Cultural and media studies Books

Around the globe, people now engage with media content across multiple platforms, following stories, characters, worlds, brands and other information across a spectrum of media channels. This transmedia phenomenon has led to the burgeoning of transmedia...

This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty first century.

This book puts CGTN (formerly CCTV-News) and the BBC's international television news head-to-head, interrogating competing 'truths' in the exacting business of news reporting.Written by a media scholar and former long-serving BBC News journalist, Seeking...

This book identifies and analyses the main socio-economic trends that characterize Vivendi, the French mass media conglomerate, and explores how they have oriented its development and evolution.

This book examines utopian/dystopian fiction's enduring preoccupation with memory, asserting through readings of seminal texts that from the nineteenth century onward, memory and forgetting feature as key problematics in the genre as well as vital...

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between 1580s-1630s. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture,...

This book reveals how Al Jazeera and its news coverage became a force for change politically, socially and culturally in the Middle East in general, and the Arab world in particular.It explores pre-Al Jazeera and post-Al Jazeera representations of...

From its emergence as a modest newspaper to becoming the largest communication group in Argentina, and one of the main communications groups in Latin America, this book examines the media conglomerate Grupo Clarín.

Creating TV Formats: from Inception to Pitch takes the reader through a step-by-step process of how to generate ideas, develop story lines and characters, and hook an audience, while staying aware of the realities of the media landscape.

The digital cultural record has a powerful role to play in both new and future strategies of creating new homes within the digital milieu. For example, the development and establishment of new digital archives around South Asian studies not only allows...

This book investigates transnational processes through the analytic lens of cultural performance. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of American Studies, Performance Studies, and Transnational Studies.

This book discusses undercover reporting, betrayal and deception in journalism, addressing the ethical issues encountered by professionals when deception is involved and providing an explanation of how high-profile cases have developed. Carson and...

Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis advances a critique of consumer capitalism and its role in driving environmental degradation and climate crisis, placing a spotlight on how marketing and distribution activities help maintain unsustainable levels of...

This book unpacks the media dynamics within the socio-cultural, political, and economic context of Pakistan. It provides an in-depth, critical, and scholarly discussion of contemporary issues such as media, state, and democracy in Pakistan; freedom of...

Childlessness in the Age of Communication draws on a range of disciplines and fields including sociology, health, gender and sexuality studies, communication, media studies, politics and anthropology. It is a book for all those interested in...

This book reviews recent studies into smartphones and the news, and argues that the greatest impact on news of the smartphone as a dominant technological artefact is to shift it away from an authoritative, fixed 'first draft of...

The Broadcast Century and Beyond is a popular history of the most influential and innovative industry of the century. The story of broadcasting is told in a direct and informal style, blending personal insight and authoritative scholarship. The book...