Pinar Tuzcu explores rapper Lady Bitch Ray's performance and particularly her use of the term Kanackin. She combines issues of popfeminism and...
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...
Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as...
The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tries...
This volume offers transdisciplinary perspectives on the study of acting and performance in moving image forms. It assembles 26 international scholars...
Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates itself to the historical and theoretical examination of...
This study is a concise introduction to Bruno Latour's Actor-Network Theory and its application in a literary analysis of urban narratives of the 21st...
The cultural field of advertising is a much-debated topic with perspectives focusing on a range of concepts from harassment and the anxiety of...
»After the Storm« traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Ever since Katrina hit the Gulf coast in 2005, its devastating...