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]
The Pedagogies of Cultural Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Andrew Hickey
April 25, 2018
This volume provides an exploration of the manifold ways pedagogy is enacted in cultural studies practice. Pedagogy in the book comes to stand as far more than simply the "art of teaching"; contributors explore how pedagogy defines and shapes their practice as cultural studies scholars. Chapters ...
Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
1st Edition
Edited
By Carolene Ayaka, Ian Hague
February 13, 2018
Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don’t conform to particular...
Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels
1st Edition
By Ian Hague
February 06, 2018
Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just...
Media Independence: Working with Freedom or Working for Free?
1st Edition
Edited
By James Bennett, Niki Strange
February 06, 2018
Media independence is central to the organization, make-up, working practices and output of media systems across the globe. Often stemming from western notions of individual and political freedoms, independence has informed the development of media across a range of platforms: from the freedom of ...
Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media: Historical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Siân Nicholas, Tom O'Malley
February 06, 2018
The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in...
Serialization in Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Rob Allen, Thijs van den Berg
February 06, 2018
From prime-time television shows and graphic novels to the development of computer game expansion packs, the recent explosion of popular serials has provoked renewed interest in the history and economics of serialization, as well as the impact of this cultural form on readers, viewers, and gamers. ...
Transgender Experience: Place, Ethnicity, and Visibility
1st Edition
Edited
By Chantal Zabus, David Coad
February 06, 2018
This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility. The volume covers the...
American Representations of Post-Communism: Television, Travel Sites, and Post-Cold War Narratives
1st Edition
By Andaluna Borcila
February 05, 2018
With the televised events of 1989, territories of Eastern and Central Europe that had been marked as impenetrable and inaccessible to the Western gaze exploded into visibility. As the narratives of the Cold War crumbled, new narratives emerged and new geographies were produced on and by American ...
Gender and Humor: Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Delia Chiaro, Raffaella Baccolini
February 05, 2018
In the mid-seventies, both gender studies and humor studies emerged as new disciplines, with scholars from various fields undertaking research in these areas. The first publications that emerged in the field of gender studies came out of disciplines such as philosophy, history, and literature, ...
International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Masami Toku
February 05, 2018
This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and researchers from both manga’s home country of ...
Neuroscience and Media: New Understandings and Representations
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Grabowski
February 05, 2018
This volume explores how advances in the fields of evolutionary neuroscience and cognitive psychology are informing media studies with a better understanding of how humans perceive, think and experience emotion within mediated environments. The book highlights interdisciplinary and ...
Popular Culture in Africa: The Episteme of the Everyday
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephanie Newell, Onookome Okome
February 05, 2018
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African ...