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Ripped, torn and cut offers a collection of original essays exploring the motivations behind - and the politics within - the multitude of fanzines that emerged in the wake of British punk from 1976. -- .

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Round Up the Usual Suspects provides a comparison of the crime fighting models and justice proceedings of each of these TV series.

Each series has its own special crime-fighting niche, and each approaches its job with a different set of values and different paradigms of discovery and proof.

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This work describes the forces and pressures that encouraged or impeded Australian's enjoyment of sand and surf. The ways in which artists, writers, film-makers and the advertising industry have depicted the beach are examined for the light they throw on the beach's significance.

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From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer highly detailed political worlds beyond capitalism. This book examines the complex ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable conceptual tools for anti-capitalist participatory politics.

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This volume examines scouting-the largest voluntary movement for girls-in its first century of existence, seeking to understand how the organization has lasted and how it has changed.

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Fully updated, innovative textbook on the relationship between popular culture and religion, exploring secularization in America and the way religion functions in postmodern society.

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"A book length study of how fans have been depicted in mass media"--

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This collection addresses the burgeoning interest in the body as a site of affective and somatic, as well as sociocultural, communication. It explores what performers do with bodies in practice, rehearsal, and performance and how that translates to audiences and their sociopolitical contexts.

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This book offers an exploration of the comprehensive impact of the events of September 11, 2001, on every aspect of American culture and society.

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This collection offers a theoretically robust interrogation of how the circulation of Shakespeare within popular culture modes and genres operates to craft, reify and/or contest existing racial imaginaries.

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Uses films and fan behaviour as windows to decode the cultural meanings of female adolescence from 1920 to 1950.

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This book provides a fascinating examination of one of the most notorious countercultures in the United States.

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Cosmetic surgery was once only associated with the rich and famous. This title argues that cosmetic surgery is the most provocative and controversial aspect of a 'makeover culture'. It examines a wide range of culture case studies from women's magazines, television, architecture and the Internet amongst others.

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Presenting an argument that cosmetic surgery is a provocative and controversial aspect of the makeover culture, this book examines various culture case studies from women's magazines, television, architecture and the Internet amongst others to dissect the realities of cosmetic surgery and culture.

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"A vivid mural of the...new frontier of the mobile Web."-Fast Company

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David G. LoConto explores the development of the Star Trek fandom through a social psychological approach, using symbolic interaction theory and strategic ritualization theory as well as ideas from Habermas and Foucault to track the fandoms movements, values, and evolution.

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David G. LoConto explores the development of the Star Trek fandom through a social psychological approach, using symbolic interaction theory and strategic ritualization theory as well as ideas from Habermas and Foucault to track the fandoms movements, values, and evolution.

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This book argues for the importance of popular music in negotiations of national identity, and Germanness in particular.