Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Corporations and Cultural Industries
Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, provides an introduction to the political economy of international media corporations. This text fills a fundamental gap in the critical media studies field, expanding on the relative...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts. It focuses on the local artistic sphere in the multicultural EU cities of Amsterdam, Antwerp, Brussels, Cologne, Malmö and Vienna. The chapters show a...
The Cultural Career of Coolness
Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term...
by David Hesmondhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
An undisputed classic, the Fourth Edition of this bestselling media studies text offers an unparalleled analysis of the cultural industries.
Bringing together a huge range of research, theory and key concepts, David Hesmondhalgh provides an accessible yet critical exploration of cultural...
U.S. Central Americans
Reconstructing Memories, Struggles, and Communities of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
In summer 2014, a surge of unaccompanied child migrants from Central America to the United States gained mainstream visibility—yet migration from Central America has been happening for decades. U.S. Central Americans explores the shared yet distinctive experiences, histories, and cultures of 1.5-and...
Indian Transnationalism Online
New Perspectives on Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Present-day migration takes place in a world characterized by the compression of time and space, with cheaper air travel and the existence of new communication technologies - the internet in particular - making it easier to stay in contact with the places, people and cultures that one has left. This...
by Charles P. Henry
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2016
This book aims to expand what scholars know and who is included in this discussion about black studies, which aids in the democratization of American higher education and the deconstruction of traditional disciplines of high education, to facilitate a sense of social justice. By challenging traditional...
Interpersonal Violence
Differences and Connections
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
From early modernity to today, society has encountered various forms of interpersonal violence. Through exploration of particular areas within Europe and Russia to Africa, America and Asia, this collection presents both differences and connections among various forms of interpersonal violence in different...
Vietnamese-Chinese Relationships at the Borderlands
Trade, Tourism and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Ever since China and Vietnam resumed diplomatic contacts and reopened the border in 1991, the borderland region has become part of the vibrant growing economies of both countries and drawn many from the interior provinces to the borderland for new economic adventures. This book examines Chinese-Vietnamese...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This provocative and often controversial volume examines concepts of ethnicity, citizenship and nationhood, to determine what constituted cultural identity in the Roman Empire. The contributors draw together the most recent research and use diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives from...
The Latino Body
Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
The Latino Body tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. Lázaro Lima charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these...
Theory Matters
The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2016
This book demonstrates that theory in literary and cultural studies has moved beyond overarching master theories towards a greater awareness of particularity and contingency – including its own. What is the place of literary and cultural theory after the Age of Theory has ended?
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Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The recording industry has been a major focus of interest for cultural commentators throughout the twenty-first century. As the first major content industry to have its production and distribution patterns radically disturbed by the internet, the recording industry’s content, attitudes and practices...
Ethnic Literatures and Transnationalism
Critical Imaginaries for a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
As new comparative perspectives on race and ethnicity open up, scholars are identifying and exploring fresh topics and questions in an effort to reconceptualize ethnic studies and draw attention to nation–based approaches that may have previously been ignored. This volume, by recognizing the complexity...