Popular Culture

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...

Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted...

Establishing a new vision for film history, Film and Attraction: From Kinematography to Cinema urges readers to consider the importance of complex ...

Werner Herzog is the undisputed master of extreme cinema: building an opera house in the middle of the jungle; walking from Munich to Paris in the ...

The 2012 smash Gangnam Style by the Seoul-based rapper Psy capped the triumph of Hallyu , the Korean Wave of music, film, and other cultural forms ...

The alarm and anxiety unleashed by the Great Recession found fascinating expression across popular culture. Harried survivors negotiated societal c...

Amid immigrant narratives of assimilation, Indian Accents focuses on the representations and stereotypes of South Asian characters in American film...

Is Harpo Free? is a lively appreciation of film and television's ability to artistically explore concepts typical of philosophical metaphysics, suc...

On November 18, 1928, the worlds most famous mouse made his very first public debut. Today, we celebrate 90+ years of Mickey in one of the most exp...

Where are Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer hiding? Are they at Jerry's apartment? Their usual booth at Monk's? Maybe they're at a baseball game? S...