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This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or pra...

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visibl...

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audi...

Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science ...

This book explores the emergence of lifestyle in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure...

Utilizing Lacan's psychoanalytic theory and Zizek's philosophical adaption of it, this book brings into dialogue a series of modernist and postmode...

The Festivalization of Culture explores the links between various local and global cultures, communities, identities and lifestyle narratives as th...

The Poetics of Empowerment in David Mitchells Novels combines the investigation of David Mitchells novels with the introduction of a new critical c...

This book synthesizes ecofeminist theory, American studies, and postcolonial theory to interrogate what New Americanist William V. Spanos articulat...

As the first volume of a two-volume set that examines the interaction between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this ...

Entrepreneurial Cosplay takes a comprehensive and insightful look at the business of cosplay, exploring the ways that artists and fans engage in en...

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of ...

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to th...

This book addresses a prominent group of virtues and vices as portrayed in popular films to further our understanding of these moral character trai...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environme...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was a combination of forces that produced the environme...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty an...