Cultural studies

A cultural clearinghouse of the American 1960s and 70s told through the story of the periods most important forgotten comedy group.

Cultural Studies, which has emerged as one of the most seminal and intellectual discourses of our times, occupies a strategic location intersecting humanities and social sciences.

This book proposes a framework for regulating sex robots - human-like machines designed to engage emotionally and sexually with users through customisable, often AI-powered features.

Molas, the distinctive blouses made and worn by Kuna women in Panama, are collected by thousands of enthusiasts as well as by anthropological museums all over the world.

This book explores representations of female sexuality and subjectivity in contemporary Chinese fiction by three women writers, published from 1986 to 2000, from the perspective of poststructuralist feminism.

"e;I am the Chosen One!

Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century.

To read the PDF of The Sound of Welsh Patagonia: Performance, Subjectivity, and Music in Y Wladfa, Patagonia, Argentina for free, follow the link belowThe Sound of Welsh Patagonia: Performance, Subjectivity, and Music in Y Wladfa, Patagonia, ArgentinaThis book is freely available on a Creative Commons licence thanks to the kind sponsorship of the libraries participating in the Jisc Open Access Community Framework OpenUP initiative.

This volume explores the instrumental role played by memory in our daily and collective narratives and the manifold ways in which it can destabilize those prevailing in India.

Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, No Country for Old Men, True Grit--Joel and Ethan Coen make movies.

Much of the produce that Americans eat is grown in the Mexican state of Baja California, the site of a multibillion-dollar export agricultural boom that has generated jobs and purportedly reduced poverty and labor migration to the United States.

Over the past thirty years, Stephen King has received enormous attention from both the popular press as well as academics seeking to explain the unique phenomenon of his success.

Die Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Symbolforschung hat in diesem Band die Ergebnisse der vier Tagungen 2018 bis 2021, deren Themenbereiche einander bestens ergänzen, zusammengestellt.

This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa.

Casting aside the traditional conception of film as an outgrowth of photography, theater, and the novel, the essays in this volume reassess the relationship between the emergence of film and the broader culture of modernity.

This book examines antagonistic fan communication on Chinese social media, focusing on the sociolinguistic dimensions and digital strategies in fandom discourse of Chinese celebrities to engage in broader questions around language, social media, and fan culture.

It's 2013.

Considering the potential and peril of Domestic Abuse-Related Death Reviews (DARDRs) in England and Wales as a way of learning from domestic abuserelated deaths, this book examines what DARDRs - first known as Domestic Homicide Reviews (DHRs) - are understood as being for, what is used by and in DARDRs, and how DARDRs are themselves used.

This book discusses how rural built heritage preservation and development in the Chinese ethnic area in Tongren, China has been strongly addressed by the labeling, planning, project-making, follow-up management characterized by different patterns of stakeholders.

Explores the social and cultural history of bureaucratization in 19th-century Britain and France via the evolving literary portrayal of office life.

What does an art history of Instagram look like?

Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics explores this distinct fictional form that merges the genres, structures and affordances of television with those of social media and what it entails for contemporary television and media culture and for our experience of new and old media in everyday life.

Decolonization and Psychoanalysis challenges conventional psychoanalytic assumptions by revisiting Lacan's conceptualization of the materiality of speech through a decolonial lens.

From an established author with a growing international profile in media studies, Media/Theory is an accessible yet challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life.

Based on ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or "e;ghost hunters"e;: in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena-in a scientific, secular and rational fashion-many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal.

Jonathan Parry presents a history of Liberalism that is organized around themes in British Liberal politics since the early nineteenth century.

Bringing together eighteen essays from Homa Katouzian, this book explores Iranian history, politics, culture and Persian literature from mediaeval times through the nineteenth century and into the contemporary period.

Building on previous work in rural criminology, this book casts a global and comparative look across 19 countries, drawing on themes of crime and victimisation, safety and fear, practices of policing and police trust, and crime prevention practices.

A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies.

This essential text introduces criminal justice students to the topics of stress and wellness in personal and professional pursuits and provides them with the tools they will need to identify the signs of stress in their own lives and the lives of others.

Activating Voices in Jazz History: Students Broadening the Narrative highlights the research of students who have been challenged to assess and interpret evidence found in historical records and engage in field interviews with a diverse representation of jazz artists.

Post-development advocates and decolonial thinkers are calling for radical alternatives to development, but how do these ideals sit with the day-to-day reality of marginalised communities struggling with poverty, precarity, and the deprivation of human rights?

Despite Hollywood's recent efforts to appeal to more racially diverse audiences, mainstream movies routinely present a limited view of non-Whites generally, and Black women specifically, in stark contrast to the broadly developed spectrum of White characters.

This edited collection explores the contemporary interplay among three pivotal areas found in cultures around the world: communication, entertainment, and messages of social justice.

'A different level of insight to anything I've read for a long time about Russia.

Unsere Gesellschaft spaltet sich: am einen Ende stehen Rechtspopulisten, am anderen "woke" Moralisten.