Reassessing the meanings of" black humor" and" dark satire," Laughing Fit to Kill illustrates
how black comedians, writers, and artists have deftly deployed various modes of comedic" …

This book interrogates representations of fatherhood across the spectrum of popular US film
of the early twenty-first century. It situates them in relation to postfeminist discourse …

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a
critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring …

Recent trends in popular culture suggest an emerging discourse of professional masculinity
in crisis. This essay examines two illustrative films, Fight Club and In the Company of Men …

Boys, Boyz, Bois concerns questions of ethics, gender and race in popular American
images, national discourse and cultural production by and about black men. The book …

Recent analyses of contemporary black masculinity have centered on images of the black
male in mainstream cinema, mainly in the so-called “hood” films of the 1990s. This article …

A merica is currently caught up in an odd nostalgia for the 1970s, and American popular
culture is now overflowing with the simulacra of that decade: The music, clothing, hairstyles …

Contemplating in 1840 the imperial reach of the Catholic Church, Thomas Babington
Macaulay imagined in a distant futuresome traveller from New Zealand [who] shall, in the …

In the 1960s the City of Halifax dismantled the black community of Africville under a program
of urban renewal and'slum clearance'. Africville's 400 residents were evicted from their …