This book explores the inherent contradiction present in most facets of Singaporean media, cultural and political discourses, identifying the key regulatory strategies and technologies that the ruling People Action Party employs to regulate Singapore media and culture.
From finance, housing, welfare, and immigration policies to copyright, gay marriage and the criminal justice system, few cultural forces so fundamenta..
This book explores several cultural and historical paths intertwined in the genesis and development of sport and physical activities within colonial a..
The unprecedented economic success of South Korea since the 1990s has led in turn to a large increase in the number of immigrants and foreign workers ..
Television has a powerful impact on our beliefs and can be used as a propaganda tool. Philo examines these issues by inviting groups of viewers to wri..
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing ..
This volume provides an exploration of the manifold ways pedagogy is enacted in cultural studies practice. Chapters variously highlight the role of pe..
This book generates innovative insights into the relational nature of place and cultural trauma and healing. The book adopts a moral ecology framework..
This book is an historical, intertextual reading of animation in the PRC that situates animation within Chinese studies as an interdisciplinary subjec..
Operating at the intersection where new technology meets literature, this collection discovers the relationship among image, sound, and touch in the l..
Based on extensive interviews with key industry and business figures and drawing on new empirical research into audience perceptions of business, The ..
Holocaust Images and Picturing Catastrophe explores the phenomenon of Holocaust transfer, analysing the widespread practice of using the Holocaust and..
Value is seldom discussed in its own right, though it is of utmost importance to our relations with media texts and cultural objects, as we constantly..