Forthcoming Visual Culture Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

   Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   To Be Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body

   By Cassandra Jackson

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has...

   To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Pervasive Animation

   Edited by Suzanne Buchan

   Series: AFI Film Readers

   This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, connect them...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
4. For Creative Geographies

   Geography, Visual Arts and the Making of Worlds

   By Harriet Hawkins

   Series: Routledge Advances in Geography

   This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...

   To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Transnational Horror Across Visual Media

   Fragmented Bodies

   Edited by Dana Och, Kirsten Strayer

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts....

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture

   Edited by Lewis Johnson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies

   This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture

   Edited by Tim Shephard, Anne Leonard

   As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study, an ideal introduction for those coming...

   To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge
8. Art, Vision, and Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama

   Acts of Seeing

   By Amy Holzapfel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

   Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere "seed" of modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on stage. This book challenges this misconception by redefining realism as an under-examined form of visual modernism that positioned theatre at the crux of the unstable...

   To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
9. Crime and the Urban Imagination

   Law, Space and the Art of the Streets

   By Alison Young

   Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. Global Image Wars

    Geopolitics and Post-9/11 Visual Culture

    By Kari Anden-Papadopoulos

    Global Image Wars looks at the enduring power of visual representations to shape identities and structure relations of geopolitical power in the post 9/11 global media order. Increasingly professional government media management strategies have strengthened the dominance of official perspectives...

    To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge