Books in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series

New Communications Landscape explores the theories of media globalization, with emphasis on the areas of cultural and local television markets. It focuses on the industry, content and strategy, audience, policy and future research.

Investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. This title considers the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres.

This book explores television's role in fostering European cultural identity and the extent to which European public service broadcasters were able to meet the challenges posed by the introduction of new communication technologies.

Media Reform examines the relationship between the media and the development of democracy. Detailed worldwide case studies illustrate discussions on liberalisation of media, technological developments and new trends.

Using examples from a range of countries, this book illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, and how it stimulates prospective migrants to move.

Shows how contemporary postmodern cities and their inhabitants have been transformed by the forces of globalization and fresh information technologies. This book explores how the urban spaces of post modernity (parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks) and postmodern urban subjectivities and communities respond to and create each other.

An anthology of essays that study the relationship between imagination and images both material and mental. It focuses on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology.

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. This work offers research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation.

Offers differing perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. This book examines the continual evolution of public art, from monuments and memorials to socially engaged public art practice. It contains topics including constructing new models for developing and commissioning public art works.

Argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television. This title examines the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and various media studies.

Brings together art, design, fashion, and its spatial realities. This volume explores various physical and conceptual spaces, moving from physical environments to the two-dimensional spaces of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, to chart similarities, differences, and complex nuanced relationships between environments, and fashion.

Examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. This book shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists reflect the author's private and artistic persona. It demonstrates how this materialized process of self-fashioning is appropriated within various strategies and policies of cultural memory.

Offers a series of critical-theoretical commentaries on geopolitical events from the Kosovan conflict to the Iraq war, combined with an analysis of the political thought of Jacques Derrida as it appears in his writing since "Specters of Marx".

Intends to clarify Homi K Bhabha's theory of the third space of enunciation by reconstructing its philosophical, sociological, geographical, and political meaning with attention to the special advantages and ambiguities that arise as it is applied in practical - as well as theoretical - contexts.

This volume explores what underlies those karaoke experiences which involve people as singers, co-singers and listeners. The contributors consider the technological, spatial, communicative, ethnic, national, political, musical and gender aspects of karaoke around the world.

For journalists and reporters, the allegation of hegemonic practices constitutes a most serious condemnation. However, this author shows how hegemony is an almost unwitting process which supports the status quo and establishment.

Contributors including David Hesmondhalgh, Gholam Khiabany, José van Dijck, Hector Postigo, Anthony Fung, Stuart Allan and Geoff King demonstrate how the notion of independence has remained paramount, but contested, in ideals of what the media is for, how it should be regulated, what it should produce and what working within it should be like. They address questions of economics, labor relations, production cultures, ideologies and social functions.

In this volume, contributors-literary scholars, media theorists, and specialists in comics, graphic novels, and digital culture-examine the economic, narratological, and social effects of serials from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century and offer some predictions of where the form will go from here.

The book examines the difficulty of adapting from one screen medium to another by looking at both successful and unsuccessful efforts in the area of science fiction. Those difficult efforts at moving from film to TV and from TV to film reveal much about the technologies involved and this highly technological genre as well.

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility. The volume covers the 1950s to the present day and examines autobiographical accounts and films featuring gender transition. Chapters focus on various stages of transitioning. Interviews with trans people are also provided.

Contributors including David Hesmondhalgh, Gholam Khiabany, José van Dijck, Hector Postigo, Anthony Fung, Stuart Allan and Geoff King demonstrate how the notion of independence has remained paramount, but contested, in ideals of what the media is for, how it should be regulated, what it should produce and what working within it should be like. They address questions of economics, labor relations, production cultures, ideologies and social functions.

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.

This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope.