Popular Culture

Pornographys impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance has been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book...

This book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical appro...

Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot i...

In a world where the term Islam is ever-increasingly an inaccurate and insensitive synonym for terrorism, it is unsurprising that many Muslim youth...

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and ...

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation,...

Questions arose after 1945, and have persisted, about the ownership of properties which had belonged to Jewish communities before the Second World ...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. Th...

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, and c...

A uniquely interdisciplinary look at storytelling in digital, analogue, and hybridised contexts, this book traces different ways stories are experi...

This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different places in which popula...

The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new ...

The face, being prominent and visible, is the foremost marker of a persons identity as well as their major tool of communication. Facial disfigurem...

Outside Japan, the term manga usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled manga are not transla...

The Education of Black Males in a Post-Racial World examines the varied structural and discursive contexts of race, masculinities and class that sh...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a mor...

This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact...