Ian Gordon
Biographic Data
| ID | 132107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Gordon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Gordon |
| SIGNATURE | GORDON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5958-0861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Chiquinho e Buster Brown: Tiras e globalização no início do Século XX
Examina os primeiros dez anos da tira As Desventuras do Chiquinho. Para tal, traça suas conexões com a tira Buster Brown e detalha como a versão brasileira transcendeu o original estadunidense. Buster Brown apareceu em outros países além dos Estados Unidos, mas em nenhum outro lugar ele se desenvolveu além do personagem original - e somente no Brasil um personagem derivado de Buster Brown foi além da obra que o inspirou e se tornou um ícone nacio…
Desegregating Comics: Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics
Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to representations of race, an era when the few Black characters appeared as brutal savages, devious witch doctors, or unintelligible minstrels. Yet the true portrait is more complex and reveals that even as caricatures predominated, some Golden Age comics creators offered more progressive and nuanced depictions of Black people. Desegregating Comics …
All New, All Different? A History of Race and the American Superhero
The superheroes that currently account for so much bandwidth in the American mediascape originated in the 1930s and draw on a variety of forms and traditions, from pulps to comic strips. Tales of these heroes, often progressive in tone in keeping with the New Deal, nonetheless replicated and reproduced the discourse of race in America. This book by Allan W. Austin and Patrick L. Hamilton catalogs the extent and variety of ways superhero stories e…
Superhero Symbol: Media, Culture, and Politics
""As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol... as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting". In the 2005 reboot of the then dormant Batman film franchise, Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne articulates how the figure of the superhero can serve as a transcendent icon. It is hard to imagine a time when superheroes have been more pervasive in our culture. Today, superheroes are intellectual property je…
The role of music-based parent-child play activities in supporting social engagement with children on the autism spectrum: A content analysis of parent interviews
Play skills in children on the autism spectrum have been observed to be different to their typically developing peers ever since autism was first formally identified. While the importance of play in child development is well recognised, there is limited research exploring the developmental benefits of different modes of play. This study aimed to explore parents' perspectives of the quality of their child's social engagement in music-play compared…
The Australian longitudinal study on male health sampling design and survey weighting: Implications for analysis and interpretation of clustered data
The extent to which the Ten to Men sampling design is accounted for in any analysis of the baseline data will depend on the research question. When the goals of the analysis are to estimate the prevalence of a disease or risk factor in the population or the magnitude of a population-level exposure-outcome association, our advice is to adopt an analysis that respects the sampling design
The Australian longitudinal study on male health-methods
Ten to Men is a unique resource for investigating male health and wellbeing. Wave 1 data are available for approved research projects
Refiguring media: Tee shirts as a site of audience engagement with superheroes
In the last 20 years or so, new forms of media have resulted in new forms of engagement with media in general. The production and distribution of older forms of media have also undergone a transformation. Sales of the superhero genre of comic books have waned considerably even as advances in computer-generated imagery (CGI) have helped carry the spectacular imaginative events from their worlds to the screen. In this environment tee shirts have be…
Introduction to the special issue “Cultural industries and transmedia in a time of convergence: Modes of engagement and participation”
Our special issue offers studies of specific instances of transmedia. On the one hand, one set of studies looks at the different strategies media corporations have adopted for engaging audiences. On the other hand, another set of studies looks at media users' negotiations of the transmedia landscape. The collection as a whole brings together perspectives from history, communication, media studies, linguistics, STS (science and technology studies)…
Urban Escalators and Interregional Elevators: The Difference that Location, Mobility, and Sectoral Specialisation Make to Occupational Progression
This paper uses evidence from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales to examine the influence on occupational advancement of the city-region of residence (an escalator effect) and of relocation between city-regions (an elevator effect). It shows both effects to be substantively important, though less so than the sector of employment. Elevator effects are found to be associated with moves from slacker to tighter regional labour markets. Esca…
Ian Molho (1986) Theories of Migration: A Review – Commentary to Accompany Republished Version in Scottish Journal of Political Economy Jubilee Issue
Film and Comic Books
Let Us Not Call Them Graphic Novels
This article examines some recent graphic novels and argues that they should be called comic books. Gordon evaluates the success of different artists at matching the style of art to the subject represented, discusses the representational and narrative possibilities of the comic form, and points to some flat moments in otherwise fine historical works
Read from the Left: Review of Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Research Article| September 01 2008 Read from the Left: Review of Wobblies: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World Ian Gordon Ian Gordon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2008) 5 (3): 9–12. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2008-002 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ian Gordon; Read from the Left: Review of Wobblies: A Graphic History …
Academics Behaving Badly
Book Review| March 01 2008 Academics Behaving Badly The Disappearing Liberal IntellectualEric Lott, New YorkBasic Books2006 272$26.00/£15.99HB 0-465-04186-8Absent Minds: Intellectuals in BritainStefan Collini, OxfordOxford University Press2006 526$45.00/£25.00HB 0-199-29105-2 Ian Gordon Ian Gordon Author InformationIAN GORDON IS A CULTURAL AND INTELLECTUAL HISTORIAN AT THE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE. HIS MOST RECENT PUBLICATION IS FILM AND …
Education, Location, Education: A Spatial Analysis of English Secondary School Public Examination Results
To complement analyses of how education affects locational outcomes in labour and housing markets, this paper investigates the impact of location (at neighbourhood and sub-regional scales) on English secondary school public exam results. This is explored both in terms of grades/points achieved by pupils and official attributions of 'value added', which have been related to sets of both school and area characteristics, including proximities to pre…
Block Buster Art House: Meets Superhero Comic, or Meets Graphic Novel?: The Contradictory Relationship between Film and Comic Art
This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects and subsequent implications will be discussed
Urban Size, Spatial Segregation and Inequality in Educational Outcomes
Assumptions about the role of neighbourhood effects are increasingly built into urban policies, particularly in relation to the role of spatial concentrations of disadvantage in perpetuating inequality and social exclusion. Nevertheless, hard evidence to underpin this assumption is still largely lacking. To help fill this gap, this paper focuses on the relationship between overall urban scale and the spatial scale of segregation, and on the impli…
How Urban Labour Markets Matter
A new conventional wisdom, spanning academic and policy communities, sees a combination of economic competitiveness, social cohesion and responsive governance as essential for survival in the post-1980s world--and cities as crucial to achieving these goals. This interdisciplinary text provides the first critical examination of these ideas, drawing on the UK Cities research program and other recent research. It combines analysis of the competitive…
Changing Cities
Introduction: Cities in the New Conventional Wisdom
Academic Computing in Asia: An Overview and a Case Study
Academic computing in Asia is marked by a process of uneven development with the National University of Singapore clearly on the leading edge. This article provides a short overview of the use of information technology in Asian academic institutions and then a case study of its use at the National University of Singapore with a particular emphasis given to computer-mediated discussions
Defining New Yorker Humor
Journal Article Defining New Yorker Humor. By Judith Yaross Lee. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. x, 427 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 1-57806-197-0. Paper, $20.00, isbn 1-57806-198-9.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of SingaporeSingapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1127–1128, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music
Journal Article The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music. By Jeff Smith. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10862-1. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-10863-X.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of Singapore, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 758–759, https:/…
Beyond the Funnies: Comic Books, History, and Hegemony
Fifteen years ago a reader in search of something more than descriptive histories of comic art would have been hard pressed to find works in English beyond three or four books and a few scattered journal articles. Much of what was available simply suggested that the popularity of comics alone justified their study and that comics reflected popular concerns. Two books that stood out from the pack were the first volume of David Kunzle's magisterial…
Migration in a Segmented Labour Market
Current research in migration is moving on from neo-classical and behavioural perspectives to a more structural approach relating to wider processes, issues of power and the particular role of employers. Within this programme a key issue for investigation is the interaction between spatial mobility and the structuring of labour markets. This paper focuses on the significance of labour market segmentation--in terms both of job stability and gender…
Localities and tourism
This paper develops a research agenda on the interaction between tourism as an activity and the character of the places in which it has been significant, with the aim of relating tourism studies more closely to developments in core areas of human geography. It focuses particularly on the various forms of externality generated by the industry and how their effects - on collective investment, innovation, governance, labour markets and the resort cy…
Urban Size, Spatial Segregation and Inequality in Educational Outcomes
Assumptions about the role of neighbourhood effects are increasingly built into urban policies, particularly in relation to the role of spatial concentrations of disadvantage in perpetuating inequality and social exclusion. Nevertheless, hard evidence to underpin this assumption is still largely lacking. To help fill this gap, this paper focuses on the relationship between overall urban scale and the spatial scale of segregation, and on the impli…
Internationalisation and Urban Competition
Additional services and information for Urban Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://usj.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Citations http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/36/5-6/1001 Downloaded from http://usj.sagepub.com
Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945
Journal Article Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890–1945. By Ian Gordon. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. xii, 233 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-856-8.) Get access Mary W. Blanchard Mary W. Blanchard Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1365–1366, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568674 Pu…
Opportunity, Preference and Constraint: An Approach to the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration
The paper aims to consider how the fragmentation in the literature on migration may be overcome and to develop an integrated model of migration which can be applied to all types of population flow in the London metropolitan region. The need for such an approach follows from the complexity of flows observed at the 112-zone level of disaggregation as well as the unresolved problems of the literature. Despite this catholicity of aim the theoretical …
Urban Escalators and Interregional Elevators: The Difference that Location, Mobility, and Sectoral Specialisation Make to Occupational Progression
This paper uses evidence from the Longitudinal Study for England and Wales to examine the influence on occupational advancement of the city-region of residence (an escalator effect) and of relocation between city-regions (an elevator effect). It shows both effects to be substantively important, though less so than the sector of employment. Elevator effects are found to be associated with moves from slacker to tighter regional labour markets. Esca…
Family Structure, Educational Achievement and the Inner City
Current rates of success in the GCSE exams (taken at age 16 years in England and Wales) are particularly associated with location away from the inner cities. This paper uses aggregate data on success rates and socio-economic characteristics at the level of LEAs to assess the contributions of social, economic and schooling factors to this pattern of spatial disparity. Regression analyses indicate that the strongest influence is the spatial distrib…
Education, Location, Education: A Spatial Analysis of English Secondary School Public Examination Results
To complement analyses of how education affects locational outcomes in labour and housing markets, this paper investigates the impact of location (at neighbourhood and sub-regional scales) on English secondary school public exam results. This is explored both in terms of grades/points achieved by pupils and official attributions of 'value added', which have been related to sets of both school and area characteristics, including proximities to pre…
The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music
Journal Article The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music. By Jeff Smith. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10862-1. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-10863-X.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of Singapore, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 758–759, https:/…
Differential Mobilisation for Europe: A Comparative Note on Some Aspects of the Campaign
The present article focusses upon the impact of the European election campaign on the mobilisation of top political leaders, party activists, members and electors in the nine member countries of the European Community. For the purpose of comparative analysis, five factors are considered to be of importance: information, salience, electoral procedures, resources and conflict. These factors are discussed in order to compare the efforts and success …
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Journal Article The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. By Thomas Frank. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 287 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-226-25991-9.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of Singapore, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1396–1397, https://do…
Women in the Labour Markets of the London Region: A Model of Dependence and Constraint
This paper uses a simultaneous equations model of labour and housing market relationships in the London Metropolitan region in order to illuminate some of the specific characteristics of female labour markets in an explicitly spatial context. In addition to restricted female commuting fields, two significant sets of spatial constraint were identified: firstly, the residential location of married women tended to depend on access to male, not femal…
Broader Powers for the European Parliament? The Attitudes of Candidates
The problem of the broadening of the European Parliament's powers was one of the main themes of the election campaign in several countries. Interviews carried out in April–May 1979, in the nine countries of the Community with a sample of candidates (N = 742, including 62% of those who were elected) reveals, among other things, their attitudes towards the role of the European Parliament during the next five years. The results weighted according to…
The Political Ideology of Labour Councillors
Studies of local politics in the UK have paid increasing attention to policy-making but have virtually ignored the role of ‘ideology’. This is rather unfortunate since the literature abounds with the implicit assumption that it has a part to play. The majority of studies have examined the political attitudes of party activists in terms of partisan attachment and social class. Forms of political leadership and their impact upon decision-making hav…
The role of music-based parent-child play activities in supporting social engagement with children on the autism spectrum: A content analysis of parent interviews
Play skills in children on the autism spectrum have been observed to be different to their typically developing peers ever since autism was first formally identified. While the importance of play in child development is well recognised, there is limited research exploring the developmental benefits of different modes of play. This study aimed to explore parents' perspectives of the quality of their child's social engagement in music-play compared…
Introduction to the special issue “Cultural industries and transmedia in a time of convergence: Modes of engagement and participation”
Our special issue offers studies of specific instances of transmedia. On the one hand, one set of studies looks at the different strategies media corporations have adopted for engaging audiences. On the other hand, another set of studies looks at media users' negotiations of the transmedia landscape. The collection as a whole brings together perspectives from history, communication, media studies, linguistics, STS (science and technology studies)…
Block Buster Art House: Meets Superhero Comic, or Meets Graphic Novel?: The Contradictory Relationship between Film and Comic Art
This article explores the often contradictory relationship between films and comic book art. Adaptations of superhero comics have reinforced a commercialistic blockbuster mentality among the Hollywood studios. Adaptations of graphic novels have explored alternate visions of visual style and representation. Complications of these polarized effects and subsequent implications will be discussed
Defining New Yorker Humor
Journal Article Defining New Yorker Humor. By Judith Yaross Lee. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. x, 427 pp. Cloth, $48.00, isbn 1-57806-197-0. Paper, $20.00, isbn 1-57806-198-9.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of SingaporeSingapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1127–1128, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Social Class and Political Attitudes: The Case of Labour Councillors
The Recruitment of Local Politicians: An Integrated Approach with Some Preliminary Findings from a Study of Labour Councillors
The study of local political recruitment has received little attention in Britain. This paper begins with a justification for research in this area along with a discussion of the concept of political recruitment. From this examination the paper proceeds towards specifying those aspects of political recruitment which need to be investigated if we are to understand it as a dynamic process. Finally, some preliminary findings are presented of the fac…
Subjective Social Indicators and Urban Political Analysis: Or, What Do We Need to Know About Who’s Happy
One consequence of an interest by social scientists in the policy process is, or ought to be, a tendency towards subversion of the established boundaries of their disciplines, involving both a more pragmatic choice of conceptual approaches or techniques and a questioning of the boundaries of the ‘systems’ with which they are concerned. The argument of this paper is that recent work in the field of subjective social indicators has both implication…
Refiguring media: Tee shirts as a site of audience engagement with superheroes
In the last 20 years or so, new forms of media have resulted in new forms of engagement with media in general. The production and distribution of older forms of media have also undergone a transformation. Sales of the superhero genre of comic books have waned considerably even as advances in computer-generated imagery (CGI) have helped carry the spectacular imaginative events from their worlds to the screen. In this environment tee shirts have be…
Let Us Not Call Them Graphic Novels
This article examines some recent graphic novels and argues that they should be called comic books. Gordon evaluates the success of different artists at matching the style of art to the subject represented, discusses the representational and narrative possibilities of the comic form, and points to some flat moments in otherwise fine historical works
Academic Computing in Asia: An Overview and a Case Study
Academic computing in Asia is marked by a process of uneven development with the National University of Singapore clearly on the leading edge. This article provides a short overview of the use of information technology in Asian academic institutions and then a case study of its use at the National University of Singapore with a particular emphasis given to computer-mediated discussions
Donders‘ C ‐reactions and Irrelevant Stimulus Variety
With coloured lights as stimuli, doubling the size of the irrelevant stimulus subset in the Donders' c ‐reaction situation from one to two (Expt. I) and from three to six (Expt. II) did not lead to any significant increase in mean reaction times. The results are discussed with reference to John's model of the c ‐reaction situation
Responses to Altered Pictures
In Expt. I 30 transparencies of representational pictures were used. Fifteen of the pictures were projected from the wrong side to produce right‐left reversal. Thirty subjects judged the correctness or otherwise of each painting's orientation: only 53 per cent of these judgements were correct. In Expt. II details in 16 reproductions of abstract pictures were rearranged to form alternative versions. Paired original and altered versions were presen…
Subjective Social Indicators and Urban Political Analysis: Or, What Do We Need to Know About Who’s Happy
One consequence of an interest by social scientists in the policy process is, or ought to be, a tendency towards subversion of the established boundaries of their disciplines, involving both a more pragmatic choice of conceptual approaches or techniques and a questioning of the boundaries of the ‘systems’ with which they are concerned. The argument of this paper is that recent work in the field of subjective social indicators has both implication…
The Political Ideology of Labour Councillors
Studies of local politics in the UK have paid increasing attention to policy-making but have virtually ignored the role of ‘ideology’. This is rather unfortunate since the literature abounds with the implicit assumption that it has a part to play. The majority of studies have examined the political attitudes of party activists in terms of partisan attachment and social class. Forms of political leadership and their impact upon decision-making hav…
Social Class and Political Attitudes: The Case of Labour Councillors
The Recruitment of Local Politicians: An Integrated Approach with Some Preliminary Findings from a Study of Labour Councillors
The study of local political recruitment has received little attention in Britain. This paper begins with a justification for research in this area along with a discussion of the concept of political recruitment. From this examination the paper proceeds towards specifying those aspects of political recruitment which need to be investigated if we are to understand it as a dynamic process. Finally, some preliminary findings are presented of the fac…
A European Security Policy? The Attitudes of Candidates for the European Parliament
It has been argued that the credibility of the American nuclear deterrent is declining in Western Europe. Whether this is true or not, it seems clear that support for the NATO alliance had reached a remarkably low level among Western European political elites as the 1970s drew to a close. One possible alternative to continued reliance on the Atlantic Alliance would be for Western Europe to develop its own independent defence capabilities. Certain…
Differential Mobilisation for Europe: A Comparative Note on Some Aspects of the Campaign
The present article focusses upon the impact of the European election campaign on the mobilisation of top political leaders, party activists, members and electors in the nine member countries of the European Community. For the purpose of comparative analysis, five factors are considered to be of importance: information, salience, electoral procedures, resources and conflict. These factors are discussed in order to compare the efforts and success …
Broader Powers for the European Parliament? The Attitudes of Candidates
The problem of the broadening of the European Parliament's powers was one of the main themes of the election campaign in several countries. Interviews carried out in April–May 1979, in the nine countries of the Community with a sample of candidates (N = 742, including 62% of those who were elected) reveals, among other things, their attitudes towards the role of the European Parliament during the next five years. The results weighted according to…
Swings and Roundabouts: An Ecological Analysis of the European and General Election Results in Great Britain
Opportunity, Preference and Constraint: An Approach to the Analysis of Metropolitan Migration
The paper aims to consider how the fragmentation in the literature on migration may be overcome and to develop an integrated model of migration which can be applied to all types of population flow in the London metropolitan region. The need for such an approach follows from the complexity of flows observed at the 112-zone level of disaggregation as well as the unresolved problems of the literature. Despite this catholicity of aim the theoretical …
A Visual Aid for Artists and Others with Retinitis Pigmentosa ('Tunnel Vision')
Tunnel vision resulting from retinitis pigmentosa is a severe handicap for artists, designers and draughtsmen. Composition and the interpretation of depicted material is difficult because only a portion of the material is visible at a time. Collaboration between an experimental psychologist and a practising artist afflicted with tunnel vision has produced two useful ways of effectively reducing the size of visual material, permitting more of it t…
Women in the Labour Markets of the London Region: A Model of Dependence and Constraint
This paper uses a simultaneous equations model of labour and housing market relationships in the London Metropolitan region in order to illuminate some of the specific characteristics of female labour markets in an explicitly spatial context. In addition to restricted female commuting fields, two significant sets of spatial constraint were identified: firstly, the residential location of married women tended to depend on access to male, not femal…
The Political Economy of British Regional Policy
But Seriously, Folks: Comic Art and History
The symbol of a nation: Ginger Meggs and Australian national identity
(1992). The symbol of a nation: Ginger Meggs and Australian national identity. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 16, No. 34, pp. 1-14
Cities: Beyond the Fragments
Migration in a Segmented Labour Market
Current research in migration is moving on from neo-classical and behavioural perspectives to a more structural approach relating to wider processes, issues of power and the particular role of employers. Within this programme a key issue for investigation is the interaction between spatial mobility and the structuring of labour markets. This paper focuses on the significance of labour market segmentation--in terms both of job stability and gender…
Family Structure, Educational Achievement and the Inner City
Current rates of success in the GCSE exams (taken at age 16 years in England and Wales) are particularly associated with location away from the inner cities. This paper uses aggregate data on success rates and socio-economic characteristics at the level of LEAs to assess the contributions of social, economic and schooling factors to this pattern of spatial disparity. Regression analyses indicate that the strongest influence is the spatial distrib…
Internationalisation and Urban Competition
Additional services and information for Urban Studies can be found at: Email Alerts: http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/alerts Subscriptions: http://usj.sagepub.com/subscriptions Reprints: http://www.sagepub.com/journalsReprints.nav Permissions: http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav Citations http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/36/5-6/1001 Downloaded from http://usj.sagepub.com
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
Journal Article The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. By Thomas Frank. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. xiv, 287 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-226-25991-9.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of Singapore, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1396–1397, https://do…
Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945
Journal Article Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890–1945. By Ian Gordon. (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. xii, 233 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-56098-856-8.) Get access Mary W. Blanchard Mary W. Blanchard Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 3, December 1999, Pages 1365–1366, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568674 Pu…
The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music
Journal Article The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film Music. By Jeff Smith. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. xii, 288 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10862-1. Paper, $16.50, ISBN 0-231-10863-X.) Get access Ian Gordon Ian Gordon National University of Singapore, Singapore Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 2, September 2000, Pages 758–759, https:/…
Beyond the Funnies: Comic Books, History, and Hegemony
Fifteen years ago a reader in search of something more than descriptive histories of comic art would have been hard pressed to find works in English beyond three or four books and a few scattered journal articles. Much of what was available simply suggested that the popularity of comics alone justified their study and that comics reflected popular concerns. Two books that stood out from the pack were the first volume of David Kunzle's magisterial…
Localities and tourism
This paper develops a research agenda on the interaction between tourism as an activity and the character of the places in which it has been significant, with the aim of relating tourism studies more closely to developments in core areas of human geography. It focuses particularly on the various forms of externality generated by the industry and how their effects - on collective investment, innovation, governance, labour markets and the resort cy…
Sociology (24 works) · Political science (20 works) · Economics (17 works) · Art (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works)