Culture and Contestation in the New Century

Culture and Contestation in the New CenturyThis book of essays examines the conditions of cultural production in the first decade of the twenty first century. With an emphasis on how current neoliberal policies have affected institutions of cultural production and dissemination, it highlights ensuing changes to critical theory and poses questions about cultural democracy and social change.

Pride and Panic probes cinematic representations of the Russian national consciousness

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Auger contextualizes cartomancy – the practice of fortune telling via playing cards – and dives deep into its invention and promulgation in film

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The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism

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This is the first book to consider clowning venues and styles in light of play theory

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First published in 1897 and never out of print since

The book stands alone in placing equal emphasis on theoretical and practical aspects of its subject matter and avoids jargon so as to be easily understood by the general reader as well as the specialist