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Natan Last

Across the Universe

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the history of crossword puzzles, who constructs them, and why crosswords matter as both a reflection of and influence on our culture "Warning: This book is hi…

New Directions in Israeli Media

A comprehensive analysis of the major trends and developments in contemporary Israeli media.

Bruce Handy

Hollywood High

From a longtime Vanity Fair writer and editor, a delightfully entertaining, intelligent, and illuminating history and tribute to teen movies---from Rebel Without a Cause to Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a…

Zachary Griffith

The Reflective Age

The Reflective Age investigates the cultural and political context that led to the nostalgia boom in American media of the 2010s, showing how films, TV shows, music, and literature of the period herald a …

Zachary Griffith

The Reflective Age

The Reflective Age investigates the cultural and political context that led to the nostalgia boom in American media of the 2010s, showing how films, TV shows, music, and literature of the period herald a …

Michael M Grynbaum

Empire of the Elite

From a New York Times media correspondent, a dishy history of the Condé Nast magazine empire, home of Vogue , Vanity Fair , The New Yorker, and more, focusing on its glitzy heyday from the 1980s through t…

Barbara Selznick

Tv's American Dream

"TV's American Dream examines how the U.S. television industry in the 2010s pursued audiences whose ideas about hope, fairness, work, and economic class were shaped by the Great Recession. Each chapt…

James Reichert

Literature for the Masses

Literature for the Masses is the first English-language book on popular stories known in Japan alternatively as period fiction or mass literature. It highlights the important cultural and ideological work…

Javaria Farooqui,

Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan: Reading the Regency

"Sitting at the intersection of literary studies, genre studies, and fan studies, Romance Fandom in 21st-Century Pakistan considers the reception of Anglophone romance fiction by reading communities …

Designing the BBC

Drawing on unique archival material, Designing the BBC provides an illuminating insight into over 50 years of the history and work of the BBC Television Graphic Design department, and evaluates its cultur…

David Contosta

The Survival of American Democracy

David Contosta provides a timely, historical analysis of threats to American democracy and how to protect the United States from future abuses of presidential power.Tracing how presidency has changed sinc…

Poison and the Popular Imagination

Bringing together the work of international scholars, this book investigates the well-known conceptualization of poison as connected to seemingly contrasting ideas of 'deviousness', 'insidiousness' and 'u…

Robin Andersen

The Complicit Lens

A media scholar examines how US establishment outlets echo Israeli narratives on Gaza, miminimizing atrocities like the Flour Massacre as "aid-related deaths" to whitewash genocide and excuse wa…

Peter Meineck

Tony Stark, Odysseus, and the Myths Behind Marvel

A fun and entertaining foray into Ancient Greek mythology through the lens of some of Marvel's most popular characters---including Iron Man, Black Widow, and Wolverine---and an investigation into why clas…

Sebastian Jagielski,

The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema

Departing from standard histories, this book draws on the theory of excess in film to provide a re-examination of Polish cinema history, following emancipatory impulses that emerged in Polish culture betw…

Dead Lord

Heads Held High

Ross Garner

Ranger Reboot

Examining Power Rangers , the long-running but frequently-maligned intellectual property, by treating it seriously and on its own terms, Ranger Reboot considers how forms of mediated nostalgia respond to,…

Funny Stuff

More than just gags and giggles, comedy is a powerful force, reflecting our hopes and fears, helping us understand social and political changes, and creating a shared national culture. In this book, histo…

Alison Peirse

Rewriting Television

Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studi…