Broadcast Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Media and the Moral Mind

   Edited by Ron Tamborini

   Series: Electronic Media Research Series

   Questions regarding the relation between media and morality have been a lasting concern. Can media exposure shape or alter moral values? Does morality influence how audience members select, interpret and respond to media content? Attempts to answer such questions are hindered by the complex nature...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
2. Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia

   Shocking Chic

   Edited by Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov

   Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies

   This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. 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
4. Transnational Television History

   A Comparative Approach

   Edited by Andreas Fickers, Catherine Johnson

   Although television has developed into a major agent of the transnational and global flow of information and entertainment, television historiography and scholarship largely remains a national endeavour, partly due to the fact that television has been understood as a tool for the creation of...

   Published January 31st 2012 by Routledge
5. The Poetry of Radio

   The Colour of Sound

   By Seán Street

   This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in sound broadcasting...

   Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
6. Audiovisual Regulation under Pressure

   Comparative Cases from North America and Europe

   By Thomas Gibbons, Peter Humphreys

   In the face of globalization and new media technologies, can policy makers and regulators withstand deregulatory pressures on the ‘cultural policy toolkit’ for television? This comparative study provides an interdisciplinary investigation of trends in audiovisual regulation, with the focus on...

   Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Global Television Formats

   Understanding Television Across Borders

   Edited by Tasha Oren, Sharon Shahaf

   For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to...

   Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
8. Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)

   Selected Writings

   By Raymond Williams

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United...

   Published November 8th 2011 by Routledge
9. New Documentary

   A Critical Introduction

   New Documentary: A Critical Introduction provides a comprehensive account of the last two decades of documentary filmmaking in Britain, the US and Europe. Stella Bruzzi's engaging textbook discusses key genres, filmmakers, and issues for the study of non-fiction film and television, including:* key...

   Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge
10. Branding Television

    By Catherine Johnson

    Series: Comedia

    Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable and digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone. This is the first book to offer a sustained critical...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge