of stuff, the small objects that clutter our lives, as they crowd the pages of modern literature.

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Considers the effects of state socialism on seemingly mundane aspects of life. From street fashion to modern art, from the design of state buildings to wallpaper, interconnections between politics and ideology, cultural policy formation and consumption are shown to be a matter of negotiation.

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Considers the effects of state socialism on seemingly mundane aspects of life. From street fashion to modern art, from the design of state buildings to wallpaper, interconnections between politics and ideology, cultural policy formation and consumption are shown to be a matter of negotiation.

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Sugar rush argues that despite its revolutionary claims, the contemporary attack on sugar represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo.

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This book offers a series of biographical portraits of the young performers who have reached superstardom in today's popular culture.

Who are the superstar icons of the new centurythe singers and actors who are captivating today's audiences

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Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films.

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Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films.

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Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever-present symbols erupt in popular culture today and what work they do in transforming self and society.

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Talking Politics presents the opinions of some of America's leading broadcasters and political commentators on the tension-fraught relationship between politics and the media.

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