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We are delighted to announce the publication of Peggy Phelan's latest book, Live Art in LA: Performance Art in Southern California , 1970-1983, which documents and critically examines one of the most fecund periods in the history of live art. Order a complimentary exam copy today!
Never, according to an article by the art critic Louisa Buck in the Evening Standard magazine last year, has the following quotation from US Museum Director Thomas Hoving, seemed more apt: ‘Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!’ This book provides an introduction to British art, in all its money-sexy glory, from the YBA’s to the present. It covers a range of art forms, from painting and sculpture to video and installation art.
The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one fourth of the world’s population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.
Misunderstanding the Internet is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed textbook that aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies around the internet.
Through the lens of the iPhone—as a symbol, culture and a set of material practices around contemporary convergent mobile media—the essays collected here explore the most productive theoretical and methodological approaches for grasping media practice, consumer culture and networked communication in the twenty-first century.
Throughout its history, popular mass-mediated culture has turned its attention to representing and interrogating organizational life. As early as Charlie Chaplin’s cinematic classic Modern Times and as recently as the primetime television hit The Simpsons, we see cultural products that engage reflexively in coming to terms with the meaning of work, technology and workplace relations. Featuring contributors from the UK, USA, Europe and Australia, this exciting anthology provides a comprehensive review of research in organization and popular culture.
"Exemplifying the vibrant scholarship on reality television, this collection tests the field's first generation of theory and initiates cross-cultural analysis of this globaly pervasive television genre. Summing Up: Recommended."
--CHOICE, September 2011 (R. W. Morrow, Morgan State University)
Race and ethnicity have been at the forefront of both academic debate and social issues for many decades. This exciting new resource offers access to important and wide ranging contributions to the study of race, taking in cultural, social, political, legal and economic aspects of the subject.
H. Aram Veeser, author of Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism will be holding a book launch at 7pm on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 at Alwan for the Arts in NYC. More information about the event can be found on Alwan for the Arts’ website.
The courses below offer a listing of the most current textbooks from Routledge Cultural Studies. You can also continue browsing our complete catalog of textbook options. If you'd like to consult with one of our representatives, browse our contact listings.
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