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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

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

University of Florida Press
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Mary Climbs In

The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans

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

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

University of Massachusetts Press
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Just Like Us

Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

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

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

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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