Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2005
"Cultural 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.
Popular Postcolonialisms
Discourses of Empire and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
Drawing together the insights of postcolonial scholarship and cultural studies, Popular Postcolonialisms questions the place of ‘the popular’ in the postcolonial paradigm. Multidisciplinary in focus, this collection explores the extent to which popular forms are infused with colonial logics, and...
Making It Like a Man
Canadian Masculinities in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice is a collection of essays on the practice of masculinities in Canadian arts and cultures, where to “make it like a man” is to participate in the cultural, sociological, and historical fluidity of ways of being a man in Canada, from the country’s...
Reluctant Celebrity
Affect and Privilege in Contemporary Stardom
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In this book, Lorraine York examines the figure of the celebrity who expresses discomfort with his or her intense condition of social visibility. Bringing together the fields of celebrity studies and what Ann Cvetkovich has called the “affective turn in cultural studies”, York studies the mixed...
Identities on the Move
Contemporary Representations of New Sexualities and Gender Identities
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
The development of new sexualities and gender identities has become a crucial issue in the field of literary and cultural studies in the first years of the twenty-first century. The roles of gender and sexual identities in the struggle for equality have become a major concern in both fields. The legacy...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
"The SAGE Handbook of Popular Music is a comprehensive, smartly-conceived volume that can take its place as the new standard reference in popular music.The editors have shown great care in covering classic debates while moving the field into new, exciting areas of scholarship. International...
by Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2009
In Anthropological Futures, Michael M. J. Fischer explores the uses of anthropology as a mode of philosophical inquiry, an evolving academic discipline, and a means for explicating the complex and shifting interweaving of human bonds and social interactions on a global level. Through linked essays,...
US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology
Soft Power, Hard Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores...
Anthropology and Mass Communication
Media and Myth in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Anthropological interest in mass communication and media has exploded in the last two decades, engaging and challenging the work on the media in mass communications, cultural studies, sociology and other disciplines. This is the first book to offer a systematic overview of the themes, topics and methodologies...
Crossover Cinema
Cross-Cultural Film from Production to Reception
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Cinematic products in the twenty-first century increasingly emerge from, engage with, and are consumed in cross-cultural settings. While there have been a number of terms used to describe cinematic forms that do not bear allegiance to a single nation in terms of conceptualization, content, finance...
Women and Turkish Cinema
Gender Politics, Cultural Identity and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Since 2000, there has been a considerable effort in Turkish cinema to come to terms with the military’s intervention in politics and subsequent national trauma. It has resulted in an outpouring of cinematic texts. This book focuses on women and Turkish cinema in the context of gender politics, cultural...
Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity
In Search of the Modern?
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Throughout the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, cinema has been adopted as a popular cultural institution in Bangladesh. At the same time, this has been the period for the articulation of modern nationhood and cultural identity of Bengali Muslims in Bangladesh. This book analyses the relationship...
Eat Everything Before You Die
A Chinaman in the Counterculture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this vibrant and original novel, Christopher Columbus Wong, orphan son of a Chinatown bachelor community, is trying to invent a family for himself while all around him American popular culture is reinventing itself with sex, drugs, and rock �n� roll. Christopher finds himself on a wild journey...
Filipino Studies
Palimpsests of Nation and Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
After years of occupying a vexed position in the American academy, Philippine studies has come into its own, emerging as a trenchant and dynamic space of inquiry. Filipino Studies is a field-defining collection of vibrant voices, critical perspectives, and provocative ideas about the cultural, political,...