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Essays on Poetry, Culture, and Travel

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

Essays that explore literature, art, and contemporary culture and their connections to time and place

From the Valley of Bronze Camels

A Primer, Some Lectures, & A Boondoggle on Poetry

By Jane Miller
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

"What makes art 'modern' and what does 'urgent' mean now?"

Mortal Kombat

Games of Death

By David Church
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Landmark Video Games

An introduction to one of the world's most iconic fighting games

Looking for Hickories

The Forgotten Wildness of the Rural Midwest

By Thomas Springer
Subjects: Michigan and the Great Lakes, Nature, Nature/Environment, Literature, Cultural Studies

A masterfully written collection that establishes a new voice for the spirit of the upper Midwest and Michigan and offers a fresh look at the landscape as well as the everyday lives of the people who make up the region's small communities

The Automobile and American Culture

Edited by David L. Lewis & Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, American History

Looks at the impact of the automobile on American folkways

Henry Ford and Grass-roots America

By Reynold M. Wik
Subjects: History, American History, Cultural Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History, American Studies
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

A study of Henry Ford and rural America in the 1920s

The Body in Crisis

New Pathways and Short Circuits in Representation

Foreword by Cristina Fernandes Rosa, Translated by Christopher Larkosh and Grace Holleran

By Christine Greiner
Translated by Christopher Larkosh & Grace Holleran
Contributions by Cristina Fernandes Rosa
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Dance, Philosophy
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

A major theoretical work by Brazilian dance scholar Christine Greiner explores the political relevance of bodily arts in the age of neoliberal globalization

Touching the Unreachable

Writing, Skinship, Modern Japan

By Fusako Innami
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How can one construct relationality with the other through the skin, when touch is inevitably mediated by memories of previous contact, accumulated sensations, and interstitial space?

The Global White Snake

By Liang Luo
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History
Series: China Understandings Today

Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China’s foundational texts

Waiting for Cancer to Come

Women's Experiences with Genetic Testing and Medical Decision Making for Breast and Ovarian Cancer

By Sharlene Hesse-Biber
Subjects: Health & Medicine, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies

A narrative-driven exploration of the effects of BRCA genetic testing on the lives of at-risk women

The Era of Great Disasters

Japan and Its Three Major Earthquakes

By Makoto Iokibe
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Nature/Environment, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Uncovering the humanity and wisdom within the tragedy of Japan’s disaster responses to three major earthquakes

Cultural Values and Human Ecology in Southeast Asia

Edited by Karl Hutterer, A. Terry Rambo, A. Terry Rambo, and George Lovelace
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

Gathers seventeen diverse perspectives on human ecology in Southeast Asia with a conceptual framework—cultural values—designed to bridge social and natural science paradigms

The <em>Dianshizhai Pictorial</em>

Shanghai Urban Life, 1884–1898

By Xiaoqing Ye
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Brings to life the visual culture of the “nightless city,” late nineteenth-century Shanghai, through analyses of more than one hundred drawn depictions

Sounding Dissent

Rebel Songs, Resistance, and Irish Republicanism

By Stephen Millar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Irish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Music and Social Justice

In Belfast’s rebel music scene, Irish republican musicians and audiences engage in ritualized resistance against the British state

The Impracticality of Practical Research

A History of Contemporary Sciences of Change That Conserve

By Thomas Stanley Popkewitz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Education, Sociology

Examines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences

The Impracticality of Practical Research

A History of Contemporary Sciences of Change that Conserve

By Thomas Stanley Popkewitz
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Education, Sociology

Examines the politics of practical knowledge and the paradoxes of exclusion in contemporary social and psychological sciences

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Beyond the Human-Animal Barrier

By Naama Harel
Subjects: German Studies, Literary Studies, European Literature, Cultural Studies

Traces the dissolution of the boundary between human and other animals in the work of Franz Kafka and, in doing so, radically revisits interspecies relations

The Appearing Demos

Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement

By Laikwan Pang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Cultural Studies

Facilitating vigorous dialogue between Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement and the political theories of Hannah Arendt, The Appearing Demos theorizes a city-based democratic project that allows the city to coexist and share power with state sovereignty.

Transgenerational Media Industries

Adults, Children, and the Reproduction of Culture

By Derek Johnson
Subjects: Media Studies, Cultural Studies

Media industry strategies of production and consumption transform the boundaries between adulthood and childhood while reinforcing social norms, reproductive ideals, and labor hierarchies.

Coeds Ruining the Nation

Women, Education, and Social Change in Postwar Japanese Media

By Julia Bullock
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

A unique glimpse into the hopes and fears of the Japanese people as coeducation was first introduced in the Occupation period.

Resisting Spirits

Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People’s Republic of China

By Maggie Greene
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, History, Chinese History, Cultural Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements

Resisting Spirits

Drama Reform and Cultural Transformation in the People's Republic of China

By Maggie Greene
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Theater and Performance, History, Chinese History, Cultural Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

Even amidst the Maoist era’s politicized cultural production, culture workers continued to adapt traditional theatre to create bold new statements

Soda Goes Pop

Pepsi-Cola Advertising and Popular Music

By Joanna K. Love
Subjects: Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Cultural Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Pepsi turned pop music in commercials from novelty to norm—with profound effects on both American culture and commerce

Revisiting Minjung

New Perspectives on the Cultural History of 1980s South Korea

By Sunyoung Park
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

Foremost scholars of 1980s South Korea bring new perspectives on this pivotal period, expanding the horizons of Korean cultural studies by reassessing old conventions and adding new narratives

Entrepreneurial Seoulite

Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul

By Mihye Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

A lucid narration of post-financial crisis urbanism in Seoul and the vivid experiences of living through the city in transition

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