Media Studies

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...

Mexico today is one of the most dangerous places in the world to report the news, and Mexicans have taken to the street to defend freedom of expres...

Do you want to use R to tell stories? This book was written for youwhether you already know some R or have never coded before.Most R texts focus on...

This book explores the figure of Antigone and her many reconceptualizations from antiquity to the present. One of the most popular heroines of clas...

While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

This collection explores the cultural fascination with social media forms of self-portraiture, selfies, with a specific interest in online self-ima...

This book investigates the pictorial figurations, aesthetic styles and visual tactics through which visual art and popular culture attempt to appea...

This groundbreaking collection advances understanding of the concept of media practices by critically interrogating its relevance for the study of ...

Made in Korea: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive and thorough introduction to the history, sociology, and musicology of contempora...

This edition represents a thorough reworking, expansion and updating of an earlier work, distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition...

Italian neo-realism has inspired film audiences and fascinated critics and film scholars for decades. This book offers an original analysis of the ...

Making Nonprofit News examines the essence of nonprofit journalism on multiple levels of analysis, explaining how individuals, routines, organizati...

The Film Handbook examines the current state of filmmaking and how film language, technique and aesthetics are being utilised for todays digital fi...

As digital life stories continue to assume more and more significance across a range of institutions, so too does their potential to bring into foc...

In the tumultuous first decade of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro and other leaders saturated the media with altruistic images of themselves in ...

This book argues that Halloween need not be the first nor the most influential youth slasher film for it to hold a special place in the history of ...