The Book Company: New Products - Media Studies

Melodrama as Provocateur

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:03:55 +0000

As one of the most influential contemporary film scholars, Linda Williams brought her critical feminist lens to some of society’s most maligned and underappreciated film genres. Melodrama as Provocateur showcases what was to be Williams's last project in which, insisting on melodrama as a c..

Price: $119.95

Samsung, Media Empire and Family (A power web)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:39:41 +0000

This book studies media conglomerates owning multiple media holdings under centralized ownership within and across media markets, arguing that Asian capitalists utilize both a market-oriented ideology and family connections to build their media empires with multiple media holdings, thereby crea..

Price: $249.99

Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:25:32 +0000

This book engages debates in current art criticism concerning the turn toward participatory works of art. In particular, it analyzes ludic participation, in which play and games are used organizationally so that participants actively engage with or complete the work of art through their ..

Price: $233.99

Navigating Work in the US Media Industries (A Critical Introduction)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:19:48 +0000

Navigating Work in the US Media Industries offers a critical introduction to launching a career and working in the U.S. media industries.

Price: $233.99

Navigating Work in the US Media Industries (A Critical Introduction)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:19:41 +0000

Navigating Work in the US Media Industries offers a critical introduction to launching a career and working in the U.S. media industries.

Price: $60.99

Media and Communication in the Chinese Diaspora (Rethinking Transnationalism)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:15:38 +0000

The rise of China has brought about both an increase in the number of and a change in the demographic characteristics of Chinese-language-speaking migrants. At the same time the Chinese government has implemented a stronger "going global" policy, pushing for the internationalisation of Chinese ..

Price: $280.00

Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:55:42 +0000

What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geogra..

Price: $225.00

Ethics of Cinematic Experience (Screens of Alterity)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:46:58 +0000

This book examines the relationship between cinema and ethics from a philosophical perspective. It argues that theoretical discussion of the cinematic experience and more specifically of the cinematic close-up, can lead to ethical insights into the status of both the human and the non-human in ..

Price: $233.99

Digital Narrative Spaces (An Interdisciplinary Examination)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:38:25 +0000

Digital Narrative Spaces brings together essays by prominent scholars in electronic literature and other forms of digital authorship, to explore the relationship between story and space across these disciplines.

Price: $233.99

Digital Capitalism (Media, Communication and Society Volume Three)

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:38:11 +0000

This third book in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series illuminates what it means to live in an age of digital capitalism, analysing its various aspects, and engaging with a variety of critical thinkers whose theories and approaches enable a critical understanding of d..

Price: $233.99