Routledge Studies in Media Theory and Practice
Post-Mass Media: The Hyper-Crisis of Relevance
1st Edition
By Yong-Chan Kim
December 11, 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 and 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 ...
Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television
1st Edition
By Monika Bednarek
September 30, 2021
As entertaining as it is enlightening, Creating Dialogue for TV: Screenwriters Talk Television presents interviews with five Hollywood professionals who talk about all things related to dialogue – from naturalistic style to the building of characters to swearing and dialect. Screenwriters/...
Film & TV Tax Incentives in the U.S.: Courting Hollywood
1st Edition
By Glenda Cantrell, Daniel Wheatcroft
September 30, 2021
Entertainment tax incentives are one of the greatest tools in the arsenal of filmmaking. They pay a portion of production expenditures back to the filmmaker, while creating powerful economic engines for the states who implement them properly. They are high in the list of considerations for ...
Title Sequences as Paratexts: Narrative Anticipation and Recapitulation
1st Edition
By Michael Betancourt
December 17, 2019
In his third book on the semiotics of title sequences, Title Sequences as Paratexts, theorist Michael Betancourt offers an analysis of the relationship between the title sequence and its primary text—the narrative whose production the titles credit. Using a wealth of examples drawn from across film...
Semiotics and Title Sequences: Text-Image Composites in Motion Graphics
1st Edition
By Michael Betancourt
December 12, 2019
Title sequences are the most obvious place where photography and typography combine on-screen, yet they are also a commonly neglected part of film studies. Semiotics and Title Sequences presents the first theoretical model and historical consideration of how text and image combine to create meaning...
Synchronization and Title Sequences: Audio-Visual Semiosis in Motion Graphics
1st Edition
By Michael Betancourt
December 12, 2019
Synchronization and Title Sequences proposes a semiotic analysis of the synchronization of image and sound in motion pictures using title sequences. Through detailed historical close readings of title designs that use either voice-over, an instrumental opening, or title song to organize their ...
Open Space New Media Documentary: A Toolkit for Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Patricia R. Zimmermann, Helen De Michiel
December 10, 2019
Open Space New Media Documentary examines an emerging and significant area of documentary practice in the twenty-first century: community-based new media documentary projects that move across platforms and utilize participatory modalities. The book offers an innovative theorization of these ...