Cultural Studies

Why do so many Americans practice martial arts? How did kung fu get its own movie genre? What makes mixed martial arts so popular? This book ans...

We Are the Baby-Sitters Club is the ultimate companion guide for a generation of devout superfans. This book revisits the beloved series through gr...

This deluxe limited edition of The Photography of Game of Thrones contains a beautiful 96-page full-color photography booklet featuring stunning po...

A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaningacross genres, disciplines, methodologies, and timefrom foundational texts to the most rec...

There are zombies among us! From the rotting hordes of TV''s The Walking Dead to the blockbuster nightmare of 28 Days Later, our popular culture is...

In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist, and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies, and practice-led re...

What were the iconic sports moments of the last century? In Replays, Rivalries, and Rumbles , a team of sports aficionados climb onto their bar sto...

Few people rode the popular wave of the sixties quite like Tara Browne. One of Swinging London's most popular faces, he lived fast, died young and ...

Jessica Jones barged onto our screens in November 2015, courtesy of Marvel and Netflix, presenting a hard-drinking protagonist who wrestles with...

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to make it in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid wo...

This is the unauthorised, uncensored, and unbelievable true story behind the making of a pop culture phenomenon. The original Star Trek series debu...

In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for 'a new kind of public' that wanted more honest pictures. Cassano argues that this new k...

For millions of moviegoers unable to see the original stage version of West Side Story, director Robert Wises adaptation was a cinematic gift that ...

Beautifully drawn and painted, accompanied by stories and poems, this wonderful menagerie of insects, animals and people are startling, at times fr...

Sounding the Color Line explores how competing understandings of the U.S. South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experi...

What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artist...

Shojo manga are romance comics for teenage girls. Characterized by a very dense visual style, featuring flowery backgrounds and big-eyed, androgyno...

Although mathematics has long been considered an arcane, inaccessible discipline, it has maintained a surprising presence in popular media for over...