Media Studies

Beginning with the premise that the biopic is a form of adaptation and an example of intermediality, this collection examines the multiplicity of '...

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual...

Few films in the twenty-first century have represented coming-of-age with the beauty and brutality of Bande de Filles (or Girlhood). This book prov...

Global media expert Dal Yong Jin examines the nexus of globalization, digital media, and contemporary popular culture in this empirically rich, stu...

This book challenges white and Western feminist approaches to embodied politics, or the use of the body in everyday enactments of resistance, while...

If among the many truths of Giambattista Vico's New Science there is one that is deepest, it is the truth that language, mind, and society are but ...

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture...

This book makes mass communication research projects more accessible to the new student researcher through a balance between an academically rigoro...

Participatory Media in Environmental Communication brings together stories of communities in the Pacific islands a region that is severely affecte...

Television Field Production and Reporting provides a comprehensive introduction to the art of video storytelling. Endorsed by the National Press Ph...

First published in 1984. For those who have heard Max Atkinson expounding his theses about the nature of stimulus and response for political speake...

WordPress for Journalists presents an in-depth and accessible introduction to using the content management system WordPress to produce journalism t...

In this sixth edition of Television Sports Production, regional Emmy Award-winning producer Jim Owens walks readers through the planning, setup, di...

Written in a personal, story-telling style, Odyssey weaves excerpts of actual relationships with current and classic research to provide a better p...

This book outlines and discusses the very wide range of cinema which is to be found in Singapore. Although Singapore cinema is a relatively small i...

As a founder and leading figure in multimodality and social semiotics, Theo van Leuween has made significant contributions to a variety of research...

The Architectural Imagination at the Digital Turn asks what it means to speak of a digital turn in architecture. It examines how architects at the ...

Kinotalk: 21st Century is a cinema-based textbook that enhances students linguistic and cultural proficiency through guided studies of 12 Russian f...

This book explores how Irelands community media outlets reflect and shape identity at the local level. While aspects of its culture date back centu...

Show me a world I havent seen before! These words from veteran cinematographer Barry Braverman will resonate as you read (and re-read) this revampe...

Pathology & Technology is the first comprehensive look at technopathologies. Since the days of the telegraph, electric communication technologi...

Although discussion of the digital divide is a relatively new phenomenon, social inequality is a deeply entrenched part of our current social world...

In recent years, digital technologies have become pervasive in academic and everyday life. This comprehensive volume covers a wide range of concept...

Social networks are critical for the creation and consumption of music. This edited collection, Social Networks and Music Worlds, introduces studen...

As its title suggests, Negative/Positive begins with the negative, a foundational element of analog photography that is nonetheless usually ignored...

This book examines how the iconic character Hannibal Lecter has been revised and redeveloped across different screen media texts. Hannibal The Cann...

Written with media students in mind, this accessible book provides both students and researchers with a new perspective on how to research engageme...

This book is about the digital interface and its use in interactive new media art installations. It examines the aesthetic aspects of the interface...

There are many current socio-environmental conflicts and problems around the world that affect distinct nationalities, races, or ethnicities. Part ...

Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly char...

This book is a comprehensive illustrated account of the technologies and inventions in mass communication that have accelerated the advancement of ...

This book explores the phenomenon of anti-femail genital mutilation (FGM) social media activism. Against a backdrop of over 200 million girls and w...

This book explores the challenges that disinformation, fake news, and post-truth politics pose to democracy from a multidisciplinary perspective. T...

Acknowledging the significance of Edward Saids Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange, and ...

Put the essential concepts and techniques of digital compositing to work for you without the need of a single mathematical equation. Compositing Vi...

Originally published in 1998, Dynamics of the Pictured Page provides a critical study of the world's first regularly illustrated newspaper, the Ill...