Cultural Studies

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of '...

This title was first published in 2000. Offering original insights into the relationship between media and democratic theory, this volume brings to...

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual...

Ramchandra Gandhi, famous for his rich and varied interests, left behind a large corpus of writings, both philosophical and non-philosophical. Intr...

This edited volume presents critical scholarship analysing governance practices in diverse jurisdictions in Europe and North America, at multiple s...

Drawing on politics, religion, law, literature, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary study is a sequel to Mark Fortiers bookThe Culture of Equity...

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a si...

1992 was a pivotal moment in African American history, with the Rodney King riots providing palpable evidence of racialized police brutality, media...

This book brings together essays on North East India from across disciplines to explore new understandings of the colonial and contemporary realiti...

The material turn in critical theory - and particularly the turn towards the body coupled with scientific insights from biomedicine, biology and ph...

In contemporary society it would seem self-evident that people allow the market to determine the values of products and services. For everything fr...

Andreas Hepp takes an integrative look at one of the biggest questions in media and communications research: how digital media is changing society....

The texts presented in Proportion Harmonies and Identities (PHI) - INTELLIGENCE, CREATIVITY AND FANTASY were compiled with the intent to establish ...

From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and ...

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honest...

In this book the author explores the various meanings assigned to goods sold retail from 1550 to 1820 and how their labels were understood. The fir...

Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the dis...

This book presents new empirical studies of social difference in the Nordic welfare states, in order to advance novel theoretical perspectives on t...

Investigating how people and places are connected into the creative economy, this volume takes a holistic view of the intersections between communi...

On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Roe v. Wade. Holding that a womans substantive due process right to terminate her pre...

The entanglements of information and materiality in our media environment, that new information and communication technologies make increasingly mo...

Un-Roman Sex explores how gender and sex were perceived and represented outside the Mediterranean core of the Roman Empire. The volume critically e...

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical applicat...

The new edition of this bestselling textbook, Multicultural Psychology, helps students gain an understanding of how race, ethnicity, and culture sh...