Queer TV: Theories, Histories, Politics is the first book to explore television in all its scope and complexity – its industry, production, texts, audiences, pleasures and politics – in relation to queerness. With contributions from distinguished authors working in film/television studies and the st..
Reviewing cutting-edge debates around racial politics and the culture and economy of globalization, this book draws together a wide range of important contemporary debates in a clear and concise way for undergraduate students._x000D_..
Racing Cyberculture explores new media art that challenges the 'race-blind' myth of cyberspace. The author looks at how works by various artists bring forward questions of racial and cultural identity as they intersect with information technology...
Examining issues such as trauma, memory, history, tradition, modernity, post-modernity, and with chapters on nationalism, anthropology, cultural studies, media studies, religion and museum studies, this book offers a comprehensive and critical analysis of contemporary Taiwan. ..
The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman’s comics all identify deeply-rooted madness in post-Enlightenment society. Spiegelman maintains, in other words, that the Holocaust was not an aberration, but an inevitable consequence of modernisation. In service of this argument, Smith offers..
A collection that brings together a reassessment of important cultural studies texts such as Hebdige's "Subculture" and Modleski's "Loving with a Vengeance" ...
Examining the effects of debates about race, technology, ecology, and the arts on social and legal change, Ross shows why cultural politics are a real and inescapable part of any argument for social change...
Using montage - relayering multiple pasts and on-going present - this challenges the obsession with "postmodernity", demanding a deeper, more connective understanding of the pleasures and dangers of the European present...