Cultural and media studies

Tattoos are a highly visible social and cultural sight, from TV series that represent the lives of tattoo artists and their interactions with clients, to world-class sports stars and the social actors we meet on a daily basis who display visible tattoo designs.

First published in 1996, "e;Remove Not the Ancient Landmark"e; explores the ways that public monuments symbolize and convey moral values.

In this original volume, eighteen researchers from different parts of the world reflect on their own research projects, providing insights into key methodological issues in research on second language writing.

Hearing Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan once said, was "e;like busting out of jail.

This new book offers an insightful guide into the complex tapestry of global entertainment media markets.

Gambling has been a practice central to many cultures throughout history.

This book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of digital sovereignty in China, which are addressed mainly from political, legal and historical point of views.

This book explores the cultural and religious politics of the contemporary food movement, starting from the example of Jewish foodies, their zeal for pig (forbidden by Jewish law), and their talk about why ignoring traditional precepts around food is desirable.

This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analysed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian.

Nineteenth-century European intellectual history has given rise to such varied and abundant research that one is surprised to find certain important problems long identified and yet still relatively unexplored.

Esta es la primera guía que reúne el conocimiento necesario para planificar, redactar, editar, publicar y comercializar un libro con éxito, realizada por un editor profesional y adaptada al sector editorial actual.

Marxism's cultural turn, which has been prominent in its operation over at least the past four decades, continues to belie the hope it had initially held out.

Presenting an alternative perspective, this book proposes that performing arts forge an emotional bond between the performer and the audience, making the act of performance a therapeutic and restorative experience, and not merely recreational.

This book analyses issues related to the political use and economical misappropriation of urban cultural events, cultural infrastructures, public resources, and cultural traditions in the city of Valencia, Spain.

Seit Handys und Smartphones mit integrierter Kamera verfügbar sind, werden damit hergestellte Bewegtbilder zunehmend wichtige Artefakte alltäglichen Handelns und Sich-Verhandelns.

The Britpop movement of the mid-1990s defined a generation, and the films were just as exciting as the music.

First Published in 1990, Husbands at Home gives a clear picture of the relationship between the domestic and the formal economy.

This updated edition presents a civic journalism treatment of the field of mass communication research.

Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid policies and priorities?

In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600.

The criminalization of migration is heavily patterned by race.

The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called "e;the damn mob of scribbling women.

This book explores the nature of the music industries before and after the digital revolution from the point of view of the consumer, and explores the question of whether there is a role for competition policy intervention in the music industries.

An accessible, expert introduction to one of the greatest minds of nineteenth century.

This book explores significant representations of Shinto and Buddhist sacred space, spiritual symbols, and religious concepts that are embedded in the secular framework of Japanese films aimed at general audiences in Japan and globally.

Super-Girls of the Future: Girlhood and Agency in Contemporary Superhero Comics investigates girl superheroes published by DC and Marvel Comics in the first two decades of the twenty-first century, asking who the new-and-improved super-girls are and what potentials they hold for imagining girls as agents of change, in the genre as well as its socio-cultural context.

This first published book on Milton''s masculinities exposes how Milton constructs the power-cultures of manhood in his most famous works.

First Published in 2004.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Though he never reached the lead actor status he labored so relentlessly to achieve, Warren Oates (1928-1982) is one of the most memorable and skilled character actors of the 1970s.

Über die pädagogische Arbeit mit Jungen wird kontrovers diskutiert, aber wie wird sie in die Praxis umgesetzt?

The Thiri Rama - or the Great Rama - was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar.

This book explores the cultural policies of sub-states with strong nationalist inclinations-in particular, Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia-and their trend, in recent years, towards promoting and supporting the cultural industries as a means of not just preserving their respective cultural identities, but of growing them.

Devastating losses caused by diseases such as smallpox led to an epidemic of bereavement among the Natives.

Im zweiten Band seiner Trilogie zeigt Castells die beiden großen einander entgegengesetzten Trends in unserer Welt: Globalisierung und kollektive Identitätsbildung.

We encounter digital data processing on a range of platforms and in a multitude of contexts today: in the predictive algorithms of the financial sector, in drones, insurance, and risk management, in smart cities, biometrics, medicine, and more.

Stars do have real power, but not all of them wield it wisely.

In the words of Cayuga Elder Gae Ho Hwako Norma Jacobs: "e;We have forgotten about that sacred meeting space between the Settler ship and the Indigenous canoe, odagahodhes, where we originally agreed on the Two Row, and where today we need to return to talk about the impacts of its violation.

The Routledge Handbook of Health and Media provides an extensive review and exploration of the myriad ways that health and media function as a symbiotic partnership that profoundly influences contemporary societies.

This edited collection brings together leading international academics and researchers to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs the future of prison and wider corrective services training, education, research, policy and practice.

This book examines users' digital content contribution and consumption behavior from a social perspective.

A comprehensive compilation of entries illuminates the key trends, activities, and themes in organic, sustainable, and local food, covering consumers, organizations, farming, policies, and much more.

What makes curating feminist organizing?

Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today's urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties.

This book examines how Jewish intellectuals during and after the Second World War reinterpreted Homer's epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, in light of their own wartime experiences, drawing a parallel between the ancient Greek genocide of the Trojans and the Nazi genocide of the Jews.