Books in the Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions series

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. This rapidly growing field extends from remix culture, an organic international movement that originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s and has grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing various forms of media. The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism.

This comprehensive collection of all new essays assembles major theoretical approaches to cinema, gender, and spectatorship, covering the intersections with other discourses such as class, ethnicity, sexuality, stars, genres, new media, and feminist modes of address.Bringing together leading figures in the field, the volume provides an overview of cinema and gender, while also reflecting a desire to rethink some of the ways in which feminist film theory and filmmaking are historicized, theorized, and taught. Essays are organised into five parts, each highlighting key areas and approaches. The Companion will be an important resource for researchers and students.

Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry¿s high-tech trash. The Routledge Companion to Labor and Media is the first book to bring together representative research from the diverse body of scholarly work surrounding this often fragmentary field, and seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the study and teaching of media and labor. Essays examine work on the mostly unglamorous side of media and cultural production, technology manufacture, and every occupation in between.Specifically, this book features:-wide-ranging international case studies spanning the major global hubs of media labor; -interdisciplinary approaches for thinking about and analyzing class and labor in information communication technology (ICT), consumer electronics (CE), and media/cultural production; -an overview of global political economic conditions affecting media workers; -reports on chemical environments and their effect on the health of media workers and consumers; -activist scholarship on media and labor, and inspiring stories of resistance and solidarity.

This Companion provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The 50 chapters present a range of theoretical and methodological positions, and arguments to demonstrate the dynamic, challenging and innovative thinking around the subject; locating media theory and practice within the broader concerns of democracy, citizenship, social exclusion, race, class and gender. By considering media practices across a range of cultures and communities, this collection is an ideal companion to the key issues and debates within alternative and community media.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender explores a broad span of issues, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to talk about a diverse range of media audiences; media forms, including television, newspapers, radio, magazines, video games, mobile media, and the internet; and media institutions and professional practices, as well as questions of media ownership, control and regulation.

The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies comprises contemporary texts by key authors and artists who are active in the emerging field of remix studies. This rapidly growing field extends from remix culture, an organic international movement that originated in the popular music culture of the 1970s and has grown into a rich cultural activity encompassing various forms of media. The act of recombining pre-existing material brings up pressing questions of authenticity, reception, authorship, copyright, and the techno-politics of media activism.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender explores a broad span of issues, conceptual frameworks, and methodological approaches to talk about a diverse range of media audiences; media forms, including television, newspapers, radio, magazines, video games, mobile media, and the internet; and media institutions and professional practices, as well as questions of media ownership, control and regulation.

This companion provides a scholarly and professional context for understanding the ways in which new conceptualizations of copyright and fair use are shaping the pedagogical practices of media literacy.

This companion presents the newest research in this important area, showcasing the huge diversity in children's relationships with digital media around the globe, and exploring the benefits, challenges, history, and emerging developments in the field.

The Routledge Companion to the Cultural Industries takes a distinct and critical `cultural industries¿ approach to the subject of mass cultural production, focusing on the production and consumption of goods and services whose economic value are drawn primarily from their cultural or symbolic value.

The Routledge Companion to Media and Tourism provides a comprehensive overview of the research into the convergence of media and tourism and specifically investigates the concept of mediatized tourism.

The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media provides an authoritative and comprehensive examination of the diverse forms, practices and philosophies of alternative and community media across the world. The volume offers a multiplicity of perspectives to examine the reasons why alternative and community media arise, how they develop in particular ways and in particular places, and how they can enrich our understanding of the broader media landscape and its place in society. The 50 chapters present a range of theoretical and methodological positions, and arguments to demonstrate the dynamic, challenging and innovative thinking around the subject, locating media theory and practice within the broader concerns of democracy, citizenship, social exclusion, race, class and gender. In addition to research from the UK, the US, Canada, Europe and Australia, the Companion also includes studies from Colombia, Haiti, India, South Korea and Zimbabwe, enabling international comparisons to be made and also allowing for the problematisation of traditional - often Western - approaches to media studies. By considering media practices across a range of cultures and communities, this collection is an ideal companion to the key issues and debates within alternative and community media.

This comprehensive edited collection provides key contributions in the field, mapping out fundamental topics and analysing current trends through an international lens.