Popular Culture

Seeing play as an important and vital element of life for children and adults alike, this book addresses the ways in which practitioners take accou...

This book provides an engaging insight into the responses of teenage audiences to British period drama, presenting original data collected from you...

The twelve essays in A Critical Companion to Mel Gibson offer various interpretations of Mel Gibsons work, treating this prolific but controversial...

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the films of the legendary director. Labeled a recluse, a provocate...

Examining representations of mental difference, this collection focuses on the ways that adaptations (including remakes, reboots, and other example...

A Critical Companion to Stanley Kubrick offers a thorough and detailed study of the works of Stanley Kubrick. Labeled a recluse, a provocateur, and...

This second of two volumes explores broader cultural, economic, and socio-political dynamics exchanged between Asian popular media and the world. T...

This book will sketch the dynamics of infrastructure in video games, focusing on the relationship between game rules, fictional world, and player i...

This first of two volumes explores how contemporary Asian popular culture reflects and critiques social issues. The authors, from different scholar...

This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the l...

The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, ...

Analysing the representation of youth crime and justice-involved children in popular fictional films, this book explores how what we see on screen ...

Analysing the representation of youth crime and justice-involved children in popular fictional films, this book explores how what we see on screen ...

This monograph is an original project which plots the trajectory of the maternal gaze as a convention in the Gothic. It offers new directions for G...

Disability impacts everyone in some way. Approximately 10-20% of the worlds population live with disability, and the associated issues affect not j...

In the 1970s, as the disco tsunami engulfed America, the question, Do you wanna dance? became divisive, even explosive. What about this music made ...

From the sports documentarian and executive producer of the docuseries The Religion of Sports, a memoir-meets-manifesto about the overwhelming powe...

This edited volume provides pedagogical tools for those who teach and would like to teach with the most iconic of monsters: the vampire. Vampires...

Write down all your magical notes and thoughts in the 184 lined pages of this stunning Wickedthemed journal. QUALITY CONSTRUCTION: This deluxe jo...

Do video games cause violent, aggressive behavior? Can online games help us learn? When it comes to video games, these are often the types of quest...

Digital gamings cultural significance is often minimized much in the same way that the Middle Ages are discounted as the backward and childish prec...

Now, more than 20 years since its initial release, John Fiskes classic text Media Matters remains both timely and insightful as an empirically rich...