Just Cant Get Enough Toys Games And Other Stuff From The80s

Author : Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Publisher : Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1467710342
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fad Mania! written by Cynthia Overbeck Bix and published by Lerner Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College students crammed into phone booths. Couples dancing until they drop. Daredevils swallowing one live goldfish after another. Streakers dashing naked down the street. Planking and flash mobs and robotic pets. These are just some of the crazy fads that have caught hold in the United States over the last century. Where do these ideas come from and why do they catch people's imagination? Fads reflect the mood and spirit of a particular time, and they offer insight into a nation's culture. The 1950s, for example, was a time of economic prosperity and technological development. Americans expressed their delight in new inventions in many creative ways. One popular craze on college campuses was to stuff as many people as possible into a phone booth. On one campus, twenty-five people managed to squeeze into a single booth! In earlier decades, marked by the Depression and World War II, dance marathon frenzy caught on. Promoters lured couples with promises of fame and monetary prizes for those who could dance for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of hours. And great ideas never die. Almost one hundred years later, dance marathons came back. One creative variation, the flash mob dance, attracts spontaneous performances that range from flash mob wedding dances to ?Gangnam Style" K-Pop flash mobs in cities all over the world. Fad Mania! explores a century of American crazes, offering an entertaining and informative look at the major historical events of each decade and the fads that defined them. As you learn more about smiley buttons and Webkinz, you may just be able to predict this decade's next craze!

Author : Alan McKee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317979184
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entertainment Industries written by Alan McKee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertainment Industries is the first book to map entertainment as a cultural system. Including work from world-renowned analysts such as Henry Jenkins and Jonathan Gray, this innovative collection explains what entertainment is and how it works. Entertainment is audience-centred culture. The Entertainment Industries are a uniquely interdisciplinary collection of evolving businesses that openly monitor evolving cultural trends and work within them. The producers of entertainment – central to that practice– are the new artists. They understand audiences and combine creative, business and legal skills in order to produce cultural products that cater to them. Entertainment Industries describes the characteristics of entertainment, the systems that produce it, and the role of producers and audiences in its development, as well as explaining the importance of this area of study, and how it might be better integrated into Universities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies.

Author : Matthew Robinson
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810994331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Can't Get Enough written by Matthew Robinson and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2007-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alf -- The baby-sitters club -- Back to school (scratch n' sniff stickers/trapper keeper) -- Cabbage Patch Kids -- Care Bears -- Choose your own adventure -- Crossbows & catapults -- Ewok Village -- Garbage Pail Kids -- G.I. Joe's U.S.S. Flagg -- Girl talk -- Guess who? -- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe -- Hit stix -- Hungry, Hungry Hippos -- Judy Blume -- Lite Brite -- M.A.S.K. -- Madballs -- Mall madness -- M.U.S.C.L.E. Men -- My Lttle Pony -- My Buddy/Kid Sister -- Pogo Ball -- Rainbow Brite -- Scary stories to tell in the dark -- She-Ra -- Strawberry Shortcake -- Thundercats -- Transformers -- Voltron -- World wrestling.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Best Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Life magazine empowers men to continually improve their physical, emotional and financial well-being to better enjoy the most rewarding years of their life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-03-26 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.

Author : R. Carson Mataxis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996578608
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collecting the Art of G. I. Joe written by R. Carson Mataxis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 62 page 8"x11" celebration of the painted art of G.I.Joe: A Real American Hero features every carded figure, vehicle, playset, poster and peripheral product featuring painted art released from 1982-1983. This soft cover book features 100# paper and an epic card stock AccuFoil 11"x16" wraparound cover!

Author : Simon Spence
Publisher : Jawbone Press
ISBN 13 : 9781906002565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Can't Get Enough written by Simon Spence and published by Jawbone Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody who saw Depeche Mode in 1980 could have predicted that those four fresh-faced, synth-pop innocents would transform themselves into stadium-filling rock gods within a few years. Yet Depeche Mode went on to become one of the ten bestselling British acts of all-time, ranked alongside such exalted company as The Beatles, the Stones, Led Zeppelin, and David Bowie. And, after three decades together, the group continues to thrive, both critically and commercially. In Just Can't Get Enough, published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the group's debut album, Speak & Spell, author Simon Spence charts that transformation. From a tiny nightclub residency in their native Essex to facing tens of thousands in huge stadiums in Europe and America in the mid 80s, Spence examines a musical journey that took the band from early 'ultra-pop' hit singles to the stark Black Celebration album. Hailing from Basildon, an experimental post-war New Town, the all-electronic Depeche Mode were, in the words of singer Dave Gahan, a "new sort of band from a new sort of town". And Basildon itself, Spence argues, defined them - its brutal Modernist architecture imposed on a rural landscape dotted with primitive shacks a mirror for the angular sound and dark loneliness of the band's music. Part musical odyssey, part cultural history, Spence draws on dozens of firsthand interviews to give us an inside view of one of the most unlikely stories in pop and rock.

Author : Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101515996
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? written by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you owe a couple cavities to Marathon candy bars, learned your adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock!, and can still imitate the slo-mo bionic running sound of The Six Million Dollar Man, this book is for you. Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? takes you back in time to the tastes, smells, and sounds of childhood in the '70s and '80s, when the Mystery Date board game didn't seem sexist, and exploding Pop Rocks was the epitome of candy science. But what happened to the toys, tastes, and trends of our youth? Some vanished totally, like Freakies cereal. Some stayed around, but faded from the spotlight, like Sea-Monkeys and Shrinky Dinks. Some were yanked from the market, revised, and reintroduced...but you'll have to read the book to find out which ones. So flip up the collar of that polo shirt and revisit with us the glory and the shame of those goofy decades only a native could love.

Author : Steven Blush
Publisher : Feral House
ISBN 13 : 193259518X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Hair Metal written by Steven Blush and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extravagant visual tribute to the spandex, rouge and eyeliner days of 80s glam rock glory. Colour photographs, interviews, lyrics and keepsakes of the uninhibited teased-hair days of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Steven Blush edited the successful punk rock history American Hardcore (Feral House) and also wrote the screenplay to the feature-length documentary of the same name that debuted at Sundance and will be distributed by Sony Pictures Classics.