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Cultural Conundrums
Gender, Race, Nation, and the Making of Caribbean Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Cultural Conundrums investigates the passions of race, gender, and national identity that make culture a continually embattled public sphere in the Anglophone Caribbean today. Academics, journalists, and ordinary citizens have weighed in on the ideological meanings to be found in the minutiae of cultural...
Coming Out of War
Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
World War I is widely considered “the Great War” and World War II, “the Good War.” Janis Stout thinks of them as two parts of a whole that continues to engage historians and literary scholars searching for an understanding of both the actual war experiences and the modern culture of grief...
Sells like Teen Spirit
Music, Youth Culture, and Social Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Music has always been central to the cultures that young people create, follow, and embrace. In the 1960s, young hippie kids sang along about peace with the likes of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez and tried to change the world. In the 1970s, many young people ended up coming home in body bags from Vietnam,...
Celebrity
A History of Fame
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
The historical and cultural context of fame in the twenty-first century
Today, celebrity culture is an inescapable part of our media landscape and our everyday lives. This was not always the case. Over the past century, media technologies have increasingly expanded the production and proliferation...
Lewd Looks
American Sexploitation Cinema in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
One of the most fascinating phenomena of 1960s film culture is the emergence of American sexploitation films—salacious indies made on the margins of Hollywood. Hundreds of such films were produced and shown on both urban and small-town screens over the course of the decade. Yet despite their vital...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
When the first season of Star Trek opened to American television viewers in 1966, the thematically insightful sci-fi story line presented audiences with the exciting vision of a bold voyage into the final frontiers of space and strange, new galactic worlds. Perpetuating this enchanting vision, the...
The Man Between
Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
When Michael Henry Heim-one of the most respected translators of his generation-passed away in the fall of 2012, he left behind an astounding legacy. Over his career, he translated over sixty works from more than eight different languages, including books by Milan Kundera, Dubravka Ugresic, Hugo Claus,...
Critical Childhood Studies and the Practice of Interdisciplinarity
Disciplining the Child
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book analyzes different figurations of childhood in contemporary culture and politics with a particular focus on interdisciplinary methodologies of critical childhood studies. It argues that while the figure of the child has been traditionally located at the peripheries of academic disciplines,...
Like Clockwork
Steampunk Pasts, Presents, and Futures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Once a small subculture, the steampunk phenomenon exploded in visibility during the first years of the twenty-first century, its influence and prominence increasing ever since. From its Victorian and literary roots to film and television, video games, music, and even fashion, this subgenre of science...
Contesting Views
The Visual Economy of France and Algeria
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Fifty years after Algerian independence, the legacy of France's Algerian past, and the ongoing complexities of the Franco-Algerian relationship, remain a key preoccupation in both countries. A central role in shaping understanding of their shared past and present is played by visual culture. This...
Digimodernism
How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A bold new challenge to postmodern theory
The increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology.
Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography...
Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture
Beyond Sherlock Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle’s creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated...
by Tamar Katriel
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
An original ethnographic study about communication and culture in Palestine and Israel during the Twentieth Century, examining three modes of communication—soul talks, straight talk, and talk radio.