Media Studies

Fandom has been celebrated both as a harmonious, tolerant space and as apolitical and detached from reality. Yet fandom is neither harmonious no...

Media Theory for A Level provides a comprehensive introduction to the 19 academic theories required for A Level Media study. From Roland Barthes to...

A groundbreaking filmmaker dogged by controversy in both his personal life and career, Elia Kazan was one of the most important directors of postwa...

Children, Media and Culture seeks to redefine the discipline''''s domain by including classical art, fairy tales, and literature in the research p...

Radios influence can be found in almost every corner of new media. Radio in the Digital Age assesses a medium that has not only survived the challe...

In books such as The Aesthetics of Disappearance, War and Cinema, The Lost Dimension, and The Vision Machine, Paul Virilio has fundamentally change...

What started in 2002 as a seemingly harmless story about illegal phone hacking blew up into a national storm when it was alleged that missing teena...

Public relations and journalism have had a difficult relationship for over a century, characterised by mutual dependence and - often - mutual distr...

From Occupy to Uncut, from the Arab Spring to the Slutwalk movement, few questions about recent activism raise as much controversy as the role of t...

A Companion to New Media Dynamics presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cul...

Not long ago we were spectators, passive consumers of mass media. Now, on YouTube and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, we are media. No longer conte...

During the past one hundred years or so, the depiction of traumatic historical events and experiences has been a recurrent theme in the work of art...

In recent years, computer games have moved from the margins of popular culture to its center. Reviews of new games and profiles of game designers n...

From South Park to Kathy Acker, from Lars Von Trier to Sex and the City, womens sexual organs are demonized. In The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural...

SOAP, SEX AND CIGARETTES examines how American advertising both mirrors society and creates it. From the first newspaper advertisement in colonial ...

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the internet as the great leveler of our age. ...

Noir is among the most popular, acclaimed, and critically assessed film styles of all time. The unfortunate consequence is an ever-growing divergen...

The news is everywhere. We can''t stop constantly checking it on our computer screens, but what is this doing to our minds? We are never really tau...

American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across Americabut they are also contested and reshaped ...

Radio Production is for professionals and students interested in understanding the radio industry in todays ever-changing world. This book features...

The Peoples Journal, A Penny Saturday paper devoted to the interests of the Working Classes, was one of the most successful and culturally influent...