Media Studies

This book is a social critique of the cultural taboo of the female virginity in the Middle East. It highlights the unobtainability of this cultural...

The Muslim-majority nations of Malaysia and Indonesia are known for their extraordinary arts and Islamic revival movements. This collection provide...

In this timely study, Pawling argues for a renewal of the 'politics of intellectual life', calling for an engaged critical theory written in the sp...

Drawing on a unique ethnographic inquiry, Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni explores the complexities of the relationship between socially and culturally const...

All is not well in the beautiful county of Midsomer. On the eve of its first Villages In Bloom competition, a man lies dead, smelling of damson jam...

The fads, fashions, and media in popular consumer culture frequently make recreational and ideological fun of poverty and lower class living. In th...

From a multi-sited ethnography with Swedish migrant women in the United States, Singapore and Spain, the book explores gender vulnerabilities and r...

This book contributes to recent debates in transnationalism, mobilities and migration studies by offering the first in-depth sociological examinati...

With examples from throughout Europe and the United States, the contributors to this volume explore how gender violence is framed through language ...

Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork, Wessendorf explores life in a super-diverse urban neighbourhood. The book presents a vivid account of t...

This collection explores the ways in which traumatic experience becomes a part of public memory. It explores the premise that traumatic events are ...

Both a scholarly and personal critique of current feminist Moroccan discourses, this book is a call for a larger-than-Islam framework that accommod...

Following its meteoric rise, the Emmy award-winning series Schitts Creek (2015-2020) has become a cultural force with its catchphrases and meme-abl...

Recently, labor has acquired a re-emergent public relevance. In response, feminist theory urgently needs to reconsider the relationship between lab...

Presenting a thoughtful justification for the left in American education, Donald Lazere argues that to teach students rhetoric and critical thinkin...

A shocking look at how the idea of romantic love can justify and excuse the killing of women by their partners, and lead to sympathy and reduced se...

An interdisciplinary study of skin bridging cultural and psychoanalytic theory to consider how the body's exterior is central to human subjectivity...

An engaging look at how debates over the fate of literature in our digital age are powerfully conditioned by the nineteenth century's information r...

Looking at a century of American theatre, McDaniel investigates how race-based notions of maternal performance become sites of resistance to cultur...

In this book, Shannon O Sullivan explores blue-collar frontier shows, a subgenre of reality television showcasing white, working-class men performi...

This book reveals how marginalized communities and women are underrepresented on our screens and, too often, depicted in stereotypical ways. This i...

Moving beyond discussions of potential linkages between violence and video games, Crime, Punishment, and Video Games examines a broad range of issu...

Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring brings together some of the most celebrated and respected names in Arab media research to reflect on ...

This book examines the commemoration of 9/11 in American memorial culture. It argues that the emergence of counter-memories of September 11 has bee...