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Frank Kelleter
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Alexander Starre
(eds.)
Culture^2
Theorizing Theory for the Twenty-First Century, Vol. 1
In fifteen lively and stimulating essays centered on critical key works, Culture^2 reflects on how to do cultural studies in the twenty-first century.
21st Century Retro: "Mad Men" and 1960s America in Film and Television
This book offers a vocabulary to discuss contemporary televisual productions that revisit recent pasts in self-conscious and non-nostalgic ways.
The Wealthy, the Brilliant, the Few
Elite Education in Contemporary American Discourse
Sophie Spieler explores elite education and its peculiar position in American cultural discourse, focusing particularly on the negotiation of merit.
Anna-Brigitte Schlittler
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Katharina Tietze
(eds.)
Bally - A History of Footwear in the Interwar Period
In the 1930s, shoes became fashionable objects with wide consequences for design and industrial production. The history of modern footwear can be traced through the lens of Bally's corporate evolution.
Contemporary PerforMemory
Dancing through Spacetime, Historical Trauma, and Diaspora in the 21st Century
An interdisciplinary research journey, introducing the new idea of PerforMemory through a study of contemporary dance-making in Europe, Taiwan, the Caribbean and the USA.
Marko Kölbl
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Fritz Trümpi
(eds.)
Music and Democracy
Participatory Approaches
This book explores how music relates to democratic participation - on- and offline, throughout cultures, in various times, social settings, and political systems.
The Post/Colonial Museum
Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, Issue 1/2021
How do museum practitioners in Africa overcome the colonial heritage of their institutions? Which significance do diasporic objects and the prospect of restitution have? An issue of the ZfK on the current debate about the decolonization of museums.
Martin Lorber
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Felix Zimmermann
(eds.)
History in Games
Contingencies of an Authentic Past
From the perspective of historical game studies this book illuminates historical authenticity, a buzzword used by game developers and consumers alike.
Taking Stakes in the Unknown
Tracing Post-Black Art
What does it mean to be Black in the early 21st Century? This question guided an art exhibition that deeply shaped our perspective on Black art and artists today.
Alleviative Objects
Intersectional Entanglement and Progressive Racism in Caribbean Art
Alleviative Objects approaches Caribbean art through the analysis of intersectional entanglements and offers important insight into inter-racial conflicts that shape the global field of contemporary art today.