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Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace

by Rachel C. Lee & Sau-ling Cynthia Wong

Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.


Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice

by Martha McCaughey & Michael D. Ayers

Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change,...


Projecting a Camera: Language-Games in Film Theory

by Edward Branigan

In Projecting a Camera, film theorist Edward Branigan offers a groundbreaking approach to understanding film theory. Why, for example, does a camera move? What does a camera "know"? (And when does it know it?)...


Bollywood Cinema: Temples of Desire

by Vijay Mishra

India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India," with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11...


Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory

by Stephen M. Barber & David L. Clark

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender studies. This book, which features an interview with Sedgwick, is a collection of new essays by established scholars...


Enjoy Your Symptom!: Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

by Slavoj Žižek

The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst's couch.

Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the...


My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely

by Kate Bornstein

Gender isn't just about "male" or "female" anymore - if you have any doubts, just turn on your television. RuPaul is as familiar as tomato ketchup with national radio and television shows, and transgendered...


Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

by Donna J. Haraway

Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound...


Media Sport Stars: Masculinities and Moralities

by Garry Whannel

Media Sport Stars considers how masculinity and male identity are represented through images of sport and sport stars. From the pre-radio era to today's specialist TV channels, newspaper supplements and websites,...


Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet

by Lorne L. Dawson & Douglas E. Cowan

Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors...


Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture

by Jason Mittell

Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre:...


Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film

by Jerome F. Shapiro

Unfathomably merciless and powerful, the atomic bomb has left its indelible mark on film. In Atomic Bomb Cinema, Jerome F. Shapiro unearths the unspoken legacy of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and its...


French Food: On the Table On the Page and in French Culture

by Lawrence R. Schehr & Allen S. Weiss

More than a book about food alone, French Food uses diet as a window into issues of nationality, literature, and culture in France and abroad. Outstanding contributors from cultural studies, literary criticism,...


Cinema-Interval

by Trinh T. Minh-ha

"An image is powerful not necessarily because of anything specific it offers the viewer, but because of everything it apparently also takes away from the viewer."

--Trinh T. Minh-ha

Vietnamese filmmaker and feminist...


Television Studies: The Basics

by Toby Miller

Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the...


Fields in Vision: Television Sport and Cultural Transformation

by Garry Whannel

Fields in Vision offers a comprehensive and analytical study of the international phenomenon of television sports coverage. Garry Whannel considers the historical development of sport on television, the growth...


Inside Prime Time

by Todd Gitlin

Prime time: those precious few hours every night when the three major television networks garner millions of dollars while tens of millions of Americans tune in. Inside Prime Time is a classic study of the workings...


We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere

by Daniel Hallin

We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion...


Developing Feature Films in Europe: A Practical Guide

by Angus Finney

The European film industry has by now lost most of its audience to American films; US productions take around eighty per cent of Europe's box-office revenues. There are many reasons for this imbalance, but one...


Eight Technologies of Otherness

by Dr Sue Golding & Sue Golding

The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides...