Major Works: Media & Film Studies

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31. Female Journalists of the Fin de Siècle

    Edited by Lorna Shelley

    Series: History of Feminism

    Especially in recent years, late nineteenth-century novels, short stories, and essays have attracted considerable scholarly interest. Research into texts by and about the New Woman has played a major role in shaping a critical understanding of fin-de-siècle literature, New Journalism, gender...

    Published November 7th 2010 by Routledge
32. War and Conflict Communication

    Edited by Philip Seib

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
33. Celebrity

    Edited by Chris Rojek

    Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    In recent years, the study of celebrity has developed and cohered into a flourishing field of social and cultural analysis. There is huge interest in topics such as the politics and logic of glamour; the role of the public-relations industry in manipulating television audiences; the relationship...

    Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
34. Communication Yearbook 33

    Edited by Christina S. Beck

    The Communication Yearbook annuals publish diverse, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews across the field of communication. Sponsored by the International Communication Association, volumes offer insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings...

    Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
35. The Information Society

    Edited by Robin Mansell

    Series: Critical Concepts in Sociology

    ‘The information society’ refers to a constellation of developments arising from the growing use of communication technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of information, and the role of information in supporting the creation and exchange of knowledge. Research on information...

    Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge
36. Radio

    Edited by Andrew Crisell

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Over the last sixty years or so academic interest in the mass media has burgeoned. It is not, perhaps, surprising that this interest at first focused principally on the visual media of film and television, where it has remained intensive. Nevertheless, serious thinking about radio soon followed....

    Published November 12th 2008 by Routledge
37. Journalism

    Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    Edited by Howard Tumber

    Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

    This Major Work from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series is a four-volume set of key theoretical, empirical, and historical writings on journalism. Adopting a pluralist theoretical approach, the collection brings together the very best foundational and cutting-edge...

    Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge
38. Media Literacies

    Edited by Margaret Mackey

    Series: Major Themes in Education

    The past century has witnessed an ever-accelerating revolution in the ways by which we communicate with each other, and that revolution is far from complete. Understanding how our literacy skills and behaviours are evolving—how we make use of old technologies and adapt to new ones—and how critical...

    Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge
39. The Language of Advertising: Major Themes in English Studies

    Edited by Guy Cook

    Series: Major Themes in English Studies

    Advertising is one of the most prominent, powerful, and ubiquitous contemporary uses of language. Its seductive and controversial quality has attracted consistent and intense attention across a range of academic disciplines including linguistics, media studies, politics, semiotics, and sociology....

    Published October 29th 2007 by Routledge
40. Communication Yearbook 31

    Edited by Christina Beck

    Communication Yearbook 31 continues the tradition of publishing rich, state-of-the-discipline literature reviews. This volume offers insightful descriptions of research as well as reflections on the implications of those findings for other areas of the discipline. Editor Christina S. Beck presents...

    Published July 22nd 2007 by Routledge