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Sebastian Jagielski,

The Politics of Excess in Polish Cinema

Departing from standard histories, this book draws on the theory of excess in film to provide a re-examination of Polish cinema history, following emancipatory impulses that emerged in Polish culture betw…

Ross Garner

Ranger Reboot

Examining Power Rangers , the long-running but frequently-maligned intellectual property, by treating it seriously and on its own terms, Ranger Reboot considers how forms of mediated nostalgia respond to,…

Alison Peirse

Rewriting Television

Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studi…

Global Cult Cinemas

Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies.To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema and its reception in the West. Even when cult s…

Funny Stuff

More than just gags and giggles, comedy is a powerful force, reflecting our hopes and fears, helping us understand social and political changes, and creating a shared national culture. In this book, histo…

Annika A Culver

Democratizing Luxury

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to …

Brian Michael Murphy

We the Dead

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that …

Amanda D Lotz

After Mass Media

"After Mass Media explores how the business of series and movies have fragmented to become an international business of microaudiences and what that means for the stories told and their cultural role…

Nicholas Carr

Superbloom

With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the sel…

Dead Lord

Heads Held High

Periodicals in Latin America

Assembling research on a diverse range of serialized publications from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this volume explores how Latin American print culture has influenced local movements …

Elliott Logan

Over and Over

How does serial drama earn, keep, and reward our attention for so long -- over episodes, seasons, months, and years? While we know that characters are the focus of story and viewer interest in television …

Elliott Logan

Over and Over

How does serial drama earn, keep, and reward our attention for so long -- over episodes, seasons, months, and years? While we know that characters are the focus of story and viewer interest in television …

Philip Kadish

The Great White Hoax

A provocative new history of the forgeries, bogus science, rigged data, and fake news that keep American racism alive "Anyone interested in the intersection of race, politics, and public lies in Amer…

Andrew Lison

100% Utilization

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growt…

David Morton

Motion Picture Paradise

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state's importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the penins…

Syria, Revolt and War in the Digital Age

"An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian war. Never before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and …

Nathan Jurgenson

The Social Photo

The selfie, the faux-vintage photo, the self-destructing image, the food photo---these new visual forms and the devices and platforms that facilitate them have fomented a cultural revolution. Not only has…

Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the "flyover country" trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.