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Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies Kuan-Hsing Chen 9780415088039
RRP: $283.50$250.22Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book... -
Migrancy, Culture, Identity Iain Chambers 9780415088015
RRP: $283.50$248.12In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the... -
Reading the Vampire Ken Gelder 9780415080125
RRP: $283.50$245.36Insatiable bloodlust, dangerous sexualities, the horror of the undead, uncharted Trannsylvanian wildernesses, and a morbid fascination with the `other': the legend of the vampire continues to haunt popular imagination.Reading the Vampire examines the... -
Like a Film: Ideological Fantasy on Screen, Camera and Canvas Timothy Murray 9780415077330
RRP: $283.50$248.96In this stimulating collection of theoretical writings on film, photography, and art, Timothy Murray examines relations between artistic practice, sexual and racial politics, theory and cultural studies.Like a Film investigates how the cinematic... -
Gambling Cultures: Studies in History and Interpretation Jan McMillen 9780415068208
RRP: $273.00$235.37All 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... -
Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture and Race Robert J. C. Young 9780415053730
RRP: $273.00$235.37The language of contemporary cultural theory shows remarkable similarities with the patterns of thought which characterised Victorian racial theory. Far from being marked by a separation from the racialised thinking of the past, Colonial Desire shows we... -
Cultures of Consumption Frank Mort 9780415030519
RRP: $283.50$248.96Examines the construction of images of masculinity and the effect they have on identity, sexuality and sexual politics. Influences from black and white culture are explored as well as the ironies of class, colour and sexuality.About the AuthorDavid... -
Arts and Culture in Global Development Practice: Expression, Identity and Empowerment Cindy Maguire 9780367708382
RRP: $283.50$248.12-Focuses on what actually works in development practice, in order to inform and inspire practitioners and students -Impressive global reach, with a wide range of case studies drawn from across Algeria, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Mexico,... -
Cultural Studies 11.1 Lawrence Grossberg 9781138416222
RRP: $378.00$326.63Cultural Studies explores the relationships between cultural practices and everyday life, economic relations, the material world, the State, and historical forces and contexts. It fosters more open analytic, critical and political conversations by... -
Feminism Without Women: Culture and Criticism in a "Postfeminist" Age Tania Modleski 9781138178540
RRP: $283.50$248.12In a series of essays scrutinizing feminist and post-structuralists positions, Tania Modleski examines "the myth of postfeminism" and its operation in popular culture, especially popular film and cultural studies. (First published in 1991.)About the... -
Compassion Fatigue: How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death Susan D. Moeller 9781138173583
RRP: $283.50$248.96From outbreaks of the flesh eating viruses Ebola and Strep A, to death camps in Bosnia and massacres in Rwanda, the media seem to careen from one trauma to another, in a breathless tour of poverty, disease and death. First we're horrified, but each time... -
Hiding in the Light: On Images and Things Dick Hebdige 9781138169531
RRP: $283.50$248.12Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and... -
Cultural Studies: Volume 8, Issue 3 Lawrence Grossberg 9781138164413
RRP: $283.50$248.12Cultural 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... -
Cultural Studies Lawrence Grossberg 9781138138230
RRP: $283.50$250.22Featuring new essays by such prominent cultural theorists as Tony Bennett, Homi Bhabha, Donna Haraway, bell hooks, Constance Penley, Janice Radway, Andrew Ross, and Cornel West, Cultural Studies offers numerous specific cultural analyses while... -
Woodstock University Oliver Lovesey (University of British Columbia, Canada) 9781032335247
RRP: $283.50$248.12Woodstock University addresses the educational interface of 1969's iconic Woodstock Festival, as a number of its attendees and performers would later become academics 'with a touch of gray,' and it also considers the role of music in Woodstock's legacy... -
Handbook of Medieval Sexuality Vern L. Bullough 9780815312871
RRP: $283.50$248.96Like specialists in other fields in humanities and social sciences, medievalists have begun to investigate and write about sex and related topics such as courtship, concubinage, divorce, marriage, prostitution, and child rearing. The scholarship in this... -
Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes Lillian Robinson 9780415966313
RRP: $283.50$248.12Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the... -
How Like a Leaf: An Interview with Donna Haraway Donna Haraway 9780415924023
RRP: $283.50$248.12The author of four seminal works on science and culture, Donna Haraway here speaks for the first time in a direct and non-academic voice. How Like a Leaf will be a welcome inside view of the author's thought.About the AuthorDonna J. Haraway is Professor... -
One Nation Under God?: Religion and American Culture Marjorie Garber 9780415922234
RRP: $283.50$248.96One 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: Race and Representation After Hitler Uli Linke 9780415921213
RRP: $273.00$235.37German 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... -
The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers Gary Lee Downey 9780415920216
RRP: $283.50$248.96Gary 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... -
Infectious Rhythm: Metaphors of Contagion and the Spread of African Culture Barbara Browning 9780415919807
RRP: $283.50$248.12Barbara Browning follows the trail of "infectious rhythm" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion... -
The Science Studies Reader Mario Biagioli 9780415918671
RRP: $283.50$250.22The Reader focuses on the practices of modern and contemporary science and technology located in different national and institutional settings, with some attention to non- Western contexts. By mapping some of the open questions and points of tension... -
Whores and Other Feminists Jill Nagle 9780415918213
RRP: $283.50$248.96Whores and Other Feminists fleshes out feminist politics from the perspective of sex workers--strippers, prostitutes, porn writers, producers and performers, dominatrices--and their allies. Comprising a range of voices from both within and outside the... -
White Trash: Race and Class in America Annalee Newitz 9780415916912
RRP: $273.00$235.37This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.About the AuthorMatt Wray, Annalee NewitzReviews"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and... -
Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots Robbie Davis-Floyd 9780415916035
RRP: $325.50$282.77From fetuses scanned ultrasonically to computer hackers in daycare, contemporary children are increasingly rendered cyborg by their immersion in technoculture. As we are faced with reproductive choices connected directly with technologies, we often have... -
Marxism Beyond Marxism Saree Makdisi 9780415914420
RRP: $283.50$248.96These essays critically rethink Marxism in the light of the disintegration of communist regimes Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Containing essays from a group of internationally distinguished writers and intellectuals, this collection addresses... -
Constructing Masculinity Maurice Berger 9780415910521
RRP: $283.50$248.96This anthology takes us beyond the status of masculinity itself, questioning society's and the media's normative concepts of the masculine, and considering the extent to which men and women can transcend these stereotypes and prescriptions.About the... -
The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of Gayati Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Spivak 9780415910002
RRP: $283.50$248.96Among the foremost feminist critics to have emerged to international eminence over the last fifteen years, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has relentlessly challenged the high ground of established theoretical discourse in literary and cultural studies... -
Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France Lawrence D. Kritzman 9780415904407
RRP: $283.50$248.96Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that... -
The Photographic Image in Digital Culture Martin Lister 9780415535274
RRP: $283.50$248.12This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars... -
The Cybercultures Reader Barbara M. Kennedy (University of Staffordshire, UK) 9780415410687
RRP: $283.50$251.27This updated and thoroughly revised second edition of the best-selling The Cybercultures Reader, includes specially selected contemporary articles by key thinkers in the expanding field of cybercultures studies. With general and thematic section... -
Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age Margot Lovejoy 9780415307802
RRP: $283.50$248.96Digital 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... -
Food and Cultural Studies Bob Ashley 9780415270380
RRP: $283.50$248.12What and how we eat are two of the most persistent choices we face in everyday life. Whatever we decide on though, and however mundane our decisions may seem, they will be inscribed with information both about ourselves and about our positions in the... -
Representing the Nation: A Reader: Histories, Heritage, Museums David Boswell 9780415208697
RRP: $283.50$250.22Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the Nation: A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.With an... -
Englishness and National Culture Antony Easthorpe 9780415196871
RRP: $283.50$248.12In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a... -
Fanatics: Power, Identity and Fandom in Football Adam Brown 9780415181037
RRP: $283.50$248.96Embracing studies of football fans across Europe, this book tackles questions of power, national and regional identities, and race and racism, highlighting the changing role of fans in the game. Combining new approaches to the study of fan culture with... -
Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader Kwesi Owusu 9780415178457
RRP: $283.50$250.22Black British Culture and Society brings together in one indispensable volume key writings on the Black community in Britain, from the 'Windrush' immigrations of the late 1940s and 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain. Combining classic writings... -
Punk Rock: So What?: The Cultural Legacy of Punk Roger Sabin 9780415170291
RRP: $283.50$248.12It's now over twenty years since punk pogo-ed its way into our consciousness. Punk Rock So What?brings together a new generation of academics, writers and journalists to provide the first comprehensive assessment of punk and its place in popular music... -
A National Joke: Popular Comedy and English Cultural Identities Andy Medhurst 9780415168779
RRP: $283.50$248.12Comedy is crucial to how the English see themselves. This book considers that proposition through a series of case studies of popular English comedies and comedians in the twentieth century, ranging from the Carry On films to the work of Mike Leigh and...