This work documents the considerable damage done by the migration of cynical academic ideas into music journalism - demonstrated architypically by Kurt Cobain, a martyr to postmodernism in music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and ......
This work documents the considerable damage done by the migration of cynical academic ideas into music journalism - demonstrated architypically by Kurt Cobain, a martyr to postmodernism in music journalism. The author synthesizes a number of fields: American and British academic and journalistic music criticism; aesthetic and literary history and ......
Everybody's got a theory . . . or do they? Thomas McLaughlin argues that critical theory--raising serious, sustained questions about cultural practice and ideology--is practiced not only by an academic elite but also by savvy viewers of sitcoms and TV news, by Elvis fans and Trekkies, by labor organizers and school teachers, by the average person ......
Does the Media Govern? combines the best soc ial science research on political communication with the exp ertise of some of America''s leading journalists and politica l consultants. '
Globalization, Communication and the New International Order
Moving beyond notions of cultural imperialism, this book furthers our understanding of the implications of global media culture and politics in the 1990s. Leading scholars from a range of fields bring different perspectives to bear on the role of the state, the range of culture beyond the media, the contribution of international organizations, ......
Messerschmidt argues that crime operates sub tly through a complex series of gender, race and class pract ices, and that these elements must be seen as interwoven, pa rt of all social existence, and not to be viewed independent ly. '
Much contemporary scholarship on fathers comes from a deficit model, focusing on men's inadequacies as parents. This volume goes beyond a deficit model of fatherhood to what the editors term a `generative fathering perspective'. This approach sees the work fathers do for their children in terms of caring for and contributing to the life of the ......
Why, asks Daniel Rancour-Laferriere in this controversial book, has Russia been a country of suffering? Russian history, religion, folklore, and literature are rife with suffering. The plight of Anna Karenina, the submissiveness of serfs in the 16th and 17th centuries, ancient religious tracts emphasizing humility as the mother of virtues, the ......
Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows ......
