Popular Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice

   The Rhetorics of Comparison

   By Carolyn Pedwell

   Series: Transformations

   Within both feminist theory and popular culture, establishing similarities between embodied practices rooted in different cultural and geo-political contexts (e.g. ‘African’ female genital cutting and ‘Western’ cosmetic surgery) has become increasingly common as a means of countering cultural...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cultural Policy Review of Books

   Edited by Oliver Bennett

   Cultures are shaped by many institutions and agencies, including governments, corporations, education and the media. In recent years, research into these culture-shaping activities has been increasingly associated with the developing field of cultural policy studies. The Cultural Policy Review of...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Crossover Picturebooks

   A Genre for All Ages

   By Sandra Beckett

   Series: Children's Literature and Culture

   This book situates the picturebook genre within the widespread international phenomenon of crossover literature, examining an international corpus of picturebooks — including artists’ books, wordless picturebooks, and celebrity picturebooks — that appeal to readers of all ages. Focusing on...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
4. Artificial Culture

   Identity, Technology, and Bodies

   By Tama Leaver

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable...

   Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
5. Policy and the Popular

   Edited by David Looseley

   The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the complexities of ‘popular’ culture as a category of public policy. It approaches the notions of ‘cultural policy’ and ‘popular culture’ flexibly, examining what each comes to mean, explicitly or implicitly, in relation to the other. This generates...

   Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Globalisation and Advertising in Emerging Economies

   Brazil, Russia, India and China

   By Lynne Ciochetto

   Series: Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy

   Brazil, Russia, India and China are four of the largest and most dynamic contemporary emerging economies in the world. Strong economic growth in each of these economies has been accompanied by the expansion of the advertising and consumer goods sectors. Using a series of country studies, this book...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Charlotte Yonge

   Rereading Domestic Religious Fiction

   Edited by Tamara Wagner

   Charlotte Yonge, a dedicated religious, didactic, and domestic novelist, has become one of the most effectively rediscovered Victorian women writers of the last decades. Her prolific output of fiction does not merely give a fascinatingly different insight into nineteenth-century popular culture; it...

   Published December 13th 2011 by Routledge
8. Creativity and Cultural Policy

   Edited by Chris Bilton

   Creativity has become a popular buzzword in contemporary cultural policy, yet the term remains poorly understood. In this collection, cultural policy specialists together with experts on psychology, creative enterprise and arts education, consider how ‘creativity’ is defined in a variety of...

   Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge
9. Chinese Entertainment

   Edited by Kwok-Bun Chan

   Scholarly studies of Chinese culture, history and society, both within and outside of China, generally pay little attention to leisure, entertainment and amusement, though it has long been known that this aspect of life gives a deep understanding of the psyche and soul, and the hopes and fears, of...

   Published December 4th 2011 by Routledge
10. The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

    Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

    By Michael Silk

    Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

    Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11,...

    Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge