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

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

Applies Foucault's ideas to a cultural studies framework.

Examines both the benign and harmful aspects of identity politics.

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

Explores how whiteness is culturally constructed in American films.

Addresses the place of addiction in modern art, literature, philosophy, and psychology, including its effects on the works of such thinkers and writers as Heidegger, Nietzsche, DeQuincey, Breton, and Burroughs.

Addresses the relationship between modernity and social theory by looking at the works of Parsons, Goffman, and Garfinkel.

Develops a rigorous theory of narrative as apost-deconstructive model for interpretation.

By exploring the work of the Frankfurt school today, this book helps to define the very field of cultural studies.

An interdisciplinary reader exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

Examines Lacan's key seminar on sexual difference, knowledge, desire, and love.

Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.

Examines liberatory learning practices in the contemporary composition classroom.

Confronts the cultural challenges of globalization.

Explores the post-Enlightenment obsession with apocalyptic endings.

Embraces the leading edge in critical race theory.

Challenges the accepted model, and builds a politically sensitive notion of generosity.

Focuses on signifiers of cultural difference, such as sexuality, class, gender, and race, and how they are connected to theories of writing.

Investigates a broad range of contemporary fiction, film, and architecture to address the role of history in postmodern cultural productions.

Addresses the important role of remakes in film culture, from early cinema to contemporary Hollywood.

Traces the ways in which our culture has increasingly become a culture of simulations, and offers strategies for discerning meaning in a world where the difference between what is real and what is simulated has collapsed.

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

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.