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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The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon: From Concert Halls to the Halls of Academia
1st Edition
Edited
By Adam Dubin, Dean Vuletic, Antonio Obregón
August 26, 2024
Drawing from the wealth of academic literature about the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) written over the last two decades, this book consolidates and recognizes the ESC's relevance in academia by analysing its contribution to different fields of study. The book brings together leading ESC scholars ...
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Laurie McMillan
August 19, 2024
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term “slut” in U.S. popular media, 2000–2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive. Moving beyond ...
Europeans and the Media: Between Global and Local
1st Edition
By Andrea Miconi
August 13, 2024
This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in ...
The Undead Child in Popular Culture: Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved
1st Edition
Edited
By Craig Martin, Debbie Olson
August 07, 2024
In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that ...
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World
1st Edition
By Jane Batkin
August 01, 2024
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved, and recollected on screen; but what do ...
News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India
1st Edition
By Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
July 17, 2024
This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded by mediated communication. Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the author proposes that before venturing into media literacy, we must ...
Celebrity Bromances: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas
1st Edition
By Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael
January 29, 2024
This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity ‘bromances,’ interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity, and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male ...
Celebrity and New Media: Gatekeeping Success
1st Edition
By Stephanie Patrick
January 29, 2024
This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media’s gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women. Drawing on her own experiences working as...
Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice
1st Edition
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By Susan Larson
January 29, 2024
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the...
Mediatisation of Emotional Life
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Mateusz Sobiech
January 29, 2024
This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life. Chapters explore key aspects of the mediatisation of emotional life, feelings and interpersonal relations:...
Playing with Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There
1st Edition
Edited
By Sidney Homan
January 29, 2024
This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality. Finding it important to come to terms with reality, with what is there before us, and, with reality however defined, to live responsibly, this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining ...
Activating Cultural and Social Change: The Pedagogies of Human Rights
1st Edition
Edited
By Baden Offord, Caroline Fleay, Lisa Hartley, Yirga Gelaw Woldeyes, Dean Chan
September 25, 2023
In this thought-provoking book, a diverse range of educators, activists, academics, and community advocates provide theoretical and practical ways of activating our knowledge and understanding of how to build a human rights culture. Addressing approaches and applications to human rights within ...