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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Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Jorge Marí
December 10, 2019
This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two decades. It uses a range of critical and theoretical perspectives to examine a broad variety of films and filmmakers, such as works by Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la ...
Women Do Genre in Film and Television
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Harrod, Katarzyna Paszkiewicz
December 10, 2019
Winner of first Prize in the BAFTSS Best Edited Collection competition, this volume examines how different generations of women work within the genericity of audio-visual storytelling not necessarily to ‘undo’ or ‘subvert’ popular formats, but also to draw on their generative force. Recent examples...
Fashion and Masculinities in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas
April 15, 2019
Popular culture in the latter half of the twentieth century precipitated a decisive change in style and body image. Postwar film, television, radio shows, pulp fiction and comics placed heroic types firmly within public consciousness. This book concentrates on these heroic male types as they have ...
A Cultural Approach to Emotional Disorders: Psychological and Aesthetic Interpretations
1st Edition
By Deidre Pribram
April 27, 2018
In her latest contribution to the growing field of emotion studies, Deidre Pribram makes a compelling argument for why culturalist approaches to the study of emotional "disorders" continue to be eschewed, even as the sociocultural and historical study of mental illness flourishes. The author ties ...
Motherhood in the Media: Infanticide, Journalism, and the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Barbara Barnett
April 27, 2018
This book examines contemporary media stories about women who kill their children. By analyzing media texts, motherhood blogs, and journalistic interviews, the book seeks to understand better maternal violence and the factors that lead women to harm their children. The central thesis of this book ...
Reviving Gramsci: Crisis, Communication, and Change
1st Edition
By Marco Briziarelli, Susana Martínez Guillem
April 27, 2018
Engaging debates within cultural studies, media and communication studies, and critical theory, this book addresses whether Gramscian thought continues to be relevant for social and cultural analysis, in particular when examining times of crisis and social change. The book is motivated by two ...
Social Memory Technology: Theory, Practice, Action
1st Edition
By Karen Worcman, Joanne Garde-Hansen
April 27, 2018
Memory is a fundamental aspect of being and becoming, intimately entwined with space, time, place, landscape, emotion, imagination and identity. Memory studies is a burgeoning field of enquiry drawing from a range of social science, arts and humanities disciplines including human geography, ...
Biopolitical Media: Catastrophe, Immunity and Bare Life
1st Edition
By Allen Meek
April 25, 2018
This book presents an historical account of media and catastrophe that engages with theories of biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri and others. It explains how responses to catastrophe in media and cultural criticism over the past 150 years are ...
Critical Animal and Media Studies: Communication for Nonhuman Animal Advocacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Núria Almiron, Matthew Cole, Carrie P. Freeman
April 25, 2018
This book aims to put the speciesism debate and the treatment of non-human animals on the agenda of critical media studies and to put media studies on the agenda of animal ethics researchers. Contributors examine the convergence of media and animal ethics from theoretical, philosophical, discursive...
Intimacy on the Internet: Media Representations of Online Connections
1st Edition
By Lauren Rosewarne
April 25, 2018
The focus of this book is on the media representations of the use of the Internet in seeking intimate connections—be it a committed relationship, a hook-up, or a community in which to dabble in fringe sexual practices. Popular culture (film, narrative television, the news media, and advertising) ...
The DIY Movement in Art, Music and Publishing: Subjugated Knowledges
1st Edition
By Sarah Lowndes
April 25, 2018
This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary research, observation and original interviews, each chapter details the peak period of a city’s ...
The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film: Affect Theory's Other
1st Edition
By Pansy Duncan
April 25, 2018
Emotion and Postmodernism: is it possible to imagine an odder couple, stranger bedfellows, less bad company? The Emotional Life of Postmodern Film brings this unlikely pair into sustained dialogue, arguing that the interdisciplinary body of scholarship currently emerging under the rubric of "affect...