In Hong Kong, the recent emergence of studio arts districts is taking place in the context of public debate over state visions of cultural facilities and creative industries. While government invests in a planned culture ...

Preventing relapse following treatment for stuttering remains a clinical priority. This paper introduces a relapse management programme offered to six adolescents who had improved their fluency immediately following ...

Anna Kassabian writes in Hearing Film that 'classical Hollywood film music is a semiotic code, and that it can and should be subjected to various semiotic and cultural studies methods, such as discourse analysis and ideology ...

This paper is concerned with the formation of a global diasporic Chinese mediasphere. In the first part, I will delineate the imbricative relationships between community, commerce, and cultural consumption of the Chinese ...

Cosmetic surgery reality television (CSRTV) is notmerely about cosmetic surgery, normerely about reality television: it is a blend of these two areas and hence bothmedia and bodiesmust be analysed when examining it.1 I ...

The relationship between human beings and technology has been a regular concern of the television series, Doctor Who. Though its titular hero moves through space-time by means of advanced technology and he is by his ...

Increased interactions between groups of people through modernization may be embraced as mutually enriching or denounced as causing "negative social impacts." This paper is predicated on the assumption that people's ...

Christian missionaries have played a crucial role not only in assisting past and current forms of colonialism and neocolonialism, not only in attacking and destroying other ways of being, but also in terms of the language ...