Cultural Studies category: 176761 books
by Sharon Chalmers
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2003
Lesbian Sexuality has remained largely ignored in Japan despite increasing exposure of disadvantaged minority groups, including gay men. This book is the first comprehensive academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japanese society. The author employs an interdisciplinary approach...
Indian Horror Cinema
(En)gendering the Monstrous
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2017
This book studies the hitherto overlooked genre of horror cinema in India. It uncovers some unique and diverse themes that these films deal with, including the fear of the unknown, the supernatural, occult practices, communication with spirits of the deceased, ghosts, reincarnation, figures of vampires,...
To Come to a Better Understanding
Medicine Men and Clergy Meetings on the Rosebud Reservation, 1973–1978
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
To Come to a Better Understanding analyzes the cultural encounters of the medicine men and clergy meetings held on Rosebud Reservation in St. Francis, South Dakota, from 1973 through 1978. Organized by Father Stolzman, a Catholic priest studying Lakota religious practice, the meetings fit the goal...
Transnationalism, Migration and the Challenge to Europe
The Enlargement of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Transnationalism, Migration and the Challenge to Europe: The Enlargement of Meaning puts forward an alternative outline for thinking about migration in a European context. Moving beyond the agenda of identity politics, the book addresses possibilities more related to the experiential and existential...
Shaping Indian Diaspora
Literary Representations and Bollywood Consumption away from the Desi
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The Indian diaspora is the largest diasporic movement from Asia, with the Indian community numbering over twenty-five million around the world. Its large scale encompasses a kaleidoscopic community from disparate regions, languages, cultural heritages, religions, and traditions within the subcontinent....
Diasporas and Interculturalism in Asian Performing Arts
Translating Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
In an age of globalization, performance is increasingly drawn from intercultural creativity and located in multicultural settings. This volume is the first to focus on the performing arts of Asian diasporas in the context of modernity and multiculturalism. The essays locate the contemporary performing...
by Julie Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 1998
Tango. A multidimensional expression of Argentine identity, one that speaks to that nation’s sense of disorientation, loss, and terror. Yet the tango mesmerizes dancers and audiences alike throughout the world. In Paper Tangos, Julie Taylor—a classically trained dancer and anthropologist—examines...
East Asian Men
Masculinity, Sexuality and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This book provides a fresh and contemporary take on the study of men and masculinity. It highlights new and exciting approaches to sexuality, desire, men and masculinity in East Asian contexts, focusing on the interconnections between them. In doing so, it re-examines the key concepts that underpin...
Afro-Fabulations
The Queer Drama of Black Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Argues for a conception of black cultural life that exceeds post-blackness and conditions of loss
In Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life, cultural critic and historian Tavia Nyong’o surveys the conditions of contemporary black artistic production in the era of post-blackness....
Leisure and Death
An Anthropological Tour of Risk, Death, and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying, tourists who accidentally face their own mortality while vacationing,...
by Ajay Gehlawat
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Key changes have emerged in Bollywood in the new millennium. Twenty-First Century Bollywood traces the emerging shifts in both the content and form of Bollywood cinema and examines these new tendencies in relation to the changing dynamics of Indian culture. The book historically situates these emerging...
Arab American Aesthetics
Literature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Arab American Aesthetics enlists a wide range of voices to explore, if not tentatively define, what could constitute Arab American aesthetics in literature, material culture, film, and theatre.
This book seeks to unsettle current conversations within Arab American Studies that neglect aesthetics...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "at large" in South Asia. Bringing together prominent scholars who have shaped television studies in South Asia, as...
by Ronald C. Fox
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Learn the latest practical-and bisexually affirmative-approaches to helping bisexual clients
Clinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifted beyond the exclusive emphasis on either straight or lesbian and gay issues. There are still, however, too few psychotherapists who provide...