Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Mexico's Cinema
A Century of Film and Filmmakers
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
In recent years, Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has the most advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Mexico's Cinema: A Century of Film and Filmmakers is...
by Lucas Lixinski
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues around intangible cultural heritage (also known as traditional cultural expressions or folklore). It explores both institutional and substantive responses the law offers to the safeguarding of intangible heritage, relying heavily on critiques...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Climate change is today’s news, but it isn’t a new phenomenon. Centuries-long cycles of heating and cooling are well documented for Europe and the North Atlantic. These variations in climate, including the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), AD 900 to 1300, and the early centuries of the Little Ice Age...
Musical Performance and the Changing City
Post-industrial Contexts in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life. It takes musical performance as its key focus, exploring how and why different kinds of performance are evolving in contemporary cities in the interaction...
by Shenshen Cai
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online documentaries,...
Popular Music Fandom
Identities, Roles and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with the wider field of media fan research, raising...
Asia
Cultural politics in the global age
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A valuable introductory book for students, Western or otherwise, in Asian studies.
Tan See Kam, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
It is timely that a sophisticated discussion of modernity and postmodernity be introduced to Asian Studies, and this text clearly offers a beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2005
A cultural studies textbook that deals with issues of methodology, as well as mapping out the history and theories and ideas in cultural studies. The book examines the work of Raymond Williams, Lacan and Hoggart, among Others, And Explores Notions Of Subculture, Psychoanalysis, Marxist thought, narrative,...
Alien Encounters
Popular Culture in Asian America
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2007
Alien Encounters showcases innovative directions in Asian American cultural studies. In essays exploring topics ranging from pulp fiction to multimedia art to import-car subcultures, contributors analyze Asian Americans’ interactions with popular culture as both creators and consumers. Written by...
New Woman Hybridities
Femininity, Feminism, and International Consumer Culture, 1880–1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Since the 1970s, the literary and cultural politics of the turn-of-the-century New Woman have received increasing academic attention. Whether she is seen as the emblem of sexual anarchy, an agent of mediation between mass market and modernist cultures, or as a symptom of the consolidation of nineteenth...
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries
Portuguese Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This collection of essays provides both critical and interdisciplinary means for thinking across diasporic travels within the Portuguese experience and its intersection with other peoples and cultures. The chapters are organized into four sections and offer rich, diverse, and insightful studies that...
Sport and Gender Identities
Masculinities, Femininities and Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This important new book brings together gender studies and sexuality studies to provide original and critical insights into processes of identity formation in a wide range of sport-related contexts. The authors draw on contemporary debates concerning gender and identity from a range of disciplines...
The End of Cool Japan
Ethical, Legal, and Cultural Challenges to Japanese Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Today’s convergent media environment offers unprecedented opportunities for sourcing and disseminating previously obscure popular culture material from Japan. However, this presents concerns regarding copyright, ratings and exposure to potentially illegal content which are serious problems for those...