Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

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31. The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
32. The Practice of Public Art

    Edited by Cameron Cartiere, Shelly Willis

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Wide-ranging and timely, The Practice of Public Art brings together practicing artists, curators, activists, art writers, administrators, city planners, and educators from the United Kingdom and United States to offer differing perspectives on the many facets of the public art process. The Practice...

    Published December 23rd 2009 by Routledge
33. Mobile Technologies

    From Telecommunications to Media

    Edited by Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjorth

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    In light of emerging forms of software, interfaces, cultures of uses, and media practices associated with mobile media, this collection investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. Specifically, contributors...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
34. Communicating in the Third Space

    Edited by Karin Ikas, Gerhard Wagner

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Communicating in the Third Space aims 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...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
35. Film and Television After DVD

    Edited by James Bennett, Tom Brown

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Heralded as "the most significant invention [for film] since the coming of sound" (The Observer 2003), by 2005 DVD players were in approximately 84 million homes in the US, making it the "fastest selling item in history of US consumer electronics market" (McDonald 2007: 135). This book examines the...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge
36. Trauma and Media

    Theories, Histories, and Images

    By Allen Meek

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This book provides the first comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, explaining how contemporary trauma studies emerged from research on Holocaust representation in which the audiovisual testimony of survivors was...

    Published November 1st 2009 by Routledge
37. American Icons

    The Genesis of a National Visual Language

    By Benedikt Feldges

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Despite the work that has been done on the power of visual communication in general, and about the social influence of television in particular, television’s relationship with reality is still something of a black box. Even today, the convention that the screen functions as a window on reality...

    Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge
38. The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007

    Edited by John Potvin

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    The Places and Spaces of Fashion, 1800-2007 brings together art, design, fashion, and a much neglected concern for its spatial realities. The spaces and places of fashion have often been overlooked in the writing of fashion history and visual culture. More often than not, however, these...

    Published July 14th 2009 by Routledge
39. Autism and Representation

    By Mark Osteen

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    Autism, a neuro-developmental disability, has received wide but often sensationalistic treatment in the popular media. A great deal of clinical and medical research has been devoted to autism, but the traditional humanities disciplines and the new field of Disability Studies have yet to explore it....

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
40. Political Communication in a New Era

    Edited by Philippe Maarek, Gadi Wolfsfeld

    Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

    This book seeks to provide readers with a cross-national perspective concerning the art of political communication in a field increasingly affected by globalization, fragmentation of political audiences, and the rise of professional communications experts - a field concerned not only with how...

    Published December 25th 2002 by Routledge