Kulturstudier

One of the first key waves of pulp art created in American cultural history came during the period from 1933 to 1940, when a range of provocative magazines sprang up with exceptionally striking, often startling cover illustrations by some of the most imaginative artists of the time. The most controversial of these publications were those themed around terror-mystery, horror and weird menace fiction, a genre which coalesced in 1933 with the inception of Dime Mystery Magazine.The covers produced for this and similar pulps were mainly centered around images of voluptuous women - scantily clad in ripped dresses and underwear, or even naked - being threatened with torture, mutilation and death by an array of hooded cultists, mad doctors and other deranged psychopaths.VOLUPTUOUS HORRORS 2 collects 100 full-page, full-color weird menace magazine covers from 1937-1940, presenting some of the world's most lurid and often sadistic cover designs from the golden age of pulps.

In exile and migration, the things that forcibly displaced people take with them become mobile testimonies of defiance, mourning, creativity, and rejuvenation. Through a series of scholarly essays and autobiographical vignettes, this richly illustrated volume draws on such observations to examine the meanings that possessions assume when they are wrenched from their original contexts. The contributors to this collection shine an intimate spotlight on those who are driven from their homes by conflict and forced into exile by authoritarian regimes. In so doing, the contributors underscore the necessity for civil societies to support academic freedom and the work done by critical thinkers worldwide.

This book constitutes the first monograph dedicated to an academic analysis of David Bowie's appearances in film. Through close textual analysis together with production and reception histories, Bowie's 'silver screen' career is explored in full. The book covers performance documentaries such as Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, star vehicles ranging from the eulogised The Man Who Fell to Earth to the excoriated Just a Gigolo, plus roles from the horror chic of The Hunger and cult fantasy of Labyrinth to the valiant high-brow Baal and vainglorious high-budget Absolute Beginners, ending with Bowie as Bowie in Bandslam and others as 'Bowie' in Velvet Goldmine and Stardust. Alongside showing his willingness to experiment (and at times fail) across a variety of genres, this study investigates Bowie's performative style that, while struggling to accommodate the requirements of cinematic realism, fits more harmoniously with alternative production codes and aesthetics. More broadly, by exploring the commercial, socio-cultural and ideological significance of Bowie on film, the book demonstrates how notions of gender, sexuality and identity formation, plus commodity and cultural capital, function and fluctuate in contemporary society.

Hallyu deals with Danish fans of Korean popular culture. As consumers of Korean popular culture, not least K-pop (Korean pop music), these fans aspire to integrate into the Korean social fabric through career choice; they produce K-pop realities by performing Korean dance, conforming to Korean aesthetics or beauty ideals, thinking through Korean story-worlds and finding viable alternatives to Danish youth sociality. This constitutes an example of how East Asian popular culture is present in the formation of Danish youth culture in the 2010s. Hallyu is the second publication in the four volume series East Asian popular culture in a transnational perspective: A National Museum of Denmark Collection. What happens when Korean pop music & comics and anime, manga, video games & photo booths from Japan flow into Denmark? This series explores issues pertaining to East Asian popular culture in a Danish context and asks what it can contribute to our understanding of cultural flows in an East/West perspective.

This book shows through historical data, diagrams and drawings, the design system of an Italian historic center, that of Vicenza, Italy. Vicenza is the result of an urban construction process that has as its model the invention of the Palladian design system. The main argument is how the architectural vision of Andrea Palladio shaped Vincenza to the city it is today. Vicenza is an example of a collective dream, an expression of the best Renaissance artistic culture, a classic example that a city can reform itself through intellectual activity.

This book examines subjectivity and neoliberalism in Latin America. The chapters, first published in the journal Subjectivity, cover a range of topics, from work to childcare to violence to university education In the Introduction, Julian Medina Zarate and Flavia Uchoa point out the complex history of the arrival and take-up of neoliberalism across the continent, the deep-seated role of colonial and post-colonial violence, thus the specificity of modes of governance in the complex relationship between the North and the South. The chapter by Antar Martinez Guzman considers the role of neoliberalism in the huge rise in male violence across the country, exploring hyper-violent masculinities in the context of social precarity. Antonio Stecher and Alvaro Soto Roy discuss the transformations in work identities and thus the consequences for subjectivity for workers in three kinds of employment in neoliberal Chile. Fabio d'Oliviera studies phsychologists operating in an increasingly precarised service sector in public assistance programmes in Brazil. Hernan Pulido Martinez explores the role of artefacts in the introduction of discourses and practices related to quality within a university in Colombia. Ana Vergara discusses parent-child relations in the context of neoliberal Chile.

This book presents a snapshot of a major challenge, and shares subjective views on various areas of conflict in Africa and the diverse - theoretical and practical - efforts to achieve peace. Following an essential review of several real-world conflict contexts on the African continent and attempts to come to terms with them critically as a first step, the book explores the lessons learned to date with regard to peace studies in Africa.

Dive into a cyberpunk-infused Toronto, 600 years into the future, through Matti Charlton's visually stunning art book. Experience the fusion of advanced technology and urban decay across its pages, immersing yourself in a captivating artistic journey.

"The hidden history of an economic and cultural catastrophe that is threatening our very food supply-the disappearance of the American farmer"--

A rhetorical examination of the rise of populist conservatism

Democracy 'binds us as one, ' but who'll blow the whistle on myths and rorts of the lucky country - our fair-go hard-yakka dreamtime multiculture of aspirational lifters and bogan leaners?

This book argues that there are constant formations of online public spheres in present-day China, prompted by never-ending news. It contends that these publics are chronic, although individually they are usually transient. They are networked, which enables them to go viral in hours, and they may engender unexpected consequences. These features explain why online public spheres survive in China even though censorship and information manipulation are pervasively and strategically maneuvered to guide or manufacture "e;public opinion"e;. The book also proposes that there are deeply entangled structural factors bolstering China's online news-prompted public spheres: the continuous flow of news information, the countless public spaces facilitated by China's digital infrastructure and the rise of rights-conscious netizens. Pushing forward a new way of conceptualizing the idea of public spheres, this book contends clearly that public spheres are most often sparked by chronic news in today's media-saturated societies. Delving into the life cycles of public spheres, it goes beyond static analysis of individual public spheres and instead studies their five qualities, which, except for the networked quality, have never been systematically addressed in scholarship. 

This edited collection examines women journalists' experiences and obstacles in South Africa's (SA) democracy. They exercise power, and add a vital diversity, but they are routinely harassed in the online social media space of big tech companies such as Twitter and Facebook by populist and corrupt politicians and their supporters. Using SA as the case study, this book examines attempts to curb women journalists' freedom combining theory and  first-hand accounts. The target audience for the book includes scholars of political philosophy, gender, media, communications, NGOs, media freedom activists and journalists.

Reminisce and relax with more than 100 1980s-themed word search puzzles. This collection for adult puzzlers will keep you thoroughly entertained remembering the movies, TV shows, toys, and fads from the 80s. Search vertically, diagonally, forward, and backward in pursuit of hidden words. Then use the search words to discover the theme for each puzzle. This paperback book is the perfect size for travel or taking on the go.Keep your brain fit and your memory sharp with a variety of fun and engaging puzzles from Brain Busters. From Crosswords to Word Searches to Spot the Difference and other stimulating challenges, our curated collection offers hours of mind-sharpening fun in these brain-training games to enhance memory and cognitive function.OVER 100 PUZZLES: Keep your brain fit with more than 100 word search puzzles for hours of fun and entertainment!UNIQUE CHALLENGES: Designed for all puzzlers, these activity word search puzzles will challenge at every level.CONCEALED SPIRAL: Semi-concealed spiral is perfect for throwing in your purse without snagging things in your bag!PERFECT SIZE: Smaller trim size is easily transportable for on-the-go entertainment! Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train, or relaxing on vacation this puzzle book can go with you.BRAIN BUSTERS(TM) Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for other books including Bad*ss Mother Puzzler, Smithsonian Natural History Word Search & Women in History Word Search, The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles, 50s Word Search, Large Print Word Searches, Bible Word Search, Crosswords, Picture Puzzles, and More!

Reminisce and relax with more than 100 1950s-themed word search puzzles. This collection for adult puzzlers will keep you thoroughly entertained remembering the movies, TV shows, toys, and fads from the 50s. Search vertically, diagonally, forward, and backward in pursuit of hidden words. Then use the search words to discover the theme for each puzzle. This paperback book is the perfect size for travel or taking on the go.Keep your brain fit and your memory sharp with a variety of fun and engaging puzzles from Brain Busters. From Crosswords to Word Searches to Spot the Difference and other stimulating challenges, our curated collection offers hours of mind-sharpening fun in these brain-training games to enhance memory and cognitive function. OVER 100 PUZZLES: Keep your brain fit with more than 100 word search puzzles for hours of fun and entertainment!UNIQUE CHALLENGES: Designed for all puzzlers, these activity word search puzzles will challenge at every level.CONCEALED SPIRAL: Semi-concealed spiral is perfect for throwing in your purse without snagging things in your bag!PERFECT SIZE: Smaller trim size is easily transportable for on-the-go entertainment! Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train, or relaxing on vacation this puzzle book can go with you.BRAIN BUSTERS(TM) Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for other books including Bad*ss Mother Puzzler, Smithsonian Natural History Word Search & Women in History Word Search, The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles, 50s Word Search, Large Print Word Searches, Bible Word Search, Crosswords, Picture Puzzles, and More!

A horror-story history of capitalism and its relationship to the haunted and the gothic, and a manifesto of Gothic Marxism, which finds revolutionary hope in the nightmare of modernity.What does it mean to see horror in capitalism? What can horror tell us about the state and nature of capitalism?Blending film criticism, cultural theory, and philosophy, Capitalism: A Horror Story examines literature, film, and philosophy, from Frankenstein to contemporary cinema, delving into the socio-political function of the monster, the haunted nature of the digital world, and the inescapable horror of contemporary capitalist politics.Revitalizing the tradition of Romantic anticapitalism and offering a “dark way of being red”, Capitalism: A Horror Story argues for a Gothic Marxism, showing how we can find revolutionary hope in horror- a site of monstrous becoming that opens the door to a Utopian future.

This hardcover art book follows the line from the TRESE comics through the series' eventual adaptation into animation, featuring production artwork and insight from the various creatives behind the project. TRESE: The Art of the Anime will take you alongside Alexandra Trese on a trip to the seedy supernatural underworld of Manilla. The book features sections on:¿ The origins of the comic, and its creators Budjette Tan & Kajo Baldisimö The story of the producers at BASE Entertainment, Tanya Yuson and Shanty Harmayn and their pitching and landing deal with Netflix¿ A look at the animation studio, Lex + Otis, including director JayOlivia and the staff that worked on the TRESE animation¿ The creative development process of bringing the comics to animation, includingwriting scripts, creating the characters and backgrounds, and more¿ The development of the Voice Talent who worked on TRESE and the visuals attached to them¿ Storyboards¿ Finished stills and frames art from the series¿ Details and art on the marketing and promotion around the launch of the show¿ Photos and behind the scenes info, including a look at "TRESE AFTER DARK"an interview show with the key talent involved in producing the animation. ¿ Fan responses - art, memes & more!

"Inspired by the effective altruism movement, The Impactful Vegan teaches readers how to audit their impact and follow methods that have been scrutinized, evaluated, and determined to do the most good for animals"--

This brand-new entry in the bestselling Art of Coloring series, featuring a lay-flat paperback format, invites you into Disney Parks’ iconic Haunted Mansion attraction with 128 pages of frightfully fun patterns and art of beloved characters and scenes.The legendary Haunted Mansion attraction and its ghoulish residents come (back) to life in this bewitching adult coloring book. With a film inspired by the ride releasing in 2023, The Haunted Mansion is in the zeitgeist—and this title is perfect for any foolish mortal during Halloween and all year round.Scare up some fun coloring your way through whimsically macabre artwork of the ride’s grim grinning ghosts, scenes, and iconography, from Madame Leota, the Bride, and the Hatbox Ghost to the Stretching Room, Endless Hallway, Graveyard, and beyond—if you dare to venture inside.Collect the entire Art of Coloring series:Art of Coloring: Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before ChristmasArt of Coloring: Schoolhouse RockArt of Coloring: Hocus PocusArt of Coloring: Disney VillainsArt of Coloring: Golden GirlsArt of Coloring: Walt Disney WorldArt of Coloring: Maps of the Disney Parks - 36 Postcards to Inspire CreativityArt of Coloring: Poster Art of the Disney Parks - 36 Postcards to Inspire CreativityArt of Coloring: Mickey & MinnieArt of Coloring: MuppetsArt of Coloring: Beauty and the BeastArt of Coloring: Disney PrincessArt of Coloring: Disney FrozenArt of Coloring: Star Wars

This book sets out to clarify five key Freudian concepts (the pleasure principle, the primary processes, the unconscious, transference, and the reality principle) elaborated early on in Freud's work but, it is argued, rarely understood-even by psychoanalysts themselves. It examines in turn the post-Freudian paradigms employed in neuropsychoanalysis, Lacan, Zizek, object relations, and psychoanalytic approaches to identity politics, and in doing so reveals the extent to which they have been distorted and repressed in these new contexts. Over the course of the book the author demonstrates how Freud's unpublished Project for a Scientific Psychology can be seen as a complete system of core concepts that both ground psychoanalysis in neurology and also introduce a vital challenge to the brain sciences. This book will appeal to students and scholars of psychoanalysis, clinical psychology, and psychoanalytic theory.

This book offers the first English translation and comprehensive analysis (inclusive of introductory study and endnotes to the translation) of the longest and most complex Italian Renaissance utopia, Ludovico Agostini¿s Imaginary Republic. It not only reveals the significance of a text that has been mostly forgotten; it also shows how an investigation of Imaginary Republic uncovers neglected and surprising facets of Renaissance utopianism. The current scholarly image of Renaissance utopianism is based, predominantly, on English texts. Other European utopian traditions are considered only tangentially and do not substantially inform the overall picture of the nature of Renaissance utopias. This book¿s study of Imaginary Republic, within the context of Italian sixteenth- and seventeenth-century utopias, contributes to filling this gap in the critical literature by expanding the current understanding of Renaissance utopianism.

This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development in Africa, while also acknowledging that religion can also be a tool of destruction, and can be used to fuel violence and underdevelopment. Contributors to this volume offer theoretical discussions from existing literature, as well as experiences of practitioners, to deepen the readers¿ understanding on the role of religion and religious institutions in peacebuilding and development in Africa. The Handbook provides reflections on possible future developments as well, thereby aligning with the goals of SDG 16.

The current discussion on the rule of law, especially in the EU, seems to be developing because the terms that express the idea of the rule of law in different European languages do not convey the same content. The rule of law, der Rechtstatt, l'état de droit, to name just three language versions, were coined in different historical contexts and within different traditions of political thought. The question then becomes, to what extent is diversity in the understanding of the rule of law still legitimate today? The answer is sought in the book we have edited, whose authors are academically recognized individuals representing these different traditions of legal and political thinking.The publication is divided into three parts. The first part explains the concept of the rule of law and outlines the development of the idea of the rule of law. The analyses presented also address the issue of legal positivism seen as a minimization of the idea of the rule of law. In addition, this part includes articles on the problem of the rule of law from the perspective of Catholic social thought, as well as a consideration of the transformation of the legal concept of the rule of law into a kind of political fetish. Part two is devoted to various European traditions of understanding the rule of law. In this part of the book, the reader will find articles on approaches to the issue of the rule of law from the Anglo-Saxon, French, German, and Polish perspectives. The third part of the book deals with the issue of the rule of law from the perspective of the European Union. It is about the mechanisms of control of the rule of law in the Member States and the possibility of applying this concept to the EU.

Today, English is the global lingua franca and competent English communication skills should be one of the rights of all educated individuals irrespective of any socio-cultural limits.  By introducing a new method, this book focuses on helping any learner to get sufficient communication skills in English as much as in the native language. This method helps one to avoid translating from mother tongue to English. And by using the method of thinking in English, one could acquire the required English bilingual skills naturally. The method is founded on the philosophical idea of mentalese-mind language as the base language of thinking available for humans for constructing thoughts. The proposed English Bilingual Project (EBP) helps one to transfer thoughts from a structureless mentalese to the grammatical structure of any language English/Japanese/Chinese. The method described in this book works in two ways: one it helps one to intuitively understand the working of mentalese; the other is by practicing think in English with the mentalese, one could generate the bilingual brain. The main procedure for transferring thoughts from the mentalese to English is through writing one's thoughts. This helps one to think effectively in English like one's own mother tongue. This method works as a prime requirement model for one to generate multilingual skills.  The book resourced the idea of mentalese from the classical philosophy, reflects it with the modern generative theories, links it with the studies in neuro-linguistic studies on bilingualism and the bilingual brain.