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Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions

by Jody Santos

Like social scientists, reporters are expected to be immune to, and even aloof from, the pain and suffering they chronicle. Daring to Feel: Violence, the News Media, and Their Emotions challenges this journalistic...


Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method

by Bonnie Nardi, Tom Boellstorff & George E. E. Marcus

Ethnography and Virtual Worlds is the only book of its kind--a concise, comprehensive, and practical guide for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods to study online...


Road Work: Among Tyrants, Heroes, Rogues, and Beasts

by Mark Bowden

From the #1 New York Times best seller Black Hawk Down to the acclaimed Killing Pablo, Mark Bowden has been praised for his unique, novelistic ability to put his reader in the heat of the story. Road Work collects...


The Cultural Leadership Handbook: How to Run a Creative Organization

by Robert Hewison & John Holden

The Cultural Leadership Handbook will help anyone with a professional or academic interest in the culture sector understand the distinct strategic questions that apply to it and how the specific circumstances...


Bullying in the Arts: Vocation, Exploitation and Abuse of Power

by Anne-Marie Quigg

Workplace bullying has long been identified in a range of disciplines and fields, but Anne-Marie Quigg's research suggests that the arts, despite subscribing to ideas like governance by consensus, respect for...


An Introduction to Television Studies

by Jonathan Bignell

In this comprehensive textbook, newly updated for its second edition, Jonathan Bignell provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies, including...


Film as Social Practice

by Graeme Turner

This fourth edition of our bestselling text has been comprehensively updated and revised to include contemporary film analysis and recent films.

With a focus on contemporary popular cinema and examples from...


Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction

by Mr Jerry Palmer & Jerry Palmer

Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies....


Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium

by Paul Levinson

Marshall McLuhan died on the last day of 1980, on the doorstep of the personal computer revolution. Yet McLuhan's ideas anticipated a world of media in motion, and its impact on our lives on the dawn of the...


Book Production

by Adrian Bullock

The digital revolution has brought with it a wider range of options for creating and producing print on paper products than ever seen before. With the growing demand for skills and knowledge with which to exploit...


Screenwriting That Matters

by Marilyn Beker

Hotel Rwanda. Philadelphia.  Silkwood. Some of the most important films ever made have tackled real-world social issues, from genocide to homophobia to corporate greed. As storytellers, activist screenwriters...


Genre and Cinema: Ireland and Transnationalism

by Brian McIlroy

This impressive volume takes a broad critical look at Irish and Irish-related cinema through the lens of genre theory and criticism. Secondary and related objectives of the book are to cover key genres and sub-genres...


An Introduction to Language and Society

by Martin Montgomery

An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and patterns of language. This second edition includes new material...


Reel Food: Essays on Food and Film

by Anne L. Bower

Reel Food is the first book devoted to food as a vibrant and evocative element of film, featuring original essays by major food studies scholars, among them Carole Counihan and Michael Ashkenazi. This collection...


Imaging in Advertising: Verbal and Visual Codes of Commerce

by Fern L. Johnson

The dominance of advertising in everyday life carries potent cultural meaning.  As a major force in the rise of "image based culture," advertising spreads images that shape how people live their lives. While...


An Introduction to Narratology

by Monika Fludernik

An Introduction to Narratology is an accessible, practical guide to narratological theory and terminology and its application to literature.

In this book, Monika Fludernik outlines:

  • the key concepts of style,...

My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1998

by George W.S. Trow

In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of...


Tick... Tick... Tick...

by David Blum

An insider's view of the most successful show in the history of TV, 60 Minutes.

The most popular TV show in America isn't American Idol, and it's not Survivor. Month in, month out, the most–watched program...


The Deeds Of My Fathers: How My Grandfather and Father Built New York and Created the Tabloid World of Today

by Paul David Pope, Generoso Sr. Pope & Gene Jr. Pope

This engrossing saga begins when Generoso Pope, Sr., just 15, flees Italy and his domineering father, sailing to America with only pennies in his pockets. He passes through Ellis Island in 1906 and soon finds...


Faith in Democracy

by Giovanni R. D'agostino & Fabrizio Elefante

"An outstanding work, but however written with an aphoristic light touch." Massimo Cacciari "It deals with topics that stand deep in the heart of the world we are living in, and with our chances of freedom."...