Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
About the Book Series
Cultural and media studies are now well-established as important academic disciplines and are inspiring new research into a wide range of pertinent issues. This series presents outstanding research in these subjects, helping to shape the direction of future inquiry.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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The Extra-Ordinary Girl: Care, Connection, and Social Power On and Off Screen
1st Edition
By Tina Belinda Benigno
July 18, 2025
Positioning the teen girl as a figure possessing exceptional power with the potential to instigate change, this book examines the “extra-ordinary” girl as she exists under neoliberalism today. Through a combination of textual and cultural analyses of figurations of girlhood in popular culture, and ...
Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks: Media, Performance and the Public Space
1st Edition
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By Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou, Leslie Grace McMurtry
May 09, 2025
This book examines media, performance, and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage – a heritage that moves beyond physical museums and monuments to encompass film and media, performing arts, oral traditions, social practices, rituals, artifacts, and cultural spaces. Focusing on ...
Multilingual Fiction Series: Genres, Geographies and Performances
1st Edition
By Nahuel Ribke
May 06, 2025
This book explores the emergence and development of multilingual fiction series, a relatively new phenomenon propelled by the globalization of media industries and the consolidation of streaming platforms as central vectors in the production and consumption of audiovisual entertainment content. ...
Audiovisual Healing and Reparation: Recuperative Affect of Mediation
1st Edition
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By Özgür Çiçek, Özlem Savaş
April 29, 2025
Audiovisual Healing and Reparation gathers a collection of scholarly and creative voices that explore how audiovisual media can serve as a catalyst for healing, reparation, resilience, care and hope. The contributors critically engage with the audiovisual mediations of harsh histories and ...
Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture
1st Edition
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By Gilad Padva, Yair Koren-Maimon
April 17, 2025
Personified Body Parts in Cinema, Literature, and Visual Culture investigates the power of personifying body parts in cinema, television, visual culture, literature, erotica, folklore, and mystique. Culturally, socially, and poetically exposing hidden aspects and subtleties of human existentialism,...
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture
1st Edition
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By Cringuta Irina Pelea
April 14, 2025
This volume explores culture-bound syndromes, defined as a pattern of symptoms (mental, physical, and/or relational) experienced only by members of a specific cultural group and recognized as a disorder by members of those groups, and their coverage in popular culture. Encompassing a wide range of ...
Desire and Consent in Representations of Adolescent Sexuality with Adults
1st Edition
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By Maureen Turim, Diane Waldman
January 30, 2025
This book presents an innovative comparative view of how the issue of adolescent sexuality and consent is differently treated in various media. Analyzing teenage sexual encounters with adults across a variety of media, including films, television, novels, and podcasts, the volume takes a positive ...
Social Media and the Cultural Politics of Korean Pop Culture in East Asia
1st Edition
By Sunny Yoon
December 18, 2024
This volume examines international engagement with Korean popular culture in East Asian online spaces, and how Asian identities are formed and perceived between nations within the region. In the context of global diversification and growing public participation in global issues, it builds up a new ...
Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe
1st Edition
By Katrina Sark
November 28, 2024
This book is a cultural history of post-Wall urban, social, political, and cultural transformations in Berlin. Branding Berlin: From Division to the Cultural Capital of Europe presents a cultural analysis of Berlin’s cultural production, including literature, film, memoirs and non-fiction works, ...
London as Screen Gateway
1st Edition
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By Elizabeth Evans, Malini Guha
November 28, 2024
London as Screen Gateway explores how London features within screen narratives and as a location of screen industry activity. Reflecting the diversity of roles the city plays both on screen and within the screen industries, the volume explores the intersection between London as a material place and...
Sustainable Resilience in Women's Film and Video Organizations: A Counter-Lineage in Moving Image History
1st Edition
By Rosanna Maule
November 28, 2024
This book illustrates a distinctive lineage of critical interventions in moving image culture and in the public sphere through the trajectories of a small number of film and video organizations established between the 1970s and the early 1980s in Western Europe and North America mainly by women and...
True Crime in American Media
1st Edition
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By George S. Larke-Walsh
November 28, 2024
This book explores contemporary American true crime narratives across various media formats. It dissects the popularity of true crime and the effects, both positive and negative, this popularity has on perceptions of crime and the justice system in contemporary America. As a collection of new ...