Books in the Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series

Brings together a range of essays both canonical in, and at the cutting edge of, communication theory. This collection provides in-depth theoretical analysis and overviews rather than specific study of phenomena within a given theoretical tradition. It also provides academics and students with access to a body of theoretical work.

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research in and around Sound Studies.

A new title from Routledge Major Works, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and foundational research.

As serious academic work on and around globalization and the media continues to flourish as never before, this new title meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and developed

Popular music studies is a rapidly expanding field with changing emphases and agenda. This is a multi-volume resource for this area of study.

A new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research on Bollywood.

A new title from Routledge, this is a four-volume collection of cutting-edge and canonical research.

This collection draws together some of the most important writings on television in theoretical, historical, empirical and political terms.

This collection identifies the critical and theoretical concepts which have been most significant in the study of film. It chronologically presents the most influential and important writing on these concepts.

This collection brings together journal articles, published essays, book chapters and excerpts which explore Hollywood as a social, economic, industrial, aesthetic and political force, and as a complex historical entity.

Incorporates a number of different visual practices including art, design, performance, architecture, film and photography. This study of visual culture is interdisciplinary, deriving in part from the art history that emerged in the 1980s, the studies of design and material culture, and film.

A four-volume collection that brings together the Anglophone literature of heritage studies. This collection is interdisciplinary, with research drawn from the three disciplines of archaeology, architecture and history traditionally associated with material heritage, and also from subjects such as geography, anthropology, museology, and others.

Subcultures attract a great deal of interest, both in popular media and in academic work. Beginning by looking at accounts of subcultures in sixteenth-century England, these four volumes represent work on subcultures across several disciplines: cultural history, cultural studies, criminology and sociology.