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Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. While scholars have fittingly focused on the ever-present figure of the hypermasculine black male, little consideration has...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: AFI Film Readers
This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic and independent shorts to digital animation and installation. The collection aims to foreground new critical perspectives on animation, connect them...
To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Geography
This book provides the first sustained critical exploration, and celebration, of the relationship between Geography and the contemporary Visual Arts. With the growth of research in the Geohumanities and the Spatial Humanities, there is an imperative to extend and deepen considerations of the form...
To Be Published July 7th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over the past decade. It explores the cultural significance of contemporary arts festivals from their location within the cultural public sphere,...
To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
This volume offers a varied and informed series of approaches to questions of mobility—actual, social, virtual, and imaginary—as related to visual culture. Contributors address these questions in light of important contemporary issues such as migration; globalization; trans-nationality and...
To Be Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge
As a coherent field of research, the field of music and visual culture has seen rapid growth in recent years. The Routledge Companion to Music and Visual Culture serves as the first comprehensive reference on the intersection between these two areas of study, an ideal introduction for those coming...
To Be Published September 5th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
This volume investigates the horror genre across national boundaries (including locations such as Africa, Turkey, and post-Soviet Russia) and different media forms, illustrating the ways that horror can be theorized through the circulation, reception, and production of transnational media texts....
To Be Published September 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere "seed" of modernism, a simple or crude attempt to copy objective reality on stage. This book challenges this misconception by redefining realism as an under-examined form of visual modernism that positioned theatre at the crux of the unstable...
To Be Published October 14th 2013 by Routledge
Crime and the Urban Imagination investigates the practices of street art and graffiti as cultural practices at the borders of legality and illegality. Street art has become a highly significant part of the ways in which people shape their urban surroundings. Cities are engaged in a continual...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
