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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London as Screen Gateway
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Evans, Malini Guha
November 28, 2024
London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the intersection between London as a material place and...
Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History
1st Edition
By Rosanna Maule
November 28, 2024
This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and...
True Crime in American Media
1st Edition
Edited
By George S. Larke-Walsh
November 28, 2024
This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America. As a collection of new ...
The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
1st Edition
Edited
By Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla, Francisco Sáez de Adana
November 15, 2024
The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction ...
Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Muñoz-González
October 18, 2024
This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgia and grasp a sense of nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young audiences make sense of nostalgic ...
Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts
1st Edition
Edited
By Anke Finger, Manuela Wagner
October 09, 2024
In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept. Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are ...
Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain
1st Edition
By Sarah Lowndes
October 09, 2024
Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia and racism that have undermined community cohesion in the United Kingdom since 1979, and which have continued largely unchecked through the last ...
Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
1st Edition
By Dal Yong Jin
October 08, 2024
This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and ...
Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era: A Critical Examination of Disney+
1st Edition
By Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Timothy Pollard
October 07, 2024
Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment – the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming – and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace. Exploring how Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, ...
Covid-19 in Film and Television: Watching the Pandemic
1st Edition
Edited
By Verena Bernardi, Amanda D. Giammanco, Heike Mißler
September 12, 2024
This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainment’s changing role during and following the Covid-19 pandemic...
Drag in the Global Digital Public Sphere: Queer Visibility, Online Discourse and Political Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas
August 26, 2024
This volume explores drag in global online spaces as a distinct departure from the established success, and limitations, of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Centred around discourses of LGBTQ+ visibility and political mobilization, the volume addresses how these discourses have moved beyond the ...
Serial Killers in Contemporary Television: Familiar Monsters in Post-9/11 Culture
1st Edition
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By Brett A.B. Robinson, Christine Daigle
August 26, 2024
This volume examines the significant increase in representations of serial killers as central characters in popular television over the last two decades. Via critical analyses of the philosophical and existential themes presented to viewers and their place in the cultural landscape of contemporary ...