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

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.

Explores the revolutionary potential of Bruce Lee and hip hop culture in the context of antiglobalization struggles and transnational capitalism.

Brings etiquette into dialogue with ethics.

A fascinating consideration of the work of life models and the models’ own perspectives on their craft.

Explores the cultural significance of androids.

Looks at how detective films have reflected and shaped our ideas about masculinity, heroism, law and order, and national identity.

Recovers a dynamic women’s tradition of vision and sexuality, challenging Darwinian and Freudian accounts of women as nonvisual sexual agents.

Moves from Beethoven to Buffy to examine the blurred nexus of elite and popular culture in the twenty-first century.

Explores the relation of post-colonization authors to literary traditions.

Offers an interrogation of Jameson's critical legacy.

Presents a broad spectrum of critical approaches that question traditional sport history.

Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.

Explores the role and function of the autopsy in Western culture, from Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lecture to The X-Files and CSI.

A historical romp through the fascinating subject of murder jurisprudence in the United States from the colonial period to the present, showing how changing social mores have influenced the application of murder law.