Cultural Studies

Literature, like food, is, in Terry Eagletons words, endlessly interpretable, and food, like literature, looks like an object but is actually a rel...

'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history ...

Das Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Architektur der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit als Gegenstand medialer Repräsentation. Dabei bewegt es sich im Span...

This book provides the first modern, in-depth analysis of Percy Bysshe Shelleys engagement with the phenomenon of death. It argues that, for Shelle...

«This is a splendidly lucid and readable book, a distinctive and a distinguished contribution to Nordic Studies.» (Colin Roth, Centre for Nordic St...

An examination of neoliberal ideologys ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance...

An examination of neoliberal ideologys ascendance in 1990s and 2000s British politics and society through its effect on state-supported performance...

This book develops a theoretical approach to social stratification and applies it to the development of the official system of state honours in Bri...

Explains why audiences dislike certain media and what happens when they do The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, s...

Cold War Children's Television: Philadelphia as a Case Study examines a culturally significant phenomenon of the Cold Warthe locally produced hoste...

Das weitere Erstarken rechter Parteien und die Corona-Pandemie haben zu politischen und wirtschaftlichen Konflikten in Frankreich geführt. Doch was...

This book examines how the persistent and deepening casualization and precarity of acting work, coupled with market pressures, has affected the way...

For over half a century, Stanley Milgram's classic and controversial obedience experiments have been a touchstone in the social and behavioral scie...

In eighteenth-century Greek culture, Iosipos Moisiodax (c.1725-1800) was a controversial figure, whose daring pronouncements in favor of cultural c...

Written amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, this edited volume draws on the expertise of social scientists and humanities scholars to understand ...

What if the American experiment is twofold, encompassing both democracy and tyranny? That is the question at the core of this book, which traces so...

This book reconstructs and extends sociological approaches to the understanding of food consumption. It identifies new ways to approach the explana...

A LOUDER THAN WAR BOOK OF THE YEARA riveting journey into the psyche of Britain through its golden age of television and film; a cross-genre feast ...

Pauline Kael, Andrew Sarris, and Roger Ebert were three of Americas most revered and widely read film critics, more famous than many of the movies ...

For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a theater of the mind. This book examines that characterizatio...

The Groovology of White Affect theorizes white aesthetics and race formation in South Africa from a position immersed in the sonic. Mining boeremus...

This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increas...

*A BBC RADIO 4 Book of the Week*'A fantastic achievement' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Bright, expansive, and iconoclastic, this delic...