The cinema as a cultural institution has been studied by academic researchers in the arts
and humanities. At present, cultural media studies are the home to the aesthetics and critical …

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 …

Narratives are everywhere--and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is
defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against …

This book presents a new basis for the empirical analysis of film. Starting from an
established body of work in film theory, the authors show how a close incorporation of the …

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 …

New Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history,
technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers …

Sometimes our routines seem transparent, and we forget that they have a history. It's
commonplace for academics in the humanities to assume that every field consists of objects …

What is the relationship between cinema and spectator? This is the key question for film
theory, and one that Thomas Elsaesser and Malte Hagener put at the center of their …

The early years of the twenty-first century have seen dramatic changes within the television
industry. The development of the internet and mobile phone as platforms for content directly …

Fiction literature has largely been ignored by psychology researchers because its only
function seems to be entertainment, with no connection to empirical validity. We argue that …