The eagerly awaited fifth edition of The Media Student's Book is now available; the most up-to-date media textbook available anywhere, this is the book media classes have been waiting for.

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'If I was setting out as a screenwriter, this is the book I would read first and keep by me.' – Melanie Harris, Producer, Crosslab Productions
 

'...a valuable addition to every screenwriting bookshelf' – Screentalk

'This is one of the best guides to help screenwriters think visually that I have ever read' – Creative Screenwriting

'The inventive exercises in ‘Scriptwriting for the Screen' give it the potential for revitalizing the experience of even experienced scriptwriters' – 'Scope’ Online Journal of Film Studies
 

Focusing on the case of contemporary Japan, this book theorizes the role of media and ICT in today’s media-rich global environment and introduces a new argument of audience complexity. It will contribute significantly to the ‘internationalization’ of the media studies movement underway in the global era.

This study highlights dramatic changes in worldwide media production, detailing how collaborations, in the form of co-productions, format franchising and audience interactivity, define the new media economy, and affect a shift across the entire field of cultural production. These developments also reflect broader trends in cultural and economic globalization.

Public and academic debate about 'porn culture' is proliferating. Ironically, what is oftentimes lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography's mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography offers the opportunity to reconsider what it is that makes pornography a specific form of industrial practice and genre of representation.