Lexington Books

This book explores the need to interrogate and subvert the embodied discursive practices of whiteness in the reiteration of norms through the construct of accompaniment, both within black spaces and...

Communication theory provides a compelling way to understand how people of faith can and should work together in today's tumultuous world. In A Communication Perspective on Interfaith Dialogue,...

This book uses a theory of cyborg semiotics to explore the similarities between language and cyborgs in their formation, interpretation, and relationships. This intersectional theory provides a...

The thirteen chapters in this collection analyze the paradoxes and tensions in David Fincher's filmography by examining his attitudes toward his audiences, his attention to detail, his Gothic sense...

A Critical Companion to David Lynch builds on the vast debate of one of the most discussed and researched directors of the present era, with commercial and critical success across multiple mediums...

A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor is the most updated and holistic volume on the director currently published. Situating Taymor's work within the intersections of story and spectacle, contributors...

The thirteen essays in this book offer various interpretations of Mel Gibson's work, treating this brilliant but controversial figure not only as a filmmaker but as a historian, religious thinker,...

This volume offers eight interdisciplinary readings to the films of Sofia Coppola, analyzing her oeuvre with a focus on her treatment of masculinity, sexual politics, bodies, and love.Author: Naaman...

A Cultural History of Modern Korean Literature: The Birth of Oppa examines the cultural and social impact of Japanese colonialism and modernity on the wider aspects of everyday life in Korea...

This book narrates the decolonial feminist journey of a racialized settler woman toward reflective, transformative reconciliation in Canada.Author: Jebunnessa ChapolaPublisher: Lexington...

In A Destiny of Choice?, David Blanke and David Steigerwald bring together important scholarship on the tension between two leading interpretations of modern American consumer culture. This debate is...

A Functional Analysis of Political Television Advertisements is a unique investigation into the extremely important medium of campaign advertising. The book analyzes presidential primary and general...

This book engages historically and theologically with the Hindu and Jewish traditions, covering conceptions of the divine, religious heroes, women, devotional literature, theodicy, land, and...

Through engaging scholarship and detailed narrative, Kathryn M. Lucchese presents a pivotal, little-known episode in history, Date Masamune's 1613 Mission to Rome. Illustrated with original maps as...

This book offers new insights into the struggles, dreams, and disappointments of Hong Kong's end-of-an-era Jewish community following an unimagined windfall and change of sovereignty, paralleled by...

This book develops a theory of aesthetics that criticizes scientific and philosophical reductionism that denies the importance of culture in art and taste, but its theory accepts some fundamental...

Songs, pervasive sonic ephemeral acts that combine words and music, live in a contemporary world of commercialization as commodity. Flowing through our everyday lives as a given and...

Hosea 12.4-5 and 11.1-2 contain difficult and perplexing phrasings in the Hebrew. The present study plunges deeply into what might be discovered through a series of foundation-setting analytical...

Social media influencer marketing emerged in Web 2.0 as a new form of celebrity endorsement in which the Internet-famous create word-of-mouth marketing for brands and organizations on their personal...

In this book, four authors reflect on whether the US Constitution embodies certain "principles." They conclude that it does not, at least not directly, and that it's a good thing that it and other...

In A Psychology of Food, Cooks, and Cooking, David Livert employs current psychological research and theory to provide insights into the ubiquitous human behavior of cooking. Livert's book provides a...

Lucretius' philosophical epic De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is a lengthy didactic and narrative celebration of the universe and, in particular, the world of nature and creation in which...

Hikikomori is considered an increasingly prevalent form of social isolation in Japan. This book explores personal hikikomori experiences and explains how post-war Japanese social policy, which...

Historians of the American Civil War have debated a wide range of questions raised by the war and its outcome. None have been more vigorously argued as those surrounding its outcome. One of the...

If God exists, why is there so much pain and suffering, and why isn't his existence more obvious? Philip Pegan develops a theodicy in answer to these questions that is consistent with theological...

This book offers a nuanced understanding of God's power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible...

A Treatise in Phenomenological Sociology: Object, Method, Findings, and Applications provides the first systematic approach to phenomenological sociology. Carlos Belvedere claims that...

When faced with problematic curricula, some teachers will submit and do as they are told, and others will reject the problematic curricula and face the consequences. Instead of submission or...

Abolishing White Masculinity from Mark Twain to Hiphop, a groundbreaking text in critical whiteness studies and literary criticism, looks toward white American male literature explicitly for...

In the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade in 2022, Abortion in International Popular Culture: The Decision Heard Round the World examines representations of abortion and reproductive justice across...