Cultural Studies

'Goth can plausibly claim to be the near-definitive word on the subject' - GuardianGoth is an entertaining and evocative personal history of Goth m...

In a media-saturated world, humour stands out as a form of social communication that is especially effective in re-appropriating and questioning ar...

Starting from the unmistakable contrast of two socially developed movement systems, the aesthetic performing art of classical ballet vis-á-vis the ...

Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made pat...

Richard Dyer is a foundational figure for the critical study of cinema and popular culture. Across a career spanning five decades, he has made pat...

A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the wonder of sound transmis...

How do you remember the seventies? Whether it's as the Me Decade, the heatwave of 1976, or the Winter of Discontent, you'll find something in these...

The stories we tell and show, in whatever medium, play varied roles in human cultures. One such role is to contribute to moral understanding. Moral...

No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagi...

A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize i...

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure ju...

In a narrative that extends from fin de siècle Paris to the 1960s, Edmund Mendelssohn examines modernist thinkers and composers who engaged with no...

Known for his red fur and infectious giggle, Elmo offers a three-and-a-half-year olds simple, candid look at the world. From his straightforward, f...

From the Occupy protests to the Black Lives Matter movement and school strikes for climate action, the twenty-first century has been rife with acti...

Arguments about liberalism's meanings, endurance, imminent death, or revival are widespread in modern political thought. But what effect do these p...

The story of how the map of New Zealand emerged is a fascinating one. The first full map of the islands was published in London in 1773, which migh...

The Bolex camera, 16mm reversal film stocks, commercial film laboratories, and low-budget optical printers were the small-gauge media technologies ...

Enjoy a whole year of PUN with the Ray of Punshine 2024 Wall Calendar. Each month of the year features a different piece of hilarious art that play...

Each page of this daily calendar features a different color comic where Scott Hilburn endlessly reimagines history, relationships, and pop culture ...

Narcissism is the defining pathology of the twenty-first century, but what if it is not self-obsession that defines us but a need for self-transfor...