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When Adorned in Dreams was first published in 1985, Angela Carter described the book as 'the best I have read on the subject, bar none'. Elizabeth ...

What has brought about the transformation of the British film industry over the last few decades, to the beginnings of what is arguably a new golde...

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Interculturalism and Performance explores ground-breaking new directions and critical discourse in the field of inter...

This second edition of a major textbook uses lively prose and a series of carefully-crafted pedagogical features to both introduce sociology as a d...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Todays academic and research institutions recognise the importance of diverse resear...

A poignant account of how the carceral state shapes daily life for young Black peopleand how Black Americans resist, find joy, and cultivate new vi...

Michael Allen's insightful study explores the long and diverse career of the actor and director Robert Redford, from his early work in theatre and ...

Haunted Data explores the concepts that are at work in our complex relationships with data. Our engagement with data big or small is never as sim...

Work Want Work considers in captivating detail how a logic of work has become integral to everything we do, even as the place of formal work has be...

Blisteringly witty. Kirkus An essential guide. Publisher's Weekly Timely. Booklist When Nina Jankowicz's first book on online disinformation was p...

What is steampunk? Fashion craze, literary genre, lifestyle - or all of the above? Playing with the scientific innovations and aesthetics of the Vi...

Since the Second World War, depictions of Royal Air Force operations in film and television drama have become so numerous that they make up a genre...

The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jef...

The Language of Journalism (2nd edition) provides lively and accessible tools to understand and analyse the language of journalism. The authors ex...

Digital Theology is a rapidly emerging field of academic research and gaining traction with scholars of Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Re...

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and issues of socia...

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS), Volume 19 ...

In this book, Nathan Hulsey explores the links between game design, surveillance, computation, and the emerging technologies that impact our everyd...

How has the fashion industry responded to turn-of-the-millennium non-binary identities? Do they have a supportive or exploitative relationship with...

Metal is a form of popular music. Popular music is a form of leisure. In the modern age, popular music has become part of popular culture, a heavil...

This book explores the increasing altruistic impulse of the design community to address some of the worlds most difficult problems including social...

Juri Lotman (19221993), the Russian-Estonian literary scholar, cultural historian and semiotician, was one of the most original and important cultu...

The contributions in this volume reflect discussions and controversies during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 1...

This book investigates various forms of political and ethical consumerism in the United States and delivers a comprehensive conceptualization of th...