BRIER, Evan

A Novel Marketplace. Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction.

University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Pennsylvania Press. 2010, 199pp, Cloth. With dustjacket. In very good condition. As television transformed American culture in the 1950s, critics feared the influence of this newly pervasive mass medium on the nation's literature. While many studies have addressed the rhetorical response of artists and intellectuals to mid-twentieth-century mass culture, the relationship between the emergence of this culture and the production of novels has gone largely unexamined. In A Novel Marketplace, Evan Brier illuminates the complex ties between postwar mass culture and the making, marketing, and reception of American fiction. Between 1948, when television began its ascendancy, and 1959, when Random House became a publicly owned corporation, the way American novels were produced and distributed changed considerably. Analyzing a range of mid-century novels-including Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Sloan Wilson's The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Grace Metalious's Peyton Place-Brier reveals the specific strategies used to carve out cultural and economic space for the American novel just as it seemed most under threat. During this anxious historical moment, the book business underwent an improbable expansion, by capitalizing on an economic boom and a rising population of educated consumers and by forming institutional alliances with educators and cold warriors to promote reading as both a cultural and political good. A Novel Marketplace tells how the book trade and the novelists themselves successfully positioned their works as embattled holdouts against an oppressive mass culture, even as publishers formed partnerships with mass-culture institutions that foreshadowed the multimedia mergers to come in the 1960s. As a foil for and a partner to literary institutions, mass media corporations assisted in fostering the novel's development as both culture and commodity.

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Boeknummer: 59287

BROWN, KELLY R.

Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star

Jefferson, NC, Mcfarland & Company. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0786406275). Blue Cloth, 8vo - Over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Ill.: Black and White Photos. Hardcover, Textblock immaculate and tight; Binding lightly edge rubbed otherwise in perfect condition. Lacks dust jackeet; 216p. including index. Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: EW2632

Catalogus: Movies & Television

Trefwoorden: Actresses, American Film, American Actors, American Culture 0786406275 Black and White Photos

BROWNE, Ray and SELBERG, Torunn ed.

Journal of Popular Culture. Volume 26: 4, Spring 1993.

Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1993. Paperback. B/W photos and illus. Includes eight articles on Norwegian culture including Travelogues as Indices of the Past, Television and Ritualization of Everyday Life, Reframing the Family Photograph etc. Also, papers on The Search for Secular Divinity: America's Fascination with the Royal Family, In Search of a New Mentality: The Interface of Academic and Popular Medicine in the 16th Century etc. Condition vg. 220pp.

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Boeknummer: 54510

Trefwoorden: history america united states historical 20th twentieth century social culture cultural norway norwegian

BUCKINGHAM, DAVID

The Making of Citizens: Young People, News and Politics (Media, Education & Culture)

Routledge. 2000. (ISBN: 9780415214612). Paperback. Paperback in good condition, ex library book. 2000 Routledge. Based on research conducted in Britain and the US, The Making of Citizens explores these questions through a detailed analysis both of television news programmes and interviews with young people themselves. Buckingham traces the dynamic complexities of young people's interpretations of news, and their judgements about the ways in which key social and political issues are represented. Rather than bemoaning young people's ignorance, he argues that we need to rethink what counts as political understanding in contemporary societies, suggesting that we need forms of factual reporting that will engage more effectively with young people's changing perceptions of themselves as citizens. The Making of Citizens provides a significant contribution to the study of media audiences and a timely intervention in contemporary debates about citizenship and political education. - used books, secondhand books, out of print books, hard to find books, for sale, second-hand books, college books, student books, nonfiction, first edition, signed copies, non-fiction books delivered world wide. Excess postage may be required for books over 1 kg in weight outside the EU. ISBN 0-415-21461-0 0415214610. Used: Acceptable.

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Boeknummer: 9406

Catalogus: Reference

Trefwoorden: 9780415214612

Buhle, Paul

From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture

New York / London, Garland Publishing, (1997). orig.1/4-cloth. 22x14cm, xviii, 258 pp, Series: Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Volume 1089 / Labor in America, Volume 3.. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing, VG.
¶ Contents: 19th Century Origins, from Labor Republicanism to Ethnic Culture:The Republic of Labor: The Knights in Rhode Island; The World of Daniel DeLeon; Main Trends & Byways: The IWW as Radical Americanism; Pessimists' Heresy: Anarchism & American Labor; H.L. Mitchell: A Humane Alternative; The End of the Craftsmen's Era: The Brown & Sharpe Strike, a Journalist's Report from 1892; The Persistence of Rebellion: The CIO Years & After; Lane Kirkland & the New World Order; Media with a Message: The Iconographics of American Labor; Oscar Ameringer: The Socialist Mark Twain;Labor Jokes; Lost Struggles of the 1970s; Dave Wagner & the 'Madison Press' Connection; Television & the Blacklist: An Interview with Dick Powell.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS007078I

Trefwoorden: American Labor Movement, Trade Unionism, Labour Unions, United States Union, Economic, Political History, , ,

Buhle, Paul

From the Lower East Side to Hollywood : Jews in American Popular Culture

London / New York, Verso, 2004. orig.boards, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, ix,304,(34)pp.. 34pp plates.. Minor rubbing. VG.
¶ The contribution by Jews to American popular culture is widely acknowledged yet scarcely documented. This is the first comprehensive investigation of the formative Jewish influence upon the rise and development of American popular culture, drawing upon extensive oral histories with several generations of Jewish artists, little-utilized Yiddish scholarship, and the author's own connections with today's comic- strip artists. Buhle shows how the rich legacy of Yiddish prepared would- be artists to absorb the cultures of their surrounding environments, seeing the world through the eyes of others, and producing the talent required for theater, films, television, popular music and comics. Buhle suggests that "premodern" and "postmodern" are arbitrary designations here,because the self-reflective content has always radiated an inner Jewishness. From Sholem Aleichem (who died in the Bronx) to Gertrude Berg, Woody Allen and Tony Kushner, from John Garfield to Roseanne Barr and Rube Goldberg to Cyndi Lauper, the cutting edge is never too far from home and humane antidotes to the pains of a troubled world. Contradictions between Jewish avant-garde and kitsch, mogul and artist, orthodoxy and heresy are given new sense here in the scope of cultural output adopted by ordinary Americans as their own. Illustrated with the work of Harvey Pekar and R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Ben Katchor, Trina Robbins and others..." - Publisher's description.

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Boeknummer: BOOKS019720I

Trefwoorden: American Jewish Minority, United States, Popular Culture, Cultural History, Jews Jewry, , , ,

Bunch L

The American Presidency. A glorious burden

Smithsonian, 2000. Paperback. Pp: 187. This lavishly illustrated volume recounts the evolution of the presidency, from the age of George Washington until today. Drawing from the vast collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, it provides a revealing glimpse of the culture, particularly the material culture, of the presidency.Using objects as varied as Thomas Jefferson's portable desk, Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat, a 1903 Teddy Bear named for Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt's pince-nez, and a drum played during John E Kennedy's funeral, the book explores how the presidency has changed, and how presidential administrations have shaped - and been shaped by - relationships with the American people. Advertisements, movies, and television programs are also invoked to show how popular culture has informed Americans' collective memory of the presidency.The American Presidency accompanies a permanent exhibition of the same name at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. ISBN: 9781560988359. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 2777162

Catalogus: Geschiedenis

Trefwoorden: 9781560988359

BURNS, ERIC

Invasion of the Mind Snatchers; Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties

Philadelphia, Temple University Press. 2010, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781439902882). Hardcover, with dust jacket. 1st printing (2010). Minor bumps and handling wear to dj; owner's blindstamp on ffep; minor tear, creased/wrinkled at lower edge of half-title. Very Good+ to Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: TQA06

Catalogus: Non Fiction Hardcover

Trefwoorden: TV Television Shows Culture Movie & TV Reference 9781439902882

FILMFAXPLUS (FILMFAX) (RAY BRADBURY; EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS)

Filmfaxplus the Magazine of Unusual Film, Television, & Retro Pop Culture #132, Winter 2012 - 2013

NY, Filmfaxplus. 2012. SingleIssueMagazine. No. 132, 2012. "Someone Wonderful This Way Came."The Edgar Rice Burroughs Centennial. Photos, articles, interviews and more. Creasing; rubbing. Very Good+ to Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: PP968

Catalogus: Magazines

Trefwoorden: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy Monster Film Movie Magazines Periodicals Fanzines Monster Horror Magazines Movie & TV Magazines

FILMFAXPLUS (FILMFAX) (RAY BRADBURY; EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS)

Filmfaxplus the Magazine of Unusual Film, Television, & Retro Pop Culture #131, Summer 2012

NY, Filmfaxplus. 2012. SingleIssueMagazine. No. 131, 2012. "Remembering Ray Bradbury." Edgar Rice Burroughs centennial. Photos, articles, interviews and more. Stress; rubbing. Very Good+ to Near Fine.

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Boeknummer: PO1636

Catalogus: Horror Magazines

Trefwoorden: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy Monster Film Movie Magazines Periodicals Fanzines Monster Movie & TV Magazines

ALVARADO, BUSCOMBE AND COLLINS

The Screen Education Reader- Cinema, Television, Culture

Hampshire, Macmillan. 1993. (ISBN: 033354126X) Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Card covers in clean, tidy condition. Very Good.

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Boeknummer: 075858

Trefwoorden: 033354126x

Ellis Cashmore

Kardashian Kulture

Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019. Paperback. Pp: 224. Kardashian Kulture uses the royal family of celebrity culture to scrutinize wider understandings of 21st century life. Examining the worlds of business, politics, technology and entertainment, Ellis Cashmore shows how fundamental changes to the way we live have been prompted by celebrities. Examining today's celebrity-obsessed culture through the lives of a host of household names, including the Kardashians themselves, this book shows how celebrities have impacted on the wider culture from the birth of consumerism, the civil rights movements of the 1960s, and the growth of narcissism in the 1970s, to the rise of the paparazzi, reality television and the impact of social media, which has removed the barrier between celebrities and fans and led to the erosion of personal privacy. Celebrities are creations rather than people and ultimately, Cashmore argues, Kardashian Kulture is a product of our own making. Whether you regard celebrities as a witless bunch of overpaid show-offs or the conveyors of the zeitgeist is a matter of judgement and taste, the impact of the Kardashians and their kind is undeniable. ISBN: 9781787437074. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3333966

Catalogus: Sociologie

Trefwoorden: 9781787437074

Catherine Moriarty , June Rose , Naomi Games

Abram Games, Graphic Designer : Maximum Meaning, Minimum Means

Lund Humphries, 2003 Hardcover, 208 pages, ENG, 255 x 220 mm, dustjacket (has some minor scratches), book itself is in New condition, dozens of illustrations in color / b/w. ISBN 9780853318811.
¶ Abram Games (1914-96) was one of the 20th century's most innovative and important graphic designers. His remarkable career spanned 60 years, during which time he was responsible for some of the most enduring images ever produced in Britain. Games produced hundreds of posters as well as stamps, book jackets and emblems, including those for the Festival of Britain (1951) and BBC Television (1953). Other clients included British Airways, the Financial Times, Guinness, Shell and Transport for London. During World War II he was appointed Official War Poster Designer and designed 100 posters. His personal philosophy of "maximum meaning, minimum means" gave all his works a distinctive conceptual and visual quality. This book, accompanying a major exhibition at the Design Museum, features 180 colour illustrations of his best-known work as well as many examples of unpublished designs from his own extensive archive.

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Boeknummer: 60078

Catalogus: Grafiek ; Graphics ; Graphique ; Graphik

Trefwoorden: Beaux Arts Sciences Geschiedenis History Literature Weer culture histoire livre siècle Artiste peintre photo fotografie architectuur Mode Nostalgie/ Flemish art/ Vlaamse kunst keramiek antiqu beeldhouwkunst beelden sculpturen oorlog Kunst

Chelsea Fairless 310879, Lauren Garroni 310880

We Should All Be Mirandas. Life Lessons from Sex and the City's Most Underrated Character

Hodder & Stoughton, 2019. Gekartonneerd. Pp: 240. When Sex and the City premiered, many were hesitant to identify as the Miranda of their social circle - after all, sarcasm, workaholism, and dubious fashion choices are rarely considered aspirational. However, in the two-plus decades since her television debut, our culture has finally caught up with this forward-thinking icon and all she represents. The truth is, Miranda Hobbes is the feminist hero that we deserve - we were all just too busy obsessing over Carrie's corset tops to notice it at first. WE SHOULD ALL BE MIRANDAS is a celebration of a certain redheaded lawyer and the legions of fans who relate to her pragmatic, no-bullshit approach to work, love, and sex. Written by two self-proclaimed Mirandas, this humorous manifesto distils Ms. Hobbes' core principles into a strategic guide for navigating life's inevitable ups and downs. In it, you'll learn to: Overcome your internalised Mirandaphobia Cope with humiliating sexual encounters Make Google Docs your bitch Dump that Skipper that you've been dating Embrace your bad hair days.and so much more! With sharp, sardonic humor and nods to the series' most iconic moments, We Should All Be Mirandas is the perfect gift for fashionistas, pop culture mavens, and every woman who has dared to eat cake out of the garbage. ISBN: 9781529355314. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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Boeknummer: 3554186

Catalogus: Psychologie

Trefwoorden: 9781529355314

Chin, Frank; Jeffrey Paul Chan; Lawson Fusao Inada; Shawn Wong

The Big Aiiieeeee! an Anthology of Chinese American and Japanese American Literature

New York, Plume, 1991. Softcover. pp. xvi, 619. Small 8vo. Illustrated covers. Remainder mark to the bottom edges, else, bright, clean, and unmarked. Appears unread; as new. When the first volume of this collection of Asian American literature appeared in 1974, it showed readers the roots and the richness of Chinese American and Japanese American writing. The authors called their anthology Aiiieeeee! because that was the shout, the scream, often the only sound coming from the yellow man or woman in American movies, television, or comic books. But as that work demonstrated, the Asian American writer, long ignored and excluded from participating in American culture, has an articulate and creative voice. The Big Aiiieeeee!—an entirely new and truly comprehensive collection—brings together the earliest writings to appear in America, such as the revealing An English-Chinese Phrase Book used by the first generation of Chinese immigrants, and recent stories and essays, such as “Come All Ye Asian American Writers” by Frank Chin, about the importance of Chinese and Japanese heroic tradition. Here we all can now learn of the pain, the dreams, the betrayals, and the indelible sense of “otherness” of Americans of Chinese and Japanese descent, in a seminal collection of poetry, prose, and drama—writings filled with rage and beauty, memory and vision.

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Boeknummer: 4881

Catalogus: Literature

Trefwoorden: immigration; chinese literature; american literature