The American Imperial Gothic

Johan Hoglund

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related ... 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
• This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the discussion of the social, cultural, aesthetic and theoretical aspects of the ways in which in ... Lees meer

Isn't it Ironic?

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Bringing together studies of a range of texts, this volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer i... Lees meer

Beyond Hate

C Richard King, David J Leonard

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Drawing on a range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates 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

Beyond Hate

C Richard King, David J Leonard

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Drawing on a range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates of w... 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

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

Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection

Deborah Harris-Moore

• Hardcover | 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

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

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

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

Superheroes and American Self Image

Michael Goodrum

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of comic-books, mobilising them as a means to understand better the political context in w... 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

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

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
• Bringing together studies of a range of texts, this volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer i... 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
• This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama, comedy and horror that utilize prison as a central theme or setting to show how they... Lees meer

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity assesses the impact of a range of cultural forms on the dynamics of society and relations of power during ti... 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 twenty year... 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

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