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HIV on TV: Popular Cultures Epidemic is a critical analysis of the ways television has portrayed HIV. Spanning time, genres, and viewpoints HIV on TV offers a challenge for viewers, media writers, even political figures in the ways they think about, and frame, the continued epidemic that is HIV.

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Horrific Humor and the Moment ofDroll Grimness in Cinema explores the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. Essays examinine the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter moment, the impact of its frission of humor and horror on the viewer, and sLaughters implications for the human condition more generally.

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This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.

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A guide to the assumptions, readings and writings of cultural theory, and an intervention in contemporary debates, this book will be invaluable to anyone involved in studying, teaching or researching media and cultural studies.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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This study provides an interdisciplinary analysis of Taiwanese popular culture over the last two decades. It examines various shifts in the countrys identity politics and argues that its uncertain political position is a key factor in such changes.

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With ideological divisions polarizing society, this book introduces Ideologically Challenging Entertainment (ICE), which uses multiple perspectives to help audiences connect with those holding different world views. A case study of a production using the ICE model shows audiences responding with greater tolerance and acceptance of others.

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French Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Sociology, History/Cultural History. Specific chapters will be of relevance to: Cultural Policy, Popular Music Studies, Literary Studies, Film and TV Studies, Linguistics -- .

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Nine times out of ten, if someone accuses you of getting your facts wrong, what they're actually saying is that they don't like what you've done with them.


The facts in this book will aim to amuse and astound, and sometimes even to change the way you see the world.

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Introducing first and second year university students to cultural study approaches to everyday life, this accessible textbook prompts its readers to take a fresh, critical look at the familiar, yet strangely intriguing terrain of daily life in modern, industrialised societies.

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This book explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship.

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This book explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship.

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This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.

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Converging theory and practice, this book provides a unique analysis of Korean youths attempts to become global celebrities within the rapidly growing K-pop cultural phenomenon.

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This book examines the development of northern soul, its clubs, publications, and practices by locating it in the shifting economic and social context of the English midlands and north in the 1970s. Using fanzines, diaries, letters, and oral testimony it presents a vivid insight into the scene.

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Kevin Costner, Americas Teacher addresses how Kevin Costner's oeuvre has been a vital source of informal education for, and about, Americans. This book is the first to examine the educational impact of Costners works.

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This book offers a complete overview of the contributions of U.S. Latinos to American popular culture and examines the emergence of the U.S. Latino identity.

According to the 2010 Census, Latinos represent more than 16 percent of the total population and are the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States.

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"The story of adults who put on a costume, develop a persona, and interact with other characters for hours or days as part of a LARP, or Live Action Role-Playing game. A look at the hobby from its history in the pageantry of Tudor England to its use as a training tool for the US military"--Provided by publisher.

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The most up-to-date comprehensive guide for body art enthusiasts

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