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Publisher
itbooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An exploration of the origins of sexual expression in popular culture from 1968 to 1973 places the writers, producers, and actors responsible for creating these controversial works within their cultural and social frameworks.
Author
Series
Gonzo papers volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Brings together a selection of the legendary American journalist's articles on subjects ranging from the Super Bowl to Watergate, from Hemingway to Brando, and from sharks to drugs
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Cool'. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. 'The Origins of Cool in Postwar America' uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--
From the New York Times bestselling author of But What if We're Wrong", a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between,...
Author
Publisher
Strange Attractor Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A study of the spiritual provocations found in the work of Philip Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, this book charts the emergence of a new psychedelic worldview out of the American counterculture of the seventies. These three visionaries changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experience reality - but how did their own writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America during one...
Publisher
Soho Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In The Soho Press Book of '80s Short Fiction, editor Dale Peck offers readers a fresh take on a seminal period in American history, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Cold War was rushing to its conclusion, and literature was searching for ways to move beyond the postmodern unease of the 1970s. Morally charged by newly politicized notions of identity but fraught with anxiety about a body whose fragility had been freshly emphasized by the AIDS...
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