Cultural and media studies

Why the Police Should be Trained by Black People aligns scholarly and community efforts to address how Black people are policed.

Designed to support the paradigm shift in media and communication, this book presents the basic tenets of strategic communication and its foundational disciplines of advertising, public relations, and marketing communications.

Is TV news racist?

This edited collection explores methods for conducting critical empirical research examining the potential impacts of theatrical events on audience members.

This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction to Kant currently available.

Recently, we have witnessed a rearticulation of the traditional relationship between the past, present and future, broadening historiography's range from studying past events to their later impact and meaning.

First published in 1985, The Chinese Art of Tea is an exploration into the history of tea and the Chinese art of tea, known as ch'a-shu.

Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia.

This book explores how women scientists are portrayed in hit American TV comedies The Big Bang Theory, Never Have I Ever, and Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist using a science communication lens.

This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century.

The nineteenth-century West saw extraordinary economic growth and cultural change.

Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) aims to enhance our understanding of how discourse figures in social processes, social structures, and social change.

In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.

Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film.

This book explains why the American public thinks of itself as conservative, but supports liberal positions on specific policy matters.

Conceiving of pedagogy as a form of cultural politics and teachers, therefore, as cultural workers, Simon offers a fresh vision of the notion of pedagogy.

Online media present both old and new ethical issues for journalists who must make decisions in an interactive, instantaneous environment short on normative standards or guidelines.

This book explores the relationship between political memories of migration and the politics of migration, following over two hundred years of commemorating Australia Day.

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, more Americans belonged to fraternal societies than to any other kind of voluntary association, with the possible exception of churches.

Before the Civil Rights movement, southern liberal journalists played a crucial role in shaping southern thought on race and racism.

In a historical investigation of the pleasures of cinema, Star Gazing puts female spectators back into theories of spectatorship.

Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, SlowBurn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along.

Conversations is an important collection of interviews in which Luce Irigaray discusses the full range of her work and ideas with leading academics in the fields of Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Critical Theory.

In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade.

An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD *; Reveals that LSD visions weave an ongoing story from trip to trip *; Shows that trips progress through three stages: personal issues and pre-birth consciousness, ego-loss, and on to the sacred *; Explores psychedelic use throughout history, including the mass hallucinations common in the Middle Ages and the early therapeutic use of LSD Toward the end of his fifties, Christopher Gray took, for the first time in years, a 100-microgram acid trip.

This anthology explores the recurring trope of the dead or absent mother in Western cultural productions.

Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic.

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno.

Kinship and Continuity is a vivid ethnographic account of the development of the Pakistani presence in Oxford, from after World War II to the present day.

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the field.

The trope of humans being 'replaced' by 'AI' is one of the most familiar examples of the rhetoric of replaceability.

Begeben wir uns in die Situation eines Textes: Es schmerzt ihn, wenn ihn der Redakteur kürzt.

Prisons are dangerous places, and assaults, threats, theft and verbal abuse are pervasive - attributable both to the characteristics of the captive population and to an institutional sub culture which promotes violence as a means of resolving conflicts.

Cultural Studies seems to have lost its way somewhere between today's preoccupation with the empirical and the theory revolutions of the 1980s and 90s.

Addressing a lack of high-quality sentencing information in Ireland, this important book explores the factors that influence judges to impose a sentence of long-term imprisonment in sexual offence cases.

The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations.

The prophet Amos is known for fiery messages directed at the elites of the northern kingdom of Israel in ancient times.

Racism refers to a host of practices, beliefs, social relations, and phenomena that work to reproduce a racial hierarchy and social structure that yield superiority and privilege for some, and discrimination and oppression for others.

This dramatic re-evaluation of Sartres ethical theory establishes its author as a leading American exponent of phenomenology and wins many new followers for Sartre in the English-speaking world.

Masculinity is not a monolithic phenomenon, but a historically discontinuous one-a fabrication as it were, of given cultural circumstances.