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1. Body Studies: The Basics

   By Niall Richardson, Adam Locks

   Series: The Basics

   Consideration of the body as a subject for study has increased in recent years with new technologies, forms of modification, debates about obesity and issues of age being brought into focus by the media. Drawing on contemporary culture, Body Studies: The Basics introduces readers to the key...

   To Be Published May 14th 2014 by Routledge
2. Film and Gender

   Edited by Sue Thornham, Niall Richardson

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Since at least the early 1970s, when Claire Johnston observed that despite ‘the enormous emphasis placed on woman as spectacle in the cinema … woman as woman is largely absent’, the relationship of cinema to the construction of gender identities and gendered pleasures has been a central concern...

   To Be Published October 3rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Critical Readings in Bodybuilding

   Edited by Adam Locks, Niall Richardson

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   In recent years the ‘body’ has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Bodybuilding, in particular, continues to be of interest to scholars of gender, media, film, cultural studies and sociology. However, there is surprisingly little scholarship...

   Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge