Cultural Studies

This collection of essays provides an overview of new scholarship on recipe books, one of the most popular non-fiction printed texts in, and one of...

For the first time in human history, more people inhabit urban than rural areas. Investigating the experience of hunger and malnutrition in urban s...

Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in modernity. Workin...

This volume contains an Open Access Chapter. Authenticity has become a buzzword for our times. Much of the travel industry is built around the prov...

Subcultures have long captured the imagination of sociologists and the public alike. Making an important contribution to sociology, Subcultures is ...

Lying at the heart of the modern Action Cinema Canon is the concept of transformation. As the action genre evolves and shifts into the new millenni...

The noughties witnessed rapid change in Action Cinema, carrying with it the new action stars of the previous decade, and the boundary blurring expe...

Sylvester Stallones action thriller, First Blood, hit cinema screens in 1982, leading to the cementing of what can be called the Action Movie Canon...

This book explores the theories of transhumanism and posthumanism, two philosophies that deal with radically changing bodies, minds, and even the n...

What are some of the most distinctive features of the crisis characterising the social sciences learning today? Can a crisis of this deep-rooted an...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In an era of hyper visuality, service-based labour markets, con...

The twentieth volume of Research in Consumer Behavior presents twelve chapters, selected from the best papers submitted at the 13th annual Consumer...

This absorbing anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity. ...

This absorbing anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity. ...

Where does 'art' come from, and what is the 'meaning' of creativity? What inspires an artist in the middle phase of life and what value is placed ...

Contemporary popular media has been marked by its startling ability to morph into a wide variety of formats, fed by the ongoing revolution in digit...

«Dr. Laima Vinc Sruoginis, an established author, academic, and life-long part of the North American Lithuanian diaspora, courageously faces Lithua...

This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experiences. It traces the evolution of those theories and ho...

Although tattoos have become increasingly available to us, there are still spaces where they are not accepted, and even 'othered'. Looking at the U...

Amid growing interest in food and drink as an academic discipline in recent years, this volume is the first to provide insight into eating and drin...

Selected as one of The Tablets Books of the Year 2021 Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each...

Death consumes our lives. As such, it is unsurprising that our leisure time, recreational activities and playful exploits are also infatuated with ...

For 30 years, since the publication of her landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat, Carol J. Adams and her readers have continued to document and...

This book looks to fill the blue hole in Global History by studying the role of the oceans themselves in the creation, development, reproduction an...

Posthumanism is both a descriptive and a prescriptive term. Firstly, it registers a shift beginning in the late 1960s and epitomized by Foucaults t...

A complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genres most important, compelling and subv...

Today over half of all American households own a dedicated game console and gaming industry profits trump those of the film industry worldwide. Sor...

A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair. Times Literary Supplement Over the last century, there has been a revolution in se...

Fascinating. Perspective A fascinating, often funny, and eminently stylish personal memoir I loved it. - Chris Breward, author of The Suit Wide...

A powerful exposé of Parisian haute couture Book of the Week, Times Higher Education Fashion is one of the most powerful industries in the world,...

In the 21st century, films about the lives and experiences of girls and young women have become increasingly visible. Yet, British cinemas engageme...

When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none'. Elizabeth ...

What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golde...

Winner of the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great import...

In this elegant new book, the sequel to his earlier, much praised treatment of the Devil, Philip Almond reveals that - whether in Judaism, Christia...

Average body mass in many Western cultures is getting larger and yet the fashion system seems mostly unchanged. Major fashion houses still limit th...