Cultural Studies

The study of fashion has exploded in recent decades, yet quite what this all means, quite where it might take us, is not clear. This new book helps to bring fashion into focus, with a comprehensive guide to the key theories, perspectives and developments in the field._x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_ _x00..

Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. This boo..

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This book  provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact...

This book  provides an accessible overview of each director’s contribution to cinema, incorporating a discussion of their career, major works and impact...

Fifty Key Thinkers on Religion is an accessible guide to the most important and widely studied theorists on religion of the last 300 years. Arranged chronologically, the book explores the lives, works and ideas of key writers across a truly interdisciplinary range, from sociologists to psychologists..

The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb...

The accepted canon of war poetry usually includes only those underlining patriotic or nationalistic views. This study opens up the view of war poetry with the inclusion of such material as Nazi poetry and song, and the poetry of the atomic bomb...

A study of the relationship between American film and American politics and society, by examining directors such as Orson Welles, Elia Kazan and Jules Dassin...

This groundbreaking book analyses representations of disability in comedy films, arguing that meanings of disability and impairment drawn from cinema need to be grounded in an understanding of cinematic practices and processes...