Popular Culture Books

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11. Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping

    No Time for Mother

    By Elizabeth Nathanson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

    In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
12. The Theatre and the State in Singapore

    Orthodoxy and Resistance

    By Terence Chong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

    This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’...

    Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
13. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

    Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
14. Heritage in the Digital Era

    Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause

    By Rodanthi Tzanelli

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    What happens to traditional conceptions of heritage in the era of fluid media spaces? ‘Heritage’ usually involves intergenerational transmission of ideas, customs, ancestral lands, and artefacts, and so serves to reproduce national communities over time. However, media industries have the power to...

    Published February 21st 2013 by Routledge
15. The Communist Youth League and the Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1917-1932

    By Matthias Neumann

    Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

    The study of Soviet youth has long lagged behind the comprehensive research conducted on Western European youth culture. In an era that saw the emergence of youth movements of all sorts across Europe, the Soviet Komsomol was the first state-sponsored youth organization, in the first communist...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
16. Interrogating Trauma

    Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

    Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

    Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
17. Online Society in China

    Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival

    Edited by David Kurt Herold, Peter Marolt

    Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

    This book discusses the rich and varied culture of China's online society, and its impact on offline China. It argues that the internet in China is a separate 'space' in which individuals and institutions emerge and interact. While offline and online spaces are connected and influence each...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
18. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

    By Ethan Thompson

    Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

    In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
19. The Transgender Studies Reader 2

    Edited by Susan Stryker, Aren Z. Aizura

    Over the past twenty years, transgender studies has emerged as a vibrant field of interdisciplinary scholarship. In 2006, Routledge’s The Transgender Studies Reader brought together the first definitive collection of the field. Since its publication, the field has seen an explosion of new work that...

    Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
20. Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa

    A Postcolonial Outlook

    Edited by Mounira Soliman, Walid El Hamamsy

    Series: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

    This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons...

    Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge