Popular Culture

This book explores representations of Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in comics and film, as well as political struggles over these works, to illum...

Sexuality in India offers an expression of nationalist anxieties and is a significant marker of modernity through which subjectivities are formed a...

Power, Diversity and Public Relations addresses the lack of diversity in PR by revealing the ways in which power operates within the occupation to ...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of...

This book seeks to interrogate the representation of Black women in television. Cheers explores how the increase of Black women in media ownership ...

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture explores the conditions for migrant domestic, agricultural, and factory workers as that of conti...

Women, Music, Culture: An Introduction, Third Edition is the first undergraduate textbook on the history and contributions of women in a variety of...

On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage is so ordered across the United States. The day will no doubt be...

This book focuses on the intersection between the assimilation of the Irish into American life and the emergence of an American popular culture, wh...

Once only a topic among women in the private sphere, motherhood and mothering have become important intellectual topics across academic disciplines...

The plight of the fallen woman is one of the salient themes of nineteenth-century art and literature; indeed, the ubiquity of the trope galvanized ...

This ground-breaking book explores the moral dimensions of sexual imagery in contemporary, general-release Asian films. It examines debates that ar...

This book builds a fresh perspective on therapeutic narratives of intimate life. Focusing on the question of how popular psychology organises every...

The metaphor of marriage often describes the relationship between poetry and music in both medieval and modern writing. While the troubadours stand...

'What is the real hip hop?''To whom does hip hop belong?''For what constructive purposes can hip hop be put to use?'These are three key questions p...

Interest in preternatural and supernatural themes has revitalized the Gothic tale, renewed explorations of psychic powers and given rise to a host ...

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge ...

Metal, Rap, and Electro in Tunisia is a trip into the music scenes of Tunisia after the Arab Springs. Based on extensive field research, the book e...

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter seri...

This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of Indias cultural diplom...

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze ...

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET ...

Made in Nusantara serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, ethnography, and musicology of historical and contemporary popu...

This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an urgent challenge ...