Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice
Post-Mass Media: The Super-Crisis of Relevance
1st Edition
By Yong-Chan Kim
December 15, 2025
Post-Mass Media redefines media in the 21st century, viewing it as a pervasive environment rather than just tools or platforms. Systematically examining the media environment and its key issues, this book considers the multidimensional conceptualization of media, differentiation between the mass ...
The Business Strategies of the Major Hollywood Film Studios (1929–2024)
1st Edition
By Guy Di Piazza
February 21, 2025
Surveying the strategies employed by film studios to market and produce their most successful films between 1929 and present day, this book incorporates multilayered comprehensive analysis on the media industry and how it works. Author and business strategist Guy Di Piazza draws on over 25 years ...
Cinematic Articulation in Motion Graphics
1st Edition
By Michael Betancourt
October 08, 2024
This book develops a critical and theoretical approach to the semiotics of motion pictures as they are applied to a broader range of constructions than traditional commercial narrative productions. This interdisciplinary approach begins with the problems posed by motion perception to develop a ...
Filmmaking in Academia: Practice Research for Filmmakers
1st Edition
By Agata Lulkowska
June 27, 2024
Evaluating the existing position of film as research, Filmmaking in Academia offers clear guidance and practical advice from the planning and conception of research films to the making, evaluation, dissemination and impact of practice-based research. This book aspires to serve as a guide for new ...
African American Female Leadership in Major Motion Pictures: From Marginalized to Mainstream
1st Edition
By Tracy L.F. Worley
February 09, 2024
This book explores the factors contributing to the under-representation of African American female directors in mainstream cinema leadership. It also unmasks the potential strategies African American female film directors might pursue to reduce this inequity. Author Tracy L. F. Worley draws on ...
Contemporary Challenges in Mediatisation Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Göran Bolin
April 03, 2023
This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodological challenges and problems, addressing ignored and less frequently discussed topics, critical and controversial themes, and defining niches and ...
Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics and Cinema
1st Edition
By Michael Betancourt
August 20, 2019
This book explores the question of realism in motion pictures. Specifically, it explores how understanding the role of realism in the history of title sequences in film can illuminate discussions raised by the advent of digital cinema. Ideologies of the Real in Title Sequences, Motion Graphics and...
Typography and Motion Graphics: The 'Reading-Image'
1st Edition
By Michael Betancourt
November 29, 2018
In his latest book, Michael Betancourt explores the nature and role of typography in motion graphics as a way to consider its distinction from static design using the concept of the ‘reading-image’ to model the ways that motion typography dramatizes the process of reading and audience recognition ...
The Screenwriters Taxonomy: A Roadmap to Collaborative Storytelling
1st Edition
By Eric Williams
September 14, 2017
In The Screenwriters Taxonomy, award-winning screenwriter and educator Eric R. Williams offers a new collaborative approach for creative storytellers to recognize, discuss and reinvent storytelling paradigms. Williams presents seven different aspects of storytelling that can be applied to any ...