Film, Form, and Culture (4th edition) offers a lively introduction to both the formal and cultural
aspects of film. With extensive analysis of films past and present, this textbook explores film …

Teleology brings together John Hartley's work on television. The book draws on current
critical theory in cultural studies to develop a wide-ranging and thought-provoking view of …

In this book, Mark Jancovich concentrates on the works of three leading American writers-
Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate-in order to examine the …

Becau ecause we live inside the consumer culture, and most of us have done so for most of
our lives, it is sometimes difficult to locate the origins of our most cherished values and …

Baudrillard is widely recognised as a powerful new force in cultural and social criticism, and
is often referred to as the 'High Priest of Postmodernism'. This study presents a detached …

This book examines the rise of cultural studies and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses.
The author raises searching questions about the originality of cultural studies and its political …

Mike Gane provides an introduction to Baudrillard's cultural theory: the conception of
modernity and the complex process of simulation. He examines Baudrillard's literary essays …

By investigating mutually dependent categories of identity in literature that depicts northern
peoples and places, Hulan provides a descriptive account of representative genres in which …

Public television is uniquely positioned in our country to contribute to the invigoration of
democratic public life because, ostensibly, it is neither driven by the market nor dominated …

In the United States, the question of women in the armed services has been continuously
and hotly debated. Among feminists, two fundamentally differing views of women in the …