Examines an all too often neglected period of postwar British cinema and popular culture.

Explores intervisual case studies in relation to migration, xenophobia, and gender.

Essays on Telugu and South Indian literature and culture by distinguished Telugu scholar Narayana Rao.

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.

Provides answers to one of the enduring paradoxes of mass social change.

Argues that Indigenous hip hop is the latest and newest assertion of Indigenous sovereignty throughout Indigenous North America.

Uses real-life episodes of psychosis and recovery to show how poetic paradigms for thinking about psychiatric symptoms can enlarge contemporary understandings of mental illness and improve long-term treatment outcome.

A father’s personal and intimate account of his Filipino and Alaska Native family’s experiences, and his search for how to help his children overcome the effects of historical and contemporary oppression.

Addresses an understudied yet highly significant aspect of the work of the influential artist Andy Warhol: his exploration of anniversaries.

Examines movie romance in light of our emotional bond to the actors and characters on screen.

Surveys how reunification in 1990 impacted historical scholarship in the former East Germany.

Explores issues related to race and religion in Lovecraft criticism.

English-language translations of traditional plays from the marionette puppet theater of Northern China.

Advances critical conversations in Native American literary studies by situating its subject in global, transnational, and modernizing contexts.

How a small family company in the Finger Lakes became one of the most important wine producers in the United States, only to be taken down by corporate greed and mismanagement.

Investigates the cultural value of film violence.

Argues that post-Katrina New Orleans is a key site for exploring competing narratives of American decline and renewal at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

Presents a major new interpretation of the Ashcan School of Art, arguing that these artists made the working class city at the turn of the century a subject for beautiful art.

Explores how white supremacist groups use popular music and culture to teach hate and promote violence.

A story of self, braided to a story of American culture.

Chronicles the conflict between religious and secular forces in Israel.

Examines how postfeminism and postracialism intersect to perpetuate systemic injustice in the United States.

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory.