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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Europeans and the Media: Between Global and Local
1st Edition
By Andrea Miconi
December 26, 2025
This book investigates the relationship between the process of Europeanization – the expected rise of a common culture – and the role played by the media in the different regions. Drawing on a comparative model, the analysis is structured around frameworks related to the action of the media in ...
News Aesthetics and Myth: The Making of Media Illiteracy in India
1st Edition
By Shashidhar Nanjundaiah
December 26, 2025
This book considers the presence of media illiteracy in a world in which we are supposedly consumed by media, live a media life, in a media ecosystem, surrounded by mediated communication. Unpacking this paradoxical situation, the author proposes that before venturing into media literacy, we must ...
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture
1st Edition
By Laurie McMillan
December 26, 2025
Slut Narratives in Popular Culture explores representations of slut shaming and the term “slut” in U.S. popular media, 2000–2020. It argues that cultural narratives of intersectional gender identities are gradually but unevenly shifting to become more progressive and sex positive. Moving beyond ...
The Undead Child in Popular Culture: Representations of Childhoods Past, Present, and Preserved
1st Edition
Edited
By Craig Martin, Debbie Olson
December 26, 2025
In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that ...
Soviet Narratology and Spatial Story Design: The Unintentional Storyteller
1st Edition
By Sylke Rene Meyer
October 20, 2025
Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications, situating spatial story design as medium sui generis that evolved as a counternarrative to agonal games on the one hand, and in distinction to linear narrative such as ...
Mediating Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in the GenZ Era
1st Edition
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By Rachel R. Reynolds, Dacia Pajé, Sienna Medina, John Gigante
September 19, 2025
This volume explores how so-called digital natives of GenZ use media in the crafting of generational beliefs and representational practices around sex, gender, and sexuality. Through qualitative chapters of critical, ethnographic, discursive, and textual analysis, an international team of authors ...
Collaboration in Media Studies: Doing and Being Together
1st Edition
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By Begüm Irmak, Can Koçak, Onur Sesigür, Nazan Haydari
July 31, 2025
This volume offers new perspectives on knowledge production through various forms of togetherness. Via diverse cases of collaboration in media studies, from methodological contemplations to on‑the‑field social practices, the book proposes reflections and inquiries around collective research, media,...
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. ...
Culture-Bound Syndromes in Popular Culture
1st Edition
Edited
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
Edited
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, ...