The study of culture in the American academy is not confined to a single field, but is a broad-
based set of interests located within and across disciplines. This book investigates the …

A Companion to Translation Studies is the first work of its kind. It provides an authoritative
guide to key approaches in translation studies. All of the essays are specially commissioned …

Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation,
the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the …

What is the value of interdisciplinary theory? Are there any boundaries left which social
theory must recognize? This book argues that the vital questions in theory are being posed …

This article touches on and questions the object of visual studies, word and image relations,
historicity, art under visual studies and politics. Exploring in particular the place of politics in …

If one were to propose a theory of photography, it would necessitate the rigorous constitution
of the object of the theory and a clear delineation of its boundaries, that is a binary …

Like the now monumental status of the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in the spectacle of
downtown Los Angeles, Jameson's 1984 article-which constructed the Hotel as a …

Two hundred forty-nine recently published monographs treat critical theory: specifically
semiotics, narratology, rhetoric, and language systems; structuralism and deconstruction; …

The upheaval that occurred in musicology during the last two decades of the twentieth
century has created a new urgency for the study of popular music alongside the …

This study investigates the interpretation of national Holocaust memorials through the trope
of trauma, as it is understood within psychoanalysis and literary theory. While previous …