Cultural and media studies

Forty years after Roe v.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

This book offers a critical look at celebrity and celebrities throughout history, emphasizing the development of celebrity as a concept, its relevance to individuals, and the role of the public and celebrities in popular culture.

This book uses the mutual interactions between Chinese and Western culture as a point of departure in order to concisely introduce the origins and evolution of Chinese culture at the aspects of constitution, thinking, values and atheistic.

Die Select Society of Edinburgh (1754–1764) gehörte zu den renommiertesten Gelehrteninstitutionen im Schottland der Aufklärung.

This book provides an in-depth study of Japanese whaling culture, emphasizing how the Japanese have considered whales and whaling in relation to their understanding of nature and religion.

A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).

We Europeans?

British comedy cinema has been a mainstay of domestic production since the beginning of the last Century and arguably the most popular and important genre in British film history.

What makes a magazine in South Africa promote Scandinavian unity among its immigrant readers and why does a Swedish king endorse attempts to influence pan-Scandinavian opinion through a transnational media event in Sweden, Norway and Denmark?

This book reports on the latest advances in understanding cross-cultural decision and human cognition  with respect to various cultural constructs, such as geographical, historical, sociological, and organizational cultures.

The Cinema of Eisenstein is David Bordwell's comprehensive analysis of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, arguably the key figure in the entire history of film.

Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism.

The rise of nationalist, racist and anti-feminist ideologies is one of the most frightening repercussions of the collapse of socialism.

This book examines the circulation and viewership of Bollywood films and filmi modernity in Bangladesh.

Das Handbuch der sozialwissenschaftlichen Datenanalyse bietet in über 40 Kapiteln eine umfassende Darstellung multivariater Analyseverfahren.

This book gathers peer-reviewed papers presented at the 1st International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage (EARTH2018), held in Brixen, Italy in July 2018.

Modernization has been a profound change of human civilizations - a worldwide phenomenon and trend since the 18th century.

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North's destructive relationship with the natural world.

This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period.

This collection charts the terrain of contemporary Japanese animation, one of the most explosive forms of visual culture to emerge at the crossroads of transnational cultural production in the last twenty-five years.

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Indian history is one of the most ancient histories of the world in terms of human civilization.

Master culinary skills and prepare for assessment with the book which professional chefs have relied on for over 50 years to match the qualification and support their training and careers.

Deepfakes – manipulierte oder synthetische audiovisuelle Medien, meist erzeugt mit Hilfe von KI – finden in verschiedensten Kontexten Anwendung: von Politik über Pornografie und Kriminalität bis hin zu Wirtschaft, Strafverfolgung, Kunst, Satire, Bildung und Aktivismus.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michael Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek.

Public History for a Post-Truth Era explores how to combat historical denial when faith in facts is at an all-time low.

Evaluating Children's Writing: A Handbook of Grading Choices for Classroom Teachers, Second Edition introduces and explains a wide range of specific evaluation strategies used by classroom teachers to arrive at grades and gives explicit instructions for implementing them.

Jonathan Williams's poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic.

Decline and Reimagination in Cinematic New York examines the cinematic representation of New York from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s, placing the dominant discourse of urban decline in dialogue with marginal perspectives that reimagine the city along alternative paths as a resilient, adaptive, and endlessly inspiring place.

Suitable for 2nd and 3rd year students taking courses on drug use/misuse principally in departments such as Sociology, Law, Cultural and Media Studies, and Psychology.

WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY PETER TOWNSEND PRIZE 2017 Welcome to Foodbank Britain, where emergency food provision is an increasingly visible and controversial feature of ongoing austerity.

Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all.

Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.

Nationalism and nationalist ideas are a major force in the contemporary world.

Grounded in theoretical principle, Media Effects and Society help students make the connection between mass media and the impact it has on society as a whole.

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets?

Perspective as Logic offers an architectural examination of the filmic screen as an ontologically unique element in the discipline's repertoire.

The etymological affinity between 'criticism' and 'crisis' has never been more resonant than it is today, when social life is increasingly understood as defined by a succession of overlapping global crises: financial and economic crises; environmental crises; geopolitical crises; terrorist crises; public health crises.

We are living in an age in which the relationship between reading and space is evolving swiftly.

In 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions.

Interpreting Objects in the Hybrid Museum examines the recent trend for converged collecting institutions and uses its investigation as a catalyst for critical reflection by all stakeholders on the risks, as well as advantages, of integration for cultural engagement.

Wer John Wesleys Theologie kennen lernen will, muss seine Predigten lesen.

Part of the series Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies, this book focuses on the concepts that recur in any discussion of nature, culture and society among the indigenous.

This book explores and affirms the emergent symbiosis between videogames and architecture, including insights from a diverse range of disciplines.