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In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there h......more

Now in its ninth edition, Selling Rights has firmly established itself as the leading guide to all aspects of rights sal......more

The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants an......more

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This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parent......more

Take funny music seriously! Though often dismissed as silly or derivative, funny music, Lily E. Hirsch argues, is incred......more

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Tracing the emergence of what the media industries today call transmedia, story worlds, and narrative franchises, Legal ......more

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Pedagogical Opportunities of the Review Genre unleashes the pedagogical potential of the review genre, reframing the act......more

Are you a musical theatre fan who loves TikTok? Or are you curious about how this social media app has changed musical t......more

Starting from the observation of the ubiquity of fan podcasts engaging in media commentary, this book explores three fan......more

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This book offers a common set of concepts to help make sense of online shaming practices, accounting for instances of di......more

This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games. At a tim......more

"Applies recent theories of media ecology to British and American literature from the late 19th century to the contempor......more

This Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the latest research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cul......more

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This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age with an in-depth study of the communities of gamers ......more

This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age with an in-depth study of the communities of gamers ......more

Pandemic culture: The impacts of Covid-19 on the UK cultural sector and implications for the future provides a summary o......more

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Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic pract......more

Connecting interactive cinema to media ethics and global citizenship Interactive Cinema explores various cinematic pract......more

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Circus Songs: An Annotated Anthology provides musicians and librarians with the musical scores of 85 circus songs along ......more

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This book argues for the reconstitution of the cultural in African cultural industries and societies. It posits that Afr......more

This book provides a rich analysis of the intangible legacies of mega-events and their impact on youth citizenship and c......more

Muslims are required by their faith to perform prayers five times a day, preceded by a cleansing ritual and followed by ......more

This volume examines the global media coverage of the armed conflict in Ukraine, focusing on the marginalization of diss......more

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This book delves into the dynamic field of start-up and entrepreneurial communication, addressing a significant research......more

This comprehensive collection introduces and contextualizes media studies’ most influential texts and thinkers, from ear......more

Balancing leading scholars with emerging trendsetters, this Companion offers fresh perspectives on Asian cinemas and cha......more

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Why the global health project to avert emerging microbes continually fails In 1989, a group of U.S. government scientist......more

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This book sheds light on the overall description and explanation of the current socio-political, economic and cultural e......more

Byzantine Media Subjects invites readers into a world replete with images--icons, frescoes, and mosaics filling places o......more

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Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s produc......more

Interpreting and Transmitting Kynicism in Joker: The Dark Side of Film Fandom focuses on fan discourse and discussion su......more

This two-volume work brings together studies focusing on the Greek realities of class as they appear in and through the ......more

Through archival research and analysis of artworks by Gyorgy Kepes, Allan Kaprow, Mel Bochner, and Suzanne Lacy, among o......more

Through archival research and analysis of artworks by Gyorgy Kepes, Allan Kaprow, Mel Bochner, and Suzanne Lacy, among o......more

In the second half of 2020 and continuing into 2021, protests against racial injustice spread across the United States a......more

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The climate is changing faster than our cultural practices are adapting to it. This Open Access volume, co-edited by Emi......more

The climate is changing faster than our cultural practices are adapting to it. This Open Access volume, co-edited by Emi......more

Ready Reader One explores the many ways literature depicts, engages with, and imagines videogames and gamers. The divers......more

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Explorations of the audio essay as medium and method. With contributors including Justin Barton, Angus Carlyle, Kodwo Es......more

"In the 2010s, Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) began to mobilize an international media system to pr......more

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of ......more

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How social media has become a critical tool for advancing the interests of the Canadian oil industry Petroturfing presen......more

Corona as a staged instrument of oppression, secretly kept vaccination deaths or politicians drinking children’s blood: ......more

This book is about cinema and the cultural Cold War in Asia, set against the larger history of the cultural, political, ......more

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As digital media come to saturate more and more of our societies, what benefits and challenges do they bring? Who holds ......more

This volume offers a media-theoretically oriented perspective on the Space Race. It analyzes feature films, documentarie......more

The 21st century has witnessed some of the largest human migrations in history. Europe in particular has seen a major in......more

This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American media history. It examines several of the lurid ......more

This volume recounts notable episodes of distortion throughout American media history. It examines several of the lurid ......more

Korea’s Platform Empire explores the evolution of digital platforms in South Korea’s media sphere, and their global poli......more

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