Media Studies

Despite its necessary centrality within the genre, the concept of the victim has not received much direct attention within the field of horror stud...

Since the 1920s, fashion has played a central role in Hollywood. As the movie-going population consisted largely of women, studios made a concerted...

Race and Cultural Practice in Popular Culture is an innovative work that freshly approaches the concept of race as a social factor made concrete in...

Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore ...

Digital technologies should be making life easier. And to a large degree they are, transforming everyday tasks of work, consumption, communication,...

Computerized processes are everywhere in our society. They are the automated phone messaging systems that businesses use to screen calls; the link ...

Helping you find your voice, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION: EVERYDAY ENCOUNTERS, 8e helps you build the skills you need to become a more effective co...

From fake news to infringement of privacy in digital spheres, the changing landscapes of media and public communication have completely transformed...

Through an analysis of hundreds of Hollywood movies, this book examines some of the most contentious social issues of our time, including racism, s...

Serialization is an old narrative strategy and a form of publication that can be traced far back in literary history, yet serial narratives are as ...

This collection presents new work in risk media studies from critical humanities perspectives. Defining, historicizing, and consolidating current s...

From 1942 to 1945, a small, influential group of media figures willingly volunteered their services to form the Writers' War Board (WWB), accepting...

Public Relations, Society and the Generative Power of History examines how histories are used to explore how the past is constructed from the prese...

Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural...