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

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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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 >>

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 >>

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is...  Read More >>

Politics and Literature in Mongolia (1921-1948) investigates the relationship between literature and politics during...  Read More >>

A detailed study of the Nítída saga and its presentation of women and the Icelandic worldview, including questions...  Read More >>

The book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities...  Read More >>

This book proposes an inquiry into European videogames, including both analyses of transnational aspects of European...  Read More >>

This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive...  Read More >>

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of...  Read More >>

YouTube and Brokerage Dynamics in Philippine Digital Cultures offers a fresh, compelling, and nuanced account of...  Read More >>