Cultural Studies News & Updates

Recent Articles

1. 

   The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

   Do you need a guide to the methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising?
   
   Look no further than The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture, which provides an essential guide to these key issues!

2. 

   2013 Media and Communication Catalogs Now Available

   We have updated our Media and Communication catalogs to showcase our new and key titles for 2013!
   
   We have two new catalogs, our general Media and Communication catalog and our Media and Communication Research catalog.

3. 

   My New Gender Workbook - Second Edition Now Available

   Would you like a step-by-step guide to achieving world peace through gender anarchy and sex positivity?

   Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender theory, but most fail to provide a hands-on, accessible guide for those trying to sort out their own sexual identities. In My New Gender Workbook, transgender activist Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender.

4. 

   The Mediatization of Culture and Society

   Mediatization has emerged as a key concept to reconsider old, yet fundamental questions about the role and influence of media in culture and society. In particular the theory of mediatization has proved fruitful for the analysis of how media spread to, become intertwined with, and influence other social institutions and cultural phenomena like politics, play and religion.

5. 

   Print Culture

   From Steam Press to Ebook
   
   By Frances Robertson

   With the advent of new digital communication technologies, the end of print culture once again appears to be as inevitable to some recent commentators as it did to Marshall McLuhan.
   
   Learn more...

6. 

   An Introduction to Design and Culture

   1900 to the Present, 3rd Edition
   
   By Penny Sparke
   
   This third edition of An Introduction to Design and Culture has been revised and updated throughout to include issues of globalization, sustainability and digital/interactive design.

   Order your complimentary exam copy...
   

7. 

   Understanding Popular Music Culture

   4th Edition
   
   By Roy Shuker
   
   This extensively revised new edition of Understanding Popular Music Culture provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the production, distribution, consumption and meaning of popular music and the difficulties and debates that surround the analysis of popular culture and popular music.

   Read more...

8. 

   The Politics of Reality Television reviewed in CHOICE, September 2011

   "Exemplifying the vibrant scholarship on reality television, this collection tests the field's first generation of theory and initiates cross-cultural analysis of this globaly pervasive television genre. Summing Up: Recommended."
   --CHOICE, September 2011 (R. W. Morrow, Morgan State University)
     

9. eFocus on Race and Ethnicity - eBook Collection for Libraries

   Race and ethnicity have been at the forefront of both academic debate and social issues for many decades. This exciting new resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race, taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.

10. eFocus on Sexuality Studies - eBook Collections for Libraries

    The field of sexuality studies has been a growth area in academia and classes on sexuality studies have been incorporated into various disciplines. This collection both charts the growth of this area and provides material which would be relevant to a wide cross section of courses.