Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
Erotic Revolutionaries
Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Why is there no 'pro-sex' contingency in black feminist scholarship? Why do so few African-American scholars expound on issues celebrating female sexual pleasure? Perhaps the answers to these questions reside within a discursive matrix of sexual repression commonly referred to as the politics of respectability,...
by Arne Røkkum
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Despite their small area, the southern islands of Japan can be seen as stepping stones towards a more nuanced view of cultural osmosis between Japan and the outside world. This book presents an ethnographic portrayal of the people of the Southern Ryukyu Islands and their world. In particular it explores...
Sexing the Self
Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth Probyn tackles this question of the sex of the self, an issue of vital importance to...
by
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
This is the first reference book to digest this vast cultural output and make it accessible to the English-speaking world. It contains nearly 1,200 entries written by an international team of specialists, to enable readers to explore a range of diverse and fascinating cultural subjects from prisons...
Painting Culture
The Making of an Aboriginal High Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2002
Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often...
Computer Games and New Media Cultures
A Handbook of Digital Games Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Digital gaming is today a significant economic phenomenon as well as being an intrinsic part of a convergent media culture in postmodern societies. Its ubiquity, as well as the sheer volume of hours young people spend gaming, should make it ripe for urgent academic enquiry, yet the subject was a research...
Peer to Peer and the Music Industry
The Criminalization of Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
Have the music and movie industries lost the battle to criminalize downloading?
This penetrating and informative book provides readers with the perfect systematic critical guide to the file-sharing phenomenon. Combining inter-disciplinary resources from sociology, history, media and communication...
My Life as a Night Elf Priest
An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"Ever since the creators of the animated television show South Park turned their lovingly sardonic gaze on the massively multiplayer online game World of Warcraft for an entire episode, WoW's status as an icon of digital culture has been secure. My Life as a Night Elf Priest digs deep beneath...
Raising the Dead
Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2000
Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death’s relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through “the...
Transgender Identities (Open Access)
Towards a Social Analysis of Gender Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
In recent years transgender has emerged as a subject of increasing social and cultural interest. This volume offers vivid accounts of the diversity of living transgender in today's world. The first section, "Emerging Identities," maps the ways in which social, cultural, legal and medical...
Intoxication
The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2005
A scientific and cultural exploration of the pursuit of altered states of consciousness in both humans and animals
• Contains myriad studies and examples from the author's 20 years of research
• By the foremost authority on the social and psychological effects of drug use
History...
The Affective Turn
Theorizing the Social
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
“The innovative essays in this volume . . . demonstrat[e] the potential of the perspective of the affects in a wide range of fields and with a variety of methodological approaches. Some of the essays . . . use fieldwork to investigate the functions of affects—among organized sex workers, health...
China on Video
Smaller-Screen Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...
Popular Culture in Taiwan
Charismatic Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The growing field of popular culture studies in Taiwan can be divided into two distinct academic trends; a different analytical framework is used to examine either locally oriented popular culture or transnational pop culture. This volume combine these two academic trends, firstly by revealing that...