Popular Culture

This volume proposes speaking up and talking back as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces.Drawing on the ...

This visual bonanza shines the spotlight on 750 striking advertising posters for the musicals and plays of Broadways golden age and shares untold b...

This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract imagined community, but that it...

Worlds of the Ring is a groundbreaking exploration of the interwar European circus scene, focusing on the German Sarrasani and British Bertram W. M...

Whispers in the Echo Chamber: Folklore and the Role of Conspiracy Theory in Contemporary Society makes the case that conspiracy theories are fundam...

This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in th...

Over the last twenty-five years, the Africa Rising discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from prev...

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depi...

Contemporary Indigenous popular culture is a dynamic and expansive cultural field that has been gaining momentum since the turn of the twenty-first...

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant wor...

One of the fastest growing and most internationally renowned cinemas in Southeast Asia is that of Thailand. In the first ever book devoted solely t...

This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movem...

The book is concerned with the history of football and its role in Balkan society. The aim is to analyse and discuss various aspects of football as...

How can we create more inclusive spaces in the field of dance? This book presents a framework for dance practitioners and researchers working in di...

This book explores how histories of migration, cultural encounter and transculturation have shaped formations of urban space, domestic architecture...

This handbook tackles the understudied relationship between music and comedy cinema by analysing the nature, perception, and function of music from...

Over the course of its seven-year run, Buffy the Vampire Slayer cultivated a loyal fandom and featured a strong, complex female lead, at a time whe...

Offering an insightful examination of Stephen Kings fiction, this book utilises a psychoanalytical approach drawing on Freuds theory of the uncanny...

Vegetarianism and Science Fiction: A History of Utopian Animal Ethics examines how vegetarian ideals promoted within science fiction and utopian li...

This volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perc...

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics....