Popular Culture Books

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1. Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies: Brazil, Russia, India and China

   By Lynne Ciochetto

   This book analyses four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies. Brazil, Russia, India and China are the countries that will drive growth in the world economy in the next decades. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines anthropology, sociology, development studies...

   August 2011 | 978-0-415-56200-3 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Lifestyle Sport: The Cultural Politics of Alternative Sports

   By Belinda Wheaton

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

3. Critical Approaches to Comics: An Introduction to Theories and Methods

   Edited by Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith

   July 2011 | 978-0-415-88555-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. 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)

5. 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)

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...

   June 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...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56324-6 | Hardback (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)

9. Policing Television: Police Drama and Cultural Politics

   By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-87788-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques and Entanglements

    By Richard K Sherwin

    Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque explores the profound impact that visual digital technologies are having on the practice, teaching, and theory of law. What happens to law when it takes on the life of an image on the screen? This question is no idle speculation. Law today...

    May 2011 | 978-0-415-61293-7 | Paperback (Routledge)