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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Performing Ethnicity, Performing Gender: Transcultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Bettina Hofmann, Monika Mueller
December 10, 2019
Performance and performativity are important terms for a theorization of gender and race/ethnicity as constitutive of identity. This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars ...
Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Pete Bennett, Julian McDougall
December 10, 2019
Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its ...
Postfeminist Celebrity and Motherhood: Brand Mom
1st Edition
By Jorie Lagerwey
December 10, 2019
This book analyzes the intersections of celebrity, self-branding, and "mommy" culture. It examines how images of celebrity moms playing versions of themselves on reality television, social media, gossip sites, and self-branded retail outlets negotiate the complex demands of postfeminism and the ...
Reclaiming Critical Remix Video: The Role of Sampling in Transformative Works
1st Edition
By Owen Gallagher
December 10, 2019
Remix is now considered by many to be a form of derivative work, but such generalizations have resulted in numerous non-commercial remixes being wrongfully accused of copyright infringement. Gallagher argues, however, that remix is a fundamentally transformative practice. The assumption that ...
Screen Comedy and Online Audiences
1st Edition
By Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore
December 10, 2019
The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. This book contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge films and TV shows that are meant to be funny? And what might that have to do with our ...
Spectral Spaces and Hauntings
1st Edition
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By Christina Lee
December 10, 2019
This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting. It considers how the ‘appearance’ of absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something that once was, and still is, (t)here. At its core, the book asks: how and why do certain places ...
Subjectivity across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Maike Sarah Reinerth, Jan-Noël Thon
December 10, 2019
Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as "qualia machines," as technologies that allow for the ...
The Creative Underground: Art, Politics and Everyday Life
1st Edition
By Paul Clements
December 10, 2019
Paul Clements champions the creative underground and expressions of difference through visionary avant-garde and resistant ideas. This is represented by an admixture of utopian literature, manifestos and lifestyles which challenge normality and attempt to reinvent society, as practiced for example,...
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics: Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina
1st Edition
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By Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Franziska Bergmann, Georg Vogt
December 10, 2019
"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp’s simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp ...
The Materiality of Love: Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice
1st Edition
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By Anna Malinowska, Michael Gratzke
December 10, 2019
Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their recent incarnations, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on the relationship between love, objects and forms of materializing ...
The Rise of Transtexts: Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
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By Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz, Mélanie Bourdaa
December 10, 2019
This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists industrial transmedia texts, produced by ...
The Trauma Graphic Novel
1st Edition
By Andrés Romero-Jódar
December 10, 2019
The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new ...