Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre
Publications
CCM researchers produce a range of high quality publications. The team also work as editors, reviewers and contributors to leading academic journals.
Latest Publication
The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop
The book offers a wide-range of approaches, across key moments in the history of popular music, in order to define and interrogate this prominent genre of film-making.
Editors - Dr Benjamin Halligan, Kirsty Fairclough
Publications 2010 - 2012
Online Gaming in Context
The social and cultural significance of online games.
Authors - Garry Crawford, Victoria K Gosling, Ben Light
Community Music: History and Current Practice, its Constructions of ‘Community’, Digital Turns and Future Soundings
This document brings together and reviews research.
Authors - George McKay and Ben Higham
Radical Gardening: Politics, Idealism and Rebellion in the Garden
Radical Gardening travels an alternative route, through history and across landscape, linking propagation with propaganda.
Author - George McKay
Creative Documentary: Theory and Practice
Innovative and essential guide that provides you with the ideas, methods, and critical understanding to support successful documentary making.
Authors - Jerry Rothwell and Erik Knudsen, University of Salford
Explaining News: National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context
Challenging the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale.
Author - Cristina Archetti
The Road to Co-operation: Escaping the Bottom Line
This critical and informed protest against the absurdity and dishonesty of neoclassical economic theory.
Author - Gordon Pearson
Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form
Gombrowicz, Polish Modernism, and the Subversion of Form.
Author - Michael Goddard
Mark E. Smith and the Fall: Art, Music and Politics
This volume offers a comprehensive range of approaches to the work of Mark E. Smith and his band The Fall in relation to music, art and politics.
Authors - Michael Goddard
The International Political Economy of Work and Employability
A critical investigation of how employment and education policy in three different locations is informed by a dominant view of what should make a person 'employable'.
Author - Phoebe Moore
Reverberations The Philosophy, Aesthetics and Politics of Noise
A groundbreaking collection that studies noise not merely as a sonic phenomenon but as an essential component of all communication and information systems.
Editors - Michael Goddard & Benjamin Halligan (University of Salford), Paul Hegarty
Previous Publications
Globalization and the 'New' Semi-Peripheries
This collection re-examines and re-assesses the role of the semi-periphery in world politics.
Authors - Phoebe Moore and Owen Worth
Diy culture:party & protest in nineties Britain
Taiwan translation of the book
Authors - George McKay
Exposing Lifestyle Television: The Big Reveal
This volume presents case studies from across the lifestyle genre, considering a variety of themes but with a shared understanding of the self as an evolving project, driven by enterprise.
Author - Gareth Palmer
The Lost World of CLIFF TWEMLOW: The King of Manchester Exploitation Movies
Cliff Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, screen-writer, ferryman and actor ... read all about him in this book!
Authors - CP Lee and Andy Willis
Subcultures and New Religious Movements in Russia and East-Central Europe
This collection uses a variety of theoretical perspectives and methodologies to examine some of the many subcultures and new religious movements.
Authors - George McKay, Christopher Williams, Michael Goddard, Neil Foxlee, Egidija Ramanauskaite
The New Electronic Marketplace: European Governance Strategies in a Globalising Economy
Explore the governance strategies that the EU has been developing over the last decade for the growing electronic economy driven by the Internet.
Authors - George Christou , Seamus Simpson
If your face don't fit: an investigation into ethnic minority employment in the North West media
This report explores the barriers that prevent ethnic minorities from seeking, gaining and succeeding in media employment in the North West of England.
Authors - Gareth Palmer
Globalisation and Labour Struggle in Asia: A Neo-Gramscian Critique of South Korea's Political Economy
Phoebe Moore argues that Korea has not become a 'hegemonic' nation, even since democratization in the early 1990s, but has known ongoing struggle in the face of pressures to develop and to catch up with advanced nations.
Author - Phoebe Moore
Circular Breathing: The Cultural Politics of Jazz in Britain
Uncover the often surprising ways that jazz has accompanied social change during a period of rapid transformation in Great Britain.
Author - George McKay
Alternatives to Hollywood: A Teacher's Guide
Auteur’s Alternatives to Hollywood: A Teacher’s Guide is aimed explicitly at those requiring a short, sharp exposure to the cinemas of France, India and East Asia…
Authors - Sarah Perks, Isabelle Vanderschelden, and Andy Willis
Globalisation, Convergence And European Telecommunications Regulation
Introduction to the transformation of European public policies since the ninetiesthe taking into account recent academic debates about policy making in Europe, and analyses the configuration of a telecommunications regulatory regime in Europe at different levels.
Authors - Peter Humphreys, and Seamus Simpson
Spanish Popular Cinema
This is the first collection in English to focus exclusively on the various forms of popular film produced in Spain and to acknowledge the variety, range and depth of Spanish cinema.
Authors - Antonio Lázaro-Reboll and Andrew Willis (Salford)
Issues in Americanisation and Culture
This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary and theoretically informed understanding of the cultural processes of Americanisation. Designed with classroom use in mind, it provides a number of different routes into the debates and problems surrounding the notion of Americanisation.
Authors - Neil Campbell, Jude Davies and George McKay
DiY Culture: Party & Protest in Nineties Britain
Gathered here together for the first time is a collection of 12 in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in [Britain's] DiY culture, telling their own stories and histories.
Editor - George McKay
Yankee Go Home and Take Me with You: Americanization and Popular Culture
George McKay rounds off the picture by offering a comprehensive introduction that explains theoretical approaches to Americanization from the thesis of Yankee cultural imperialism to America as site of liberation or fantasy.
Editor - George McKay
When we were thin
Music, Madness & Manchester / Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias.
Author - Chris Lee
Medioznawstwo Teksty, instytucje i odbiorcy
Book in Polish.
Lisa Taylor and Andrew Willis
Film Stars: Hollywood and beyond
This collection offers a variety of fresh and informed perspectives on film stars.
Andrew Willis
The British Musical Film
The British musical film is the first book to examine a neglected area of British cinema as it developed from the early so-called 'silent' period to the present.
John Mundy
Shake Rattle and Rain
This book charts the emergence and development of a phenomenon that has brought the world artists and performers such as 10cc, Inspiral Carpets, John Mayall, New Order, Oasis, Simply Red and The Smiths, to name but a few.
Chris Lee
The Cinema of Alex de la Iglessia
This book brings together Anglo-American film theory, an exploration of the legal and economic history of Spanish audio-visual culture, a comprehensive knowledge of Spanish cultural forms and traditions (esperpento, sainete costumbrista) with a detailed textual analysis of all of Álex de la Iglesia’s seven feature films.
Peter Buse (Salford), Núria Triana-Toribio and Andrew Willis (Salford)
Benjamin's Arcades: An UnGuided Tour
The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin’s unfinished masterpiece, is a brilliant but maddening book. Benjamin’s Arcades: an unGuided Tour looks for the method behind the madness, carefully reconstructing the intellectual and political context of the work and unpacking its numerous analogies, metaphors and conceptual gambits.
Peter Buse (Salford), Ken Hirschkop, Scott McCracken (Salford) and Bertrand Taith
Michael Reeves (British Film Directors)
Benjamin Halligan examines Reeves's films in the context of the times, citing The Sorcerers and Witchfinder General as foreshadowing and critiquing the psychedelic and revolutionary zeitgeist.
Benjamin Halligan
Glastonbury: A Very English Fair
George Mckay's history of the festival - and wider festival culture in Britain -- traces the changing nature of the event, explores its roots in the town of Glastonbury and the local landscape and early free festivals, looks at the music and musicians involved.
George McKay
Drama Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama
Energetically places modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory in dialogue, demonstrating how theory allows fresh insights into familiar plays.
Peter Buse
Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences
This textbook provides students with a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field of media studies.
Lisa Taylor and Andrew Willis
Atti insensati di bellezza
Book in Italian.
George McKay
Senseless Acts of Beauty
The last 20 years have seen an extraordinary rise in the numbers of young people living outside the moribund institutions of British society: travellers, ravers, tribes, squatters, direct-action protesters. This book is an attempt to survey and analyze these cultures of resistance, and to explore and celebrate their endlessly creative senselessness.
George McKay
Defining Cult Movies
This collection concentrates on the analysis of cult movies, how they are defined, who defines them and the cultural politics of these definitions.
Editors - Edited by Mark Jancovich, Antonio Lázaro Reboli, Julian Stringer, and Andrew Willis (Salford)
CCM Staff Editorships
Journal of Media Practice
The Journal of Media Practice is a peer-reviewed publication addressing practical work in media teaching and research.
Gareth Palmer
JMP Screenworks
We invite contributions of films, videos, works-in-progress, installations, draft papers/articles, news items, features - anything relating to ongoing research, projects and practice.
Gareth Palmer
New Formations
The core intellectual remit of the journal is to publish original work which explores the uses of cultural theory for the analysis of political and social issues - be they historical or contemporary…
Peter Buse Reviews Editor
Studies in Eastern European Cinema
Studies in Eastern European Cinema provides a dynamic, innovative, regular, specialised peer-reviewed academic outlet and discursive focus for the world-wide community of Eastern European film scholars, edited by a board of experienced, internationally recognised experts in the field.
Michael Goddard as one of the three editors
Social Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest
This journal contains the following subjects: Cultural Studies; Government; Humanities; Political Lobbying & Interest Groups; Politics & International Relations; Protest Movements.
George McKay on its editorial board
Popular Music - Special Issue 03 (Popular Music and Disability) - 2009
Popular Music is an international multi-disciplinary journal covering all aspects of the subject - from the formation of social group identities through popular music, to the workings of the global music industry, to how particular pieces of music are put together.
George McKay
Journal of Information Technology
The Journal of Information Technology is of interest to academics, scholars, advanced students and reflective practitioners in management science, information systems and computer science disciplines.
The Fibreculture Journal issue 17
This issue is an exercise in media ecology that is paradoxically unnatural.
Michael Goddard and Jussi Parikka
CCM members also sit on the Editorial Advisory Boards of a number of journals, including Cine-Excess, Jazz Research Journal, Journal of Comedy Studies, Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds, New Media & Society, Studies in European Cinema.
Media practice outputs
Films by Erik Knudsen
BBC Radio 4 documentaries about music and media history written, presented by Chris Lee:
- Burl Ives (t/x June 2009): '... life, career and music of Burl Ives including his co-operation with the 1950s House Un-American Activities Committee.... Along with Woody Guthrie, Ives was one of a generation of musicians who were rediscovering American folk music, performing it to politicise their audiences as well as entertain them. Ives also won an Oscar for the 1958 film, The Big Country.'
- From Manchester to the Mississippi (t/x November 2008): 'CP Lee recalls the monumental 1964 concert performed in an old railway station in Manchester by some of America's greatest black musicians from Muddy Waters to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The event was televised and proved hugely inspirational for British musicians'.
And forthcoming...
Michael Goddard. 2012. Images Without Frontiers: The Cinema of Raul Ruiz. Wallflower Press.
George McKay. 2013. Shakin' All Over: Rock, Popular Music and Disability. University of Michigan Press.
Seamus Simpson and George Christou. 2013. The EU in Global Electronic Communications. Routledge.
Ben Light. 2013. Social Networking Practices and Everyday Lives. Palgrave.
Michael Goddard, Benjamin Halligan and Nicola Spelman, eds. 2013. Resonances: Noise and Musics. Continuum.
Peter Humphreys and Seamus Simpson. 2013. Regulation, Governance and Convergence in the Media. Edward Elgar.
Peter Buse Polaroid, 2014. The Camera Does the Rest. University of Chicago Press.
George McKay, ed. 2014, The Pop Festival (Bloomsbury).
Carole O'Reilly. 2015. The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Culture 1840-1940. Routledge, Studies in Cultural History series.
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Recent USIR deposits
- Digital and media technologies : a review of infrastructure needs for leading edge research in the United Kingdom
- Friday 3 May 2013
- The imperial war museum’s social interpretation project
- Friday 3 May 2013
- Pulse : the London symphony orchestra students mobile project
- Thursday 2 May 2013
- "Guest worker : Dušan Makavejev’s capitalist phase"
- Monday 28 January 2013
- Online threat, but television is still dominant
- Thursday 17 January 2013
Open access CCM research
Around 250 outputs by CCM researchers are freely available on USIR, the University's institutional repository.