Media Studies

Stardust Monuments spotlights the enduring efforts to memorialize and canonize the history and meaning of Hollywood and American film culture. In t...

Wars have dominated politics since history began. In the modern era most of what the media reports on foreign conflicts comes from a small band of ...

Intimate. Revealing. Candid. Published by the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Conversations with Cronkite gives readers a rare glimpse ...

Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research. This highly accessible guidebook leads students through the process of undertaking...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. We all wear hoods: the Grim Reaper, Re...

THE NAUGHTY NINETIES: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed age when our public and private lives began to blur due to th...

Marx and the Moving Image approaches cinema from a Marxist perspective. It argues that the supposed 'end of history', marked by the comprehensive t...

Defining Sexual Misconduct investigates shifts in media coverage of sexual violence and details significant changes in public discourse about sexua...

Don Rose came to the U.S. from England in 1908, when he was 18, entering through Ellis Island like countless other immigrants. By 1941 he was on...

It is now more than 30 years since Graham Perkin''s tragically premature death, but his legacy lives on in every corner of the Australian media. Pe...

From colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's media system, ...

The Korean War has been called the forgotten war, not as studied as World War II or Vietnam. Choi examines the collective memory of the Korean War ...

Inspired by the reading and writing habits of citizens leading up to the French Revolution, The Writing Public is a compelling addition to the long...

Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of thei...

Live television viewing is decreasing as audiences choose to stream television shows and films via catch-up, YouTube, Netflix, iTunes and other dig...

Conflict over issues such as climate change, toxic waste and wilderness provides a key site for examining the shaping and negotiation of public deb...

For Rapunzel, being a princess has been nothing but fun. But everything goes wrong when she breaks a magical urn and blames it on her new friend, E...