Major Works: Forthcoming Sociology of Media

Forthcoming Books

1. Chinese Media

   Edited by Michael Keane, Wanning Sun

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   From an area of specialist research a decade ago China’s media has become now an important element of research and teaching worldwide, not only in specific Chinese cultural studies courses at the university level but increasingly in post-graduate research and in the domain of business consultancy....

   To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
2. Chicano Images

   Refiguring Ethnicity in Mainstream Film

   By Christine List

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Providing textual analysis of 12 feature films written and directed by filmmakers who explore aspects of the Chicano cultural movement, this book discusses films including Cheech and Chong's Still Smokin' (1983), El Norte (1985), and Break of Dawn (1988). The text analyzes the portrayal of Chicano,...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Cinema, Literature & Society

   Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain

   By Peter Miles, Malcolm Smith

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception

   By Yuri Tsivian

   Edited by Richard Taylor

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Eisenstein: A Documentary Portrait

   By Norman Swallow

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Of all the pioneers of the cinema, the Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein has exerted the most enduring hold on the popular imagination. Eisenstein worked with many people in different parts of the world. This book offers a unique portrait of the director based on the personal recollections of...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Film and the Working Class

   The Feature Film in British and American Society

   By Peter Stead

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Taking the subject chronologically from the 1890s to when the book was initially published in 1989, this book analyses those films specifically concerned with working-class conditions and struggle, and discusses them within the context of the debate on the social significance of the feature film....

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Hollywood Goes to War

   Films and American Society, 1939-1952

   By Colin Shindler

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   A historian’s view of the relationship between American history and the American film industry the book is a witty and perceptive account of Hollywood and its films in the years from the outbreak of the Second World War in Europe to the end of the war in Korea, It describes how film makers and...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Image and Influence

   Studies in the Sociology of Film

   By Andrew Tudor

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
9. Masters of the Soviet Cinema

   Crippled Creative Biographies

   By Herbert Marshall

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

   Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Dovzhenko, Vertov: these Soviet film directors are acknowledged to be among the greatest in the history of cinematography. To Eisenstein we owe such films as Battleship Potemkin and October; to Pudovkin Mother and The End of St Petersburg; to Dovzhenko Earth and Zvenigora; and...

   To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
10. The British Board of Film Censors

    Film Censorship in Britain, 1896-1950

    By James C. Robertson

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cinema

    More than seventy years after the British Board of Film Censors’ inception no systematic history of film censorship in Britain in general and the BBFC in particular has yet been attempted. One major obstacle for the would-be historian of British film censorship is the secrecy in which the BBFC...

    To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge