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The Video Game Theory Reader

Edited by Mark J.P. Wolf, Bernard Perron

In the early days of Pong and Pac Man, video games appeared to be little more than an idle pastime. Today, video games make up…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-96579-8 (Routledge)

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The Audience in Everyday Life

Living in a Media World

By S. Elizabeth Bird

The Audience in Everyday Life argues that a media audience cannot be studied in front of the television alone--their interaction with media does not simply…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94258-4 (Routledge)

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New Media

Theories and Practices of Digitextuality

Edited by Anna Everett, John T. Caldwell

The mushroom-like growth of new media technologies is radically challenging traditional media outlets. The proliferation of technologies like DVDs, MP3s and the Internet has freed…

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2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93996-6 (Routledge)

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Political Communications

The General Election of 2001

Edited by Simon Atkinson, John Bartle, Roger Mortimore

This work examines political communications in British general elections. Like its predecessors it has a dual purpose: first, to make available the reflections of those…

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2002 | Hardback: 978-0-7146-5290-0 (Routledge)

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Soul Babies

Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

By Mark Anthony Neal

In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era.…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92658-4 (Routledge)

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The Sound Bite Society

How Television Helps the Right and Hurts the Left

By Jeffrey Scheuer

It was once said that "all politics is local." But today, all politics is televisual. Candidates spend millions on TV ads. Most people…

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2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-93662-0 (Routledge)

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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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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