Cultural Studies

The Sacred Harp choral singing tradition originated in the American South in the mid-nineteenth century, spread widely across the country, and cont...

Pearls of wisdom contained in proverbs - whakatauk I - have been gifted from generation to generation as an intrinsic part of the Maori world. As p...

A rather perfect textbook at the right level. It opens up issues of transgender very well and is critical in just the right tone. Much needed in me...

The resurgence of strong radical right-wing parties and movements constitutes one of the most significant political changes in democratic states du...

Consumption is a core issue for all disciplines studying ''culture and society''. This four-volume set covers such diverse issues as food, environm...

In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hy...

The Italian house of Pomellato s jewelry merges Italian craftsmanship with audacious design. Celebrating the house s fiftieth anniversary, this boo...

This book explores the subject of islands, their essence and identity, their isolation and their relationships in the Ancient world. It investigate...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and b...

Zoulei is an endangered language spoken by several hundred speakers in Chinas Guizhou Province and adjacent areas. It is a variety of the Ahou dial...

A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwa...

Children, Media and Culture seeks to redefine the discipline''''s domain by including classical art, fairy tales, and literature in the research p...

From language and clothes, to toys and the media, society inflicts unwritten rules on each gender from birth. Aiming to make people aware of the wa...

No ruling regime, writes Hamid Dabashi, could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people. For decades, the narrative about...

Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that c...

With at least seven billion subscriptions worldwide, the impact of mobile devices undoubtedly rivals that of television, radio, and newspapers. Mob...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an...

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of C...

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally change...

Don't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and ...

Culture has always relied on art, just as artists have been dependent on culture as a problem field to draw inspiration from and as a store of soci...

Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a compr...