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]
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 ...
Consuming Utopia: Cultural Studies and the Politics of Reading
1st Edition
By John Storey
September 25, 2023
Consuming Utopia builds on critical insights into consumption and utopianism developed in two previous books by the author to elaborate what it means to read utopian fiction (including dystopian and anti-utopian) from the critical perspective of cultural studies. With a critical focus on social ...
Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology: Seeing through the Mirrorshades
1st Edition
By Anna McFarlane
September 25, 2023
This book traces developments in cyberpunk culture through a close engagement with the novels of the ‘godfather of cyberpunk’, William Gibson. Connecting his relational model of ‘gestalt’ psychology and imagery with that of the posthuman networked identities found in cyberpunk, the author draws out...
Heroes in Contemporary British Culture: Television Drama and Reflections of a Nation in Change
1st Edition
By Barbara Korte, Nicole Falkenhayner
September 25, 2023
This book explores how British culture is negotiating heroes and heroisms in the twenty-first century. It posits a nexus between the heroic and the state of the nation and explores this idea through British television drama. Drawing on case studies including programmes such as The Last Kingdom, ...
Illusion in Cultural Practice: Productive Deceptions
1st Edition
By Katharina Rein
September 25, 2023
This volume explores illusionism as a much larger phenomenon than optical illusion, magic shows, or special effects, as a vital part of how we perceive, process, and shape the world in which we live. Considering different cultural practices characterized by illusionism, this book suggests a ...
The Covid-19 Pandemic as a Challenge for Media and Communication Studies
1st Edition
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By Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Bartłomiej Łódzki
September 25, 2023
This truly interdisciplinary volume brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore changes in the significance of media and communication in the era of pandemic. The book answers two interrelated questions: how media and communication reality changed during the first wave of the COVID-19 ...
Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth and Young Adults: Situated, Embodied and Performed Ways of Being, Engaging and Belonging
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Blaikie
September 25, 2023
This collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults, examining their visual and cultural identity constructs. Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and ...
Women Comedians in the Digital Age: Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump
1st Edition
By Alex Symons
December 30, 2022
This book offers a thorough examination of digital work by women comedians in the US, exploring their use of digital media to perform jokes, engage with fans, remake their reputations, and become political activists. This book argues that despite its many adverse effects, digital work is changing ...
Migration, Identity, and Belonging: Defining Borders and Boundaries of the Homeland
1st Edition
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By Margaret Franz, Kumarini Silva
August 29, 2022
This volume responds to the question: How do you know when you belong to a country? In other words, when is the nation-state a homeland? The boundaries and borders defining who belongs and who does not proliferate in the age of globalization, although they may not coincide with national ...
Exploring Seriality on Screen: Audiovisual Narratives in Film and Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Ariane Hudelet, Anne Crémieux
August 01, 2022
This collective book analyzes seriality as a major phenomenon increasingly connecting audiovisual narratives (cinematic films and television series) in the 20th and 21st centuries. The book historicizes and contextualizes the notion of seriality, combining narratological, aesthetic, ...
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture: Place, Tourism and Belonging
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicky van Es, Stijn Reijnders, Leonieke Bolderman, Abby Waysdorf
August 01, 2022
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. ...
Adapting Endings from Book to Screen: Last Pages, Last Shots
1st Edition
Edited
By Armelle Parey, Shannon Wells-Lassagne
September 30, 2021
This book offers a new perspective on adaptation of books to the screen; by focusing on endings, new light is shed on this key facet of film and television studies. The authors look at a broad range of case studies from different genres, eras, countries and formats to analyse literary and cinematic...