Contested Kingdom
Fan Attachment and Corporate Control at Disneyland
An analysis of the thirty-year struggle between Southern Californians and the Walt Disney Company online and at Disneyland
Portable Postsocialisms
New Cuban Mediascapes after the End of History
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.
Mary Climbs In
The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen's Women Fans
Comic Book Women
Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
Visions of Invasion
Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies
An exploration of the ways migrants are coded as alien in popular film and public discourse
Just Like Us
Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame
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.
Intoxication
An Ethnography of Effervescent Revelry
The Internet Is for Cats
How Animal Images Shape Our Digital Lives
The American Historical Imaginary
Contested Narratives of the Past
Baseball and Cultural Heritage
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.
Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition
The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon
Genre Worlds
Popular Fiction and Twenty-First-Century Book Culture
Speaking Truths
Young Adults, Identity, and Spoken Word Activism
The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
A Feminist Critique
An exploration of the troublingly unfeminist roots of goddess characters in popular culture
Fantastic Cities
American Urban Spaces in Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
A critical exploration of fictional American cities in popular culture
Where Misfits Fit
Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks
How the hardscrabble borderland frontier of the Ozarks nurtured zones of creativity, community, and cults
I Believe I'll Go Back Home
Roots and Revival in New England Folk Music
Ode to Gen X
Institutional Cynicism in Stranger Things and 1980s Film
A comprehensive study of cynicism in popular 1980s movies reflected in the television series Stranger Things
Empire of the Superheroes
America’s Comic Book Creators and the Making of a Billion-Dollar Industry
Fictional Blues
Narrative Self-Invention from Bessie Smith to Jack White
Supersex
Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
The Opioid Epidemic and US Culture
Expression, Art, and Politics in an Age of Addiction
Haunting Without Ghosts
Spectral Realism in Colombian Literature, Film, and Art
A Sound History
Lawrence Gellert, Black Musical Protest, and White Denial
Transportation and the Culture of Climate Change
Accelerating Ride to Global Crisis
Toxic Masculinity
Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes
An exciting exploration of the impact of hypermasculinity on the creation of the modern superhero
Subversive Spirits
The Female Ghost in British and American Popular Culture
How some women find their greatest powers narrating after death