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
[email protected]
Global Vampires on Screen: Postcolonialism, Indigeneity, and National Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Simon Bacon
January 15, 2027
The Global Vampire and National Identity explores vampire cinema and media from cultures and nations beyond the dominant influence of Hollywood, examining the cultural, political and social significance of the vampire across diverse cultures and societies. Each chapter uses a single film or ...
Media Studies and Drug Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Piotr Siuda, Michał Wanke
October 20, 2026
This volume offers a comprehensive outlook on the convergences between media and drug research. Bringing together media scholars and drug researchers to highlight the intricate interconnections of these two dynamic domains, the book explores the mutual entanglements, overlaps, and intersections ...
Mediating Industrial Change: Discourses of De-Industrialisation from Northern Britain and Eastern Germany
1st Edition
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By Anke Fiedler, Darren G. Lilleker, James Morrison, Maike Dinger
October 20, 2026
Mediating Industrial Change sheds light on the process of deindustrialisation that has affected much of Western Europe for many years. The chapters in this volume explore the immense economic and social challenges, and how they are represented through media. Cumulatively the work explores these ...
The Extra-Ordinary Girl: Care, Connection, and Social Power On and Off Screen
1st Edition
By Tina Belinda Benigno
October 16, 2026
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
August 27, 2026
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 ...
Audiovisual Healing and Reparation: Recuperative Affect of Mediation
1st Edition
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By Özgür Çiçek, Özlem Savaş
July 20, 2026
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
July 20, 2026
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,...
Covid-19 in Film and Television: Watching the Pandemic
1st Edition
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By Verena Bernardi, Amanda D. Giammanco, Heike Mißler
May 22, 2026
This collection explores the impact of Covid-19 on the production and consumption of television and film content in the English-speaking world. Offering in-depth analysis of select on-screen entertainment, the volume addresses entertainment’s changing role during and following the Covid-19 pandemic...
The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
1st Edition
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By Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla, Francisco Sáez de Adana
May 22, 2026
The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives considers the concept of the multiverse beyond the immediacy of being merely an excuse or scenario for the development of stories, instead positioning the multiverse as a theoretical method in which speculative fiction ...
Young People, Media, and Nostalgia: An Ethnography of How Youth Imagine their Lives
1st Edition
By Rodrigo Muñoz-González
May 22, 2026
This book explores how Latin American young people engage with nostalgia and grasp a sense of nostalgic representations of the 1970s and 1980s through contemporary media. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Costa Rica, this book analyses how young audiences make sense of nostalgic ...
The Humanitarian Fable: Saviorism, Race, and Aid
1st Edition
By David Jefferess
February 22, 2026
The Humanitarian Fable examines how popular humanitarian communication constructs global poverty as a moral narrative that reinforces unequal power dynamics between the Global North and Global South. Taking a cultural studies approach, the book argues that humanitarian discourse places too much ...
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World
1st Edition
By Jane Batkin
December 26, 2025
Childhood in Animation: Navigating a Secret World explores how children are viewed in animated cinema and television and examines the screen spaces that they occupy. The image of the child is often a site of conflict, one that has been captured, preserved, and recollected on screen; but what do ...