Cultural and media studies

How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in AmericaIn an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream.

Drawing on theory from a range of schools of psychoanalytic thought, this timely book addresses and explores the phenomenon of the increasing number of people who were assigned female at birth and now identify as male, and what might underly the cultural pull to remove femaleness from self and body.

This book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania.

This book provides a philosophical investigation of technology in Africa, articulating conceptual foundations and analyses rooted in African worldviews and communitarian values.

While globalization is often associated with economic and social progress, it has also brought new forms of terrorism, permanent states of emergency, demographic displacement, climate change, and other "e;natural"e; disasters.

African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows explores the little-known racial relationship between the African diaspora and C.

Russia and the newly independent states of Central Asia are struggling to reassert or create national identities and are receiving fresh attention from the West.

Gaming in Deutschland und speziell in Sachsen – quo vadis?

Mindcraft ist mehr als nur ein Begriff – es ist ein Werkzeug, um Ihren Geist zu stärken, Ihre Kreativität zu entfalten und Ihre Ziele mit Klarheit zu verfolgen.

This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelley's engagement with the phenomenon of death.

Learn functional programming and the Haskell programming language through algorithmic music composition and virtual instrument design.

The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are impossible to estimate empirically.

A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities.

An exciting new title from the leading quilt author, Quilt Me!

In So What's New about Scholasticism?

This edited collection is positioned at the nexus of sports, society and creative writing.

"e;The definitive book on the social, political, and economic dimensions of data.

This book shows how a political and cultural dynamic of amnesia and truth telling shapes literary constructions of history.

This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment.

A History of Rwanda: From the Monarchy to Post-genocidal Justice provides a complete history of Rwanda, from the precolonial abanyiginya kingdom, through the German and Belgian colonial periods and subsequent independence, and then the devastating 1994 genocide and reconstruction, right up to the modern day.

Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market.

Bringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly disciplines, this collection of 32 original chapters provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationships between cities and media.

This book examines queer characters in popular American television, demonstrating how entertainment can educate audiences about LGBT identities and social issues like homophobia and transphobia.

The book is a meticulous work in answering these questions which often occur to foreigners as well as modern Chinese themselves at the thought of the old China and its experience in modern times: What is Chinese civilization?

Taylor brings an ethnographer's eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.

What does it mean to become a man in the Arctic today?

When the arts, culture, and entertainment industries came to a halt in late winter 2020, many claimed this was the end of art as we knew it.

Media, War and Postmodernity investigates how conflict and international intervention have changed since the end of the Cold War, asking why Western military operations are now conducted as high-tech media spectacles, apparently more important for their propaganda value than for any strategic aims.

This book presents a collection of latest case studies on augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR), extended reality (XR) and metaverse applications in various industries.

Sound Heritage is the first study of music in the historic house museum, featuring contributions from both music and heritage scholars and professionals in a richly interdisciplinary approach to central issues.

Skinheads go beyond the societal stereotype of hate mongers, bigots, and Neo-Nazis.

This Element explains love with technologies in ways that go beyond traditional approaches to technologically mediated bodies and emotions.

This book examines the history of journalists and journalism in twentieth-century Ireland.

This 2004 book is an exploration of the volunteer networks for moral reforms of late Georgian and Victorian England.

Harpelle focuses on Caribbean migrants and their adaptation to life in a Hispanic society, particularly in Limon, where cultures and economies often clashed.

In this ground-breaking book, a theory of 'distortion' - of the way in which the processes of human life are subject to interference, diversion and transformation - is developed by way of the art of one of Britain's greatest twentieth-century painters and that art's public reception.

The new edition of this comprehensive and authoritative anthology of Rousseau''s important early political writings in faithful English translations.

This book centres and explores postcolonial theory, which looks at issues of power, economics, politics, religion and culture and how these elements work in relation to colonial supremacy.

The intersections between culture and human rights have engaged some of the most heated and controversial debates across international law and theory.

​Während die Zahl der Kommunikationskanäle mit Websites, Social Media, Fernsehen und Podcasts immer größer wird, bleibt der Kampf um die Aufmerksamkeit von KundInnen, InvestorInnen oder MitarbeiterInnen der gleiche.

A complete benchwork on the rich indian cultural heritage in respect of fairs and festivals of indias all regions, from north to south, west to east, north - east region and central india, their socio-cultural, religions and economic significance and value, their support with the human society, in five comprehensive volume covering all the 28 states and 7 union territories very useful for social scientists, teachers and researchers in india and abroad.

Censorship in Japan has seen many changes over the last 150 years and each successive system of rule has possessed its own censorship laws, regulations, and methods of enforcement.

The power and status of English male elites were not merely inherited at birth but developed through everyday interactions with family, peers and guardians.

This book provides readers with the first survey of social conditions since the opening of the borders between China and mainland Southeast Asia in the early 1990s, which saw radical changes in the economic policies of the various states involved, in particular, China, Vietnam, and Laos.