Books written by Meaghan Morris

Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

Snake Crane Flying Fist, a.k.a. Sahak Palbo, Snake and Crane Arts of Shaolin Sau Hok Baat Biu, Dir. Chan Jeung Wa, 1978. The martial arts actors of the 1970s often note that the most memorable moments of their career as action stars ...
New Keywords

First published in 1976, the text played a pivotal role in both academic and public understandings of culture and society and the relations between them.
Cultural Studies of Transnationalism

This book asks what ‘transnationalism’ might mean for Cultural Studies as an intellectual project shaped in vastly differing circumstances across the world.
New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

First published in 1976, the text played a pivotal role in both academic and public understandings of culture and society and the relations between them.
Identity Anecdotes: Translation and Media Culture

56 David Simpson, The Academic Postmodern and the Rule of Literature: A Report on Half-Knowledge (Chicago and ... 'The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction' in The Subjectivity Effect in Western Literary Tradition: Essays Toward ...
Too Soon Too Late: History in Popular Culture

Author Meaghan Morris asks how feminist culture critics can participate in political struggles about history.
Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader

Ethnographic audience research, cultural policy studies, popular consumption, "bad" aboriginal art, landscape in feature films, style, form and history in TV miniseries, and the intersections of tourism with history and memory - these are ...
The Pirate's Fiancée: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism

Secondly , she insists on a restricted critique of philosophical discourse , rather than one of ' rationality itself : I have never had anything against philosophical rationality . As for its irrationality , that's a different matter .
Creativity and Academic Activism: Instituting Cultural Studies

Academic Keywords: A Devil's Dictionary for Higher Education. London: Routledge, 1999. Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). “West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, 2009.
Gender, Media and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific

This collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity intersect in media produced in the Asia-Pacific region.
Traces 2: "Race" Panic and the Memory of Migration

This book explores complex relations between violence, historical memory, and the production of "ethnicity" and "race.
Gender, Media and Modernity in the Asia-Pacific

This collection offers a range of cultural studies perspectives on the ways gender and modernity intersect in media produced in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies

... Fat Art , Thin Art ( Durham , NC : Duke University Press , 1994 ) , 160. Lauren Berlant's work on Sedgwick's “ thinkiness ” in Cruel Optimism ( Durham , NC : Duke University Press , 2011 ) extracted and enriched this term usefully for ...