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Explorations in Communication and History

Edited by Barbie Zelizer

When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know?

Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77734-6 (Routledge)

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Consuming History

Historians and Heritage in Contemporary Popular Culture

By Jerome de Groot

Non-academic history – ‘public history’ – is a complex, dynamic entity which impacts on the popular understanding of the past at all levels.

In Consuming

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39945-6 (Routledge)

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Western Media Systems

By Jonathan Hardy

Western Media Systems offers a critical introduction to media systems in North America and Western Europe. The book offers a wide-ranging survey of comparative media…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39692-9 (Routledge)

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AS Media Studies

The Essential Introduction for AQA, 3rd Edition

By Peter Wall, Peter Wall, Philip Rayner

AS Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA is fully revised for the 2008 specification with full colour throughout, over 100 images, new case studies…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44823-9 (Routledge)

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It's Not TV

Watching HBO in the Post-Television Era

Edited by Marc Leverette, Brian L. Ott, Cara Louise Buckley

Since first going on the air in 1972, HBO has continually attempted to redefine television as we know it. Today, pay television (and HBO in…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96038-0 (Routledge)

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Global Media/tion In and Out of Context

By T.J.M. Holden, Timothy J. Scrase

This new inter-disciplinary book is the first comparative, case-based analysis of media panoply in (and out of) Asia today. Examining what the authors call the…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-47459-7 (Routledge)

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Cities and Cinema

By Barbara Mennel

Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare.…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36446-1 (Routledge)

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Television Entertainment

By Jonathan Gray

Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world’s most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a…

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2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77224-2 (Routledge)

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The Journalistic Imagination

Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter

By Richard Keeble, Sharon Wheeler

Focusing on the neglected journalism of writers more famous for their novels or plays, this new book explores the specific functions of journalism within the…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-41724-2 (Routledge)

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The Mediation of Power

A Critical Introduction

By Aeron Davis

The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this…

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2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40491-4 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization
By Jennifer Fay, Justus Nieland
To be published November 18th 2009

Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture
By Roger Stahl
To be published November 30th 2009

The Documentary Handbook
By Peter Lee-Wright
To be published December 11th 2009

Photography
By Stephen Bull
To be published December 15th 2009

Journalism as Practice: MacIntyre, Virtue Ethics and the Press
By Sandra Borden
To be published December 17th 2009

Entertainment and Society, 2nd Edition: Influences, Impacts, and Innovations
By Shay Sayre, Cynthia King
To be published December 21st 2009

Arnheim for Film and Media Studies
Edited by Scott Higgins
To be published January 1st 2010

Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image
Edited by Keith Hayward, Mike Presdee
To be published January 15th 2010

Global Television Formats: Circulating Culture, Producing Identity
Edited by Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf
To be published February 1st 2010

Flow TV: Television in the Age of Media Convegence
Edited by Michael Kackman, Marnie Binfield, Matthew Thomas Payne, Allison Perlman, Bryan Sebok
To be published March 1st 2010

Coverage: Media Spaces and Security after 9/11
By Lisa Parks
To be published March 1st 2010

The Media Studies Teacher's Handbook
Edited by Elaine Scarratt, Jon Davison
To be published May 15th 2010

The Videogames Handbook
By David Surman
To be published May 15th 2010

Transcultures - Asia-Pacific Media Representations of Globalization
By Vera Mackie
To be published May 15th 2010

Television and New Media: Must-Click TV
By JENNIFER GILLAN
To be published June 1st 2010

The Race and Media Reader
Edited by Gilbert B. Rodman
To be published June 1st 2010

The Media Student's Book
By Gill Branston, Roy Stafford, Roy Stafford, Gill Branston
To be published June 1st 2010

Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television
By Deidre Pribram
To be published June 1st 2010

The American Journalism History Reader: Critical and Primary Texts
Edited by Bonnie S. Brennen, Hanno Hardt
To be published July 1st 2010

Political Communication & Social Theory
By Aeron Davis
To be published July 1st 2010

Race and News: Critical Perspectives
By Christopher P. Campbell, Rockell A. Brown, Cheryl D. Jenkins, Kim LeDuff
To be published July 1st 2010

What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss
By Greg Smith
To be published July 1st 2010

A2 Media Studies: The Essential Introduction for AQA
By Peter Bennett, Jerry Slater, Peter WallPeter Wall
To be published July 1st 2010

Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday
By Ben Highmore
To be published July 15th 2010

The Media Studies Reader
Edited by Laurie Ouellette
To be published August 1st 2010

De-Westernizing Communication Research
Edited by Georgette Wang
To be published August 15th 2010

The Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture in the Digital Age
Edited by Zizi Papacharissi
To be published October 1st 2010