The American Imperial Gothic

Johan Hoglund

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even po... Lees meer

Representations of HIV/AIDS in Contemporary Hispano-American and Caribbean Culture

Gustavo Subero

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand H... Lees meer

Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, tex... Lees meer

Isn't it Ironic?

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguin... Lees meer

Beyond Hate

C Richard King, David J Leonard

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual communities established and discursive networks activated through the online engagements of w... Lees meer

Beyond Hate

C Richard King, David J Leonard

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Beyond Hate offers a critical ethnography of the virtual communities established and discursive networks activated through the online engagements of w... Lees meer

The American Imperial Gothic

Johan Höglund

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even po... Lees meer

Disability, Obesity and Ageing

Debbie Rodan, Katie Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Disability, Obesity and Ageing offers an engaging account of a new area of pressing concern, analysing the way in which 'spurned' identities are depic... Lees meer

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Deborah Harris-Moore

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Against the background of the so-called 'obesity epidemic', Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection critically examines the discourses of physical p... Lees meer

Crazy Funny

Lisa A Guerrero

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book examines the ways in which contemporary works of black satire make black racial madness legible in ways that allow us to see the connections... Lees meer

Death in Contemporary Popular Culture

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, tex... Lees meer

Contemporary European Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book offers a range of accounts of the state of "European Cinema" in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began... Lees meer

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Deborah Harris-Moore

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Drawing on rich interview material with cosmetic surgery patients and offering fresh analyses of various texts from popular culture, including interna... Lees meer

Convergent Wrestling

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book explores the ways in which professional wrestling has been affected by the current era of 'convergence', combining a range of genres, charac... Lees meer

Masculinity in Contemporary Quality Television

Michael Mario Albrecht

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity and quantity of 'quality' television programs, many of which featuring complicated versions of masculi... Lees meer

Post-9/11 Heartland Horror

Victoria McCollum

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book explores the resurgence of rural horror following the events of 9/11, as a number of filmmakers, inspired by the films of the 1970s, moved a... Lees meer

Isn't it Ironic?

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining and disseminating meaning. Arguin... Lees meer

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy

Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to ... Lees meer

Post-9/11 Heartland Horror

Victoria McCollum

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book explores the resurgence of rural horror following the events of 9/11, as a number of filmmakers, inspired by the films of the 1970s, moved a... Lees meer

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Victoria Bryan

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Television shows that we might call 'prestige television' represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive, sometimes powerful, and sometimes exc... Lees meer

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• In 2008 another economic crisis emerged in the long history of capitalism which created a period of 'austerity economics' across many nations. Cultura... Lees meer

Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy

Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to ... Lees meer

A Perfect Union?

Cory Albertson

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage "is so ordered" across the United States. The day will no doubt be ... Lees meer

Reborn of Crisis

Annika Hagley, Michael Harrison

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book examines the dominant popular culture convention of the superhero, situated within the most significant global event of the last 20 years. E... Lees meer