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Suitable for those engaged in the study of popular culture, American studies, cultural studies, cinema and visual studies, as well as to the general educated reader, this book showcases the work of a generation of scholars - from fields such as media studies, literature, cinema, and cultural studies.

A collection of essays that develops a poststructuralist Marxist conception of class in order to theorise the complex contemporary economic terrain. Suggesting the possibility of a new politics of the economy, the collection as a whole focuses on the diversity and contingency of economic relations and processes.

Assesses various aspects of Edward Said's work - his contributions to postcolonial theory, his work on racism and ethnicity, his aesthetics and his resistance to the aestheticization of politics, his concepts of figuration, his assessment of the role of the exile in a metropolitan culture, and his work on music and the visual arts.

Presents essays that explore how sexuality and sexual identity change when individuals, ideologies, and media move across literal and figurative boundaries. Illuminating the complex nature of queerness in the post-modern world, this book contributes to the advancement of gay and lesbian studies.

Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. This volume examines the rise of mass media in postwar America. It focuses on television in schools and the ways that mass media convey messages about gender and socialisation.

Presents a balanced response to Carl Schmitt's critique of liberalism. This book describes the varying engagements and confrontations with Schmitt's work. It is suitable for political philosophers, legal theorists, historians, and for those interested in Schmitt's relevance to discussions of liberalism.

Bringing together essays on activist and community-based art from the pages of "Afterimage" - one of the most influential journals in the media and visual arts fields, this title demonstrates that activist art, far from being antithetical to the true meaning of the aesthetic, can be its most legitimate expression.

Offers a collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. This title includes startingly imaginative essays that explore critical practices that can weave the pleasures and disorientations of reading into the fabric of queer analyses.

Focusing on Japan, scholars of history, literature, film, art history, and anthropology demonstrate the necessity of understanding fascisms cultural manifestations.

A collection exploring the implications of applying the cosmopolitan ideals of obligations to others and respect for cultural difference to archaeological practice.

An introduction to Indonesias history, culture, and politics, which brings together more than 150 selections, including journalists articles, explorers chronicles, photographs, poetry, stories, cartoons, drawings, letters, and speeches.

Historical investigations into how Iberian settlers, African slaves, Native Americans, and their multiethnic progeny understood their identities in colonial Latin America.

This collection offers the first critical assessment of the music and culture of reggaeton, a popular genre that blends reggae and rap, Spanish-language lyrics, and Latin-Caribbean aesthetics.

A collection of essays on keywords from political discourse, including secularism, security, indigineity, and terrorism.

Explores the boundary between cinema and photography. Engaging still, moving, and ambiguous images from a wide range of geographical spaces and historical moments, this book addresses issues of indexicality, medium specificity, and hybridity as they examine how cinema and photography have developed and defined themselves.

Offering an introduction to the mangle, this book presents empirical studies that demonstrate the mangle's applicability to topics as diverse as pig farming, Chinese medicine, economic theory and domestic-violence policing.

Offers insights into the institutional and intellectual foundations of cinema studies. This volume provides examinations of the varied social, political, and intellectual milieus in which knowledge of cinema has been generated. It also considers the future directions of film study in a changing technological and cultural environment.

Since it first emerged from Britain's punk-rock scene in the late 1970s, goth subculture has haunted postmodern culture and society, reinventing itself inside and against the mainstream. This title offers a collection of scholarly essays devoted to this enduring yet little examined cultural phenomenon.

Aims to bring together classic perspectives on violence, putting into productive conversation the thought of theorists and activists, including Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, G W F Hegel, Osama bin Laden, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Thomas Hobbes, and Pierre Bourdieu. This book explores dialectical relationship between domination and subordination.

"From the trauma of cultural displacement to the political economy of affective labor, the essays brought together here examine the many facets of affect, focusing on its consequences for theories of the social and well-informed by recent rethinkings of power. Expertly framed by Patricia Clough's introduction, the volume presents a diversity of voices engaged in a shared exploration of the conceptual landscape stretching beyond the bend of 'the affective turn.'"--Brian Massumi, author of "Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation"

A lavishly illustrated collection that explores ideas of beauty in Africa and its diasporas, asking by and for whom concepts of beauty and aesthetics have developed.

Comparative case studies of how memories of World War II have been constructed and revised in France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, and the USSR (Russia).

Scholars of history, anthropology, literature, and film explore the transformations in Japanese politics, culture, and society since Japans recession of the early 1990s.

Arguing that pop music turns on moments rather than movements, this title includes essays that pinpoint magic moments from a century of pop eclecticism, looking at artists who fall between genre lines, songs that sponge up influences from everywhere, and studio accidents with unforeseen consequences.

Essays examining how Irish identity is performed and commodified in the contemporary transnational environment, in Frank McCourt's writing, the explosion of Irish-themed merchandising, the practices of heritage seekers and in the movie The Crying Game

"Challenging, provocative, informative, and giving full substance to the interrelations of the global and local, these essays carry the reader through a marvelously rich range of materials just where intellectual life in the humanities and social sciences today is most vital."--Jonathan Arac, University of Pittsburgh

An analysis of the ways in which everyday objects are narrated to animate or realize certain versions of the world.

Within hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, literature, and Islam, this book asks whether the attacks and their aftermath truly marked a transition in US.

Explores the concept of globalization in a variety of cultural settings, and its effect on world-wide cultural transformation of nation, place, race, class, ethnos and gender.