Media Studies

Judaism in the twenty-first century has seen the rise of the messianic Third Temple movement, as religious activists based in Israel have worked to...

This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices a...

This book explores stage conjuring during its golden age, from about 1860 to 1910. This study provides close readings highlighting four paradigmati...

This volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perc...

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Sovie...

This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics....

This comprehensive second edition provides an updated essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape ...

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered...

This edited book explores the development and reconfiguration of Middle Eastern diasporic communities in the West in the context of increased polit...

Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism immersive, long-form journalism so beauti...

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of current formations of publics that is informed by in-depth knowledge of affect and emotion theory...

This book develops organizing eating as an organizational-communication centered framework for understanding how communication and power combine to...

The book offers an interdisciplinary overview of the film and place relationship from an intercultural perspective. It explores the complex domain ...

This book enhances critical perspectives on human rights through the lens of performance studies and argues that contemporary artistic intervention...

This book explores and explains how traditional and alternative media have framed the issues of gun trafficking into Mexico, drug-related violence,...

This book investigates the politicisation and framing of immigration in the media and political arena in Central Europe, examining two countries - ...

This book aims to provide theoretical and empirical interpretations of certain phenomena in the development of China's cultural industry. Using the...

This book presents the Cultural Transduction framework as a conceptual tool to understand the processes that media and cultural products undergo wh...

Visual novels (VNs), a ludic video game genre that pairs textual fiction stories with anime-like images and varying degrees of interactivity, have ...

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets, broadly speaking, and the immaterial world. Th...

Through discourse analysis and a historical comparison of Pernicious-Vestiges narratives in the news text of Peoples Daily, this book is devoted to...

This monograph is an innovative examination of the political economy of music. It integrates original economic theories and empirical research to s...

'Thoughtful, witty, occasionally comic, often effortlessly profound - not a conventional journalistic memoir.' Sunday Times'If you value the perspe...

Performing Organizational Paradoxes takes a constitutive, process approach to organizational paradoxes. It underscores the performative nature of p...

Journalismus als eine der zentralen Quellen, die die Sichtweise auf die Welt prägen berichtet über die abstrakte Größe des Auslands. So entstammt...

This book provides a review of current research in fake news and presents six new empirical research studies examining its impact.Fake news has gar...

Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child examines the changing nature of contemporary childhoods by exploring how child...

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self, Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time, spaciousnes...

This book offers insights into social media practices and challenges in developing nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering different aspects...

This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the COVID-19 pandemic caused on the social and economic lives of people. The book a...

This book tackles the infodemicthe rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramificati...

The book offers an analytical and empirical account of the specificities of political entertainment in post-authoritarian democracies.Centered arou...

The Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages offers a useful collection of papers that presents rhetorical analysis...

This book focuses on small-scale mobilisation and everyday social movements that take the form of grassroots resistance and solidarity initiatives....

This volume addresses questions at the intersections of cinematic form and the African city. It examines the contribution of cinema and audiovisual...

This volume offers comprehensive examination of predatory practices in scholarly publishing, and highlights emergent issues around predatory journa...

This book describes the lifecycle of media in the context of the media ecology, presenting a general theoretical framework and a series of methodol...

This book examines the con artist film as a genre, exploring its main features while also addressing variations within it.The volume explores three...

Xie and Chao present a collection of research on mobile communication in Asian communities and countries such as Bangladesh, China, India, Japan, a...

As an installment of Routledges Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Electronic Media Research Series, Political Communication, Culture, and Socie...

Masculinities in the US Hangout Sitcom examines how four sitcoms Friends, How I Met Your Mother, The Big Bang Theory, and New Girl mediate the te...

This book is a theoretical work on data journalism production that drills down the models, narratives, and ethics.From idea to concept and then to ...

Word-of-Mouth in Contemporary Hollywood provides a unique insight into the potential for online communication to enable audiences to exert a greate...

As the first volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a macro level by regarding users as cons...

Upon its initial release in 1977, many critics regarded Star Wars as a childish retort to the mature American cinema of the seventies. Though full...

This book examines the discourse around the intricate economic, political, and ideological struggles underlying Canadian fuel extractivism. Focusin...

As the second volume of a two-volume set on new media users in China, this book approaches the subject from a micro level. examining the mediatized...

This volume considers the different implications of the rise of streaming services and their particular acceleration during the COVID-19 pandemic. ...