Comedia
About the Book Series
The Comedia series features new theoretical and empirical work exploring the dynamics of the arts and culture industries, and addressing critical issues in the field of contemporary popular culture: issues of production, design, marketing, and consumption. While the principle focus is contemporary, the series also offers historical, educational, and policy-oriented perspectives across a broad range of media and cultural forms, from the news media to the visual arts.
The Politics of Heritage: The Legacies of Race
1st Edition
Edited
By Jo Littler, Roshi Naidoo
April 08, 2005
While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined?This book interrogates just ...
A Game of Two Halves: Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation
1st Edition
By Cornel Sandvoss
November 10, 2003
Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and ...
Impossible Bodies: Femininity and Masculinity at the Movies
1st Edition
By Christine Holmlund
December 29, 2001
Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood. Examining stars from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood, to Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Lopez, Holmlund focuses on actors whose physique or appearance marks them as unusual or exceptional, ...
Culture after Humanism: History, Culture, Subjectivity
1st Edition
By Iain Chambers
August 09, 2001
Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional western modes of thought in the wake of postmodernist theories of language and identity. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, ...
Home Territories: Media, Mobility and Identity
1st Edition
By David Morley
October 17, 2000
Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley ...
The Place of Media Power: Pilgrims and Witnesses of the Media Age
1st Edition
By Nick Couldry
February 03, 2000
This fascinating study focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media. Couldry explores what happens when people who normally consume the media witness media processes in action, or even become the object of media attention ...
Black British Culture and Society: A Text Reader
1st Edition
Edited
By Kwesi Owusu
November 16, 1999
Black British Culture and Society brings together in one indispensable volume key writings on the Black community in Britain, from the 'Windrush' immigrations of the late 1940s and 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain. Combining classic writings on Black British life with new, specially ...
Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life
1st Edition
By Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
July 08, 1999
Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.The authors look at ...
Television and Common Knowledge
1st Edition
Edited
By Jostein Gripstrud
June 21, 1999
Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Grouped into thematic sections, contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographical ...
Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places
1st Edition
By Ulf Hannerz
July 31, 1996
This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established ...
Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Kuan-Hsing Chen, David Morley
February 29, 1996
Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's ...
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
1st Edition
By Marie Gillespie
May 30, 1995
For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family...