Book Series in Communication Studies
Studies in Culture and Communication
New & Published Titles:
An Introduction to Language and Society
2nd Edition
An Introduction to Language and Society explores how our ways of seeing and engaging with the world may be shaped by the categories, systems and… read more1995 | Paperback: 978-0-415-07238-0 (Routledge)
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Understanding Radio
2nd Edition
'... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities…
read more1994 | Paperback: 978-0-415-10315-2 (Routledge)
Textual Poachers
Television Fans and Participatory Culture
"Get a life" William Shatner told Star Trek fans. Yet, as Textual Poachers argues, fans already have a "life," a complex subculture which draws its…
read more1992 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90572-5 (Routledge)
The Ideological Octopus
An introduction to studying the television audience, discussing new developments in semiology and cultural studies and their contribution to our understanding of the power of… read more1991 | Paperback: 978-0-415-90288-5 (Routledge)
A Primer For Daily Life
The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded… read more1991 | Hardback: 978-0-415-04180-5 (Routledge)
Introduction to Communication Studies
2nd Edition
The second edition of this widely used introductory textbook updates the work to take accounts of developments in the last few years. John Fiske's study… read more1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-04672-5 (Routledge)
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Television Drama
Agency, Audience and Myth
This book is the first specifically about television drama from within a cultural studies perspective and as such examines the active agency of both viewers… read more1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-01649-0 (Routledge)
Understanding Television
Understanding Television offers an introduction to some of the issues of television broadcasting and its main genres. It examines a number of programme categories, such… read more1990 | Paperback: 978-0-415-01672-8 (Routledge)
On Video
Though video systems are now growing ever more accessible, and practical video work is undertaken at every level of education, this is the first book-length… read more1988 | Paperback: 978-0-415-00718-4 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Introduction to Communication Studies
By John Fiske
To be published October 1st 2010