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Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies


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Cultural and media studies are now well-established as important academic disciplines and are inspiring new research into a wide range of pertinent issues. This series presents outstanding research in these subjects, helping to shape the direction of future inquiry.

 

To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Slut Narratives in Popular Culture

Slut Narratives in Popular Culture

1st Edition

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By Laurie McMillan
August 09, 2024

Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term “slut” in U.S. popular media, 2000-2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive. Moving beyond ...

The Undead Child in Popular Culture Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved

The Undead Child in Popular Culture: Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Craig Martin, Debbie Olson
August 09, 2024

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explore the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that ...

Childhood in Animation Navigating a Secret World

Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Jane Batkin
August 01, 2024

Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved and recollected on screen; but what do these ...

Europeans and the Media Between Global and Local

Europeans and the Media: Between Global and Local

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Andrea Miconi
July 18, 2024

This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in ...

News Aesthetics and Myth The Making of Media Illiteracy in India

News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India

1st Edition

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By Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
July 05, 2024

This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded only by mediated communication. Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the author proposes that before venturing into media literacy, we ...

Collaboration in Media Studies Doing and Being Together

Collaboration in Media Studies: Doing and Being Together

1st Edition

Edited By Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür, Nazan Haydari
March 12, 2024

This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness. Via diverse cases of collaboration in media studies, from methodological contemplations to on‑the‑field social practices, the book proposes reflections and inquiries around collective research, media,...

Celebrity Bromances Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas

Celebrity Bromances: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas

1st Edition

By Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael
January 29, 2024

This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity ‘bromances,’ interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity, and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male ...

Celebrity and New Media Gatekeeping Success

Celebrity and New Media: Gatekeeping Success

1st Edition

By Stephanie Patrick
January 29, 2024

This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media’s gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women. Drawing on her own experiences working as...

Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice

Language, Image and Power in Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice

1st Edition

Edited By Susan Larson
January 29, 2024

This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the...

Mediatisation of Emotional Life

Mediatisation of Emotional Life

1st Edition

Edited By Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Mateusz Sobiech
January 29, 2024

This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life. Chapters explore key aspects of the mediatisation of emotional life, feelings and interpersonal relations:...

Playing with Reality Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There

Playing with Reality: Denying, Manipulating, Converting, and Enhancing What Is There

1st Edition

Edited By Sidney Homan
January 29, 2024

This volume explores how and why we deny, or manipulate, or convert, or enhance reality. Finding it important to come to terms with reality, with what is there before us, and, with reality however defined, to live responsibly, this collection takes a truly multidisciplinary approach to examining ...

Multilingual Fiction Series Genres, Geographies and Performances

Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances

1st Edition

By Nahuel Ribke
December 01, 2023

This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content. ...

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