This book explores a range of situations where robotics, biotechnological enhancement, artificial intelligence (AI), and algorithmic culture collide with intersectional social justice issues such as race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, and citizenship.
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins studies the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and argues that intersectional feminist analysis is essential in discussions of how neoliberal globalization impacts art by female artists and the rights of women from marginalized communities.
Intersectional Feminism in the Age of Transnationalism: Voices from the Margins studies the limitations of the transnationalist approach to feminism and argues that intersectional feminist analysis is essential in discussions of how neoliberal globalization impacts art by female artists and the rights of women from marginalized communities.
Contrary to arguments by the Recording Industry Association of America, this book posits major record labels led the change to digital music to strengthen profits. This updated edition explores both the transitions to the download era and the streaming era for recorded music.
Contrary to arguments by the Recording Industry Association of America, this book posits major record labels led the change to digital music to strengthen profits. This updated edition explores both the transitions to the download era and the streaming era for recorded music.
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
Contemporary Japanese horror is deeply rooted in the folklore of its culture, with fairy tales-like ghost stories embedded deeply into the social, cultural, and religious fabric. Ever since the emergence of the J-horror phenomenon in the late 1990s with the opening and critical success of films such as Hideo Nakata's The Ring (Ringu, 1998) or ......
Critical Essays on Film, Literature, Anime, Video Games
This book investigates the philosophical, socio-cultural, and artistic world of Japanese horror through a varied range of case studies, including video games (Rule of Rose), manga (Uzumaki), and anime (the classic Devilman). Film is represented with well-known works such as Ringu and overlooked filmmakers like Mari Asato.
This book situates Chinese acceptance of Japanese popular culture-specifically the intriguing and sometimes awkward relationship between AKB48 and SNH48-within the broader context of nationalist ideology and international relations in East Asia.
Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Folk Practices
Jewish Bodylore explores the symbology of the Jewish body. It considers how Jewish bodies can be conceptualized using folkloristics and how feminist methodologies of the body can be applied fairly to Jewish bodies, celebrating the multitude of ways in which the body can be con...
