Cultural and media studies are now well-established as important academic disciplines and are inspiring new research into a wide range of pertinent issues. This series presents outstanding research in these subjects, helping to shape the direction of future inquiry.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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By Rodrigo Muñoz-González
October 25, 2024
This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young people make sense of nostalgic representations of transnational pasts, ...
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By Verena Bernardi, Amanda D. Giammanco, Heike Mißler
October 02, 2024
This collection explores the impact of COVID-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainment’s changing role during and following the COVID-19 pandemic...
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By Craig Martin, Debbie Olson
August 16, 2024
In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explore the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that ...
By Laurie McMillan
August 09, 2024
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term “slut” in U.S. popular media, 2000-2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive. Moving beyond ...
By Jane Batkin
August 01, 2024
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved, and recollected on screen; but what do ...
By Andrea Miconi
July 18, 2024
This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in ...
By Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
July 17, 2024
This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded only by mediated communication. Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the author proposes that before venturing into media literacy, we ...
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By Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür, Nazan Haydari
March 12, 2024
This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness. Via diverse cases of collaboration in media studies, from methodological contemplations to on‑the‑field social practices, the book proposes reflections and inquiries around collective research, media,...
By Celia Lam, Jackie Raphael
January 29, 2024
This comprehensive work presents a thorough exploration of celebrity ‘bromances,’ interrogating how bromances are portrayed in media and consumed by audiences to examine themes of celebrity persona, performativity, and authenticity. The authors examine how the performance of intimate male ...
By Stephanie Patrick
January 29, 2024
This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms posed to the mainstream corporate media’s gatekeeping, and its ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women. Drawing on her own experiences working as...
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By Susan Larson
January 29, 2024
This volume explores the history, evolution, and future of Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies as a discipline, a pedagogical tool, and a set of working practices by bringing together a diverse group of renowned specialists to examine how the field has grown out of and radically reconsidered some of the...
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By Katarzyna Kopecka-Piech, Mateusz Sobiech
January 29, 2024
This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life. Chapters explore key aspects of the mediatisation of emotional life, feelings and interpersonal relations:...