Social science / Media Studies

Understanding Video Games: The Essential Introduction

by Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen, Jonas Heide Smith & Susana Pajares Tosca

This expanded and revised second edition of Understanding Video Games provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of game studies.

Understanding Video Games, 2^nd Edition is an essential read...

Connecting Social Problems and Popular Culture: Why Media is Not the Answer

by Karen Sternheimer

Tackling the essential social problems in America through a popular culture lens, this original book debunks the notion that the media is to blame for society's ills.

Promotional Culture and Convergence: Markets, Methods, Media

by Helen Powell

The rapid growth of promotional material through the internet, social media, and entertainment culture has created consumers who are seeking out their own information to guide their purchasing decisions.

Promotional...

Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet

by Lorne L. Dawson & Douglas E. Cowan

Religion Online provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors...

Feminism/Postmodernism

by Linda Nicholson

In this anthology, prominent contemporary theorists assess the benefits and dangers of postmodernism for feminist theory. The contributors examine the meaning of postmodernism both as a methodological position...

The Matter of Images: Essays on Representations

by Richard Dyer

First published in 1993

Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to the X Files

by Dr Peter Knight & Peter Knight

Conspiracy theories are everywhere in post-war American culture. From postmodern novels to The X-Files and from gangsta rap to feminist polemic, there is a widespread suspicion that sinister forces are conspiring...

Contemporary Hollywood Cinema

by Steve Neale & Murray Smith

A comprehensive overview of the film industry in Hollywood today, Contemporary Hollywood Cinema brings together leading international cinema scholars to explore the technology, institutions, film makers and...

Popular European Cinema

by Richard Dyer & Ginette Vincendeau

Popular European Cinema examines the reasons why films that are most popular with audiences in any one European countha are seldom successful eslewhere. Audiences themselves represent diverse class, gender and...

Differencing the Canon: Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories

by Griselda Pollock

In this major book, Griselda Pollock engages boldly in the culture wars over `what is the canon?` and `what difference can feminism make?` Do we simply reject the all-male line-up and satisfy our need for ideal...

The Emptiness of the Image: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Differences

by Parveen Adams

There has long been a politics around the way in which women are represented, with objection not so much to specific images as to a regime of looking which places the represented woman in a particular relationship...

Cultures of Consumption

by Frank Mort

First published in 1996

Weimar Cinema and After: Germany's Historical Imaginary

by Thomas Elsaesser

German cinema of the 1920s is still regarded as one of the 'golden ages' of world cinema. Films such as The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Dr Mabuse the Gambler, Nosferatu, Metropolis, Pandora's Box and The Blue Angel...

Women and Film

by E. Ann Kaplan

"Written with unequivocal enthusiasm for film, feminism and theory, "Women and Film" is a welcome and useful guide to a complex area."--"The Arts"

Introduction to Communication Studies

by John Fiske

The second edition of this widely used introductory textbook updates the work to take accounts of developments in the last few years. John Fiske's study equips the reader with a range of methods of analysing...

Design History: A Students' Handbook

by Dr Hazel Conway & Hazel Conway

Hazel Conway introduces the student new to the subject to different areas of design history and shows some of the ways in which it can be studied and some of its delights and difficulties. No background knowledge...

Outlooks: Lesbian and Gay Sexualities and Visual Cultures

by Peter Horne & Reina Lewis

Outlook explores the relationship of lesbian and gay sexualities to visual representation. It reflects the richness of lesbian and gay ways of producing and reading visual cultures, at the same time as it tackles...

Producing for the Web

by Jason Whittaker

Producing for the Web is a clear and practical guide to the planning, setting up and management of a web site. It gives readers a comprehensive overview of the current technologies available for on-line communications...

Erotic Ambiguities: The Female Nude in Art

by Helen McDonald

Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald...

Screening the Past: Memory and Nostalgia in Cinema

by Pam Cook

From Mildred Pierce and Brief Encounter to Raging Bull and In the Mood for Love, this lively and accessible collection explores film culture's obsession with the past, offering searching and provocative analyses...