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Multi-disciplined reassessment of the excavation of Tutankhamun’s tomb, its impact on modern representations of...  Read More >>

Following on from the highly acclaimed Parts 1 to 3, this book provides detailed insights into how space and popular...  Read More >>

A pressing call to an accessible, nonconformist feminism for Black women  Read More >>

How pop music remembers and re-plays sounds from the past  Read More >>

A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children's literature is and who it is made for  Read More >>

Unravels the disparities of representation in the fields of comics studies and comics publishing. Through topically...  Read More >>

"""A memoir-in-essays about how skateboarding re-defines space, curates culture, confronts mortality, and affords...  Read More >>

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Comedy in Crises provides a novel contribution to an emerging comedy studies field, offering a fresh approach and...  Read More >>

This edited collection recovers “lost” girls’ series fiction heroines of the twentieth century. The chapters examine...  Read More >>

This book focuses on fan discourse and discussion surrounding Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019), analyzing how far-right...  Read More >>

A timely group of essays that wrestles with what children's literature is and who it is made for  Read More >>

A pressing call to an accessible, nonconformist feminism for Black women  Read More >>

How Indigenous creators impact the landscape of superhero, science fiction, historical, and experimental comics...  Read More >>

How pop music remembers and re-plays sounds from the past  Read More >>

A timely examination of the often-overlooked agency, trauma, and fluidity of pregnancy and motherhood in horror...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which contemporary African popular culture is shaped by neoliberal politics and market...  Read More >>

This book explores the relationship of the life and work of the remarkable Parisian-Jewish writer Georges Perec...  Read More >>

This book demonstrates how culture matters for the understanding of cannabis use. It stems from the growing body...  Read More >>

This book examines the depiction of girls with extraordinary abilities in 2000s Disney sitcoms aimed at tweens....  Read More >>

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"A lively and satire-laced exposé of the rich, famous, and totally miserable that lays bare the dysfunctional cycles...  Read More >>

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The New Routledge Companion to Science Fiction provides an overview of the study of science fiction across multiple...  Read More >>