Cultural and media studies

Poker is a centuries-old American game.

The chapter Experiencing Male Dominance in Swedish Film Production"e; is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other's disciplinary endeavors.

This book will be the first systematic and comprehensive text to analyze the many and contrasting appearances of the Church of England on television.

This book provides a rich and nuanced examination of children learning to read and write a second language in primary schools in Kenya, taught by teachers who themselves have often learned English as a second or third language.

This book explores Violeta Parra's visual art, focusing on her embroideries (arpilleras), paintings, papier-mache collages and sculptures.

This volume brings together scholars from across disciplines and continents in order to continue to analyse, query, and deconstruct the complexities of bodily existence in the modern world.

This volume engages with the contested concept of 'active citizenship'.

Writing the Australian Beach is the first book in fifteen years to explore creative and cultural representations of this iconic landscape, and how writers and scholars have attempted to understand and depict it.

At once a digital ethnography of smartphones and a classically conceived village-based ethnography, this book relocates the study of digital technologies to rural Melanesia, with a focus on the Lau of Malaita, Soloman Islands.

This book argues that certain films have more to offer by way of conceptualising education than textual scholarship.

This book describes how international negotiations can be conducted in a structured, professional and effective manner.

Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom provides an account of Johansson's persona, work and stardom, extending from her breakout roles in independent cinema, to contemporary blockbusters, to her self-parodying work in science-fiction.

This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history.

What You See Is What You Hear develops a unique model of analysis that helps students and advanced scholars alike to look at audiovisual texts from a fresh perspective.

This book offers an important addition to the growing literature on education in emergencies.

This study of new religious movements in Quebec focuses on nine groups-including the notoriously violent Solar Temple; the iconoclastic Temple of Priapus; and the various "e;Catholic"e; schisms, such as those led by a mystical pope; the Holy Spirit incarnate; or the reappearance of the Virgin Mary.

This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats.

For seven seasons, viewers worldwide watched as ad man Don Draper moved from adultery to self-discovery, secretary Peggy Olson became a take-no-prisoners businesswoman, object-of-the-gaze Joan Holloway developed a feminist consciousness, executive Roger Sterling tripped on LSD, and smarmy Pete Campbell became a surprisingly nice guy.

This book presents the first comparative study of the works of Charlotte Delbo, Noor Inayat Khan, and Germaine Tillion in relation to their vigorous struggles against Nazi aggression during World War II and the Holocaust.

The Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack of January 7, 2015 shook French journalism to the core and reverberated around the world, triggering a cascade of responses from journalists, media outlets, cartoonists and caricaturists from diverse geographies of freedom of expression and journalistic cultures.

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media-the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames.

This collection of essays discusses genre fiction and film within the discursive framework of the environmental humanities and analyses the convergent themes of spatiality, climate change, and related anxieties concerning the future of human affairs, as crucial for any understanding of current forms of "e;weird"e; and "e;fantastic"e; literature and culture.

This book aims to explore the supercomplexity of interaction and to suggest ways of teaching about this supercomplexity in various settings, including intercultural communication and language-learning.

This book explains how the media helped to invent the European Union as the supranational polity that we know today.

In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds.

This book considers the doctrinal and ecclesiological trends that were present during the construction of the revised Book of Common Prayer of 1927.

This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime.

This book deals with three key questions about communitarian ideas: how to distinguish what constitutes communitarian thinking; what lessons to take from the historical development of communitarian arguments; and why their practical implications are relevant in devising reforms at the local, national, and global levels.

This book explores the transmedial nature of the storyworlds created by and/or affiliated with television auteur, writer, and filmmaker, Joss Whedon.

This book sheds critical light on the routinely debated issue of how to create sustainable, equitable and meaningful partnerships between visual art organisations and youth organisations.

This book explores the ways in which religion is observed, performed, and organised in skateboard culture.

This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe.

While the term 'culture' has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention.

This book gathers eleven scholarly contributions dedicated to the work of Mexican director Arturo Ripstein.

This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices.

This edited collection offers a reassessment of the complicated legacy of Emer de Vattel's Droit des gens, first published in 1758.

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This book offers a unique examination of the development of popular music function in film.

This volume offers a critical examination of the later philosophical views of Vladimir Solov'ev, arguably Russia's most famous and most systematic philosopher.

This book presents a dynamic history of the ways in which translators are trusted and distrusted.

This book examines the sociolinguistics of some of Iran's languages at home and in the diaspora.

This landmark book is concerned with the civil power of the news.

This book explores the inter-relationship of disability and trauma in the Mad Max films (1979-2015).

Spain After the Indignados/15M Movement explores how the aftershocks of the 2007 Great Recession restructured Spain's political sphere and political imaginary.

This book proposes a holistic transdisciplinary approach to sustainability as a subject of social sciences.

This book charts the development of the multiplex cinema as the pre-eminent form of film exhibition across the world.

This book discusses "e;culture"e; and the origins of the Anglo-American special relationship (the AASR).

This volume helps us to understand that the current political disorders in Catalonia have deep cultural roots.

The Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack of January 7, 2015 shook French journalism to the core and reverberated around the world, triggering a cascade of responses from journalists, media outlets, cartoonists and caricaturists from diverse geographies of freedom of expression and journalistic cultures.