Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
About the Book Series
Cultural and media studies are now well-established as important academic disciplines and are inspiring new research into a wide range of pertinent issues. This series presents outstanding research in these subjects, helping to shape the direction of future inquiry.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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The Humanitarian Fable: Saviorism, Race, and Aid
1st Edition
By David Jefferess
February 23, 2026
The Humanitarian Fable examines how popular humanitarian communication constructs global poverty as a moral narrative that reinforces unequal power dynamics between the Global North and Global South. Taking a cultural studies approach, the book argues that humanitarian discourse places too much ...
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World
1st Edition
By Jane Batkin
December 26, 2025
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved, and recollected on screen; but what do ...
Europeans and the Media: Between Global and Local
1st Edition
By Andrea Miconi
December 26, 2025
This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in ...
News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India
1st Edition
By Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
December 26, 2025
This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded by mediated communication. Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the author proposes that before venturing into media literacy, we must ...
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Laurie McMillan
December 26, 2025
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term “slut” in U.S. popular media, 2000–2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive. Moving beyond ...
The Undead Child in Popular Culture: Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved
1st Edition
Edited
By Craig Martin, Debbie Olson
December 26, 2025
In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that ...
Soviet Narratology and Spatial Story Design: The Unintentional Storyteller
1st Edition
By Sylke Rene Meyer
October 20, 2025
Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications, situating spatial story design as medium sui generis that evolved as a counternarrative to agonal games on the one hand, and in distinction to linear narrative such as ...
Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era
1st Edition
Edited
By Rachel R. Reynolds, Dacia Pajé, Sienna Medina, John Gigante
September 19, 2025
This volume explores how so-called digital natives of GenZ use media in the crafting of generational beliefs and representational practices around sex, gender, and sexuality. Through qualitative chapters of critical, ethnographic, discursive, and textual analysis, an international team of authors ...
Collaboration in Media Studies: Doing and Being Together
1st Edition
Edited
By Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür, Nazan Haydari
July 30, 2025
This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness. Via diverse cases of collaboration in media studies, from methodological contemplations to on‑the‑field social practices, the book proposes reflections and inquiries around collective research, media,...
The Extra-Ordinary Girl: Care, Connection, and Social Power On and Off Screen
1st Edition
By Tina Belinda Benigno
July 18, 2025
Positioning the teen girl as a figure possessing exceptional power with the potential to instigate change, this book examines the “extra-ordinary” girl as she exists under neoliberalism today. Through a combination of textual and cultural analyses of figurations of girlhood in popular culture, and ...
Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou, Leslie Grace McMurtry
May 08, 2025
This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage – a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals, artifacts, and cultural spaces. Focusing on ...
Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances
1st Edition
By Nahuel Ribke
May 06, 2025
This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content. ...