Popular Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Reading Beyond the Book

   The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture

   By Danielle Fuller, DeNel Rehberg Sedo

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S.

   By Susan C. Boyd

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Drug prohibition emerged at the same time as the discovery of film, and their histories intersect in interesting ways. This book examines the ideological assumptions embedded in the narrative and imagery of one hundred fictional drug films produced in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. from 1912 to 2006...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Readings in Law and Popular Culture

   Edited by Steven Greenfield, Guy Osborn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Law, Society and Popular Culture

   Readings in Law and Popular Culture is the first book to bring together high quality research, with an emphasis on context, from key researchers working at the cutting-edge of both law and cultural disciplines. Fascinating and varied, the volume crosses many boundaries, dealing with areas as...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa

   Visualising the Game

   Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool

   Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

   Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
5. Global Entertainment Media

   Between Cultural Imperialism and Cultural Globalization

   By Tanner Mirrlees

   A critical cultural materialist introduction to the study of global entertainment media. In Global Entertainment Media, Tanner Mirrlees undertakes an analysis of the ownership, production, distribution, marketing, exhibition and consumption of global films and television shows, with an eye to...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
6. Russian Mass Media and Changing Values

   Edited by Arja Rosenholm, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Elena Trubina

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

   This book provides a multi-faceted picture of the many complex processes taking place in the field of contemporary Russian media and popular culture. Russian social and cultural life today is strongly individualised and consumers are offered innumerable alternatives; but at the same time options...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Islam and Popular Culture in Indonesia and Malaysia

   Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Home to approximately one-fifth of the world’s Muslim population, Indonesia and Malaysia are often overlooked or misrepresented in media discourses about Islam. Islam is a religion but there is also a popular culture, or popular cultures of Islam that are mass mediated, commercialized,...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
8. Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping

   No Time for Mother

   By Elizabeth Nathanson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

   In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women’s everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture from the 1990s through the present reveals two extremes: narratives about women who cannot...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Theatre and the State in Singapore

   Orthodoxy and Resistance

   By Terence Chong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   This book provides a comprehensive examination of the contemporary English-language theatre field in Singapore. It describes Singapore theatre as a politically dynamic field that is often a site for struggle and resistance against state orthodoxy, and how the cultural policies of the ruling People’...

   Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge
10. Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

    Edited by Liedeke Plate, Anneke Smelik

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge