Cultural Studies

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such a...

In this tenth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various app...

In both modern fiction and the biblical texts of 1 Samuel 13-2 Samuel 1, the character of Jonathan serves as a key literary and theological figure....

2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relation...

'a brilliant history' The Sunday Times 'makes for riveting reading' The Independent Modern pagan witchcraft is arguably the only fully-formed ...

Neoliberalism has been a buzzword in literary studies for well over a decade, but its meaning remains ambiguous and its salience contentious. In N...

Bollywoods New Woman examines Bollywoods construction and presentation of the Indian Woman since the 1990s. The groundbreaking collection illuminat...

Not Your Mothers Mammy examines how black artists of the African diaspora, many of them former domestics, reconstruct the black female subjectiviti...

Scholarship has come to value the uncertainties haunting early modern knowledge cultures; indeed, awareness of the fragility and plurality of knowl...

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invi...

Once symbols of the past, ruins have become ubiquitous signs of our future. Americans today encounter ruins in the media on a daily basis--images o...

With changing technologies and social habits, the communal cinema experience would seem to be a legacy from another era. However, the 2010s saw a s...

The Poetry of the Americas offers a lively and detailed history of relations among poets in the US and Latin America, spanning three decades from t...

From the Great Game to the present, an international cultural and political biography of one of our most evocative, compelling, and poorly understo...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of three sites of infamous atrocity and their differing memorialization. Dark tourism research has stu...

In its expanded third edition, this definitive work on Classics Illustrated explores the enduring series of comic book adaptations of literary mast...

The Golden Age of Bullshit.Welcome to the golden age of bullshit, a wiki-wild world knee deep in half-truths and alternative facts, spin and bias, ...

Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the creative agency of new medi...

Unique cross-cultural and multimedial approach to class identity and precarity in literature, theatre, and filmContemporary culture not merely refl...

Histories of American rock music and the 1960s counterculture typically focus on the same few places: Woodstock, Monterey, Altamont. Yet there was ...

A fascinating exploration of beer, ancient and contemporary, and its role in shaping human society Beer is and has always been more than an intoxi...

Experiencing Jazz, Third Edition is an integrated textbook, website, and audio anthology for jazz appreciation and history courses. Through reading...

The book is arguably the first comprehensive collection of essays on Michael Polanyis social, political philosophy. The essays combine philosophica...

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European ...