Media Studies

Through popular movies starring Bruce Lee and songs like the disco hit Kung Fu Fighting, martial arts have found a central place in the Western cul...

Video and interactive computer games now constitute an enormous industry that rivals television and film. Moreover, gaming is of growing importance...

In an age of ubiquitous digital media and permanent mutual observation scandals are omnipresent. Everybody can release them, everybody can become t...

To prepare for the role of the Joker, Heath Ledger locked himself in a London hotel room, trying to understand and become a character he saw as an ...

In the new media world, advertisers are deciding who you are, how much you matter, and what you see and do The Internet is often hyped as a means t...

Taking as a starting point an interpretation of the television medium as an Ideological State Apparatus, this book examines how gender roles and no...

Look out! There''s a Snaffle about, and she''ll eat your screen as a snack! When the Snaffle arrives in the city, she just wants to ...

Corridor offers a series of conceptually provocative readings that illuminate a hidden and surprising relationship between architectural space and ...

The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how languag...

Named one of Publishers Weeklys Best Books of 2014 All-pink aisles in toy stores, popular dolls that resemble pole dancers, ultra sexy Halloween co...

The first comprehensive account of the biggest wake-up call in the history of the entertainment business: the pivot to streaming. Go inside a dispa...

A 2021 BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR THE INDEPENDENT A mouthpiece for our anxieties and a tonic for our hear...

In the attention economy, online influencers are an emerging class of power brokers. How can you harness their potential? Break the Internet takes ...

How did the advertisers of the past sell magnetic corsets, carbolic smoke balls or even the first televisions? Which celebrities endorsed products?...

Confederate newspapers were beset by troubles: paper shortages, high ink prices, printers striking for higher pay, faulty telegraphic news service,...

The most important book of 2022. Dr. Robert Malone Desmets work on mass formation theory was brought to the worlds attention on The Joe Rogan Expe...

Using clear, readable prose, conceptual artist and poet Kenneth Goldsmith's manifesto shows how our time on the internet is not really wasted but i...

For more than twenty years, Jefferson Hack has pioneered the idea of magazines as communities. He is responsible for several of the most enduring f...

Daisy Bacon, the opinionated, autocratic and complex editor of Love Story Magazine from 1928 to 1947, chose the stories that would be read by hu...