Ethics After Idealism

Rey Chow

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• "Methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnici... Lees meer

Representing Animals

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Representing Animals explores the complex and often surprising connections between our imagining of animals and our cultural environment. The contribu... Lees meer

Figuring Age

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Figuring Age engages the virtually invisible subject of older women in western culture. Like other markers of social difference, age is given meaning ... Lees meer

Logics of Television

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• "This intellectually sexy collection features some of the best and brightest academic media analysts from Britain and the United States." --Voice Lite... Lees meer

Displacements

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Cultural displacement--physical dislocation from one's native culture or the colonizing imposition of a foreign culture--is one of the most formative ... Lees meer

Mirror and the Killer-Queen

Gabriele Schwab

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• "The book not only confirms the high ethical stakes in informed contemporary reading; it offers a rare readerly pleasure in . . . exploring the wider ... Lees meer

Pedagogy

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• In Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation, authors argue that teaching is a performance that incorporates the personal in acts of "im-personation." A... Lees meer

Too Soon Too Late

Meaghan Elizabeth Morris

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• What good is history to cultural studies? Meaghan Morris looks at struggles over "history" in social settings created by capitalism: in tourist landsc... Lees meer

Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950

John R Lampe

• Hardcover | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture | nr. 10
• Western economic historians have traditionally concentrated on the success stories of major developed economies, while development economists have giv... Lees meer

Biotechnology and Culture

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Biotechnology and Culture Bodies, Anxieties, Ethics Edited by Paul Brodwin Untangles the broad cultural effects of biotechnologies "A timely and perce... Lees meer

Indiscretions

Patricia Mellencamp

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture | nr. 12
• Indiscretions follows the path of U.S. avant-garde film and video from the underground of the 1960s to the academy of the 1980s. Patricia Mellencamp t... Lees meer

Displacement

• Hardcover | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Displacement is a unique collection of essays devoted to Jacques Derrida, widely regarded as the greatest influence on the theory and practice of read... Lees meer

Studies in Entertainment

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• "This is an important book for all students of literature and history." --American Studies International " . . . thoughtful and provocative. . . . the... Lees meer

Libidinal Economy

Jean-Francois Lyotard

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• Lyotard is considered one of the most brilliant and influential of French post-structuralist thinkers. Published in 1974 by Minuit, Économie libidinal... Lees meer

Feminist Studies / Critical Studies

• Paperback | Engels | Theories of Contemporary Culture
• "This wonderful book does nothing less than to create the next stage of feminist thought." --Catharine R. Stimpson "De Lauretis provides a way of thin... Lees meer