Visual Culture Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

   Asia in Flight

   By Sheng-mei Ma

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Interrogating Trauma

   Collective Suffering in Global Arts and Media

   Edited by Mick Broderick, Antonio Traverso

   Throughout the past century, traumatic experiences have been re-enacted frequently by evolving media and art forms. Now there is a significant body of theory across academic disciplines focused on the representation of cataclysmic European and US historical events. However, less critical attention...

   Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

   Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

   This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. China on Video

   Smaller-Screen Realities

   By Paola Voci

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   China On Video is the first in-depth study that examines smaller-screen realities and the important role they play not only in the fast-changing Chinese mediascape, but also more broadly in the practice of experimental and non-mainstream cinema. At the crossroads of several disciplines—film, media,...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Flagship Marketing

   Concepts and places

   Edited by Tony Kent, Reva Brown

   Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

   Flagships are the physical apogee of consumerism, places where brand experiences are most defined and interactions with consumers are highly refined. This book marks the first comprehensive study of the concept of the flagship, bringing together a range of scholarly insights from the field,...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Invisible Connections

   Dance, Choreography and Internet Communities

   By Sita Popat

   Series: Innovations in Art and Design

   The first and only book to focus on dance on the Internet, Sita Popat’s fascinating Invisible Connections examines how Internet and communication technologies offer dance and theatre new platforms for creating and performing work, and how opportunities for remote interaction and collaboration are...

   Published February 10th 2010 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Playing on the Periphery

   Sport, Identity and Memory

   By Tara Brabazon

   Series: Sport in the Global Society

   Part of the Sport in the Global Society series, this innovative and creative text explores collective history, memory, and sport culture, tracking the passage of sports away from England. The author investigates why ‘elite’ English sports – such as rugby and cricket – became national sports in New...

   Published September 14th 2008 by Routledge