Media Studies

Media images shape and are shaped by society. They reflect the ways in which the social order changes and stays the same. The contributors to Gende...

The West Wing or Generation Kill in Space? A show about God-fearing sex-obsessed robots? Or a complex meditation on fate, dreaming and eternal recu...

In the ongoing aftermath of the nuclear accident in 2011, filmmakers have continued to issue warnings about the state of Japanese society and polit...

Music is used to sell everything from cars to political candidates. How can words and melody so successfully manipulate us? This volume provides an...

In Intimate Visualities and the Politics of Fandom in India, Gerritsen explores the circulation of images of a movie star named Rajinikanth. Cities...

Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leading scholars from Europe and...

So you're the one getting this gift? Lucky you! Someone who knows you has visited the museum. They searched out things they thought you would care ...

As the home video market upended traditional film industry models, media libraries emerged as important sources of ancillary revenue. The inflectio...

Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognit...

Piracy is among the most prevalent and vexing issues of the digital age. In just the past decade, it has altered the music industry beyond recognit...

Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such a...

A unique theory of trust building in engagement journalism that proposes journalists move to an ethic of care as they prioritize listening and lear...

Soon to be a major Channel 4 drama, Brian and Margaret A deliciously irreverent and humorous insiders account of 25 years wo...

Fanvids, or vids, are short videos created in media fandom. Made from television and film sources, they are neither television episodes nor films; ...

This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digital mobile media practices ar...

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invi...

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photogra...

How do digital technologies shape both how people care for each other and, through that, who they are? With technological innovation is on the rise...

Hungarian urban culture in the 20th and the 21st centuries.When consulting key works on urban studies, the absence of Central and Eastern European ...

Its easy to make a rhetorical case for the value of journalism. Because, it is a necessary precondition for democracy; it speaks to the people and ...

This is the first book to take us inside Youth Radio for a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at a unique, Peabody Award-winning organization that...