Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
Human Resource Management (HRM) is fundamentally shaped by institutional and cultural factors, such as the different political environments and social philosophies of particular countries and regions. By examining the various organizational aspects of business life and systems of people management...
International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council States
Challenges and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This region, which largely comprises the Arabian Peninsula, possesses some of the fastest...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
Latinos are now the largest so-called minority group in the United States—the result of a growth trend that began in the mid-twentieth century—and the influence of Latin cultures on American life is reflected in everything from politics to education to mass cultural forms such as music and television....
Social Exclusion, Power, and Video Game Play
New Research in Digital Media and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
While many books and articles are emerging on the new area of game studies and the application of computer games to learning, therapeutic, military and entertainment environments, few have attempted to contextualize the importance of virtual play within a broader social, cultural and political environment...
Intermediate Yoruba
Language, Culture, Literature, and Religious Beliefs, Part Ii
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Intermediate Yoruba offers an effective guide to mastering Yoruba quickly and easily, written in the proper Yoruba-Oyo, by author Abraham Ajibade Adeleke, who was born and raised in Oyo Alaafin. Yoruba grammar is best taught in the context of the Yoruba culture. For this reason, Intermediate Yoruba...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This landmark publication brings together some of the most perceptive commentators of the present moment to explore core ideas and cutting edge developments in the field of Leisure Studies. It offers important new insights into the dynamics of the transformation of leisure in contemporary societies,...
Thinking Dead
What the Zombie Apocalypse Means
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Zombies are everywhere these days. We are consuming zombies as much as they are said to be consuming us in mediated apocalyptic scenarios on popular television shows, video game franchises and movies. The “zombie industry” generates billions a year through media texts and other cultural manifestations...
Film, Form, and Culture
Fourth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Film, Form, and Culture (4th edition) offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural aspects of film. With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores film from part to whole; from the smallest unit of the shot to the way shots are edited together to create narrative....
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
An essential introduction to a rapidly growing field of study, The Fan Fiction Studies Reader gathers in one place the key foundational texts of the fan studies corpus, with a focus on fan fiction. Collected here are important texts by scholars whose groundbreaking work established the field and outlined...
by Tim Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Presenting a survey of the social, cultural and theoretical issues which surround and inform our understanding of masculinity, this book explores the interface between traditional sociological approaches and the work covered by more post-structural, media-driven or cultural perspectives.
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American Taboo: The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture
The Forbidden Words, Unspoken Rules, and Secret Morality of Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
America's often-unspoken morality codes make many topics taboo in "the land of the free." This book analyzes hundreds of popular culture examples to expose how the media both avoids and alludes to how we derive pleasure from our bodies.
• Analyzes an enormous range of popular culture...
Culture, Development and Social Theory
Towards an Integrated Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
This important book places culture back at the centre of debates in development studies. It introduces new ways of conceptualizing culture in relation to development by linking development studies to cultural studies, studies of social movements, religion and the notion of 'social suffering'. The...
Embroidering the Scarlet A
Unwed Mothers and Illegitimate Children in American Fiction and Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Embroidering the Scarlet A traces the evolution of the “fallen woman” from the earliest novels to recent representations in fiction and film, including The Scarlet Letter, The Sound and the Fury, The Color Purple, and Love Medicine, and the films Juno and Mother and Child. Interweaving...
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Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms [2 volumes]
From Anime to Tiger Moms
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
Providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Asian American cultural forms, including folk tradition, literature, religion, education, politics, sports, and popular culture, this two-volume work is an ideal resource for students and general readers that reveals the historical, regional, and ethnic...