This book examines the multiple ways that popular media mainstream and reinforce neoliberal ideology, exposing how they promote neoliberalism's underlying ideas, values and beliefs so as to naturalize inequality, undercut democracy and contribute to the collapse of social notions of community and the common good.
Die Familie ist keine konfliktfreie Zone, sondern ein Ort, an dem Generationen und ihre jeweiligen Weltsichten aufeinander prallen, an dem Genderrollen erlernt, vielleicht auch hinterfragt werden, an dem Werte und Normen vermittelt und soziale Kompetenzen trainiert werden.
Tyler Perry has become a significant figure in media due to his undeniable box office success led by his character Madea and popular TV sitcoms House of Payne and Meet the Browns.
Der Eröffnungsband der neuen Reihe „Studien zu Literatur und Religion / Studies on Literature and Religion“ bilanziert das seit einigen Jahren wieder spürbar gewachsene Forschungsinteresse an Religion und Literatur und erörtert an konkreten Beispielen und Schlüsselthemen von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart systematische Perspektiven für die zukünftige Forschung.
This book reappraises the philosophical value of short fiction by Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Elizabeth Bowen, examining the stories through the lens of specific everyday objects.
An ambitious look at the African novel and its connections to African philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesThe African Novel of Ideas focuses on the role of the philosophical novel and the place of philosophy more broadly in the intellectual life of the African continent, from the early twentieth century to today.
This book, published originally in 1980, addressed the needs for a profile of televised violence which considered the advantages and disadvantages of various measures and for a furthering of research directions beyond the then-popular emphasis on children.
This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary America, but a structural critique of the conditions of late-modernity and global capitalism.
The first book-length presentation of Roger Chartier's work in English, this volume provides a vivid example of the new directions of cultural history in France.
This innovative text bridges media theory, psychology, and interpersonal communication by describing how our relationships with media emulate the relationships we develop with friends and romantic partners through their ability to replicate intimacy, regularity, and reciprocity.
This collection pulls together a wide range of perspectives to explore the possibilities and the boundaries of the paradigm of English studies in India.
This culturally and politically timely collection examines new Black films and moving images that have, once again, excited and possibly shifted the global media landscape.
This book highlights reliable, valid and practical testing and assessment of interpreting, presenting important developments in China, where testing and assessment have long been a major concern for interpreting educators and researchers, but have remained largely under-reported.
Es gehört Mut dazu, etwas Neuartiges zu wagen: So gibt es in der Literaturwissenschaft zwar unterschiedliche Methoden, mit Texten umzugehen, aber eine psychologische ist weniger üblich.
This book examines the pervading influence of medieval culture, through an exploration of the intersections between tourism, heritage, and imaginaries of the medieval in the media.
Ernst Cassirer und Benedetto Croce Zeitgenossen, idealistisch geprägte Philosophen, strenge Kritiker des Positivismus führten jahrelang einen mehr oder weniger offenen, meist kritischen Dialog.
The Poetics of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Postmodern Literature provides an interdisciplinary exploration in early medical trauma treatment and the emergent postmodern canon of the 1960s and 1970s.
In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor.
From The Brothers Karamazov to Star Trek to Twin Peaks, this collection explores a variety of different imaginary worlds both historic and contemporary.
Based on years of archival research, 'The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto' is the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Ghetto.
Aus bekanntem Gehirn mit gehäufter Tätigkeit im Bereich gewisser Kreativität hier eine extrem spannende und reizvolle Show, in der zuletzt um "Alles oder Nichts" gezockt wird.
"e;Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized and stored.
This book presents a systematic elaboration on Chinese literature and its criticism, with special reference to introducing the predominant role of idea-image.
A figure from ancient folklore, the doppelganger--in fiction a character's sinister look-alike--continues to appear in literature, television and film.
TV on Strike examines the upheaval in the entertainment industry by telling the inside story of the hundred-day writers' strike that crippled Hollywood in late 2007 and early 2008.
This collection of essays offers a multi-faceted exploration of audiovisual translation, both as a means of intercultural exchange and as a lens through which linguistic and cultural representations are negotiated and shaped.
We have grown accustomed to understanding world literature as a collection of national or linguistic traditions bound together in the universality of storytelling.
Diese Studie über Joseph Conrads einflussreiches Werk Heart of Darkness stellt erstmals die deutschsprachige Rezeption dieses Referenztextes der Postkolonialismusdebatte dar.
