Video games have long been seen as the exclusive territory of young, heterosexual white
males. In a media landscape dominated by such gamers, players who do not fit this mold …

Neoliberalism is easily one of the most powerful concepts to emerge within the social
sciences in the last two decades, and the number of scholars who write about this dynamic …

Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience. In the last few
decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central …

Профессор Университета Лидса (Великобритания) Дэвид Хезмондалш проводит
анализ изменений в культурных индустриях начиная с 1980-х годов, а также …

How the media are organised and funded is central to understanding their role in society.
Critical Political Economy of the Media provides a clear, comprehensive and insightful …

'Only a crisis–actual or perceived–produces real change. When this crisis occurs, the actions
that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic …

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual
prism long championed by one of journalisms leading contemporary scholars. A former …

Hesmondhalgh has done it again! The third edition of The Cultural Industries is a tour-de-
force. At once brilliant and accessible, it is without peer when it comes to detailing the big …

Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been
conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis …

What is left to say about celebrity? Well, as I hope to demonstrate in this book, quite a lot. In
particular, I have been concerned to disaggregate the customary constructions of celebrity a …