Popular Culture | Cultural Studies
Aug.17.2008
"You, Me and Morrissey" is a collection of autobiographical short stories capturing snapshots of love, loss, bigotry, violence, artistic birth, and mental illness. Each story is set to the soundtrack of a Smiths or Morrissey title or lyric, and documents the trials of youth and adulthood...
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Aug.13.2008
9 essays looking at different popular culture and the way it deals with and is informed by social, philosophical, and political ideas. It includes Marc's infamous, seminal viral 1998 essay, Socio-political Themes in the Smurfs, published for the first time in book form. The other essays are about...
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Jul.31.2008
A SEASON WITH THE INFAMOUS FANS OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM EVERYONE LOVES TO HATE
[B]eyond doubt the sleaziest and rudest and most sinister mob of thugs and whackos ever assembled in such numbers under a single "roof," so to speak, anywhere in the English-speaking world.-HUNTER S. THOMPSON ON...
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Jun.15.2008
Personality Not Included is a fun new book about the secret to making your organization more authentic, whether you are the boss, an employee, a small business or an entrepreneur. It has over 100 examples in a readable style, a useful how-to section, and 78% more chickens than your average...
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May.27.2008
Life. Beauty. Womanhood. That's what tattoos today are all about.
Join the women of Chick Ink in this celebration of the tattoos that grace our bodies, tell our stories, and mark forever the significant moments of our lives. Because if you're a woman with a tattoo, you're woman enough for...
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May.13.2008
Madison reviews Peter Gabel's The Bank Teller and Other Essays on the Politics of Meaning. Her analysis provides insight into Gabel's philosophical lineage, the postmodern lexicon and its roots, and the missing feminist perspective that haunts Gabel's work in Critical Legal Theory, political...
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May.05.2008
Calling All Superheroes
The first encyclopedic reference work that profiles superheroes from all companies and in all media, The Superhero Book is the ultimate A-Z compendium. Its 300 full entries provide information on more than 1,000 mythic overachievers, covering the best-loved and historically...
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May.05.2008
“I wish that The Supervillain Book could be required reading so that all the bizarre knowledge that fans like me have on the subject would be shared by everyone.” – Alex Ross, artist of Kingdom Come and Justice (DC Comics).
What would a good guy be without the bad guy? Boring. Drawing from sources...
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May.04.2008
A subllmely funny, intellectually provocative journey through the tattoos on Peter Trachtenberg's body, each of which represents a theme or episode in his life. Lust. Faith. Penance. A funerary rite in Borneo, complete with demonic possession. A dope-sick interlude in a junkies' church. A...
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Apr.22.2008
LAUREL CANYON tells the true story of the remarkable events that transpired in the eucalyptus-scented canyon above the Sunset Strip where, in the 1960s and 1970s, an unprecedented community of musicians gathered and melded folk, rock and savvy American pop into a sound that conquered the world as...
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