Media Studies

In this era where dollar value signals moral worth, Daniel Fridman paints a vivid portrait of Americans and Argentinians seeking to transform thems...

The very rapid growth in the Indian media industries and the vibrancy of India's popular culture are making a working understanding of the Indian...

An examination of how nonprofessional archivists, especially media fans, practice cultural preservation on the Internet and how digital cultural m...

The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International The...

The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International The...

This volume consists of timely, useful, original contributions by historians, media scholars and anthropologists that will be essential reading for...

Why in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the ...

Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and so...

Disaster strikes, transforming cities and towns into graveyards and wastelands in a matter of minutes. But help is on its way: news channels and so...

By focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on thingness into a new global art historica...

Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, such as reality television and social media, which in theory draw content from somewhere of...

Law and Ethics for Today's Journalist offers aspiring and working journalists the practical understanding of law and ethics they must have to succe...

Our impressions of leisure today often involve rest, relaxation, and freedom from work. These impressions are misguided if their limits remain unch...

This book highlights the complex ways in which media anticipate, interfere with and draw on one other. What is 'cinematicity'? What does it mean to...

What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurre...

Ealing Revisited provides a major reappraisal of one of British cinema''s best-loved institutions, Ealing Studios. During its heyday, Ealing prod...

Delete looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Di...