Cultural Theory

This volume brings together twelve eminent scholars from humanities and social sciences to demonstrate the contemporary importance and relevance of Gramsci to their respective fields of inquiry...

This volume brings together twelve eminent scholars from humanities and social sciences to demonstrate the contemporary importance and relevance of Gramsci to their respective fields of inquiry...

The book compares ways in which we think and theorise the relationship between policy and the popular, in a rich variety of senses and settings. These settings certainly include government policies for the arts, but not exclusively; some are geographic, others involve specific modes of cultural acti..

Practicing Culture revitalizes the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Each of the chapters in this book offer a provocative empirical case study of how culture works in practice..

This title was first published in 1977. A wide-ranging series of carefully prepared translations of books published in China since 1949, each with an extended introduction by a western scholar...

Engaging debates within cultural studies, media and communication studies, and critical theory, this book addresses whether Gramscian thought continues to be relevant for social and cultural analysis, in particular when examining times of crisis and social change...

Engaging debates within cultural studies, media and communication studies, and critical theory, this book addresses whether Gramscian thought continues to be relevant for social and cultural analysis, in particular when examining times of crisis and social change...

How is cultural activity shaped by the places where it unfolds? One answer has been found in the ‘scenes perspective’, a development within popular music studies that explains change and transformation within musical practices in terms of the social and institutional histories of scenes. In a series..

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

This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. Contributors navigate affective spaces that have the potential to ..

The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. This book marks a timely intervention in critical theory debates...

Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. Thi..