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Provides an evaluation of the history of men's fashion advertising in the first half of the twentieth century. Alongwith issues of representation to broader socio-economic contexts, this study addresses the discourses relating to professionalization, modernity, mass-communication and marketing, display and consumer psychology.

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Replete with confident head-turners, many posters of the period featured dandies knowingly offering up their bodies for the delectation of women - an irony made doubly rich by the fact that these images were consumed almost exclusively by men.

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Publishing to mark the University of Manchester's bicentenary, this book is packed with compelling stories about the great scholars and scientists who have shaped the institution and helped to advance numerous fields of knowledge.

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This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- .

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This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in Britain in the long nineteenth century. Using objects as well as texts and images, it shows how idealised and ugly bodies, and the feelings they stimulated, helped convey ideas about manliness and unmanliness across society. -- .

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Through a study of the representations of masochism in literature, psychopathology, philosophy, and cultural theory, Mansfield challenges our fundamental assumptions about masculine power in the postmodern era, arguing that masculine power has become masochistic.

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Explores the dynamic relations between cultural forms and political formations in some urban cultural movements. The analysis is based on a detailed study of the structure and development of the London Notting Hill Carnival. The celebration is contrasted with other carnival movements, such as California's 'Renaissance Pleasure Faire'.

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This condition is familiar to mental health specialists, and is frequently invoked to explain the erratic and socially destructive behavior patterns of the mentally ill.

Following a brief introduction, Chapter 1 describes the experiential bind and the media's imagery of unreality.

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Peter Ruehl's humorous columns on life, family and politics have been one of the Australian Financial Review's most beloved and prominent features for more than two decades.

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At the dawn of the talkies, one of the most popular genres was the gangster film, through which the city was often portrayed as a powerful force that sent poor souls to their doom. This work considers the development of the "cyber-city" where urban exiles use their computers to re-imagine the cities of their youth as safe, and warm places.

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Providing food for the brain as well as the body, this wonderful collection of essays explores the boundaries between Mexican and Mexican-American foods, promotes philosophical understandings of Mexican-American cuisine, and shares recipes from both past and present.

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The first cross-national survey of its kind, this pioneering volume examines the condition of Middle East studies in nine major countries across three continents.

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In the space of a few years, Minecraft has become one of the most astonishing success stories of the internet age, attracting millions of players and proving how a single great idea can topple empires in the digital, post-industrial world.

This is the story of the man behind the game.

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This volume offers perspective on contemporary France, exploring topics ranging from geography to popular culture.

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This thematic encyclopedia presents a broad overview of contemporary Germany, spanning such topics as geography, pop culture, the media, and gender roles.

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There's more to Greece than its legacy as the birthplace of democracy and Western Philosophy. Discover what life is like in this contemporary European nation.

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The legacy of Classical Greece is universally revered, but this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever relinquish its ties with the past This title presents an alternative cultural history of Greece, beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation state.

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The legacy of Classical Greece is universally revered, but this legacy has come at a price. How will Greece ever relinquish its ties with the past This title presents an alternative cultural history of Greece, beginning with the growth of Greece as a nation state.