Media Studies

Style-based subcultures, scenes and tribes have pulsated through the history of social, economic and political change. From 1940s zoot-suiters and ...

In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital a...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Every shelf is different and every bo...

The New Iranian Cinema is considered by many to be the most fascinating cultural phenomenon produced within the Islamic Republic of Iran. Containin...

This popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies. The friendly writing style and everyday example...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Drones are in the newspaper, on the TV...

This book is about a story (Ousmane Sembene's Xala), about a time (the aftermath of Senegalese Independence), and about a place (Dakar, the capital...

Since its establishment in 1922 the BBC has continually asserted itself as one of the great British institutions at home and abroad. David Pat Walk...

The tapping of typewriters first lifted the secrecy around homosexuality, and a vibrant array of voices was soon heard. The publishers of gay magaz...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press'' new open access publishing program for monographs...

Contrary to the common notion that news regarding the unfolding Holocaust was unavailable or unreliable, news from Europe was often communicated...

This book explores changes in the nature of the relationship between play, media and commercial culture through a comparison of play in the 1950s/6...

The New Soundtrack brings together leading edge academic and professional perspectives on the complex relationship between sound and moving images...

An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. While much work exists on cinema, relatively little research h...

News organisations are struggling with technology transitions and fearful for their future. Yet some organisations are succeeding. Why are organis...

Expertly synthesizes economic theory and contemporary cases to both explain the structure of the contemporary media industry and shed insight on th...

Managing Media Work provides a comprehensive, cross-national overview of the theory and practice of working in the media in the digital age. Focus...

The attacks of 9/11 led to a war on Iraq, although there was neither tangible evidence that the nation''s leader, Saddam Hussein, was linked to Osa...

History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 1...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

How is affective experience produced in the cinema? And how can we write a history of this experience? By asking these questions, this study by Hau...

Horror cinema is a genre that is undergoing constant evolution, from the sub-genre of 'found footage' to post-cinematic new media forms such as You...

In the summer of 1965, several Ku Klux Klan members riding in a pickup truck shot two Black deputies on patrol in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Dep...

Recounts the life and career of Croatian filmmaker Rajko Grlic in the form of a lexicon of film terms tied to anecdotes spanning Grlic''s life. ...

The approach the United States has taken to addressing teen pregnancy a ubiquitous concern in teen education and perennial topic in popular culture...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine th...

Understanding Intercultural Communication, 3rd Edition (UIC3) emphasizes a perspective that integrates intersectional identity complexity with a st...

For aspiring journalists, the challenges of dyslexia can seem insurmountable, especially in the face of an educational system that is ill-equipp...

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over--and upending--nearly every aspect of life...

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over--and upending--nearly every aspect of life...