Media & Film Studies

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1. Organs without Bodies

   On Deleuze and Consequences

   By Slavoj Zizek

   Series: Routledge Classics

   With a new introduction by the author In this deliciously polemical work, a giant of cultural theory immerses himself in the ideas of a giant of French thought. In his inimical style, Zizek links Deleuze's work with both Oedipus and Hegel, figures from whom the French philosopher distanced himself...

   Published April 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Reel to Real

   Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

   By bell hooks

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and...

   Published September 10th 2008 by Routledge
3. Enjoy Your Symptom!

   Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out

   By Slavoj Zizek

   Series: Routledge Classics

   The title is just the first of many startling asides, observations and insights that fill this guide to Hollywood on the Lacanian psychoanalyst’s couch. Zizek introduces the ideas of Jacques Lacan through the medium of American film, taking his examples from over 100 years of cinema, from Charlie...

   Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
4. Signatures of the Visible

   By Frederic Jameson

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In such celebrated works as Postmodernism: The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson has established himself as one of America’s most observant cultural commentators. In Signatures of the Visible, Jameson turns his attention to cinema - the artform that has replaced the novel...

   Published February 25th 2007 by Routledge
5. Outlaw Culture

   Resisting Representations

   By Bell Hooks

   Series: Routledge Classics

   According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks...

   Published May 11th 2006 by Routledge
6. Television

   Technology and Cultural Form, 3rd Edition

   By Raymond Williams

   Series: Routledge Classics

   Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects,...

   Published August 20th 2003 by Routledge
7. Understanding Media

   2nd Edition

   By Marshall McLuhan

   Series: Routledge Classics

   When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty...

   Published May 17th 2001 by Routledge