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Identification Papers: Readings on Psychoanalysis, Sexuality, and Culture

by Diana Fuss

The notion of identification, especially in the discourse of feminist theory, has come sharply and dramatically into focus with the recent interest in such topics as queer performativity, cross-dressing, and...


Media Power, Professionals and Policies

by Howard Tumber

The work of Jeremy Tunstall, one of the founding fathers of British media studies, is the inspiration behind Media Power, Professionals and Policies. In this collection of new work, leading international contributors...


Sexing the Groove: Popular Music and Gender

by Sheila Whiteley

Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who...


Reading Ads Socially

by Robert Goldman

This systematic and authoritative book provides an unrivalled guide to understanding ad culture. It shows how the logic of commodities permeates the ways we think about ourselves, our relationships and our desires....


Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us

by Kate Bornstein

Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds...


The Theater of Tony Kushner

by James Fisher

The Theater of Tony Kushner is a comprehensive portrait of the life and work of one of America's most important contemporary playwrights.


College Fight Songs: An Annotated Anthology

by William E Studwell & Bruce R Schueneman

Go, team, go! Rah, rah, rah! Boomalacka, boomalacka! Sis-boom-bah! Get your pennants and varsity colors and head for the stadium because College Fight Songs will make you an expert on the musical history of...


Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home

by Laura Levitt

By interrogating America's promise of a home for Jews as citizens of the liberal state, Jews and Feminism questions the very terms of this social "contract". Maintaining that Jews, women, and Jewish women are...


Mediating Nature

by Nils Lindahl Elliot

Mediating Nature provides a history of the present nature of mass mediation. It examines the ways in which a number of discourses, technologies and institutions have historically shaped the current ways of imagining...


Impure Acts: The Practical Politics of Cultural Studies

by Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux challenges the contemporary politics of cynicism by addressing a number of issues including the various attacks on cultural politics, the multicultural discourses of academia, the corporate attack...


The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way People Live with Technology

by Kim J. Vicente

In this incessantly readable, groundbreaking work, Vincente makes vividly clear how we can bridge the widening gap between people and technology. He investigates every level of human activity - from simple...


Politics and the Mass Media in Britain

by Ralph Negrine

This fully-updated new edition of Politics and the Mass Media provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of mass communications in politics at all levels, from election campaigns, news reports and lobbying...


Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art: Ghosts of Ethnicity

by Lisa E. Bloom

Featuring sixty-seven illustrations, and providing an important reckoning and visualization of the previously hidden Jewish 'ghosts' within US art, Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art addresses the...


Social History of Art, Volume 4: Naturalism, Impressionism, the Film Age

by Arnold Hauser

First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art...


Media and Migration: Constructions of Mobility and Difference

by Russell King & Nancy Wood

This title explores the close and vital relationship between the contemporary media and immigration. Drawing on newspapers, magazines, film, television and photography, the contributors examine the effects of...


Contemporary American Independent Film: From the Margins to the Mainstream

by Christine Holmlund & Justin Wyatt

From Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring the uneasy relationship between independent films and the major studios, the contributors...


Operatic State

by Ruth Bereson

The Operatic State examines the cultural, financial, and political investments that have gone into the maintenance of opera and opera houses in Europe, the USA and Australia. It analyses opera's nearly immutable...


Media Studies: The Essential Resource

by Sarah Casey Benyahia, Abigail Gardner & Philip Rayner

A unique collection of resources for all those studying the media at university and pre-university level, this book brings together a wide array of material including advertisements, political cartoons and academic...


Landing on the Wrong Note: Jazz, Dissonance, and Critical Practice

by Ajay Heble

An imaginative and passionate synthesis of form and function, Landing on the Wrong NOte goes beyond mainstream jazz criticism, outlining a new poetics of jazz that emerges not from the ivory tower but from the...


The World News Prism: Challenges of Digital Communication

by William A. Hachten & James F. Scotton

Fully revised and updated, the eighth edition of The World News Prism analyzes the changing role of transnational news media in the 21st-century globalized world and its impact on rapidly changing news events....