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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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Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture

Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture

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Edited By Cringuta Irina Pelea
October 13, 2023

This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture. Encompassing a wide range of ...

Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults

Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman
September 22, 2023

This book presents an innovative comparative view of how the issue of adolescent sexuality and consent is differently treated in various media. Analyzing teenage sexual encounters with adults across a variety of media, including films, television, novels, and podcasts, the volume takes a positive ...

Social Media and the Cultural Politics of Korean Pop Culture in East Asia

Social Media and the Cultural Politics of Korean Pop Culture in East Asia

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Sunny Yoon
August 25, 2023

This volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perceived between nations within the region. In the context of global diversification and growing public participation in global issues, it builds up a ...

London as Screen Gateway

London as Screen Gateway

1st Edition

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Edited By Elizabeth Evans, Malini Guha
July 26, 2023

London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the intersection between London as a material place and...

Branding Berlin From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe

Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe

1st Edition

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By Katrina Sark
July 21, 2023

This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, ...

Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History

Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Rosanna Maule
July 14, 2023

This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and...

True Crime in American Media

True Crime in American Media

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By George S. Larke-Walsh
June 01, 2023

This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America. As a collection of new ...

Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era A Critical Examination of Disney+

Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era: A Critical Examination of Disney+

1st Edition

By Robert Alan Brookey, Jason Phillips, Timothy Pollard
April 07, 2023

Reasserting the Disney Brand in the Streaming Era investigates the evolution of the Disney brand at a pivotal moment – the move from content creation to acquisition and streaming – and how the company reasserted its brand in a changing marketplace. Exploring how Disney’s acquisition of Pixar, ...

Women Comedians in the Digital Age Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump

Women Comedians in the Digital Age: Media Work and Critical Reputations After Trump

1st Edition

By Alex Symons
December 30, 2022

This book offers a thorough examination of digital work by women comedians in the US, exploring their use of digital media to perform jokes, engage with fans, remake their reputations, and become political activists. This book argues that despite its many adverse effects, digital work is changing ...

Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies

1st Edition

By Dal Yong Jin
November 04, 2022

This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and ...

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain

1st Edition

By Sarah Lowndes
September 30, 2022

Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia and racism that have undermined community cohesion in the United Kingdom since 1979, and which have continued largely unchecked through the last ...

Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts

Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts

1st Edition

Edited By Anke Finger, Manuela Wagner
September 29, 2022

In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction, addressing the variety of grey zones that mark the concept. Bias, Belief, and Conviction in an Age of Fake Facts discusses where our convictions come from and whether we are ...

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