Media Studies

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...

Cultural Protest in Journalism, Documentary Films and the Arts: Between Protest and Professionalisation entails a comprehensive account of the hist...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in...

David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla have gathered a colourful collection of essays exploring sensationalism in nineteenth-century newspaper report...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

Current Research in Puerto Rican Linguistics is an edited collection of original contributions which explores the idiosyncratic grammatical propert...

The way people encounter ideas of Hinduism online is often shaped by global discourses of religion, pervasive Orientalism and (post)colonial schola...

This book offers a theoretically informed empirical investigation of national media reporting and political discourse on environmental issues in Au...

This book explores the cultural politics of Pakistani crossover stardom in the Hindi film industry as a process of both assimilation and Otherness....

Since the late 1990s, there has been a crucial and substantial transformation in Chinas television system involving institutional, structural and r...

Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts....

This book interrogates the hyper-visibility and stubborn endurance of the wedding spectacle across media and culture in the current climate.The wid...

From open source cultures, piracy, to amateur media and on-demand labour, informal media activities are vibrant in circuits of cultural production,...

Unplugging Popular Culture showcases youth and young adult characters from film and television who defy the stereotype of the digital native who ac...

Bridging art and innovation, this book invites readers into the processes of artists, curators, cultural producers and historians who are working w...

The vast majority of the worlds population lives on or near the coast. These communities are an extraordinary and largely untapped resource that ca...

First published in 1997, this volume responds to attention in recent years which has been belatedly directed towards reviving World War II issues i...

In an effort to challenge the ways in which colonial power relations and Eurocentric knowledges are reproduced in participatory research, this book...

Virtually all pertinent issues that the world faces today such as nuclear proliferation, climate change, the spread of infectious disease and econ...

This edited volume maps dialogues between science and technology studies research on the arts and the emerging field of artistic research. The main...

MediaWriting is an invaluable resource for students planning to enter the dynamic and changing world of media writing in the twenty-first century. ...