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 Global Internet Histories
1st Edition
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By Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland
December 10, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its ...
The Routledge Companion to Imaginary Worlds
1st Edition
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By Mark Wolf
December 10, 2019
This companion provides a definitive and cutting-edge guide to the study of imaginary and virtual worlds across a range of media, including literature, television, film, and games. From the Star Trek universe, Thomas More’s classic Utopia, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Arda, to elaborate, user-created ...
The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media
1st Edition
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By Maria Cepeda, Dolores Inés Casillas
December 10, 2019
The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media provides students and scholars with an indispensable overview of the domestic and transnational dynamics at play within multi-lingual Latina/o media. The book examines both independent and mainstream media via race and gender in its theoretical and ...
The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture
1st Edition
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By Frederick Luis Aldama
December 10, 2019
Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, ...
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...
The Routledge Companion to British Media History
1st Edition
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By Martin Conboy, John Steel
November 30, 2017
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current ...
The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics
1st Edition
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By Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbo, Anders Larsson, Christian Christensen
July 27, 2017
Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge ...
The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
1st Edition
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By Toby Miller
July 22, 2016
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to ...