Society & culture: general books

This is the first book-length study to use queer theory to understand Doctor Who. It will be of interest to students...  Read More >>

Carmen Blacker was an outstanding scholar of Japanese culture, known for her writings on religion, myth and folklore...  Read More >>

This volume provides a critical intervention in celebrity activism and philanthropy by examining the civic imaginaries...  Read More >>

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Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas – not least the idea of the power...  Read More >>

This collection traces representations of the Gothic on both the small and large screens in Australia and New Zealand...  Read More >>

Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semiopragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory...  Read More >>

First extensive biographical narrative in English of Rosalba Carriera, and first scholarly investigation of the...  Read More >>

This book examines how the mixed-race Macanese community navigated British Hong Kong for a century, demonstrating...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays considers McLuhan's ground-breaking approach within a number of new contexts and explores...  Read More >>

This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity...  Read More >>

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This collection of essays explores the development of electronic sound recording in Japanese cinema, radio, and...  Read More >>

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The book draws on the notion of paratext and its related term – palimpsest – to bring forth the idea of self-reflexive...  Read More >>

Dirgantoro presents the first comprehensive study of feminisms and contemporary art in Indonesia.  Read More >>

The book is the first study detailing the character, evolution, functioning and future of the smallholder and smallholdings...  Read More >>

After the First World War, the effects of financial crisis could be felt in all corners of the newly formed Weimar...  Read More >>

This is the first book-length study of Avant-garde filmmaker Bill Morrison's work, covering the whole of his career....  Read More >>

Dante’s Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how the medieval Italian poet Dante...  Read More >>

This book will look at how the growth of Agatha Christie adaptations have grown increasingly darker. Of key relevance...  Read More >>

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute...  Read More >>

This book opens with examinations of moving images in Albania from the Ottoman period, through those captured under...  Read More >>

This book brings together papers that investigate the way Asian migrants experience, think about, perceive and utilize...  Read More >>