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  • Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture

    Tiger's Tales

    by Conn Holohan, Tony Tracy ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Masculinity and Irish Popular Culture: Tiger's Tales is an interdisciplinary collection of essays by established and emerging scholars, analysing the shifting representations of Irish men across a range of popular culture forms in the period of the Celtic Tiger and beyond. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • Fan Cultures

    by Matthew Hills ...
    Series series Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication
    Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis impersonators to X-Philes and Trekkers, Hills discusses a range of approaches to fandom, from the Frankfurt School to psychoanalytic readings, and asks whether the development of new media creates the possibility of new ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Media, Gender and Identity

    An Introduction

    by David Gauntlett ...
    Popular media present a vast array of stories about women and men. What impact do these images and ideas have on people’s identities?The new edition of Media, Gender and Identity is a highly readable introduction to the relationship between media and gender identities today. Fully revised and updated, including new case studies and a new chapter, it considers a wide range of research and provides ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Matter of Images

    Essays on Representations

    by Richard Dyer ...
    Now published in a revised second edition, The Matter of Images searches through the resonances of the term ‘representation’, analysing images in terms of why they matter, what they are made of, and the material realities they refer to. Richard Dyer’s analyses consider representations of ‘out’ groups and traditionally dominant groups alike, and encompass the eclectic texts of contemporary culture, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Sexing the Groove

    Popular Music and Gender

    Edited by Sheila Whiteley ...
    Sexing the Groove discusses these issues and many more, bringing together leading music and cultural theorists to explore the relationships between popular music, gender and sexuality. The contributors, who include Mavis Beayton, Stella Bruzzi, Sara Cohen, Sean Cubitt, Keith Negus and Will Straw, debate how popular music performers, subcultures, fans and texts construct and deconstruct `masculine' ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by David Rudd ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of children’s literature in all its manifestations. It features a series of essays written by expert contributors who provide an illuminating examination of why children’s literature is the way it is. Topics covered include:the history and development of children's literaturevarious theoretical approaches ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature

    by Kathryn James ...
    Series series Children's Literature and Culture
    Knowledge about carnality and its limits provides the agenda for much of the fiction written for adolescent readers today, yet there exists little critical engagement with the ways in which it has been represented in the young adult novel in either discursive, ideological, or rhetorical forms. Death, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Adolescent Literature is a pioneering study that addresses ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reality TV

    Realism and Revelation

    by Anita Biressi, Heather Nunn ...
    This book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps, dramatic reconstructions, law and order programming and 24/7 formats such as Big Brother and Survivor. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • A Queer Romance

    Lesbians, Gay Men and Popular Culture

    Edited by Paul Burston, Paul Burston Nfa, Colin Richardson ...
    It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for lesbians and gay men.In a collection that is in-yer-face but never out-to-lunch, the contributors variously revisit debates about the gaze to provide a ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Irish in Us

    Irishness, Performativity, and Popular Culture

    by Catherine M. Eagan, Sean Griffin, Natasha Casey, Maria Pramaggiore ...
    Over the past decade or so, Irishness has emerged as an idealized ethnicity, one with which large numbers of people around the world, and particularly in the United States, choose to identify. Seeking to explain the widespread appeal of all things Irish, the contributors to this collection show that for Americans, Irishness is rapidly becoming the white ethnicity of choice, a means of claiming an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Framing Celebrity

    New directions in celebrity culture

    Edited by Su Holmes, Sean Redmond ...
    Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts.The authors ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Contemporary Irish Drama and Cultural Identity

    by Margaret Llewellyn-Jones ...
    Within the last ten years there has been a renaissance in Irish drama from both sides of the border, including award-winning work which has transfered to London and New York, and has toured Britain as well as Europe and Australia. This book explores the dynamics of the relationship between these representations of Ireland and the fluid nature of cultural identity, especially during a period of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD