Books in the The Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture series

This book shows how the horror genre has adapted itself to the transformation of contemporary American politics and the mutating role of traditional and new media in the era of Donald Trump's Presidency of the US.

Bringing together studies of a range of texts, this volume addresses the relationship between irony and popular culture and the role of the consumer in determining meaning, arguing that in a cultural climate largely characterised by fractious communications, the very role of irony in popular culture needs to come under greater scrutiny.

Explores the ways in which contemporary writers, artists, directors, producers and fans use the opportunities offered by popular fantasy to exceed or challenge norms of gender and sexuality, focusing on a range of media, including television episodes and series, films, video games and multi-player online role-play games, novels, and short stories.

This book explores the ways in which professional wrestling has been affected by the current era of `convergence¿, combining a range of genres, character types, business practices and narratives, all in one spectacle.

Structured around key political events in the US between 1938 and 1975, this book combines analyses of visual and textual discourse, including comic-book letters pages, to come to a more complete picture of the relationship between comic-books as documents and the people who read and created them.

Drawing on a range of new media sources, including websites, chat rooms, blogs and forums, this book explores the concerns expressed by advocates of white power, with regard to racial hierarchy and social order, the crisis of traditional American values, the perpetuation of liberal, feminist, elitist ideas.

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity assesses the impact of a range of cultural forms on the dynamics of society and relations of power during times of economic crisis.

This book offers a range of accounts of the state of `European Cinemä in a specific sociopolitical era: that of the global economic crisis that began in 2008 and the later refugee and humanitarian crisis.

Cultural Politics in the Age of Austerity assesses the impact of a range of cultural forms on the dynamics of society and relations of power during times of economic crisis.

Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony.