Popular Culture

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...

A special issue of the established journal 'Cultural Studies', devoted to the study of culture in scientific and technological systems.About the AuthorAnne BalsamoBook InformationISBN 9780415184274Author Anne BalsamoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint...

This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective.About the AuthorLawrence...

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the...

In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links...

First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415145688Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

Ethnic minorities, principally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the surviving remnants of France's overseas empire, are increasingly visible in contemporary France. Post-Colonial Cultures in France edited by Alec Hargreaves and Mark McKinney is the...

Living Room Wars brings together Ien Ang's recent writings on television audiences, and , in response to recent criticisms of cultural studies, argues that it is possible to study audience pleasures and popular television in a way that is not naively...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415123792Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415123785Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

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...

First published in 1993. Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.About the...

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.About the AuthorHenry A. Grioux, Peter...

Relaunch issue with a striking new cover.Lawrence Grossberg is a joint editor of Cultural Studies (Routledge, March 1992) which is the most ambitious and broad international cultural studies collection to date.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice...

We are living in an age when 'nature' seems to be on the brink of extinction yet, at the same time, 'nature' is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and unstable as a category for representation and debate.Futurenatural brings together leading theorists of...

"Reading Into Cultural Studies" revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the...

This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the 'appearance' of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core,...

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...

The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, "I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club." Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences...

Made in Brooklyn is a belated critique of the Maker Movement: from its origins in the nineteenth century to its impact on labor and its entanglement in the neoliberal economic model of the tech industry. Part history, part ethnography, Made in Brooklyn...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781576876596Author Jake YuznaFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint powerHouse Books,U.S.Publisher powerHouse Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1301g

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781796348156Author Daniel De SosaFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643650708Author M D CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Wooden Pen PressPublisher Wooden Pen PressSeries Aeon 14 ArtWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our collection ranges from classic titles to the latest releases,...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645522952Author Mary SalterFormat PaperbackPage Count 22Imprint Africa World Books Pty LtdPublisher Africa World Books Pty LtdWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781790769018Author Val MakotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Found art in the form of record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers Marred for Life! presents over 250 record covers, lovingly and mischievously vandalized by anonymous music lovers. The LP covers were selected from...

Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance is inspired by the vital history of music in Detroit and the legacy of the 1967 Detroit Rebellion. It connects Detroit's musical and political histories with a wide range of artworks, music ephemera and artifacts to...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781981822805Author Noah MickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781727555868Author Bobby J JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733930970Author Joshua WernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 38Imprint Asylum Publications, Inc.Publisher Asylum Publications, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781539441946Author Scott MonetFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461042853Author Anthony James GiacominoFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781461003694Author Michael K GaughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at SciFier don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258670771Author Lawrence LiptonFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm)...