Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies

This series is our home for cutting-edge popular culture research, where the monographs and edited collections included expand our understanding of popular culture as reflecting world challenges, contexts, and situations. The series places a particular emphasis on evolutions and transformations within popular culture — with a focus on icons, narratives, practices, and identities and aims to provide interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, transmedia, and transnational perspectives. To that end, the editor of this book series encourages and welcomes proposals on the broader popular culture landscape, including but not limited to: genre evolutions and transformations; popular narrative platforms, from film to television, video games, web series, comics, anime, manga, games, music, and beyond; regional, national identities, Indigeneity and post-colonial discourses; multifaceted representations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class in popular media and culture forms; shifts in media production, engagement, and viewership (including the impact of online streaming platforms); social media, and their influences and impact; digital cultures; the history of popular culture; film and media-based tourism in the 21st century; evolving forms of storytelling, from mainstream to the margins.