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]
Beauty, Violence, Representation
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa A. Dickson, Maryna Romanets
June 16, 2017
This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections...
International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies: This World is My Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Catherine Leen, Niamh Thornton
June 16, 2017
This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a...
Media and the Ecological Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Maxwell, Jon Raundalen, Nina Lager Vestberg
June 16, 2017
Media and the Ecological Crisis is a collaborative work of interdisciplinary writers engaged in mapping, understanding and addressing the complex contribution of media to the current ecological crisis. The book is informed by a fusion of scholarly, practitioner, and activist interests to inform, ...
Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia: Public and Producer Perceptions of the Political Public Sphere
1st Edition
By Brian McNair, Terry Flew, Stephen Harrington, Adam Swift
June 16, 2017
In Australia, as in many comparable democracies, the role of the media in the political process is high on the public agenda. There is a perception of widespread disillusionment with and disengagement from politics amongst voters, and criticism of the media for failing to fulfil their democratic ...
Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture: Gender, Crime, and Science
1st Edition
By Lindsay Steenberg
May 24, 2017
This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has ...
American Media and the Memory of World War II
1st Edition
By Debra Ramsay
April 11, 2017
For three generations of Americans, World War II has been a touchstone for the understanding of conflict and of America’s role in global affairs. But if World War II helped shape the perception of war for Americans, American media in turn shape the understanding and memory of World War II. ...
Digital Media Sport: Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Brett Hutchins, David Rowe
November 08, 2016
Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the ...
Media Reform: Democratizing the Media, Democratizing the State
1st Edition
Edited
By Monroe E. Price, Beata Rozumilowicz, Stefaan G. Verhulst
July 15, 2016
Using examples of media from a range of countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa including Uruguay, Poland, China, Indonesia, Jordan and Uganda, Media Reform considers the social and cultural implications of a free and independent media....
The Memory of Sound: Preserving the Sonic Past
1st Edition
By Seán Street
May 31, 2016
This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the...
Radio’s Digital Dilemma: Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By John Nathan Anderson
January 29, 2016
Radio's Digital Dilemma is the first comprehensive analysis of the United States’ digital radio transition, chronicling the technological and policy development of the HD Radio broadcast standard. A story laced with anxiety, ignorance, and hubris, the evolution of HD Radio pitted the nation’s ...
Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary: The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Aggression in Hardcore Pornography
1st Edition
By Natalie Purcell
January 29, 2016
No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than popular heterosexual pornographies. They showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designed to arouse. ...
Public Media Management for the Twenty-First Century: Creativity, Innovation, and Interaction
1st Edition
Edited
By Michał Głowacki, Lizzie Jackson
January 20, 2016
This book analyzes the challenges facing public service media management in the face of ongoing technological developments and changing audience behaviors. It connects models, strategies, concepts, and managerial theories with emerging approaches to public media practices through an examination of ...