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Author : Nathaniel Wice,Steven Daly
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015031859138
An a-z of 90s youth culture of America.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : BITNET (Computer network)
ISBN : UOM:39015079927508
Author : Matt Alt
Publisher : Crown
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781984826718
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination. “A masterful book driven by deep research, new insights, and powerful storytelling.”—W. David Marx, author of Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives. In the 1970s and ’80s, Japan seemed to exist in some near future, gliding on the superior technology of Sony and Toyota. Then a catastrophic 1990 stock-market crash ushered in the “lost decades” of deep recession and social dysfunction. The end of the boom should have plunged Japan into irrelevance, but that’s precisely when its cultural clout soared—when, once again, Japan got to the future a little ahead of the rest of us. Hello Kitty, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and multimedia empires like Dragon Ball Z were more than marketing hits. Artfully packaged, dangerously cute, and dizzyingly fun, these products gave us new tools for coping with trying times. They also transformed us as we consumed them—connecting as well as isolating us in new ways, opening vistas of imagination and pathways to revolution. Through the stories of an indelible group of artists, geniuses, and oddballs, Pure Invention reveals how Japan’s pop-media complex remade global culture.
Author : David Porter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135209049
The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of communication and the public sphere. Internet Culture offers a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the implications of the current mass migration onto the electronic frontier. Among the topics discussed in Internet Culture are the virtual spaces and places created by the citizens of the Net and their claims to the hotly contested notion of "virtual community"; the virtual bodies that occupy such spaces; and the desires that animate these bodies. The contributors also examine the communication medium behind theworlds of the Net, analyzing the rhetorical conventions governing online discussion, literary antecedents,and potential pedagogical applications.
Author : Donald T. Mizokawa
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0877782768
Author : Roger Friedland,John Mohr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521795451
An introduction to theorizing in cultural sociology.
Author : Vernon L. Lidtke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039872424
Explores the social and cultural aspects of the German Social Democratic labor movement in the era between the 1860s and the outbreak of the First Wolrd War.
Author : Harley Hahn,Rick Stout
Publisher : Osborne Publishing
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015034300502
This remarkable volume shows you what is available on the world's largest network and how to access the information immediately. The Internet Yellow Pages, with its unique "phone book" design and easy-to-reference alphabetical format, transcends area codes to provide up-to-date information for Internet users around the globe.
Author : Chuck Klosterman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780735217973
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn’t know who it was. By the end, exposing someone’s address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn’t know who it was. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we’re still groping to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. Beyond epiphenomena like "Cop Killer" and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a 90’s Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of Seinfeld than the finale of Game of Thrones. But nobody thought that was important; if you missed it, you simply missed it. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it. In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, “The video for ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany” make complete sense. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.
Author : Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107113503
This volume provides up-to-date coverage of recent screen versions of Shakespeare's plays, as well as critical reviews of older canonical films.
Author : M. L. Endicott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Computer bulletin boards
ISBN : CORNELL:31924072147857
Author : Karl Spracklen,Beverley Spracklen
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787439306
In this book, Spracklen and Spracklen use the idea of collective memory to explore the controversies and boundary-making surrounding the genesis and progression of the modern gothic alternative culture. They suggest that the only way for goth culture to survive is if it becomes transgressive and radical again.
Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781420509724
This volume discusses the history of alternative rock and the ethos of alt-rockers as rebels who value independence, experimentation, and truth-telling. Rather than making music for broad commercial appeal, these musicians drew from a variety of styles that were considered unfriendly for consumers. Over the years, alternative rock has spawned mash-ups of garage rock, punk, new wave, rap, thrash, and hardcore. This group of indie rockers not only created a new sound but also put forth a different attitude, as they outwardly rejected the musical standards and sales practices set by major record companies.
Author : Angela Nagle
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785355448
Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battle ground is the internet. On one side the "alt right" ranges from the once obscure neo-reactionary and white separatist movements, to geeky subcultures like 4chan, to more mainstream manifestations such as the Trump-supporting gay libertarian Milo Yiannopolous. On the other side, a culture of struggle sessions and virtue signalling lurks behind a therapeutic language of trigger warnings and safe spaces. The feminist side of the online culture wars has its equally geeky subcultures right through to its mainstream expression. Kill All Normies explores some of the cultural genealogies and past parallels of these styles and subcultures, drawing from transgressive styles of 60s libertinism and conservative movements, to make the case for a rejection of the perpetual cultural turn.
Author : Gill Branston,Roy Stafford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mass media
ISBN : 0415256100
A comprehensive introduction for students of media studies, this third edition of The Media Student's Book has been thoroughly revised and updated in response to feedback from lecturers using the second edition, and now focuses on the higher education syllabus more than ever before.It covers all the key topics encountered at undergraduate level and provides a detailed and clear guide to concepts and debates. Key features include:* think points and discussion points to get students really engaging with the topics* lists of useful web sites, resource centres and suggestions for further reading to encourage additional study* follow-up activities and essay questions which can be used to set tutorial work*marginal terms, definitions and cross references to provide clear explanations of key concepts and complex theories* case studies throughout taken from advertising, films, radio, television, newspapers, magazines, photography and the Internet to ensure students are exposed to a rich range of media forms.Including a glossary of key terms for quick reference and revision, this third edition will be used by lecturers as a flexible teaching resource and by students to aid independent study.
