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Cultural studies
The Mnemonic Imagination: Remembering as Creative Practice (Palgrave M...
Keightley, Emily, Pickering, Michael
Hardcover. An exploration of some of the key theoretical challenges and conceptual issues facing the emergent field of memory studies, from the relationship between experience and memory to the commercial exploitation of nostalgia, using the key concept of the mnemonic imagination. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230243361
- ISBN
- 9780230243361
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.80
€ 160.80
Hardcover. 'Be the best you can be' urge self-help books and makeover TV shows, but what kind of self is imagined as needing a makeover and what kind of self is imagined as the happy result? Drawing on recent sociology and psychology, this book explores the function of slummy mummies, headless zombies and living autopsies to creating an idea of self. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230242951
- ISBN
- 9780230242951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.85
€ 66.85
Hardcover. What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. Num Pages: 220 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPA; TB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362. 224 pages, Illustrations. What is social visibility? How does it affect people and public issues? How are visibility regimes created, organized and contested? Tackling both social theory and social research, the book is an exploration into how intervisibilities produce crucial sociotechnical and biopolitical effects. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHBA; JPA; TB. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 17. Weight: 362.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230241022
- ISBN
- 9780230241022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.64
€ 66.64
Hardcover. How does culture produce stories about class and class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success, failure, struggle and aspiration? Drawing on contemporary examples, Biressi and Nunn demonstrate why social class still matters in Britain and considers the costs and investments at stake for all involved. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFCA; JFDT; JFFJ; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230240568
- ISBN
- 9780230240568
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.09
€ 67.09
Hardcover. The first substantial interdisciplinary, cross-genre critique of Margaret Thatcher and her cultural 'afterlife', exploring Thatcher's legacy across a range of areas including public policy, broadcast media, film, poetry, architectural design, political cartoons and literature. Editor(s): Ho, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 261 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DB; HBJD1; HBLW3; JFCA; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 147 x 19. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233317
- ISBN
- 9780230233317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.45
€ 67.45
Hardcover. Surveying irreverent and controversial representations of the Holocaust - from Sylvia Plath and the Sex Pistols to Quentin Tarantino and Holocaust comedy - Matthew Boswell considers how they might play an important role in shaping our understanding of the Nazi genocide and what it means to be human. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBTB; HBTZ1; JFCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231955
- ISBN
- 9780230231955
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.03
€ 67.03
Hardcover. Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects. Num Pages: 193 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; JFC; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 146 x 16. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230231948
- ISBN
- 9780230231948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.42
€ 66.42
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230972
- ISBN
- 9780230230972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Hardcover. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Num Pages: 269 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 444. Music, Masculinity and Mayhem. 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. A critical survey of Hollywood film musicals from the 1960s to the present. This book examines how, in the post-studio system era, cultural, industrial and stylistic circumstances transformed this once happy-go-lucky genre into one both fluid and cynical enough to embrace the likes of Rocky Horror and pave the way for Cannibal! and Moulin Rouge!. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFN; AVGM; JFCA; JFD; JFSJ. Dimension: 222 x 146 x 20. Weight: 444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230491
- ISBN
- 9780230230491
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.51
€ 67.51
Paperback. This fascinating book, now available in paperback, examines Robert Louis Stevenson's writings -- including key works such as including Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Treasure Island - in the context of late-Victorian evolutionist thought, arguing that an interest in 'primitive' life is at the heart of his work. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSK; HB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2006 ed.
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230323
- ISBN
- 9780230230323
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.13
€ 66.13
Hardcover. Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece to present-day Europe, China and America, this book contributes to current debates on identity, belonging, memory and material culture by exploring how power works in the small spaces of home. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life. Num Pages: 290 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFCD; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 290
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230230286
- ISBN
- 9780230230286
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.43
€ 67.43
Paperback. This book, now available in paperback, contains readings of international postmodern dances, exploring the roles dance and space play in constructing subjectivity and reading dances 'against the grain' to reveal their potential for troubling conventional notions of subjectivity associated with a white, Western, heterosexual, able-bodied, male norm. Num Pages: 260 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ASD; JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229792
- ISBN
- 9780230229792
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.30
€ 127.30
Hardcover. Taking a close look at ordinary people 'telling their own story', Nancy Thumim explores self-representations in contemporary digital culture in settings as diverse as reality TV, online storytelling, and oral histories displayed in museums. Num Pages: 215 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 220 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229662
- ISBN
- 9780230229662
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. In this wide-ranging study of the politics of memory in Northern Ireland, Brian Conway examines the 'career' of the commemoration of Bloody Sunday, and looks at how and why the way this historic event is remembered has undergone change over time. Drawing on original empirical data, he provides new insights into the debate on collective memory. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies. Num Pages: 240 pages, 24 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKN; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan Basingstoke, UK
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230228887
- ISBN
- 9780230228887
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardcover. This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'. Num Pages: 180 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APT; APW; CFA; JFCX; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight in Grams: 320. 182 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: APT; APW; CFA; JFCX; JFD. Dimension: 226 x 147 x 15. Weight: 320.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230222090
- ISBN
- 9780230222090
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.30
€ 66.30
Hardcover. It is well known that much of our modern vocabulary of sex emerged within nineteenth-century German sexology. But how were the 'German ideas' translated and transmitted into English culture? This study provides an examination of the formation of sexual theory between the 1860s and 1930s and its migration across national and disciplinary boundaries. Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Num Pages: 227 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSBH; HBTB; JFCX; JHBK5; JMU. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 18. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221635
- ISBN
- 9780230221635
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Cultural Globalization and Music: African Artists in Transnational Net...
Kiwan, Nadia, Meinhof, Ulrike Hanna
Hardcover. This book is about South-North, North-South relations between Africa and Europe, presenting the personal narratives of musicians in different locations across Africa and Europe, and those of the people who constitute their networks within the wider artistic, cultural, and civil society milieus of globalizing societies. Num Pages: 283 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFN; JFFS; JHB; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 23. Weight in Grams: 472.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230221291
- ISBN
- 9780230221291
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.95
€ 127.95
Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21...
Broadhurst, Susan, Machon, Josephine
Hardcover. This innovative collection features essays by a range of internationally renowned scholars and reconsiders textual practices in contemporary performance, specifically focusing on the exciting exchange between text, body and technology. Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220256
- ISBN
- 9780230220256
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.97
€ 66.97
Hardcover. This book provides the first dedicated introduction to the cultural writings and analyses of the radical West Indian thinker C.L.R. James. It lays out James' account of the way in which games, books, music and film become a part of the politics and history of popular struggles. Num Pages: 181 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA; JHBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 15. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230220218
- ISBN
- 9780230220218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.34
€ 66.34
Hardcover. This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the zombie genre. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DQ; DSA; DSB; DSG; JFCA; MJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230219342
- ISBN
- 9780230219342
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.68
€ 149.68