Book interviews tagged Pop Culture
Beautiful Monsters: Imagining the Classic in Musical Media
- ISBN: 978 0 520 22897 9 hc
- featured in: How we experience a stylistically unpredictable, mass-mediated aural worldFebruary 20, 2009
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas: A Brief Romance
- ISBN: 978 0 292 71877 7
- featured in: Charting the latest development in Israeli cultural historyApril 21, 2009
Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero
- ISBN: 978 0801890635
- featured in: A background in kinesiology and neuroscience, many years training in martial arts and an interest in comic booksMay 27, 2009
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
- ISBN: 978 0 19 534205 5
- featured in: Appreciating what we might call the feminist mainstreamMay 29, 2009
Your Brain on Latino Comics: From Gus Arriola to Los Bros Hernandez
- ISBN: 978 0292719347 hb
- featured in: The Latino comic book in the United States todayJune 10, 2009
Invented Knowledge: False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
- ISBN: 978 1861894304
- featured in: The questions answered by the pseudo-historians are questions that a curious public frequently asksJuly 8, 2009
The Lie Detectors: The History of an American Obsession
- ISBN: 978 0803224599
- featured in: About turning the judgment of truth-telling over to a machineJuly 13, 2009
Cars for Comrades: The Life of the Soviet Automobile
- ISBN: 978 0801446382
- featured in: The Soviet automobile adapted to Soviet circumstances as much as it provoked adaptationAugust 3, 2009
On Tarzan
- ISBN: 978 0820332055
- featured in: Wanting to see if the pursuit of dilettantism and trivia can be intellectually fruitfulAugust 10, 2009
The Fun Factory: The Keystone Film Company and the Emergence of Mass Culture
- ISBN: 978 0520255388 pb
- featured in: The history of comedy is that of the changing social patterns that produce and permit laughterAugust 14, 2009
Hip-Hop Revolution: The Culture and Politics of Rap
- ISBN: 978 0 7006 1547 6 hb
- featured in: Laypeople will be surprised by the very diversity of the hip-hop communitySeptember 30, 2009
1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About
- ISBN: 978 0520252554
- featured in: I am not smashing together the high and the low just because I canFebruary 24, 2010
Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
- ISBN: 978 0393066753
- featured in: The Disco 1970s were, in fact, the combustible yearsMarch 29, 2010
