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Culture Studies

Under a Bad Sign Criminal Self-Representation in African American Popular Culture

Munby Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226550367, ISBN: HB: 9780226550350, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
224 pp., 25x15 cm

What accounts for the persistence of the figure of the black criminal in popular culture created by African Americans? Unearthing the overlooked history of art that has often seemed at odds with the politics of civil rights and racial advancement, "U...

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Philadelphia Barrio The Arts, Branding, and Neighborhood Transformation

Wherry Frederick F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226894324, ISBN: HB: 9780226894317, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
208 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 7 tables, 23 halftones, 2 line illus.

How does a so-called bad neighborhood go about changing its reputation? Is it simply a matter of improving material conditions or picking the savviest marketing strategy? What kind of role can or should the arts play in that process? Does gentrificat...

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General

Culture Studies

Not Here, Not Now, Not That! Protest over Art and Culture in America

Tepper Steven J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226792873, ISBN: HB: 9780226792866, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
384 pp., 25x15 cm, 38 tables, 8 line illus.

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art...

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Culture Studies

Our Hero Superman on Earth

Haven Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780300171242, Yale University Press, June 2011
240 pp., 19.6x13 cm

Since his first appearance in "Action Comics" Number One, published in late spring of 1938, Superman has represented the essence of American heroism. "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, and able to leap tall buildings in...

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Culture Studies

Ghetto at the Center of the World Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong

Mathews Gordon

ISBN: PB: 9780226510200, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
256 pp., 25x15 cm, 2 maps, 30 halftones

There is nowhere else in the world quite like Chungking Mansions, a dilapidated seventeen-story commercial and residential structure in the heart of Hong Kong's tourist district. A remarkably motley group of people call the building home; Pakistani p...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Sahara A Cultural History

Gearon Eamonn

ISBN: PB: 9781904955825, Signal Books, June 2011
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and cam...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Lost Album A Visual History of 1050's Britain

Hyman Basil

ISBN: HB: 9781861543202, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, May 2011
240 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

"I had forgotten all about these photographs until recently when on my 70th birthday my wife presented me with an album she had treasured all through the years. This lost album of photographs contains the very essence of the 1950s for me" – Basil Hym...

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Culture Studies

Switching Codes Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Bartscherer Thomas, Coover Roderick

ISBN: PB: 9780226038315, ISBN: HB: 9780226038308, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
448 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 40 halftones, 4 line illus.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

On the Make The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

Grazian David

ISBN: PB: 9780226306728, ISBN: HB: 9780226305677, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
296 pp., 21.3x14.2 cm

David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons. Entertainment in the city has evolved into...

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Culture Studies

Chicago A Biography

Pacyga Dominic A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226644288, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
472 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 7 maps, 145 halftones

Chicago has been called by many names. Nelson Algren declared it a "City on the Make". Carl Sandburg dubbed it the "City of Big Shoulders". Upton Sinclair christened it "The Jungle", while New Yorkers, naturally, pronounced it "the Second City". At...

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