This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the complex interaction between comedy, celebrity and politics. Jane Arthurs is Professor in Television at Middlesex University.

This book takes a radical new stance, bringing the study of core philosophical issues together with that of ambivalence.

This title, written by Jane Arthurs, examines the kinds of sexual information, education and pleasures that television now provides across multiple channels and genres.

In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division.

This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.

In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and global reach of celebrity politics today.

Refusing to simply position politics in opposition to consumerism, this collection teases out the relationships between material cultures and political subjectivities, arguing that activism may itself be transforming into a branded ...