Cultural and media studies

For 100 years, Hollywood has provided both the majority and the most popular of films shown on British screens.

Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’.

Aktueller Überblick der Theorien und Gestaltungsempfehlungen zum Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien auf Basis aktueller empirischer Befunde aus Metaanalysen und ExperimentalserienDas Forschungsfeld zum Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien hat sich in den letzten Jahren erheblich weiterentwickelt.

Driven by such diverse advances as the Human Genome Project and the explosion of the World Wide Web, and also by the threat of human-inspired disasters such as global warming, the field of science and literature studies is currently undergoing an unprecedented expansion.

A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg.

This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is nothing new.

The Poetics of Crime provides an invitation to reconsider and reimagine how criminological knowledge may be creatively and poetically constructed, obtained, corroborated and applied.

Diversity bedeutet Vielfalt oder Verschiedenheit.

This book, the first of its kind, brings together leading scholars from multiple perspectives in a serious dialogue about continuity and change in global media production and content.

This book offers a new way to justify privacy based on a theory derived from Buddhist insights.

Thailand is rapidly industrializing, dramatically improving the living standards of its people, and gradually developing a more democratic society.

Essays by leading scholars offer new insights into a remarkable poet and early advocate of environmental ethics and aesthetics.

This edited volume examines the multiple dimensions of sustainability in the Circumpolar North, a territory facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges at the start of the 21st century.

This absorbing anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity.

This book provides a sustained engagement with contemporary Indian feature films from outside the mainstream, including Aaranaya Kaandam, I.

Published in 1997, this book traces the development of European Food Aid Policy from its inception in the 1960s through to the 1990s.

ONE OF PITCHFORK'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2019.

Curated by the chief editor of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, this book presents engaging and accessible chapters that capture current and essential research findings from leaders in the sexuality education field.

Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies, including governments, corporations, education and the media.

As people are living longer on average than ever before, the number of those with dementia will increase.

This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine.

​In SOS-Kinderdörfern weltweit leben und arbeiten Frauen, die als Mütter für (Sozial-)Waisen sorgen.

This volume provides a critical examination of the lives and works of the leading novelists, poets, dramatists, artists, philosophers, social thinkers, mathematicians and scientists of the period.

Is mankind alone in the universe?

Originally published in 1982, From Author to Reader, the first of its kind, is a complete review of books in modern society that draws upon the author's own and many other published sources concerning the social aspects of books.

Sound, music and storytelling are important tools of resistance, resilience and reconciliation in creative practice from protracted conflict to post-conflict contexts.

Gängige Gottesdiensttheorien sehen Fürbitten heute als Akt, den die Gemeinde im Priestertum aller Gläubigen ausübt.

First published in 1937, this volume offers an overview of witchcraft and its practices and history, written by Montague Summers.

Popular music is increasingly being represented and celebrated as an aspect of contemporary cultural history and heritage.

A practical handbook for programming directors, this guide focuses on achieving specific objectives in today's modern, competitive environment.

This is the first English translation of a compelling and highly original reading of Epicurus by Jean-Marie Guyau.

With the aim to synthesise and simplify the core concepts of corporate communications, this book offers a clear look at the history of the discipline and profession with attention to essential principles for practice.

The media star has become a powerful, almost unparalleled, cultural sign, even as the star system has undergone radical transformation since the era of the Hollywood studio system.

Singer-Songwriters and Musical Open Mics is an ethnographic exploration of New York City's live music events where musicians signup and perform short sets.

This volume offers a new history of the relationship between commerce and politics, from the eighteenth century to the present.

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies.

This book adds to the scant academic literature investigating how comics transmit knowledge of the past and how this refraction of the past shapes our understanding of society and politics in sometimes damaging ways.

"e;Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are,"e; said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

After more than a century of genocides and in the midst of a global pandemic, this book focuses on the critique of biopolitics (the government of life through individuals and the general population) and the counterdevelopment of biopoetics (an aesthetics of life elaborating a self as a practice of freedom) realized in texts by Virginia Woolf, Michel Foucault, and Michael Ondaatje.

An inside look at how religious diversity came to PrincetonIn 1981, Frederick Houk Borsch returned to Princeton University, his alma mater, to serve as dean of the chapel at the Ivy League school.

This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century.

To understand the profound changes in the modes of public political debate over the past decade, this volume develops a new conception of public spheres as spaces of resonance emerging from the power of language to affect and to ascribe and instill collective emotion.

Traditions throughout the world and across history have tackled fundamental questions about the human condition.

This volume examines the role of apologia and apology in response to public attack.

Everyday Applications of Psychological Science explores several core areas of psychology, showing readers how to apply these principles to everyday situations in order to better their understanding of human behavior and improve their quality of life.