Category: Popular Culture

By David Baggett, Shawn E. Klein

ISBN-10: 0812696972

ISBN-13: 9780812696974

In Harry Potter and Philosophy, seventeen philosophical specialists unencumber a few of Hogwarts' mystery panels, and discover mind-blowing insights which are enlightening either for wizards and the main discerning muggles.

By Jeannette Walls

ISBN-10: 0062031309

ISBN-13: 9780062031303

Gossip. it is greater than simply rumour. society columns, and grocery store tabloids. It has, love it or no longer, turn into a mainstay of yank popular culture. In Dish, insider Jeannette partitions provides this provocative topic its due, providing a entire, severe exploration of gossip and its social, ancient, and political value. analyzing the subject from the interior out, partitions seems on the avid gamers; the origins of gossip, from beginning of individuals journal to the loss of life of woman Di; and the way expertise together with the web will proceed to alter the face gossip. As compelling and seductive as its material, Dish brilliantly unearths the attention-grabbing internal workings of a phenomenon that's certainly the following to stay.

By Jacob M. Held, Lindsay Coleman

ISBN-10: 1442235977

ISBN-13: 9781442235977

For lots of contributors, pornography is a troubling and difficult factor. despite how the general public perspectives this subject, something is obvious: Pornography is as regular and obtainable as smartphones and desktop desktops. certainly, past conventional hardcore fabric, a pornographic sensibility permeates many elements of culture—from tween and younger youngster models to tv and commercially profitable movies. actually, pornography is so common that in most cases it's taken as a given in our glossy social area. besides the fact that, the concept of undertaking highbrow discussions in regards to the subject moves many—particularly scholars—as underneath them. And but anything this impactful, this definitive of contemporary tradition, has to be laid open to scrutiny.

In The Philosophy of Pornography: modern views, Lindsay Coleman and Jacob M. Held supply a suite of essays protecting a variety of viewpoints—from problems with loose speech and porn’s position in discrimination to the impression of porn on sexuality. those essays examine the philosophical implications of pornography as part of how we now search to conceive and exhibit our sexuality in modern lifestyles. participants to this quantity discuss:

pornography as an element of gender and sexual socialization
ecological understandings of sexually particular media
subordination, sexualization, and speech
feminism and pornography
pornography’s depiction of affection and friendship
black ladies and pornography
playfulness and creativity in porn

Because its topic matter—sex, gender, interpersonal relationships, or even love—is reflective of who we're and how much society we wish to create, pornography calls for severe remedy. So even if one chooses to just accept pornography as a truth of recent tradition or now not, this number of well timed essays represents quite a few voices within the ongoing debate. As such, The Philosophy of Pornography should be of curiosity not to simply those who find themselves engaged in porn experiences but in addition to an viewers informed in and conversant with contemporary tendencies in philosophy.

By Simon Reynolds

ISBN-10: 0865479941

ISBN-13: 9780865479944

We are living in a pop age long past loco for unfashionable and loopy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion excursions, elevated reissues of vintage albums and outtake-crammed field units, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups . . . yet what occurs once we run out of prior? Are we heading towards a type of culturalecological disaster the place the archival movement of dad historical past has been exhausted?

Simon Reynolds, one of many most interesting track writers of his iteration, argues that we have got certainly reached a tipping element, and that even supposing prior eras had their very own obsessions with antiquity—the Renaissance with its admiration for Roman and Greek classicism, the Gothic movement’s invocations of medievalism—never has there been a society so keen about the cultural artifacts of its personal instant previous. Retromania is the 1st e-book to check the unfashionable and ask the query: is that this retromania a dying knell for any originality and specialty of our personal?

By Alexander Bloom

ISBN-10: 0195125142

ISBN-13: 9780195125146

With extraordinary pace, the Sixties have long gone from lived heritage to mythology. they continue to be alive in our tradition in a fashion diversified from any earlier period. on the sunrise of a brand new century, we're nonetheless debating the problems that emerged in the course of that decade, nonetheless residing within the unsleeping aftermath of its occasions and transformations.
This assortment seems to be again on the Sixties, trying to comprehend the problems of the day on their lonesome phrases and to contemplate their meanings in today's global. Alexander Bloom has amassed ten unique essays, each one of which explores the gulf among heritage and fable concerning a critical attribute of the Sixties. subject matters lined contain civil rights, the scholar flow and the recent Left, the Vietnam conflict, the antiwar circulation, homosexual rights, the counterculture, and the women's movement.
Long Time Gone dispels myths concerning the Sixties and constructs a correct imaginative and prescient of the earlier and an realizing of its impression at the smooth international. it truly is a useful source for a person looking deeper wisdom of this superb decade and its carrying on with impact on American tradition.

By Donald Sassoon

ISBN-10: 0007400403

ISBN-13: 9780007400409

A magisterial narrative account of the construction and intake of all sorts of ‘culture’ around the ecu continent during the last 2 hundred years.

This compelling, wide-ranging and highly bold booklet deals, for the 1st time ever, an built-in heritage of the tradition produced and fed on via Europeans for the reason that 1800, and follows its transformation from an elite job to a mass industry – from lending libraries to the net, from the 1st public live shows to song downloads.

In itself a cultural journey de strength, the ebook covers low and high tradition, readers and writers, audiences and prima donnas, Rossini and hip hop, Verdi and the Beatles, Zola and Tintin, Walter Scott and Jules Verne, the serialised novel of the 19th-century in addition to ‘Dallas’ and ‘Coronation Street’. incorporated in its substantial scope are fairytales, bestsellers, crime and sci-fi, non-fiction, magazines, newspapers, comedian strips, performs, opera, musicals, pop tune, sound recording, motion pictures, documentaries, radio and television.

A continent-wide survey, this majestic paintings comprises discussions of rock track less than communism, Polish and Danish bestsellers, French melodramas and German cabarets, fascist and Soviet cinema. It examines the methods tradition travels – the way it is produced, remodeled, tailored, absorbed, bought and ate up; the way it is formed by means of audiences and politics, and regulated by means of legislation and traditional morality; why a few international locations excel particularly genres. It examines the nervousness and allure felt by way of Europeans in the direction of American tradition, and asks to what quantity eu tradition has develop into Americanised.

Stylishly written, with out jargon, this can be international non-fiction narrative at its best.

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By Miriam Joseph, Julian Durlacher

ISBN-10: 1858688620

ISBN-13: 9781858688626

This sequence will hint the historical past, describe the discovery or discovery, in general for honorable purposes, and the transition to unlawful and 'recreational' use.

By Steven Johnson

ISBN-10: 1594481946

ISBN-13: 9781594481949

Omit every thing you've examine the age of dumbed-down, instant-gratification tradition. during this provocative, clever, and convincing endorsement of today's mass leisure, nationwide bestselling writer Steven Johnson argues that the popular culture we soak in each day-from The Lord of the Rings to Grand robbery Auto to The Simpsons-has been starting to be increasingly more refined and, faraway from rotting our brains, is basically posing new cognitive demanding situations which are making our minds measurably sharper. you are going to by no means regard the glow of the game or tv monitor a similar approach back.

By Dan Brockington

ISBN-10: 1848135491

ISBN-13: 9781848135499

The conflict to save lots of the area is being joined via a strong new crew of warriors. Celebrities are lending their identify to conservation motives, and conservation itself is starting to be its personal stars to struggle and communicate for nature. during this well timed and crucial e-book, Dan Brockington argues that this alliance grows from the at the same time supportive exposure megastar and conservation reasons offer for every different, and extra essentially, that the flourishing of megastar and charismatic conservation is a part of an ever-closer intertwining of conservation and company capitalism. learn more... concerning the writer; Acronyms; Preface; 1 -- advent; 2 -- Combining big name and the surroundings; three -- holding celebrities; four -- natural world presenters and flora and fauna movie; five -- star conservation; 6 -- Concentrations of wealth and tool; 7 -- Criticisms; eight -- Saving the area; Notes; Bibliography; Index

By George A. Reisch, Luke Dick

ISBN-10: 0812697588

ISBN-13: 9780812697582

From their commanding position within the so-called British Invasion of the early Sixties to their prestige because the elder statesmen (and British Knight) of rock and roll, the Stones became greater than an evanescent phenomenon in popular culture. they've got develop into a touchstone not just for the background of our times—their functionality on the Altamont Raceway marked the "end of the sixties," whereas their 1990 live performance in Prague helped Czechoslovakia and different japanese bloc international locations have a good time their newfound freedom (and delight) out from below Moscow’s thumb. as a result of their toughness, the track and occupation of the Stones—much greater than The Beatles—stand as touchstones within the own lives of even informal Stones fanatics. every body of a undeniable age recalls the Stones on Ed Sullivan, the loss of life of founder Brian Jones, their favourite songs, concert events, or video clips, and their stance within the vintage “Beatles as opposed to Stones” debates. within the wake of Keith Richards’s bestselling autobiography, existence (2010), many are actually reliving those occasions and a long time from the perspective of the band’s endearing and likely death-defying guitarist.

The chapters in The Rolling Stones and Philosophy have a good time the Stones’ position in our lives by means of digging into the controversies, the symbols, and meanings the band and its songs have for therefore many. What may possibly you suggest (and what did Mick suggest) through “sympathy for the Devil”? Did the Stones proportion any of the blame for the deaths at Altamont, as critic Lester Bangs charged they did in Rolling Stone journal? What theories of ethics and character lay in the back of the good-boy picture of the Beatles and the bad-boy acceptance the Stones obtained? If Keith Richards fairly had his blood changed 4 separate instances, does that make him a zombie? How do the Glimmer Twins aid us refine our figuring out of friendship? Written via a dozen philosophers and students who adore the Rolling Stones not just for his or her tune, this ebook turns into required interpreting for somebody looking greatest pride from "the world's maximum rock and roll band."

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