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1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. Journalism

   Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Howard Tumber

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   This Major Work from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series is a four-volume set of key theoretical, empirical, and historical writings on journalism. Adopting a pluralist theoretical approach, the collection brings together the very best foundational and cutting-edge...

   Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge
8. Subcultures

   Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Ken Gelder

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Subcultures attract a great deal of interest, both in popular media and in academic work. Comprehensive and fascinating, these four volumes represent work on subcultures across several disciplines: cultural history, cultural studies, criminology and sociology. Beginning by looking at accounts of...

   Published April 29th 2007 by Routledge
9. Cultural Heritage

   Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Laurajane Smith

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Cultural Heritage is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Edited by Laurajane Smith of the University of York, UK, this four-volume collection brings together the essential Anglophone literature of heritage studies. Encompassing both...

   Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
10. Communication Theories

    Edited by Paul Cobley

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    This remarkable four-volume collection brings together a range of essays at the cutting edge of, communication theory. Selections included provide in-depth theoretical analysis and overviews rather than specific study of phenomena within a given theoretical tradition. The collection provides...

    Published March 20th 2006 by Routledge