Media & Film Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Identity and Communication

   New Agendas in Communication

   Edited by Dominic L Lasorsa, America Rodriguez

   Series: New Agendas in Communication Series

   Identity and Communication offers an innovative take on traditional topics of intercultural communication while promoting new ideas and progressive theories.With essays by emerging voices in identity communication, volume contributors discuss the ways that racial, cultural, and gender identities...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture

   Edited by Matthew P. McAllister, Emily West

   The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture provides an essential guide to the key issues, methodologies, concepts, debates, and policies that shape our everyday relationship with advertising. The book contains eight sections: Historical Perspectives considers the historical...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Memory, Conflict and New Media

   Web Wars in Post-Socialist States

   Edited by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor, Vera Zvereva

   Series: Media, War and Security

   This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states – where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism. To this day, former socialist states face the challenge of constructing national identities,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
4. The Global News Challenge

   Market Strategies of International Broadcasting Organizations in Developing Countries

   By Anne Geniets

   Series: Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies

   The Global News Challenge tackles one of the timeliest topics in mass communication today—the challenges facing international broadcasters with universal branding strategies in developing countries. In these heavily government-controlled media environments with a scarcity of reliable information,...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
5. Creativity and Advertising

   Affect, Events and Process

   By Andrew McStay

   Creativity and Advertising develops novel ways to theorise advertising and creativity. Arguing that combinatory accounts of advertising based on representation, textualism and reductionism are of limited value, Andrew McStay suggests that advertising and creativity are better recognised in terms of...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
6. The Arab Spring

   Critical Analyses

   Edited by Khair Haseeb

   This volume provides a wealth of in-depth, country-specific analyses of the Arab Spring, in addition to works that examine the larger theoretical framework and socio-political implications of events. Unlike other analyses, often from the perspective of Western scholarship from the outside looking...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. The Music Documentary

   Acid Rock to Electropop

   Edited by Benjamin Halligan, Robert Edgar, Kirsty Fairclough-Isaacs

   Series: Routledge Music and Screen Media Series

   The Music Documentary offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making. The writers in this volume argue persuasively that the music documentary must be considered as an essential cultural...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
8. Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India

   Entertaining the Raj

   By Babli Sinha

   Series: Routledge Studies in South Asian History

   Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
9. Sound and Aural Media in Postmodern Literature

   Novel Listening

   By Justin St. Clair

   Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

   This study examines postmodern literature— including works by Kurt Vonnegut, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo, Philip K. Dick, Ishmael Reed, and Thomas Pynchon —arguing that one of the formal logics of postmodern fiction is heterophonia: a pluralism of sound. The postmodern novel not only bears...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. L2 Writing in Secondary Classrooms

    Student Experiences, Academic Issues, and Teacher Education

    Edited by Luciana C. de Oliveira, Tony Silva

    Series: ESL & Applied Linguistics Professional Series

    Second language writers and the teaching of writing at the secondary level have received little attention compared with other skills such as reading. Addressing this gap, this volume uniquely looks at both adolescent L2 writing and the preparation of secondary teachers to work with this population...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge