Popular Culture

Twenty-first century American television series such as Revolution, Falling Skies, The Last Ship and The Walking Dead have depicted a variety of...

Cool can't be taught. That's the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to...

At the beginning of the 1990s, the Senate didn't believe Anita Hill, Rush Limbaugh compared feminists to Nazis, and a study found that girls tended...

For decades, beloved astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson has interpreted science with a combination of brainpower and charm that resonates with fans...

In recent years digital technology has made available an inconceivably vast archive of old media. Images of the past--accessed with the touch of...

A dazzling insight into what gives meaning to our life and to us as a species.What makes us human? From Carlo Rovelli on the particles of dust that...

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

**THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER** a comic about dinosaurs navigating the complexities of life, together ...

I thought it was a great cultural movement, the music, the look, they're things that have shaped who I am... Paul Weller The skin-suede era was...

This follow-up to the smash hit Cats Galore dives deeper into the world of Susan Herbert, whose delightful re-imaginings of some of the best-known ...

'You'll never look at your favourite movies and TV shows the same way again. And you shouldn't' Steven Soderbergh 'Insanely readable' Slavoj Ziz...

Florence Maybrick was the first American woman to be sentenced to death in England--for murdering her husband, a crime she almost certainly did ...

Twenty-five years ago, Namco released Tekken and redefined the fighting game genre in three dimensions. Known for its deep gameplay, cutting edge g...

For two decades after the mid-1950s, biracial popular music played a fundamental role in progressive social movements on both sides of the Atlantic...

This book analyses the relationships between music and contemporary media, both via the mediation of music, and music as mediator. It does so throu...

The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many people love things ...