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Acculturated
Templeton Press 2011; US$ 12.99“Sizing up and taking down the things we read, watch, and play, this all-star team of analysts provides a series of delights and surprises that will make you ponder anew the deep structures that inform our lives, even when we think we’re off-duty.”—Kyle Smith, movie critic, New York Post Contemporary popular culture,... more...
Action Chicks
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 32.00Xena, Buffy, Lara Croft. WWF, The Sopranos, Witchblade, La Femme Nikita. The women of pop culture are center stage and as tough as ever. Action Chicks is a groundbreaking collection highlighting the heroines we've grown to worship. What can they tell us about women in the Twent-first-century? What can they tell us about how popular culture depicts... more...
After the Media
Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 44.95This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies, particularly within schools, has until recently been concerned with mass media and the effects of ?the media? in society and on people. As new... more...
Artificial Mythologies
University of Minnesota Press 1997; US$ 66.00In this exhilarating guide, Craig J. Saper takes us on an eye-opening tour of the process of cultural invention?willfully entertaining foolish, absurd, even fake, solutions as a way of reaching new perspectives on cultural problems. Saper deploys this method to reveal unsuspected connections among major cultural issues, such as urban decay, the dangers... more...
Australian Television Culture
Allen & Unwin 1994; US$ 20.90An examination of Australian television culture within the context of political, economic, demographic and geographic changes of the 1980s and early 1990s. more...
Avoiding the Subject
Amsterdam University Press 2004; US$ 40.50A lively and erudite analysis on visual culture, critical theory, film theory, and new media more...
A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2010; US$ 21.86When you travel or do business overseas, you can limit yourself to the "airport experience" or choose to take on the culture beneath the surface. A Beginner's Guide to the Deep Culture Experience examines our cultural encounters when we leave home, presenting cultural learning as a personal and intellectual challenge--a journey of discovery that just... more...
Beyond Globalization
Rutgers University Press 2011; US$ 24.95Beyond Globalization highlights how mediated practices have become integral to global culture; how social practices have emerged out of computer-related industries; how contemporary apocalyptic narratives reflect the anxieties of a U.S. culture facing global challenges; and how design, play, and technology help us understand the histories and ideals... more...
Beyond Misunderstanding
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 173.00This book challenges two tacit presumptions in the field of intercultural communication research. Firstly, misunderstandings can frequently be found in intercultural communication, although, one could not claim that intercultural communication is constituted by misunderstandings alone. This volume shows how new perspectives on linguistic analyses of... more...









