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Film as Social Practice

by Graeme Turner

Turner provides a clear introduction to major theoretical issues in the history of film production and film studies, examining the function of film as a national cultural industry, and its place in our popular...


Sport Stars: The Cultural Politics of Sporting Celebrity

by David L. Andrews & Steven J. Jackson

In a culture obsessed with celebrity, sportmen and women are some of the highest profile figures. We are fascinated by sport stars' lifestyles, love lives, and earning power. Sport Stars investigates the nature...


Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction

by Ben Highmore

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology...


A Handbook of Media and Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies

by Klaus Bruhn Jensen

A Handbook of Media and Communications Research presents qualitative as well as quantitative approaches to the analysis and interpretation of media, covering perspectives from both the social sciences and the...


Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life

by Sarah Kember

Cyberfeminism and Artificial Life examines the construction, manipulation and re-definition of life in contemporary technoscientific culture. It takes a critical political view of the concept of life as information,...


Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video and DVD

by Richard Burt & Lynda E. Boose

Following on from the phenomenally successful Shakespeare, The Movie, this volume brings together an invaluable new collection of essays on cinematic Shakespeares in the 1990s and beyond. Shakespeare, The Movie...


Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access

by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Film stocks are vanishing, but the iconic images of the silver screen remain -- albeit in new, sleeker formats. Today, viewers can in-stantly stream movies on televisions, computers, and smartphones. Gone are...


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...


The A to Z of Journalism

by Ross Eaman

The A to Z of Journalism relates how journalism has evolved over the centuries. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on...


Sport and Film

by Seán| Crosson

The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the...


Memory, Conflict and Social Media

by Ellen Rutten, Julie Fedor & Vera Zvereva

This book examines the online memory wars in post-Soviet states - where political conflicts take the shape of heated debates about the recent past, and especially World War II and Soviet socialism.

To this day,...


Identity and Communication: New Agendas in Communication

by Dominic L Lasorsa & America Rodriguez

Identity and Communication offers an innovative take on traditional topics of intercultural communication while promoting new ideas and progressive theories.With essays by emerging voices in identity communication,...


Look at the Bunny: Totem, Taboo, Technology

by Pettman Dominic

An essential guide to those technological totems and taboos which help us navigate the chaotic terrain of today's mediascape.


Guilty: Hollywood's Verdict on Arabs After 9/11

by Jack G. Shaheen

"Nothing will be the same again." Americans scarred by the experience of 9/11 often express this sentiment. But what remains the same, argues Jack G. Shaheen, is Hollywood's stereotyping of Arabs. Before 9/11,...


Teen Spirits: Music And Identity In Media Education

by Dr Chris Richards & Chris Richards

Relating to both the practice of teaching media studies and also to theoretical questions within media and cultural studies, this study examines pop music, media studies and the micro-cultural politics of adolescence....


Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Discipline

by Duane H. Roen, Stuart C. Brown & Theresa Jarnagin Enos

This collection--of the stories of scholars who have found a lifelong commitment to the teaching of writing--includes the professional histories of 19 rhetoricians and compositionists who explain how they came...


College Fight Songs II: A Supplementary Anthology

by William E Studwell & Bruce R Schueneman

Come join the band! College Fight Songs II is a supplement to the original College Fight Songs, providing 97 additional song texts and interesting historical information. Together they are a unique anthology...


Television and Postfeminist Housekeeping: No Time for Mother

by Elizabeth Nathanson

In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women's everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers. Her focus on American popular culture...


Performing Memory in Art and Popular Culture

by Liedeke Plate & Anneke Smelik

This volume pursues a new line of research in cultural memory studies by understanding memory as a performative act in art and popular culture. The authors take their cue from the observation that art and popular...


Reading Beyond the Book: The Social Practices of Contemporary Literary Culture

by Danielle Fuller & DeNel Rehberg Sedo

Literary culture has become a form of popular culture over the last fifteen years thanks to the success of televised book clubs, film adaptations, big-box book stores, online bookselling, and face-to-face and...