Society & Culture: General

Since the eve of the war in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera has become a global household name and a news source that cannot be ignored. Globalization theo...

Since the eve of the war in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera has become a global household name and a news source that cannot be ignored. Globalization theo...

The term «house of art» designates the cultural phenomenon and creative mode in modernity associated with an artist’s residence as his own creation...

This book is a theoretical and practical discussion of intercultural communication and interaction and is aimed at academic courses as well as prof...

Never before have we lived in a time in which sport and gay identity are more visible, discussed, debated—and even celebrated. However, in an era i...

Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre. Plague romances and mommy memoirs. Nudie-cutie movies, Nazi zombies, and dinosaur erotica. Bab...

Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?This book examines suicide like no othe...

Advances in Group Processes publishes theoretical analyses, reviews, and theory based empirical chapters on group phenomena. The series adopts a b...

England's Discontents unpacks the genealogy of British identities over the last two hundred years as they have been shaped by the main political cu...

Airbnb, gaming, escape rooms, major sporting events: contemporary capitalism no longer demands we merely consume things, but that we buy experience...

As seen in Design Matters with Debbie Millman, PRINT Magazine, The Slowdown, and Design Boom Stefan Sagmeister’s newest project encourages long-ter...

Since launching as a website for everyday video-sharing in 2005, YouTube has become one of the world’s most powerful digital media platforms. Origi...

This volume takes a fresh look at the various aesthetics emerging globally in the early sound film era, with a focus on the films’ fundamentally ex...

This book is the first ever systematic attempt to study film sound in the Indian subcontinent by artistic research. The book aims to fill the schol...

Film Authorship in Contemporary Transmedia Culture: The Paratextual Lives of Asian Auteurs examines film authorship in the transmedia era whereby f...