Popular Culture

Cornel Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, transnational capitalism and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities to present football as a reflection of postmodern culture and globalization..

From The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day; Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida have conceptualised what it means to be human (and post-human)...

This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research...

Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that mapping our cultural understanding of the artificial simultaneously reveals a great..

Mascots are one of the most widespread modes of marketing communication and one of the longest established. Yet, despite their ubiquity and utility, brand mascots seem to be held in comparatively low esteem by the corporate cognoscenti. Featuring case studies and empirical analyses from around the w..

This third edition of a popular text offers an accessible overview of the central themes: language, semiotics, Marxism and ideology, individualism, subjectivity and discourse...

Celebrity: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies will introduce students to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity...

Celebrity: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies will introduce students to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of celebrity...

Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study...

This book explores whether commercialism is now the primary factor driving sport, it looks at the changes to cricket over the last twenty years, focusing on racial and ethnic tensions and their place in the new globalized, cricketing environment...

This book explores whether commercialism is now the primary factor driving sport, it looks at the changes to cricket over the last 20 years, focusing on racial and ethnic tensions and their place in the new globalized, cricketing environment...

Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which stu..