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The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory

Magic, Metaphor, Power

Edited by Andrew Herman, Thomas Swiss

Engaging the thematic issues of the Web as a space where magic, metaphor, and power converge, the chapters cover such subjects as The Web and…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92502-0 (Routledge)

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Compassion Fatigue

How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death

By Susan D. Moeller

From outbreaks of the flesh eating viruses Ebola and Strep A, to death camps in Bosnia and massacres in Rwanda, the media seem to careen…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92098-8 (Routledge)

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Home, Exile, Homeland

Film, Media, and the Politics of Place

Edited by Hamid Naficy

Global changes in capital, power, technology and the media have caused massive shifts in how we define home and community, leaving redrawn territories and globalized…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91947-0 (Routledge)

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Democratization and the Media

Edited by Vicky Randall

Mass communications media play a potentially crucial role both in democratization and in ensuring democracy's survival. The essays in this volume analyse differing aspects of…

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1998 | Paperback: 978-0-7146-4446-2 (Routledge)

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Compassion Fatigue

How the Media Sell Disease, Famine, War and Death

By Susan D. Moeller

In her impassioned new book, Compassion Fatigue, Moeller warns that the American media threatens our ability to understand the world around us. Why do the…

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1998 | Hardback: 978-0-415-92097-1 (Routledge)

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Language Machines

Technologies of Literary and Cultural Production

Edited by Masten Masten, Peter Stallybrass, Nancy J. Vickers

Language Machines questions any easily progressive model of technological change, demonstrating the persistence rather than the obsolescence of language technologies over time, the continuous and…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91864-0 (Routledge)

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The Talking Cure

TV Talk Shows and Women

By Jane M. Shattuc

The Talking Cure examines four nationally syndicated television talk shows--Donahue, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Geraldo and Sally Jessy Raphael--which are primarily devoted to feminine culture…

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1997 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91088-0 (Routledge)

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PC Wars

Politics and Theory in the Academy

Edited by Jeffrey Williams

PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It…

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1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-91073-6 (Routledge)

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Textual Poachers

Television Fans and Participatory Culture

By Henry Jenkins

"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its…

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1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90572-5 (Routledge)

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Control of the Media in the United States

An Annotated Bibliography

By James R. Bennett

1992 | Hardback: 978-0-8240-4438-1 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

Journalism and Citizenship: New Agendas in Communication
Edited by Zizi Papacharissi
To be published July 17th 2009

Joystick Soldiers: The Politics of Play in Military Video Games
Edited by Nina B. Huntemann, Matthew Thomas Payne
To be published August 12th 2009

Crime and Media: A Reader
Edited by Chris Greer
To be published August 26th 2009

Cultural Adaptation
Edited by Albert Moran, Michael Keane
To be published October 1st 2009

The Emerging Research Library: Our Role in the Digital Future
Edited by Sul H. Lee
To be published October 6th 2009

Militainment, Inc.: War, Media, and Popular Culture
By Roger Stahl
To be published October 28th 2009

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 November 15th 2009

Film Noir: Hard-boiled Modernity and the Cultures of Globalization
By Jennifer Fay, Justus Nieland
To be published November 17th 2009

Trauma and Media: Theories, Histories, and Images
By Allen Meek
To be published November 19th 2009

Entertainment and Society, 2nd Edition: Audiences, Trends, and Impacts
By Shay Sayre, Cynthia King
To be published November 25th 2009

Photography
By Stephen Bull
To be published December 1st 2009

Framing Crime: Cultural Criminology and the Image
Edited by Keith Hayward, Mike Presdee
To be published December 2nd 2009

The Documentary Handbook
By Peter Lee-Wright
To be published December 15th 2009

Television and New Media: Must-Click TV
By Jennifer Gillan
To be published January 1st 2010

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday
By Ben Highmore
To be published May 1st 2010

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

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

Political Communication & Social Theory
By Aeron Davis
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

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