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,...Lasīt vairāk
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. It will appeal to social and mass media, digital culture, youth culture...Lasīt vairāk
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 reflecti...Lasīt vairāk
This book is a unique and comprehensive combination of methodological and conceptual approaches to cultural, historical and sociological analyses, feminism and speculative fiction. It will appeal to girlhood & feminist studies, film & media, child a...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines media, performance and the public space as sites of intangible cultural heritage. This unique and interdisciplinary volume will interest scholars and students of cultural studies, cultural heritage, media and film studies, perfo...Lasīt vairāk
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 c...Lasīt vairāk
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 audi...Lasīt vairāk
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....Lasīt vairāk
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 covera...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines how the climate change debate is represented, dealt with, narrated and more generally plays out within the field, texts and genres of the commercial media. Understanding the importance of environmental representations, narrative...Lasīt vairāk
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, telev...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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...Lasīt vairāk
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 Berlins cu...Lasīt vairāk
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 i...Lasīt vairāk
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 exp...Lasīt vairāk
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 theore...Lasīt vairāk
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 ho...Lasīt vairāk
Crowds, Community and Contagion in Contemporary Britain presents the COVID-19 pandemic as an opportunity to re-assess the neoliberal politics, xenophobia and racism that have undermined community cohesion in the United Kingdom since 1979,...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, authors engage in an interdisciplinary discourse of theory and practice on the concept of personal conviction. It will be of particular interest to scholars in communication and journalism studies, media studies, philosophy, and psyc...Lasīt vairāk
