Cultural Studies

There has never been and will never be another nightclub to rival the sheer glamour, energy, and wild creativity that was Studio 54. Now, in the fi...

A revised and updated new edition of this best-selling introduction to the study of contemporary popular culture. The book presents an accessible i...

The discovery of the New World offered European civilisation the chance to generate a process of circulation of its own cultural values the spirit...

This collection covers a wide range of topics, from a moving study of Bizet's Carmen to an entertainingly caustic exploration of the hierarchies of...

Contemporary American landscape is wrought with ongoing processes and phenomena of technicization observable at the intersections of multiple layer...

Norm-Struggles explores and challenges normativity in general and heteronormativity in particular. A common trait in all chapters is the focus on c...

Hot Topics, Public Culture, Museums engages the highly problematic and increasingly important issue of museums, science centres, their roles in con...

Both fictional and non-fictional accounts of the Arctic have long been a major source of powerful images of the region, and have thus had a crucial...

This collection draws together recent work by new and emerging scholars which examines the representation of alienation and resistance in texts and...

Recent literary expressions of the immigrant experience reveal the postmodern narrative obsession with the immigrant as cultural and political outl...

This book looks at language in unexpected places. Drawing on a diversity of materials and contexts, including farewell addresses to British workers...

As early as 1910 Americans recognized that cars were easy to steal and, once stolen, hard to find, especially since cars looked much alike. Model s...

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That...

The Good Body: Normalizing Visions in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture, 18361867 examines literary and cultural representations o...

Cultural Production in Virtual and Imagined Worlds foregrounds how the two important fields of visual culture and Internet culture interact. This c...