Cultural Studies

Is media changing the way we see transgender people or is it the other way around? In the past twenty to thirty years, transgender people have grad...

Is media changing the way we see transgender people or is it the other way around? In the past twenty to thirty years, transgender people have grad...

This book is about Senegalese Pop star Youssou Ndour, also known as the king of mbalax music. The word mbalax was the name given to a specific drum...

The second volume of «Studies on Balkan and Near Eastern Social Sciences» is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers in the socia...

War Hecatomb. International Effects on Public Health, Demography and Mentalities in the 20th Century, offers new insights on the impact of wars (n...

What happens when a small group of educators get together? What could they do, what could they make, what could they become? Not necessarily what y...

The 1960s (a.k.a. the 60s) remains a terrain of contemporary politicswith the values of the period embraced or rejected, as well as differently int...

Contemporary Ireland is undergoing a radical shift in its sense of national identity, as the traditional narratives that shaped its past have come ...

What takes place when we examine texts close-up? The art of close reading, once the closely guarded province of professional literary critics, now ...

«Beyond the narrow application to the pop-cultural zombie, Simon Bacons editorial definition of the concept of being «undead» generates discussions...

This book, the fourth volume of Studies on Balkan and Near Eastern Social Sciences, is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers in...

Neil Jordan is immediately associated with the successful films he has directed (The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins...). ...

This book is an elucidation and defense of four main propositions: (1) human nature is essentially rational; (2) rational nature is a conversation...

Fear seems to be at the heart of both present-day and past forms of anger, an anger that is produced in and by discourse and in and through transla...

This book explores interconnections between high literary modernism and the revolution in dress design of the early twentieth century. During this ...

The serial killer has become an obsession ever since Jack the Ripper became a media sensation, embedding a new and horrifying type of murderer into...

This study examines a series of self-representations from the 19th century (by Goethe, Sand, Nietzsche) that obstruct a confessional and psychologi...

The voyage the quest, the odyssey, the expedition is one of the driving forces of civilisation. From ancient times to the present day, human bein...