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Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema

by Tejaswini Ganti

'Bollywood' is the dominant global term to refer to the prolific Hindi language film industry in Bombay (renamed Mumbai in 1995). Characterised by music, dance routines, melodrama, lavish production values and...


Cinema as Weather: Stylistic Screens and Atmospheric Change

by Kristi McKim

How do cinematic portrayals of the weather reflect and affect our experience of the world? While weatherly predictability and surprise can impact our daily experience, the history of cinema attests to the stylistic...


English for International Journalists

by Mike Gandon & Heather Purdey

English for International Journalists is a clear and engaging step-by-step guide for non-native speakers using English in journalism across all forms of media. In-depth language analysis is provided in the specialised...


The Social Media Industries

by Alan B. Albarran

This volume examines how social media is evolving as an industry-it is an extension of traditional media industries, yet it is distinctly different in its nature and ability to build relationships among users....


Journalism Studies: The Basics

by Martin Conboy

Journalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboy's extensive experience in the field,...


Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production

by Claire Taylor & Thea Pitman

This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: digital online culture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations...


Sociology of the Visual Sphere

by Regev Nathansohn & Dennis Zuev

This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions serve as the logic...


Cinema and Language Loss: Visions of Displacement

by Tijana Mamula

Cinema and Language Loss provides the first sustained exploration of the relationship between linguistic displacement and visuality in the filmic realm, examining in depth both its formal expressions and theoretical...


Just Trust Me: Finding the Truth in a World of Spin

by G. Randy Kasten

SUVs are the safest vehicle because they’re so large-right? Wrong! That’s the advertising pitch, but in 2000, they had the highest rollover rate (36%) of any vehicle type involved in fatal accidents. Yet...


Principles of American Journalism: An Introduction

by Stephanie Craft & Charles N. Davis

In a rapidly changing media landscape, what becomes of journalism? Designed to engage, inspire and challenge students while laying out the fundamental principles of the craft, Principles of American Journalism...


The Last Western: Deadwood and the End of American Empire

by Jennifer Greiman & Paul Stasi

Perhaps the most sophisticated and complex of shows in HBO’s recent history, Deadwood has surprisingly little coverage in our current scholarship. Grounding contemporary anxieties about race and class, domesticity...


Regulating the Web: Network Neutrality and the Fate of the Open Internet

by Zack Stiegler, Jeremy Carp & John Nathan Anderson

Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet’s structure. Regulating the Web brings together...


Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change

by Peter Gross

Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the...


The O.C.: A Critical Understanding

by Lori B. Bindig & Andrea M. Bergstrom

The O.C.: A Critical Understanding, by Lori Bindig and Andrea M. Bergstrom, is a feminist cultural studies analysis of the hit television series The O.C. (2003-2007). The show is examined in terms of five ideological...


The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics

by Charles Krinsky

The Ashgate Research Companion to Moral Panics offers a comprehensive assemblage of cutting-edge critical and theoretical perspectives on the concept of moral panic. All chapters represent original research...


Law's Moving Image

by Leslie Moran, Elena Loizidou & Ian Christie

This book is an essential introduction to the complex issues and debates in the field of law and film. It explores interconnections that are usually ignored between law and film through three main themes:

  • A...


Superman Is Jewish?: How Comic Book Superheroes Came to Serve Truth, Justice, and the Jewish-American Way

by Harry Brod

Many of us know that the superheroes at the heart of the American comic book industry were created by Jews. But we’d be surprised to learn how much these beloved characters were shaped by the cultural and...


Specialist Journalism

by Barry Turner & Richard Orange

Combining practical 'how to' skills with reflection on the place of each specialism in the industry, this guide features the skills needed to cover specialist areas, including writing match reports for sport,...


Diasporas and Diplomacy: Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932-2012)

by Marie Gillespie & Alban Webb

Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British 'soft power' through the BBC's foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical...


Social Media and the Law: A Guidebook for Communication Students and Professionals

by Daxton Stewart

Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, and Flickr allow users to connect with one another and share information with the click of a mouse or a tap on a touchscreen-and have become...