A third edition of this book is now available. Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this concise and insightful book explores the ways American popular p

“Analyzes how ideas about economics and political philosophy find their way into everything from Star Trek to Malcolm in the Middle.” —Wall Street Journal

Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understandin

"Cantor demonstrates how, during the 1960s, Gilligan's Island and Star Trek reflected America's faith in liberal democracy and our willingness to project it uni

DIVAn examination of the increased presence of Japanese media and popluar culture in the rest of Asia and the way it has transformed Japanese self-understanding