An incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities, focusing on the Macedonian and Croatian communities in Western Australia...
Purcell uses comparative critical readings of popular U.S. pornographies to illuminate the changing psychosocial foundations of sexually aggressive fantasies. By examining how depictions of violence in pornography have changed over the past forty years, she investigates the evolving desires and anxi..
This book generates innovative insights into the relational nature of place and cultural trauma and healing. The book adopts a moral ecology framework to consider the complexity of social and political lives as set within spatial, geographical, biological and ideological contexts. A range of interna..
Virtual Geographies explores the possibilities and dangers brought by the revolution in communication technologies, outlining how these technologies are being used to produce new geographies and new types of space...
This collection of original and exciting essays explores the `visual' character of contemporary culture. Examining film, painting, propaganda, photography and television, this is an indispensible guide to this field...
A survey of the role and the future prospects of the local press in the 1990s. The authors also take into account the radical changes the local press have been through with new technology and the proliferation of free newspapers...
A sparkling tour of how things are created: the everyday objects of our life - paper clips, Post-its, bathtubs, cars and all the other stuff - are a delicate and clever intermingling of design, timing and functionality that mirrors contemporary life...
Now 20 years since its initial release, Richard Dyer’s classic text White remains a groundbreaking and insightful study of the representation of whiteness in Western visual culture._x005F_x000D_
White explores how, while racial representation is central to the organisation of the contemporary world,..