Cultural and media studies

Contributions by Gokce Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Veronica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjoberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling Media narratives in popular culture often assign interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age, presuming a resemblance between children and the elderly.

What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white?

New Deal Archaeology in Tennessee is a collection of essays that explore how contemporary archaeology was catalyzed and shaped by the archaeological revolution during the New Deal era.

Since the 2000 elections toppled the PRI, over 150 Mexican journalists have been murdered.

Border Urbanism presents a global array of authors' research that tackles the perception, interpretation, and nature of borders from a transdisciplinary perspective.

The Anglo-Irish war of 1919-1921 was an international historical landmark: the first successful revolution against British rule and the beginning of the end of the Empire.

This book sources interviews with scholars, urban designers, music experts, financial analysts, retailers, and hip hop celebrities to chronicle the compelling story of how hip hop transformed the fashion world and exploded into a $3 billion clothing industry.

This book provides the first systematic and comprehensive analysis of the factors that explain both completed and incomplete treaty negotiations between Aboriginal groups and the federal, provincial, and territorial governments of Canada.

What constraints do history and the global economy place upon Africa's economic development?

How is meaning in our bodies constructed?

In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King’s Barrow.

The childlike character of ideal femininity has long been critiqued by feminists, from Mary Wollstonecraft to Simone de Beauvoir.

This book provides a first thorough analysis of internet humour from a cognitive-pragmatic perspective, covering a wide range of discourses that are pervasive online and focusing especially on messaging interactions, social networking sites and memes.

Addresses misunderstandings about race in a rational and comprehensive way, emphasising that race is a purely social construct.

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This book argues that videogames address contemporary, middle-class anxieties about poverty in the United States.

The first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed a passionate engagement with the losses of the past.

Davide Panagia's Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory.

This is the first cultural and literary history of India and the First World War, with archival research from Europe and South Asia.

The book investigates the experience of ethno-racial discrimination in France and the forms that resistance takes in a colour-blind context.

This book examines the pioneering radio broadcasts and television documentaries about the United States made in the 1950s by the influential West German journalist Peter von Zahn.

This book is a thoroughly updated version of the popular first edition of The Prison Officer.

This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa.

Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression - a force to be kept in check.

A philosophical-cultural exploration, this book expands the discussion of "class" from a novel perspective.

From Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 search for the Northwest Passage to early twentieth-century sprints to the South Pole, polar expeditions produced an extravagant archive of documents that are as varied as they are engaging.

These two volumes present the most important recent developments in the institutional theory of culture and demonstrate their practical applications.

Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme-philosophy as the art of living-and gives it a contemporary twist.

Focusing on the body in every chapter, this book examines the changing meanings and profound significance of the physical form among the Anglo-Saxons from 1880 to 1920.

The Ojibwe or Anishinaabe are a native American people of the northern Great Lakes region.

A step-by-step guide to crafting a compelling scholarly book proposal-and seeing your book through to successful publicationThe scholarly book proposal may be academia's most mysterious genre.

The Experimental Turn in the Moroccan Novel, 1976-1989 examines the trajectory of the Moroccan experimental novel and makes a link between its emergence in the early-mid 1970s and the Arab defeat in the six-day war with Israel in 1967.

Co-authored by three prominent philosophers of art, Jazz and the Philosophy of Art is the first book in English to be exclusively devoted to philosophical issues in jazz.

This book provides a chronological record of the development of Chinese thoughts on public finance over its 4,000 years of history, ranging from the Xia Dynasty to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

"e;No one makes me laugh harder than Judy Gold.

An intimate depiction of the visionary who revolutionized the art world A man who created portraits of the rich and powerful, Andy Warhol was one of the most incendiary figures in American culture, a celebrity whose star shone as brightly as those of the Marilyns and Jackies whose likenesses brought him renown.

Clever and entertaining.

In January 1832, in the most southern part of Ontario's James Bay, an elderly Cree man by the name of Quapakay was told by the spirits of the shaking tent that in order to survive the winter, he was required to "e;spoil"e; the post at Hannah Bay, a Hudson's Bay Company goose hunting station.

This book explores the struggles over the mediated construction and projection of the image of the nation at times of social unrest.

In the modern age (1920 2000), vast technological innovation spurred greater concentration, standardization, and globalization of the food supply.

The first book-length edited collection on Machado de Assis, this volume offers essays on Machado de Assis' work that offer new critical perspectives not only Brazilian literature and history, but also to social, cultural, and political phenomena that continue to have global repercussions.

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for a long-standing tradition of more serious and meaningful depictions of Appalachia's people.

Dilli ki Khoj is an anecdotal history of Delhi and its monuments by Shri Brij Kishan Chandiwala, an eminent Gandhian.

In Look, a Negro!

This book asks: what are extreme television media, and are they actually bad for American politics?

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input-Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN).