This book is an attempt to provide all the information anybody could need to determine what it means to be a resident of Australia, what our national values might be and whether there is an average way of living here. You can tell a lot about a nation by the way it shops, talks, eats, laughs and entertains itself. That's the kind of detail you'll find in this book - our favourite movies, our political passions, our most popular products, our world records, our changing language... (the author)
The 'What's New'" magazine of science and technology. Covering the latest developments in cars, electronics, communications, tools, energy, aviation, science, space exploration and much more.
This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the key debates and future directions of this popular and contemporary field.
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritative guide offers an international perspective on the popular genre that explores all facets of its formative social, cultural and political context
Re-reading Popular Culture is an entertaining investigation of the meanings and value of popular culture today. It explores the theme of cultural citizenship by combining textual analysis and media reception theory to analyze popular culture.
Includes such contemporary issues as the rewriting of masculinity after the success of feminism, and the layers of meaning in semi-public and private talk of multiculturalism and ethnicity
Traces its topics across a variety of media forms and texts, including sports; detective fiction and police series; and children’s television and games
Clearly and accessibly written for the student, scholar, and general reader.
