Cultural Studies

This volume focuses on the connection between style and politics. Commentaries on the styles of political candidates seem to outpace serious discu...

In Seeing Stars, Dennis J. Frost traces the emergence and evolution of sports celebrity in Japan from the seventeenth through the twenty-first cent...

Generally acknowledged as the preeminent gathering of baseball scholars, the annual Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture has m...

Forget the stereotypes. Today's Japanese women are shattering them -- breaking the bonds of tradition and dramatically transforming their culture. ...

For decades, Super Heroes have inspired us to reach new heights, find strength in adversity, and access our inner power. This gorgeously illustrate...

Nick Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threa...

Crossley argues that music is a form of social interaction, interwoven in the fabric of society and in constant interplay with its other threads. M...

Why has music so often served as an accomplice to transcendent expressions of gender? Why did the query is he musical? become code, in the twentiet...

This book provides a revolutionary new 3-step tracing technique that beginning artists can use to quickly learn to draw manga characters just like ...

An easy-to-follow, yet comprehensive beginner's guide to drawing.In The Complete Guide to Drawing for Beginners, experienced art instructor Yoshiko...

Darth Vader is learning that being a Sith lord and dedicated father to Princess Leia isn't quite so easy...In this irresistibly funny follow-up to ...

Experimentation in Improvised Jazz: Chasing Ideas challenges the notion that in the twenty-first century, jazz can be restrained by a singular, sta...

Elaborate cinematic universes and sophisticated marketing tie-ins are commonplace in entertainment today. It's easy to forget that the transmedi...

When the BBCs television series Sherlock debuted in summer 2010 and traveled to the U.S. via PBS a few months later, no oneincluding Hartswood Film...