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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.24 — 24,359 ratings — published 1988
It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,155 ratings — published 2022
The 2000s Made Me Gay: Essays on Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,602 ratings — published 2021
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.17 — 38,215 ratings — published 1985
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,147 ratings — published 1992
Scream With Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism, 1968-1980 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,141 ratings — published 2025
Your Favorite Scary Movie: How the Scream Films Rewrote the Rules of Horror (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.38 — 2,876 ratings — published 2025
From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.82 — 637 ratings — published 1974
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,425 ratings — published 1961
Barbie Forever: Her Inspiration, History, and Legacy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 178 ratings — published 2019
Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,146 ratings — published 2023
The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,583 ratings — published 2023
Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,642 ratings — published 2011
Moonlighting: An Oral History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 209 ratings — published
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 116,923 ratings — published 2021
Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,578 ratings — published 2023
Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,387 ratings — published 2022
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.69 — 21,785 ratings — published 2023
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.89 — 13,873 ratings — published 2020
Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,702 ratings — published 2023
Iron Man and Philosophy: Facing the Stark Reality (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.66 — 172 ratings — published 2010
Watchmen and Philosophy: A Rorschach Test (The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.75 — 811 ratings — published 2009
Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.32 — 5,063 ratings — published 2022
Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled (Popular Culture Psychology Volume 8)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.02 — 237 ratings — published 2017
The Weird and the Eerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,412 ratings — published 2016
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,727 ratings — published 2014
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.94 — 434,981 ratings — published 1972
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,387 ratings — published 1967
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,164 ratings — published 1964
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Myth, Metaphor & Morality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.31 — 297 ratings — published 2013
Into Every Generation a Slayer Is Born: How Buffy Staked Our Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,872 ratings — published 2022
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People – The National Book Award Winner's Cultural Meditation on Race, Blues, and Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,009 ratings — published 2025
Killing Is Harmless: A Critical Reading of Spec Ops: The Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.00 — 334 ratings — published 2012
The Future of the Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.24 — 17 ratings — published
Working Days: The Journals of The Grapes of Wrath (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 788 ratings — published 1989
Why We Love (and Hate) Twilight: The Highs and Lows of the Twilight Saga (Twilight Fandom Book, Fantasy Love Books)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,052 ratings — published
It Used to be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.04 — 27 ratings — published
Mediensoziologie (German Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2014
What Is Wrong with Men: Patriarchy, the Crisis of Masculinity, and How (Of Course) Michael Douglas Films Explain Everything
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.87 — 329 ratings — published
Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.25 — 85 ratings — published 2025
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.03 — 32 ratings — published 1998
Funny Because It's True: How The Onion Created Modern American News Satire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.62 — 411 ratings — published 2025
Blurb Your Enthusiasm: A Cracking Compendium of Book Blurbs, Writing Tips, Literary Folklore and Publishing Secrets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.12 — 349 ratings — published 2022
Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.51 — 295 ratings — published 2024
The Future of the Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.58 — 43 ratings — published
Scottish poetry;: A critical survey (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1955
Short Form: 40 Years of Music Videos, Ads, and the Art of Moving Images (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 3.59 — 468 ratings — published 2025
Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as media-analysis)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,520 ratings — published 2021
The Future of Survival (The Future Cinema Conference Series)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“I hate to break it to charlie, but no matter how hard an artist or entertainer tries to claim their work isn't political, it simply means their ignorant about the politics it perpetuates, their in denial about the politics it perpetrates, or.....(groans)”
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