Media & Film Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Battlestar Galactica and International Relations

   Edited by Nicholas Kiersey, Iver Neumann

   Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

   Looking at a television franchise like Battlestar Galactica (BSG) is no longer news within the discipline of International Relations. A growing number of scholars in and out of IR are studying the importance of cultural artifacts – popular or otherwise – for the phenomena that make up the core of...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Environmental Communication Yearbook

   Volume 1

   Edited by Susan L. Senecah

   Editorial ScopeThe Environmental Communication Yearbook is a multidisciplinary forum through which a broad audience of academics, professionals, and practitioners can share and build theoretical, critical, and applied scholarship addressing environmental communication in a variety of contexts. This...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Journalists, Sources, and Credibility

   New Perspectives

   Edited by Bob Franklin, Matt Carlson

   Series: Routledge Research in Journalism

   This volume revisits what we know about the relationship between journalists and their sources. By asking new questions, employing novel methodologies, and confronting sweeping changes to journalism and media, the contributors reinvigorate the conversation about who gets to speak through the news....

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
4. Disability and New Media

   By Katie Ellis, Mike Kent

   Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture

   Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Stories and Social Media

   Identities and Interaction

   By Ruth E. Page

   Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

   This book examines everyday stories of personal experience that are published online in contemporary forms of social media. Taking examples from discussion boards, blogs, social network sites, microblogging sites, wikis, collaborative and participatory storytelling projects, Ruth Page explores how...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Role of the Press and Communication Technology in Democratization

   The Nigerian Story

   By Aje-Ori Anna Agbese

   Series: African Studies

   In the 1990s, Nigeria, like several countries in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America, underwent transition programs to return the country to democracy. Nigeria’s democratization in the 1990s was a civil and international movement to free Nigeria from over 20 years of authoritarian...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
7. Atomic Mumbai

   Living with the Radiance of a Thousand Suns

   By Raminder Kaur

   Atomic Mumbai offers an insightful historical and ethnographic account of how nuclear issues are represented in popular culture, print media, films, documentaries, advertising and superhero comics, driven by perceptions of those based in the city of Mumbai, a prime site of nuclear establishments in...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge India
8. Film Censorship in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia Compared

   By Saw Tiong Guan

   Series: Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studies

   Film censorship has always been a controversial matter, particularly in jurisdictions with restrictive state-based censorship systems. This book reviews the film censorship system in the Asia-Pacific by comparing the systems used in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Australia. It identifies the key issues...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
9. The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film

   Edited by Ian Aitken

   The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film is a fully international reference work on the history of the documentary film from the Lumière brothers' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1885) to Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 911 (2004). Previously published in three volumes, entries...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
10. Genre, Gender and the Effects of Neoliberalism

    The New Millennium Hollywood Rom Com

    By Betty Kaklamanidou

    Series: Popular Culture and World Politics

    The romantic comedy has long been regarded as an inferior film genre by critics and scholars alike, accused of maintaining a strict narrative formula which is considered superficial and highly predictable. However, the genre has resisted the negative scholarly and critical comments and for the last...

    Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge