Kirsten Emiko McAllister As a visual medium, the photograph has many culturally resonant properties that it shares with no other medium. The essays in this volume develop innovative cultural strategies for reading, re-reading and re-using photographs, as well as for (re)creating photographs and other artworks and evoke varied sites of memory in contemporary landscapes: from [...]

By Yuezhi Zhao This authoritative study explores China’s rapidly evolving polity, economy, and society through the prism of its communication system. Yuezhi Zhao offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary analysis of communication in China and its central role in the struggle for control during the country’s rise to global power. The industry in all its forms—ranging from [...]

Edited by Zoë Druick and Aspa Kotsopoulos Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television, the first anthology dedicated to analyses of Canadian television content, is a collection of original, interdisciplinary articles, combining textual analysis and political economy of communications. It explores the television that has thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context: namely, programs that [...]