Popular newspapers like the British "The Sun" and the German "Bild" regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and responsib...

This book examines the construction and articulation of diasporic cultural identity among the Turkish working-class youth in Kreuzberg (Little Ista...

(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means findi...

Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywoo...

In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities tha...

Radical ideologies may manifest differently at first, but they do follow a similar logic: truth claims, promises of salvation and a unifying common...

This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international schol...

Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination o...

The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of infl...

"After the Storm" traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating ...

When Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when Don DeLillo's protagonist (age 28) "feels...

The linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has sh...

The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of "Star Wars" and "Harry ...

Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on res...

This book examines the different roles of architects in rural post-disaster housing and their impact on the degree of success of the projects from ...

This book offers a compelling perspective on the striking similarity of art and commerce in contemporary culture. Combining the history and theory ...

Although the asymmetrical concepts have been well-known to scholars across the social sciences and humanities, their role in structuring the human ...

This book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational, national or nationalistic forms of poli...

This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple per...

While literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer screen and by using keyboard and mous...

This book explores the productive effects of bodily "failure" in the sphere of visuality. The aim is to reflect on the human body's constant exposu...

The social structures of Moroccan society have been changing in accordance with western models at an ever-growing rate. The role of Islam in sharin...

Focussing European borders: The book provides insight into a variety of changes in the nature of borders in Europe and its neighborhood from variou...

The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist populatio...