Media Studies

Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and televisio...

Christian Metz is best known for applying Saussurean theories of semiology to film analysis. In the 1970s, he used Sigmund Freud's psychology and J...

An essential guide to recognizing bogus numbers and misleading dataNumbers are often intimidating, confusing, and even deliberately deceptiveespeci...

It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can m...

In Republic of Spin, David Greenberg recounts the rise of the White House spin machine from Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama. His sweeping narrative...

The arrest and trial of Robert Pickton-a man charged with murdering 26 prostitutes in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside-is at the center of this study ...

Howard Beck. Marc Stein. Jonathan Abrams. Chris Broussard. Ira Berkow. George Vecsey. Mike Wise. Selena Roberts. Lee Jenkins. All have graced the p...

Enter the world of sports fashion, and exercise in style. This is the story of the biggest names in sport and the brands who have clothed them. Pum...

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In this lucid and intelligent guide, John Nerone traces the history of the media in public life.  His unc...

The feminist movement, we have been told, is history. This lively book reveals that on the contrary the feminist movement is alive and kicking, sti...

In terms of visual impact, television has often been regarded as inferior to cinema. It has been characterised as sound-led and consumed by a distr...

From its inception in 1932, overseas broadcasting by the BBC quickly became an essential adjunct to British diplomatic and foreign policy objective...

The violent attacks on journalists at Charlie Hebdo and shoppers in a Jewish supermarket in Paris in January 2015 left seventeen dead and shocked t...

The Sunday Mirror's former showbiz gossip columnist, Zoe Griffin, explains how she did just that in this original and informative book, Get Rich Bl...

Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the Internet in a strategic way, and struggles carried out on a local level achieve a new dimensi...

From science channels and documentaries to fictional and children's programming, television brings a myriad of scientific discoveries and theories ...

Focusing on a 2001 Canadian news story that turned into a frantic rumor mill, this study analyses how media reporting on health issues often alarms...

This smart and snappy book is the print-interpretation of ''The List'' www.thelistmag.com - a website dedicated to sourcing andsharing weekly nugge...

Eugeni Bonet (Barcelona, 1954) is undoubtedly one of the main theoretical referents in the fields of cinema, video and digital media in Spain. For ...

In 1987, Nike released their new sixty-second commercial for Air shoesand changed the face of the advertising industry. Set to the song Revolution ...

The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have w...