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 Cult Cinema
1st Edition
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By Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton
June 30, 2021
The Routledge Companion to Cult Cinema offers an overview of the field of cult cinema – films at the margin of popular culture and art that have received exceptional cultural visibility and status mostly because they break rules, offend, and challenge understandings of achievement (some are so bad ...
The Routledge Companion to Cyberpunk Culture
1st Edition
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By Anna McFarlane, Lars Schmeink, Graham Murphy
June 30, 2021
In this companion, an international range of contributors examine the cultural formation of cyberpunk from micro-level analyses of example texts to macro-level debates of movements, providing readers with snapshots of cyberpunk culture and also cyberpunk as culture.With technology seamlessly ...
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
1st Edition
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By Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin, Beth Haller, Rosemary Curtis
June 30, 2021
An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders.Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Television
1st Edition
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By Shawn Shimpach
June 30, 2021
Featuring scholarly perspectives from around the globe and drawing on a legacy of television studies, but with an eye toward the future, this authoritative collection examines both the thoroughly global nature of television and the multiple and varied experiences that constitute television in the ...
The Routledge Companion to Media Education, Copyright, and Fair Use
1st Edition
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By Renee Hobbs
June 30, 2021
Media literacy educators rely on the ability to make use of copyrighted materials from mass media, digital media and popular culture for both analysis and production activities. Whether they work in higher education, elementary and secondary schools, or in informal learning settings in libraries, ...
The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence
1st Edition
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By Mark Wolf
June 30, 2021
While so many books on technology look at new advances and digital technologies, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence looks back at analog technologies that are disappearing, considering their demise and what it says about media history, pop culture, and the nature of ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Class
1st Edition
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By Erika Polson, Lynn Schofield Clark, Radhika Gajjala
June 30, 2021
This companion brings together scholars working at the intersection of media and class, with a focus on how understandings of class are changing in contemporary global media contexts. From the memes of and about working-class supporters of billionaire "populists", to well-publicized and critiqued ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal
1st Edition
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By Howard Tumber, Silvio Waisbord
June 30, 2021
Howard Tumber is Professor in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, UK. He is a founder and co-editor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. He has published widely in the field of the sociology of media and journalism.Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism
1st Edition
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By Graham Meikle
September 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism is a wide-ranging collection of 42 original and authoritative essays by leading contributors from a variety of academic disciplines. Introducing and exploring central debates about the diverse relationships between both media and protest, and ...
The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History
1st Edition
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By Daniel Biltereyst, Richard Maltby, Philippe Meers
September 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History presents the most recent approaches and methods in the study of the social experience of cinema, from its origins in vaudeville and traveling exhibitions to the multiplexes of today. Exploring its history from the perspective of the cinemagoer, the ...
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage
1st Edition
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By Sarah Baker, Catherine Strong, Lauren Istvandity, Zelmarie Cantillon
September 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music History and Heritage examines the social, cultural, political and economic value of popular music as history and heritage. Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the volume explores the relationship between popular music and the past, and how interpretations ...
The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies
1st Edition
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By Michael Bull
September 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Sound Studies is an extensive volume presenting a comparative and historically informed understanding of the workings of sound in culture, while also mapping potential future directions for research in the field. Experts from a variety of disciplines within sound studies ...