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Based on up-to-date original research, Heart And Soul brings together established and newly emerging scholars who provide detailed examinations the many layers of this multi-faceted and influential band and their singer, the late Ian Curtis, in particular.

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This book examines the role of historians, novelists, directors, and their audiences in shaping twenty-first century versions of Henry VIII. It shows how popular stories and histories contribute to a change in how Henry VIII is seen and discusses the debates surrounding these changes.

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Reaching out to a growing "new majority," Hijas Americanas highlights for the first time the nuances, complexities, and challenges of Latina femininity, sexuality, beauty and body image in this ground-breaking work

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This book explores the role of hip hop in grassroots changes occurring today in Africa. It argues that artists use hip hop to confront social structures and reveals the complexity and dynamic nature of African culture, the entanglements between local and global movements, and the synergy of youth mobilization.

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This book explores the role of hip hop in grassroots changes occurring today in Africa. It argues that artists use hip hop to confront social structures and reveals the complexity and dynamic nature of African culture, the entanglements between local and global movements, and the synergy of youth mobilization.

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Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the "Hippie Dictionary" entertains as much as it educates. And it wasn't just about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. These were the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs.

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Provides an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: cuisine, travel, 'taste', sport, music, entertainment and much more.

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Provides an historical overview of modern leisure in a wide range of manifestations: cuisine, travel, 'taste', sport, music, entertainment and much more.

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HIV on TV: Popular Cultures Epidemic is a critical analysis of the ways television has portrayed HIV. Spanning time, genres, and viewpoints HIV on TV offers a challenge for viewers, media writers, even political figures in the ways they think about, and frame, the continued epidemic that is HIV.

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A remarkable cultural history of what might exist under the Earth's surface-as reflected in mythology, religion, science, literature, and good old crackpottery

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Horrific Humor and the Moment ofDroll Grimness in Cinema explores the moment in audience reception where screams and laughter collide. Essays examinine the aesthetics and mechanics of the sLaughter moment, the impact of its frission of humor and horror on the viewer, and sLaughters implications for the human condition more generally.

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A conceptual and cultural history of horror as effect, concept, experience and emotion in Graeco-Roman antiquity and beyond.

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This volume explores the representation of the supernatural in war stories in various media. These essays show how such depictions reflect (or challenge) the popular memory of particular wars and engage with cultural attitudes toward war in general and associated issues such as battlefield heroism, military ethics, and the politics of sacrifice.

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An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheens Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004s most talked about books.

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Reveals that our intense age consciousness has developed only gradually since the late nineteenth century. In so doing, this title explores a wide range of topics, including demographic change, the development of pediatrics and psychological testing, and popular music from the early 1800s until now.

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A guide to the assumptions, readings and writings of cultural theory, and an intervention in contemporary debates, this book will be invaluable to anyone involved in studying, teaching or researching media and cultural studies.

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A former senior Gallup pollster tells the inside story about the collusion between Jeb Bush and Fox TV to call the 2000 election

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An entertaining and timely exploration of how our foodfrom where its grown to how we buy itis in the midst of a transformation, showing how this is our chance to do better, for us, for our children, and for our planet, from a global expert on consumer behavior.

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Based on a wide range of field studies, Sir Raymond Firth discusses the geographical and historical factors that determine the development of racial groups; The book provides a framework for understanding all human societies and interpreting the changes that take place within them.