Cultural Studies

From the critically acclaimed Malaysian film Sepet to the on-going box office successes of the films created by Hong Kong director Wong Kar Wai, ci...

Gramsci's writings on culture have been hugely influential for western critical thinking during the last forty years. This volume brings together a...

Suburbs and the relationships that sustain them have been subject to tremendous changes in the last fifty years, with changing work patterns, chang...

Sociologists have long noted that dynamism is an essential part of the urban way of life. However, walking as a significant social activity and cru...

Metaphors of money have shaped theories of sexual psychology ever since Enlightenment doctors explained the mind-body as an 'animal economy' whose ...

The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and ar...

Studies representations of women and death by women to see whether and how they differ from patriarchal versions. In Western culture, women are of...

Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its inte...

India remains a country mired in poverty, with two-thirds of its 1.2 billion people living on little more than a few dollars day. Just as telling, ...

How does structural economic change look and feel? How are such changes normalized? How are these trends represented in movement, in performance, a...

This major collection of essays, a sequel to Modernity at Large and Fear of Small Numbers, is the product of ten years' research and writing, const...

Focusing on the cultural and philosophic conflation between the oriental and the ornamental, Ornamentalism offers an original and sustained theory ...

Media Experiences: Engaging with Drama and Reality Television travels across people and popular culture, exploring the pathways to engagement and t...

Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spains eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Intro...

Harry Mount's How England Made the English: From Why We Drive on the Left to Why We Don't Talk to Our Neighbours is packed with astonishing facts a...

Fictional character is an ontologically ambivalent category -- at once a formal construct and a quasi-person -- which lies at the heart of the life...

Winter Passages is Robert Brustein's nineteenth book of criticism. It includes his considerations of culture and politics over the past four years ...

Guss, Felix, and Jim Upshaw founded the community of County Line in the 1870s in northwest Nacogdoches County, in deep East Texas. As with hundred...

Northeast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world''s largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teoti...

The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topic...

Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be, even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamental...

This volume explores how the interpretation of material from the ancient Near East is enriched through the application of diverse methodological an...