Cultural Studies

Over the past years, the view has emerged that Japanese TV is dominated by an infotainment mode of discourse. The book extends this view, detailing...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate t...

During the tumultuous years of the English Revolution and Restoration, national crises like civil wars and the execution of the king convinced Engl...

Gay bars have been closing by the hundreds. The story goes that increasing mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ people, plus dating apps like Grindr and...

As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics f...

Government bureaucracies across the globe have become increasingly attuned in recent years to cultural diversity within their populations. Using cu...

Includes case studies. Addresses the connection between social innovation and culture and the arts. Relevant to scholars and students across disc...

'Ali is one of the best flawed heroines in Irish commercial fiction since Rachel Walsh in Marian Keyes' ground-breaking Rachel's Holiday...' Sunday...

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the great African American intellectuals of the early twentieth century. He was a prominent civil rights leader, sociol...

This open access handbook explores the increasingly cross-disciplinary nature of cultural work and assesses how it engages with other fields, such ...

The Covid-19 pandemic heightened peoples awareness of long-standing inequalities within the fashion industry. Amid calls for greater accountability...

The Covid-19 pandemic heightened peoples awareness of long-standing inequalities within the fashion industry. Amid calls for greater accountability...

In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office...

In the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office...

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a quee...

Studies in Religion and the Everyday is a collection of essays addressing the contours of religious beliefs and practices in the context of everyda...

This collection considers Irish monuments from the medieval to the modern era. The essays presented here challenge the notion that these works are ...

The book joins a growing scholarship in the field of Bollywood film studies, encompassing methodological sub-groups such as discursive or narrative...