Comedy and Distinction

Sam Friedman

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Comedy and Distinction provides the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews ... Lees meer

The Media and Social Theory

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider ... Lees meer

Shanghai Expo

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US... Lees meer

Speculative Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Is another future possible? So called 'late modernity' is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events br... Lees meer

Sport and the Transformation of Modern Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• In the modern era, sport has been an important agent, and symptom, of the political, cultural and commercial pressures for convergence and globalizati... Lees meer

The Routledge Companion to Bourdieu's 'Distinction'

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• This edited collection explores the genesis of Bourdieu's classical book Distinction and its international career in contemporary Social Sciences. It ... Lees meer

Lived Economies of Default

Joe Deville

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Consumer credit borrowing - using credit cards, store cards and personal loans - is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happe... Lees meer

Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other... Lees meer

Creative Labour

David Hesmondhalgh, Sarah Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• What is it like to work in the media? Are media jobs more 'creative' than those in other sectors? To answer these questions, this book explores the cr... Lees meer

Film Criticism as a Cultural Institution

Huw Walmsley-Evans

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• At the beginning of the 21st century film criticism was described as in crisis. The decline of print journalism, a series of lay-offs of prominent cri... Lees meer

Studio Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational devices mediating ... Lees meer

Interdisciplinarity

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• The idea that research should become more interdisciplinary has become commonplace. According to influential commentators, the unprecedented complexit... Lees meer

Culture as a Vocation

Vincent DuBois

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Vocational occupations are attractive not so much for their material rewards as for the prestige and self-fulfillment they confer. They require a stro... Lees meer

Comedy and Distinction

Sam Friedman

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a ... Lees meer

Migrating Music

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Migrating Music considers the issues around music and cosmopolitanism in new ways. Whilst much of the existing literature on 'world music' questions t... Lees meer

Shanghai Expo

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US... Lees meer

A World Laid Waste?

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass urbanisation. The intern... Lees meer

Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human

Richie Nimmo

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its rol... Lees meer

Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• Throughout history and in every geographical location, the rise and fall of industry, which impact the fate of large populations, are tied to the deve... Lees meer

The Provoked Economy

Fabian Muniesa

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do... Lees meer

Objects and Materials

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to pract... Lees meer

A World Laid Waste?

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass urbanisation. The intern... Lees meer

Rio de Janeiro

Beatriz Jaguaribe

• Hardcover | Engels | Cresc
• "Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to t... Lees meer

Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism

• Paperback | Engels | Cresc
• Throughout history and in every geographical location, the rise and fall of industry, which impact the fate of large populations, are tied to the deve... Lees meer