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Celebrity by Chris Rojek
Booksplease Price: £23.72In 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... -
Frank Sinatra by Chris Rojek
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Frank 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... -
Stuart Hall by Chris Rojek 9780745624808
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Stuart 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 9780333680001
Booksplease Price: £91.24This is the latest book on leisure from one of the leading figures in the field of leisure studies. It makes a major contribution in considering leisure as a primary aspect of cultural life. Rojek... -
Stuart Hall by Chris Rojek 9780745624815
Booksplease Price: £19.71Stuart 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 Hall's work. It examines... -
Cultural Studies by Chris Rojek 9780745636832
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.80This lively and assured book provides a concise and authoritative critical guide to Cultural Studies, using discussion of representative texts and concrete examples from popular culture. As such, it... -
Cultural Studies by Chris Rojek 9780745636849
Booksplease Price: £17.19What has the death of Corporal Patrick D. Tillman of the US Army Rangers in an incident of friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004 got to do with culture? How has the study of ideology, coding, theming... -
Leisure and Culture by Chris Rojek 9780333680018
Booksplease Price: £91.28This is the latest book on leisure from one of the leading figures in the field of leisure studies. It makes a major contribution in considering leisure as a primary aspect of cultural life. Rojek... -
A Dictionary of Cultural Theorists by Chris Rojek 9780340645482
Booksplease Price: £29.18If cultural theory is a minefield, this book is a route map through that field. Prepared by an international team of scholars, the entries in this book provide accessible introductions to the key... -
A Handbook of Leisure Studies by Chris Rojek 9781403902795
Booksplease Price: £91.68A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students... -
Capitalism and Leisure Theory by Chris Rojek 9780415734622
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37First published in 1985, this title explores theories of leisure in a capitalist society. Basing his argument on a refutation of the conventional association of leisure with freedom and free time,... -
A Handbook of Leisure Studies by Chris Rojek 9781403902788
Booksplease Price: £92.18A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students... -
Social Work & Received Ideas Chris Rojek 9780415012751
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.68Social Work and Received Ideas examines the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power, arguing that the will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new... -
Pop Music, Pop Culture by Chris Rojek 9780745642635
Booksplease Price: £56.43What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless, with... -
Leisure for Leisure: Critical Essays by Chris Rojek 9780333461709
Booksplease Price: £47.28A collection of critical essays which reject the assumptions that leisure relations are relations of freedom, self determination, life satisfaction and growth. The essays look at power and policy... -
Social Work & Received Ideas by Chris Rojek 9781138467651
RRP: £140.00Booksplease Price: £123.55Social Work and Received Ideas examines the language of both traditional and radical social work as forms of power, arguing that the will to help and care for people unintentionally results in new... -
Pop Music, Pop Culture by Chris Rojek 9780745642642
Booksplease Price: £26.80What is happening to pop music and pop culture? Synthesizers, samplers and MDI systems have allowed anyone with basic computing skills to make music. Exchange is now automatic and weightless, with... -
Leisure Theory: Principles and Practice by Chris Rojek 9781403905703
Booksplease Price: £46.74Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to... -
Leisure Theory: Principles and Practice by Chris Rojek 9781403905697
Booksplease Price: £46.28Offering readers the most complete and authoritative critical introduction to Leisure Theory and written by one of the major figures in the field, the book provides an exciting and reliable guide to... -
Frank Sinatra Chris Rojek (Nittingham Trent University) 9780745630915
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.34Frank 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... -
Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory by Chris Rojek 9780415111256
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £60.65It is becoming ever clearer that while people tour cultures, cultures and objects themselves are in a constant state of migration. This collection brings together some of the most influential writers... -
The Labour of Leisure: The Culture of Free Time by Chris Rojek 9781412945530
Booksplease Price: £58.42Leisure has always been associated with freedom, choice and flexibility. The week-end and vacations were celebrated as 'time off'. In his compelling new book, Chris Rojek turns this shibboleth on its... -
Decentring Leisure: Rethinking Leisure Theory by Chris Rojek 9780803988132
Booksplease Price: £67.42This book explores the meaning of leisure in the context of key social formations of our time. Chris Rojek brings together the insights of feminsim, Marxism, Weber, Elias, Simmel, Nietzsche and... -
Forget Baudrillard? Chris Rojek (City University, U.K.) 9780415059893
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80Without doubt, Jean Baudrillard is one of the most important figures currently working in the area of sociology an dcultural studies, but his writings infuriate as many people as they intoxcicate... -
Fame Attack: The Inflation of Celebrity and its Consequences by Chris Rojek 9781849660716
Booksplease Price: £33.84This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.The follow up to Chris Rojek's hugely successful Celebrity, this... -
Brit Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are? by Chris Rojek 9781861893369
Booksplease Price: £20.46Is 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
Booksplease Price: £47.28Modern life is often described as an iron cage from which there is no escape. But popular culture venerates leisure and travel as authentic escape routes from routine and monotony. However what kind... -
The Haunt of Misery: Critical essays in social work and helping by Chris Rojek 9781032633695
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £92.37First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the... -
Sport and Leisure in the Civilizing Process: Critique and Counter-Critique by Chris Rojek 9780333512258
Booksplease Price: £90.86How do figurational sociologists approach the subjects of sport and leisure? How does their approach differ from other approaches in the field? This major collection, edited by leading writers on... -
The Politics of Jean-Francois Lyotard: Justice and Political Theory by Chris Rojek 9780415756440
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37Jean-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'... -
Event Power: How Global Events Manage and Manipulate by Chris Rojek 9780857025180
Booksplease Price: £50.16"Rojek's argument is a psychological one, although his message is political: global events build on people's needs to feel empowered and jointly engaged in the pursuit of a higher purpose; they... -
The Haunt of Misery: Critical essays in social work and helping Chris Rojek 9781032635095
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £28.09First published in 1989, The Haunt of Misery offers social workers and students critical essays for critical times. Faced with unreflective wealth creation and the fragmentation of the... -
Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society and Celebrity Culture by Chris Rojek 9780745671109
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05'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: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03Presumed 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... -
The Consumer Society Reader Martyn J. Lee (Coventry University) 9780631207986
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £36.56The Consumer Society Reader is the most substantial collection of classic and contemporary readings on consumption and consumer society for students of cultural studies and sociology of culture. From... -
Lifestyle Gurus: Constructing Authority and Influence Online Stephanie A. Baker 9781509530182
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03The 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... -
Impure Play: Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture by Alexander Riley 9780739129326
Booksplease Price: £51.70Impure Play is a cultural sociology of some controversial aspects of contemporary popular culture. Alexander Riley harnesses a range of cultural theories on transgression, the sacred, and tragedy in... -
The New Medical Sociology: Social Forms of Health and Illness by Bryan S. Turner 9780393975055
Booksplease Price: £26.86The 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: £62.32"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 Blackwell Companion to Social Theory Bryan S. Turner (University of Cambridge) 9780631213666
RRP: £45.95Booksplease Price: £42.17The Blackwell Companion to Social Theory (Second Edition) builds on the success of the first edition by adding four completely new chapters. Retained material from the first edition has been revised,...