Cultural studies

This is the story of Sea World, a theme park where the wonders of nature are performed, marketed, and sold.

Ausgehend von persönlichen Erfahrungen seit der Kindheit widmet sich Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner in »Nerd Girl Magic« der Nerd und Geek Culture aus nicht-weißer, nicht-männlicher Perspektive.

Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique.

Responding to an absence of Latine and Chicane artist and teaching resources, Art Borderlands in Theory, Practice, and Teaching shows how artists and educators can use borderlands, in-between geographical, emotional, cultural, and conceptual spaces, in three ways: theory, art practice, and teaching.

Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G.

The Beatles and Black Music discusses the influence that Black music and culture has had over the Beatles throughout their collective and solo careers.

This book explores the events, attractions, and places that comprise magical tourism.

The British Royals in Popular Culture examines the intricate relationship between the monarchy and popular culture from the Tudors to the Windsors, illustrating how the institution has persistently adapted to maintain its symbolic, psychological, and theatrical significance over centuries.

This volume brings to the fore the intersections of religion, gender and sustainable development in 21st century Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Monsters arrived in 2011--and now they are back.

Of all the artisans who work in the American film industry, directors have been given the lion's share of attention.

Research, craftsmanship and experimentation form the foundations of fashion futurist Issey Miyake's designs.

"e;A fascinating and funny guide to history's favorite genius-and why he still matters.

Heritage, Authority and Power - Understanding Theory Through Practice examines who holds power and authority in heritage, the connection with specialist knowledge and what the shifting nature of these attributes means for concepts of authenticity.

Escape into the Future analyzes the power of pessimism, showing links between present-day religious pessimism and the nihilism of popular culture.

Precarious Empowerment: Sexual Labor in the Coffee Shops of Chile's Santiago provides a textured and telling exploration into the lives and experiences of sex workers in Chile, their encounters with discrimination and economic precarity, and their empowered resistance.

From the silent era to the present, film productions have shaped the way the public views campus life.

This book offers a genealogy of short fiction in English set in the Pacific and written by British, American, and Australian writers.

Contestation in Civil Society looks at the dynamic relationship between noise, listening and civil action as the key to understanding how societies communicatively make decisions about their internal and external boundaries.

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Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day.

Contributions by Mary Berman, Mary M.

Relational theory starts from the ontological fact of our being in networks of relationships and draws out what this means for theories of knowledge and for moral and political theory.