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Styling South Asian Youth Cultures
Fashion, Media and Society
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures. Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have all, in related and distinctive ways, been producing confident...
Islam
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2014
Many existing introductions to Islam focus predominantly on the Middle East and on historical background at the expense of Islam as a lived faith. Assessing Islam as a truly global phenomenon, Catharina Raudvere engages thoroughly with history, (explaining the significance of the revelation of the...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
People are on the move across the Arab world, organizing politically in new ways. The Arab media have also undergone a transformation and are still in a state of flux. It is therefore crucial to be able to discuss political initiatives in the region in the light of media developments. This authoritative...
Being Bionic
The World of TV Cyborgs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
The cyborg – an organic body augmented with technology – is an enduring figure that can be found across science fiction stories, novels, films, and, more recently, television. What can its marked presence in cult TV shows tell us about the rapidly changing world we live in, and indeed about the...
by Maria Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Often derided as unscientific and self-indulgent, psychoanalysis has been an invaluable resource for artists, art critics and historians throughout the twentieth century and numerous encounters between art and psychoanalysis have sparked illuminations and connections that would otherwise have remained...
Battlestar Galactica
Investigating Flesh, Spirit and Steel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
The West Wing' or 'Generation Kill' in Space? A show about God-fearing sex-obsessed robots? Or a complex meditation on fate, dreaming and eternal recurrence?
Of all recent television science fiction series, the reimagined 'Battlestar Galactica' is the most highly praised and consistently inventive...
Photography Reframed
New Visions in Contemporary Photographic Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
At a critical point in the development of photography, this book offers an engaging, detailed and far-reaching examination of the key issues that are defining contemporary photographic culture. Photography Reframed addresses the impact of radical technological, social and political change across a...
Tainted Love
Screening Sexual Perversion
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This is the first critical anthology to offer extended analysis of the representation of sexual perversion on screen. Interrogating the recent shift towards the mainstream in the cinematic representation of previously marginalised sexual practices, Tainted Love challenges the discourses and debates...
Travel and Artisans in the Ottoman Empire
Employment and Mobility in the Early Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages. However Suraiya Faroqhi's extensive archival research shows that...
Stars in World Cinema
Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
Deflecting the attention from Hollywood, Stars in World Cinema fills an important gap in the study of film by bringing together Star Studies and World Cinema. A team of international scholars here bring their expertise and in-depth knowledge of world cultures and cinema to the study of stars and stardom...
Greece in Crisis
The Cultural Politics of Austerity
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent times,...
Traditional Buildings
A Global Survey of Structural Forms and Cultural Functions
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Based on a lifelong professional and personal interest, "Traditional Buildings" presents a unique survey of vernacular architecture across the globe. The reader is taken on a fascinating tour of traditional building around the world, which includes the loess cave homes of central China,...
Sweet Delights from a Thousand and One Nights
The Story of Traditional Arab Sweets
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Which dessert is named after the heroic third-century Queen Zenobia of Palmyra? Which luscious rice pudding shares its name with the eighth-century Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun? How does one make the perfect Baqlawah? Blending cookery with culture and recipes with history, this is the fascinating and...
Adorno Reframed
Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Dismissed as a miserable elitist who condemned popular culture in the name of 'high art', Theodore W. Adorno (1903-1969) is one of the most provocative and important yet least understood of contemporary thinkers. This book draws on new translations into English to challenge this popular image and...