Cultural and media studies

This reference work incorporates the insights and expertise of leading liturgists and scholars of liturgy at work today, comprising 200 entries on important topics in the field, from vestments and offertories to ordination and divine unction.

Welchen Beitrag leisten populäre Fernsehbilder zur symbolischen Grenzziehung zwischen Mehrheitsbevölkerung und marginalisierten Gesellschaftsgruppen?

This book investigates the September 11, 2001 attacks as a case study of cultural trauma, as well as how the use of widely-distributed, easily-accessible forms of popular culture can similarly focalize evaluation of other moments of acute and profoundly troubling historical change.

The Media and Austerity examines the role of the news media in communicating and critiquing economic and social austerity measures in Europe since 2010.

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.

A fascinating look at how America's favorite sport has both reflected and shaped social, economic, and

An innovative history of British youth culture during the 1970s and 1980s, charting the full spectrum of punk''s cultural development.

An Introduction to Cyberpsychology provides a comprehensive introduction to this rapidly growing discipline.

Künftig wird die Bestellung verpackter Lebensmittel über das Internet auch in Deutschland zum Alltag gehören.

This book demonstrates, in contrast to statistics that show declining consumption of physical formats, that there has not been a mass shift towards purely digital media.

Positioning Taiwan in a Global Context examines modern Taiwanese culture through the prism of global cultural interactions.

Archaeology - the study of human cultures through the analysis and interpretation of artefacts and material remains - continues to captivate and engage people on a local and global level.

Led Zeppelin, who bestrode the world of rock like a colossus, have continually grown in popularity and influence since their official winding up in 1980.

A collection of articles on topics and individuals within the history of heterodox economic thought, approached from a heterodox perspective.

This book explores how the rise of widely available digital technology impacts the way music is produced, distributed, promoted, and consumed, with a specific focus on the changing relationship between artists and audiences.

As narrow, nationalist views of patriotic allegiance have become widespread and are routinely invoked to justify everything from flag-waving triumphalism to xenophobic bigotry, the concept of a nonnationalist patriotism has vanished from public conversation.

An easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive beginner's guide to drawing .

Status and Sacredness provides a new theory of status and sacral relationships and a provocative reinterpretation of the Indian caste system and Hinduism.

This book explores the relationship between (post)truth and subjectivity by focusing on social media as a site of digital subjectification.

This book will sketch the dynamics of infrastructure in video games, focusing on the relationship between game rules, fictional world, and player interaction.

How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them?

This textbook goes beyond introductory sensory perception by incorporating supplementary electronic materials to demonstrate the parallels between both hearing and seeing.

Winner of the 2017 McLaren-Lambart Award for Best Book on the Subject of AnimationStudying landscape in cinema isn't quite new; it'd be hard to imagine Woody Allen without New York, or the French New Wave without Paris.

This book analyzes the Artists' House, a cultural center in Tehran, to place Iran's social and cultural transformation in a local-global context.

This book critically examines the term 'religion' (shukyo) as a social category within the sociological context of contemporary Japan.

This is a biography of Cardinal John Tong of Hong Kong, which charts his experiences through the Second World War, his time as a seminarian in Macau, and his studies in Rome during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which represented a pivotal moment in modern Catholic Church history.

Das explosionsartige Anwachsen des chemischen Wissens hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten im Bereich der organischen Chemie zu einer schier unübersehbaren Anzahl neuer und neuartiger Verbindungen und Verbindungsklassen geführt, deren rationelle Benennung immer größere Schwierigkeiten bereitete.

Manipulierte Bilder, erfundene Geschichten, üble Gerüchte: Im Internet wird mit unfairen Methoden Stimmung gemacht – für Bürger ist oft nicht erkennbar: Was stimmt?

The old craft of the witches was a close order.

Cyberspace is everywhere in today's world and has significant implications not only for global economic activity, but also for international politics and transnational social relations.

Violently divided societies present major challenges to institutions seeking to establish peace in places characterised by ethnic conflict and high levels of social segregation.

Named after Lapindo Brantas, a gas exploration company that was drilling at the eruption site, the Lapindo mudflow initially burst in 2006 and continues to flow today, becoming the most expensive disaster in Indonesia's history.

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec (1936-1983) to dance.

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

This study examines the way that the modernization and incorporation of the American publishing industry in the early twentieth century both helped to foment the emerging late industrial cultural hierarchy and capitalized on that same hierarchy to increase readership and profits.

Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume explores the reality of the principle of human dignity - a core value which is increasingly invoked in our societies and legal systems.

This book develops "e;organizing eating"e; as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to actively shape eating and working in the U.

The essays in this collection reflect the range and depth of musical life in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century.

In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T.

This book is a novel study on the way revolutions in science, technology and communication impact philosophy/world outlook including Marxism, society's future, mode of production, capitalism/socialism dichotomy, world economy, and trends like postmodernism and post-industrialism.

Love Spells celebrates the ancient art of love magic in a collection of authentic traditions used throughout the ages to invoke love, practice divination, and heal broken hearts.

This book draws on case studies of social, economic and political governance policies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the circumstances in which governments and societies produce policies that overcome initial opposition to meet their aims.

In TEACHING THE MEDIA: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Andrew Hart initiates a challenging dialogue about approaches to Media teaching in the major English-speaking nations of the world, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa.

This unique volume initiates a dialogue between bio-medicine and alternative therapeutics.

First published in 1989.

Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations.