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1. Popular Culture

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-57704-5 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Alternative Business: Outlaws, Crime and Culture

   By Martin Parker

   Representations of business, management and organizations in popular culture are overwhelmingly negative. Why does this happen when the representation of economic outlaws in popular culture is almost always romantic? Martin Parker investigates the strange absence of cultural studies from the world...

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-58648-1 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Understanding Animation, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Wells

   This new edition of Paul Wells’ introduction to animation as a genre and a form, has been updated in response to developments in academic debate and the recent flourishing of the genre in cinema, on TV and in videogames. Film examples discussed include features such as The...

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-39730-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Walter Benjamin

   By Barbara Engh

   An introduction to the work, key ideas and influence of Walter Benjamin. The discussion is centred around benjamin's famous essay 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', in which Benjamin addresses the nature of the work of art and aesthetic experience, and the importance of 'new'...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-31954-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa: Visualising the Game

   Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Raffaele Poli

   Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-57229-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Asian Popular Culture

   By Anthony Fung

   This book examines different aspects of Asian popular culture, including films, TV, music, comedy, folklore, cultural icons, the Internet and theme parks. It raises important questions such as – What are the implications of popularity of Asian popular culture for globalization? Do regional forces...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-55717-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. Young Muslim Women in India

   By Kabita Chakraborty

   The reality for marginalized Muslim girls in the city of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) in India is far more complex than the one that is often constructed during discussions that view the lives of Muslim girls through a lens of repression and poverty within the patriarchal Islamic community. Based on...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-56324-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

8. Celebrity Society

   By Robert van Krieken

   Celebrity Society brings a new dimension to our understanding of celebrities, capturing the way in which the figure of ‘the celebrity’ is bound up with emergence of modernity. It outlines how the ‘celebrification of society’ is not just the 20th century product of Hollywood and television, but a...

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-58150-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

9. Lifestyle Sport: The Cultural Politics of Alternative Sports

   By Belinda Wheaton

   April 2011 | 978-0-415-47858-8 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. After the Media: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century

    By Peter Bennett, Alex Kendall, Julian McDougall

    March 2011 | 978-0-415-58683-2 | Paperback (Routledge)