Media Studies

Interpreting Music Video introduces students to the musical, visual, and sociological aspects of music videos, enabling them to critically analyze ...

Balancing skills and theory, this introductory public speaking textbook encourages the reader to see public speaking as a way to build community in...

For Freud, famously, the feminine was a dark continent, or a riddle without an answer. This understanding concerns mans relationship to the questio...

To talk about religion is to talk about politics, identity, terrorism, migration, gender, and a host of other aspects of society. This volume exami...

Throughout its early history, photography's authenticity was contested and challenged: how true a representation of reality can a photograph provid...

This book examines Jewish writers and intellectuals in Austria, analyzing filmic and electronic media alongside more traditional publication format...

Arguing, Reasoning, and Thinking Well offers an engaging and accessible introduction to argumentation and critical thinking. With a pro-social focu...

They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry, Vol. 1 is the first in a three-volume set that provi...

This book analyzes the constraints on press freedom and the ways in which independent reporting and reporters are at risk in contemporary Asia to p...

This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror...

With large-scale scholarly projects dedicated to digitizing print-based magazines and a concurrent turn towards digital mapping and data visualizat...

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global...

This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectiv...

This book examines Zoombombing, the racist harassment and hate speech on Zoom.While most accounts refer to Zoombombing as simply a new style or pra...

In the fully rewritten third edition of this classic text, Nicholas Mirzoeff introduces visual culture as visual activism, or activating the visibl...

Whether you are working using text, graphics, photography, sound, motion, or video, Multimedia Foundations covers the skills necessary to be an eff...

This title was first published in 2003. The sixth edition of this compendium of film and television adaptations of books and plays includes several...

Title sequences are the most obvious place where photography and typography combine on-screen, yet they are also a commonly neglected part of film ...

Hollywood Musicals offers an insightful account of a genre that was once a mainstay of twentieth-century film production and continues to draw audi...

Billions of minutes a month are spent globally on social media. This raises not only serious legal issues, but also has a clear impact on everyday ...

Thanks to the rise of neoliberalism over the past several decades, we live in an era of rampant anxiety, insecurity, and inequality. While neoliber...

Published in 1981: Authors of early English and American printers's manuals casually appropriated text from their predecessors. The practice, commo...

This book explores the emergence of lifestyle in the US, first as a term that has become an organizing principle for the self and for the structure...

Originally published in 1985, the 52 papers that make up Forty Years an Advertising Agent set forth the inception, the development, and the growth ...