(Hardback)

This collection examines the spread and popularity of South Korean popular culture and its global effects over the last twenty years. The contributors analyze the theoretical and institutional history of this development, its relationship with other globalizing forces, and the industrialization of cultural production in South Korea.

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Provides a definitive snapshot of Australian life during the prime ministership of John Howard. Australia, it argues, is built on a dream. A unique democratic experiment, we were once world leaders in developing a uniquely pluralist society. But this during the Howard years, has become a dream unfulfilled; a dream betrayed.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

An analysis of the most important characteristics of television dialogue, with a focus on fictional television.

(Hardback)

Addresses the need for a systemic analysis of television discourse and characterization within linguistics and media studies. This title presents both corpus stylistics and 'manual' analysis of linguistic and multimodal features of fictional television.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

"Introduces the forms and practices of language across a variety of journalistic genres, and explores how they are being shaped by digital technologies"--

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

"Introduces the forms and practices of language across a variety of journalistic genres, and explores how they are being shaped by digital technologies"--

(Paperback)

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Presents an assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion. This work examines the significance of textiles and dress to Latin American culture and the reasons behind it from fashion history to popular culture and the (re)making of traditional garments, such as the poncho, the guayabera and maguey-fiber sandals.

(Hardback)

Presents an assessment of Latin America's influence on global fashion. This work examines the significance of textiles and dress to Latin American culture and the reasons behind it from fashion history to popular culture and the (re)making of traditional garments, such as the poncho, the guayabera and maguey-fiber sandals.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

The perfect anti-valentine: a whirlwind tour through love's most crushing moments. Featuring anecdotes from history, literature, culture, art and music, "The Little Book of Heartbreak" shares the entertaining, empowering and occasionally absurd things that happen when love is on its last legs.

(Paperback)

Chronicles how counterculture succeeded and how its ideas helped provoke culture wars.

(Paperback)

The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

(Hardback)

The machinic city reveals the potential of performance art to create spaces for reflection and deliberation on contemporary urban living and to speculate on the future of cities. It analyses several case studies of performance art that foreground new modes of subjectivity emerging from hybrids of human and machine agency.

(Hardback)

The history of the fitted kitchen in England.

(Paperback)

The history of the fitted kitchen in England.

(Paperback)

How do media find an audience when there is an endless supply of content but a limited supply of public attention

(Hardback)

"Establishes a new mode of understanding digital subjectivity using maternal philosophy through a shared aesthetics of interruption"--

(Paperback)

"Establishes a new mode of understanding digital subjectivity using maternal philosophy through a shared aesthetics of interruption"--

(Paperback, second edition)

From cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development.

(Hardback)

This approach to studying culture has as its basis the social construction of meaning and reality and emphasizes micro-level processes and emotion.

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Separates the nonsense from the fabulous and shows that falling in love with an It bag doesn't mean you have the IQ of an It girl. This book shows how to wear shorts without looking like an extra in "Hamlet", what to spend money on, and what not to, and why only harpists should wear velvet.