Our spring sale is on! Use promo code SPRING24 at checkout to save 50% on any order!

Cultural Studies

Filter By:

Clear all Filters

Refine results:

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

By Jun'ichi Isomae
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession

By Neil Verma
Subjects: Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Digital Projects, New Media, Cultural Studies

Evaluating the rise of podcasting and the storytelling trends that emerged

After Disruption

A Future for Cultural Memory

By Trevor Owens
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education, Digital Projects

How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure

Kinethic California

Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships

By Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Explores the making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop/streetdance culture

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

StarCraft

Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy

By Simon Dor
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Landmark Video Games

One game’s influence on the rise of e-sports and video game strategy

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

Instrument of Memory

Encounters with the Wandering Jew

By Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

Reimagining the Wandering Jew legend and the curse of immortality in centuries of Jewish and Christian art

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

The Violence of the Letter

Toward a Theory of Writing

By Melanie McMahon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing, Cultural Studies

The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity

The Creativity Complex

Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

By Shannon Steen
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it

Effeminism

The Economy of Colonial Desire

By Revathi Krishnaswamy
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Middle and Near Eastern Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Establishes the homosocial dynamics of colonial desire as evidenced in Orientalist narrative

Freudian Slips

Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

By Mary Gossy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Psychology, Cultural Studies

A feminist critic provides the first book-length literary exploration of Freud's classic study, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

Fourth Revolution and the Bottom Four Billion

Making Technologies Work for the Poor

By Nir Kshetri
Subjects: Economics, Development, Class Studies, Cultural Studies

Advanced technology for the Bottom Four Billion

Visual Syntax of Race

Arab-Jews in Zionist Visual Culture

By Noa Hazan
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

The visual representation of racial thought

Page 1 of 15

Current page (1 of 15)1
2
3
...
15

| << >>

Explore our publications and services.

Browse Our Books

Feature Selections

ELT Home

By Skill Area

Prospective Authors

Author's Guide

For Instructors

For Librarians and Booksellers

For Media

Background and Contacts

News and Information

Policies and Requests