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Routledge is one of the premier publishers of media and communication titles, useful for both the classroom and for academic research. We offer a broad range of study, from cultural studies and new media, to performance and media anthropology.
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Current titles
A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites
By Zizi Papacharissi
A Networked Self examines self presentation and social connection in the digital age. This collection brings together new work on online social networks by leading scholars from a variety of disciplines.
Arneheim for Film and Media Studies
By Scott Higgins
In this enlightening new volume in the AFI Film Readers series, an international group of leading scholars revisits Arnheim’s legacy for film and media studies. This is essential reading for any film and media student or scholar seeking to understand the meaning and contemporary impact of Arnheim’s foundational work in film theory and aesthetics.
Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art: Performing Migration
By Dorothea Fischer-Hornung, Rocío G. Davis, Johanna C. Kardux
This book provides an overview of communication-centered theory and research regarding organizational knowledge and learning. It will serve as a reference tool for scholars and practitioners to identify and understand communicative features of organizational knowledge processes.
Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body
By Cassandra Jackson
Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body considers images of wounded black men on various stages, including early photography, contemporary art, hip hop, and new media. Focusing primarily on photographic images, Jackson explores the wound as a specular moment that mediates power relations between seers and the seen.
Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism, and the Boundary Event
By Trinh T. Minh-ha
Elsewhere, Within Here is an engaging look at what it means to travel across national borders--as a tourist, as an immigrant, as a refugee—in a post-9/11 world. The author builds upon the themes of her earlier work on hybridity and displacement, illuminating the ways in which "every voyage can be said to involve a re-siting of boundaries." This is an essential work for readers interested in contemporary feminist thought and postcolonial studies
Cognitive Poetics and Cultural Memory: Russian Literary Mnemonics
By Mikhail Gronas
In this volume, Gronas addresses the full range of psychological, social, and historical issues that bear on the mnemonic existence of modern literary works, particularly Russian literature. This study will appeal to scholars of cognitive poetics, Russian literature, and cultural studies.
Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory
By Brett Ashley Kaplan
In this interdisciplinary study, Kaplan asks and attempts to answer questions by looking at historically and geographically diverse spaces, photographs, and texts concerned with the physical and/or mental landscape of the Holocaust and its transformations from the postwar period to the early twenty-first century.
Political Communication and Social Theory
By Aeron Davis
Political Communication and Social Theory presents an advanced and challenging text for students and scholars of political communication and mass media in democracies. It draws together work from across political communication, media sociology and political sociology, and includes a mix of theoretical debate and current examples from several democratic media systems. Its wide ranging discussions both introduce and contest the traditional scholarship on a number of contemporary topics and issues.