Cultural Studies

In Relentless Progress, Zipes looks at the surprising ways that stories have influenced people within contemporary culture and vice versa. Among the many topics explored here are the dumbing down of books for children, the marketing of childhood, the changing shape of feminist fairy tales, and why A..

This volume demonstrates how cultural studies has diffused from Britain into other English-speaking countries, and how its original concerns have been renegotiated and changed. It is an unrivalled guide to international cultural studies...

For journalists and reporters, the allegation of hegemonic practices constitutes a most serious condemnation. However, this author shows how hegemony is an almost unwitting process which supports the status quo and establishment...

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenol..

Exploring the mechanisms and strategies used in different cultures across Hispano-America and the Caribbean to narrativise, represent and understand HIV/AIDS as a social and human phenomenon, this book examines a wide range of cultural, artistic and media texts, as well as issues of human phenomenol..

Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies to ask what role cultural insitutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation...

Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies to ask what role cultural insitutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation...

Richly illustrated with ethnographic research, together with extensive survey and interview material drawn from around the world, Research Methods and Global Online Communities explores the changing nature of communities that form around common interests and are embedded in a digital architecture ra..

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Changes in the philosophy of planning and the political influences behind it have led to an increasingly ambivalent approach to retail and commercial matters and a lack of clear goals and objectives as to what both central government and the local authorities should be concerned with. It begins by e..

This book assesses the oeuvre of Trinidadian activist-intellectual C.L.R. James in its entire polymath range, analyzing his writings across disciplines and genres as well as his varied political and cultural concerns...

With case studies of the cinemas of India, Iran and Hong Kong, and with contributors addressing the most challenging questions it poses, this important anthology addresses established notions about Third Cinema theory, and the cinema practice of developing and postcolonial nations_x000D_..