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Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. "The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture" provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship.

Specifically, this Companion includes:

• interdisciplinary models and...

Greenwashing Culture examines culture's complicity with our environmental crisis. It reveals both the social license it often gives gas and petroleum industries to operate and the ecological impact of cultural production itself.

Firstly, the book outlines the basic theoretical concepts and material histories of greenwashing and culture. This introduction includes startling statistics which indicate the true extent of environmental damage film-making, print media and other forms of cultural production can inflict. This is juxtaposed with the culture of celebrity eco-activism...

• Brings together the latest work in cultural studies and provides a synopsis of critical trends
  
• Showcases thirty contributors from five continents
  
• Addresses the key topics in the field, the relationship of cultural studies to other disciplines, and cultural studies around the world
  
• Offers a gritty introduction for the neophyte who is keen to find out what cultural...

"This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic concerns will be both accessible and useful to readers asking--as contemporary readers indomitably do--what these debates in cultural theory have to do with the conduct of theirsocial lives."--Meaghan Morris, author of "The Pirate's Fianc?e: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism."

"Miller's work is extremely engaging, original, and successful in producing a set of innovative analyses of the formation of cultural subjects."--Douglas Kellner, University...

We are all experts about Hollywood. We have to be, given its iconic power as the global source of so much entertainment. Designed to add to existing expertise as a movie-goer, The Contemporary Hollywood Reader enables students to enter into the thematic, critical, artistic, economic, and political debates on Hollywood.

The Contemporary Hollywood Reader is a dynamic selection of scholarly writings on Hollywood from the post-World War II period onwards, divided into three sections, each with contextualizing introductions from the Editor. The sections, Production,...