Cultural and media studies

This book focuses on the #MeToo movement in China, critically examining how three competing ideologies have worked in co-opting #MeToo activism: China's official communism, Western neoliberalism, and an emerging Chinese cyber feminism.

Was macht Mythen für Erinnerungskulturen attraktiv?

Explore the real science behind the Cartoon Network phenomenon Rick and Mortyone of television's most irreverent, whip-smart, and darkly hilarious showsand discover how close we are to Rick's many experiments becoming a reality.

Convergence Media History explores the ways that digital convergence has radically changed the field of media history.

Öffentlichkeit und öffentliche Kommunikation bleiben auch in der digitalen Ära konstitutiv für die moderne, demokratische Gesellschaft.

El Arte de el idioma mexicano (México, 1713), del agustino Manuel Pérez, es la primera edición crítica de una gramática del náhuatl poco conocida.

*; Explores the schools of Solomonic magic around the world and works such as The Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon the King and The Hygromancy of Solomon *; Examines Solomon's magical possessions, including his famous ring that gave him command over animals, weather, demons, genies, and djinns, as well as his amulets, remedies, exorcisms, and charms *; Looks at the extensive presence of Solomon in folklore around the world, including in Armenia, Malaysia, Russia, Bulgaria, Morocco, India, and Egypt Looking at the Solomonic magical tradition and Solomon's profound influence on esoteric traditions around the world, Claude Lecouteux reveals King Solomon not only as one of the great kings of prehistory but also as the ancient world's foremost magician and magus.

This thoroughly revised second edition provides a critical overview of the contemporary debates and discussions surrounding gender and mediated communication.

The first in-depth historical analysis of British art music post-1945, providing a group-portrait of eleven composers ranging from avant-garde to pop.

This book examines the epistemological, social and political dimensions of practising interdisciplinary approaches to enhance knowledge, pedagogy, and methodological aspects of research in the South Asian context.

The Spectralities Reader is the first volume to collect the rich scholarship produced in the wake of the "e;spectral turn"e; of the early 1990s, which saw ghosts and haunting conjured as compelling analytical and methodological tools across the humanities and social sciences.

This new title by Kate West, bestselling author of The Real Witches' Handbook, will contain masses of spells and rituals for celebrations marking the seasons and festivals of the year, as well as a wealth of other information about magic for the initiated or the beginner alike.

This book explores the subjects of child sex abuse, flaws in the justice system, cultural support for vigilantism, prison violence, and the socio-legal philosophy of punishment.

Since 1954, Japan has become home to a vibrant but little-known tradition of Black Studies.

Andrew Shanks brings together a grand narrative of theology and continental philosophy to argue that the 'solidarity of the shaken' is the kingdom of God in secular dress.

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

From Rural Village to Global Village: Telecommunications for Development in the Information Age examines the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on both the macro level--societal, socio-economic, and governmental--and sector level--education, health, agriculture, entrepreneurship--emphasizing rural and developing regions.

In this year of bicentennial celebration, there will no doubt take place several cultural analyses of the American tradition.

This book is the first comparative study of English, German, French, Russian and Hungarian anti-proverbs based on well-known proverbs.

Drawing on both biblical studies scholarship and practitioner experience, this book explores the disjuncture between complementarian accounts of biblical marriage and intersections of marriage and violence in texts from Jewish and Christian Scriptures.

The second edition of this pathbreaking, widely taught book offers six new chapters, on breastfeeding and Black infant health; Black birthing during COVID; Black doulas rethinking birthing practices; the recent buildup of a US national movement; childbirth in Zanzibar; and expanding the global movement for sexual and reproductive well-being.

Von den Körperzeichen über den Buchdruck zu Smartphone und künstlicher Intelligenz: Wenn sich die Medien verändern, ändern sich die Gesellschaft und die Art und Weise, wie wir unsere Bedürfnisse befriedigen.

Filming the Line of Control charts out the history of the relationship between India and Pakistan as represented in cinema, especially in light of the improved political atmosphere between the two countries.

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s.

From Dr Annie Gray, presenter of BBC2's Victorian Bakers What does it mean to eat like a queen?

Journalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers, and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality.

A friend recommended an interesting news article to you that changed your view on the topic.

This book is a study of Salpuri-Chum, a traditional Korean dance for expelling evil spirits.

The study of fashion has exploded in recent decades, yet what this all means or quite where it might take us is not clear.

Who owns your sex organs?

This book explores the emerging concept of cultural DNA, considering its application across different fields and examining commonalities in approach.

The price we pay for the new strategies in database marketing that closely track desirable customers, offering them benefits in return for personal information.

This fully updated third edition analyzes the media industries and their activities from macro to micro levels, using concepts and theories to demonstrate the role the media plays in the economy as a whole.

Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and information.

This is not a book about trains but about the variety of Spain.

Since the early 1980s, there has been renewed scholarly interest in the concept of Christian Humanism.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Animals is a diverse and intersectional collection which examines human and more-than-human animal relations, as well as the interconnectedness of human and animal oppressions through various lenses.

Foucault's intellectual indebtedness to Nietzsche is apparent in his writing, yet the precise nature, extent, and nuances of that debt are seldom explored.

This book uses Norbert Elias and John L.

In 1995 rugby union finally became a professional sport following more than a century as an amateur game.

Comic Lives examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and comedy within the theoretical and methodological frameworks of auto/biography studies.

This book delves comprehensively into organisational communication in Africa in the digital age, alongside other organisational changes.

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