Popular newspapers like the British »The Sun« and the German »Bild« regularly invite controversy over their morals and methods, power and...
(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means finding...
The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tries...
The concept of Identity Crisis came into usage in the 1940s and it has continued to dominate the cultural zeitgeist ever since. In his exploration of...
Numerous contemporary televisual productions revisit the past but direct their energies towards history's non-events and anti-heroic subjectivities...
Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination of...
»After the Storm« traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating...
The study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to explain the enormous appeal of »Star Wars« and »Harry...