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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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 ...
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
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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 ...