Cultural Studies

Ill Effects..

Ill Effects..

The contributors in this book discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies today. They address such themes as gender images of aging, images of health, illness and death...

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual cinematic element went from predominately operating as a signifier, providing audiences with information about a film’s plot and characters, to increasi..

Images of the Streetsubjects the street to sustained critical scrutiny, enriching and extending our understanding of the making and meaning of urban space...

Imagining Terrorism..

This book, first published in 1978, examines the debate over immigration into Britain and raises the important point that the existence in the country of immigrant and minority groups is nothing new. Britain has, in fact, attracted newcomers throughout most of its history and it is to remedy the def..

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood, examining stars from Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez and Dolly Parton...

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Songs in a film take up space and time and the way that they do so indicates a great deal about the songs themselves, the nature of the feelings they present, and who is allowed to present feelings how, when and where. In the Space of a Song explores this perception through examples ranging from cla..

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...