Sport in America

Donald Spivey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This stimulating anthology provides a scholarly perspective on the history of sport. New and exciting dimensions of sport history are introduced by ex... Lees meer

Creating the Big Game

Wiley L Umphlett

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture | nr. 34
• John W. Heisman (1869-1936) was a man of many faces whose public image has suffered from a diffused, enigmatic, and mostly misunderstood private perso... Lees meer

Radical Visions

Glenn Man

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture | nr. 41
• Radical Visions discusses an important period in American film history: Films such as Bonnie and Clyde , The Graduate , McCabe and Mrs. Miller , Midni... Lees meer

Outsider Features

Richard K Ferncase

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• In the early 1980s, serious American independent films including Stranger Than Paradise , Blood Simple , and She's Gotta Have It attracted ever-wideni... Lees meer

Lawrence of Arabia and American Culture

Joel C Hodson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Departing from prior scholarship on T. E. Lawrence, this work examines the extent of Anglo-American cultural interplay and the popular culture machine... Lees meer

The Cowboy Way

Ralph Lamar Turner, Robert J Higgs

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as Red River , Shane , Unforgiven , The Wild Bunch , Wyatt Earp , and Dances with Wolves , thi... Lees meer

Buckskins, Bullets, and Business

Sarah Blackstone

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Blackstone focuses on the career of William F. Buffalo Bill Cody during the years in which he organized, promoted, and starred in his celebrated Wild ... Lees meer

The Cosby Show

Linda Fuller

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This volume chronicles the phenomenon of a television program that commanded first place for much of the time since its premiere in September 1984. Ea... Lees meer

A Call to Action

Shelia Petty

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture | nr. 60
• Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene has often been referred to as a pioneer of the sub-Saharan African cinema. From Borom Sarret (1963) to Guelwaar (1... Lees meer

European Readings of American Popular Culture

John R. Dean, Jean-Paul Gabilliet

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• A collection of basically healthy, skeptical, alternately seductive, sympathetic, abrasive, and challenging insights into how American culture works b... Lees meer

Noir, Now and Then

Ronald Schwartz

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This examniation of the cinematic style of film noir originals and their neo-noir remakes compares thirty-five films, beginning with Billy Wilder's cl... Lees meer

American Dark Comedy

Wes Gehring

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• From Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction , Gehring presents a compelling theory of the black comedy film genre. Placin... Lees meer

Sport and Society in Latin America

Joseph Arbena

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• A very exciting collection that explores sport in itself and also as a cultural phenomenon. In unexpected ways, bicycles are linked to modernization i... Lees meer

America's Musical Pulse

Kenneth J. Bindas

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Popular music may be viewed as primary documents of society, and America's Musical Pulse documents the American experience as recorded in popular soun... Lees meer

Religion and Sport

Charles S Prebish

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Prebish offers a thoughtful look at sport as a religious experience and argues that sport has become an American religion. The first section of the wo... Lees meer

Out of the Woodpile

Frankie Y Bailey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Contending that a mythology of race consisting of themes of sex and savagery exists in the United States and is perpetuated in popular culture, Franki... Lees meer

The Use of Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film

Rebecca a Umland, Samuel J Umland

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This is the first book to examine the various uses of the Arthurian legend in Hollywood film, covering films from the 1920s to the present. The author... Lees meer

Agent of Challenge and Defiance

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• For more than 30 years, Ken Loach's films have examined the social, political, economic, and psychological costs of living in Great Britain. These inv... Lees meer

Take One

Jack Kuney

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• Since 1948 when television began its rapid--almost exponential--growth, America has literally focused on TV, but the average viewer has been unaware o... Lees meer

Auteur/Provocateur

• Paperback | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• With the international critical and commercial successes of Le Declin de l'empire americain ( The Decline of the American Empire , 1986) and Jesus de ... Lees meer

A Brand New Language

Monroe Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• In the years since World War II, what began in the United States as a shift from a wartime to a peacetime economy soon led to a massive outpouring of ... Lees meer

Hibernian Green on the Silver Screen

Joseph M Curran

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This study explores the relationship of an ethnic group of vital importance in America's history--the Irish--and a preeminently American art form and ... Lees meer

Ethnicity and Sport in North American History and Culture

George Eisen

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• The editors use the unique lens of the history of sports to examine ethnic experiences in North America since 1840. Comprised of 12 original essays an... Lees meer

Shape-Shifting

Andrew MacDonald, Gina MacDonald, Maryann Sheridan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Popular Culture
• This study of the Native American in the western, romance, detective, horror, and science fiction genres examines how even historically accurate repre... Lees meer