Film & TV Communication Books

New and Published Books

1. Contemporary Black American Cinema

   Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

   Edited by Mia Mask

   Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the contributing authors deftly connect interdisciplinary perspectives from American studies,...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. TV Cops

   The Contemporary American Television Police Drama

   By Jonathan Nichols-Pethick

   The police drama has been one of the longest running and most popular genres in American television. In TV Cops, Jonathan Nichols-Pethick argues that, perhaps more than any other genre, the police series in all its manifestations—from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice to The Wire—embodies the full...

   Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge
3. Media Representations of Gender and Torture Post-9/11

   By Marita Gronnvoll

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   In this timely book, Gronnvoll offers a feminist rhetorical examination of gender and torture, looking at the media coverage of Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, as well as recent popular entertainment television serials where torture appears as a plot device (including 24). In exposing news media...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia

   Shocking Chic

   Edited by Helena Goscilo, Vlad Strukov

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

   This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. The book demonstrates how the process of ‘celebrification’ in...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Visual in Sport

   Edited by Mike Huggins, Mike O'Mahony

   Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

   This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
6. Justice and the Media

   Reconciling Fair Trials and A Free Press

   By Matthew D. Bunker

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   USE THIS FIRST PARAGRAPH ONLY FOR GENERAL CATALOGS... The First Amendment right of free speech is a fragile one. Its fragility is found no less in legal opinions than in other, less specialized forms of public discourse. Both its fragility and its sometimes surprising resiliency are reflected in...

   Published December 11th 2011 by Routledge
7. News Analysis

   Case Studies of international and National News in the Press

   By Teun A. van Dijk

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   Published December 1st 2011 by Routledge
8. The Cultural Politics of Post-9/11 American Sport

   Power, Pedagogy and the Popular

   By Michael Silk

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Much of the writing on the post-9/11 period in the United States has focused on the role of "official" Government rhetoric about 9/11. Those who have focused on the news media have suggested that they played a key role in (re)defining the nation, allowing the citizenry to come to terms with 9/11,...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
9. Television

   Critical Methods and Applications, 4th Edition

   By Jeremy G. Butler

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   For nearly two decades, Television: Critical Methods and Applications has served as the foremost guide to television studies. Designed for the television studies course in communication and media studies curricula, Television explains in depth how television programs and commercials are made and...

   Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge
10. Introduction to Film Studies

    5th Edition

    Edited by Jill Nelmes

    Introduction to Film Studies is a comprehensive textbook for students of cinema. This completely revised and updated fifth edition guides students through the key issues and concepts in film studies, traces the historical development of film and introduces some of the worlds key national cinemas....

    Published October 31st 2011 by Routledge