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Featured Books, News & Updates
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Audience Studies: A Japanese Perspective
Focusing on the case of contemporary Japan, this book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity. It will contribute significantly to the ‘internationalization’ of the media studies movement underway in the global era.
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The Media Student’s Book 5th edition launch
The eagerly awaited fifth edition of The Media Students Book is now available; the most up-to-date media textbook available anywhere, this is the book media classes have been waiting for.
Find out more about this superb book by visiting the companion website at www.mediastudentsbook.com
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Scriptwriting for the Screen
'If I was setting out as a screenwriter, this is the book I would read first and keep by me.' Melanie Harris, Producer, Crosslab Productions
'...a valuable addition to every screenwriting bookshelf' Screentalk
'This is one of the best guides to help screenwriters think visually that I have ever read' Creative Screenwriting
'The inventive exercises in ‘Scriptwriting for the Screen' give it the potential for revitalizing the experience of even experienced scriptwriters' 'Scope’ Online Journal of Film Studies
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Global Media Ecologies
This study highlights dramatic changes in worldwide media production, detailing how collaborations, in the form of co-productions, format franchising and audience interactivity, define the new media economy, and affect a shift across the entire field of cultural production. These developments also reflect broader trends in cultural and economic globalization.
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Coming soon: Everyday Pornographies
Public and academic debate about 'porn culture' is proliferating. Ironically, what is oftentimes lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography's mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography offers the opportunity to reconsider what it is that makes pornography a specific form of industrial practice and genre of representation.
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Coming Soon: What Media Classes Really Want to Discuss
You probably already have a clear idea of what a "discussion guide for students" is: a series of not-very-interesting questions at the end of a textbook chapter. Instead of triggering thought-provoking class discussion, all too oftentimes these guides are time-consuming and ineffective.
This is not that kind of discussion guide…
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2010 Media, Film, and TV Catalog Now Available Online!
Browse all the latest and bestselling books in Media, Film, and TV in our 2010 online catalog!
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Media Book of the Month, February 2010
Harold Veeser is Associate Professor of English at The City College of New York and written a new biography on Edward Said - The Charisma of Criticism. He is also co-author of Painting Between the Lines (2001), and editor of The New Historicism (1989), The New Historicism Reader (1994), Confessions of the Critics (1996), and The Stanley Fish Reader (1999). He has written for The Nation and various academic quarterlies, including The Journal of Armenian Studies, Ararat, and Armenian Forum.
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James Curran, Author of the Month, February 2010
James Curran and Jean Seaton's recently published 7th edition of Power Without Responsibility is the seminal book on the history and current state of the British media. It is now fully updated to include all the recent developments in media theory and practice.
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Featured Series: Routledge Film Guidebooks
The Routledge Film Guidebooks offer a clear introduction to and overview of the work of key filmmakers, movements or genres. Each guidebook contains an introduction, including a brief history; defining characteristics and major films; a chronology; key debates surrounding the filmmaker, movement or genre; and pivotal scenes, focusing on narrative structure, camera work and production quality.
