Showing 1-20 of 46 items.
Transmedia Geographies
Decoloniality, Democratization, Cultural Citizenship, and Media Convergence
By Kevin Glynn and Julie Cupples
Rutgers University Press
Looking at the US, New Zealand, and Central America, this book considers how cultural politics has been deeply reworked in our contemporary media environment. The authors analyze how rampant technological convergence has allowed stories to spill across media platforms as well as geographical borders, and how those stories re-emerge as transmediated events.
Finding God in All the Black Places
Sacred Imaginings in Black Popular Culture
Rutgers University Press
Using a media studies lens of television, film, music, and digital culture, Finding God in All the Black Places argues that Black spirituality and church religiosity bolster audiences' understanding of and cultural competence with Black popular culture.
Performing the News
Identity, Authority, and the Myth of Neutrality
By Elia Powers
Rutgers University Press
Performing The News: Identity, Authority, & the Myth of Neutrality explores how journalists from historically marginalized groups have felt pressure to conform when performing for audiences and are increasingly challenging restrictive, supposedly neutral forms of self-presentation. Through in-depth interviews, this book suggests ways to make journalism more inclusive and representative of diverse audiences
Staging a Comeback
Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance
Rutgers University Press
Drawing on original archival research and interviews, Peter C. Kunze offers a revisionist account of the Disney Renaissance that foregrounds the role of theatrically-trained talent in revitalizing Disney Animation. In so doing, he situates this impressive turnaround at the intersection of two dynamic entertainment industries with a long, underexamined relationships, Hollywood and Broadway.
Mainstreaming Gays
Critical Convergences of Queer Media, Fan Cultures, and Commercial Television
By Eve Ng
Rutgers University Press
Mainstreaming Gays examines a key transitional period linking the eras of legacy and streaming, when queer production and interaction was transformed by the emergence of digital media, the rising influence of fan cultures, and increasing interest in LGBTQ content. It is critical reading for those interested in media production, fandom, subcultures, and LGBTQ digital media.
The Counterfeit Coin
Videogames and Fantasies of Empowerment
Rutgers University Press
The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.
The Synchronized Society
Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet
Rutgers University Press
The Synchronized Society traces the history of the synchronous broadcast experience of the twentieth century and the transition to the asynchronous media that dominate in the twenty-first century, with particular attention to the rise and fall of the schedule and the “water cooler” conversations that accompanied it.
Uncanny Histories in Film and Media
Edited by Patrice Petro
Rutgers University Press
Uncanny Histories in Film and Media probes the uncanny as a mode of historical analysis. Whether writing about film movements, individual works, or the legacies of major or forgotten critics and theorists, the contributors challenge our inherited narratives to reveal a disturbance of what was once familiar in the histories of our field.
Branding Black Womanhood
Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic
Rutgers University Press
Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines how corporate brands and media companies appropriated Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise. Beginning with the emergence of Essence magazine and continuing into the 2010s, Timeka N. Tounsel considers the affordances and limitations of media visibility and corporate attention.
Stories That Bind
Political Economy and Culture in New India
Rutgers University Press
The book studies stories about India told through film, advertising, journalism, and popular non-fiction along with the stories narrated by political and corporate leaders to argue that Hindu nationalism and neoliberalism are conjoined in popular culture and that consent for this political economic project is crucially won in the domain of popular culture.
Double Exposure
How Social Psychology Fell in Love with the Movies
Rutgers University Press
Double Exposure examines the role of cinema in shaping social psychology’s landmark post-war experiments. The most influential experiments left a trail of visual evidence central to capturing the public imagination. Examining the dramaturgy, staging and filming of these experiments, Double Exposure recovers a new set of narratives.
Branding Brazil
Transforming Citizenship on Screen
Rutgers University Press
Branding Brazil examines a panorama of contemporary cultural productions including film, television, photography, and alternative media to explore the transformation of citizenship in Brazil. The book takes a multi-faceted approach, weaving media studies with politics and cinema studies to reveal that more than a marketing term or project emanating from the state, branding was a cultural phenomenon.
Hear #MeToo in India
News, Social Media, and Anti-Rape and Sexual Harassment Activism
By Pallavi Guha
Rutgers University Press
This book examines the role media platforms play in anti-rape and sexual harassment activism in India.
Documenting the American Student Abroad
The Media Cultures of International Education
By Kelly Hankin
Rutgers University Press
Documenting the American Student Abroad explores the documentary media cultures that shape our views of study abroad, drawing our attention to the broad range of stakeholders and documentary modes involved in defining the core values and practices of study abroad. Author Kelly Hankin shows how the institutional values of “global citizenship,” “intercultural communication,” and “cultural immersion” emerge in contradictory ways through their representation.
Reuse, Misuse, Abuse
The Ethics of Audiovisual Appropriation in the Digital Era
By Jaimie Baron
Rutgers University Press
Every reuse of a preexisting recording is, on some level, a misuse, but not all misuses are necessarily unethical. At the same time, there are other instances in which the misuse shades into abuse. Reuse, Misuse and Abuse surveys the range of contemporary films and videos that appropriate preexisting footage in order to theorize their implications.
Media Culture in Transnational Asia
Convergences and Divergences
Edited by Hyesu Park
Rutgers University Press
Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences offers a comprehensive and extensive overview of the production, consumption, and exchange of media in Asia, presenting the region as a rich site for media examination and exploration.
Media Culture in Transnational Asia
Convergences and Divergences
Edited by Hyesu Park
Rutgers University Press
Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences offers a comprehensive and extensive overview of the production, consumption, and exchange of media in Asia, presenting the region as a rich site for media examination and exploration.
Televisuality
Style, Crisis, and Authority in American Television
Rutgers University Press, Rutgers University Press Classics
Although the "decline" of network television in the face of cable was a crisis in television history, John Caldwell finds that it spawned new production initiatives to reassert network authority. Caldwell's classic volume, now available as a handsome volume in the Rutgers University Press Classics imprint, calls for desegregation of theory and practice in media scholarship.
The Burden of Choice
Recommendations, Subversion, and Algorithmic Culture
Rutgers University Press
The Burden of Choice examines how recommendations for products, media, news, romantic partners, and even cosmetic surgery operations are produced and experienced online. With its cultural studies and humanities-driven methodologies focused on close readings, historical research, and qualitative analysis, this book models a promising avenue for the study of algorithms and culture.
Watching Our Weights
The Contradictions of Televising Fatness in the “Obesity Epidemic”
Rutgers University Press
Watching Our Weights explores the competing and contradictory fat representations on television that are related to weight-loss and health, medicalization and disease, and body positivity and fat acceptance. Melissa Zimdars establishes how television shapes our knowledge of fatness and how fatness helps us better understand contemporary television.
Stay Informed
Subscribe nowRecent News