Media and Communication Studies
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Nuclear Gothic
Textual and Cultural Fusions
Helena K Bacon
Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981623
January 2025
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Nuclear Gothic investigates the previously unexplored congruities that lie between gothic forms and modes and nuclear cultures and techno-sciences; it aims to read Western nuclear fictions in relation to their Japanese counterparts and through a cohesive critical framework that examines atomic processes, nuclear fictions and specific historical and cultural moments.
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Our Emotions and Culture
How Modern Life Changes Us
E Doyle McCarthy
In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980732
October 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process.
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Journalism and the Metaverse
John V. Pavlik
Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or the future of the Internet, is likely to fuel even further disruption in journalism. This book will provide a critical examination of the implications of the Metaverse for the continuing transformation of journalism in the digital age.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839990120
June 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Journalism has been in a state of disruption since the development of the Internet. The Metaverse, or the future of the Internet, is likely to fuel even further disruption in journalism. This book will provide a critical examination of the implications of the Metaverse for the continuing transformation of journalism in the digital age.
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The Craft of Professional Writing, Second Edition
A Guide for Amateur and Professional Writers
Michael S. Malone
The Craft of Professional Writing, 2nd edition, is the most complete manual ever written for every form of professional (and professional quality) writing.
Hardback
9781839992100
May 2024
Forthcoming
£70.00 / $70.00The Craft of Professional Writing, 2nd edition, is the most complete manual ever written for every form of professional (and professional quality) writing.
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The Language Experience Approach and the Science of Literacy Instruction
Elaine A. Fairbairn Traynelis Yurek, Mary Strong
This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different language tasks are explained.
Hardback
9781839991943
May 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00This book considers Russell Stauffer’s Language Experience Approach (LEA), an approach that must be judged by its impact on student learning and not on the age of conception. The nature of wholistic teaching in early childhood and beyond is explored, and developmental maturation for the different language tasks are explained.
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Chinese TV in the Netflix Era
Edited by Xu Xiaying (Richard Xu), Liu Hui
This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987052
April 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This book aims to provide an account of Chinese television, particularly online drama series, or webisodes, with an awareness of the existence and competition of Netflix.
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Political Discourse and Media in Times of Crisis
Edited by Sofia Iordanidou, Nael Jebril, Emmanouil Takas
This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982828
April 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00This edited book examines the key challenges in political discourse and journalistic practice in times of crises. It focuses on European paradigms and links political rhetoric and media challenges with the societal, political, and financial crises from 2008 until the present.
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International Broadcasting and Its Contested Role in Australian Statecraft
Middle Power, Smart Power
Geoff Heriot
An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985041
March 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00An insightful and timely reappraisal of international broadcasting as an instrument of discursive rather than ‘soft’ power and its contested role in Australia’s Indo-Pacific regional statecraft.
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Media Sociology and Journalism
Studies in Truth and Democracy
Greg Nielsen
While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839980602
February 2023
Active
£110.00 / $110.00While the alt right and post-truth attitudes render democracy fragile, so does professional journalism when it reports on the most vulnerable subjects in society but rarely addresses them as the imagined audience. A dialogical critique of divisions in news media, politics, and contemporary sociological theory can provide an alternative way forward.
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Radio Vox Populi
Talk Radio from the Romantic to the Anglo-Saxon
Peter Laufer, Christian Ruggiero
Radio Vox Populi provides an account of ubiquitous talk radio, from its inception to its current overwhelming societal power via a comparison of the Italian manifestation of the medium with that of the United States. The story is told through ten chapters written by radio scholars and practitioners with an introduction and conclusion by Professors Peter Laufer and Christian Ruggiero.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987540
November 2022
Active
£38.00 / $38.00Radio Vox Populi provides an account of ubiquitous talk radio, from its inception to its current overwhelming societal power via a comparison of the Italian manifestation of the medium with that of the United States. The story is told through ten chapters written by radio scholars and practitioners with an introduction and conclusion by Professors Peter Laufer and Christian Ruggiero.
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Humor 2.0
How the Internet Changed Humor
Salvatore Attardo
The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839988561
November 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The book shows how humor has changed since the advent of the internet: new genres, new contexts, and new audiences. The book provides a guide to such phenomena as memes, video parodies, photobombing, and cringe humor. It also shows how the cognitive mechanisms of humor remain unchanged.
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The Influence of José da Silva Lisboa’s Journalism on the Independence of Brazil (1821-1822)
Guilherme Celestino
This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839985072
November 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This work analyses the influence of the publications from 1821–1822 written by José da Silva Lisboa, the future Viscount of Cairu, on the events that led to the independence of Brazil in 1822.
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Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema
Alistair Fox
This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984075
October 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book offers a detailed study of how some of the most illustrious auteurs in the history of art cinema have made use of melodrama to represent masculine subjectivity on the screen.
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On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:
Figurative Invention In Cinema
translated by Ted Fendt
Nicole BrenezA collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839987809
July 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film’s formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema.
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Datafication of Public Opinion and the Public Sphere
How Extraction Replaced Expression of Opinion
Slavko Splichal
The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984501
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00The book, anchored in stimulating debates about the enlightenment ideas of publicness, analyses historical changes in the core phenomena of publicness: possibilities, conditions and obstacles to developing a public sphere in which publics create, articulate and express public opinion by means of reflexive publicity within an established democratic public culture.
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Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback
Andrew Nette
This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982453
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.
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Trailblazing Women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945–1975
Kylie Andrews
Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839982576
July 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945-1975 presents a compelling feminist perspective of Australian radio and television history. It resuscitates the careers of a group of female producers who strategically defied the odds and used broadcasting as a site for their activism in the decades after World War II.
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The Theatre of Fake News
James Moran
This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839983108
June 2022
Active
£19.99 / $19.99This book examines the topic of ‘fake news’ through the lens of theatre and drama, looking at the way in which issues of audience, authorship, and accuracy are intertwined.
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The Politics of Public Opinion in the Novels of Anthony Trollope
A 'Tenth Muse'
Jan Gordon
The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope'’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with “empty universals” that generate meaning.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986932
May 2022
Active
£110.00 / $110.00The Politics of Public Opinion: Trollope’’s ‘Tenth Muse’ takes as its subject the rise of public opinion in the nineteenth-century British novel as (1) a uniquely collective narrative form posing as a singular voice and (2) a “voice” that distances itself from re-sponsibility by disguising its presence. As both immanent and transcendent, public opinion is aligned with “empty universals” that generate meaning.
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Truth and Storytelling
Scripting the Visual Narrative
Emily Edwards
The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785273070
March 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00The book offers a guide for writers to better understand and confront the truths they want to reveal through narrative stories and how to find legitimacy in the fictional characters and situations they create.
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Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace
Anna Danielewicz-Betz
Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study of the ‘self-entrepreneurial self’ and, in particular, the rationale behind its need to self-present under the current socio-economic and business conditions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785278198
December 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Self-Presentation and Self-Praise in the Digital Workplace presents the findings of an interdisciplinary study of the ‘self-entrepreneurial self’ and, in particular, the rationale behind its need to self-present under the current socio-economic and business conditions.
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The Dark Side of News Fixing
The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan
Syed Irfan Ashraf
This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839981371
November 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book provides a local journalist’s perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers’ risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.
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Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era
Crafting a New Normal
John H. Scanzoni
Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277436
October 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00Sexual Bargaining in the Digital Era follows the evolution of genders/sexualities and so on away from their Old Normal pattern, which prevailed during the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and into the New Normal pattern which is currently surfacing in concert with an emerging Digital Era.
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Essays in Celebrity Culture
Stars and Styles
Pramod K. Nayar
This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785277863
May 2021
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.