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FILM, MEDIA STUDIES AND MUSIC
Transmedia Television
New Trends in Network Serial
Production
M.J. Clarke
• Discusses
‘Heroes’, ‘Alias’,
‘Lost’ and ‘24’
• Builds upon well
known texts (by
Amanda Lotz and
Jonathan Gray) in
cross-media
studies
• Contains interviews with the actual
transmedia workers on these shows
• Examines the production of derived
comicbooks, novels, video-games and
made-for-cellular-phone entertainment
Examines both the texts of and the
production behind four television shows
that used transmedia as a new business
and textual model for network TV.
M.J. CLARKE earned his PhD in Film and
Television from UCLA in 2010. His work has
previously been published in Television and New
Media and Communication, Culture & Critique.
UK December 2012 US October 2012
224 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441183002 - £55.00 / $100.00
PB 9781441165527 - £17.99 / $29.95
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News Media in the
Arab World
A Study of 10 Arab and Muslim
Countries
Edited by Roger
Dickinson and
Barrie Gunter
• Contains original
primary research
on a number of
understudied Arab
countries
• Contributors
are a mix
of media professionals and senior
academics
Examines the way local, national and
cross-national Arab audiences engage
with different news sources and how the
rapidly expanding news markets have
changed news consumption.
ROGER DICKINSON is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Media and Communication at the
University of Leicester, UK.
BARRIE GUNTER is Professor of Mass
Communication and Head of the Department of
Media and Communication at the University of
Leicester, UK.
UK September 2012 US July 2012
192 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441114075 - £60.00 / $110.00
PB 9781441174666 - £18.99 / $32.95
Continuum
Newsworkers
A Comparative European
Perspective
Henrik Ornebring
• Covers a broad range of European
countries, including Britain, Estonia,
Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden
• First book to focus on journalism as
work rather than journalism as an
institution
• Comparative material and analysis
should ensure a good international
market
The last decade has seen a transformation
of the journalism industry. This book
compares a range of European countries,
looking at how journalistic work has been
affected by the changes to journalism
institutions. Drawing on extensive new
research, it provides unique insights into
current journalistic practice.
HENRIK ORNEBRING is currently Senior Research
Fellow in the European Studies Centre, St
Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, UK.
UK October 2012 US December 2012
208 Pages 156 x 234 mm 6.125 x 9.25 inches
HB 9781780931838 - £50.00 / $90.00
Comparative Media, Communication and Culture
Bloomsbury Academic
Drawing Borders
The American-Canadian
Relationship during the Gilded Age
David R. Spencer
• First book
to examine
Canadian/
American
relations through
political cartoons
• The author is a
leading scholar
in Canadian/
American studies
• Includes 141 cartoons from 1849 to the
twentieth century
A fascinating look at the surprisingly
complex relationship between the United
States and Canada through the lens of
political cartoons.
DAVID R. SPENCER is Professor of Information
and Media Studies at the University of Western
Ontario, Canada.
UK January 2013 US November 2012
240 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441199072 - £70.00 / $130.00
Continuum
The Past is the
Present; It’s the
Future Too
The Temporal Turn in
Contemporary Art
Christine Ross
• Engages an
important and
widespread trend
in contemporary
art
• Theorizes the
development of
new technologies
and digital
cultures
• Features over seventy-five key
illustrations in full colour
Offers a comprehensive understanding of
contemporary media arts and articulates
a closer link between present, past, and
future.
CHRISTINE ROSS is Professor and James McGill
Chair in Contemporary Art History in the
Department of Art History and Communication
Studies at McGill University, Canada.
UK August 2012 US June 2012
336 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441116048 - £80.00 / $150.00
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Screen Fictions and
Discourses of Disability
Dodgy Discourse and the Moral Low
Ground
Margaret
Montgomerie
• Using popular
screen texts
means availability
for analysis and
inclusion, inside
and outside the
classroom
• First book to
focus on representations and discourses
of disability in popular film and tv
• questions the value of political
correctness - disguising, rather than
confronting the roots of prejudice
Offers a comprehensive understanding of
contemporary media arts and articulates
a closer link between present, past, and
future.
MARGARET MONTGOMERIE is Senior Lecturer
Media Studies at De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK. She is the founder of the MeCCSA
Disabilities Studies Network.
UK November 2012 US August 2012
224 Pages 153 x 228 mm 6 x 9 inches
HB 9781441156709 - £60.00 / $110.00
Continuum