Social science / Media Studies

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

by Barbara Creed

In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions...

Race and the Crisis of Humanism

by Kay Anderson

The idea that humankind constituted a unity, albeit at different stages of 'development', was in the 19th century challenged with a new way of thinking. The 'savagery' of certain races was no longer regarded...

Managing in the Media

by William Houseley, Tom Nicholls & Ron Southwell

Managing in the Media has been devised for a broad audience. It is based upon the perceived need for a text that amalgamates cultural theories, film and television analysis, management theories and media production...

Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture

by Henry Jenkins

"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its resources from commercial culture while also reworking them...

Heavenly Bodies: Film Stars and Society

by Richard Dyer

Richard Dyer's classic study of movie stars and stardom has been updated, with a new introduction by the author discussing the rise of celebrity culture and developments in the study of stars since publication...

Rerun Nation: How Repeats Invented American Television

by Derek Kompare

Rerun Nation is a fascinating approach to television history and theory through the ubiquitous yet overlooked phenomenon of reruns. Kompare covers both historical and conceptual ground, weaving together a refresher...

The Faces of Televisual Media: Teaching, Violence, Selling To Children

by Edward L. Palmer & Brian M. Young

This collection offers original, state-of-the-art contributions from leading authorities in children's televisual media. International researchers from communication and psychology provide readers with ready...

News Around the World: Content Practitioners and the Public

by Pamela J. Shoemaker & Akiba A. Cohen

What's news? A front-page news story in the United States might not appear in a newspaper in China. Or a minor story on German television may be all over the airwaves in India. But News Around the World shows...

Everyday eBay: Culture Collecting And Desire

by Ken Hillis, Michael Petit & Nathan Scott Epley

Everyday eBay is the first scholarly analysis of the internet marketplace that has become a global social, cultural and economic phenomenon. The eighteen new and classic essays gathered here examine eBay from...

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...

Media Diversity and Localism: Meaning and Metrics

by Philip M. Napoli

Questions concerning the quality of media performance and the effectiveness of media policymaking often revolve around the extent to which the media system fulfills the values inherent in diversity and localism...

Statistical Methods for Communication Science

by Andrew F. Hayes

Statistical Methods for Communication Science is the only statistical methods volume currently available that focuses exclusively on statistics in communication research. Writing in a straightforward, personal...

British Cinema Past and Present

by Justine Ashby & Andrew Higson

British Cinema: Past and Present responds to the commercial and critical success of British film in the 1990s. Providing a historical perspective to the contemporary resurgence of British cinema, this unique...

Women and Popular Music: Sexuality, Identity and Subjectivity

by Sheila Whiteley

Women and Popular Music explores the changing role of women musicians and the ways in which their songs resonate in popular culture. Sheila Whiteley begins by examining the counter-culture's reactionary attitudes...

Reel to Real: Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

by bell hooks

Movies matter - that is the message of  Reel to Real, bell hooks' classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences...

Pluralism, Politics and the Marketplace: The Regulation of German Broadcasting

by Suzanne Hasselbach & Vincent Porter

Since the mid-1980s, broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany has been extensively re-regulated. The traditional duopoly of the public broadcasters Ard and ZDF has been challenged by new private networks...

Sexing the Self: Gendered Positions in Cultural Studies

by Elspeth Probyn

Faced with the seemingly enormous difficulty of representing `others', many theorists working in Cultural Studies have been turning to themselves as a way of speaking about the personal. In Sexing the Self Elspeth...

Media and Power

by James Curran

Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and society.

*How much power do the media have?

*Who really controls the media?

*What is the relationship between media and power...

The Dynasty Years: Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies

by Jostein Gripsrud

The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European...

Spectacle of Violence

by Gail Mason

Drawing on in-depth interviews with women reflecting a range of experiences of verbal hostility, physical violence and sexual violence, Spectacle of Violence explores the issues surrounding violence and hostility...