Overview :"If you ask men if they spend any time hiding, they usually look at you as if you're nuts. 'What, me hide?' But if you ask women whether men... Read More
Overview :Dreadful Pleasures takes a lively look at the stories that make our hair stand on end. James Twitchell examines the appeal of horror through... Read More
Overview :In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend t... Read More
Overview :Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles-... Read More
Overview :This study examines how the changes in publishing, movie making and television programming since the 1960s have affected taste, particularly... Read More
Overview :Luxury isn't just for the rich, says James B. Twitchell. Today you don't need a six-figure income to wear pashmina, drink a limited-edition... Read More
Overview :Branding has become so successful and so ubiquitous that even cultural institutions have embraced it. In this witty and trenchant social ana... Read More
Overview :We see them in flashing kaleidoscopes of colour and sound on television, splashes of neon on billboards, on glossy spreads in newspapers and... Read More
Overview :In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the cu... Read More
Overview :Economic downturns and terrorist attacks notwithstanding, America's love affair with luxury continues unabated. Over the last several years,... Read More