Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

New and Published Books

1-10 of 44 results in Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

1. Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture

   Gender, Crime, and Science

   By Lindsay Steenberg

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Cities, Citizens, and Technologies

   Urban Life and Postmodernity

   By Paula Geyh

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new...

   Published November 27th 2012 by Routledge
3. Generation X Goes Global

   Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion

   Edited by Christine Henseler

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics’ understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and...

   Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary

   The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Aggression in Hardcore Pornography

   By Natalie Purcell

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than popular heterosexual pornographies. They showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designed to arouse....

   Published June 12th 2012 by Routledge
5. Cultural Technologies

   The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society

   Edited by Göran Bolin

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings...

   Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
6. Ambiguities of Activism

   Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed

   By Ingrid M. Hoofd

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change...

   Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
7. Global Perspectives on Tarzan

   From King of the Jungle to International Icon

   Edited by Annette Wannamaker, Michelle Abate

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences? How is it that the same narrative serves as the basis for...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sport Beyond Television

   The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport

   By Brett Hutchins, David Rowe

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have...

   Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

   Edited by Harald Hendrix

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Deconstruction After 9/11

    By Martin McQuillan

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia...

    Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge