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This collection examines the spread and popularity of South Korean popular culture and its global effects over the last twenty years. The contributors analyze the theoretical and institutional history of this development, its relationship with other globalizing forces, and the industrialization of cultural production in South Korea.

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The perfect anti-valentine: a whirlwind tour through love's most crushing moments. Featuring anecdotes from history, literature, culture, art and music, "The Little Book of Heartbreak" shares the entertaining, empowering and occasionally absurd things that happen when love is on its last legs.

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Separates the nonsense from the fabulous and shows that falling in love with an It bag doesn't mean you have the IQ of an It girl. This book shows how to wear shorts without looking like an extra in "Hamlet", what to spend money on, and what not to, and why only harpists should wear velvet.

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Undertakes a coherent and comprehensive consideration of the depiction of naval warfare in the cinema. This book focuses on the examination of the films which seeks to determine whether the distinctive characteristics of naval film narratives justify their categorisation as a separate genre or sub-genre in popular cinema.

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This book explores how the next generation of teen and young adult heroines in popular culture are creating a new feminist ideal for the 21st century.

Representations of a teenage girl who is unique or special occur again and again in coming-of-age stories.

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This book is a tool for educators at all levels to embrace infusing popular culture into their teaching in ways that both embrace and resist contemporary thinking. Its chapters provide a range of theoretical and practical suggestionssome widely accepted, some somewhat controversialto elicit discussion and spark creativity amongst all students.

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A study of the Bond phenomenon and its relation to the rise of playboy culture from the 1960s onwards. -- .

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female X-Files fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the new relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It questions the possibility of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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From Seattle anarchist punks to UK Asian underground music, Canadian female "X-Files" fans to Australian dance cultures, this book draws on a variety of international case studies to investigate the relationships among youth subcultural music, politics and taste. It also questions the relevance of what might be termed post-subcultural studies.

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This collection examines how scientists are represented in popular screen media, from blockbuster films and biopics to television drama. Contributors argue that across horror, science fiction, crime drama, and comedy, these fictional scientists embody the hopes and fears associated with real-life science.

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What do we do when things go wrong A quick fix can hide the problem rather than solve it. To make real progress we need to take time for the slow fix.

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Initially shunned by many in the Christian community when it made its television debut, after four hundred (and counting) episodes, and a feature-length film, few can deny that "The Simpsons" exhibits an astute understanding of Christianity in American culture. This book explores the theological voice of "The Simpsons".

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The business marketing genius at the forefront of today's entertainment marketing revolution helps corporate America get hip to today's new consumer--the tan generation--by learning from hip-hop and youth culture.

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"Shrewd... As the effortlessly intelligent Mr. Keizer points out, noise is among the thorniest class issues of our time, and we tend to utterly ignore its meanings."--New York Times

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Takes the reader on a journey from LA to Tokyo via Europe. This book explores what cities were, are and will be. It questions how memory - personal, urban, national and global memory - can survive.

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When Susan Maushart first decided to pull the plug on all electronic media at home, she realised her children would have sooner volunteered to go without food, water or hair products. Susan's experiment with her family was a major success and she found that having less to communicate with, her family is communicating more.

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This book uses soccer to provide insights into worldwide politics, religion, business, ethics, leadership, childhood, philosophy, and art. It examines the way soccer influences and reflects these aspects of society, and vice versa. Each chapter includes a selection of players ...

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Theorising Literary Islands is an epistemological study of the development of the Robinsonade genre, its ideological functions within contemporary Anglophone cultural thought, and the role of literary and filmic mediation in constructing twentieth and twenty-first century European and American relations with and to the Pacific region.