Media Studies & Journalism: Products

By Laura Scaife

Terrorism. Why does this word grab our attention so? Propaganda machines have adopted modern technology as a means to always have their content available. Regardless of the hour or time zone, information is being shared by somebody, somewhere. Social media is a game changer influencing the way…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Tim McNelis

This book brings theory from popular music studies to an examination of identity and agency in youth films while building on, and complementing, film studies literature concerned with genre, identity, and representation. McNelis includes case studies of Hollywood and independent US youth films that…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Burton Saint John III

For much of the last century, large, predominantly US corporations used public relations to demonstrate that their missions resonated with dominant societal values. Through the construction and conveyance of the "corporate persona", they aimed to convince citizens that they share common aspirations…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Maik Nwosu

This book is a seminal study that significantly expands the interdisciplinary discourse on African literature and cinema by exploring Africa’s under-visited carnivalesque poetics of laughter. Focusing on modern African literature as well as contemporary African cinema, particularly the…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Pete Bennett, Julian McDougall

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Benjamin W.L. Derhy Kurtz, Mélanie Bourdaa

This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe. On the one hand exists industrial transmedia texts, produced by…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Steffen Hantke, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet

In the context of the current explosion of interest in Gothic literature and popular culture, this interdisciplinary collection of essays explores for the first time the rich and long-standing relationship between war and the Gothic. Critics have described the global Seven Year’s War as the "…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Mark J P Wolf

Unlike many children’s television shows, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood did more than simply entertain or occupy children’s attention. The show educated them in the affective domain, encouraging such things as appreciation for difference, collaboration, self-expression, and self-worth. It also…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Mark Wolf

The concept of world and the practice of world creation have been with us since antiquity, but they are now achieving unequalled prominence. In this timely anthology of subcreation studies, an international roster of contributors come together to examine the rise and structure of worlds, the…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

By Christian Quendler

This book explores the cultural, intellectual, and artistic fascination with camera-eye metaphors in film culture of the twentieth century. By studying the very metaphor that cinema lives by, it provides a rich and insightful map of our understanding of cinema and film styles and shows how cinema…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Larissa Hjorth, Heather Horst, Anne Galloway, Genevieve Bell

With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge

Edited by Maria Grasso, Judith Bessant

Drawing on case studies from around the world, contributors to this ground-breaking book explore a major contemporary paradox: on the one hand, young people today are at the forefront of political campaigns promoting social rights and ethical ideas that challenge authoritarian orders and elite…

Paperback – 2019-12-20 
Routledge