This book on media translation covers its history and major theories, offering practical applications in Arabic and English. It seeks to help students and professionals acquire the skills needed for this profession.
Passionate Politics
This collection of essays assesses how American melodrama has intervened in debates over race, class, gender, and sexuality from the 18th century to the present, contributing to the transformation of American nationhood during times of profound social change.
Racisms in the New World Order
In our globalized world, racism is constantly changing. This book moves beyond traditional ideas to examine contemporary racisms, their intersection with other prejudices, and their link to the ‘War on Terror’ and ‘Islamaphobia’. It presents strategies for action.
Making Waves Anniversary Volume
Moving beyond the Anglo-American context, this volume explores how women in the Hispanic and Lusophone worlds counteract prejudice and tradition. It discusses women’s interaction with literature, art, and language, showcasing contemporary scholarship in the field.
This book analyses the connections between Victorian perceptions of childhood and the anxieties of the Fin-de-Siècle. It examines how children in literature came to represent both the promise and the threat of the future in an age of upheaval.
Between the Pigeonholes
An intellectual pioneer praised by Huxley and Forster but now largely unknown, Gerald Heard was a cultural force. This first full-length study examines how his ideas bridged science, spirituality, and politics, influencing both the Left and the Right.
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.
Bonds Across Borders
This collection of essays by leading scholars crosses national and cultural boundaries to explore the relationship between women, gender, and international relations, examining the contributions of diplomats, activists, businesswomen, and more.
Eastwards / Westwards
This collection of essays on gender in Asian countries offers a critical transnational perspective. It explores the interplay between local and global forces in the (re)invention of male and female identities across politics, literature, and popular culture.
Undisciplined Animals
Undisciplined Animals is not a textbook, but a collection of invitations to animal studies. Addressed to emerging scholars, these confessions reveal how unruly animals can vitalize work, transgressing borders between the academic and the personal.
In the diverse Asia Pacific region, youth are using media to redefine their communities, articulate identities, and engage in social activism. This book draws on case studies to examine these media practices and the resulting process of social change.
In a post-7/7 world, multiculturalism is more important than ever. This collection examines the historical context and social policy perspectives of multiculturalism, presenting arguments for both integrationist and multicultural approaches to the debate.
“A Zoo of Lusts…A Harem of Fondled Hatreds”
Why does on-screen sexual violence escalate when the victim isn’t white, straight, or middle class? This historical interrogation of rape in film reveals what its changing portrayal says about our culture.
Scholars explore how Britons have imagined America over 400 years. American life, culture, music and theatre were filtered through a shifting gaze ranging from admiration to outright hostility. Included are essays on Dickens, Orwell, and Radiohead.
This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, to form, develop and maintain professional business networks and manage social capital.
Migration and New International Actors
New migration studies focus on the political dimension of Diasporas and the trans-national character of migration, exploring their action as agents of para-diplomacy to move investigations beyond the narrow frame of the Nation State.
This book presents material on how American popular culture has influenced the world. Chapters range from Nigeria to Japan, covering topics like music, art, holidays, romance, and toys, illustrating the vast scope of American popular culture.
Researching Experiences
This book focuses on how people experience and construct meaning from visual culture. It presents video-based methods for researching experiences, introducing methodological tools like the reflexivity lab for students, researchers, and practitioners.
Culture survives by constant recycling. This “stimulating, relevant and exciting” volume explores this strategy across an impressive assortment of contexts, from comic-book heroes and James Bond to African-Caribbean women and mobile phones.
This courageous, thought-provoking book takes the reader on an intimate journey into the misunderstood world of body marking. It develops an embodied, feminist critique of dominant research, searching for new ways of producing knowledge and telling stories from the body.