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The book examines the difficulty of adapting from one screen medium to another by looking at both successful and unsuccessful efforts in the area of science fiction. Those difficult efforts at moving from film to TV and from TV to film reveal much about the technologies involved and this highly technological genre as well.

This collection by trans and non-trans academics and artists from the United States, the UK, and continental Europe, examines how transgenderism can be conceptualized in a literary, biographical, and autobiographical framework, with emphasis on place, ethnicity and visibility. The volume covers the 1950s to the present day and examines autobiographical accounts and films featuring gender transition. Chapters focus on various stages of transitioning. Interviews with trans people are also provided.

Contributors including David Hesmondhalgh, Gholam Khiabany, José van Dijck, Hector Postigo, Anthony Fung, Stuart Allan and Geoff King demonstrate how the notion of independence has remained paramount, but contested, in ideals of what the media is for, how it should be regulated, what it should produce and what working within it should be like. They address questions of economics, labor relations, production cultures, ideologies and social functions.

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media.

This book aims to revisit the notion of subculture for the 21st century, reinterpreting it and extending its scope.

This book analyzes the challenges facing public service media management in the face of ongoing technological developments and changing audience behaviors. It connects models, strategies, concepts, and managerial theories with emerging approaches to public media practices.

Offers a comprehensive account of trauma as a critical concept in the study of modern visual media, from Freud to the present day, looking at how the psychoanalytic theory of trauma was adapted by the cultural critics Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Slavoj Zizek.

Nation branding ¿ a set of ideas rooted in Western marketing ¿ gained popularity in the post-communist world by promising a quick fix for the identity malaise of "transitional" societies. Since 1989, almost every country in Central and Eastern Europe has engaged in nation branding initiatives of varying scope and sophistication. For the first time, this volume collects in one place studies that examine the practices and discourses of the nation branding undertaken in these countries. In addition to documenting various rebranding initiatives, these studies raise important questions about their political and cultural implications.

Uses the law and order generic network and its relationship to juridical discourses to show how emotions are deployed to construct ideologies of law and justice while, simultaneously, constructing cultural understandings of the meaning of various emotions.

This is the first scholarly work to examine the cultural significance of the "talking book" since the invention of the phonograph in 1877, the earliest machine to enable the reproduction of the human voice. Recent advances in sound technology make this an opportune moment to reflect on the evolution of our reading practices since this remarkable invention. Some questions addressed by the collection include: How does auditory literature adapt printed texts? What skills in close listening are necessary for its reception? What are the social consequences of new listening technologies? In sum, the essays gathered together by this collection explore the extent to which the audiobook enables us not just to hear literature but to hear it in new ways. Bringing together a set of reflections on the enrichments and impoverishments of the reading experience brought about by developments in sound technology, this collection spans the earliest adaptations of printed texts into sound by Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and other novelists from the late nineteenth century to recordings by contemporary figures such as Toni Morrison and Barack Obama at the turn of the twenty-first century. As the voices gathered here suggest, it is time to give a hearing to one of the most talked about new media of the past century.

Digital Media Sport analyzes the intersecting issues of technological change, market power, and cultural practices that shape the contemporary global sports media landscape. The complexity of these related issues demands an interdisciplinary approach that is adopted here in a series of thematically organized essays by international scholars working in media studies, Internet studies, sociology, cultural studies, and sports studies.

From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded black men have long permeated American culture. This book considers images of wounded black men on various stages, including early photography, contemporary art, hip hop, and media.

How do the spaces of the past stay with us through representations - whether literary or photographic? Examining the intersections of landscape, postmemory, and trauma, this text offers a contribution to our understanding of the spatial, visual, and literary reach of the Holocaust.

Features the essays that focus on the connection between issues of migration and media. This title addresses how their interconnection has become part of our understanding of the world's global cities, and the paradigms through which we think about ethnicity and nation.

An incisive study of the loss and (re)construction of collective and personal identities in ethnic migrant communities, focusing on the Macedonian and Croatian communities in Western Australia.

Examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action.

Moves between close readings of letters, postcards and emails, and investigations of the material, technological infrastructures of these forms, to answer the question: How does presence function as an aesthetic and rhetorical strategy within networked communication practices?

This book seeks to provide readers with a cross-national perspective concerning the art of political communication. Contributors offer perspectives from Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy and the United States.

Investigates the various ways in which mobile media is developing in different cultural, linguistic, social, and national settings. This title considers the promises and politics of mobile media and its role in the dynamic social and gender relations configured in the boundaries between public and private spheres.

This book explores television's role in fostering European cultural identity and the extent to which European public service broadcasters were able to meet the challenges posed by the introduction of new communication technologies.

Media Reform examines the relationship between the media and the development of democracy. Detailed worldwide case studies illustrate discussions on liberalisation of media, technological developments and new trends.

Using examples from a range of countries, this book illustrates how the media intervenes to affect the reception migrants receive, and how it stimulates prospective migrants to move.

Shows how contemporary postmodern cities and their inhabitants have been transformed by the forces of globalization and fresh information technologies. This book explores how the urban spaces of post modernity (parks, plazas, streets, sidewalks) and postmodern urban subjectivities and communities respond to and create each other.

An anthology of essays that study the relationship between imagination and images both material and mental. It focuses on the role of the creative imagination in seeing and producing images and the imaginary through case studies on a diverse array of topics including photography, film, sports, theater, and anthropology.

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. This work offers research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation.