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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Cultural and Political Nostalgia in the Age of Terror: The Melancholic Sublime
1st Edition
By Matthew Leggatt
December 10, 2019
This book re-examines the role of the sublime across a range of disparate cultural texts, from architecture and art, to literature, digital technology, and film, detailing a worrying trend towards nostalgia and arguing that, although the sublime has the potential to be the most powerful uniting ...
Explorations in Critical Studies of Advertising
1st Edition
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By James F. Hamilton, Robert Bodle, Ezequiel Korin
December 10, 2019
This volume provides a thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration of approaches to the critical study of advertising. Current and impending practices of advertising have in many ways exceeded the grasp of traditional modes of critique, due at least in part to their being formulated in very different ...
Geomedia Studies: Spaces and Mobilities in Mediatized Worlds
1st Edition
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By Karin Fast, André Jansson, Johan Lindell, Linda Ryan Bengtsson, Mekonnen Tesfahuney
December 10, 2019
This book introduces and develops the concept of geomedia studies as the name of a particular subfield of communication geography. Despite the accelerating societal relevance of ‘geomedia’ technologies for the production of various spaces, mobilities, and power-relations, and the unquestionable ...
Girlhood, Schools, and Media: Popular Discourses of the Achieving Girl
1st Edition
By Michele Paule
December 10, 2019
This book explores the circulation and reception of popular discourses of achieving girlhood, and the ways in which girls themselves participate in such circulation. It examines the figure of the achieving girl within wider discourses of neoliberal self-management and post-feminist possibility, ...
Historicising Transmedia Storytelling: Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds
1st Edition
By Matthew Freeman
December 10, 2019
Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling—typically branded a product of the contemporary digital media landscape—this book provides a historicised intervention into understandings of how fictional stories flow across multiple media forms. Through studies of the storyworlds ...
LGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe
1st Edition
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By Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc, Bart Eeckhout
December 10, 2019
Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are reflected and ...
Materiality and Popular Culture: The Popular Life of Things
1st Edition
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By Anna Malinowska, Karolina Lebek
December 10, 2019
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai’s famous phrase: "the social life of things", with ...
Materializing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
1st Edition
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By Laszlo Muntean, Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik
December 10, 2019
Memory matters. It matters because memory brings the past into the present, and opens it up to the future. But it also matters literally, because memory is mediated materially. Materiality is the stuff of memory. Meaningful objects that we love (or hate) function not only as aide-mémoire but are ...
Matrix Activism: Global Practices of Resistance
1st Edition
By Michela Ardizzoni
December 10, 2019
The intersection of virtual and physical spaces at the heart of contemporary political protests is a pivotal element in new practices of activism. In this new and global ecology of dissent and activism, different forces, stakeholders, and spaces, once defiantly discordant, come together to define ...
Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity: Transdisciplinary Approaches
1st Edition
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By Susanne Foellmer, Margreth Lünenborg, Christoph Raetzsch
December 10, 2019
As individuals incorporate new forms of media into their daily routines, these media transform individuals’ engagement with networks of heterogeneous actors. Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world ...
Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency
1st Edition
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By Tao Papaioannou, Suman Gupta
December 10, 2019
This book analyzes constructions of injustice, group identification and participation in news and social media in anti-austerity protests within the European Union (EU). Since 2008, EU member-states have witnessed waves of protests and demonstrations against the adoption of austerity measures and ...
New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature: Disrupting the Discourse
1st Edition
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By Sonora Jha, Alka Kurian
December 10, 2019
This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives. It brings incisive and expert analyses of emerging disruptive articulations that represent an unprecedented ...