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Explores nerd culture's engagement with environmental issues, from Star Trek and Lord of the Rings, to Marvel's X-Men and Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Netflix Nostalgia examines Netflix as both a creator and a distributor of nostalgic content, with contributions from scholars from around the world. The chapters examine the role of nostalgia in Netflixs brand identity, ideological messages about nostalgia in Netflix content, and audience responses to nostalgia on the Netflix platform.

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Netflix Nostalgia examines Netflix as both a creator and a distributor of nostalgic content, with contributions from scholars from around the world. The chapters examine the role of nostalgia in Netflixs brand identity, ideological messages about nostalgia in Netflix content, and audience responses to nostalgia on the Netflix platform.

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Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the impact of new media on contemporary society and culture: information, network, interface, interactivity, archive and simulation. Each concept is considered through a range of examples.

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Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. This book addresses six key concepts that are pivotal for understanding the impact of new media on contemporary society and culture: information, network, interface, interactivity, archive and simulation. Each concept is considered through a range of examples.

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Jana Wendt sets out to discover what drives us in the work we do. She follows a compelling group of people, from a boxer set for a comeback to a maverick priest, and a CEO whose company is mired in scandal to a forensic anthropologist investigating murder. The result is a wonderfully observed and entertaining portrait of modern work.

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In a 1989 National radio interview, John Le Carre said a spy, by definition, has to be entertaining. Since the days of the silent documentary short, spying has been a staple of the movie business. This book, the last in the 'spy trilogy', provides a history of spies in the movies, with an emphasis on the stories these films present.

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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society. This book investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity.

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Explores the development of a range of cults of popular music as a response to changes in attitudes to meaning, spirituality and religion in society. This book investigates the ways in which popular music and its surrounding culture have become a primary site for the location of meaning, belief and identity.

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The first book to explore how Arab pop culture has succeeded in helping forge a pan-Arab identity, where Arab nationalism has failed.

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This exciting title in ABC-CLIO's Popular Culture in the Contemporary World series offers the nonspecialist reader the only up-to-date introduction to all facets of popular culture in China.

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From the reality TV show Superstar to Formula One ace Michael Schumacher, Pop Culture Germany! explores the exciting world of contemporary German popular culture.

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This insightful book introduces the most important trends, people, events, and products of popular culture in Latin America and the Caribbean.

In recent times, Latin American influences have permeated American culture through music, movies, television, and literature.

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The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume.

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Comprehensively examines popular culture in the 2000s, placing the culture of the decade in historical context and showing how it not only reflected but also influenced its times.

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