Media Studies

Written in the context of unprecedented dislocation and a global refugee crisis, this edited volume thinks through photographys long and complex re...

This volume explores and interrogates the shifts and changes in both government and industry-based screen policies over the past 30 years. It cover...

Masculinities and Desire considers the question of male subjectivity in relation to Deleuze and Guattaris theory of desire. Western tradition has t...

This book proposes a broad-based multiliteracies theory and praxis for college writing curriculum. Khadka expands on the work of the New London Gro...

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of politic...

As the funding of journalism moves centre stage as a driver in shaping the new trajectories of journalism in the digital age, this book focuses on ...

During the last two decades Spain has undergone an unprecedented transformation from being a country of emigrants to receiving a significant number...

In its retrieval and (re)construction, the past has become interwoven with the images and structure of cinema. Not only have mass mediaespecially f...

Product placement is now an integral part of what is considered the highest-quality fiction programming on television. Throughout the history of te...

This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technol...

Color is one of cinemas most alluring formal systems, building on a range of artistic traditions that orchestrate visual cues to tell stories, stag...

In the age of complex Tv, of social networking and massive consumption of transmedia narratives, a myriad short-lived phenomena surround films and ...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of...

News production, distribution and consumption are in rapidly changing due to the rise of new media. This book examines how these processes become m...

This title was first published in 2001. This text brings together a collection of empirical studies focusing on the relationships which minority et...

This complete guide to the Avid S6 console offers the best techniques and practices from a seasoned industry veteran, Curt Schulkey, for utilizing ...

Anna Froula is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the Department of English at East Carolina University, USAStacy Takacs is Associate Professor...

The past two decades have witnessed major changes in film industries worldwide in response to both economic globalisation and technological develop...

In 2008, the editors published a well-cited journal paper arguing that while scholarly work on media representations of environmental issues had ma...

Business journalism is of critical importance to society, though it may appear to some that it concerns only big business and big investors. A Quic...

This book investigates the reappearance of the 19th-century dream-child from the Golden Age of Children's Literature, both in the Harry Potter seri...

This book traces the journey of popular Hindi cinema from 1913 to contemporary times when Bollywood has evolved as a part of Indias cultural diplom...

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically, the companion considers Surrealisms many ...

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze ...

Balancing skills and theory, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in...

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns mans relationship to the questio...

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume exami...

Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provid...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication format...

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focu...

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provi...

This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to p...

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror...

With large-scale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-based magazines and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualizat...

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global...

This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectiv...

This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or pra...

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visibl...

Whether you are working using text, graphics, photography, sound, motion, or video, Multimedia Foundations covers the skills necessary to be an eff...

This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several...

Title sequences are the most obvious place where photography and typography combine on-screen, yet they are also a commonly neglected part of film ...

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audi...

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media. This raises not only serious legal issues, but also has a clear impact on everyday ...

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliber...

Published in 1981: Authors of early English and American printers's manuals casually appropriated text from their predecessors. The practice, commo...

This book explores the emergence of lifestyle in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure...

Originally published in 1985, the 52 papers that make up Forty Years an Advertising Agent set forth the inception, the development, and the growth ...