Cultural and media studies

The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s.

This book provides a reinterpretation of early modern clock and watch dials on the basis of use.

Sex and Sexuality in Modern Screen Remakes examines how sexiness, sexuality and revisited sexual politics are used to modernize film and TV remakes.

The Science of the Commons proposes a new mode of comprehending communication.

The twelve essays in Victorian Environmental Nightmares explore various "e;environmental nightmares"e; through applied analyses of Victorian texts.

This book speaks to the politics of weight through an interrogation of dieting, power and the body.

This book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener.

In this book, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that 21st-century mainstream filmmaking is increasingly and troublingly dominated by "e;synthetic cinema.

We live in an age where language and screens continue to collide for creative purposes, giving rise to new forms of digital literatures and literary video games.

This book provides an overview of the institutional and intellectual development of sociology in Brazil from the early 1900s to the present day; through military coups, dictatorships and democracies.

Super Mad at Everything All the Time explores the polarization of American politics through the collapse of the space between politics and culture, as bolstered by omnipresent media.

The objective of this book is to better understand the nature of urban governance regarding the provision of basic urban services in rapidly growing mid-sized towns and cities in developing countries.

This book presents a fresh perspective on football fandom in England, going beyond existing debates surrounding the structural transformations English football has seen in recent decades, to consider the contested cultural ground upon which football fandom exists.

This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema.

This book explores how terrorists have been portrayed in the Western media, and the wider ideological and social functions of those representations.

This book provides a condensed but comprehensive up-to-date overview of spirituality and its application to health care.

This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics.

This book examines the history of the school desegregation movement in St.

This book assesses the extent to which British news organizations gave exposure and credence to different political interpretations of economics and business news in the decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis.

This book analyses the significance of the special correspondent as a new journalistic role in Victorian print culture, within the context of developments in the periodical press, throughout the second half of the nineteenth century.

This book provides students, researchers, and practitioners of speechwriting with a unique insight in the theory, history, and practice of speechwriting.

This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

This book explores the deeper meaning of sports.

This book analyzes why we believe what we believe about politics, and how the answer affects the way democracy functions.

From 1927-1948, the Universal Ethiopian Students' Association (UESA) mobilized the African diaspora to fight against imperialism and fascist Italy.

The original text of this work was published in the French journal Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses.

This book presents the first in-depth study of the Eurovision Song Contest from an Australian perspective.

In this work, Alexander Rosenthal Pubul presents a broad examination of the ancient philosophical question: "e;What is the good life?

This book examines how intimate relationships are built, negotiated and maintained through social media.

This book describes the application of a high-level technology to solve problems in distributed systems that have networked structures with millions to billions of nodes.

This book uses Deleuze's work to understand the politics of masculinity today.

This book articulates the skills and perspectives that future foreign correspondents need to adopt in an increasingly globalized world.

The book presents high-quality research papers presented at the 1st AUE International research conference, AUEIRC 2017, organized by the American University in the Emirates, held on November 15th-16th, 2017 in Dubai.

Paul Thompson offers an alternative take on the romanticized and mythologized process of record-making.

Since the 2000s, the Japanese word shojo has gained global currency, accompanying the transcultural spread of other popular Japanese media such as manga and anime.

This book provides a critical analysis of Donald Trump's mention of General Pershing and his alleged use of bullets dipped in pig's blood to kill 49 out of 50 captured Muslims during the suppression years in the Philippines.

This book examines the moral role of news media practitioners and organizations, and applies a modified philosophical account of Virtue Ethics as a framework for the role of journalists-and journalism organizations-in public life.

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This Palgrave Pivot questions how a new generation of alternative stand-up comedians and the political world continue to shape and influence each other.

This book critically investigates the origins and consequences of the Janus-faced character of attitudes and policies towards migrants that seek to penetrate "e;Fortress Europe"e;.

In the modern era, every family and local community can cultivate its own history, endowing living people with meanings inherited from the people of the past, by means of today's computer-based information and communication technologies.

Beyond Slacktivism examines how routine social media use shapes political participation.

In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before.

In this timely collection, contributors from a number of disciplines discuss neoliberal visions of success, and the subsequent effects they have on the construction of the lifecycle.

This book examines the Kurds' rise as new regional actors in the Middle East and the impact this is having on the regional order.

This book addresses the challenges threatening the quality of life and well-being of people living in the MENA region.

Comment interroger les rapports sociaux que permettent les technologies numériques ?

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