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  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 4, Issue 3

    Cultural Studies 4.2 is a Special issue: Chicana/o Cultural Representations: Reframing Alternative Critical Discourses ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 6, Issue 1

    Now under new editors, 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. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 6, Issue 3

    First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies

    Volume 7, Issue 1

    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. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Futurenatural

    Nature, Science, Culture

    Series series FUTURES: New Perspectives for Cultural Analysis
    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 culture and science to discuss the concept of 'nature' - its past, present and future. Contributors discuss the impact on our daily life of recent ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Venus in Exile

    The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-century Art

    by Wendy Steiner ...
    Whereas previous eras had celebrated beauty as the central aim of art, the modernist avant-garde were deeply suspicious of beauty and its perennial symbols, woman and ornament, preferring instead the thrill and alienation of the sublime. They rejected harmony, empathy, and femininity in a denial still reverberating through art and social relations today. Exploring this casting of Venus, with all ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Transnational Connections

    Culture, People, Places

    by Ulf Hannerz ...
    Series series Comedia
    This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established notions of "the local", "community", "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Living Through Pop

    Edited by Andrew Blake ...
    In 1956 many people thought rock `n' roll was a passing fad, yet over forty years later , more than ever, Popular Music is a part of contemporary culture, reinventing itself for successive generations. Pop embraces its own history, with musicians from every genre routinely sampling the sounds of the past. present.Living Through Pop explores popular music's history, and the ways in which it has ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Popular Culture

    The Metropolitan Experience

    by Iain Chambers ...
    Series series Studies in Culture and Communication
    Iain Chambers approaches the often overlooked details and textures of popular culture through a series of histories which show how it becomes continually remade as each of us defines our own urban space. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD $32.99 USD

  • Academic Keywords

    A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education

    Know what academic freedom is? Or what it's come to mean? What's affirmative about affirmative action these days? Think you're up on the problem of sexual harassment on campus? Or know how much the university depends on part-time faculty?Academic Keywords is a witty, informed, and sometimes merciless assessment of today's campus, an increasingly corporatized institution that may have bitten off ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Reading the Vampire

    by Ken Gelder ...
    Series series Popular Fictions Series
    Insatiable 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 vampire in all its various manifestations and cultural meanings. Ken Gelder investigates vampire narratives in literature and in film, from early ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • An A-Z of Modern America

    by Alicia Duchak ...
    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 educationlegal, religious and governmental practicesmulticulturalism, minorities and civil rightsAn A-Z of Modern America offers accessible and lively ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Outlooks

    Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures

    Edited by Peter Horne, Reina Lewis ...
    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 adopting a queer perspective on past art, the responses of lesbian and gay artists to the AIDS crisis, and society's attempts to censor homosexual ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Nation, Culture, Text

    Australian Cultural and Media Studies

    Edited by Graeme Turner ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    Nation, Culture, Text: Australian Cultural and Media Studies is the first collection of cultural studies from Australia, selected and introduced for an international readership.Participating in the `de-centring' of cultural studies - considering what perspectives other than the European and the American have to offer - the contributors raise important issues about the role of a national tradition ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Adoring Audience

    Fan Culture and Popular Media

    Edited by Lisa A. Lewis ...
    With stories of hysterical teenagers and obsessive fans killing for their heroes, fans and fandom get a bad press. The Adoring Audience looks deeper into fan culture, particularly as it relates to identity, sexuality and textual production. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Punk Rock: So What?

    The Cultural Legacy of Punk

    Edited by Roger Sabin ...
    It'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 history, culture and myth. The contributors, who include Suzanne Moore, Lucy OBrien, Andy Medhurst, Mark Sinker and Paul Cobley, challenge ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Postcolonial Question

    Common Skies, Divided Horizons

    Brings together renowed and emerging critical voices to respond to the questions raised by the concept of the 'post-colonial'. The contributors explore the diverse cultures which are shaping our global future. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Fanatics

    Power, Identity and Fandom in Football

    Edited by Adam Brown ...
    Embracing 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 critical assessments of the commercialization of the game, this fascinating book offers a comprehensive and timely examination of the state of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • German Bodies

    Race and Representation After Hitler

    by Uli Linke ...
    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 how Germans invested the body with meanings that had significance for the larger body politic and investigates how this fits within the larger ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Eight Technologies of Otherness

    The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, and dwelling. But why ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Compassion Fatigue

    How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death

    From 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 they turn up the pitch, show us one image more hideous than the next, it gets harder and harder to feel. Meet compassion fatigue--a modern ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Female Nude

    Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

    by Lynda Nead ...
    Anyone who examines the history of Western art must be struck by the prevalence of images of the female body. More than any other subject, the female nude connotes `art'. The framed image of a female body, hung on the walls of an art gallery, is an icon of Western culture, a symbol of civilization and accomplishment. But how and why did the female nude acquire this status?The Female Nude brings ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Candy and Me

    A Love Story

    by Hilary Liftin ...
    As a seven-year-old child, Hilary Liftin poured herself a glass (or two) of powdered sugar. Those forbidden cups soon escalated to pound bags of candy corn and multiple packets of dry cocoa mix, launching the epic love affair between Hilary and all things sweet. In Candy and Me: A Love Story, Liftin chronicles her life through candy memories and milestones. As a high school student, Hilary used ... Read more

    $13.99 USD