The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.

Celebrity: Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies will introduce students to the key terms and concepts, dilemmas and issues that are central to the study and critical understanding of…

This reader brings together a great number of what are regarded to be the ‘seminal’ essays that have opened up the study of science fiction to serious critical interrogation. It…

Brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining and situating these within the context of new essays which…

From The Simpsons and heat magazine, to Sarah Jessica Parker and *NSYNC, this timely and much-needed collection analyzes fame, and presents essays which explore celebrity across a range of media…

A longstanding, successful and frequently controversial career spanning more than four decades establishes David Bowie as charged with contemporary cultural relevance. That David Bowie has influenced many lives is undeniable…

Examines how Tom Cruise’s star image moves across genres and forms as a type of commercial product that offers viewers certain pleasures and expectations. Cruise reads as an action hero…