Cultural Studies

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...

There is little question about the incredible power of Bruce Springsteen's work as a particularly transformative art, as a lyrical and musical fusi...

In the years after World War II, the airline stewardess became one of the most celebrated symbols of American womanhood. Stewardesses appeared on m...

In 1939, Vogue magazine invited commercial designer Raymond Loewy and eight of his contemporariesincluding Walter Dorwin Teague, Egmont Arens, and ...

At the age of eighteen Lucy Wadham ran away from English boys and into the arms of a Frenchman. Twenty-five years later, having married in a French...

This volume has as a cohesive argument the exploration of the different manifestations of the search for wholeness and spirituality in the writings...

Mexico city is one of the most glamorous but also one of the most dramatic cities in the world. The many challenges and opportunities the city face...

Between 1907 and 1911, Ferdinand de Saussure gave three series of lectures on the topic of general linguistics. After his death, these lecture note...

In the globalization game there are no absolute winners and losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its contradictory movement and...

The specter of anarchism is haunting statist and capitalist culture and politics in the 21st century. Anarchismthe idea that people can organize th...

The history of ancient Egypt is filled with fascinating queens and goddesses portrayed side by side with their male counterparts as equal partners,...

Style-based subcultures, scenes and tribes have pulsated through the history of social, economic and political change. From 1940s zoot-suiters and ...

What is Counterculture? Its an alternative lifestyle... The ideas that spark a revolution... A movement that changes the world... This new co...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

Fans of Please Kill Me, rejoice: Here is the raucous, star-studded, anarchic best of the era-defining Punk magazine, lovingly collected and reprodu...

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of proces...

This publication benefited from the support of the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts at the University of Notre Dame.This collective vo...

The effects of the intra-African and European deportation regimes brought about since the European Union's externalization of its migration and dev...

The Cultural Front charts the extraordinary upsurge of cultural activity and theory in America that began during the Great Depression and embraced ...

In the early 1250s Mongke Khan, grandson and successor of the mighty Mongol emperor, Genghis Khan, sent out his youngerbrothers Qubilai and Hulegu ...