Books in the Comedia series

This book should be of interest to students and teachers of popular culture, society and communications.

A comprehensive empirical and theoretical study of broadcast news throughout the world, which examines the effects of syndication and questions whether this fiercely competitive business satisfies the democratic demands of its audience.

The author explores the impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the "realistic" eye of social commentary to the "scientific" approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and "World Music".

Describes, analyses and interprets a complex process of change, delivering a critical account of the digitisation process as a multifaceted whole.

The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. Media Events gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.

The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. Media Events gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.

The Place of Media Power focuses on an area neglected in previous studies of the media: the meetings between ordinary people and the media.

A representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and Hall's engagement with urgent and abiding questions of 'race', ethnicity and identity.

Clearly structured in five thematic sections, this book presents a set of interlinked essays which discuss and examine the key debates in the fields of media and cultural studies. It is suitable for media students.

Investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap watching around the world. This book includes contributions on the nature of soap as a media text and the history of the serial narrative as a form.

Examines the advertising process from within the agency. The author shows how advertising has become the idiom for the enterprise culture as the old suspicions against the industry have disappeared.

Exploring the power and capabilities of video, this text describes how viewers have found a new cultural relationship through electronic recording. The study considers the roles of distributors, censors, technicians, reviewers and exhibitors as well as viewers.

Examines television and media studies theory and studies the textual and social role of parody in offering critical commentary on other television programs and genres. This book uses the favourite Springfield family as a case study.

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood, examining stars from Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger to Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Lopez and Dolly Parton.

This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg.

This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows.

A representative selection of Hall's enormously influential writings on cultural studies and Hall's engagement with urgent and abiding questions of 'race', ethnicity and identity.

The explosion of the use of VCRs in the home has provided the most significant new form of home entertainment since television. Gray discusses the experiences of women using VCRs and the social and cultural background to ownership.

From the Windrush immigration of the 1950s to contemporary multicultural Britain, Black British Culture and Society examines the Afro-Caribbean diaspora in post-war Britain.

Bringing together a wide range of contributors, this book examines how many different of types of heritage - from football to stately homes, experience attractions to education - deal with the complex legacies of the idea of 'race'. It interrogates just whose past gets to count as part of 'British heritage'.

Cornel Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, transnational capitalism and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities to present football as a reflection of postmodern culture and globalization

Explores issues such as the role of gender in the construction of domesticity, and the conflation of ideas of maternity and home, and engages with recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.

This documents and analyses the 'Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made soaps which it is said heralded a profound transformation of European television.

With a case study of the Asian community in Southall, Marie Gillespie examines how television and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions and catalyse cultural change in such communities.

A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last 20 years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying.

A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.

This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology. Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics are discussed including: the meaning of software in the production of photograph; the nature of networked photographs; the screen as the site of photographic display; the simulation of photography in the videogame; photography, ubiquitous computing and technologies of ambient intelligence; developments in vernacular photography and social media; the photograph and the digital archive; the curation and exhibition of the networked photograph; the dominance of the image bank in commercial and advertising photography; the complexities of citizen photojournalism. A recurring theme addressed throughout is the nature of 'photography after photography' and the paradoxical nature of the medium in the 21st century; a time when the traditional technology of photography has become defunct while there is more 'photography' than ever. This is an ideal book for students studying photography and digital media.

A well-established author draws ideas from a range of disciplines, and provides an accessible and challenging guide to ways of thinking about media and communications in modern life. A core text for higher undergraduate and post-graduate courses.