Popular Culture

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic int...

Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games, this book explores the world of the popular role-playin...

Examining the four main single player games in the franchise and its related spinoff games, this book explores the world of the popular role-playin...

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the divers...

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and contin...

Rabaka explores funk as a distinct multiform of music, aesthetics, politics, social vision, and cultural rebellion that has been remixed and contin...

This book explores the presidential image of Donald Trump as it is constructed by the media within American national mythology, precisely the front...

Daphne Merkin brings her signature combination of wit, candor, and penetrating intelligence to subjects that touch on every aspect of contemporary ...

This book takes a comprehensive look at dragons, our most popular and beloved mythological creature, from a cultural and historical perspective. Fr...

Womens Voices in Manga investigates how manga reflect women's gender issues and social problems within the context of Japanese history, culture, an...

Pornographys impact on transnational models of media aesthetics and governance has been well documented from a Euro-American perspective. This book...

This book explores the dick pic in popular culture. Drawing from a range of disciplines, cultural analyses, lived experiences and theoretical appro...

Fast-talking, warm-hearted, and endlessly rewatchable, Gilmore Girls has bonded real-life mothers and daughters since 2000, when its iconic pilot i...

In a world where the term Islam is ever-increasingly an inaccurate and insensitive synonym for terrorism, it is unsurprising that many Muslim youth...

Jazz on the Line: Improvisation in Practice presents an ethnographic reflection on improvisation as performance, examining how musicians think and ...

This edited volume draws upon Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to examine the conscious and unconscious forces underlying race as a social formation,...

Questions arose after 1945, and have persisted, about the ownership of properties which had belonged to Jewish communities before the Second World ...

In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and ...

Setting up cultural encounters is a widespread intervention strategy employed to diffuse conflicts and manage difficulties related to diversity. Th...

Quincy Jones: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography and discography on one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, and c...

A uniquely interdisciplinary look at storytelling in digital, analogue, and hybridised contexts, this book traces different ways stories are experi...

This volume examines the location of memories and histories of popular music and its multiple pasts, exploring the different places in which popula...

The study of audience relations with star / celebrity culture has often been marginalised in Star/Celebrity Studies. This book brings together new ...

The face, being prominent and visible, is the foremost marker of a persons identity as well as their major tool of communication. Facial disfigurem...

Outside Japan, the term manga usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled manga are not transla...

The Education of Black Males in a Post-Racial World examines the varied structural and discursive contexts of race, masculinities and class that sh...

Imagine if a student spent as much time managing information as celebrities doted on dieting? While eating too much food may be the basis of a mor...

This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact...

A raw collection of photos and stories spotlighting the artistic process and dangerous adventures of a Chicago graffiti artist as he creates unspon...

This innovative volume offers fresh perspectives and directions on the intersection of Hispanic and Jewish studies. It shows how 'Jewishness' has p...