While games are commonly viewed as frivolous fun, their rapid proliferation across the US
defense establishment compels us to think again. Spanning spheres as diverse as total …

Over the last two decades, fatness has become the focus of ubiquitous negative rhetoric, in
the USA and beyond, presented under the cover of the medicalized''war against the obesity …

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of
the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studies Keywords for Media …

With the chick flick arguably in decline, film scholars may well ask: what has become of the
woman's film? Little attention has been paid to the proliferation of films, often from the …

Building upon current interest in studies of how popular culture relates to global politics, this
article examines one hitherto overlooked aspect of popular culture: computer games …

This paper uses mixed methods to examine how representations of romantic love in popular
music vary along lines of gender and race. Logit analysis determines that among those with …

x Preface aesthetic responses are integral to human societies. In a somewhat similar vein
but coming from the direction of genre, Mikhail Bakhtin (1986) argues that since all forms of …

Nancy Meyers is acknowledged as the most commercially successful woman filmmaker of
all time, described by Daphne Merkin in The New York Times on the release of It's …

The article explores the complicity of children's picturebooks in the construction and critique
of world politics. Focusing on The Gruffalo, it argues that this spectacularly successful …

La comunicación audiovisual tiene la capacidad de transformar la realidad, de mostrar a la
sociedad su deber ser. Por esta razón, resulta esencial que los instrumentos jurídicos que …