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Sex Work in Popular Culture
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487548636
Pub Date: July 2023
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.
Expressive Acts
Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487545772
Pub Date: March 2023
This book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto – both in jubilation and in anger.
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds
Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487503772
Pub Date: January 2023
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."
The Near-Death of the Author
Creativity in the Internet Age
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487546120
Pub Date: November 2022
The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487544850
Pub Date: November 2022
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.
Empire and Communications
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487520694
Pub Date: August 2022
This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis’s examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487527747
Pub Date: February 2022
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Open Letters
Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880–1922
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487545284
Pub Date: October 2021
Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era.
Digital Playgrounds
The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games
Price:
$47.95
ISBN: 9781442615564
Pub Date: July 2021
Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.
Disruptive Prisoners
Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487525910
Pub Date: July 2021
In this history of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Canada, the voices of prisoners help to provide a nuanced understanding of prisoners as active agents of change.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
The Web of Meaning
The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9781487508135
Pub Date: March 2021
Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in present-day China.
The Akunin Project
The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487525767
Pub Date: February 2021
You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.
Digital Politics in Canada
Promises and Realities
Price:
$55.00
ISBN: 9781487587581
Pub Date: October 2020
The increased use of digital politics by citizens, groups, and governments over the last 25 years carried the promise of transforming the way politics and government was practiced. This book looks at Canadian political practice and the reality of the political process against those early promises.
The Quest for Meaning
A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Price:
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487523510
Pub Date: September 2020
The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world.
Conspiracy Culture
Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination
Price:
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487507374
Pub Date: September 2020
This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in post-Soviet culture, providing the first systematic, in-depth analysis of Russia’s most "paranoid" contemporary authors.

Sex Work in Popular Culture
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487548636
Pub Date: July 2023
This book examines movies, TV shows, and documentaries to reveal how sex work connects to women’s experiences of gender, power, and labour.
Expressive Acts
Celebrations and Demonstrations in the Streets of Victorian Toronto
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487545772
Pub Date: March 2023
This book reveals the fascinating history of how and why people gathered in the streets of Victorian Toronto – both in jubilation and in anger.
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds
Selling Cold War Culture in the US and the USSR
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487503772
Pub Date: January 2023
Winning Women’s Hearts and Minds focuses on women, gender, and the politics of selling US consumer culture and domesticity during the early Cold War through "polite propaganda."
The Near-Death of the Author
Creativity in the Internet Age
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487546120
Pub Date: November 2022
The Near-Death of the Author describes the plight of contemporary authors in the internet age
A Decolonizing Ear
Documentary Film Disrupts the Archive
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487544850
Pub Date: November 2022
A Decolonizing Ear investigates how documentary film can challenge conventions of listening and recording shaped by histories of colonial ethnography and extraction.
Empire and Communications
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487520694
Pub Date: August 2022
This edition of Empire and Communications enriches Harold A. Innis’s examination of the relationship between communications and power structures.
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray
Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487527747
Pub Date: February 2022
Media Critique in the Age of Gillray reflects on print and paper culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, crafting a new approach to British visual culture.
Open Letters
Russian Popular Culture and the Picture Postcard, 1880–1922
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487545284
Pub Date: October 2021
Gorgeously illustrated, Open Letters uses picture postcards to explore aspects of Russian popular culture in the fin-de-siècle era.
Digital Playgrounds
The Hidden Politics of Children’s Online Play Spaces, Virtual Worlds, and Connected Games
$47.95
ISBN: 9781442615564
Pub Date: July 2021
Digital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.
Disruptive Prisoners
Resistance, Reform, and the New Deal
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487525910
Pub Date: July 2021
In this history of prison reform in mid-twentieth-century Canada, the voices of prisoners help to provide a nuanced understanding of prisoners as active agents of change.
Languages of Trauma
History, Memory, and Media
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487508968
Pub Date: March 2021
Languages of Trauma explores how, and for what purposes, trauma is expressed in historical sources and visual media.
The Web of Meaning
The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society
$53.00
ISBN: 9781487508135
Pub Date: March 2021
Exploring online privacy, cyber-nationalism, and the network market, this book details the crucial and evolving role played by the Internet in present-day China.
The Akunin Project
The Mysteries and Histories of Russia's Bestselling Author
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487525767
Pub Date: February 2021
You don’t know his name, but Boris Akunin is one of the most popular and prolific Russian writers of the twenty-first century.
Digital Politics in Canada
Promises and Realities
$55.00
ISBN: 9781487587581
Pub Date: October 2020
The increased use of digital politics by citizens, groups, and governments over the last 25 years carried the promise of transforming the way politics and government was practiced. This book looks at Canadian political practice and the reality of the political process against those early promises.
The Quest for Meaning
A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition
$38.95
ISBN: 9781487523510
Pub Date: September 2020
The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world.
Conspiracy Culture
Post-Soviet Paranoia and the Russian Imagination
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487507374
Pub Date: September 2020
This book examines the uses of conspiracy tropes in post-Soviet culture, providing the first systematic, in-depth analysis of Russia’s most "paranoid" contemporary authors.