Media and Communication Research

The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré

Edited by Jack Zipes, Joseph Russo

This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brothers Grimm. In stark contrast to the more literary ambitions of the Grimms' tales, Pitré’s possess a...

Published July 22nd 2008 by Routledge

The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré

Edited by Jack Zipes, Joseph Russo

This two-volume set collects 300 of the most entertaining and important folk and fairy tales of Giuseppe Pitré, a nineteenth century Sicilian folklorist whose significance ranks alongside the Brothers Grimm. In stark contrast to the more literary ambitions of the Grimms' tales, Pitré’s possess a...

Published July 22nd 2008 by Routledge

The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitré

By Giuseppe Pitre

Edited by Jack Zipes, Joseph Russo

Giuseppe Pitrè, a nineteenth-century Sicilian physician, gathered an enormous wealth of folk and fairy tales as he traveled and treated the poor throughout Palermo. He also received tales from friends and scholars throughout the island of Sicily. A dedicated folklorist, whose significance ranks...

Published July 23rd 2008 by Routledge

On the Meaning of Friendship Between Gay Men

Edited by Andrew R. Gottlieb

Published June 5th 2008 by Routledge

Media and the Moral Mind

Edited by Ron Tamborini

Series: Electronic Media Research Series

Questions regarding the relation between media and morality have been a lasting concern. Can media exposure shape or alter moral values? Does morality influence how audience members select, interpret and respond to media content? Attempts to answer such questions are hindered by the complex nature...

Published April 24th 2012 by Routledge

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

Sports Media

Transformation, Integration, Consumption

Edited by Andrew Billings

Series: Electronic Media Research Series

Looking toward a future with increasingly hybridized media offerings, Sports Media: Transformation, Integration, Consumption examines sports media scholarship and its role in facilitating understanding of the increasingly complex world of sports media. Acknowledging that consumer demand for sports...

Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

The Journalist's Guide to American Law

By John T. Nockleby, Laurie L. Levenson, Karl M. Manheim, F. Jay Dougherty, Victor J. Gold, Allan P. Ides, Daniel W. Martin

How do you report on the latest sensational criminal trial or newest controversial legislation without a basic understanding of how the American legal system works? This easy-to-use guidebook offers an overview of American law that should be found on the desk of any journalism student or...

Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge

The Life of Voices

Bodies, Subjects and Dialogue

By B. Hannah Rockwell

The Life of Voices illustrates how human voices have special significance as the place where mind and body collaborate to produce everyday speech. Hannah Rockwell links Russian semiotician Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of dialogue with French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s views of the...

Published April 7th 2011 by Routledge

Audience Transformations

Shifting Audience Positions in Late Modernity

Edited by Nico Carpentier, Kim Christian Schrøder, Lawrie Hallett

Series: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

The concept of the audience is changing. In the twenty-first century there are novel configurations of user practices and technological capabilities that are altering the way we understand and trust media organizations and representations, how we participate in society, and how we construct our...

To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge

Audience Research Methodologies

Between Innovation and Consolidation

Edited by Geoffroy Patriarche, Helena Bilandzic, Jakob Linaa Jensen, Jelena Jurisic

Series: Routledge Studies in European Communication Research and Education

The transformations of people’s relations to media content, technologies and institutions raise new methodological challenges and opportunities for audience research. This edited volume aims at contributing to the development of the repertoire of methods and methodologies for audience research by...

To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge

The Mobile Story

Narrative Practices with Locative Technologies

Edited by Jason Farman

What happens when stories meet mobile media? In this cutting-edge collection, contributors explore digital storytelling in ways that look beyond the desktop to consider how stories can be told through mobile, locative, and pervasive technologies. This book offers dynamic insights about the new...

To Be Published August 7th 2013 by Routledge

Cinematic Interfaces

Film Theory After New Media

By Seung-hoon Jeong

In this book, Seung-hoon Jeong introduces a synthetic, multi-faceted notion of interfaciality to film theory, proposing that a cinematic interface be understood as a contact surface mediating the cinematic image between two sides in spatial difference (object/medium/subject) and temporal deferment...

To Be Published July 8th 2013 by Routledge