Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

チョーサーを読む－入門
Meyer-Lee, Robert J., Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction. (Reading Literature Today) 264 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-722>
ISBN 978-1-032-22613-2 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-22577-7 paper ¥10,134.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction offers students, general readers, and teachers an accessible series of essays on select works by Chaucer that emphasizes how those works' deepest concerns and most fraught complexities remain urgently relevant in our present day. Each chapter connects Chaucer's world with particular problems of our own, such as autocratic patriarchal social orders and geopolitical religious/racial conflict. Introducing modern critical approaches to those problems - gender studies and postcolonial theory, for example - each chapter provides in-depth discussion of how Chaucer explores their nature, implications, and consequences by way of his distinctive literary idiom. Texts covered include the General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales and the tales told by the Knight, Miller, Man of Law, Wife of Bath, Pardoner, and Prioress and the House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, and Troilus and Criseyde. Each chapter is self-contained, supplying essential backgrounds along with full summaries of the works under discussion. But the book is also criss-crossed with recurrent inquiries, which collectively trace some of the most characteristic qualities of Chaucer's writing. With its unusual combination of breadth and depth, this introduction to Chaucer helps readers at all levels of familiarity appreciate why his work continues to matter.

Rhody, Lisa Marie / Schreibman, Susan (eds.), Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice. (Topics in the Digital Humanities) 280 pp. 2025:4 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-724>
ISBN 978-0-252-04642-1 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08850-6 paper ¥6,006.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Sachdeva, Vivek / Athanickal, Hariprasad et al. (eds.), South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s). 332 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-725>
ISBN 978-1-032-45460-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

South Asia in Alternative Cinema(s) explores the significance and relevance of parallel, the new wave, the new middle wave, avant-garde, and independent cinemas from and on India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia. The scholarly and ground-breaking articles interrogate, in a global context, intersecting social, political and cultural issues, and offer a rich discourse on the works of eminent filmmakers and their cinematic compositions. The original articles focus on the 'New Wave' in Hindi, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam, Assamese and other regional languages of India; and experimental/independent films from and on India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and other parts of South Asia, irrespective of the language in which they are made.The book also offers new insights and a fresh perspective of the contentious intellectual relation between human life and its reflection in cinemas.

Sainz, Angel Chaparro (ed.), Transnational and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western American Culture: The Nomadic West. (Routledge Research in American Literature and Culture) 2 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-726>
ISBN 978-1-032-83075-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The book offers a diverse and rich picture of current research on the literature and culture of the American West. The book privileges transnational and interdisciplinary approaches, aiming to understand how Western iconography has moved well beyond both national limits and literary borders, becoming nomadic. A selection of internationally renowned experts on Western American studies will consider the literary and artistic representation of the complex interaction between the mythic dimension of the West and its real, historical, social, and cultural features, both inside American culture and as it converses with other cultures. The book also addresses other cultural and artistic manifestations that interact, overlap, and interrelate with Western writing in complex, often dialogic ways, as exemplified by cinema, art and comics; and it also explores how different voices and/or experiences have complicated and diversified the potential definitions of the American West.

Winn, Maisha T., Futuring Black Lives: Independent Black Institutions and the Literary Imagination. (Black Lives and Liberation) 244 pp. 2025:6 (Vanderbilt U. Pr., US) <742-730>
ISBN 978-0-8265-0792-1 hard ¥21,439.- (税込) US$ 99.95
ISBN 978-0-8265-0791-4 paper ¥7,496.- (税込) US$ 34.95

聖書と大衆文化
Loland, Ole Jakob / Martinsen, Anders, The Bible and Popular Culture: From Genesis to Revelation. 240 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-84>
ISBN 978-1-032-53474-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-53475-6 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

This book is an accessible overview of the Bible's complex and evolving reception in popular culture. Drawing on biblical interpretations in TV, film, and music, it demonstrates the enduring diversity of the Bible's reception history.Ranging from Genesis and Exodus to the Gospels and Revelation of the New Testament, its biblical chronology takes a book-by-book format which locates and examines various examples of how these texts have been read, received, and interpreted. Case studies include The Handmaid's Tale, Exodus: God and Kings, The DaVinci Code and Family Guy. Woven within these chapters is fresh analysis of how themes of parody, satire, sex, and conspiracy appear in these biblical interpretations.This book is an engaging resource for students encountering biblical reception history in popular culture for the first time, and will also be of wider interest to those interested in the interplay between religion, culture, and media.

Sautter, Cia, The Environment of Compassion: Ecology, Religion, and Embodied Story. (Routledge Studies in Religion) 208 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-94>
ISBN 978-1-032-97977-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Environment of Compassion explores questions of what it means to be in relationship to nature, if and how it is a religious experience, and how understanding humans as part of nature alters theology. The book offers a performance perspective that looks at ritual, dance, and theatre as a means of presenting discussion of sacred values in the public realm. The premise is that performance may serve as an effective means for developing human sacred values that recognize the more-than-human-world, as it increases intersubjective awareness to address issues of social and environmental justice. The author investigates religion and theatre as a means of better understanding how eco-consciousness requires an aesthetic of the sacred. Rather than separate religion, culture, and nature, the book presents an aesthetic looking at the relationship between them. It considers how an embodied theatrical story might develop an inclusive community of compassion. Weaving the chapters together is an account of The Garden: A Refuge, an eco-centered play based on the biblical book of Job. Ecotheology, aesthetics, and embodiment theories are examined throughout, with scholarship and examples drawn largely from the Jewish tradition. The book is relevant to scholars of religion and theology, particularly those with an interest in the environment, as well as theatre, dance and performance studies.

Li, Ye, Mum Fans: Identity, Feminism and Fan Culture in Contemporary China. (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) 256 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-492>
ISBN 978-1-032-70662-7 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the phenomenon of "mum fans": fans who identify themselves as their idols' mothers and participate in online, data-related fan activities termed "parenting." With over 50% active fans identifying as mum fans in China, the vast majority of whom have no children and state no desire to have children in real life, it examines their creation of a unique identity against a backdrop of conflicting and ever-evolving cultural influences.Attending to the fact that in traditional Chinese culture, the term "mum" holds both sacred and taboo status, the author considers whether the mum fans' appropriation of the term represents conformity or rebellion against existing gender norms, and explores the interplay in their practices of a range of influences, including Confucianism, socialism, the one-child policy, liberalism, feminism, pop culture and fan culture. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative research, Mum Fans: Identity, Feminism and Fan Culture in Contemporary China offers analyses of the interrelations that exist between fans, social media, data technology and the idol industry, thus constituting original and unique study of the cultural foundations of mum fan identities and participants' data parenting practices as a unique expression of Chinese feminism.It will therefore appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology with interests in fan cultures, gender, data and algorithm culture, and contemporary Chinese society.

Chaouche, Sabine (ed.), Material Cultures in Southeast Asia: Objects in Context. (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series) 200 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-502>
ISBN 978-1-032-55751-9 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book investigates everyday objects in Southeast Asia as integral forms of cultural heritage, examining their functions, significance, and the diverse values and emotions they have embodied over time.By foregrounding material culture, the chapters delve into how these objects-ranging from utilitarian tools to artefacts of personal and communal identity-reveal the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of life across different historical periods. Through rigorous case studies spanning various regions of Southeast Asia, the book offers fresh insights into the interplay between materiality and cultures. It underscores how objects function not merely as remnants of the past but as dynamic carriers of heritage that continue to shape contemporary society. By bridging perspectives from anthropology, history, and cultural studies, this book enhances our comprehension of the region's intricate social landscapes and contributes to broader discourses on heritage preservation and curation, the transmission of cultural values, and the ways in which everyday objects serve as conduits for collective memory and identity. Ultimately, it facilitates the de-centring of Western perspectives in research on Southeast Asia.Material Cultures in Southeast Asia provides a better understanding of past and present societies in Southeast Asia, and it will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Southeast Asian studies, memory studies and heritage studies.

Corbett, Alyce, Postfeminist Film & Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze. (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) 214 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-59>
ISBN 978-1-032-86628-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Postfeminist Film and Literary Aesthetics: In Search of the Female Gaze represents a novel and comprehensive study of the aesthetic and affective textual innovations of women in the 21st century from a postfeminist perspective. The book both defines and helps shape the contours of four fast-growing critically and commercially popular modes-millennial film and fiction, metamodernism, an anti-narrative and decorative realm named here as 'still life', and new cli-fi-in which there is no clear male equivalent or in which women's work can be read as a distinct aesthetic force. As the textual constellation of now is being mapped and its key texts being canonised, this book contributes to the current recentring of aesthetic taste that is occurring in both literature, film and surrounding criticism, making greater space for the appreciation of female aesthetics and for future inquiries in this field.

Bainbridge, William Sims, The Sacred Force of Star Wars Jedi. (Elements in New Religious Movements) 82 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <742-65>
ISBN 978-1-009-51221-3 hard ¥15,488.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-51216-9 paper ¥5,068.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

As secularization threatens the stability of traditional religions, Star Wars provides a case study of how key functions of religion may transfer to innovative organizations and subcultures that challenge conventional definitions of faith, sacredness, and revival. This Element therefore examines the vast community of fans, especially gamers, who have turned Star Wars into a parareligion, providing them with a sense of the meaning of life and offering psychological compensators for human problems. The research methods include ethnography, participant observation, census of roles played by gaming participants, and recommender system statistics. The Element also shows the genetic connections between Star Wars and its predecessors in science fiction. Investigating the Star Wars fandom phenomenon - which involves hundreds of thousands of people - illustrates how audience cults and client cults evolve. Ultimately, Star Wars remains culturally and economically significant as we approach completion of its first half-century.

Anderson de la Torre, Maria Antonia, Hispanic Pop Culture in Translation. 168 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-697>
ISBN 978-1-032-42657-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-42656-3 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Hispanic Pop Culture in Translation is a systematic course that combines both the relevant theoretical background and practical guidance to enable advanced students of Spanish to confidently translate pop culture texts. Through analysis of the current state of dubbing, subtitling and translation in the modern world, this innovative and engaging course makes students aware of the political, cultural, social, and historical implications of linguistic cross-cultural interactions in pop culture. Each chapter includes a variety of activities which prepare students for a final translation project. The practical tasks allow students to practice and refine their craft as translators and prepare for a career as translators. Pop Culture in Spanish Translation can be used as a core textbook for courses that focus on pop culture translation, or as a supplementary resource for general translation courses.

Anderson, Jill E. / Burger, Alissa (eds.), Down the Road and Back Again: Critical Approaches to The Golden Girls. (Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies) 204 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-698>
ISBN 978-1-032-48725-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This is the first book-length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award-winning seasons from 1985-1992 and produced two spin-offs. Through a cultural studies approach, this collection examines a wide range of topics, including race, sexuality, queerness, memory, familial mythmaking, aging, health, and financial precarity. Featuring contributions from an international team of scholars, the book highlights the enduring relevance and cultural impact of the show, even thirty years after its original airing.Offering fresh insights into its cross-generational and cross-cultural appeal, Down the Road and Back Again is intended for scholars of pop culture and fans of the show.

Bahi, Aghi, Heritage and Transformation of an African Popular Music. (Elements in Critical Heritage Studies) 84 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <742-699>
ISBN 978-1-009-46918-0 hard ¥15,488.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00 *
ISBN 978-1-009-46916-6 paper ¥5,068.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00 *

Modern popular music is closely linked to the 'traditional' heritage - intangible and material - of which artist-musicians have, in a way, usufruct. This Element examines the relationship between (cultural) heritage and the transformation of popular music in Cote d'Ivoire. It views heritage from a dynamic and innovative perspective as a constantly evolving reality, informed by a multitude of encounters, both local and global. It frees itself from the sectoralization and disciplinary impermeability of the sector - in places of music performance to understand how the artistic-musical heritage is transmitted, imagined and managed and the complex process of transformation of popular music in which it registers. It appears that heritage, far from being frozen in time, is rather activated, deactivated and reactivated according to the creative imagination. In addition, the work highlights a minor aspect of the heritage subsumed in popular intellectuality at work in popular music.

Biasioli, Marco, Independent Music in Russia: Escapism, Patriotism and Protest (2008-2022). (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) 328 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-702>
ISBN 978-1-032-16470-0 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores Russian independent music - nezavisimaia muzyka - in a time of profound transformations in Russian society, looking especially at the mutual influence between music and the socio-political context in which it was created. Contrary to what is commonly believed, the book argues that nezavisimaia muzyka, as a widespread form of non-state-sponsored culture, was not necessarily oppositional to the Russian state, but rather rooted in identity quests that overlapped with some aspects of the official narrative and at the same time mocked, disrupted and refashioned others.The book demonstrates that Russian independent music is considerably more than the creation, appreciation and dissemination of sounds: that to participate in the scene is to participate in the construction of cultural legitimacy, imagined communities and national identity, involving values that can be cosmopolitan, 'westernising', conservative, supposedly 'Russian' and, often, a mixture of all these. In addition, the book examines Russian independent music's interaction with Western music and assesses its successes and failures in conquering a niche in foreign markets.A rich and fascinating journey into Russian independent music culture, this book will be of interest to scholars of Russian literature, media, culture and politics, popular music, sociology, national identity and Russia-West relations.

Dey, Sayan / Maart, Rozena (eds.), Palates of Pleasure: Food, Memories and Culture. 248 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-706>
ISBN 978-1-032-40642-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book engages with the ways in which our habitual practices of cooking and eating uphold diverse forms of social, cultural, political, gendered, racialised, communal and geopolitical experiences of place and space. With diverse contributions from India, South Africa, Colombia, the United States, United Kingdom and Jamaica, it discusses themes including modernity as a stuffed gourd; decolonising food in Colombia; culinary colonialism today; trijunction of colonialism, Hindu/India resistance and hybridity; Hindu widows and forbidden food; Dutch colonisation of the Cape and its food sources in Bengal (India), Indonesia and Malaysia; politicizing the kitchens in India; and autoethnographic accounts of food, cooking, compliance and resistance, to underscore how patterns of cooking and eating build knowledge systems in daily life. The book also addresses the cultural and ethnic components of suppression, cultural expressions of food and belonging as is evidenced in Filipina American cultural identities marked by migration, pleasure and taste as a psycho-sexual construct at the Cape in South Africa where the enslaved understand the value of food and pleasure. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of cultural studies, philosophy, post-colonial studies, gender studies, food studies, food history, food anthropology, sociology, political sociology and social anthropology.

Frackowiak, Maciej, Photography as Social Transformation: How the Idea of Change Helps Us to Understand the Taking, Sharing and Debating of Images. 276 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-707>
ISBN 978-1-032-80307-4 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-032-59267-1 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Photography as Social Transformation resituates the practices of photography within contemporary sociological thinking. It examines how photography influences and shapes social order in the social media age and offers a methodological framework for studying transformation, revealing the forms the process can take and the settings in which it occurs. Photography and the transformation it effects is conceptualized using actor-network theory, allowing it to be effectively studied in the context of globalization and the rapid spread of mobile devices. Going beyond consideration of the images themselves, Maciej Frackowiak analyses the rituals and devices used to take them, the networks in which they circulate, conversations about them and institutional attempts to regulate their content. More than "dead paper" or a digital file or a visual representation, Photography as Social Transformation shows how photography is a complex social phenomenon, causal and capable of producing change. Offering case studies from around the world and drawing on a range of sources, giving priority to media coverage from specialised and popular venues, Photography as Social Transformation is for students and scholars of the sociology of media, visual sociology, photographic methods in research, media and communications, cultural studies and photography theory.

Franzini, Amy Richards, Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV. (Routledge Focus on Television Studies) 150 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-708>
ISBN 978-1-032-97269-5 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

Secret Identities and Double Lives on Tween TV in introduces readers to the concepts of tweenhood and television (TV) tropes by providing historical and theoretical contexts and reviewing the history of TV targeted to tweens.Through a qualitative analysis of various live-action sitcoms, this book explores the popularity of programming featuring characters leading secret lives and targeted to tweens. By unpacking various theoretical explanations of this distinct period of life and examining them through the critical lens of the content of these tween TV shows that feature secret identities, the book offers a unique understanding of the tween experience woven in the nexus of power, morality, friendship, romance, family life and self-identity.This book's analysis and understanding would benefit children's media scholars and researchers, students of media studies, communication studies, cultural studies, adolescent studies, and child development.

Frasconi, Pablo, Creating Experimental Documentary Films: Theory and Practice Beyond Convention. 200 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-709>
ISBN 978-1-041-04377-5 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-041-04376-8 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book explores the continued development and practice of experimental documentary films with evolving trends in still photography, visual arts, journalism, interactive media and literature -especially poetry and creative non-fiction. Through sets of observations, analyses, and exercises, readers will gain an understanding of both the traditional principles of documentary and simultaneously challenge its conventions in practice.While exploring the responsibilities of a documentary director to be fair and objective, the book weaves through arguments around truth and propaganda and offers practical lessons about how to create hybrid forms of documentary films. Written by a documentary filmmaker with decades of experience, the text provides a comprehensive overview of how documentary narratives are written and created in the research, pre-production, production and post-production phases. This is supplemented with an exploration of the relationships among documentary filmmaking, music, sound design, journalism, poetry, and the essay form. New, inclusive audiences and methods of distribution, interactivity, and immersion are also introduced as a part of the changing landscape of the documentary genre.This book is designed for students who are approaching documentary for the first time, as well as documentary filmmakers who are searching for new approaches, new subject matter, and languages of cinematic expression.

Freibert, Finley / Alilunas, Peter / Embree, Desirae (eds.), Screening Adult Cinema. (Screening Cinema) 448 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-710>
ISBN 978-1-032-23222-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-23223-2 paper ¥12,387.- (税込) GB￡ 43.99

This collection of thirty-nine original essays is designed to support film screenings. Each chapter focusses on a single adult film -- a category broadly construed as films that foreground sex as a primary narrative, aesthetic, or marketing element. They draw upon a variety of perspectives, contexts, histories, themes, and politics in examinations of style, genre, authorship, performance, and stardom.The first of its kind, Screening Adult Cinema brings together a broad range of established scholars alongside new voices to demonstrate the global breadth and diversity of adult cinema, from a variety of time periods and transnational contexts, paying particular attention to regions and films that have been underrepresented within existing adult film scholarship. Following the Screening Cinema series, Screening Adult Cinema is intended as a teaching text and reference for courses in which film screenings are a core activity, while also appealing to adult film scholars.This unique collection will be invaluable for courses on adult or exploitation film history, feminist film studies, global queer cinema and porn studies. It will also be useful for general courses in media studies with a focus on gender, sex and sexuality.

Hodsdon, Laura / Ernstreits, Valts et al. (eds.), Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe. (Critical Heritages of Europe) 296 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-713>
ISBN 978-1-032-59729-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures' intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated.Arguing for an approach to analysing ICH that reflects societal change in regions that are historically those of national minorities, contributions to the volume focus on three regions across four countries. This allows for comparative exploration of exemplar contexts that span a range of circumstances in which European national minority cultures thrive and strive for voice and recognition. It explores how a wide range of people engage with national minorities' ICH, and seeks a better understanding of the ethical and practical dimensions of this participation. It proposes a heritage literate 'revoicing' of ICH: to create socially positive pathways to resilient ICH, and in turn ensure ICH is an arena where these positive social relations are shaped as part of an evolving ecosystem into the future.Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage takes an interdisciplinary approach ideally placed to interrogate the interplay of different groups with ICH from multiple perspectives. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in heritage studies, sociolinguistics, cultural and event studies, sociology, creative practice, and cultural geography.

Jones, Jimi / Jancovic, Marek, The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive. (The History of Media and Communication) 216 pp. 2025:7 (U. Illinois Pr., US) <742-715>
ISBN 978-0-252-04665-0 hard ¥23,595.- (税込) US$ 110.00
ISBN 978-0-252-08875-9 paper ¥6,006.- (税込) US$ 28.00

Keith, Thomas, Masculinity at the Movies. 306 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <742-716>
ISBN 978-1-032-90824-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-90133-6 paper ¥11,260.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99

Masculinity at the Movies takes a deep dive into masculinity in film and how Hollywood movies continue to produce and promote masculine stereotypes that place boys and men in constraining patterns of behaviour.From classic film stars to those of the present day, this textbook unpicks the development of the main male stereotypes in film - villains, heroes, and oafs - and how movies can develop healthy new male representations. Alongside Hollywood studio productions, it delves into Black, Native American, and Latino representation as well as LGBTQ masculinity. Going beyond the present, it proposes what healthy masculinity at the movies looks like and where Hollywood should set its sights to create more progressive models of masculinity for the 21st century.Masculinity at the Movies will provide students of Gender Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, with new insights into stereotypes of men in contemporary film.

Kosmidou, Eleftheria Rania / McMurtry, Leslie Grace (eds.), Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space. (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies) 240 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-717>
ISBN 978-1-032-54133-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines media, performance and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage - a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals, artefacts, and cultural spaces.Focusing on the current methodological challenges and new frameworks that surround the study of intangible cultural heritage in the public space, this volume explores the ways in which intangible cultural heritage is formed, represented, appropriated, and changed. The authors propose a broad understanding of cultural heritage emerging from the public sphere, encompassing museums, oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, artefacts, media and cultural spaces as the inclusive, collective cultural expressions of everyday culture.This unique and interdisciplinary volume will interest scholars and students of cultural studies, cultural heritage, media and film studies, performance studies, history and sociology.

Langlade, Laura, The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV: MTV's The Challenge. (Routledge Focus on Television Studies) 144 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <742-718>
ISBN 978-1-032-87404-3 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99 *

The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV examines the treatment of women, non-White and queer participants on MTV's The Challenge, a physical competition lauded as 'America's fifth sport', interrogating the treatment of the intersectional body within the reality TV landscape and the influence of professional sports culture.Positing that participants' success hinges more on identity than on skill and talent, the author unpacks and cross-examines the misogyny, racism and homophobia ingrained in The Challenge culture, and positions the analysis within the context of the hyperconservative politics of the Trump era. Drawing on freak discourse and sports media, the book positions The Challenge as a rich contextual site to explore the contention intersectional bodies that are subjected to spaces where differences increasingly matter, critically evaluating how MTV navigated differing political views to maintain audience numbers while at the same time claiming to support Black Lives Matter (BLM), #MeToo and LGBTQIA+ rights.This in-depth and intricate study will interest students and researchers working in Reality TV studies, Gender studies and Race and Sexuality studies.

Henke, Jennifer S., Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture: Bodies of Knowledge, 1726-1818. (Routledge Advances in the Medical Humanities) 288 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-33>
ISBN 978-1-032-74170-3 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book examines a selection of texts to illuminate how midwifery, obstetrics and women's bodies were viewed during the long eighteenth century, and how these material-discursive entanglements between science, medicine, literature and culture have shaped society's views of pregnancy, childbirth and reproduction.Drawing on feminist theories, including feminist new materialism, this book traces the history of both the reproductive body and the medical knowledges that attended to pregnancy and childbirth during the Enlightenment and early Romanticism in Britain. It identifies the significance of literary and cultural artefacts, including the materiality of the female reproductive body itself, for this knowledge formation, and raises awareness of myths and misconceptions about childbirth that are still very much alive today. It includes chapters looking at Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Eliza Fenwick's Secresy, Or: The Ruin on the Rock, Mary Wollstonecraft's Maria, Or: The Wrongs of Woman, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.Reproduction and the Maternal Body in Literature and Culture is an innovative and interdisciplinary contribution to the medical humanities and feminist philosophy of science, and will interest scholars from a range of backgrounds, including literature and cultural studies, midwifery, medicine and history.

トルコ・日本関係の100年間－歴史から経済、文化、芸術まで
Topacoglu, Hasan (ed.), 100 Years of Turkish-Japanese Relations: From History to Economy, Culture to Art. (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics) 254 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-446>
ISBN 978-1-032-88448-6 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Japan and Tuerkiye, situated at opposite ends of Asia like two pillars of a bridge, have long maintained strong relations. These ties, spanning over a century, encompass historical, cultural, political, and social dimensions. Topacoglu and his contributors presents a comprehensive analysis of Asia that deepens our understanding of the complex interplay between these two nations in the global arena.Structured into three segments, the first explores the historical backdrop, carefully examining the evolution of relations between Japan and Tuerkiye while analysing their outreach to other Asian nations throughout history. The second examines various themes encompassing international relations, political science, and economics that critically examines the historical trajectory leading up to the present, shedding light on the evolving dynamics with other Asian nations. The final segment centers on media and cultural studies, education, literature, and the arts that provide detailed insights into Tuerkiye's evolving engagement with other Asian countries. The book offers fresh perspectives and novel methodologies that challenge conventional paradigms by adopting an inclusive approach. Through a comparative lens, it illuminates the evolving contours of Japan-Turkish relations amidst shifting geopolitical landscapes. Furthermore, it serves as a catalyst for future research endeavors, paving the way for deeper insights into the historical, diplomatic, and socio-cultural dimensions of these nations.A valuable resource for scholars and researchers in the fields of international relations, political science, history, cultural studies, and Asian studies in the context of Japan and Tuerkiye. The book will also be of interest to professionals involved in policy formulation and diplomatic practice, policymakers at governmental institutions, diplomats, and strategy consultants who are engaged in advising on international relations or geopolitical strategy as well as journalists, think-tank analysts, and the informed public who are keen on understanding the complexities of global geopolitics and both countries' evolving roles within it.

S.オライリー編　日本映画における音の出現－ハンドブック
O'Reilly, Sean (ed.), The Advent of Sound in Japanese Cinema: A Handbook. (Japan Documents Handbooks Series) 2025:5 (Japan Documents, JA) <742-485>
ISBN 978-4-909286-64-2 hard ¥28,875.- (税込)

Bardon, Aurelia / Page, Jennifer M., Cultural Appropriation: Wrongs and Rights. (Routledge Focus on Philosophy) 106 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <742-15>
ISBN 978-0-367-89345-3 hard ¥14,921.- (税込) GB￡ 52.99

From the fashion label Dior being accused of cultural appropriation after using Native American imagery in an ad campaign for its "Sauvage" fragrance featuring Jonny Depp, to the backlash against Kim Kardashian's hair braids, debates about cultural appropriation have reached fever pitch. In this much-needed analysis of the phenomenon Jennifer M. Page and Aurelia Bardon step back and ask: what is cultural appropriation and when are we right to criticise it?They consider cultural appropriation the context of three clear questions: whether it constitutes theft; perpetuates structural injustice; and how it might show disrespect. They also examine the political questions raised by cultural appropriation and whether the state should intervene and if so, what policies should be adopted. They examine arguments concerning whether harmful and disrespectful forms of cultural appropriation should be banned but also reflect on whether this could this threaten freedom of speech. They also consider whether the state should be neutral between appropriative and non-appropriative forms of artistic expression as well as interpersonal responses to wrongful cultural appropriation, particularly online shaming.Using examples from music, fashion and the arts Cultural Appropriation: Wrongs and Rights will be of great interest to students and researchers in philosophy, politics and related subjects where cultural appropriation is an important issue, such as race and ethnic studies and anthropology.

F.ズナニエツキ再入門
Halas, Elzbieta, Reintroducing Florian Znaniecki. (Reintroducing...) 178 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-18>
ISBN 978-1-032-04506-1 hard ¥36,608.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-032-04507-8 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

This book reintroduces the work of Florian Znaniecki (1882-1958) as an innovative constructor of modern sociology who viewed the processes of modernity through the prism of culture, and rediscovers his relational thought on the emergence and transformation of cultural and social systems.Exploring the contribution of Znaniecki's philosophy of culturalism to the cultural approach in sociology, it shows the importance of Znaniecki's work for the foundation of sociology as one of the cultural sciences. Through an examination of his work on the world society from a cultural perspective, the author reveals Znaniecki to have been a pioneer of global sociology, and shows that sociology has much to gain from a fuller appreciation of his legacy in its understanding of processes of social and cultural change.Aimed at students and researchers of sociology, Reintroducing Florian Znaniecki will appeal to those with interests in the dynamics of culture, the cultural sciences, theoretical sociology and sociological method. It presents stimulating analytical concepts and offers inspiration for research in many areas, including knowledge, science, education, creative leadership, the emergence of modern nations and the world society.

Medina, Raquel / Jeronimo, Heather (eds.), Cultural Representations of Queer Aging in Spain. (Routledge Studies in Health Humanities) 264 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-189>
ISBN 978-1-032-75730-8 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity in Spanish culture with wider implications for queer aging studies research.The volume builds on theoretical foundations established by queer aging studies scholars and the ways in which queer aging differs from heterosexual aging, examining negative topics that arise in literature and film (such as the AIDS crisis, the silencing of queer aging individuals, and social stigmas against this group), in addition to positive topics (like the creation of communities and spaces for queer aging characters). Chapters are structured in conversation with one another about key themes in depictions of queer aging in Spanish culture. Several chapters examine such topics as the aging body, stereotypes and discrimination, old age tropes, and queer invisibility, while others highlight positive representations in exploring the importance of the connection to home, family, and community spaces for queer communities. The collection represents a critical step in future work on queer aging to take future research beyond the Spanish context to extend to new geographic and disciplinary borders.This book will be of interest to scholars in aging studies, gerontology studies, queer theory, health humanities, and Spanish literature and culture.

Jackson, Steven J. / Andrews, David L. (eds.), Sport, Advertising and Global Promotional Culture: Identities, Commodities, Spaces and Spectacles. (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society) 334 pp. 2025:2 (Routledge, UK) <742-282>
ISBN 978-0-367-75219-4 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book explores the intersection of contemporary sport, advertising, promotional culture and wider society.Arguing that advertising and promotional culture remain key driving forces in relation to social structures and systems that contribute to enduring patterns of economic and other forms of inequality, this book examines how sport and related areas of social life continue to be transformed by these forces. Presenting in-depth international case studies covering topics such as Nike's sign economies, the sports-gambling-media complex, sportswashing/greenwashing, radical politics in sport advertising, sport and corporate nationalism, and girls' empowerment and transgender exclusion in sports, this book sheds critical new light on some of the most important themes in the study of global consumer culture in the emerging era of surveillance capitalism. Overall, this book examines sport advertising through the lens of the circuit of cultural commodification - including production, representation, consumption and regulation - in order to provide insights into the formation, complexities and contradictions of social identities, commodities and brands.This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology, culture and politics of sport, or cultural studies, media studies, and the wider politics and social significance of late-stage capitalism.

F.ブルギニョン、A.K.ディキシット他編　経済学と文学
Bourguignon, Francois / Dixit, Avinash K. et al. (eds.), Economics and Literature: A Novel Approach. 328 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-100>
ISBN 978-1-032-87765-5 hard ¥40,832.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-032-87763-1 paper ¥10,415.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

Economics and fiction often pursue parallel objectives. Economists analyse human decisions and interactions in markets and other institutions. Fiction writers also provide keen insights into individual minds and motives, examining how their characters respond to conflict and tensions in varied situations. This book explores the insights to be gained from developing this parallel.In each chapter, economists discuss classic or contemporary literary creations exploring economic incentives that motivate the characters, the economic mechanisms that tie them together, and/or the economic context in which they live and develop. Exploring the synergy across economics and literature offers new understandings of themes including capitalism and colonialism, marriage and markets, gender norms, inheritance and estates, and the political economy of poverty. The broad and deep range of literary works includes writers from Shakespeare and Goethe, through Chekov and Steinbeck, to recent Nobelists Abdulrazak Gurnah and Han Kang. By offering new understandings of both economics and literature, readers will gain deeper insights into people's thought processes, choices, and consequences.This book will captivate readers in economics, social sciences and the humanities and open their minds to the viewing of economic ideas and concepts through the prism of great works of literature.

Salvador, Elisa / Pappalepore, Ilaria (eds.), Responsible Consumption and Production in the Creative and Cultural Industries: Actions, Policies, and Strategies for a Sustainable Future. (Routledge Research in the Creative and Cultural Industries) 260 pp. 2025:6 (Routledge, UK) <742-125>
ISBN 978-1-032-66569-6 hard ¥38,016.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

No sector can escape the challenge of the climate crisis. This book brings together a team of academic experts to urgently examine the intersection of sustainability and the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), particularly within the framework of Sustainable Development Goal 12 (SDG 12): Responsible Consumption and Production.Investigating responsible consumption and production across the CCIs, this book explores the role of public policy, funding bodies and other institutional actors in the sustainable transition. It also links CCIs with the development of sustainable tourism and sustainable tourism cities and provides evidence on the role of CCIs in producing positive change in people's behaviours, consumption patterns, and perceptions of the climate emergency. Transformations towards circular economy models in the CCIs are also analysed. In illuminating how the CCIs' are embracing the challenge of sustainable development, the chapters in this book highlight best practices and sustainable solutions across a range of geographic and cultural contexts.This book will be a valuable resource for researchers, academics and advanced students with an interest in sustainable business practices, especially their application to the CCIs.