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
[email protected]
Studies of Video Practices: Video at Work
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathias Broth, Eric Laurier, Lorenza Mondada
February 05, 2018
The last two decades have seen a rapid increase in the production and consumption of video by both professionals and amateurs. The near ubiquity of devices with video cameras and the rise of sites like YouTube have lead to the growth and transformation of the practices of producing, circulating, ...
Transnational Horror Across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies
1st Edition
Edited
By Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer
February 05, 2018
This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts. ...
Embodied Metaphors in Film, Television, and Video Games: Cognitive Approaches
1st Edition
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By Kathrin Fahlenbrach
January 03, 2018
In cognitive research, metaphors have been shown to help us imagine complex, abstract, or invisible ideas, concepts, or emotions. Contributors to this book argue that metaphors occur not only in language, but in audio visual media well. This is all the more evident in entertainment media, which ...
Media Education for a Digital Generation
1st Edition
Edited
By Julie Frechette, Rob Williams
January 03, 2018
Media education for digital citizenship is predicated upon the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and produce media content and communication in a variety of forms. While many media literacy approaches overemphasize the end-goal of accessing digital media content through the acquisition of ...
Spanish-Language Television in the United States: Fifty Years of Development
1st Edition
By Kenton T. Wilkinson
January 03, 2018
Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population. Industry and demographic projections forecast rising influence through the 21st century. This book traces U.S. Spanish-language television’s development from ...
The Middle Class in Emerging Societies: Consumers, Lifestyles and Markets
1st Edition
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By Leslie L. Marsh, Hongmei Li
January 03, 2018
This volume examines the discursive construction of the meanings and lifestyle practices of the middle class in the rapidly transforming economies of Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the social, political and cultural implications at local and global levels. While ...
Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race in American Film and Television: Screening the Closet
1st Edition
By Melanie Kohnen
December 22, 2017
This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV ...
Technologies of Consumer Labor: A History of Self-Service
1st Edition
By Michael Palm
December 22, 2017
This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local ...
The Borders of Subculture: Resistance and the Mainstream
1st Edition
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By Alexander Dhoest, Steven Malliet, Jacques Haers, Barbara Segaert
October 12, 2017
This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope. On the one hand, the notion of resistance is redefined and applied to contemporary practices of cultural production and entrepreneurship. On the other hand, contributors reconsider ...
Beauty, Violence, Representation
1st Edition
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By Lisa A. Dickson, Maryna Romanets
June 16, 2017
This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections...
International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place
1st Edition
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By Catherine Leen, Niamh Thornton
June 16, 2017
This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a...
Media and the Ecological Crisis
1st Edition
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By Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen, Nina Lager Vestberg
June 16, 2017
Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to inform, ...