Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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Moral Panics, Social Fears, and the Media
Historical Perspectives
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
The media have always played a central role in organising the way ideas flow through societies. But what happens when those ideas are disruptive to normal social relations? Bringing together work by scholars in history, media and cultural studies and sociology, this collection explores this role in...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular culture enact memory and generate processes of memory. They do memory, and in this...
Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Forensic Science in Contemporary American Popular Culture
Gender, Crime, and Science
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This book identifies, traces, and interrogates contemporary American culture's fascination with forensic science. It looks to the many different sites, genres, and media where the forensic has become a cultural commonplace. It turns firstly to the most visible spaces where forensic science has...
Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Generation X Goes Global
Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics’ understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and...
Published September 23rd 2012 by Routledge
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Violence and the Pornographic Imaginary
The Politics of Sex, Gender, and Aggression in Hardcore Pornography
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
No cultural product reveals our collective fascination with sexual violence more candidly than popular heterosexual pornographies. They showcase scenes of intense sexual aggression and cruelty that are gendered in repetitive, patterned configurations—configurations that are designed to arouse....
Published June 12th 2012 by Routledge
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Cultural Technologies
The Shaping of Culture in Media and Society
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
The essays in this volume discuss both the culture of technology that we live in today, and culture as technology. Within the chapters of the book cultures of technology and cultural technologies are discussed, focussing on a variety of examples, from varied national contexts. The book brings...
Published May 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Ambiguities of Activism
Alter-Globalism and the Imperatives of Speed
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume provides a critical and in-depth investigation of the relationship between alter-globalist thinking and practices and their popular discourses. It examines the ways in which several alter-globalist activist groups (like Indymedia, no-borders campaigns, and forms of climate change...
Published May 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Global Perspectives on Tarzan
From King of the Jungle to International Icon
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences? How is it that the same narrative serves as the basis for...
Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
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Sport Beyond Television
The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of Networked Media Sport
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Television is no longer the only screen delivering footage and news to people about sport. Computers, the Internet, Web, mobile and other digital media are increasingly important technologies in the production and consumption of sports media. Sport Beyond Television analyzes the changes that have...
Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
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Studying Mobile Media
Cultural Technologies, Mobile Communication, and the iPhone
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
The iPhone represents an important moment in both the short history of mobile media and the long history of cultural technologies. Like the Walkman of the 1980s, it marks a juncture in which notions about identity, individualism, lifestyle and sociality require rearticulation. this book ...
Published February 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Artificial Culture
Identity, Technology, and Bodies
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Artificial Culture is an examination of the articulation, construction, and representation of "the artificial" in contemporary popular cultural texts, especially science fiction films and novels. The book argues that today we live in an artificial culture due to the deep and inextricable...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
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Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
In this book, Goriunova offers a critical analysis of the processes that produce digital culture. Digital cultures thrive on creativity, developing new forces of organization to overcome repetition and reach brilliance. In order to understand the processes that produce culture, the author...
Published September 26th 2011 by Routledge
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Branding Post-Communist Nations
Marketizing National Identities in the “New” Europe
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Nation branding--a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing--gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of...
Published September 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Science Fiction Film, Television, and Adaptation
Across the Screens
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
While film and television seem to be closely allied screen media, our feature films and television series have seldom been successfully adapted across those screens. In fact, rather than functioning as portals, those allied media often seem, quite literally, screens that filter out something that...
Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
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The Adaptation Industry
The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Adaptation constitutes the driving force of contemporary culture, with stories adapted across an array of media formats. However, adaptation studies has been concerned almost exclusively with textual analysis, in particular with compare-and-contrast studies of individual novel and film pairings....
Published August 4th 2011 by Routledge
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Emotions, Genre, Justice in Film and Television
Detecting Feeling
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Popular film and television are ideally suited in understanding how emotions create culturally shared meanings. Yet very little has been done in this area. Emotion, Genre, and Justice in Film and Television explores textual representations of emotions from a cultural perspective, rather than in...
Published April 24th 2011 by Routledge
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The Poetry of Radio
The Colour of Sound
This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in sound broadcasting...
Published January 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Design at Home
Domestic Advice Books in Britain and the USA since 1945
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory
Russian Literary Mnemonics
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. He focuses on the mnemonic processes involved in literary creativity, and the question of how our memories...
Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
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Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has...
Published August 24th 2010 by Routledge
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Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations—whether literary or photographic? How has the Holocaust registered in our increasingly globally connected consciousness? What does it mean that this European event is often used as an interpretive or representational touchstone for...
Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
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Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art
Performing Migration
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this...
Published July 25th 2010 by Routledge
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International Journalism and Democracy
Civic Engagement Models from Around the World
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation — the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across...
Published May 4th 2010 by Routledge
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Letters, Postcards, Email
Technologies of Presence
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
In this original study, Milne moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication...
Published February 2nd 2010 by Routledge
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Trauma and Media
Theories, Histories, and Images
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was...
Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
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Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination
The Image between the Visible and the Invisible
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
In this interdisciplinary anthology, essays study the relationship between the imagination and images both material and mental. Through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology, contributors focus on the role of the...
Published April 26th 2009 by Routledge
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Cities, Citizens, and Technologies
Urban Life and Postmodernity
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This book is about the contemporary city and those who live in it. It is thus also about the urban world of the era (extending roughly from the 1960s to the present) that we see as postmodern, and specifically about how the postmodern city is changing under the impact of globalization and new...
Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
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Mobile Technologies
From Telecommunications to Media
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors...
Published December 21st 2008 by Routledge
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Deconstruction After 9/11
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
In this book Martin McQuillan brings Derrida's writing into the immediate vicinity of geo-politics today, from the Kosovan conflict to the war in Iraq. The chapters in this book follow both Derrida's writing since Specters of Marx and the present political scene through the former Yogoslavia...
Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
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The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys...
Published October 22nd 2008 by Routledge
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Communicating in the Third Space
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Communicating in the Third Space aims to clarify Homi K. Bhabha’s theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is applied in practical--as...
Published September 24th 2008 by Routledge
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The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these...
Published August 21st 2008 by Routledge
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Film and Television After DVD
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest selling item in history of US consumer electronics market" (McDonald 2007: 135). This book examines the...
Published June 23rd 2008 by Routledge
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The Practice of Public Art
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This exciting new collection of essays by practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators offers divergent perspectives on the numerous facets of the public art process. The volume also includes a useful graphic timeline of public art history....
Published May 5th 2008 by Routledge
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American Icons
The Genesis of a National Visual Language
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Despite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television’s relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality...
Published November 12th 2007 by Routledge
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Audiobooks, Literature, and Sound Studies
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the...
Published March 14th 2011 by Routledge
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De-Convergence of Global Media Industries
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
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Reading Beyond the Book
The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and online book groups. This volume offers the first critical analysis of mass reading events...
Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
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A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
The last few decades have helped dispel the myth that media should remain driven by high-end professionals and market share. This book puts forward the concept of "communications from below" in contrast to the "globalization from above" that characterizes many new developments in international...
To Be Published April 18th 2013 by Routledge
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Digital Media Sport
Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Live broadband streaming of the 2008 Beijing Olympics accounted for 2,200 of the estimated 3,600 total hours shown by the American NBC-Universal networks. At the 2012 London Olympics, unprecedented multi-platforming embraced online, mobile devices, game consoles and broadcast television, with the...
To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Barthes’ "Mythologies" Today
Readings of Contemporary Culture
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
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Beauty, Violence, Representation
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume explores the relationship among beauty, violence, and representation in a broad range of artistic and cultural texts, including literature, visual art, theatre, film, and music. Charting diversifying interests in the subject of violence and beauty, dealing with the multiple inflections...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Public Media Management for the Twenty-First Century
Creativity, Innovation, and Interaction
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This book analyzes the challenges facing public service media management in the face of ongoing technological developments and changing audience behaviors. It connects models, strategies, concepts, and managerial theories with emerging approaches to public media practices through an examination of...
To Be Published June 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Popular Culture in Africa
The Episteme of the Everyday
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume marks the 25th anniversary of Karin Barber’s ground-breaking article, "Popular Arts in Africa", which stimulated new debates about African popular culture and its defining categories. Focusing on performances, audiences, social contexts and texts, contributors ask how African popular...
To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge
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International Perspectives on Chicana/o Studies
"This World is My Place"
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume examines how the field of Chicana/o studies has developed to become an area of interest to scholars far beyond the United States and Spain. For this reason, the volume includes contributions by a range of international scholars and takes the concept of place as a unifying paradigm. As a...
To Be Published September 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Transnational Horror Across Visual Media
Fragmented Bodies
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts....
To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Radio’s Digital Dilemma
Broadcasting in the Twenty-First Century
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Radio’s Digital Dilemma chronicles the development of digital radio broadcasting, which has been fraught with difficulty as evidenced by the fact that what we have come to understand as "radio" in the twentieth century still has no feasible digital broadcast component....
To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
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Transgender Experience
Found in Transition
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, continental Europe, and South Africa, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on intimacy, erotics, agency, and...
To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Transgender Representation and the Politics of the Real in the United States
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Trans people are becoming increasingly visible in popular culture, academia, and national politics, yet there are profound disagreements in contemporary United States culture over what constitutes a person’s "real" gender and whether it ever really can be changed. Despite these disagreements, there...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge