How to repair our culture by reimagining how we make media and use technology to connect with one another. Can producing......more

"Gardner explores the way that people navigate contemporary digital games through accoutn logins, controllers, mens and ......more

Israeli art from the turn of the millennium is the work of movers: artists who have relocated from one country to anothe......more

The rise of the Chinese internet has reconfigured digital culture around the world. From social media platforms such as ......more

The rise of the Chinese internet has reconfigured digital culture around the world. From social media platforms such as ......more

This book examines how China’s emerging middle class leverages social media platforms, particularly WeChat, to build and......more

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Through a comprehensive analysis of popular contemporary science fiction television series, this book underscores the ge......more

This book deals with an emerging subgenre of films made in a variety of countries that make critical references to Ameri......more

This book is the first Western-language study of a legal Qurʾān commentary and the first examination of a Zaydī tafsīr. ......more

Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to ......more

On the evening of 12 October 2002 two suicide bombers detonated bombs inside Paddy s Pub and in front of the Sari Club i......more

"Tyranny always masquerades as benevolence." With that stark warning, In Trudeau’s Kitchen propels readers behind Canada......more

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Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the "bad gir......more

"Black Orpheus" and the Globalization of Afro-Brazilian Culture is the first historical study in English to examine the ......more

Since cinema’s beginning, live actors and cartoon characters have traded places and invaded each other’s spaces, with re......more

At the end of history, nothing ever really ends. Though characterized, on one hand, by sociopolitical and economic stasi......more

A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly mig......more

A vividly personal journey tracing the legacy of 1960s counterculture into the free parties, road protests, and traveler......more

Are media and film studies truly new subjects? Steve Connolly uncovers their deep disciplinary roots and evaluates how k......more

Are media and film studies truly new subjects? Steve Connolly uncovers their deep disciplinary roots and evaluates how k......more

The life story of Hans Jonathan, Iceland’s first Black citizen. The island nation of Iceland is known for many things--m......more

This book explores the role of science and technology literature on Jewish education and identity in the 18th and 19th c......more

Is the Self-Help Industry Really Helping or Are We Being Misled? This work critically analyses the self-help industry, t......more

This collection considers new phenomena emerging in a convergence environment from the perspective of adaptation studies......more

Over the past decade, digital technologies have profoundly reshaped the Chinese cultural landscape. With a focus on the ......more

Doing Digital Migration present a comprehensive entry point to the variety of theoretical debates, methodological interv......more

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportion......more

Valid and reliable measurement of media and communication exposure is crucial for communication science, psychology, pol......more

In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time......more

The rapid developments in new communication technologies have facilitated the popularization of digital games, which has......more

This book focuses on the referendums against water privatization in Italy and explores how activists took to social medi......more

Protestors across the world use aesthetics in order to communicate their ideas and ensure their voices are heard. This b......more

Part personal memoir, part professional flashback, part socio-cultural commentary, The Call of Japan chronicles the auth......more

Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mo......more

Screens are ubiquitous today. Yet contemporary screen media eliminate the presence of the screen and diminish the visibi......more

Social movements are not only remembered in personal experience, but also through cultural carriers that shape how later......more

Archival Film Curatorship is the first book-length study that investigates film archives at the intersection of institut......more

Body, Capital and Screens: Visual Media and the Healthy Self in the 20th Century brings together new research from leadi......more

From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages......more

Swarming has become a fundamental cultural technique related to dynamic processes and an effective metaphor for the coll......more

How are intergenerational relationships playing out in and through the digital rhythms of the household? Through extensi......more

Based on original archival research, Early Cinema, Modernity and Visual Culture: The Imaginary of the Balkans is the fir......more

Physicist Gabriel Lippmann’s (1845-1921) photographic process is one of the oldest methods for producing colour photogra......more

Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western e......more

This book is specifically dedicated to film history’s own history: It provides insights into the fabrication of film his......more

This book argues for a theory of mobile mapping, a situated and spatial approach towards researching how everyday digita......more

The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to a......more

This timely book takes an original transnational approach to the theme of Nazism and neo-Nazism in film, media, and popu......more

To dismantle negative stereotypes of fans, this book offers a media ethnography of the digital culture, conventions, and......more

Is it possible to be religiously exclusive and socially inclusive? How do we deal with those outside of our own religiou......more

This book explores what’s happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the techn......more

This collection brings together a number of leading scholars in film studies to explore viewing and listening dispositiv......more

The release of No Time To Die in 2021 heralds the arrival of the twenty-fifth installment in the James Bond film series.......more

The evolution of the game industry and changes in the advertising landscape in recent years have led to a keen interest ......more

The future of work is at the centre of debates related to the emerging digital society. Concerns range from the inclusio......more

Disinformation and so-called fake news are contemporary phenomena with rich histories. Disinformation, or the willful in......more

There is growing awareness about how social media circulate extreme viewpoints and turn up the temperature of public deb......more

This volume introduces a new concept that boldly breaks through the traditional dichotomy of high and low culture while ......more

So you’re the one getting this gift? Lucky you! Someone who knows you has visited the museum. They searched out things t......more

Trolls for Trump’, virtual rape, fake news -- social media discourse, including forms of virtual and real violence, has ......more

How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, lan......more

The story is now familiar. In the late 1960s humanity finally saw photographic evidence of the Earth in space for the fi......more

During the 1950s in Sweden, companies aiming for international markets demanded new theories and methods of communicatio......more

Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semiopragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of on......more

Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organ......more

The Building as Screen: A History, Theory, and Practice of Massive Media describes, historicizes, theorizes, and creativ......more

The essays in this volume look at how gendered demands for both temporal and spatial access are articulated within speci......more

This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 S......more

This book brings together a selection of papers delivered at the Video Game Cultures 2023 conference, held from 7 to 9 S......more

This study is an analysis of the behavior of different individuals and groups at the Abbasid court-the center of the lar......more

The Western genre evolved from frontier myths to iconic films, shaping cinema, culture, and modern entertainment. Even w......more

Xántus and/és Borneo chronicles the extraordinary life of Hungarian adventurer, collector and explorer János Xántus, who......more