Cultural Studies

Cultural Studies signals a major academic revolution for the 21st century. But what exactly is it, and how is it applied? It is a discipline that c...

With at least seven billion subscriptions worldwide, the impact of mobile devices undoubtedly rivals that of television, radio, and newspapers. Mob...

In this thought-provoking book Lambert Wiesing asks simply: What is luxury? Drawing on a fascinating range of examples, he argues that luxury is an...

This intriguing book re-evaluates a narrative of cultural decline that developed in the wake of Max Webers The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of C...

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally change...

Don't Lose Track is a collection from the widely published arts and culture journalist, Jordannah Elizabeth. The book includes reviews, essays and ...

Culture has always relied on art, just as artists have been dependent on culture as a problem field to draw inspiration from and as a store of soci...

Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a compr...

In Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy, Okeke Azu-Okeke explores cultural identity by drawing on his own experience as the first and only B...

Since the 1960s, a significant effort has been underway to program computers to see the human face—to develop automated systems for identifying fac...

In 1605 a crippled, greying, almost toothless veteran of Spains wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. That book, Don Quixote, went on t...

Today's world is the product of the late middle ages. In what is now called 'Flanders', a new kind of man emerged. A practical man, an entrepreneur...

Noir is among the most popular, acclaimed, and critically assessed film styles of all time. The unfortunate consequence is an ever-growing divergen...

Broadway musicals are one of America''s most beloved art forms and play to millions of people each year. But what do these shows, which are often t...

Often depicted as one of the worlds most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to ...

The time has come for a new in-depth encyclopedic collection of entries defining the current state of Deaf Studies at an international level using ...

Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constan...

Kristine Muñozs volume of short narrative works-- autoethnographies and fictional storiesexplore many dimensions of silence, a crucial but often ov...

All cultures appear to share the belief that they do things correctly, while others, until proven otherwise, are assumed to be ignorant or barbaric...

The Disunity of American Culture describes culture now, when different forces are influencing it than in the past, altering it to near incomprehens...

In todays neoliberal times, thinking about fitness and health is dominated by the medias narratives of fit bodies, which are presented and circulat...