Popular Culture

An international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It seeks to foster more open analytic, critical and...

Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles such burning issues as the advantage of...

First published in 1995. Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts.About the...

Cultural Studies is an international journal committed to exploring the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. Since the inception of Cultural...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415110952Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

First time a volume in cultural studies has focused on environmental mattersAbout the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415110945Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor &...

Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this...

Combines the work of a diverse range of scholars including Marx, Bourdieu and Stuart HallInter-disciplinary and unusual in bringing together studies of cultural studies and political economics - two subjects usually approached seperatelyAbout the...

Design and Aesthetics: A Reader is a comprehensive student reader on design history and aesthetic theory. It includes contributions from many of the writers whose work has been foundational to these two fields, including classic articles by Raymond...

Modern Literary study was founded on an opposition between the canon and its other , popular culture. The theory wars of the 1970s and the 1980s and, in particular, the advent of structuralist and post structuralist theory, transformed this relationship...

This issue of Cultural Studies will be a general issue edited from the US, and will provide the usual mix of scholarly discourse and innovative forms from a radical point of view.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN...

Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.International in its scope and...

Cultural Studies 4.2 is a Special issue: Chicana/o Cultural Representations: Reframing Alternative Critical DiscoursesAbout the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415052771Author Issue Editor: Angie C. ChabramFormat...

This issue of Cultural Studies will deal with the broad range of subjects that typify this journal.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway, Andrew TolsonBook InformationISBN 9780415052764Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count...

What are the implications of comics for law? Tackling this question, On Comics and Legal Aesthetics explores the epistemological dimensions of comics and the way this once-maligned medium can help think about - and reshape - the form of law. Traversing...

In the late 1990s "Angels in America", Tony Kushner's epic play about homosexuality and AIDS in the Reagan era, toured the country, inspiring protests in a handful of cities while others received it warmly. Why do people fight over some works of art but...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882190737Author Dr Esther PasztoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Polar Bear & CompanyPublisher Polar Bear & CompanyWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm)...

This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual...

This distinctive volume explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books, magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This reader offers diverse theoretical perspectives...

Seventy colourful, pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered for this edition, peopled with often-irreverent images of the author's real life friends and colleagues. Opposite each of the cartoons, are the fascinating documents from the...

One Nation Under God? is a remarkable consideration of how religion manifests itself in America today.About the AuthorMarjorie Garber is the William R Kenan, Jr Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard...

German Bodies explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. Uli Linke examines...

Kath Weston's powerful collection of essays, Long, SlowBurn, challenges the preconception that queer studies is the brainchild of the humanities and argues that social science has been talking about sex all along. To deny this one would have to overlook...

Gary Lee Downey investigates the body/machine interface in his remarkable ethnography of computer engineers. Drawing on interviews, observations and personal interaction with engineers, he documents the everyday power of technology's dominant image in...

Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the...

First published in 1996. As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of cultural studies in the United States and what effects its increasing internationalization might have. What type of projects would cultural studies inspire...

The Death and Rebirth of American Radicalism differentiates the "Social Justice Left" from "Cultural Radicalism" and the various social movements for individual freedom. In The Death and Rebirth ofAmerican Radicalism, Stanley Aronowitz asks the question,...

Technoculture is culture--such is the proposition posited in Technoscience and Cyberculture, arguing that technology's permeation of the cultural landscape has so irrevocably reconstituted this terrain that technology emerges as the dominant discourse in...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorStanley AronowitzBook InformationISBN 9780415907385Author Stanley AronowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are...

"Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies...

Few topics in 20th century history generate as much interest as the Spanish Civil War. These letter from the Abraham Lincoln Brigade take us back to a time when 2800 Americans took up arms and confronted Hitler's Condor Legion, Mussolini's Black Shirts,...

All contributors have international reputations as gambling scholarsNo other book develops comparative historical cultural analysis of gambling.International perspectives including UK, Australia, USA, Africa and EuropeIncreased interest in gambling...

Digital Currents explores the growing impact of digital technologies on aesthetic experience and examines the major changes taking place in the role of the artist as social communicator.Margot Lovejoy recounts the early histories of electronic media for...

New paperback edition of successful hardbackOnly global academic study of karaokeAbout the AuthorShuhei Hosokawa, Toru MitsuiReviews'Karaoke Around the World is a book for our times... impressively grounded in solid research, both archival and...

Like many Jews of our generation, Jon Stratton grew up in a family more concerned about assimilation than about preserving Jewish tradition. While he could easily 'pass' among non-Jews, he found himself increasingly torn between his fear of not belonging...

Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in 'health culture'. While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with daily media images of DNA research, and news reports about cloning, the fight against...

Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and...

Frantz Fanon was a fearless critic of colonialism and a key figure in Algeria's struggle for independence. Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives addresses Fanon's extraordinary, often contraversial writings, and examines the ways in which his work can shed...

An A-Z of Modern America is a comprehensive cultural dictionary which defines contemporary America through its history and civilization. The book includes entries on:key people from presidents to Babe RuthAmerican life, customs, clothing and...