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1. Barthes’ "Mythologies" Today

   Readings of Contemporary Culture

   Edited by Peter Bennett, Julian McDougall

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Through a revisiting of Roland Barthes’ Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volumeexplores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education and cultural studies here are tasked with...

   To Be Published July 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. After the Media

   Culture and Identity in the 21st Century

   By Peter Bennett, Alex Kendall, Julian McDougall

   This provocative text considers the state of media and cultural studies today after the demolition of the traditional media paradigm, and engages with the new, active consumer culture. Media Studies, particularly within schools, has until recently been concerned with mass media and the effects of...

   Published May 5th 2011 by Routledge
3. Trajan

   Optimus Princeps

   By Julian Bennett

   Series: Roman Imperial Biographies

   Did Trajan really deserve his reputation as the embodiment of all imperial virtues? Why did Dante, writing in the Middle Ages, place him in the sixth sphere of Heaven among the Just and Temperate rulers?In this, the only biography of Trajan available in English, Julian Bennett rigorously tests the...

   Published December 20th 2000 by Routledge