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Contested Kingdom

Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland

University Press of Mississippi

An analysis of the thirty-year struggle between Southern Californians and the Walt Disney Company online and at Disneyland

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Portable Postsocialisms

New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History

By Paloma Duong

University of Texas Press

A study of Cuban culture and media in the twenty-first century as both a global phenomenon and a local reality, at a time when the declared death of socialism coexists in tension with emerging anticapitalist movements worldwide.

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Cosmonaut

A Cultural History

By Cathleen S. Lewis

University of Florida Press

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Mary Climbs In

The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans

By Lorraine Mangione and Donna Luff

Rutgers University Press

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Comic Book Women

Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age

By Peyton Brunet and Blair Davis; Introduction by Trina Robbins

University of Texas Press

A revisionist history of the origins of comic books that reclaims women’s pioneering and pivotal roles as both creators and characters.

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Visions of Invasion

Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies

By Michael Lechuga

University Press of Mississippi

An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse

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Bob Dylan in the Attic

The Artist as Historian

By Freddy Cristóbal Domínguez

University of Massachusetts Press

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Just Like Us

Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

By Caitlin E. Lawson

Rutgers University Press

In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of online debates, Lawson demonstrates how networked negotiations of celebrity culture and feminism are transforming popular engagements with the movement.

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Intoxication

An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry

By Sébastien Tutenges

Rutgers University Press

Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, Intoxication offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Sébastien Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected takes place.

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The Internet Is for Cats

How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives

By Jessica Maddox

Rutgers University Press

An in-depth study of online animal photos, memes, and videos, The Internet is for Cats includes textual analysis and interviews with everyone from animal-loving Redditors to TikTok influencers seeking to make their pets famous. It will leave you with a new appreciation for the human social practices behind the animal images you encounter online.

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The American Historical Imaginary

Contested Narratives of the Past

By Caroline Guthrie

Rutgers University Press

The American Historical Imaginary: Contested Narratives of the Past in Mass Culture analyzes the shared understanding of America’s past that is formed through entertainment, education, and politics. Caroline Guthrie examines our historical imaginary and argues it is crucial to understanding our national identity.

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Baseball and Cultural Heritage

Edited by Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon

University Press of Florida

This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball–how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today, ultimately showing how the performance of baseball heritage can reflect the culture and heritage of a nation.

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Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition

The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon

By Regina M Marchi

Rutgers University Press

Examining the influence of media, commercialization and globalization on the growth and transformation of Day of the Dead celebrations in the US, Regina Marchi combines ethnography, oral history and critical cultural analysis to provide insights into the power of cultural hybridity and invented traditions to communicate about identity, history and politics.

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Genre Worlds

Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture

By Kim Wilkins, Beth Driscoll, and Lisa Fletcher

University of Massachusetts Press

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Speaking Truths

Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism

By Valerie Chepp

Rutgers University Press

The twenty-first century has seen countless protests demanding social justice, and in every instance, young people are leading the charge. But in addition to protesters who take to the streets with handmade placards, there are also young adults who engage in less obvious change-making tactics. In Speaking Truths, sociologist Valerie Chepp goes behind the scenes to uncover how spoken word poetry—and young people’s participation in it—contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social justice activism, including this generation’s attention to the political importance of identity, well-being, and love.

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