Media Studies & Journalism

In Film Theory: Rational Reconstructions, Warren Buckland asks a series of questions about how movie theory gets written in the first place. This not only subjects movie theory to rigorous examination; it also teaches students how to write theory, by enabling them to question and critically interrogate the logic of previous movie theory arguments.

As a benchmark for the current state of advertising theory, this text will facilitate a deeper understanding for advertising students, and will be required reading for advertising theory coursework. If you teach a related course, why not order a complimentary examination copy?

This edited volume offers the first comprehensive account of the rich and popular history of British comedy cinema from silent slapstick and satire to contemporary romantic comedy. Films covered include: St Trinians, A Fish Called Wanda, Brassed Off, Local Hero, The Full Monty, Four Lions and In the Loop.

The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more 1.5 billion internet users across the globe, about one fourth of the world’s population. This is certainly a new phenomenon that is of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. 

Misunderstanding the Internet is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed textbook that aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies around the internet.
 

This path-breaking collection explores the breadth and depth of South Asia’s many vibrant cinemas. It extends well beyond Bollywood to Nepali, Sri Lankan, Pakistani Panjabi, Bhojpuri, Bengali, Kannada, and early Tamil cinemas, while unpacking the category of 'Bollywood' itself. The coverage of cinematic features is equally far-ranging, exploring music, dance, audiences, filmmakers, industries, and the mutual influences among South Asia’s cinemas.

For nearly two centuries, Americans have embraced the Western like no other artistic genre. Westerns: The Essential Collection addresses the rise, fall and durability of the genre, and examines its preoccupation with multicultural matters in its organizational structure.

Check out FlowTV's featured column, "American Dreams – Israeli Formats: How Israeli TV Became a U.S. Success Story", by Sharon Shahaf.

Sharon is co-editor of Routledge title, Global Television Formats (2011). Learn more here.
 

"Feminism At the Movies: Understanding Gender In Contemporary Popular Cinema, is edited by Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer, and published by Routledge in 2011. It’s by the far the most comprehensive collection of essays on this topic I’ve seen, and takes in 21 essays by contributing scholars. These are loosely grouped into five categories: masculinity, a space for women, consumer culture, family and violence." Continue reading.