Popular Culture

While the questions of ethics have become increasingly important in recent years for many fields within the humanities, there has been no single volume that seeks to address the emergence of this concern with ethics across the disciplinary spectrum...

First published in 1996. As recently as the early 1990s, people wondered what was the future of cultural studies in the United States and what effects its increasing internationalization might have. What type of projects would cultural studies inspire...

Science Fiction Audiences examines the astounding popularity of two television "institutions" - the series Doctor Who and ^Star Trek. Both of these programmes have survived cancellation and acquired an following that continues to grow. The book is based...

The photographer and reformer Jacob Riis once wrote, "I have seen an armful of daisies keep the peace of a block better than a policeman and his club." Riis was not alone in his belief that beauty could tame urban chaos, but are aesthetic experiences...

This intriguing issue represents the truly international and interdisciplinary nature of contemporary work in cultural studies. Cultural Studies has reflected the discipline in becoming ever more global in scope and perspective.About the AuthorLawrence...

This book deals with melodrama - the key cinematic form of post-war Italy. The commercial success and formal perfection of melodrama is central to the re-establishment of the post-war Italian film industry, ensuring cinema's position at the forefront of...

Since nearly the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, activists have signaled the inadequacy of prevention strategies and drug protocols that have been developed from research done primarily on men. The latest C.D.C. figures prove they were right; for the...

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorStanley AronowitzBook InformationISBN 9780415907385Author Stanley AronowitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis...

Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America.About the...

Considers how the terms of gender are embodied in technologies, and conversely, how technologies shape our notions of gender. The contributors explore the complex territory between the lust for, and the fear of, technology, commenting on the ambivalence...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415123792Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415110952Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.About the AuthorHenry A. Grioux, Peter...

Combines the work of a diverse range of scholars including Marx, Bourdieu and Stuart HallInter-disciplinary and unusual in bringing together studies of cultural studies and political economics - two subjects usually approached seperatelyAbout the...

All contributors have international reputations as gambling scholarsNo other book develops comparative historical cultural analysis of gambling.International perspectives including UK, Australia, USA, Africa and EuropeIncreased interest in gambling...

This issue of Cultural Studies will deal with the broad range of subjects that typify this journal.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice Radway, Andrew TolsonBook InformationISBN 9780415052764Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Seventy colourful, pseudo-historical collage-drawings, digitally remastered for this edition, peopled with often-irreverent images of the author's real life friends and colleagues. Opposite each of the cartoons, are the fascinating documents from the...

The Seventies is must reading for anyone who wants to revisit that glam decade and the contributions it made to our culture. The contributors take you on a fascinating journey that looks at the Black Panthers, Jonestown, glam rock, black action films and...

Hamilton Holt, editor of The Independent, collected these touching autobiographies of ordinary people--new immigrants and sharecroppers, cooks and fishermen, women and men working in sweatshops, in the city, and on the land. First published in 1906, and...

This collection is devoted to exploring stereotypes about the social conditions of poor whites in the United States and comparing these stereotypes with the social reality.About the AuthorMatt Wray, Annalee NewitzReviews"[T]he essays in Matt Wray and...

'British Studies' and 'British Cultural Studies' cover a wide range of facets of contemporary Britain. Studying British Cultures: An Introduction is a unique collection of essays which examine the most significant aspects of this quickly developing area...

In 1956 many people thought rock `n' roll was a passing fad, yet over forty years later , more than ever, Popular Music is a part of contemporary culture, reinventing itself for successive generations. Pop embraces its own history, with musicians from...

Ethnic minorities, principally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the surviving remnants of France's overseas empire, are increasingly visible in contemporary France. Post-Colonial Cultures in France edited by Alec Hargreaves and Mark McKinney is the...

Now relaunched with a striking new coverThis issue is a survey of Cultural Studies in Australia - one of the most important and vibrant areas for the subject worldwideAbout the AuthorIen Ang, John HartleyBook InformationISBN 9780415081160Author Ien...

Rock and Popular Music examines the relations between the policies and institutions which regulate contemporary popular music and the political debates, contradictions and struggles in which those musics are involved.International in its scope and...

Before Austin became the "live music capital of the world" and attracted tens of thousands of music fans, it had a vibrant local music scene that spanned late sixties psychedelic and avant-garde rock to early eighties punk. Venues such as the Vulcan Gas...

They have stalked the horizons of our culture, wreaked havoc on moribund concepts of dead and not dead, threatened our sense of identity, and endangered our personal safety. Now zombies have emerged from the lurking shadows of society's fringes to wander...

The acclaimed "Clown Prince of Crime," Joker. A character with a physical appearance characterised by a disfigured face, white skin, green dyed hair, and red lips. A psychopathic genius with a sadistic and twisted humour. A lover of weapons to which he...

German Bodies explores the cultural representations of German identity and citizenship before and after World War II, and offers a critical analysis of race, violence, and modernity in German history and contemporary German society. Uli Linke examines...

First published in 2000. Did people in early modern Europe have a concept of an inner self? Carla Mazzio and Douglas Trevor have brought together an outstanding group of literary, cultural, and history scholars to answer this intriguing question. Through...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorDona Schwartz is Associate Professor of Journalism and Mass Media at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Waucoma Twilight: Generations...

PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading contemporary public intellectuals, including Joan Wallach Scott,...

Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more startling have been the increasingly shocking revelations that...

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the...

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorLawrence Grossberg, Janice RadwayBook InformationISBN 9780415123785Author Lawrence GrossbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint RoutledgePublisher...

Children's Lifeworlds examines how working children face the challenge of having to combine work with school in Kerala. Moving beyond the usual concern with child labour and welfare to a critical assessment of the daily work routine of children, this...

First published in 1993. Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.About the...

"Reading Into Cultural Studies" revisits a selection of key texts central to the formation of cultural studies as a discipline and as a project. These texts address questions of power, ideology and the possibilities and limits of resistance. Each of the...

Drunk with the Glitter examines the ways in which urban modernity reshapes 'cultural experience'. In particular, it explores the ways that categories of sexual identity and behaviour were reformulated in relation to the restructuring of urban space and...

Contemporary Jewish art is a growing field that includes traditional as well as new creative practices, yet criticism of it is almost exclusively reliant on the Second Commandment's prohibition of graven images. Arguing that this disregards the corpus of...