Books in the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series

Uses the law and order generic network and its relationship to juridical discourses to show how emotions are deployed to construct ideologies of law and justice while, simultaneously, constructing cultural understandings of the meaning of various emotions.

From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. This book considers images of wounded black men on various stages, including early photography, contemporary art, hip hop, and media.

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations - whether literary or photographic? Examining the intersections of landscape, postmemory, and trauma, this text offers a contribution to our understanding of the spatial, visual, and literary reach of the Holocaust.

Offers a comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek.

An incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities, focusing on the Macedonian and Croatian communities in Western Australia.

Moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?

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.

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".

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.

Drawing on previous scholarship on the interrelation of memory and materiality, this book applies recent theories of new materialism to explore the material dimension of memory in art and popular culture.

Put simply, this volume asks: what do women who are creatively engaged with audio-visual industries do with genre and what does genre do with them? The contributors to the collection respond to this question from diverse perspectives and with different answers, spanning issues of direction, screenwriting, performance and audience address/recepti

This critical anthology sets out to explore the boom that horror cinema and TV productions have experienced in Spain in the past two decades.

This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates a foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to add to our understanding of the cultural politics and aesthetics of camp.

Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their recent incarnations, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on the relationship between love, objects and forms of materializing affection.

This book aims to serve the research community by introducing and developing the concept of geomedia studies as the name of a particular subfield of communication geography.

Using the concept of media practices, this volume looks at processes of social and political transformation in diverse regions of the world to argue that media change and social change converge on a redefinition of the relations of individuals to larger collective bodies.

This collection reflects the ubiquity, diversity, and (historical) locatedness of ethnicity and gender by presenting contributions by an array of international scholars who focus on the representation of these crucial categories of identity across various media, including literature, film, documentary, and (music) video performance.

This book is a study of the resurgence and re-imagination of feminist discourse on gender and sexuality in South Asia as told through its cinematic, literary, and social media narratives.

This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives.

This volume provides a thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration of approaches to the critical study of advertising.

Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of the 'global gay', what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions of gender and sexuality, which are reflected and explored across an ever increasing range of media outle

Combining theoretical perspectives from analytic philosophy, cognitive theory, and narratology with approaches from phenomenology, psychosemiotics, and social semiotics, the contributions collected in this volume provide a state-of-the-art map of current research on a wide variety of ways in which subjectivity can be represented across conventio

This volume builds on previous notions of transmedia practices to develop the concept of transtexts, in order to account for both the industrial and user-generated contributions to the cross-media expansion of a story universe.

Contemporary popular culture is engaged in a rich and multi-levelled set of representational relations with austerity. This volume seeks to explore these relations, to ask: how does popular culture give expression to austerity; how are its effects conveyed; how do texts reproduce and expose its mythic qualities?

This is the first scholarly collection to examine the social and cultural aspects of the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage (popularly known as 'ghost signs').

This volume explores the spectral qualities of space, using the language of hauntings, to understand how absence, emptiness and the imperceptible can indicate an overwhelming presence of something (that once was, and still is) there. Contributors navigate affective spaces that have the potential to threaten, destabilise and sometimes even c