Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

Autism and Representation, a scholarly book by Mark Osteen, addresses the portrayal of autism, a neuro-developmental disability that has often been sensationalised in the popular media. While a significant amount of clinical and medical research has been published on autism, traditional humanities disciplines and the emerging field of Disability Studies have yet to thoroughly explore it. This volume represents the...

This is Barthes’ seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and culture. Leading academics in media, English, education, and cultural studies here are tasked with identifying the "new mythologies"...

Engaging debates within cultural studies, media and communication studies, and critical theory, this book addresses whether Gramscian thought continues to be relevant for social and cultural analysis, in particular when examining times of crisis and social change. The book is motivated by two intertwined but distinct purposes: first, to show the privileged and fruitful link between a Gramscian Theory of...

Since its introduction in the early 1960s, Spanish-language television in the United States has grown in step with the Hispanic population. Industry and demographic projections forecast rising influence through the 21st century. Spanish-Language Television in the United States traces U.S. Spanish-language television’s development from the 1960s to 2013, illustrating how business, regulation, politics, demographics, and technological change have interwoven during...

This book considers the history of Do It Yourself art, music and publishing, demonstrating how DIY strategies have transitioned from being marginal, to emergent, to embedded. Through secondary research, observation and original interviews, each chapter details the peak period of a city’s subcultural activity and assesses the contemporary situation since the post-subcultural period circa 1995 in order to address the...

This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. The Memory of Sound delves into our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, Seán Street analyzes how the brain is triggered by the...