Popular Culture

This edited collection investigates topics related to environmental humanities through their inclusion, exploration, or critique in contemporary vi...

From the vibrant shores of Trinidad to the bustling streets of the UK, Rudolph Walker's journey has been as captivating as the roles he has portray...

The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West   There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld ...

This book examines how the vampire has always been connected to ideas of infection, pollution and diseaseeven more so in the 21st century where it ...

This book examines the creative process of the Bee Gees and the latent elements that shaped their sound. From their formative Australian work to th...

The papers composing this volume treat of the inner rather than of the outer life of Japan, for which reason they have been grouped under the title...

Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry explores the subcultures emergence as a deviant subculture. This text analyzes ...

Over the course of the past two decades, horror cinema around the globe has become increasingly preoccupied with the concept of loss. Grief in Cont...

This book is not for you. It is not for architectural academic elites. It is not for those who have gentrified our neighborhoods, overly intellectu...

The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely lin...

China is the world's fastest-growing economic powerhouse. But behind the headlines a once-in-a-generation sexual and cultural revolution is taking ...

Samuel L. Jackson's embodiment of cool isn't just inspirational-it's important. Bad Motherfucker lays out how his attitude intersects with his iden...

Focusing on twenty-first century Western films, including all major releases since the turn of the century, the essays in this volume cover a broad...

Intersectional Automations explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithm...

In the late 2000s, the Walt Disney Company expanded, rebranded, and recast itself around woke, empowered entertainment. This new era revitalized it...

A Critical Companion to Steven Spielberg offers a comprehensive, detailed study of the works of Steven Spielberg. Spielbergs early productions stan...

Science fiction first emerged in the Industrial Age and continued to develop into its current form during the twentieth century. This book analyses...

Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins explores the limitations of the transnationalist approach to femini...

How popular culture is engaged by activists to effect emancipatory political change  One cannot change the world unless one can imagine what a bett...

Trans Identities in the French Media: Representation, Visibility, Recognition explores the representation of trans identities, with essays in field...

This book analyzes Jewish tropes in popular science fiction ranging from Star Trek and Marvel to other prominent franchises. Sometimes the represen...

Science, Medicine, and Aristocratic Lineage in Victorian Popular Fiction explores the dialogue between popular literature and medical and scientifi...