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Unsettling Catan

Detachment in Eurogames

By J. Rey Lee
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Reference, Cultural Studies
Series: Tabletop Games

Tracing Catan’s legacy in recent influential eurogames

Screening Precarity

Hindi Cinema and Neoliberal Crisis in Twenty-first Century India

By Megha Anwer & Anupama Arora
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Cultural Studies

Framing post-millennial Hindi films as cinema of precarity

Mass Performance

Systems and Citizens

By Kimberly Jannarone
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sociology, Cultural Studies

A history of mass performance systems, how they arise during eras of nationalization, and how they are shaped by modernity

Cultural Production of Hallyu in the Digital Platform Era

Industry Perspectives

By Dal Yong Jin
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Media Studies, New Media, Cultural Studies

Exploring the platformization of the Korean Wave and its connection to cultural industries

The Institutionalization of Islam in Southern Senegal

Intermarriage, Qur'anic Education, and Jihad

By Aly Dramé
Subjects: African Studies, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: African Perspectives

An exploration of the development of Islam in the Middle Casamance region

Creating with Roots

Contemporary Chinese National Folk Dance Choreography

Translated by Emily Wilcox

By Rui Xu
Translated by Emily Wilcox
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Dance, Cultural Studies

Navigating tradition and innovation in Chinese national folk dance, available in English for the first time 

Critically Capitalist

The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea

By Bohyeong Kim
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Asian Studies, Korea, Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Cultural Studies
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An ethnography of South Korea’s lay investors and aspiring millionaires that demonstrates how South Korea’s capitalism thrives on its critiques

Listening to the Voices of the Dead

The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks

By Jun'ichi Isomae
Translated by Lynne E. Riggs & Manabu Takechi
Subjects: History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Religion, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An incisive observation of the traumas of loss and marginalization brought to the surface by the 2011 Tōhoku Disaster

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

Pleasure Grounds of Death

The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America

By Joy M. Giguere
Subjects: American Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, History, American History, Cultural Studies, Class Studies

Revealing how landscapes dedicated to the perpetual care of the dead mirrored the transformations and conflicts of the nineteenth century in American society

Narrative Podcasting in an Age of Obsession

By Neil Verma
Subjects: Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Digital Projects, New Media, Cultural Studies

Evaluating the rise of podcasting and the storytelling trends that emerged

After Disruption

A Future for Cultural Memory

By Trevor Owens
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, Education, Higher Education, Digital Projects

How we plan for and develop a more just, sustainable, and healthy future for memory infrastructure

Kinethic California

Dancing Funk and Disco Era Kinships

By Naomi Macalalad Bragin
Subjects: Dance, Cultural Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

Explores the making of black social and vernacular dance in the 1970s, precursor to today’s global hip hop/streetdance culture

Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change

Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

By Ousseina D. Alidou
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

The role of literature and popular songs in the cultural politics of Hausa society

Opera for Everyone

The Industry's Experiments with American Opera in the Digital Age

By Megan Steigerwald Ille
Subjects: Music, Music Composition, Musicology, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies

How one opera company represents the economic precarity and aesthetic possibilities of operatic performance in the twenty-first century U.S.

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

StarCraft

Legacy of the Real-Time Strategy

By Simon Dor
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Landmark Video Games

One game’s influence on the rise of e-sports and video game strategy

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Sensing Health

Bodies, Data, and Digital Health Technologies

By Mikki Kressbach
Subjects: Media Studies, New Media, Health & Medicine, Health Policy & Management, Digital Projects, Cultural Studies, American Studies, Disability Studies
Series: Digital Culture Books

An exploration of the experience of “health” in the age of the smart watch

Seeking a Future for the Past

Space, Power, and Heritage in a Chinese City

By Philipp Demgenski
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Cultural Studies, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

An ethnography that illuminates the political economy of urbanization in contemporary China

Instrument of Memory

Encounters with the Wandering Jew

By Lisa Lampert-Weissig
Subjects: Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Jewish Studies, Cultural Studies

Reimagining the Wandering Jew legend and the curse of immortality in centuries of Jewish and Christian art

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

Communicating the Other across Cultures

From Othering as Equipment for Living, to Communicating Other/Wise

By Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Political Science, International Relations, History, Intellectual History

Exposes how we have constructed and marginalized the Other across cultures, and suggests creative global solutions for inclusive multiculturalism

The Violence of the Letter

Toward a Theory of Writing

By Melanie McMahon
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Writing, Cultural Studies

The alphabet's devastating consequences for humanity

The Creativity Complex

Art, Tech, and the Seduction of an Idea

By Shannon Steen
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance

How notions of creativity have evolved to serve the goals of neoliberalism—and what we can do about it

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