Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Media, Modernity and Technology
The Geography of the New
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
From best-selling author David Morley, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine some of the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies.
Spanning the last decade, this fascinating and readable book is based on interdisciplinary work on the interface...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property in relation to intangible cultural heritage and discusses how these ideas are employed in rights discourses by governments and indigenous and local communities around the world.
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Global Manga
'Japanese' Comics without Japan?
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Outside Japan, the term ’manga’ usually refers to comics originally published in Japan. Yet nowadays many publications labelled ’manga’ are not translations of Japanese works but rather have been wholly conceived and created elsewhere. These comics, although often derided and dismissed as...
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies
Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
A superb combination of focused case studies and high level conceptual thinking, this volume is an important monument in the ongoing development of Inter-American studies The articles gathered here closely examine a wide variety of cultural phenomena implicated in the 'entanglements' which have defined...
by Leong Yew
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Over the last two decades, Singapore has undergone a substantial degree of ‘Asianization’. Apart from participating in the Asian values debate of the 1990s, re-visioning itself as ‘New Asia’ and a global-Asian hub, and establishing Asian identities for the commodities it consumes and produces,...
Trajectories
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
Trajectories brings together cultural theorists not only from countries with a known historical critical tradition such as America, Canada and Australia but from the East-Asia locations of Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Philippines, India and Thailand. It constitutes a critical confrontation...
by Dongfeng Tao, Lei He, Yugao He
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
As the first book to introduce and analyze cultural studies in contemporary China, this volume is an important resource for Western scholars wishing to understand the rise and development of cultural studies in China. Organized according to subject, it includes extensive material examining the relationships...
East Main Street
Asian American Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2005
From henna tattoo kits available at your local mall to “faux Asian” fashions, housewares and fusion cuisine; from the new visibility of Asian film, music, video games and anime to the current popularity of martial arts motifs in hip hop, Asian influences have thoroughly saturated the U.S. cultural...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
In Beyond The Chinese Connection, Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin's Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael Reed's...
Beyond The Chinese Connection
Contemporary Afro-Asian Cultural Production
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
In Beyond “The Chinese Connection,” Crystal S. Anderson explores the cultural and political exchanges between African Americans, Asian Americans, and Asians over the last four decades. To do so, Anderson examines such cultural productions as novels (Frank Chin’s Gunga Din Highway [1999], Ishmael...
A History of Alcohol and Drugs in Modern South Asia
Intoxicating Affairs
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
At the beginning of the 21st century, alcoholism, transnational drug trafficking and drug addiction constitute major problems in various South Asian countries. The production, circulation and consumption of intoxicating substances created (and responded to) social upheavals in the region and had widespread...
Verse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry: while poetry as a representation...
Race, Nation and Gender in Modern Italy
Intersectional Representations in Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book explores intersectional constructions of race and whiteness in modern and contemporary Italy. It contributes to transnational and interdisciplinary reflections on these issues through an analysis of political debates and social practices, focusing in particular on visual materials from the...