Cultural Studies

The tale of a tormented creature created in a laboratory began on a rainy night in 1816 in the imagination of a nineteen-year-old Mary Wollstonecra...

The Independent Group is now the subject of global scholarly interest, and this book, a sequel to The Independent Group: Modernism and mass culture...

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it ...

Yellowstone is America''s premier national park. Today is often a byword for conservation, natural beauty, and a way for everyone to enjoy the grea...

Toysa celebrated part of childhood and key figures in childrens imaginative playhave a fantastic history of heroism in print and on film. From the ...

First published in 1998, 'Inventing Ruritania' achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. I...

Mongolia is landlocked between its neighbors China and Russia in the heart of Asia. For centuries after the disintegration of Genghis Khan's empire...

Cover songs operate as a form of cultural discourse across various musical genres and different societal, historical and political conditions. C...

With over 500,000 readers a month at her enormously popular blog, AwesomelyLuvvie.com, Luvvie Ajayi has become a go-to source for smart takes on po...

BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS, one of the most perceptive and interesting journalists writing today, takes us into some unusual precincts of American societ...

Bob Dylans cultural production in the second half of the twentieth century, his songs, but also his changing images and self-fashionings have infor...

Hundreds of books have been written about The Beatles. Over the last half century, their story has been mythologized and de-mythologized and pre...

In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the complexities of...

The 14 essays in Game on, Hollywood! take on several points of game and film intersection. They look at storylines, aesthetics, mechanics, and p...

Lady Gaga represents both the height of celebrity and a disruption of the norms surrounding the social position. This book charts the way the po...

Since launching his career at the Village Voice in the early 1980s Greg Tate has been one of the premiere critical voices on contemporary Black mus...

Curtis Mayfield. The Chi-Lites. Chaka Khan. Chicago's place in the history of soul music is rock solid. But for Chicagoans, soul music in its heyda...

This motivational journal inspired by one of the greatest bands of all time, *NSYNC, lets the world know It's Gonna Be ...You! With quotes and pro...

Music has long been an avenue for protest, seen as a way to promote freedom and equality, instill hope, and fight for change. Popular music, in par...

A firsthand look at efforts to improve diversity in software and hackerspace communitiesHacking, as a mode of technical and cultural production, is...

For fans of the hit show Fargo and bestselling author Noah Hawley comes the perfect collector's item. This companion to the first three seasons of ...

**A Stylist Book Club pick** 'In a time when women are under constant attack, I am so grateful for Anne Helen Petersen's sharp and topical book. Pe...

In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With piercing analysis of cinema, theatre, television, ...

Popular culture is as debated as it is pervasive. It is pervasive in that the symbolic worlds in which we live and out of which we construct sense...

In Theft by Finding, David Sedaris opened up his written diaries (and himself) to the world in an unprecedented way. Now, in this illustrated volum...

When times are particularly difficult, and you are likely to slip into despair, some of the greatest pop songs can provide true comfort to make it ...

This collection of new essays covers the myriad portrayals of the figure of the pirate in historical records, literary narratives, films, televi...