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Three quarters of a million people visit Graceland each year--40,000 of them during "Elvis Week", the anniversary of his death in August. Strausbaugh describes the religious fervor of Elvis followers, and places Elvism in the context of many grassroots movements away from traditional churches, and explores parallels to Elvis worship in other cultures past and present.

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Pop culture meets cutting-edge science in this one-volume introduction to the history of science and modern biology.

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A smart, accessible look into the philosophy of baseball, with a focus on its lessons for a life best lived.

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Offers advice on how to survive, thrive and be spectacular. Compiled by a veteran of the underground, these experiential, very real commentaries from underground luminaries offer honest and humorous advice on everything from "Door Etiquette for the Nightlife-Challenged" to "How to be an Art Star". It shows would-be bohemians how things really are.

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An irresistible illustrated guide to all things cute and collectible, from a history of cute culture to profiles of collectors.

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Tracing the author's journey into the strange subculture of Real Life Superheroes (RLSHs), this book examines citizens who have adopted comic book-style personas and have hit the streets to fight injustice in a variety of ways.

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Leading critic Ian Bogost posits that game critique is both serious cultural currency and selfparody. Noting that the term games criticism once struck him as preposterous, Bogost observes that the idea, taken too seriously, risks balkanizing games writing from the rest of culture.

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Avatar of girl power or sexual plaything The ambiguity of being Lara.

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Avatar of girl power or sexual plaything The ambiguity of being Lara.

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But Listening In is more than a history. It is also a reconsideration of what listening to radio has done to American culture in the twentieth century and how it has brought a completely new auditory dimension to our lives.

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From Mad Men to MAGA: how nostalgia came to be and why we are so eager to indulge it.

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A fun romp through the cultural history of the mustache, including the 'stache's role in art, movies, war, and politics.

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Plus-Size: A Memoir of Pop Culture, Fatphobia, and Social Change chronicles the rise of the body positive movement and body positivity through pop culture reviews and personal reflections. This essay collection illustrates the insidiousness of fatphobia through analyses of film, television, books, and how they affect our perceptions and treatment of others.

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Explores the dynamism of the Gulf, reflected not just in high-rise buildings and booming stock markets, but also manifested in the realms of art, ideas and expression and their relationships with political authority.

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Public issue television is a major contribution to understanding the relationship between television, politics and society. By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unrivalled in its depth and detail. -- .

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Featuring 30 stories of real-life zombie encounters, this title presents a study that dispels common depictions of zombies as lurching, flesh-eating automatons made popular by movies and books.

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Fads constantly cycle and recycle through popular culture, each time in a slightly new incarnation. The term retro' has become the buzz word for describing such trends, but what does it mean This title explores the ambiguous cultural meanings of the term and reveals why some trends just never seem to stay dead.