Popular Culture

Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain: Uncorking the Champagne Supernova attempts to move away from the melancholia of Cool Britannia and the dis...

This fully revised and updated third edition offers students and artists valuable insights into traditional color theory and its practical applicat...

Since the 1980s, music videos have been everywhere, and today almost all of the most-viewed clips on YouTube are music videos. However, in academia...

Millions of tourists visit Washington, D.C., every year, but for some the experience is about much more than sightseeing. Lauren R. Kerby's lively,...

Issues of race permeate virtually every corner of policy creation and implementation in the United States, yet theoretically driven research on int...

This work investigates the material culture of public temperatures in New York City. Numbers like temperature, while ubiquitous and indispensable t...

Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces studen...

This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts. Hannibal The Cann...

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engageme...

First published in 1966, The Delinquent Solution presents a study of crime associated with the nature of subcultures. The book discusses issues suc...

Northernness, Northern culture and Northern narratives are a common aspect of popular culture, and the North of England, like other Northernnesses ...

The Transgender Studies Reader Remix assembles 50 previously published articles to orient students and scholars alike to current directions in the ...

How do musical practices move? Though technology increasingly plays a great part in establishing different degrees of spatial proximity, music maki...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contempora...

In artworks from a mosaic by Marc Chagall to schoolchildren's paintings, in writings from Susan Fenimore Cooper to Annie Dillard, and in diverse pr...

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval an...

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of ...

The twentieth century was a period of rapid change for religion. Secularisation resulted in a dramatic fall in church attendance in the West, and t...

This is at once a playful text with a serious purpose: to provide the reader with the theoretical lenses to analyze the dynamics of social class. I...

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shi...

Rethinking Drinking and Sport examines the complex nature of sport-related drinking. With close attention to the contradictory nature of sport-rela...

This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By f...