This book demonstates the extent to which establis hed ideas about the virus, the immune system, the HIV test and the epidemiology of the disease rely upon unexamined, conservative assumptions about sexual identity and sexual difference.

Should the 1970s be seen as a decade of cultural decline. This collection challenges the view in a ground-breaking study that provides detailed analysis of the cultural production of the decade as a whole.

Using case studies and first-hand interviews with consumers and producers including Noel Gallagher and Talvin Singh, Rupa Huq investigates a series of musically-centred global youth cultures and re-examines the link between music and subcultures.

Provides practical advice within an NVQ framework on all aspects of acquiring and commissioning books in all areas of publishing, focusing especially on developing good relations with authors, working as part of a team, list building and maintenance.

This book explores broadcast and Internet indecency from social and legal perspectives, using current cases and examples. Case law is used as a starting point from which to explore the social and legal boundaries of speech. Lipschultz argues that...

With 11 original essays, this edited volume examines 'chick flicks' from An Affair to Remember to Legally Blonde within the larger context of 'chick culture' as well as womens cinema.

Judith Mayne her examines and assesses the major theories of spectatorship as they have developed over the last fifteen years, to explore how the analysis of a genuine dialogue between history and theory can show us how cinema engages its viewers.

Critical Communication Studies provides a substantive foundation for the understanding of the history and development of communication studies as a critical discipline.