Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies aims to advance the understandings of the continuously changing global media and communication environment. The series publishes critical scholarly studies and high-quality edited volumes on key issues and debates in the field (as well as the occasional trade book and the more practical ‘how-to’ guide) on all aspects of media, culture and communication studies. We invite work that examines not only recent phenomena in this field but also studies which theorize the continuities between different technologies, topics, eras and methodologies. Saliently, building on the interdisciplinary strengths of this field, we particularly welcome cutting edge research in and at the intersection of communication and media studies, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, telecommunications, public policy, migration and diasporic studies, gender studies, transnational politics and international relations.
Editorial Board
Aaron Barlow – New York City College of Technology, USA
David Buckingham – Loughborough University, UK
John Downey – Loughborough University, UK
Jacqui Ewart – Griffith University, Australia
Bob Franklin – Cardiff University, UK
Radhika Gajjala – Bowling Green State University, USA
Fadi Hirzalla – University of Rotterdam, Netherlands
Koichi Iwabuchi – Monash University, Australia
Mary Celeste Kearney – University of Notre Dame, USA
Jack Lule – Lehigh University, USA
Karen Lury – University of Glasgow, UK
Purnima Mankekar – University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Linje Manyozo – Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Australia
Dina Matar – School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), UK
Donald Matheson – University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Britta Ohm – International Institute for Asian Studies
Rita Rahoi-Gilchrest – Winona University, USA
Arvind Rajagopal – New York University, USA
Erik Ringmar – Lund University, Sweden
Thomas Tufte – University of Loughborough, UK
Silvio Waisbord – George Washington University, USA
Proposals
We welcome submissions of proposals for challenging and original works from emerging and established scholars that meet the criteria of our series. We make prompt editorial decisions. Our titles are published in print and e-book editions and are subject to peer review by recognized authorities in the field. Should you wish to send in a proposal for a monograph (mid-length and full-length), edited collection or course book, please contact us at: [email protected].
Edited by David Gallagher
‘World Cinema and the Visual Arts’ combines new analyses of two subjects of ongoing research in the field of humanities: cinema and the visual arts. The films analysed encompass a wide geographical base, and have been drawn from a diverse array of cultural traditions.
Paperback
9781783080540
October 2013
£ 25.00 / $ 40.00
Dwayne Avery
Representations of troubled and inhospitable domestic places are a common feature of many cinematic narratives. “Unhomely Cinema” explores how the unhomely nature of contemporary film narrative provides an insight into what it means to dwell in today’s global societies.
Hardback
9781783083022
October 2014
£ 70.00 / $ 115.00
Jonathan Corpus Ong
Based on an ethnographic study of television and audiences in class-divided Philippines, this is the first book to take a bottom-up approach in considering how people respond to images and narratives of suffering and poverty on television.
Paperback
9781783087006
April 2017
£ 25.00 / $ 40.00
Jyotsna Kapur
A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
Paperback
9781783083534
December 2014
£ 25.00 / $ 40.00
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.
Hardback
9781839981371
November 2021
£ 80.00 / $ 125.00
Michael Bhaskar
‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis. This ground-breaking study, the first of its kind, fuses history, media theory and business experience in a defiant answer to those who contend that publishing has no future in the digital age.
Paperback
9780857281111
October 2013
£ 13.99 / $ 19.95
Edited by Shakuntala Banaji
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia, using a common set of historical, political and theoretical engagements.
Paperback
9780857284099
October 2011
£ 25.00 / $ 40.00
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Genres, Classics, and Aesthetics' offers close readings of genre films and acknowledged film classics in an attempt to explore both the aesthetics of genre and the definition of 'classic' - as well as the changing perception of so-called classic movies over time.
Hardback
9781843318378
March 2010
£ 70.00 / $ 115.00
Bert Cardullo
'Screen Writings: Partial Views of a Total Art, Classic to Contemporary' offers close readings of individual films intended to explain how moviemakers use the resources of the medium to pursue complex and significant humanistic goals.
Hardback
9781843318798
March 2010
£ 70.00 / $ 115.00
Edited by Sofia Iordanidou, Nael Jebril and 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.
Hardback
9781839982828
April 2023
£ 80.00 / $ 110.00
E. M. Palmegiano
This annotated bibliography of nineteenth-century British periodicals reveals how Victorian commentaries on journalism shaped the discourse on the origins and contemporary character of the domestic, imperial and foreign press.
Paperback
9781783080533
October 2013
£ 30.00 / $ 49.50
Belinda Barnet
This book explores the history of hypertext, an influential concept that forms the underlying structure of the World Wide Web and innumerable software applications.
Paperback
9781783083442
December 2014
£ 25.00 / $ 40.00