Society & Culture: General

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 ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

Across disciplines, critical thinking is praised, taught, and put into practice. But what does it actually mean to think critically? In this brief ...

Los Angeles Documentary and the Production of Public History, 1958-1977 explores how documentarians working between the election of John F. Kennedy...

How and why are U.S. transnational corporations investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global S...

While much has been written about the impact of the 1979 Islamic revolution on life in Iran, discussions about the everyday life of Iranian women h...

Todays debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied h...

Whether looking at divided cities or working with populations on the margins of society, a growing number of engaged academics have reached out to ...

A comprehensive and insightful examination of the ways comedy can help shape social justice movements.Hasan Minhaj, Comedian and Host of the Netfli...

Despite enormous changes in patterns of dating and courtship in twenty-first-century America, contemporary understandings of romance and intimacy r...

In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address...

This is not a book about sound. It is a study of sounds that aims to write the resonance and response they call for. John Mowitt seeks to critique ...

At a time when what it means to watch movies keeps changing, this book offers a case study that rethinks the institutional, ideological, and cultur...

When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and ...

K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-orient...

The hallucinogenic and medicinal effects of peyote have a storied history that begins well before Europeans arrived in the Americas. While some hav...

Hailed by corporate, philanthropic, and governmental organizations as a metaphor for democratic interaction and business dynamics, contemporary jaz...

How does a photograph become a news image? An ethnography of the labor behind international news images, Image Brokers ruptures the self-evidence o...

What does it mean to be a compassionate, caring person in Russia, which has become a country of stark income inequalities and political restriction...

Today, interest in networks is growing by leaps and bounds, in both scientific discourse and popular culture. Networks are thought to be everywhere...

'Punctuated by the stories of a host of interesting and extraordinary characters, Crossland has produced a fascinating exploration of the long nine...