Narratively explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.

Deconstructs the field of postcolonial studies.

A description and analysis of the Guyanese religion known as "Comfa. "

Examines travel narratives as a genre.

Examines the ways that the labels "disability" and "difference" are socially and culturally constructed.

Examines gender roles in contemporary foreign and Hollywood films amid changing social, political, cultural, and economic conditions.

Discusses the reasons for the decline of the cultural influence of psychoanalysis.

A critical overview of the work of Fredric Jameson, with an emphasis on his notoriously difficult writing style.

Part memoir, part cultural criticism, this fast-paced ride through the postmodern landscape of American popular culture explores how our responses to headline events and popular films help script the ways in which we imagine ourselves and the world around us.

Challenges current claims that humans ought to be vegetarians because animals have moral standing.

Examines a wide variety of cultural and technological phenomena that have helped shape American popular culture over the last 150 years.

A groundbreaking treatment of heritage survival in African and African American cooking.

Addresses the theoretical and pedagogical implications of redefining French Studies as an interdisciplinary field, while providing practical examples of the kind of criticism that such a shift would entail.

Examines the notion of exile and hybrid cultural identity in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin, with implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon.

Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.

Explores how historical, artistic, and technological developments and cross-cultural exchange have altered our conceptions of creativity.

Explores the search for identity under changing conditions by examining the lives of kibbutz-born young people living in L.A.

Provides a reading of Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms in the context of contemporary continental philosophy.

Contemplates the future of cinema in light of emerging digital technologies and new systems of distribution.

New essays by prominent film scholars address recent developments in American genre filmmaking.

Explores diverse cultural identities, both theoretically and through concrete, specific interpretations of selected major texts from former British colonies.

Offers a multidisciplinary examination of Star Trek, religion, and American culture.

Explores the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison, examining how it functions archetypally as both a cultural metaphor and a poetic image.

Offers a new interpretation of “sympathy” as an instrument for investigating contemporary culture, gender, and visual technique.

Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.