Cultural and media studies

Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent.

As the dominant star in our sky, the Sun has been alternately worshipped as a god and viewed as a threat over the course of human history.

In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.

This edited collection provides a singular look at contemporary mediated coverage of women athletes and sports from Title IX to the present day.

What sort of relationship do artists want with their audience?

This book brings to light a lesser-explored facet of cultural globalization by unearthing Bollywood films circulations in the Middle East.

This book brings to light a lesser-explored facet of cultural globalization by unearthing Bollywood films circulations in the Middle East.

This book celebrates decades of safeguarding cultural heritage and reckons with reconfigurations and shifts that have shaped the field and understandings of it.

El tema de la XVII Reunión de la Asociación Interdisciplinar José de Acosta (ASINJA), que tuvo lugar del 4 al 8 de septiembre de 1990 en Salamanca, fue La comunicación.

This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural dimensions of Japanese animation more specifically.

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This handbook fills a substantial gap in the international academic literature on animation at large, on music studies, and on the aural dimensions of Japanese animation more specifically.

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*; Presents magickal techniques with crystals for warding off harmful energies, binding, and curse breaking, including crystal grids, amulets, spells, and rituals*; Explains how to discern the symptoms of psychic attack and offers multiple methods for cleansing your energy field and your crystals*; Includes an in-depth directory of 145 of the most powerful and effective crystals and gemstones for protection, banishing, and recovery from psychic attackIn this full-color guide, crystal healing teacher Nicholas Pearson shows how crystals are ideally suited for confronting negative energies and providing enduring protection as he demonstrates how to partner with the mineral kingdom for protection, cleansing, and countermagick.

Women in Independent Publishing is a collection of interviews with and resources about women actively engaged in small-press publishing between the 1950s and the 1980s.

This book represents the first in-depth research dedicated to examining the historical and contemporary developments of Japanese film festivals as sites of cultural diplomacy.

This book reports on research findings and practical lessons featuring advances in the areas of digital and interaction design, graphic design and branding, design education, society and communication in design practice, and related ones.

This book presents a recent framework proposed to understand how attitudes towards artificial intelligence are formed.

In Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism, Mingwei Huang traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century.

Bad Sex traces the evolution of representations of sex on screen, from earlier portrayals of sex as glamorous or taboo, to more complex depictions of often awkward or painful experiences and feelings.

Luxury has been associated with superficiality, consumerism and meaninglessness throughout the history of serious philosophical thought.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

A resource for actors, directors, and writers (both professional and in training), this is a step-by-step, practical guidebook to the pre-rehearsal analysis of a script.

This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations.

Distilling a decade of research by leading experts on the Venerable Bede, Bede the scholar investigates the Northumbrian monk's place within the wider intellectual developments of the early medieval world.

This book responds to the question "e;Is it time to reimagine design education in Africa and decolonise our creative future?

This book represents the first in-depth research dedicated to examining the historical and contemporary developments of Japanese film festivals as sites of cultural diplomacy.

The rap game transformed urban America forever and the 1980s!

This book systematically examines historical perspectives, meticulously unveiling the nuanced narratives embedded within cityscapes across epochs, providing a comprehensive chronicle of architectural evolution.

This book weaves together theories of pre-Columbian trans-Pacific contact between Oceania and the Americas and analyses them from a history of ideas perspective.

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The "e;Happiest Place on Earth"e; opened in 1955 during a trying time in American life--the Cold War.

The "e;Happiest Place on Earth"e; opened in 1955 during a trying time in American life--the Cold War.

Over the past decades, psychosocial studies has demonstrated its strengths and influence across diverse sites of theory and practice; it continues to grow as an area of transdisciplinary research that dialogues with psychoanalysis, sociology, critical psychology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, and postcolonial studies.

A concise guide to the creative application of appropriation and remix that offers a set of open-ended guidelines for art and design studio-based projects, this book explores creativity with emerging technology, including artificial intelligence.

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This edited volume serves as an overview and introduction to the conceptual apparatus of Norbert Elias for newcomers, while also outlining current research within the Eliasian school of sociology.

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Con este libro, Damasia Amadeo de Freda se suma a las voces que encuentran que la tecnociencia y los desarrollos del capitalismo han afectado de tal manera los modos tradicionales en que se organizaba la convivencia, que han producido una serie de nuevos síntomas característicos de nuestra cultura, objeto de este libro.