Category: Popular Culture

By Gray et al

ISBN-10: 0203357078

ISBN-13: 9780203357071

ISBN-10: 0415324416

ISBN-13: 9780415324410

This selection of vintage essays specializes in the theoretical frameworks that trained the paintings of the Centre for modern Cultural experiences on the college of Birmingham, the methodologies and dealing practices that the Centre built for engaging in educational study and examples of the reviews conducted below the auspices of the Centre. This quantity is divided into seven thematic sections that are brought by means of key lecturers operating within the box of cultural stories, and encompasses a preface by means of eminent student, Stuart corridor. The thematic sections are: Literature and Society pop culture and early life way of life Media Women's reports and Feminism Race historical past schooling and paintings.

By David Baggett, Philip Tallon

ISBN-10: 0813136717

ISBN-13: 9780813136714

Arguably the main recognized and famous detective in historical past, Sherlock Holmes is taken into account by way of many to be the 1st pop icon of the fashionable age. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective has stood as a distinct determine for greater than a century together with his reliance on logical rigor, his analytic precision, and his omit of social mores. a real vintage, the Sherlock Holmes personality maintains to entertain twenty-first-century audiences at the web page, level, and screen.

In The Philosophy of Sherlock Holmes, a staff of major students use the liked personality as a window into the quandaries of lifestyles, from questions of truth to the hunt for wisdom. The essays discover the sleuth's function in revealing many of the world's such a lot primary philosophical concerns, discussing topics comparable to the character of deception, the teachings enemies can train us, Holmes's personal strength for illegal activity, and the detective's detailed yet powerful type of inductive reasoning. Emphasizing the philosophical debates raised by way of generations of committed lovers, this exciting quantity could be of curiosity to philosophers and Holmes lovers alike.

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By R. Rashotte

ISBN-10: 1137489243

ISBN-13: 9781137489241

ISBN-10: 134950551X

ISBN-13: 9781349505517

This booklet offers the 1st finished learn of narco cinema, a cross-border exploitation cinema that has been instrumental in shaping narco-culture in Mexico and the U.S. borderlands. deciding on classics in its immense catalogue and reading decide on movies at size, Rashotte outlines the genre's historical past and aesthetic standards.

By Jorge J. E. Gracia

ISBN-10: 0812698126

ISBN-13: 9780812698121

Mel Gibson's the eagerness of the Christ has develop into some of the most arguable movies ever made, and it really is already a blockbuster of cinematography. Its defenders passionately regard it as some of the most relocating and influential items of spiritual paintings ever created. yet its detractors argue with related vehemence that the violence and gore it includes, its alleged anti-Semitism, a specific tackle the Christian message, and the inability of historic and Biblical accuracy, make it not anything greater than a type of political propaganda. Father Thomas Rosica hailed as one of many nice masterpieces of spiritual paintings, however the secular humanist Paul Kurtz thinks of it as a political weapon within the fingers of the non secular correct. movie critics are divided of their judgment, giving the movie anyplace from no stars to 5 stars. despite what one thinks of the movie, in spite of the fact that, its influence either own and social is past query.

By Graham Stewart

ISBN-10: 1782391371

ISBN-13: 9781782391371

Britain within the Nineteen Eighties was once a polarized kingdom. With the 2 major political events as some distance aside as at any time because the Thirties, the interval used to be riven through violent disagreement, starting with the explosion of rioting that rocked England's towns in 1981 and back in 1985; a year-long struggle with the nationwide Union of Mineworkers, after which with print employees in Wapping. there has been the battle to retake the Falkland Islands and the re-escalation of the concerns in Northern eire, which started with starvation moves and peaked with the try and assassinate the total cupboard within the Brighton bombing. It used to be additionally a decade of political innovation - within the lifestyles and demise of the Social Democratic get together, the mass privatization of state-owned industries, the sale of council homes and the deregulation of economic markets - and cultural ferment, with the increase and fall of indie pop, the emergence of residence tune, Channel four and the expansion of different comedy; and Prince Charles's interventions on structure. Graham Stewart's superb and accomplished background of the eighties covers these kinds of occasions, and plenty of extra, with exhilarating verve and element, and in addition examines the legacy of a decade that sowed the seeds of contemporary Britain.

By Shaun P. Young

ISBN-10: 0812697995

ISBN-13: 9780812697995

In view that its debut in 1964, Jeopardy! has been one in every of America’s favourite and longest-running daylight hours quiz indicates. It turns the question-answer structure of conventional quiz exhibits on its head and calls for contestants to pose right inquiries to solutions in chosen different types. whereas mining info and evidence from Alchemy to Zoology, Jeopardy!, is a uniquely highbrow, erudite, and hard sunlight hours tv application. a ways past enjoyable its fanatics with nail-biting contests of data, reminiscence, and pace, all of it yet calls for them to take part. Few humans watch Jeopardy! with out urgent an invisible button and blurting out inquiries to their television screen.

Because of this own and highbrow funding, such a lot Jeopardy! enthusiasts are religious. staring at the exhibit is valued as a regular ritual within which real highbrow ability and encyclopedic wisdom (as against skinny Hollywood depictions corresponding to these in Big Bang Theory or Rain Man) should not in basic terms revered and positioned within the highlight, but additionally rewarded with nationwide status and prize winnings. Champion Ken Jennings (who contributes to this quantity) has received over 3 million funds and remained champion seventy-four instances. if you embody Jeopardy! as an highbrow oasis within the arid wasteland of pop culture, it's the geeks who shall inherit the earth.

Jeopardy!’s social gathering of mind and forward-thinking is easily famous all through pop culture and between all age teams. Ken Jennings, Chuck Forrest, and different all-time champions are close to celebrities, whereas the express itself usually reaches out via distinctive tournaments to various segments of yankee tradition, resembling actors and musicians (Celebrity Jeopardy!), high-school and faculty scholars (Teen event and faculty Championship Jeopardy!) and senior voters (Senior match Jeopardy!). nonetheless, regardless of its frequent appreciate and, a few may well bitch, conceited self-respect, neither the exhibit nor its lovers take themselves too heavily. Jokes approximately host Alex Trebek’s hair and well-known parodies of Jeopardy! on Saturday evening Live are as commonly used as bizarre Al Yankovic’s MTV-mainstay “I misplaced on Jeopardy!” (to the music of “Our Love’s in Jeopardy”):

Don't comprehend what i used to be thinkin' of,
I wager I simply wasn't too bright.
Well, I convinced wish I do better
Next weekend on The fee Is Right.

By Wiley L. Umphlett

ISBN-10: 0313284040

ISBN-13: 9780313284045

John W. Heisman (1869-1936) used to be a guy of many faces whose public photograph has suffered from a subtle, enigmatic, and regularly misunderstood inner most character. given that his loss of life the preferred reception of the memorial trophy named in his honor has additionally obscured his identification. In singling out his many cutting edge contributions to the advance of intercollegiate soccer, this publication makes an attempt to provide a real photograph of Heisman as either guy and trainer. simply because he coached at colleges in the course of the kingdom in the course of one of the most eventful years in our background, Heisman's lifestyles pertains to major political, monetary, and social advancements that impacted on American society in addition to activities. even if, this publication is far greater than the tale of John Heisman's 36-year training occupation. it's also the tale of ways an indigenous American public ritual--the monstrous Game---came approximately and the way university soccer advanced into the complicated, difficult, and hugely based enormous enterprise that it's this day.

By D. E. Wittkower

ISBN-10: 0812696514

ISBN-13: 9780812696516

The iPod is reworking the lives of thousands, altering their dating to tune and to one another. In iPod and Philosophy, 18 philosophers with different specialties and issues of view deliver their services to undergo in this foreign cultural phenomenon. They discover such questions as how members turn into outlined through their iPods, what the shuffle function says in regards to the position of randomness in people's lives, and masses extra.

By Jerry L. Walls, Gregory Bassham

ISBN-10: 0813191866

ISBN-13: 9780813191867

What can the movie Hoosiers train us in regards to the which means of existence? How can historic japanese knowledge traditions, akin to Taoism and Zen Buddhism, increase our jump-shots? What can the "Zen Master" (Phil Jackson) and the "Big Aristotle" (Shaquille O'Neal) educate us approximately sustained excellence and good fortune? Is women's basketball "better" basketball? How, ethically, may still one take care of a strategic cheater in pickup basketball? With NBA and NCAA staff rosters always altering, what does it suggest to play for the "same team"? What can training legends Dean Smith, Rick Pitino, Pat Summitt, and Mike Krzyzewski train us approximately personality, success, and pageant? What makes basketball this kind of attractive video game to observe and play?

Basketball is now the most well-liked group activity within the usa; every year, greater than 50 million american citizens attend collage and professional basketball video games. while Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, first nailed peach baskets on the contrary ends of a Springfield, Massachusetts, health club in 1891, he had little inspiration of the way completely the sport could form American -- and foreign -- tradition. Hoops superstars corresponding to Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Yao Ming at the moment are immediately well-known celebrities all around the planet. So what can a bunch of philosophers upload to the certainty of basketball? it's a particularly uncomplicated online game, yet as Kant and Dennis Rodman loved to claim, appearances will be deceiving. trainer Phil Jackson actively makes use of philosophy to enhance participant functionality and to encourage and encourage his workforce and his fellow coaches, either off and on the court docket. Jackson has built-in philosophy into his training and his own existence so completely that it is usually tricky to tell apart his position as a basketball trainer from his position as a philosophical advisor and mentor to his gamers.

In Basketball and Philosophy, a Dream crew of twenty-six basketball lovers, such a lot of whom additionally occur to be philosophers, proves that basketball is the considering person's activity. they appear at what occurs while the Tao meets the hardwood as they discover the teamwork, endurance, selflessness, and balanced and harmonious motion that make up the artwork of enjoying basketball.

By Rebecca Housel, George A. Dunn

ISBN-10: 1118119304

ISBN-13: 9781118119303

The 1st examine the philosophical matters at the back of Charlaine Harris's New York Times bestsellers The Southern Vampire Mysteries and the True Blood tv series.

Teeming with complicated, legendary characters within the form of vampires, telepaths, shapeshifters, and so on, True Blood, the preferred HBO sequence tailored from Charlaine Harris's bestselling The Southern Vampire Mysteries, has a wealthy choice of topics to discover, from intercourse and romance to bigotry and violence to demise and immortality. The goings-on within the legendary city of Bon Temps, Louisiana, the place vampires satiate their blood lust and overtly commingle with usual people, current no shortages of juicy metaphysical morsels to sink your enamel into.

Now True Blood and Philosophy calls at the minds of a few of history's nice thinkers to accomplish a few philosophical bloodletting on such themes as Sookie and the metaphysics of mindreading; Maryann and sacrificial faith; werewolves, shapeshifters and private id; vampire politics, evil, wish, and masses more.

• the 1st booklet to discover the philosophical concerns and subject matters in the back of the True Blood novels and tv series
• provides a brand new measurement in your realizing of True Blood characters and themes
• definitely the right spouse to the beginning of the 3rd season on HBO and the discharge of the second one season on DVD

Smart and entertaining, real Blood and Philosophy presents food—or blood—for inspiration, and a enjoyable, new approach to examine the sequence.