Pinpoints the limits of many current globalization theories in challenging racial oppression, and argues instead for local and situated strategies for resisting racism and imperialism.

Scholars engage the ideas and legacy of Cary Nelson in conversations about the corporate university, teaching, poetry, and activism.

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Provocative exploration of a new concept of “joy” within psychoanalytic and cultural studies.

Traces the rhetorical work of the gene in scientific and nonscientific discourse throughout the twentieth century.

Ecocritical takes on popular film.

Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice.

Essays explore the broad cultural impact of Oprah’s Book Club.

Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.

Collection of scholarly essays on the wildly popular Comedy Central show.

A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.

Melds philosophical analysis with early cinematic history to develop a fresh theory of the notion of comedy.

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

Offers a sustained analysis of both high and low queer culture and its connections to cultural and political processes in Spain.

Critically examines diagnostic and popular discourses on eating disorders.

Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.

A pickup basketball player looks at the pickup game as a distinctive culture using both personal experience and cultural studies theory.

Contributors explore the relationship between food and the production of ideology.

Defends political philosophy and social science against the rival claims of literature and literary criticism.

Explores the trope of modernity in García Ponce’s writings.

Explores the moral and philosophical underpinnings of Vonnegut’s work.

Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.

Korean cinema as industry, art form, and cultural product.

New and expanded edition of the now classic study in the phenomenology of sound.

Looks at contemporary sports talk radio and its relations to both traditional and newer forms of masculinity.