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1. Advertising

   Edited by Iain MacRury

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE!(Valid until 3 months after publication) Academic analysts and practitioner-theorists of advertising draw on rich and innovative multidisciplinary resources where cultural and media analysis meet economics, anthropology, semiotics, gender studies, social psychology,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
2. Chinese Cinema

   Edited by Chris Berry

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Chinese cinema is the only non-English language cinema to have a significant global presence. From multiplex blockbusters like Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to festival hits such as Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Chinese cinema succeeds like no other foreign-language cinema. The...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
3. Documentary Film

   Edited by Ian Aitken

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Documentary film is cinema’s oldest form, dating back to the medium’s invention at the turn of twentieth century. From cinema’s earliest days, important documentary films and film-makers have emerged continuously and, today, interest in documentary film remains substantial, and is rapidly growing....

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
4. Public Relations

   Edited by Robert Heath

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Public Relations is increasingly recognized as a well-established communication and management science. Indeed, the discipline has now generated an abundance of serious scholarly research which is very wide-ranging and which continues to flourish as never before. But much of the relevant literature...

   Published July 1st 2012 by Routledge
5. Everyday Life

   Edited by Ben Highmore

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Coinciding with the massive growth of consumerism after the Second World War, ‘everyday life’ has emerged as a crucial site of scholarly exploration. The critical study of quotidian routines, rules, spaces, and objects has become a central concern for scholars working in cultural studies....

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
6. Popular Culture

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular culture—and...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
7. Fashion

   Edited by Malcolm Barnard

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Over the last forty years or so academic interest in fashion has burgeoned, and, since the 1970s at least, attempts to define, analyse, and critically explain fashion phenomena have become vital areas of research and study in almost all disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. As...

   Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Book Publishing

   Edited by John Feather

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Books are the cornerstone of our culture. They disseminate ideas, and preserve and transmit literature. Their contents underpin great religions, and have been responsible for wars and revolutions. They lie at the heart of education and scholarship. They have brought pleasure (and some pain) to...

   Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
9. War and Conflict Communication

   Edited by Philip Seib

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the...

   Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
10. Radio

    Edited by Andrew Crisell

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Over the last sixty years or so academic interest in the mass media has burgeoned. It is not, perhaps, surprising that this interest at first focused principally on the visual media of film and television, where it has remained intensive. Nevertheless, serious thinking about radio soon followed....

    Published November 12th 2008 by Routledge