Documents the influence of Jewish music on American popular song.

Interviews with prominent filmmakers, actors, and others on the art, craft, and business of moviemaking.

Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.

Unravels the rich complexities of the colonial travel experience.

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

Problematizes traditional ethnographic research methods, offering instead self-reflexive critical practices.

Explores how medical and social maps helped shape modern perceptions of space.

Shows the full breadth and scope of Edward Said's work and of his role as a public intellectual.

Examines deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism, and other contemporary theoretical movements in their historical contexts.

Explains why the American cultural obsession with enjoying ourselves actually makes it more difficult to do so.

Examines the relationship of modern life, including modern capitalism, to feelings and phenomena of abandonment.

Examines the history of science in light of recent theories of sexuality and the body.

Examines this forceful emotion from philosophical, literary, and art historical perspectives.

An investigation into the complex processes of "becoming a girl."

Explores how filmmakers and screenwriters have used comedy and science fiction to extend the boundaries of the Frankenstein narrative.

Examines the rich and multiple meanings of food in women's writing.

Explores issues of representation and rebellion in Mexican and Mexican American cinema.

Interdisciplinary essays on the role of high theory in politics and popular culture.

Applies Foucault's ideas to a cultural studies framework.

A postmodernist metacritical look at theories of African literature.

Examines both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics.

Traces the history of mind-body dualism.

Explores the ways that stereotypes of heterosexuality are portrayed and constructed in film.

Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.

Explores women's place in sport and exercise from a socioculture perspective.