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Star struck : an encyclopedia of celebrity culture /
Published 2010An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Living with Star Trek American culture and the Star Trek universe /
Published 2007Subjects: “…Star Trek fiction Social aspects United States.…”
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Lone star pasts memory and history in Texas /
Published 2007An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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From stars to stalagmites how everything connects /
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The fate of Texas the Civil War and the Lone Star State /
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Hollywood stardom
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Star business. The symbolic commerce of Hollywood stardom -- Star-as-brand -- The extraordinary ordinariness of Tom Hanks -- Star system. …”
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To hell and back : the last train from Hiroshima /
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…The killing star -- Gojira's egg -- Setsuko -- And the rest were neutrinos -- The crazy iris -- Kaiten and the faithful elephants -- A vapor in the heavens -- Threads -- Testament -- Legacy.…”
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Flesh wounds the culture of cosmetic surgery /
Published 2003Table of Contents: “…The patient's body -- Untouchable bodies -- The plastic surgeon and the patient: a slow dance -- Frankenstein gets a facelift -- As if beauty -- The monster and the movie star -- Being and having: celebrity culture and the wages of love -- Addicted to surgery.…”
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Monsters of the Gévaudan the making of a beast /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The beast and its world -- Sounding the alarm -- Monsters real and imagined -- Digesting defeat -- A star is born -- The perils of publicity -- Heroes and skeptics -- Exaggerated expectations and extraordinary endings -- Narrative echoes past and present -- Conclusion: The beast in history -- Note on place names.…”
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Wiki at war conflict in a socially networked world /
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Prologue: Mad scientists and fighter pilots -- Mongols and mullahs -- Star Trek and superhighways -- Dragons, bears, cutthroats, and criminals -- Keystone Cops and the fog of war -- Cheerleaders, pornographers, and unemployed engineers -- Anciens régimes and the government after next -- Weird science and dark horizons -- Epilogue: The art of war and wiki war.…”
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The porning of America the rise of porn culture, what it means, and where we go from here /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Normalizing the marginal -- A nation of porn stars -- Popping Rosie's rivets : porn in the good old days -- Porn exemplars : advancing the front lines of porn -- Would you like porn with that burger? …”
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Evita, inevitably : performing Argentina's female icons before and after Eva Perón /
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Evita at the intersections of Argentine femiconicity, nation, and performance -- Camila O'Gorman and the making of an Argentine femicon -- The (many, many) lives of Evita Perón -- Performing Evita's afterlives -- Argentine Madonnas, pop stars, and performances of immediacy and virtuality -- Conclusion: Toward a complicated understanding of Eva Perón and Argentine femiconity in performance.…”
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Progressive country : how the 1970s transformed the Texan in popular culture /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Too much ain't enough," or, The Texan in the late twentieth century -- The empire of Texas : Lone Star regionalism sets the stage, 1936-1968 -- Home with the armadillo : Austin's progressive country music scene -- This new cross between Baba Ram Dass and Sam Bass : cosmic cowboydom and the 1970s -- The vanishing Texan : the party of the fathers realigns -- You a real cowboy? …”
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Upheaval in Charleston earthquake and murder on the eve of Jim Crow /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…-- A world turned upside down -- The earthquake hunters -- Aftershocks -- An angry God -- Labor Day -- "Bury the dead and feed the living" -- The comforts of science -- Relief -- Waiting for the apocalypse -- Rising from the ruins -- The old joy of combat -- Wrapped in the stars and stripes -- Fault lines -- Standing over a volcano -- Killing Captain Dawson -- The trial -- Epilogue : rebuilding the walls.…”
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Visualising skyscapes : material forms of cultural engagement with the heavens /
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Foreword: Facing the sky / Professor Gabriel Cooney -- Skyscape archaeology : the place of the sky in the academy / Liz Henty -- Visualising skyscapes : GIS-based 3D modelling and astronomical simulation / Georg Zotti -- On measurement, uncertainty and maximum likelihood in skyscape archaeology / Fabio Silva -- The dark sky character of archaeological landscapes : cultural meaning and conservation strategies / Frank Prendergast -- The phenomenology of star phases and their role in considering skyscapes / Bernadette Brady -- Toads turning time : verifying visualisations of the sanctuary (Avebury, Wiltshire) by inter-disciplinary method / Lionel Sims -- Linsmeau early Bronze Age structure showing a possible astronomical intent / Frédéric Heller, Frédéric Broes and Georg Zotti -- Time pursued by a bear : Ursa Major and stellar time-telling in the Paduan Salone / Darrelyn Gunzburg -- Visualisation of the sky in traditional cultures of Eurasia and its ancient representations / Emília Pásztor -- The square kilometre array art exhibition / Jarita Holbrook -- A brief account of three millennia of Chinese preoccupation with the skyscape / David W. …”
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South Asian media cultures audiences, representations, contexts /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Naqvi -- Forgetting to remember : the privatisation of the public, the economization of Hindutva, and the medialisation of genocide / Britta Ohm -- Myth - the national form : Mission Istanbul and Muslim representation in Hindi popular cinema / Noorel Mecklai -- A peace of soap : representations of peace and conflict in popular teledramas in Sri Lanka / Neluka Silva -- Destigmatising star texts - honour and shame among Muslim women in Pakistani cinema / Irna Qureshi -- Through the lens of a 'branded criminal' : the politics of marginal cinema in India / Rashmi Sawhney -- Pakistani students' uses of new media to construct a arrative of dissent / Saman Talib -- Expanding the art of the possible : leveraging citizen journalism and user generated content (USG) for peace in Sri Lanka / Sanjana Hattotuwa -- Conclusion / Shakuntala Banaji.…”
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