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]
The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation
1st Edition
By Simone Murray
July 08, 2013
Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings. ...
Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body
1st Edition
By Cassandra Jackson
June 24, 2013
From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has ...
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Rocío G. Davis, Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Johanna C. Kardux
February 14, 2013
This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this ...
Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination: The Image between the Visible and the Invisible
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernd Huppauf, Christoph Wulf
February 14, 2013
In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the...
International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Romano
February 14, 2013
This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation — the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across ...
Cities, Citizens, and Technologies: Urban Life and Postmodernity
1st Edition
By Paula Geyh
November 28, 2012
This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new ...
Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory
1st Edition
Edited
By Harald Hendrix
February 23, 2012
This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of ...
Deconstruction After 9/11
1st Edition
By Martin McQuillan
February 03, 2012
In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia ...
The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero
1st Edition
Edited
By Angela Ndalianis
January 26, 2010
Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys...
The Practice of Public Art
1st Edition
Edited
By Cameron Cartiere, Shelly Willis
December 24, 2009
Wide-ranging and timely, The Practice of Public Art brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators from the United Kingdom and United States to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. The Practice...
Communicating in the Third Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Karin Ikas, Gerhard Wagner
December 17, 2009
Communicating in the Third Space aims to clarify Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is applied in practical--as ...
Film and Television After DVD
1st Edition
Edited
By James Bennett, Tom Brown
December 17, 2009
Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest selling item in history of US consumer electronics market" (McDonald 2007: 135). This book examines the...