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Cool Capitalism
Author: Jim McGuigan Published: October 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745326405 PB 9780745326788 Subject: Politics; Cultural Studies Thomas Frank coined the term ‘the conquest of cool’. This book shows how this conquest is at the heart of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism.
Jim McGuigan argues that 'cool capitalism' incorporates disaffection into capitalism itself, absorbing re
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Cool Capitalism
Author: Jim McGuigan Published: October 2009 ISBN: HB 9780745326405 PB 9780745326788 Subject: Politics; Cultural Studies Thomas Frank coined the term ‘the conquest of cool’. This book shows how this conquest is at the heart of the dynamics of contemporary capitalism.
Jim McGuigan argues that 'cool capitalism' incorporates disaffection into capitalism itself, absorbing re
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Explorations In Cultural History
Author: T.G. Ashplant Published: March 2001 ISBN: HB 0 7453 1517 8 PB 0 7453 1512 7 Subject: Cultural Studies, History, Literary Criticism, Sociology, American Studies, Black Studies, Ethnicity, Womens Studies, Sexual Politics, Postcolonial Studies Explains the development of cultural history, and its impact on current teaching
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Pluralising Pasts: Heritage, Identity and Place in Multicultural Societies
Author: Gregory Ashworth Published: October 2007 ISBN: HB 9780745322865 PB 745322859 Subject: Culture and Media Studies , Analyses debates around the multi-billion pound 'heritage' industry.
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Looking For Harlem
Author: Maria Balshaw Published: December 2000 ISBN: HB 0 7453 1339 6 PB 0 7453 1334 5 Subject: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Black Studies, Literary Criticism, Womens Studies A provocative revision of African-American literary history, foregrounding gender, sexuality and class in writings by black American men and women
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Urban Space And Representation
Author: Maria Balshaw Published: 1999 ISBN: HB 0 7453 1349 3 PB 0 7453 1344 2 Subject: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Geography, Literary Criticism An innovative and interdisciplinary collection of new work on the forms and meanings of the modern city as it is represented in cultural geography, urban studies, critical theory, literature and film.
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Imaginary Futures: From Thinking Machines to the Global Village
Author: Richard Barbrook Published: April 2007 ISBN: HB 0 74532 661 7 PB 0 74532 660 9 Subject: Culture and Media Studies This book is a history of the future. It shows how our contemporary understanding of the Net is shaped by visions of the future that were put together in the 1950s and 1960s.
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From Antz To Titanic
Author: Martin Barker Published: June 2000 ISBN: HB 0 7453 1584 4 PB 0 7453 1579 8 Subject: Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Arts A jargon-free and accessible introduction to film analysis, looking at popular Hollywood films in various genres, including Sleepless in Seattle and The Usual Suspects.
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THE VINYL AIN'T FINAL: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture
Author: Edited by Dipannita Basu and Sidney Lemelle Published: April 2006 ISBN: HB 0 74531 941 6 PB 0 74531 940 8 Subject: Cultural Studies | Explores the impact of hip hop on culture worldwide.
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Dario Fo
Author: Tom Behan Published: 1999 ISBN: HB 0 7453 1362 0 PB 0 7453 1357 4 Subject: Cultural Studies, Biography, Literary Criticism, Politics & Political Theory, Europe, Human Rights, The first political biography of Europe's leading radical playwright and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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