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Celebrity by Chris Rojek
Booksplease Price: $33.55In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a... -
Stuart Hall by Chris Rojek 9780745624808
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Stuart Hall is the leading figure in cultural studies today -- no one else has had the same influence in the shaping of the field. This book is the first full--length study of Halla s work. It... -
Leisure and Culture by Chris Rojek 9780333680018
Booksplease Price: $116.82Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists by Chris Rojek 9780340645482
Booksplease Price: $37.24Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Frank Sinatra Chris Rojek (Nittingham Trent University) 9780745630915
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79Frank Sinatra was only one of a handful of popular entertainers who dominated Western popular culture for six decades. From his early fame as 'the Voice' in the early 1940s, through to the high... -
The Labour of Leisure: The Culture of Free Time by Chris Rojek 9781412945530
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Brit Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are? by Chris Rojek 9781861893369
Booksplease Price: $29.40Is Britain really perceived as a nation of poorly dressed, roast-beef-eating, snaggle-toothed xenophobes? Or do the British perhaps all live in stately homes, and lead supercilious, emotionally... -
Ways of Escape: Modern Transformations in Leisure and Travel by Chris Rojek 9780333475782
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The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Justice and Political Theory by Chris Rojek 9780415756440
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Jean-Francois Lyotard is still considered to be the father of postmodernism. An international range of contributors in the field of cultural and philosophical studies, including Barry Smart, John O'... -
Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society and Celebrity Culture by Chris Rojek 9780745671109
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27'Presumed intimacy' refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of... -
Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society and Celebrity Culture Chris Rojek (Nottingham Trent University) 9780745671116
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97Presumed intimacy refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the impact of relationships of presumed... -
Lifestyle Gurus: Constructing Authority and Influence Online Stephanie A. Baker 9781509530182
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97The rise of blogs and social media provide a public platform for people to share information online. This trend has facilitated an industry of self-appointed 'lifestyle gurus' who have become... -
The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness by Bryan S. Turner 9780393975055
Booksplease Price: $35.55The author, Bryan Turner, examines how macro processes like globalization, risk, economic deregulation, and technological change shape personal experiences of health and illness. Addressing key... -
Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader by Su Holmes
Booksplease Price: $80.39"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding... -
The New Bauman Reader: Thinking Sociologically in Liquid Modern Times by Tony Blackshaw 9781784994037
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $25.59Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in... -
Cults Stephanie Alice Baker 9781032370576
RRP: $126.41Booksplease Price: $116.98This engaging text introduces readers to the sociology of cults. Covering the history and current state of cult studies, this book includes topics ranging from doomsday cults and new religious... -
Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $15.89For a long time, the term 'ideology' was in disrepute, having become associated with such unfashionable notions as fundamental truth and the eternal verities. The tide has turned, and recent years... -
Islam Under Siege: Living Dangerously in a Post- Honor World Akbar S. Ahmed (American University, Washington) 9780745622101
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $19.79In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by... -
Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption by Dr Stephen D. Rosenberg
RRP: $57.99Booksplease Price: $48.04Modern life is full of stuff yet bereft of time. An economic sociologist offers an ingenious explanation for why, over the past seventy-five years, Americans have come to prefer consumption to...