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This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure of the vampire embodies taboos and desires about...

This book offers a nuanced understanding of 'offensive' television content by drawing on an extensive research project, involving in-depth interviews and focus groups with audiences in Britain and Germany. Provocative Screens asks: what makes something...

الغابات المحيطة بمنزل ترامبلثينسكين في مانجي لوجو مخيفة، ومليئة بالفقراء، وهو مرعوب. يزرع دانسي نانسي خوخة عملاقتا هناك وكان ترامبلثينسكين يكره الفواكه. إنه يحتاج إلى شاكي دولسون وهينيتي بينتي لحمايته -حتى يتمكن من الجلوس في منزله الثاني في البيت الأبيض...

يسافر ترامبلثينسكين، إلى أرض اليوكاي حيث يتم إحضاره إلى القصر لتناول الشاي. يقدم له بوجو البوزو كعكة الشوكولاتة، ويبدو أنه يريد بيع أرض اليوكاي بأكملها. يحب ترامبلثينسكين الفكرة لكنه يريد حقًا غرفة العرش الخاصة به، لذلك، أصدر تعليماته إلى قزمه بومبيلو...

اتبع ترامبلثينسكين في مغامرته التي يكتشف فيها احتمال إرساله إلى مكان بغيض يسمى الفيت نام وابتكار طرق لتجنب الذهاب. يزور الساحر بونسبورز الذي يمكنه تصديق أي شيء ويعطيه لفافة لعرضها على دافي درافت لكن إتّضح أنّ اللفافة كانت فارغة وفي البداية، كان...

Are you proud to be politically incorrect, loathing alternate therapies and green activists, then this irreverent send-up of our modern culture's fashionable obsessions is for you.Mark Lawson, whose heroes are Darth Vader and Ebenezer Scrooge, satirises...

Lipgloss Chronicles: Confessions of a Celebrity MakeUp ArtistHave you ever wondered what happens backstage at award shows, on the set of television sitcoms, and live screenings?Do you love hearing stories about some of your favorite...

These poems were inspired by various visits to the Art Institute of Chicago in preparation for one of the Poetry Foundation's Pop Up Poetry events, a series of 30-minute lunchtime poetry readings marking the reopening of the museum's new Contemporary...

Extractivism refers to the process of extracting natural resources from the earth in order to sell them in the global market. It exists in an economy which is based significantly on the removal or extraction of natural resources that are deemed valuable...

The interdisciplinary field that studies the ways in which culture creates and transforms individual experiences, social relations, and power is known as cultural studies. It focuses on cultural analysis which concentrates on the political aspects of...

Joseph Conrad's novella "Heart of Darkness" (1899) is taught and read allover the world. Everywhere, novelists and travel writers respond to it intheir own creative work. I discuss 30 responses, or rewritings, from Africa,India, the Caribbean, Australia,...

Are traditions of popular theatre still alive in politically-engaged theatre to-day? In San Francisco they are. The San Francisco Mime Troupe is a modern link in the long history of public performances that have a merry air but have a voice of political...

"Carnavales de Santiago de Cuba (1948-1956): La Gran Semana Santiaguera" es el título que se le da a esta investigación histórica, económica, folclórica y sociológica realizada por los autores Alejandro Pichel y Olga García en 1973, referente a la época...

Das Buch ""Der Grabfund von Wald-Algesheim (1870)"" von Ernst Aus'm Weerth beschreibt einen bedeutenden arch�����ologischen Fund aus dem Jahr 1869. Bei Ausgrabungen in Wald-Algesheim wurde ein Gr�����berfeld aus der Merowingerzeit entdeckt, das...

This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly...

This volume explores current interventions into the digital labour theory of value, proposing theoretical and empirical work that contributes to our understanding of Marx's labour theory of value, proposes how labour and value are transformed under...

No holiday can thrill kids more than Christmas! If you were born between 1946 and 1964, you enjoyed some of the greatest inventions in the world of toys, food, and entertainment. But just how much do you know about the history, fun, and controversy...

This volume explores the connections between faith, the presentation of belief and the processes by which it is sold and consumed. The contributors have all been researching the way in which religion operates in a market culture and the degree to which...

The restoration of a positive Protestant spirit that produces a personal commitment to the basic tenets of the Christian Faith and a spirit of cooperation are required to make Christianity viable. In addition to the problems of name brand Christianity...

This distinctive volume explores how romantic coupleship is represented in books, magazines, popular music, movies, television, and the Internet within entertainment, advertising, and news/information. This reader offers diverse theoretical...

Taking a hard, penetrating look at the despondent heart of darkness of the 1990s, The Death Proclamation of Generation X is a probing chronicle of America's thirteenth generation caught between the idealistic Baby Boomers and the well-financed Generation...

The late 1980s ushered in a new era of black politics, the socioeconomic transition era. Coming on the heels of the protest era and politics era, the current stage is characterized by the emergence of a new black middle class that came of age after the...

This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the...

This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception,...

Fashion is both public and private, material and symbolic, always caught within the lived experience and providing an incredible tool to study culture and history. The Fabric of Cultures examines the impact of fashion as a manufacturing industry and as...

This book explores how African youth are depicted in contemporary literature and popular culture, and discusses the different ways by which they attempt to construct personal and cultural identities through popular culture and social media outlets. The...

This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics' understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a...

Religion and Hip Hop brings together the category of religion, Hip Hop cultural modalities and the demographic of youth. Bringing postmodern theory and critical approaches in the study of religion to bear on Hip Hop cultural practices, this book examines...

India has been the focus of international attention in the past few years. Rhetoric concerning its rapid economic growth and the burgeoning middle classes suggests that something new and significant is taking place. Something has changed, we are told:...

Cross-Cultural Issues in Art provides an engaging introduction to aesthetic concepts, expanding the discussion beyond the usual Western theorists and Western examples. Steven Leuthold discusses both contemporary and historical issues and examples,...

This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th...

In a radical departure from previous ethnographies of food, this book asks how and why food is pivotal to social relations and forms of identity that emerge as normal and not-normal. It does so by describing the production, consumption, distribution, and...

This book explores popular music fandom from a cultural studies perspective that incorporates popular music studies, audience research, and media fandom. The essays draw together recent work on fandom in popular music studies and begin a dialogue with...

Post-liberalisation India has witnessed a dramatic growth of the television industry as well as on-screen images of the glitz and glamour of a vibrant, 'shining' India. Through a detailed ethnographic study of Star News and Star Ananda involving...

Bringing together twenty-nine of Lawrence Alloway's most influential essays in one volume, this fascinating collection provides valuable perspectives on the art and visual culture of the second half of the twentieth century.Lawrence Alloway ranks among...

With examples drawn from media coverage of the War on Terror, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the London underground bombings, Cultural Chaos explores the changing relationship between journalism and power in an increasingly globalised...

The beauty industry is now a multinational, multi-million dollar business. In recent years its place in contemporary culture has altered hugely as salons have become not simply places to have your hair cut or your nails done, but increasingly sites of...

Alien Chic provides a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others. Neil Badmington explores our...

Vietnam is currently undergoing a metamorphosis from a relatively closed society with a centrally planned economy, to a rapidly urbanising one with a global outlook. These changes have been the catalyst for an exciting ferment of activity in popular...

Second-wave feminism fought to end the blanket silence shrouding rape and bring it to public attention. Now feminist critics must confront a different issue. In Public Rape Tanya Horeck considers the public investment in images of rape and the figure of...

Presenting a survey of the social, cultural and theoretical issues which surround and inform our understanding of masculinity, this book explores the interface between traditional sociological approaches and the work covered by more post-structural,...

Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating - as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against...

What does it mean to live in the Communication Age? What has happened to culture in the Communication Age? What is the nature of culture today?Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic...

Karen Duke explores the conflicts and contradictory pressures in the development of prison drug policies in Britain from 1980 to the present. Based on interviews with key policy actors and documentary analysis, it explores how policy networks around drug...

This book explores the significance which contemporary club cultures can come to have for women living through a time of radical sexual-political change. The book focuses upon the experiential accounts of different "raving" and clubbing women by...