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The Arc and the machine is an important and timely book. It insists on the centrality of narrative to informational culture, and forces a re-appraisal of how information technology, read as a material cultural form, is understood in relation to the questions of innovation and transformation. -- .

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The art of record is an insight into the function of documentary in film and television. Its attempts to depict reality, and to comment on it, have provoked disagreement from the 1920s to the present day.

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This comprehensive reference guide reviews the literature concerning the impact of the automobile on American social, economic, and political history.

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This encyclopedia defines and contextualizes the Baby Boomer generation and the wide-reaching contributions of its members throughout modern American history.

Comprising some 80 million Americans born between 1946 and 1965, the Baby Boomers have significantly changed every aspect of American history and culture.

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This collection contributes to Afrofuturism studies by focusing on the Black creative experience. Contributors analyze philosophies of utopia, art, music, and histories of visual resistance, and they critique noted works by authors and artists like Octavia Butler, Ralph Ellison, Kiluanji Kia Henda, Janelle Monae, and Colson Whitehead.

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What caused four recently bar mitzvahed middle-class youths to go on a crime spree of assault and murder in 1954 This book provides a compelling narrative retelling of the boys, their crimes, and a U.S. culture obsessed with juvenile delinquency.

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In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough

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This study of Manchester football during the period 1840 to 1919, by leading sports historian Gary James, contextualises the sport's emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city's leading team sport, and identifies the communities who developed football. -- .

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This is the definitive account of the shift in popular music and youth culture that took place in the 1980s. It draws on interviews with DJs, record company bosses, musicians, producers and fans to outline a transition in pop thinking from the obsession with style and packaging to content, socially conscious lyrics and a new authenticity.

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Focuses on popular American entertainment. This book covers six forms of entertainment: vaudeville, recorded sound, radio, movies, television, and spectator sports. It is intended for students and general readers interested in the development and history of one of the largest and most lucrative industries.

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The Evil Twins of American Television examines evil-twin depictions in over fifty years of television. Employing the schizophrenic split theory of Betty Friedan, Humphreys analyzes the ways in which these alter ego characters embody the desire for a separate self and independence.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a continuum of extremes/extremity on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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There are over 1,000 McDonald's on French soil. Two Disney theme parks have opened near Paris in the last two decades. And American-inspired vocabulary such as "le weekend" has been absorbed into the French language. But as former French president Jacques Chirac put it: "The U.S. finds France unbearably pretentious. And we find the U.S. unbearably

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This book presents the reception of Hallyu ("the Korean Wave") and the real and imaginary maps of the export of South Korean cultural products around the world. It is an interdisciplinary and multicultural approach to the impact of Hallyu, including chapters on the effects of South Korean culture on countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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This book explores the balancing function that horses play when they become central characters in literature and film. Through close readings of texts from the Middle Ages until the present, covering works from Eastern and Western cultures, the book examines the deep symbolic meaning, cultural significance, and projective power of these animals.

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In this brilliant smart-thinking book about the power and influence of social media, Professor Sinan Aral shows how hyper-socialization has profoundly changed us.

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The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling series continues to prove that there are plenty of things in this world no one needs to know about. Here is the most fascinatingly trivial collection of factoids yet compiled to satisfy idle curiosities.