Cultural Studies

In the dizzying wake of World War II, Rome skyrocketed to prominence as an epicenter of film, fashion, photography, and boldfaced libertinism. Arti...

When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, There is a religious war going on for the soul o...

Zulu Radio in South Africa is one of the most far-reaching and influential media in the region, currently attracting around 6.67 million listeners ...

Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic?Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia?Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for s...

The literature on snakes is manifold but overwhelmingly centered on the natural sciences. Little has been published about them in the fields of ...

Gothic Britain is the first collection of essays to consider how the Gothic responds to, and is informed by, the British regional experience. Ackno...

In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Franco...

The First World War at once extends and marks a departure from established understandings of the literature and culture of the First World War. In ...

From Title IX cases on campus, to #metoo and #timesup, rape is a definitive issue at the heart of feminism, and lately, it's barely out of the news...

Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the ...

The book adopts a critical cultural studies lens to explore the entanglement of government and gambling in everyday life. Its qualitative approach ...

This is the ultimate guide to the world of the Freak. Renegade thinkers and bestselling sensations Levitt and Dubner have carefully curated the v...

Evocative, engaging and filled with vivid details, Rooms of their Own explores the homes of these three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group. Bri...

The capital of Georgia practically pre-sents a new face every day. Ambitious building projects and large foreign investments are constantly changin...

In 1975, Marvel Comics revived the X-Men, a failed title which hadn't used new material for half a decade. It was a marginal project in an industr...

The World Wide Web is the most revolutionary innovation of our time. In the last decade, it has utterly transformed our lives. But what real eff...

A critical appraisal of Scotland's cultural wealth and global distinction'The Wealth of the Nation' explores how Scotland has continued to assert i...

If Noam Chomsky and Gore Vidal have a Greek analogue, it is Nikos Dimou, one of the most fertile minds of his generation. This book is a series of ...

'Paris in the Cinema' offers a new approach to the representation of Paris on screen. Bringing together a wide range of renowned French and Angloph...

The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and ...

A comprehensive study of Oman presenting a portrait of a nation through its diplomacy. For Oman, the idea of diplomacy refers not only to the count...

In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and cultural pragmatics are vital for understanding the structural turbule...

This is the first dictionary dedicated to the pioneering work of French art and technology critic Paul Virilio. In Virilio's writings, meanings and...

In the mid-1960s, a new generation of young Turkish musicians combined Western pop music with traditional Anatolian folk to forge the home-grown ph...

For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) ...

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*Keep calm but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit except that it will be deeply damag...

'Beautifully written, brilliantly insightful' Owen Jones Tony Blair and Noel Gallagher shaking hands at No. 10. Saatchis YBAs setting the internat...

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...