Popular Culture

Gossip Girl: A Critical Understanding provides a critical analysis of The CW’s hit teen television drama Gossip Girl. Lori Bindig analyzes episodes...

Asian Popular Culture: New, Hybrid, and Alternate Media, edited by John A. Lent and Lorna Fitzsimmons, is an interdisciplinary study of popular cul...

When adapting Shakespeare's comedies, cinema and television have to address the differences and incompatibilities between early modern gender const...

Through reference to over six hundred scenes from film and television—as well as a diverse and cross-disciplinary academic bibliography—Masturbatio...

A strong relationship between sport fans and teams is an essential component for the success of the sport brand. This book provides an in-depth exa...

This book is an exploration of both mainstream and independent media. Grounded in qualitative methods, this book explores three trans masculine run...

Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 is an edited anthology that seeks to explain just how rock and roll is a Romanti...

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of Ameri...

Signs and images of Chinese martial arts increasingly circulate through global media cultures. As tropes of martial arts are not restricted to what...

What happens to a country that was built on race when the boundaries of black and white have started to fade? Not only is the literal face of Ameri...

This book offers a series of contemporary media analyses that use Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explore how dominant ideologies in media ...

The book is a comparative study of popular music cultures in 1980s Torino, Tampere, Manchester and Düsseldorf and their relation to the industrial ...

Converging theory and practice, this book provides a unique analysis of Korean youth’s attempts to become global celebrities within the growing K-p...

In the 1990s, China’s economic reform campaign reached a new high. Amid the eager adoption of capitalism, however, the spectre of revolution re-eme...

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adap...

In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary ...

This book explores the rise of Shanghai-based popular magazines produced by the “Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies School” in early twentieth-century ...

In the twenty-first century, American popular culture increasingly makes visible the performance of African spirituality by black women. Disney’s P...