Cultural and media studies

What does it mean to grow older as a lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans (LGBT) person?

Buying and Clearing Rights is the first work to consider the difficulties of rights clearances in all forms of media.

You can never have too many vitamins, until they kill you.

Combining intellectual history, geography and political science, this book addresses the relations between geography and the federalist tendencies of key individuals during the nineteenth-century Italian Risorgimento.

Offender-focused prosecution concentrates attention to the actions, decisions, choices, and motivations of the offender.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "e;Can a human being be free of human nature?

How do social practices prefigure experiences, and how does embodied experience organize the performance of practices?

Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences.

In the light of a rapidly changing media industry with new technologies, actors and advertising models, and the critical role of media in society, this volume highlights the meaning of different values in media companies and media managers' decisions.

A classic initiatic primer for the serious magical aspirant, available now for the first time in English *; Details occult purification and preparations for the path of natural and divine magic *; Explains how initiation into the hermetic science transforms the novice not only mentally but also physically, altering even the very fluids of the body *; Offers a return to the original hermetic path of initiation, following the strict procedures and symbolism as defined in the spiritual practices of Pythagoras and his tradition The main purpose of the hermetic science, as seen by Giuliano Kremmerz (1861-1930), Italian alchemist, hermeticist, philosopher, and member of the Ur Group, is to allow the adept to concentrate on the natural and divine magic that will allow him or her to develop the latent powers innate in every human being.

This 2003 book discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously ''legitimated'' linguistic and social inequalities.

This book deals with one the most interesting aspects of human life-the search for meaning.

This interdisciplinary volume represents the first comprehensive English-language analysis of the development of Protestant Christianity in Xiamen from the nineteenth century to the present.

Creative Industry practices are increasingly manifested through hybrid models and methods and emerging sub-sectors.

Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities.

One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human.

Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances.

This book addresses the subject of violence as it features in celebrated modernist works from the early twentieth century.

This book argues that embryology and the reproductive sciences played a key role in the rise of the Gothic novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Petrification is a process, but it also can be understood as a concept.

Much discussion of Protestant Christianity and its missions in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is focused on the work of English missionary William Carey and American Missionaries Adoniram and Ann Judson, who travelled to India in 1793 and 1813.

Selena Daly's work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period.

This ethnographic work about TikTok's musicking in a glocal (Austrian) context complements and build upon ethnomusicological assumptions, theories, and methods for the study of musical practices in digital spaces.

This book not only aims at highlighting existing inequalities between men and women, but also their efforts to overcome these challenges, especially so in women belonging to marginalized communities.

Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment examines criminal sentencing courts' changing characterisations of Indigenous peoples' identity, culture and postcolonial status.

In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas.

Ein erfolgreicher Blogger/Influencer zu sein, ist besonders für viele junge Menschen ein anzustrebender Wunsch.

As the global COVID-19 pandemic that broke out over two years ago is showing signs of relenting, and the world's attention draws towards yet another military conflict in Ukraine, the roles of crisis communication and media research couldn't be more critical.

Our society is shaped by our media now more than at any time in history.

In this intellectual history of British cultural Marxism, Dennis Dworkin explores one of the most influential bodies of contemporary thought.

This work is an in-depth look at many aspects of contemporary Swedish customs and culture that ties today's nation to an understanding of its history.

Making a new contribution to the developing field of multimodal critical discourse studies, Ian Roderick's book demonstrates how technologies that tend to be widely represented as innovative, or as simple pragmatic solutions, are always anchored in power relations and are therefore deeply ideological.

Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.

Robert Rozehnal traces the ritual practices and identity politics of a contemporary Sufi order in Pakistan: the Chishti Sabris.

From Tamils to Malayalees, from Bengalis to Punjabis, the diverse Indian community in Singapore has played a large part in building the country.

We live in a time in which photographs have become extraordinarily mobile.

This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America and why state policy is often ineffective.

Gender-based violence is a global phenomenon which affects millions worldwide.

Postmemories of Terror focuses on how young Argentineans remember the traumatic events of the military dictatorship (1976-83).

Brewing a cup of tea can lead to a variety of exciting magical practices, andTea Magicis the perfect, gorgeously illustrated guide.

Star Wars begins with its famous title sequence, setting the story in the ancient past of a remote galaxy.

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

In the summer of 2010, Ragan Fox was one of twelve people selected to participate in the twelfth season of CBS's reality program Big Brother.

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around the world in a two-volume set.

The Reinvention of Social Practices shows the relevance of Felix Guattari's thought for the analysis of contemporary social and cultural encounters, ranging across an alternative 'skateboard' school, informatic subjugations, urban ecological dilemmas, drug subcultures, and countercultures.