Cultural Studies

A Different Germany looks at German film, popular literature, theatre, garden culture, and other manifestations of popular culture as examples of h...

Now is an opportune moment to consider the shifts in youth and popular culture that are signalled by texts that are being read and viewed by young ...

Although known primarily as a country music star, Marty Stuart has been taking photographs of the people and places surrounding him since he first ...

Beautiful War: Studies in a Dreadful Fascination is a wide-ranging exploration of armed conflict as depicted in art that illustrates the constant p...

Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo...

Ages of Heroes, Eras of Men explores the changing depiction of superheroes from the comic books of the 1930s to the cinematic present. In this anth...

'Beautifully researched account, full of humour and personal insight'David Crystal, author of Making Sense: The Glamorous Story of English Grammar ...

Break out the candy canes! Holly Jolly is a colorful sleigh ride through the history of Christmas, from its religious origins to its emergence as a...

__________________THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStop searching for the answers - and start delighting in the questions with Pandora Sykes, co-host of ...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account...

''A weighty discussion of metal, for both passionate fans and neophytes'' Guardian''Heavy opens an ornate portal into a murky subculture, illuminat...

A new approach to culture and cultural patterns is elucidated through relating a theory of personality and social characters to the genesis of myth...

There is a spectrum of identities: from the mathematical, through cases where specific criteria matter, to the complex or intuitive cases where we ...

Public higher education in the postwar era was a key economic and social driver in American life, making college available to millions of working m...

This book examines the Reading Room of the British Museum using documentary, theoretical, historical, and literary source. Roomscape explores a spe...

The Situationist International was a small group of international political and artistic agitators with roots in Marxism and Lenninism. They played...

Notions of engagement, commitment and impegno continue to provoke debate amongst academics researching contemporary Italian culture, and yet - be i...

Beyond Boundaries: East and West Cross-Cultural Encounters is a collection of essays which span several countries, centuries and disciplines in the...

Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents ...