Cultural Studies

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo...

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men explores the changing depiction of superheroes from the comic books of the 1930s to the cinematic present. In this anth...

'Beautifully researched account, full of humour and personal insight'David Crystal, author of Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar ...

Break out the candy canes! Holly Jolly is a colorful sleigh ride through the history of Christmas, from its religious origins to its emergence as a...

__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account...

''A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes'' Guardian''Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture, illuminat...

A new approach to culture and cultural patterns is elucidated through relating a theory of personality and social characters to the genesis of myth...

There is a spectrum of identities: from the mathematical, through cases where specific criteria matter, to the complex or intuitive cases where we ...

Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working m...

This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a spe...

The Situationist International was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism and Lenninism. They played...

Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be i...

Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters is a collection of essays which span several countries, centuries and disciplines in the...

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents ...

American society has changed dramatically since A Culture of Conspiracy was first published in 2001. In this revised and expanded edition, Michael ...

Following the global success of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island comes the next chapter in Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures cinematic Mo...

In the majority of mainstream writing and discussions on music, women appear purely in relation to men as muses, groupies or fangirls, with our own...

From YouTubes Head of Culture and Trends, a rousing and illuminating behind-the-scenes exploration of internet videos massive impact on our world ...

John Wade grew up in the 1950s, a decade that has since been dubbed the 'golden age of science fiction'. It was a wonderful decade for science fict...

There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the fi...

A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible i...