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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Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik
December 07, 2015
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this ...
The Nationwide Television Studies
1st Edition
By Charlotte Brunsdon, David Morley
November 24, 2015
This book brings together for the first time David Morley and Charlotte Brunsdon's classic texts, Everyday Television: Nationwide and The Nationwide Audience. Originally published in 1978 and 1980 these two research projects combine innovative textual readings and audience analysis of the BBC's ...
Barthes’ Mythologies Today: Readings of Contemporary Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Pete Bennett, Julian McDougall
June 23, 2015
This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading ...
De-Convergence of Global Media Industries
1st Edition
By Dal Yong Jin
June 23, 2015
Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while ...
Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture
1st Edition
By Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo
June 08, 2015
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events ...
A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media
1st Edition
By Jesse Drew
April 24, 2015
The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international ...
Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics
1st Edition
By Mikhail Gronas
April 23, 2015
In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories ...
Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination
1st Edition
By Dona Kolar-Panov
December 22, 2014
Video, War and the Diasporic Imagination is an incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities. Focusing on the Croatian and Macedonian Communities in Western Australia, Dona Kolar-Panov documents the social and cultural changes ...
News of the World: World Cultures Look at Television News
1st Edition
Edited
By Klaus Bruhn Jensen
December 01, 2014
This is the first in-depth study of how television viewers around the world respond to the ever increasing mass of information available from news programmes. Based on individual and household interviews in seven countries including India, Mexico, Italy and Denmark, the contributors examine the ...
Reporting the Israeli-Arab Conflict: How Hegemony Works
1st Edition
By Tamar Liebes
December 01, 2014
The author shows how journalists abandon their watchdog role, however unintentionally, to support 'our side', for example in the 1991 Gulf War. This book demonstrates how readers and viewers are also implicated by virtue of their expectations and their inability to decode the press critically. ...
The New Communications Landscape: Demystifying Media Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Anura Goonasekera, Jan Servaes, Georgette Wang
December 01, 2014
The innovative and rapid growth of communication satellites and computer mediated technologies in the late 1980s and early 1990s, combined with the deregulation of national broadcasting, led many media commentators to assume that the age of national media had been lost. But what has become clear is...
Artificial Culture: Identity, Technology, and Bodies
1st Edition
By Tama Leaver
November 10, 2014
Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable ...