Routledge Focus on Media and Cultural Studies
Spanish Film Policies and Gender
1st Edition
By Jara Fernández Meneses
July 30, 2025
This book provides a comprehensive cultural and historical account of the key film policies put into place by the Spanish state between 1980 and 2010 through a gendered lens, framing these policies within the wider context of European film legislation. Departing from the belief that there is no ...
The Politics of Media Scarcity
1st Edition
By Greg Elmer, Stephen J. Neville
May 27, 2025
This book questions the predominance of “media abundance” as a guiding concept for contemporary mediated politics. The authors argue that media abundance is not a universal condition, and that certain individuals, communities, and even nations can more accurately be referred to as media scarce – ...
Gender-Based Violence and Digital Media in South Africa
1st Edition
By Millie Mayiziveyi Phiri
January 30, 2025
This book presents a new paradigm for attending to gender-based violence (GBV) social media discourse among marginalised Black women in South Africa. Focusing on the intersections of television and social media, the study charts the morphing and merging of the “inside” of the soap opera and the “...
Spanish Horror Film and Television in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Vicente Rodríguez Ortega, Rubén Romero Santos
December 19, 2024
This book provides an up-to-date, in-depth survey of 21st-century Spanish horror film and media, exploring both aesthetics and industrial dynamics. It offers detailed analysis of contemporary films and TV series as well as novel approaches to key works within the history of Spanish cinema. While ...
Secrecy in Public Relations, Mediation and News Cultures: The Shadow World of the Media Sphere
1st Edition
By Anne M. Cronin
August 26, 2024
This book investigates the relationship of secrecy as a social practice to contemporary media, news cultures and public relations. Drawing on Georg Simmel’s theorisation of how secrecy produces a ‘second world’ alongside the ‘obvious world’ and creates and reshapes social relations, Anne Cronin ...
Bourdieusian Media Studies
1st Edition
By Johan Lindell
July 15, 2024
Bourdieusian Media Studies illustrates the merits of Pierre Bourdieu’s cultural sociological approach in the field of media studies, explicating exactly what a “Bourdieusian” analysis of media would entail, and what new understandings of the digital media landscape would emerge from such an ...
Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change
1st Edition
By Ann E. Feldman
January 29, 2024
‘Winner of the 2022 Hearten Book Awards for Inspiring & Uplifting Non-Fiction’ Drawing upon a combination of ethnographic research and media and communication theory, Building Communities of Trust: Creative Work for Social Change offers pathways to building trust in a range of situations and ...
Crowdfunding and Independence in Film and Music
1st Edition
By Blanka Brzozowska, Patryk Galuszka
May 31, 2023
This book explores how independent film and music artists and labels use crowdfunding and where this use places crowdfunding in the contemporary system of cultural production. It complements an analysis of independence in film and music with the topic of crowdfunding as a firmly established form of...
Cultural Chauvinism: Intercultural Communication and the Politics of Superiority
1st Edition
By Minabere Ibelema
May 31, 2023
This book explores the concept of cultural chauvinism as the sense of superiority that ethnic or national groups have of themselves relative to others, particularly in the context of international relations. Minabere Ibelema shows the various ways that academics, statesmen, and especially ...