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  • Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism

    Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism

    $65.99

    Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Focusing on both fan behaviours and the impacts on tourism destinations, this book provides insights into this rapidly-growing phenomenon in Japan.

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  • Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television

    Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television

    $110.00

    This book offers 25 profiles of some of the most popular female action heroes throughout the history of film, television, comic books, and video games. Female action heroes, like other fictional characters, not only reveal a lot about society, but greatly influence individuals in society. It is no surprise that the gradual development and increase…

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    Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle

    $25.00

    Multicultural Comics: From Zap to Blue Beetle is the first comprehensive look at comic books by and about race and ethnicity. The thirteen essays tease out for the general reader the nuances of how such multicultural comics skillfully combine visual and verbal elements to tell richly compelling stories that gravitate around issues of race, ethnicity,…

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    Peterloo: The English Uprising

    $40.99

    On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter’s Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The ‘Peterloo massacre’, the subject of a…

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