Media / Communication

How deviant materials figure resistance Yeast ferments, gelatin jiggles, drugs and alcohol froth and bubble, and flesh from animals and plants actively molds and rots. These materials morph through m …

Murakami Haruki on Film offers a timely look at the cinematic adaptations of Japanese writer Murakami Haruki’s fiction over the past forty years. Films based on Murakami’s work (including Tony Takita …

In QAnon: Unmasking the Theory, readers will embark on a comprehensive exploration of one of the most complex and influential conspiracy movements of the 21st century. From its mysterious origins on …

Digital Detox: Managing Your Online Presence and Social Media  by Clara Wintershade explores the intricate relationship between our offline and online lives. As social media becomes an extension …

Interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies. Sex panics saturate contemporary discourse and …

Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema explores disaster as a powerful means for addressing environmental crises. It is the first volume dedicated to a multi-genre analysis of environmental themes in Japan …

In Malicious Deceivers, Ioana B. Jucan traces a genealogy of post-truth intimately tied to globalizing modernity and connects the production of repeatable fakeness with capitalism and Cartesian metap …

In a bid to wean himself off Facebook and Twitter, media scholar and cultural theorist Dominic Pettman decided to revive an ancient custom. He decided to tell the local bees of his thoughts, theories …

The Veil Between: The Forbidden Science of Spirits and Shadows is a chilling exploration into the dark, hidden truths of the metaphysical world. Demetri Welsh pulls back the curtain on the mysterious …

What is media research and how is it done? This book offers detailed introductions and practical guidance for all aspects of media research, from developing a research question and choosing sources t …