Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Like queer studies and men's studies, it originated in the interdisciplinary program women's studies. Its rise to prominence, especially in Western universities after 1990, coincided with the rise of deconstructionism.
Eero Aarne Pekka Tarasti, is a Finnish musicologist and semiologist, currently serving as Professor Emeritus of Musicology at the University of Helsinki.
A cultural icon is a person or an artifact that is identified by members of a culture as representative of that culture. The process of identification is subjective, and "icons" are judged by the extent to which they can be seen as an authentic symbol of that culture. When individuals perceive a cultural icon, they relate it to their general perceptions of the cultural identity represented. Cultural icons can also be identified as an authentic representation of the practices of one culture by another.
Rosemarie Keller Skaine is an American author and sociologist. She is known for her nonfiction works, especially writings related to other cultures. She is currently an active freelance writer.
Madonna studies is the study of the work and life of American singer-songwriter Madonna using an interdisciplinary approach incorporating cultural studies and media studies. After Madonna's debut in 1983, the discipline did not take long to start up and field appeared in the mid-1980s, achieving its peak in the next decade. Educator David Buckingham deemed it as "a meteoric rise to academic canonisation". The rhetoric academic view of that time, deemed her as "the most significant artist of the late twentieth century" thus she is understood variously and as a vehicle to open up issues. In the 21st century, the Madonna studies continued to be in many ways, an established academic subdiscipline. Authors of these academic writings have been called "Madonna scholars" or "Madonnologists", with E. Ann Kaplan and John Fiske classified as its precursors.
Stephen Thomas Knight MA (Oxon.), PhD (Sydney), F.A.H.A., F.E.A. was, until September 2011, a distinguished research professor in English literature at Cardiff University; and is a professorial fellow of Literature at the University of Melbourne. His areas of expertise include medieval English and European literature, Robin Hood, Merlin, cultural studies, crime fiction, and Australian matters. He has authored over thirty books, and is well known in the public sphere for his contribution to a range of fields. His most recent books have been The Politics of Myth (2015), Towards Sherlock Holmes: A Thematic History of Crime Fiction in the 19th Century World (2017), Australian Crime Fiction: A 200-year History (2018), The Fiction of G.W.M. Reynolds: The Man Who Outsold Dickens (2019) and The University is Closed for Open Day: Themes and Scenes from 21st Century Australia (2019).
Gregory Woods is a British poet. He was the Chair in Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University from 1998 to 2013. He is the author of five books of literary and LGBT studies criticism, and seven poetry collections.
Geocriticism is a method of literary analysis and literary theory that incorporates the study of geographic space. The term designates a number of different critical practices. In France, Bertrand Westphal has elaborated the concept of géocritique in several works. In the United States, Robert Tally has argued for a geocriticism as a critical practice suited to the analysis of what he has termed "literary cartography".
Richard Bauman is a folklorist and anthropologist, now retired from Indiana University Bloomington. He is Distinguished Professor emeritus of Folklore, of Anthropology, and of Communication and Culture. Before coming to IU in 1985, he was the Director of the Center for Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology at the University of Texas and a faculty member in the UT Department of Anthropology. Just before retiring from Indiana, he was chair of the IU Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, as well as an important member of the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Communication and Culture.
Hasan M. El-Shamy is a professor of folklore (folkloristics) in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and the African Studies Program at Indiana University. He received a B.A. with honors in Arabic and Islamic studies from Ain-Shams University in Cairo, Egypt in 1959. He then completed an intensive graduate program in psychology and education from Ain-Shams (Heliopolis) University in 1959–1960. Later he received an M.A. in folklore from Indiana University in 1964, as well as a Ph.D. in folklore with interdisciplinary training in folklore, psychology, and anthropology from Indiana University in 1967.
The Pillar of Fire, initially released in America and Britain as Haggard's "She"—The Pillar of Fire and also known as La Colonne de feu, is an 1899 short silent trick film directed by Georges Méliès.
William G. Doty (1939–2017) was an American religious studies scholar and educator. He is an author and editor known for his writings about myth and mythology.
Michael Bronski is an American academic and writer, best known for his 2011 book A Queer History of the United States. He has been involved with LGBT politics since 1969 as an activist and organizer. He has won numerous awards for LGBTQ activism and scholarship, including the prestigious Publishing Triangle's Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement. Bronski is a Professor of Practice in Media and Activism at Harvard University.
This is a list containing the different written works about Madonna, including biographies and other literary forms. Many authors have written more than one book about Madonna and these have been published in multiple languages other than English, including German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Italian. The releases have sometimes become bestsellers and have faced varied reception from critics and academics. The literature about Madonna is extensive according to associate professor Robert Miklitsch of Ohio University, and a Vice contributor said "reviews of her work have served as a roadmap for scrutinizing women at each stage in their music career".
American singer-songwriter Madonna has had a social-cultural impact on the world through her recordings, attitude, clothing and lifestyle since her early career in the 1980s. Madonna has built a legacy that goes beyond music and has been studied by sociologists, historians and other social scientists. This contributed to the rise of the Madonna studies, an academic and critical response dedicated to her work and persona for which Madonna's semiotic and image was diversified in a wide-ranging of theoretical stripe from feminism to queer studies among others. In addition to becoming an icon in many of these fields, Madonna is commonly typified as an archetype, precursor or the most visible example in numerous concepts and themes, from both inside and outside the music industry and for which other authors coined idiomatic expressions or terms after Madonna noting her effects.
Murry R. Nelson is an emeritus professor of education and American studies at Penn State University and an author. He has written about the history of American sports, basketball in particular, as well as books on America's school curriculums. He has written biographies of several basketball players.
Gerald James Larson was an Indologist known for his writings on yoga. He was the Rabindranath Tagore Professor Emeritus of Indian Cultures and Civilization at Indiana University, Bloomington as well as Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
American singer-songwriter Madonna, has been regarded as a sexual icon and the leading sex symbol of the postmodern era. According to the Oxford Dictionary of English her image as a sex symbol brought her international stardom. Others considered that the both reviews and Madonna's usage of sexuality become one of the focal points for her whole career. Her sexual displays have drawn numerous analysis by scholars, sexologists, feminists and other authors. Due her constantly usage of explicit sexual content, Madonna faced censorship by MTV for her videos, as well by others entities for her stage performances, books and other projects. She was, if not the main target of Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC), one of its earliest.
