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The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader (2019)
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Wilkie, I. (2020). I. Wilkie (Ed.), The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader. Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429057526

The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader is a selection of the most outstanding critical analysis featured in the journal <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcos20">Comedy Studies</a> in the decade since its inception in 2010.

The Reader illustr... Read More about The Routledge Comedy Studies Reader.

Purple reign : A collection of poetry and prose inspired by the life and music of Prince (2019)
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by the life and music of Prince. Liverpool: Erbacce Press

This work is presented as a collection of practice-based
research, responding to the academic questions posed by
“Purple Reign: an interdisciplinary conference on the life
and legacy of Prince” (24th - 26th May 2017) organised
by The University o... Read More about Purple reign : A collection of poetry and prose inspired by the life and music of Prince.

White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema (2019)
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Deakin, P. (2019). White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema. Lexington

At the turn of the millennium, cultural and gender commentators were announcing that an apocalypse was under way. Men were changing. Patriarchy was crumbling. Masculinity, in short, was in crisis. Inaugurating a collective of what I would like to lab... Read More about White masculinity in crisis in Hollywood's fin de millennium cinema.

SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts (2019)
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Aarons, T., Abduljawad, S. A. S., Aboelkheir, A., Addis, M. C., Adeboye, O., Adeniyi, I. A., …Yusup, N. H. (2019). E. M. Barnes, D. Greensmith, M. Griffiths, U. Hurley, T. Ireland, C. Starbuck, …D. Whitnall (Eds.), SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts. Salford, UK: University of Salford

Welcome to the Book of Abstracts for the 2019 SPARC conference. This year we not only celebrate the work of our PGRs but also our first ever Doctoral School Best Supervisor awards, which makes this year’s conference extra special. Once again we have... Read More about SPARC 2019 Fake news & home truths : Salford postgraduate annual research conference book of abstracts.

Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art (2019)
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Crawford, G., & Hancock, D. (2019). Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15966-5

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.


Drawing on new and original ethnographic data, as well as the in... Read More about Cosplay & the art of play : exploring sub-culture through art.

The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939 (2019)
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O'Reilly, C. (2019). The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315866840

Urban parks are a much-loved feature of the city environment. However, our knowledge of the true scale of their impact remains uneven. Much work has been done on their origins and design features but this book aims to extend this beyond the nineteent... Read More about The greening of the city : urban parks and public leisure 1840 - 1939.

Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future (2019)
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McMurtry, L. (2019). Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future. Intellect Books

This book is a sociohistorical analysis of British and US radio and audio drama from 1919 to the present day. This volume examines the aesthetic, cultural and technical elements of audio drama along with its context within the literary canon. It pr... Read More about Revolution in the echo chamber : audio drama's past, present, and future.

Ideologies of American foreign policy (2019)
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Callaghan, J., O'Connor, B., & Phythian, M. (2019). Ideologies of American foreign policy. London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

A comprehensive account of ideology and its role in the foreign policy of the United States of America, this book investigates the way United States foreign policy has been understood, debated and explained in the period since the US emerged as a glo... Read More about Ideologies of American foreign policy.