Belligerent Broadcasting

Michael Higgins, Angela Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book reflects upon and analyses the development of 'belligerent broadcasting' beginning with an examination of belligerence in its historical con... 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

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

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

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

• Paperback | 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

Convergent Wrestling

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• This book examines how the current era of "convergence" has affected, and is reflected in, the world of professional wrestling, which combines several... 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

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity

• Hardcover | 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

Make America Hate Again

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Horror films have traditionally sunk their teeth into straitened times, reflecting, expressing and validating the spirit of the epoch, and capitalisin... 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

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

Afrosurrealism

Rochelle Spencer

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Examining the surrealist novels of several contemporary writers including Edwidge Danticat, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Junot Díaz, Helen Oyeyemi,... 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

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

Contemporary European Cinema

• Paperback | 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

Superheroes and American Self Image

Michael Goodrum

• Paperback | 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

A Perfect Union?

Cory Albertson

• Paperback | 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

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

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

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

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration

Victoria M Bryan

• Hardcover | 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

Belligerent Broadcasting

Michael Higgins, Angela Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture
• Why is rudeness such a prominent feature of contemporary broadcasting? If broadcasting is about the enactment of sociability, then how can we account ... Lees meer