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 British Cinema History
1st Edition
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By I.Q. Hunter, Laraine Porter, Justin Smith
June 30, 2020
Over 39 chapters The Routledge Companion to British Cinema History offers a comprehensive and revisionist overview of British cinema as, on the one hand, a commercial entertainment industry and, on the other, a series of institutions centred on economics, funding and relations to government.Whereas...
The Routledge Companion to Comics
1st Edition
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By Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook, Aaron Meskin
June 30, 2020
This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to...
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema
1st Edition
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By Marvin D'Lugo, Ana López, Laura Podalsky
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Latin American Cinema is the most comprehensive survey of Latin American cinemas available in a single volume. While highlighting state-of-the-field research, essays also offer readers a cohesive overview of multiple facets of filmmaking in the region, from the production...
The Routledge Companion to Media Studies and Digital Humanities
1st Edition
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By Jentery Sayers
June 30, 2020
Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures
1st Edition
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By Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc
June 30, 2020
From Cinderella to comic con to colonialism and more, this companion provides readers with a comprehensive and current guide to the fantastic, uncanny, and wonderful worlds of the fairy tale across media and cultures. It offers a clear, detailed, and expansive overview of contemporary themes and ...
The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
1st Edition
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By Howard Tumber, Silvio Waisbord
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights offers a comprehensive and contemporary survey of the key themes, approaches and debates in the field of media and human rights.The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, ...
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality
1st Edition
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By Clarissa Smith, Feona Attwood, Brian McNair
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex and Sexuality is a vibrant and authoritative exploration of the ways in which sex and sexualities are mediated in modern media and everyday life.The 40 chapters in this volume offer a snapshot of the remarkable diversification of approaches and research within ...
The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies
1st Edition
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By Matthew Freeman, Renira Rampazzo Gambarato
June 30, 2020
Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia studies in media, cultural studies and ...
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema
1st Edition
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By Rob Stone, Paul Cooke, Stephanie Dennison, Alex Marlow-Mann
June 30, 2020
The Routledge Companion to World Cinema explores and examines a global range of films and filmmakers, their movements and audiences, comparing their cultural, technological and political dynamics, identifying the impulses that constantly reshape the form and function of the cinemas of the world. ...
Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
1st Edition
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By Robin Andersen, Purnaka L. de Silva
December 10, 2019
In this moment of unprecedented humanitarian crises, the representations of global disasters are increasingly common media themes around the world. The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action explores the interconnections between media, old and new, and the humanitarian challenges that...
The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media
1st Edition
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By Lori Lopez, Vincent Pham
December 10, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Asian American Media offers readers a comprehensive examination of the way that Asian Americans have engaged with media, from the long history of Asian American actors and stories that have been featured in mainstream film and television, to the birth and development of a...
The Routledge Companion to Digital Ethnography
1st Edition
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By Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell
December 10, 2019
With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital ...