Broadcast Media Books

New and Published Books

1. Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

   Edited by Paul M. Pedersen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia

   By Tina Burrett

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

   As a new president takes power in Russia, this book provides an analysis of the changing relationship between control of Russian television media and presidential power during the tenure of President Vladimir Putin. It argues that the conflicts within Russia’s political and economic elites, and...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. De-Convergence of Global Media Industries

   By Dal Yong Jin

   Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

   Convergence has become a buzzword, referring on the one hand to the integration between computers, television, and mobile devices or between print, broadcast, and online media and on the other hand, the ownership of multiple content or distribution channels in media and communications. Yet while...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Interrogating Trauma

   Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

   Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

   Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture

   By Ethan Thompson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Television Studies

   In this original study, Thompson explores the complicated relationships between Americans and television during the 1950s, as seen and effected through popular humor. Parody and Taste in Postwar American Television Culture documents how Americans grew accustomed to understanding politics, current...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals)

   Selected Writings

   By Raymond Williams

   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 February 11th 2013 by Routledge
8. North Africa’s Arab Spring

   Edited by George Joffé

   This book addresses issues surrounding the evolution of the Arab Spring in North Africa. After a general introduction and explanation of the events on a region-wide basis, it turns to examine aspects of each of the countries concerned. The role of the Muslim Brotherhood during the Nasser regime and...

   Published February 11th 2013 by Routledge
9. Routledge Handbook of Media Law

   Edited by Monroe Price, Stefaan Verhulst, Libby Morgan

   Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law, this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective. The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence, rather it&...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Media Production

    A Practical Guide to Radio & TV

    By Amanda Willett

    Media Production is an introductory guide to radio, TV and film production techniques. Illuminating the step by step process from conception to delivery, from the initial brainstorms, through planning, research and editing, this book creates a guided structure to help students learn about...

    Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge