Media Studies

This timely book examines austerity's conflicted meanings, from austerity chic and anti-austerity protest to economic and eco-austerity. Bramall's ...

Exploring the ambivalent grammar of empathy where questions of geo-politics and social justice are at stake - in popular science, international dev...

This book addresses the increasing role of queer politics within forms of Islamophobia, both by exploring the framing of lesbian, gay, bisexual, an...

Our Next Reality does a fantastic job of giving a balanced and insightful analysis to some of the most pressing questions our society will face in ...

The fat female body is a unique construction in American culture that has been understood in various ways during the twentieth and early twenty-fir...

A lively discussion of costume dramas to women's films, Shelley Cobb investigates the practice of adaptation in contemporary films made by women. T...

Der Sammelband gibt einen breiten Überblick über Serious Games und gamifizierte Lernelemente in der schulischen Bildung sowie über die Erfahrungen ...

Considered a notorious subset of horror in the 1970s and 1980s, there has been a massive revitalization and diversification of rape-revenge in rece...

Feminist Erasures presents a collection of essays that examines the state of feminism in North America and Western Europe by focusing on multiple s...

The First World War in Computer Games analyses the depiction of combat, the landscape of the trenches, and concepts of how the war ended through co...

The theme of female transformation informs the Hollywood representation of femininity from the studio era to the present. Whether it occurs physic...

This book examines the meanings and significance of the UK Gender Recognition Act within the context of broader social, cultural, legal, political,...

In Afro-Brazilians in Mass Media: Social, Political, and Economic Realities, Samantha Nogueira Joyce examines representations of Blackness on Brazi...

Globalisierung und die fortschreitende Verflechtung der Mitgliedsländer der Europäischen Union führen zu neuen Anforderungen an und Chancen für die...

Der Homo Sociologicus ist ein Klassiker der Soziologie. Mit einem Nachwort von Heinz Abels. Das Vergnügen, das die Lektüre des schlanken Bandes no...

Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of iconic Black women's bodies within popular culture in the ...

Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our rela...

This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use...

This book contributes to the growing literature on men and masculinities, but does so through a methodological lens. It addresses methodological ap...

Using in-depth interviews, this book explores women employed in the Indian IT industry and highlights the gender specific and culturally specific c...

The media dominates our lives. Sport dominates the media. Football dominates the sports media.If we're not watching the beautiful game on televisio...