Cultural Studies

This book investigates the politics of identity in Asia and explores how different groups of people inside and outside Asia have attempted to relate to the alterity of the places and cultures in the region through various modes (literary and filmic representation, scholarly knowledge, and so on) and..

This book considers how to locate America in the sporting world and how ‘American Sport’ should reflect the vast networks of expertise, finance, and performance moving out from American athletic body as well as the influx of talent coming from abroad...

Grounded in a semiological approach, which explores the displacement of information and the transformation of signs that characterise mythic communication, this book sheds light on the socio-economic, gendered, national and racial interests that lie behind myth-making. Presenting rich case studies ..

Grounded in a semiological approach, which explores the displacement of information and the transformation of signs that characterise mythic communication, this book sheds light on the socio-economic, gendered, national and racial interests that lie behind myth-making. Presenting rich case studies ..

This edited collection showcases a range of diverse approaches to the analysis of various forms of mediated communications. Individual contributions explore in analytical depth multiple dimensions of newspaper content, magazines (both historical advertising and contemporary editorial discourse), tel..

This book explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgymous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of central New Guinea...

This book is an historical, intertextual reading of animation in the PRC that situates animation within Chinese studies as an interdisciplinary subject. The first feature length animated film produced in China was screened in 1941 but the industry truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation F..

This book is an historical, intertextual reading of animation in the PRC that situates animation within Chinese studies as an interdisciplinary subject. The first feature length animated film produced in China was screened in 1941 but the industry truly began in the 1950s at the Shanghai Animation F..

This book sees public art outside the normal confines of art criticism and place it within broader contexts of public space and gender. Using different perspectives, it explores both the aesthetic and political aspects of the medium...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Assembling Culture explores how assemblage theory and its close associates offer new models for cultural analysis, models with real potential for opening up the relations between culture, economy and the social to new forms of investigation._x005F_x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of..

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...