Ditum, Sarah

Summary: A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, exploitative culture that took them down. Welcome to celebrity culture in the early aughts: the reign of Perez Hilton, celebrity sex tapes, and dueling tabloids fed by paparazzi who were willing to do anything to get the shot. It was a time when the Internet was still the Wild West, and when...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2024

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Billinghurst, Jane

Summary: Annotation . According to Jane Billinghurst, men created the idea of the temptress an irresistible woman bent on bringing them down to justify the fact that they so often surrender to women, especially in the bedroom. In this fascinating study, she examines this vision in history, mythology, in the Bible, artwork, and film. She traces the evolution of the temptress from an almost demonic...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Greystone Books 2003

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 BIL

Maine, Margo

Summary: ""The body is the canvas upon which women paint their secrets and self-doubt, their hopes and their dreams, their pain and their disappointments. Hair has historically played a central role in the battles for power, self-determination and autonomy-serving as a nonverbal language that represents women's lives. However, pain, anxiety, racism, sexism and rigid beauty standards can too often...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Toplight 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 391.5 MAI

Doonan, Simon

Summary: Paying homage to Lou Reed's groundbreaking album Transformer on its fiftieth anniversary, this first-hand account of the album's impact on the LGBTQIA+ community captures a pivotal moment when those long silenced were finally given a voice.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

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Brownstein, Ronald

Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BRO

Bingham, Clara

Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016

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Maloney, Alison.

Summary: "Bright young things is a perfect guide to the roaring twenties--hot jazz and hotter all-night dance halls, high society's scandalous exploits, fresh new fashions, Prohibition cocktails, costume parties, and of course, the notorious flapper. Decorated throughout with art deco illustrations and packaged in a beautiful foil-stamped case, this book looks stunning resting on a coffee table and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Potter Style 2013

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Reynolds, Simon

Summary: We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration, band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, remakes and sequels, tribute albums and mash-ups. But what happens when we run out of past? Are we heading toward a sort of cultural-ecological catastrophe where the archival stream of pop history has been exhausted? Simon...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Faber & Faber 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 REY

Cohen, Benyamin

Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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Lord, M. G.

Summary: A cultural critic and investigative journalist uncovers the full history of the Barbie doll, from her introduction in 1959 through countless transformations, makeovers and career changes to its emergence as an international pop culture icon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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Lepore, Jill

Summary: A history of American ideas about life and death discusses how the age of discovery, Darwin's theories of evolution, and the space age changed ideas about life on Earth.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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Klosterman, Chuck

Summary: "Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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Ronson, Jon

Summary: For the past three years, Jon Ronson has traveled the world meeting recipients of famous public shamings, often while their shamings are in full force. These are people like us--people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once a transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane, and the next thing they know,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) 2015

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Stadiem, William.

Summary: "In October 1958, Pan American World Airways began making regularly scheduled flights between New York and Paris, courtesy of its newly minted wonder jet, the Boeing 707. Almost overnight, the moneyed celebrities of the era made Europe their playground. At the same time, the dream of international travel came true for thousands of ordinary Americans who longed to emulate the "jet set"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.742 STA

National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Summary: "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 ENT

Gates, Henry Louis

Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 GAT

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Menand, Louis

Summary: "A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Berkowitz, Edward D.

Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER : In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only saw long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2006

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Zeitz, Joshua.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

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Hofler, Robert

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 HOF

Dickstein, Morris.

Summary: Shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photograhy, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 DIC

Kasson, John F.

Summary: Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black laborer's cabin in South Carolina to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC. A few years later her smile cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, SHIRLEY KAS

Rieppel, Lukas

Summary: A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest businesstycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.75 RIE