Cultural and media studies

Focusing on everyday experiences of sexuality in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, this book considers personal narratives and other queer artefacts to shed light on linguistic and performative strategies of resistance, referred to as queer word- and world-making.

An increasing number of women are claiming the careers and the success which are rightfully theirs.

The captivating story of former Wall Street Journal publisher Warren Phillips's rise to the topNewspaperman is at once a fascinating narrative of one man's journey through the newspaper business and an expert analysis of how the news is made.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future.

Paris between the wars: our impression is one of gaiety, frivolity, fashion, of exuberant living - a city whose lights were put out by the terrifyingly rapid advance of the German panzers in 1940.

From award-winning author Tara L.

Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence.

First published in 2000.

The transformations of people's relations to media content, technologies and institutions raise new methodological challenges and opportunities for audience research.

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts.

First published in 1993.

As the Kurdish question becomes more prominent in Middle Eastern politics, it is attracting attention from the media, the academic community, and governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Media Diversity: Economics, Ownership, and the FCC provides a detailed analysis of the regulation of diversity and its impact on the structure and practices within the broadcast television industry.

Das 'Handbuch Kinder und Medien' gibt einen aktuellen und umfassenden Überblick zum theoretischen, empirischen und methodologischen Stand der Kindermedienforschung.

This volume bridges the divide between film and media studies scholarship by exploring audience expectations of film and TV genre in the age of digital streaming, using qualitative thematic and quantitative data-driven analyses.

Trusted Bible teacher and New York Times bestselling author Dr.

Life can be stressful, especially for teens, and this stress can have negative impacts on both physical and psychological health.

With Following the Ball, Todd Cleveland incorporates labor, sport, diasporic, and imperial history to examine the extraordinary experiences of African football players from Portugal's African colonies as they relocated to the metropole from 1949 until the conclusion of the colonial era in 1975.

How do you help young children learn more about Native Americans than the cultural stereotypes found in children's books and in the media?

As the worlds billionaire class reaps record profits and global inequalities further divide nations and communities, this anthology compiled by renown activist Dr.

This book provides an extensive overview of producing in the ever-changing field of journalism for all types of newsrooms.

If memory was simply about past events, public authorities would never put their ever-shrinking budgets at its service.

Although restorative justice is probably one of the most talked about topics in contemporary criminology, little has been written about how community involvement in restorative justice translates into practice.

Yvonne Albrecht zeigt in ihrem Buch auf, dass es sinnvoll ist, die generellen Funktionen von Emotionen innerhalb gegenwärtiger Migrationsprozesse in den Blick zu nehmen.

New Materialism and Intersectionality advances the interplay of intersectionality theories and feminist new materialisms, arguing that co-constitutive influences between these fields will provide feminist and gender studies scholars with improved tools to analyse markers of difference and identity in 21st-century realities.

We need a new philosophy of the earth.

Feminist filmmakers are hitting the headlines.

What makes curating feminist organizing?

Nur wenige Spezies unserer urbanen Fauna werden leidenschaftlicher verachtet als der Hipster.

A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher in modernity.

This book discusses the history of music warning labels, specifically the Parental Advisory Label (PAL), and the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC).

This Handbook links the growing body of media and conflict research with the field of security studies.

This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs's Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and presents case studies of how fascism is communicated online.

First published in 1990, Border Dialogues explores some of the territories of contemporary culture, philosophy and criticism.

According to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries.

Violence is more than an issue in America.

On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French forces, accepting the generous "e;parole of honor"e; offered by General Montcalm.

John J.

This book presents six scholarly examinations of emerging issues in criminology and criminal justice as they impact LGBTQ+ people.

Exploring the representations of the war dead in early Greek mythology, particularly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle, alongside iconographic images on black-figure pottery and the evidence of funerary monuments adorning the graves of early Athenian elites, this book provides much-needed insight into the customs associated with the war dead in Archaic Athens.

In this book six leading criminologists address the central issues of ideology, crime and criminal justice in a series of essays originally presented at a symposium held in honour of Sir Leon Radzinowicz in Cambridge in March 2001.