Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Reference, guides and reviews

"e;A comprehensive examination of the ways in which [the series] uses American cultural memory .

Explore every facet of being a cowboy with essays and colorful photos in this guide from the author of Buckaroo Boots and Art of the Buckle.

The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world.

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "e;models and bottles"e; to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne.

An in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitanTwo centuries ago, wealthy entrepreneurs founded the American cathedrals of culture-museums, theater companies, and symphony orchestras-to mirror European art.

How creative freedom, race, class, and gender shaped the rebellion of two visionary artistsPostwar America experienced an unprecedented flourishing of avant-garde and independent art.

A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities?

Since its premiere in November 1963, the classic British television programme Doctor Who has been a cornerstone of popular culture for half a century.

Katie Price has led a rollercoaster life and the excitement, glamour and emotional twists and turns show no signs of slowing down.

How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.

How the digital revolution has shaped our languageIn the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself.

At a time when the bulwarks of the music industry are collapsing, what does it mean to be a successful musician and artist?

A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.

Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches?

What is the best way to understand black political ideology?

The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur.

The 2004 film, King Arthur, starring Clive Owen and Keira Knightley, introduced the audience to Lucius Artorius Castus as the basis to the much later legend of King Arthur.

"e;Webb takes what we know about these magical beings via pop culture and explores their origins and how their respective images have changed over time.

"e;Webb takes what we know about these magical beings via pop culture and explores their origins and how their respective images have changed over time.

Considering everything from Nike ads, emaciated models, and surgically altered breasts to the culture wars and the O.

More Doctor Who and Philosophy is a completely new collection of chapters, additional to Doctor Who and Philosophy (2010) by the same editors.

Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood).

Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood).

For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression but unique challenges, too.

This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning.

First published in 1994.

First published in 1994.

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.

Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.

Written especially for undergraduate students, Representation synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.

Written especially for undergraduate students, Representation synthesises and updates our understandings of representation - and the tools for its analysis - for use in the new mediascape.

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity.

Cuteness is one of the most culturally pervasive aesthetics of the new millennium and its rapid social proliferation suggests that the affective responses it provokes find particular purchase in a contemporary era marked by intensive media saturation and spreading economic precarity.

Providing an assessment of Jewish identity, this volume presents critical engagements with a number of Jewish writers and filmmakers from a variety of European countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Poland, and the UK.

Providing an assessment of Jewish identity, this volume presents critical engagements with a number of Jewish writers and filmmakers from a variety of European countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Poland, and the UK.

This collection provides the complete history of the graphic novel, including detailed analyses of its origins, rise and success.

This collection provides the complete history of the graphic novel, including detailed analyses of its origins, rise and success.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

These essays examine the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences.

This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users.

This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead.

This book represents a meeting of queer theorists and psychoanalysts around the figure of the child.

This book addresses the relationship between gossip, women, and film with regards to the genre of chick flicks.

This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior.

This key textbook traces the development of advertising from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, providing connections with the past that illuminate present developments and point to future possibilities.

What lies behind current feminist discontent with contemporary cinema?

Exploring the blurred boundary between religion and pop culture, God in the Details offers a provocative look at the breadth and persistence of religious themes in the American consciousness.

This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender.

From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture.

Gerard Goggin has produced an incisive and penetrating overview of the world according to mobiles.