Popular Culture

Since its improvised creation at Microsoft in the mid-1990s, Comic Sans has become one of the most used and talked-about typefaces of the digital a...

Albertus, first carved on a bronze tablet in the 1930s by German Jewish refugee Berthold Wolpe, has proved to be one of the most enduring handcraft...

When Baskerville was first created in 1757, there was concern that it would damage readers eyes with its combination of thin and thick strokes and ...

If farce follows tragedy, what follows farce? Where does the double predicament of a post-truth and post-shame politics leave artists and critics o...

A deluxe hardcover that celebrates the pop culture phenomenon, Giant Robot, who redefined what it meant to be Asian-American for the late 20th Cent...

This book explores the dramatic rise in popularity of the womens biopic in contemporary Bollywood, within the context of wider cultural shifts over...

Slow Looking can lead to unexpected and huge rewards. In Book One - Learning to Look Robert Cumming shares his own slow discovery of the pleasures ...

This new textbook edition of Audience Participation in Theatre: Evolutions of the Invitation situates the text in evolving theory, emerging practic...

Popular Culture: A Users Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to addres...

Does it take faith to be a Jedi? Are droids capable of thought? Should Jar Jar Binks be held responsible for the rise of the Empire? Presenting ent...

From incomparable storyteller and beloved diversity and inclusion expert, Steve L. Robbins, comes the 10th Anniversary Edition of his classic boo...

This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it...

The second edition of Popular Culture in American History updates the text for a contemporary readership and explores academic developments in this...

Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at l...

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural...

Culture and the Literary is a study of how cultural codes are constructed, consumed and conveyed as represented in selected works of fiction and no...

William Friedkins film Sorcerer (1977) has been subject to a major re-evaluation in the last decade. A dark re-imagining of the French Director H.G...

Now synonymous with Sixties counterculture, LSD actually entered the American consciousness via the mainstream. Time and Life, messengers of lumpen...

Kevin Costner: America's Teacher examines the role of Costner in educational settings domestically and abroad. Costners career over the past 35 yea...

Show your bestie why they're a total regulation hottie with this officially licensed fill-in-the-blank book inspired by the beloved early aughts co...