Theories of Performance invites students to explore the possibilities of performance for
creating, knowing, and staking claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and …

General questions concerning the role of entertainment media in politics permeated the
2004 election cycle. Political communication scholars are beginning to systematically …

This paper presents a first analysis of popular Internet humour about gender. The focus is on
the extent to which such humour encodes sexist, feminist, and post-feminist ideologies …

Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined'Generation X'. Twenty years after the
height of the movement there is still considerable interest in its rise and fall, and its main …

The book considers the relationship between humour and organization in a nuanced and
radical way and takes the view that humour and comedy are pervasive and highly …

Television is one of the most important socializing forces in contemporary culture. This book
is a cultural history of prime-time television in America during the 1990s. Examines changes …

The Simpsons' visual and textual depiction of Springfield as a typical American city provides
an insightful critique of the modern project. We demonstrate how America's longest running …

Reading the interplay between text, audience, and institutional context, this article critically
examines the distinctiveness of The Simpsons. It explores how the animated series uses …

This study provides a qualitative exploration of juvenile biographies of women, a genre
defined here as a book dealing with the whole or partial life of an individual and reviewed as …

Siberian Federal University, is a regular organizer of research contemporary issues of
Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. This article summarizes research …