Society & Culture: General

Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror stud...

Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world up to the mid to late 20th century, but within less than half a century she emerged as an econo...

Writing and Desire is a sustained, multimovement exploration of how writers, particularly queer writers, think and feel through desire as central t...

Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted...

Through a sociological analysis of Hmong former refugees grassroots movements in the United States between the 1990s and 2000s, Immigrant Agency sh...

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in...

Read an excerpt Chicago Firsthand (click here). Barbara Smith has been doing groundbreaking work since the early 1970s, describing a Black feminism...

Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore ...

Is it enough to write in French to be recognized as a French writer? Or does the close link which exists between French literature and the French n...

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication,...

Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link ...

Helping you find your voice, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS, 8e helps you build the skills you need to become a more effective co...

The impact of individual appearance on career success, either positive or negative, often remains unspoken or even unconscious within the world of ...

From genocide, forced displacement, and emigration, to the gradual establishment of sedentary and rooted global communities, how has the Armenian d...

All-Black institutions and local community groups have been at the forefront of the freedom struggle since the beginning. Lifting the Chains is a ...