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]
Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and Producer Perceptions of the Political Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Brian McNair, Terry Flew, Stephen Harrington, Adam Swift
June 16, 2017
In Australia, as in many comparable democracies, the role of the media in the political process is high on the public agenda. There is a perception of widespread disillusionment with and disengagement from politics amongst voters, and criticism of the media for failing to fulfil their democratic ...
Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science
1st Edition
By Lindsay Steenberg
May 24, 2017
This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has ...
American Media and the Memory of World War II
1st Edition
By Debra Ramsay
April 11, 2017
For three generations of Americans, World War II has been a touchstone for the understanding of conflict and of America’s role in global affairs. But if World War II helped shape the perception of war for Americans, American media in turn shape the understanding and memory of World War II. ...
Digital Media Sport: Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Brett Hutchins, David Rowe
November 08, 2016
Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the ...
Media Reform: Democratizing the Media, Democratizing the State
1st Edition
Edited
By Monroe E. Price, Beata Rozumilowicz, Stefaan G. Verhulst
July 15, 2016
Using examples of media from a range of countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa including Uruguay, Poland, China, Indonesia, Jordan and Uganda, Media Reform considers the social and cultural implications of a free and independent media....
The Memory of Sound: Preserving the Sonic Past
1st Edition
By Seán Street
May 31, 2016
This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the...
Radio’s Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By John Nathan Anderson
January 29, 2016
Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation’s ...
Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary: The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Aggression in Hardcore Pornography
1st Edition
By Natalie Purcell
January 29, 2016
No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than popular heterosexual pornographies. They showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designed to arouse. ...
Public Media Management for the Twenty-First Century: Creativity, Innovation, and Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Michał Głowacki, Lizzie Jackson
January 20, 2016
This book analyzes the challenges facing public service media management in the face of ongoing technological developments and changing audience behaviors. It connects models, strategies, concepts, and managerial theories with emerging approaches to public media practices through an examination of ...
Documentary's Awkward Turn: Cringe Comedy and Media Spectatorship
1st Edition
By Jason Middleton
December 18, 2015
Despite the prominence of "awkwardness" as cultural buzzword and descriptor of a sub-genre of contemporary film and television comedy, it has yet to be adequately theorized in academic film and media studies. Documentary’s Awkward Turn contributes a new critical paradigm to the field by presenting ...
Ambiguities of Activism: Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed
1st Edition
By Ingrid M. Hoofd
December 07, 2015
This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change ...
Global Perspectives on Tarzan: From King of the Jungle to International Icon
1st Edition
Edited
By Annette Wannamaker, Michelle Abate
December 07, 2015
This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences? How is it that the same narrative serves as the basis for ...