Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood


America is a corporatized society defined by our culture of consumerism. One of the groups most targeted by corporations is children and youth. TV, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and fast food are all directed specifically at consumers under 18. By marketing directly to kids, advertisers have produced a “kinderculture.” The first edition of Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood created a discourse that exposed the lack of understanding, ed… More >>

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Theater, Aristocracy, and Pornocracy: The Orgy Calculus


In this book about the secret pornographic theaters of pre-Revolutionary Paris, Karl Toepfer illuminates a much neglected topic with an imaginative study of speech, the body, and ecstasy in varying performance modes…. More >>

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Waiting for the Sun


Barney Hoskyns’s glorious landscape portrait of Los Angeles and its music is at once broad in its reach and deep in its research. The definitive story of a dysfunctional artists’ community, Waiting for the Sun begins its journey in the jazz joints of Central Avenue in the 1940s, and comes to a halt with a chilling image of 1990s hip-hop LA annihilated by its own attitude–and wondering which phoenixes will arise from its ashes. Along the way we encounter Chet Bake… More >>

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