Cultural and media studies

This is the first book to unpack the history and significance of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the frontispiece of the most watched event on Earth.

CHART is a guide to unleashing creativity in data visualization.

How Disinformation Ruins Public Diplomacy evaluates and analyzes how Chinese and Russian public diplomacy strategies differ from the existing academic literature and debates, specifically in the context of the new disinformation era.

Counter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company.

A comprehensive, yet entertaining, examination of the Law & Order juggernaut.

This book discusses the the beginning of writing and the Beginning of Biblical Literature.

Peering into the unconscious through cinema can give audiences an uncanny feeling about what lives in the beyond, something alien to consciousness.

Deaccessioning Museum Objects is an innovative exploration of museum collections management practice and the ethical complexities of object disposal within the contemporary social context.

Conservation of Photographs: Significance, Use and Care provides a comprehensive and inclusive overview of theory, research, and practice in the conservation of photograph collections, from the analogue to the digital era.

Our society is becoming inextricably intertwined with digital platforms.

The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen offers a comprehensive global analysis of the representation of Mothers and Motherhood in contemporary screen industries and online spaces.

Literature as Sound Studies identifies literature as a site of sonic invention and reconfiguration, contributing a range of terms, models, and methods for attending to sound.

What if the global trade in key food commodities suddenly ceased?

**** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ****'Fascinating and illuminating, this book tempers the justifiable rage with sharp and funny pinpricks to the pompous.

In Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination, Eric Herhuth draws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine how animated films address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and sociocultural change.

Using a radical and inclusive definition of the genre, this collection explores musicians' autobiographies as articulated in print, on stage, and through various expressive media as a dynamic factor in contemporary culture.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture explains where religion is made in the United States.

This study considers the performativity of sound-producing sculptures made in the twenty-first century through a cultural history of certain works.

For decades, American popular media have instructed audiences about their roles and significance in the public sphere.

Black Americans' Strengths-Based Cultural Practices: Tools for Clinicians to Promote Psychological Well-Being uses historical, social, scientific, and psychological research to detail how mental health professionals can use the cultural practices of Black Americans and communities to promote positive psychosocial health.

This book showcases Global South theorizations and understandings of gender.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, Sport and the Media: Managing the Nexus combines in-depth analysis of the rapidly developing sport media industry with a clear and straightforward guide to practical sport media management skills.

A guide to communicating the power and significance of baptism.

In a society that is still experiencing the crisis generated by the pandemic due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, aggravated also by the conflict in Ukraine, it is necessary to rethink the concept of culture, which must be declined in its factual reality of everyday life, since the cultural system and its elements not only produce relationships (meaningful interactions) but also individual and collective social action, hence the use of the term rela(c)tion in the title.

"e;Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are,"e; said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin.

En el vasto y dinámico universo de la comunicación, el arte emerge como un poderoso aliado para persuadir, conmover y transformar.

In today's world, digital media and the social are irreversibly intertwined.

This introduction to queer theatre and performance in the United States explores the pioneering artists that have shaped this ever-changing field across the past two centuries, through ten key moments and movements.

Music has been critical to national identity in Latin America, especially since the worldwide emphasis on nations and cultural identity that followed World War I.

Die Frage, wer in einer Stadt das Sagen hat, beschäftigt bekanntlich Politik, Verwaltung und die städtische Wählerschaft immer aufs Neue.

Islamic schools are growing exponentially in the West to meet the demands of Muslim learners and their parents.

This is not only a book about Vittorio Gregotti's projects and works, but rather a historical critical analysis of his peculiar figure.

Working-Class Women in Irish Literature and Theatre critically engages with works of theatre both by and about working-class women, historically and presently.

This collection showcases interdisciplinary perspectives on how Spanglish is translated across different forms of audiovisual media for different audiences in the US Latinx content.

This is the first book length study of The Golden Girls, which ran for seven award winning seasons from 1985 to 1992 and produced two spin-offs.

This book explores the phenomenon of "e;mum fans"e;: fans who identify themselves as their idols' mothers and participate in online, data-related fan activities termed "e;parenting.