Major Works: Media & Film Studies

New and Published Books

1. Sound Studies

   Edited by Michael Bull

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Sound Studies is the primary theoretical and empirical alternative to our understanding of media and culture by visual means. The field is now well established as a serious area of research and study. Concentrating on the history of audio media, Sound Studies explores the nature of sound and...

   Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Advertising

   Edited by Iain MacRury

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Academic analysts and practitioner-theorists of advertising draw on rich and innovative multidisciplinary resources where cultural and media analysis meet economics, anthropology, semiotics, gender studies, social psychology, linguistics, and applied neuroscience. This new four-volume collection...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Chinese Cinema

   Edited by Chris Berry

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Chinese cinema is the only non-English language cinema to have a significant global presence. From multiplex blockbusters like Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon to festival hits such as Jia Zhangke’s Still Life, Chinese cinema succeeds like no other foreign-language cinema. The...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Documentary Film

   Edited by Ian Aitken

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Documentary film is cinema’s oldest form, dating back to the medium’s invention at the turn of twentieth century. From cinema’s earliest days, important documentary films and film-makers have emerged continuously and, today, interest in documentary film remains substantial, and is rapidly growing....

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
5. Popular Culture

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Research in and around popular culture continues to flourish. And its study is, more than ever, a key component of Media and Communications Studies courses, and a vital part of Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology curricula. The sheer scale of the available research exploring popular culture—and...

   Published September 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Book Publishing

   Edited by John Feather

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Books are the cornerstone of our culture. They disseminate ideas, and preserve and transmit literature. Their contents underpin great religions, and have been responsible for wars and revolutions. They lie at the heart of education and scholarship. They have brought pleasure (and some pain) to...

   Published May 3rd 2011 by Routledge
7. Female Journalists of the Fin de Siècle

   Edited by Lorna Shelley

   Series: History of Feminism

   Especially in recent years, late nineteenth-century novels, short stories, and essays have attracted considerable scholarly interest. Research into texts by and about the New Woman has played a major role in shaping a critical understanding of fin-de-siècle literature, New Journalism, gender...

   Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
8. War and Conflict Communication

   Edited by Philip Seib

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the...

   Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
9. Celebrity

   Edited by Chris Rojek

   Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

   In recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour; the role of the public-relations industry in manipulating television audiences; the relationship...

   Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
10. Communication Yearbook 33

    Edited by Christina S. Beck

    The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews across the field of communication. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, volumes offer insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings...

    Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge