If you mention Appalachia to many people, they may immediately respond with the "Deliverance" dueling banjos theme...

It's been called the first Internet. In the nineteenth century, the telegraph spun a world wide web of cables and poles, carrying electronic signals with unprecedented speed...

During this interview Dr. Gieryn offers an in-depth explanation of how history and biography have fed the narratives told about truth-spots...

In the early days of film, female comedians appeared in films that included both strange activities and slapstick....

How can insights from psychoanalysis help us understand digital culture?

In this book, Dr. Vivian asks readers to reconsider our almost sacred regard for the act of witnessing in public culture,,,

Phillips explores the emergence of the horror film genre before it was horror and a post-Civil War national American identity...

Rankin makes a compelling case for a social history of computing...

Margaret Peacock analyzes the various ways in which images of children were put to use, in Soviet and American Cold War propaganda...

Based on interviews with North Koreans who have settled in the South, Baek shows how everything from television programs to foreign affairs coverage and fashion has made its way into the country from the outside world....

The murder of Emmett Till and subsequent trial was a national and international news story, but the exact meaning of events in Mississippi were contested...

How has the council estate been represented on stage?

An interview with Regina Rini

What can the lives of journalists under Hitler and Adenauer reveal?

Our evolutionary success, according to co-authors Alex Bentley and Michael O'Brien, lies in our ability to acquire cultural wisdom and teach it to the next generation...

When "Dirty Harry" first premiered in 1971, it was both praised and condemned for its portrayal of a rogue policeman fighting crime by ignoring many of the rules and procedures of the profession...

How has European culture changed since the 1960s?

At the dawn of the radio age in the 1920s, Frederick Du Vernet—Anglican archbishop and self-declared scientist—announced a psychic channel by which minds could telepathically communicate across distance...

Perhaps no form of popular art has appeared as poised to resist subversive sexual themes as the television situation comedy...

Annabel Cooper, an Associate Professor in the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Otago, explores how filmmakers have portrayed the New Zealand wars of the 19th century and how those productions serve as a snapshot of the complex cultural moment of their creation....

What is the relationship between popular misogyny and popular feminism?

McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...

One of the major aspects of the end of the Cold War has been the discovery and release of records related to many government activities from the period...

The success of a translator may seem to lie in going unnoticed: the translator ducks out of the spotlight so that the original author may shine. Mark Polizzotti challenges that idea in a provocative treatise on his craft,

Arabic script is astounding!  Not only because it represents one of the most commonly spoken languages today –that is, the Arabic language– but because it has represented dozens of other languages over the course of human history from the Middle East t...