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Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 black and white photos. BIC Classification: APT; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Plexus Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859654203
- ISBN
- 9780859654203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.01
€ 21.01
Hardcover. Contemporary culture is packed with fantasy and science fiction storyworlds extending across multiple media platforms. This book explores the myriad ways in which imaginary worlds use media like films, novels, videogames, comic books, toys and increasingly user-generated content to captivate and energise contemporary audiences. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APFN; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137306036
- ISBN
- 9781137306036
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 108.76
€ 108.76
Paperback. Includes stories of Indonesian women that have often been told by Indonesian men and Dutch men and women. This volume asks how these representations reproduced, transformed, and circulated in history, ethnography, and literature have circumscribed feminine behavior in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. Editor(s): Sears, Laurie J. Num Pages: 368 pages, 17 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780822316961
- ISBN
- 9780822316961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.41
€ 32.99
€ 31.41
Hardback. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813564487
- ISBN
- 9780813564487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 168.96
€ 168.96
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781479859498
- ISBN
- 9781479859498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
Hardback. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, this book traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification" - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 273 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 273
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- V9781479812981
- ISBN
- 9781479812981
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.05
€ 91.05
Hardback. This book is about cultural fantasies of fetishism, the different forms they take and the various ways in which the transformative processes they depict can reaffirm accepted definitions of identity or reconfigure them in an entirely new fashion. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFSJ; JMAL; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 198 x 254 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1034.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616169
- ISBN
- 9780748616169
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.94€ 101.60
€ 105.94
€ 101.60
Paperback. Explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. This book describes the nature and development of whole fan cultures, and focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 206
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629735
- ISBN
- 9780745629735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.17
€ 24.17
Hardback. In Fans: The Mirror of Consumption Cornel Sandvoss explores the social, cultural, and psychological premises and consequences of fan consumption. The scope of the book is impressive -- he looks not just at the nature and development of whole fan cultures, but also focuses on the experience and identity of the individual fan. Num Pages: 224 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745629728
- ISBN
- 9780745629728
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.81
€ 71.81
Paperback. Henry Jenkins' pioneering work in the early 1990s promoted the idea that fans are among the most active, creative, critically engaged, and socially connected consumers of popular culture. This title takes readers from Jenkins' early work defending fan culture against those who would marginalize or stigmatize it, through to his work. Num Pages: 279 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814742853
- ISBN
- 9780814742853
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 31.27
€ 32.99
€ 31.27
Hardback. Num Pages: 234 pages, 6 colour illustrations, 6 colour tables, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFFT; KNSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 447.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 234
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137501271
- ISBN
- 9781137501271
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.42
€ 150.42
Paperback. Examines Frantz Fanon's relevance to contemporary South African politics and by extension research on postcolonial Africa and the tragic development of postcolonies. Scholar Nigel C. Gibson offers theoretically informed historical analysis, providing insights into the circumstances that led to the current hegemony of neoliberalism in South Africa. Num Pages: 334 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1HFM; 3JJ; HBJH; HBTQ; JFSL3; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137414779
- ISBN
- 9781137414779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 68.04
€ 68.04
Hardback. * An outstanding introduction to the work of Franz Fanon, one of the most important and controversial thinkers of postwar period. * Fanon was an anti--colonial / postcolonial critic whose work spans across the political and academic disciplines of philosophy, psychiatry, social science, and literature. Series: Key Contemporary Thinkers. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: BG; HPS; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745622606
- ISBN
- 9780745622606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.28
€ 74.28
Paperback. Reprint of the Harvard U. Press edition of 1984 endorsed by BCL3 . Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 581.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252062490
- ISBN
- 9780252062490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.10
€ 27.99
€ 26.10
Paperback. As the author of "Evelina" and "Cecilia", both of which created new dimensions for the novel, Fanny Burney is as well remembered for her memoirs of Johnson, her mastectomy and her account of the Battle of Waterloo. This portrait of Burney paints a picture of this forward-looking woman. Num Pages: 112 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGH; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 182 x 125 x 0. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0020983
- ISBN
- 9781904095187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 28th April 1870. Fanny and Stella, the flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton, are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their oglings of the gentlemen in the stalls. Moments later they are led away by the police. What followed was a scandal that shocked Victorian England in equal measure. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BT; HBTB; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 32. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571231911
- ISBN
- 9780571231911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 5.70
€ 12.99
€ 5.70
Hardback. Editor(s): Cristie, James R. Num Pages: 348 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JKSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 186 x 25. Weight in Grams: 802.
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 348
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600213564
- ISBN
- 9781600213564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.44€ 109.87
€ 162.44
€ 109.87
Paperback. Gives us a key to understanding modern life in our increasingly mediated and globalized world Editor(s): Gray, Jonathan; Harrington, C. Lee; Sandvoss, Cornel. Num Pages: 412 pages, tables. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814731826
- ISBN
- 9780814731826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.14
€ 29.99
€ 29.14
Hardcover. Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVGP; AVH; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137393524
- ISBN
- 9781137393524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.39
€ 62.39
Paperback. Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world. Series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity. Num Pages: 210 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AB; AV; JFC; JFD; JHBK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349483600
- ISBN
- 9781349483600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 61.44
€ 61.44