Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
About the Book Series
Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions offer thorough, high-quality surveys and assessments of the major topics in the fields of media and cultural studies. All entries in each companion are specially commissioned and written by leading scholars in the field. Clear, accessible, and cutting-edge, these companions are the ideal resource for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate students, and researchers alike.
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism
1st Edition
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By Maria Månsson, Annæ Buchmann, Cecilia Cassinger, Lena Eskilsson
May 27, 2024
The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism provides a comprehensive overview of the research into the convergence of media and tourism and specifically investigates the concept of mediatized tourism. This Companion offers a holistic look at the relationship between media and tourism by drawing ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and the City
1st Edition
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By Erica Stein, Germaine R. Halegoua, Brendan Kredell
May 27, 2024
Bringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly disciplines, this collection of 32 original chapters provides a comprehensive exploration of the relationships between cities and media. The volume showcases diverse methods for studying media and the city and posits "...
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship
1st Edition
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By John Steel, Julian Petley
December 11, 2023
The Routledge Companion to Freedom of Expression and Censorship offers a thorough exploration of the debates surrounding this contentious topic, considering the importance placed upon it in democratic societies and the reasons frequently proposed for limiting and constraining it. This volume ...
The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies
1st Edition
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By Eugenia Paulicelli, Veronica Manlow, Elizabeth Wissinger
September 25, 2023
This collection of original essays interrogates disciplinary boundaries in fashion, gathering fashion studies research across disciplines and from around the globe. Fashion and clothing are part of material and visual culture, cultural memory, and heritage; they contribute to shaping the way ...
The Routledge Companion to Media Industries
1st Edition
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By Paul McDonald
September 25, 2023
Bringing together 49 chapters from leading experts in media industries research, this major collection offers an authoritative overview of the current state of scholarship while setting out proposals for expanding, re-thinking and innovating the field. Media industries occupy a central place in ...
The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children
1st Edition
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By Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson, Tama Leaver, Leslie Haddon
April 24, 2022
This companion presents the newest research in this important area, showcasing the huge diversity in children’s relationships with digital media around the globe, and exploring the benefits, challenges, history, and emerging developments in the field. Children are finding novel ways to express ...
The Routledge Companion to Media Fandom
1st Edition
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By Melissa A. Click, Suzanne Scott
April 28, 2020
The field of fan studies has seen exponential growth in recent years and this companion brings together an internationally and interdisciplinarily diverse group of established scholars to reflect on the state of the field and to point to new research directions. Engaging an impressive array of ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race
1st Edition
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By Christopher Campbell
December 10, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Media and Race serves as a comprehensive guide for scholars, students, and media professionals who seek to understand the key debates about the impact of media messages on racial attitudes and understanding. Broad in scope and richly presented from a diversity of ...
The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
1st Edition
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By Chris Atton
October 16, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why ...
The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics
1st Edition
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By Yannis Tzioumakis, Claire Molloy
September 24, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics brings together forty essays by leading film scholars and filmmakers in order to discuss the complex relationship between cinema and politics. Organised into eight parts – Approaches to Cinema and Politics; Cinema, Activism and Opposition; Film, ...
The Routledge Companion to Cinema & Gender
1st Edition
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By Kristin Hole, Dijana Jelača, E. Kaplan, Patrice Petro
September 17, 2018
The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender comprises forty-three innovative essays that offer both an overview of and an intervention into the field of cinema and gender. The contributions in this volume address a variety of geographical and cultural contexts through an analysis of cinema, from ...
The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries
1st Edition
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By Kate Oakley, Justin O'Connor
September 17, 2018
The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries is collection of contemporary scholarship that seeks to re-assert the importance of cultural production and consumption against the purely economic imperatives of the ‘creative industries’. Across 43 chapters drawn from a wide range of geographic...