Media Studies

Among Cultures: The Challenge of Communication, Third Edition explores intercultural communication and the relationship between communication and c...

Paul Mazursky's nearly twenty films as writer/director represent Hollywood's most sustained comic expression of the 1970s and 1980s. But they have ...

According to the sociologist C. Wright Mills in his 1951 book, White Collar: The American Middle Classes, the new entrepreneur was a lone wolf able...

The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to ...

The Cinema of Errol Morris offers close analyses of the director's films - from box office successes like The Thin Blue Line and The Fog of War to ...

Musicians and music fans are at the forefront of cyberliberties activism, a movement that has tried to correct the imbalances that imperil the comm...

Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in star studies, Brazilian film has received comparatively little attention. As this volume...

Ursula Rao is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Her research focus is urban life and cultural transformations. She w...

Today's urban environments are layered with data and algorithms that fundamentally shape how we perceive and move through space. But are our digita...

The last ten years have seen a shift in television storytelling toward increasingly complex storylines and characters. In this study, Sarah Hagelin...

Radio Active is William OShaughnessys fifth collection of essays, on-air interviews, tributes and eulogies, endorsements, recollections of an eveni...

Photography became a dominant medium in cultural life starting in the late nineteenth century. As it happened, viewers increasingly used their reac...

Social media, once heralded as revolutionary and democratic, have instead proved exclusionary and elitist Social media technologies such as YouTube...

Illustrated with examples from contemporary culture, from Grand Theft Auto and Robin Thicke to US Presidential campaigns and online abuse of female...