Popular culture (103)

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This edited collection explores the representations of identity in comedy and interrogates the ways in which “humorous” constructions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, class and disability raise serious issues about privilege, agency and opp...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by style...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book examines the ways in which the histories of racial violence, from slavery onwards, are manifest in representations of the body in twenty-first-century culture set in the US South. Christopher Lloyd focuses on corporeality in literature and ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book explores the links between crime, deviance and popular culture in our highly-mediatised era, offering an insight into the cultural processes through which particular practices acquire a criminal or deviant status, and come to be seen as soc...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:With well over one-hundred episodes, the podcast Welcome to Night Vale has spawned several international live tours, two novels set in the Night Vale universe, and an extensive volume of fan fiction and commentary. However, despite its immense popula...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers int...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book provides a cultural studies analysis of Millennials and their impact on American culture and society. Beginning with an introduction that touches upon which part of the population is described as Millennial, the book also explores the Mille...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Der Band stellt mit Kawakita Nagamasa den Gründer der weltweit agierenden TowaFilmproduktion vor. Als Kosmopolit und Cinéphiler, Nazi-Kollaborateur und Personifizierung der Filmachse Berlin/Tokyo gilt er als eine der schillerndsten und zugleich unbek...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world — and what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it. Conventional sociologic...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book analyses an important phase in the interlingual dubbing process of audiovisual productions: the elaboration of target language scripts for the recording studios. Written by a practitioner in the industry who is also an academic and trainer,...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Die Beiträge in diesem Buch untersuchen das Wechselverhältnis von Medien, urbanen Räumen und Kollektivität durch eine Analyse der vielfältigen kommunikativen Figurationen des städtischen Lebens. Der interdisziplinäre Sammelband bringt Forscherinnen u...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book addresses print-based modes of adaptation that have not conventionally been theorized as adaptations—such as novelization, illustration, literary maps, pop-up books, and ekphrasis. It discusses a broad range of image and word-based adaptati...