Media Studies

This book offers fresh research and insights into the complex relationship between the press, war, and society in the 20th century, by examining th...

This book reveals a new history of the imagination told through its engagement with the body. Even as they denounced the imaginations potential for...

This book focuses on the transformation of Chinese newspaper companies in aspects of managerial strategies, newsroom practices and interactions wit...

Why do recent depictions of government secrecy and surveillance so often use images suggesting massive size and scale: gigantic warehouses, remote ...

Studies of election campaigns have shown an increased employment of websites, weblog tools, email, and social media by political campaigners, as we...

This book analyses the way that HIV/AIDS is often narrativised and represented in contemporary world cultures, as well as the different strategies ...

Carbon dioxide and global climate change are largely invisible, and the prevailing imagery of climate change is often remote (such as ice floes mel...

Exploring Communication Ethics is a comprehensive textbook on the ethical issues facing communication professionals in todays rapidly changing medi...

First published in 2006, this volume provides the first in-depth analysis of the place of visual representations within the process of decolonisati...

Generational Use of New Media examines and contrasts how younger and older people, representing different generations, engage with the new media th...

This volume explores and clarifies the complex intersection of race and media in the contemporary United States. Due to the changing dynamics of ho...

This book examines contemporary media stories about women who kill their children. By analyzing media texts, motherhood blogs, and journalistic int...

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received consistent academic attention since the 1990s abjection, dis...

Mediating Sexual Citizenship considers how the neoliberal imperatives of adaptation, improvement and transformation that inform the shifting artist...

Authoritative and illuminating, this book demonstrates how we reveal the secrets of our character through the disclosures we make about ourselves i...

Transmediality in Independent Journalism investigates mainstream journalism and its escape routes to independence through transmedia strategies. Wi...

This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal...

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual d...

This brand new edition walks students through the full video production process, from inception of idea to final distribution. Concentrating on the...

Ethnic media are media produced for, and frequently by, immigrants, ethnic and linguistic minority groups, and indigenous populations. These media ...

This book combines insights from the humanities and modern neuroscience to explore the contribution of affect and embodiment on meaning-making in c...

This book shows how the release of the free market in the last part of the twentieth century produced a rise in inequality and violence, the develo...

Characters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on arc...