Controversial Images ─ Media Representations on the Edge

Offering a series of case studies of recent media controversies, this collection draws on new perspectives in cultural studies to consider a wide variety of images. The book suggest how we might achieve a more subtle understanding of controversial images and negotiate the difficult terrain of the new media landscape.

RUSTEM ERTU? ALTINAY Doctoral candidate at New York University, USAMARTIN BARKER Emeritus Professor at Aberystwyth University, UKBRUCE BENNETT Lecturer in Film Studies in the Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts at Lancaster University, UKPAUL BRIGHTON Executive Principal Lecturer and Head of Media and Film, University of Wolverhampton, UKCATHERINE ANN COLLINS Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Willamette University, USAJEREMY COLLINS Lectures in media studies at London Metropolitan University, UKDAVID DOUGLASS Dean of Campus Life and Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Willamette University, USAMEREDITH JONES Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, AustraliaSTEVE JONES Lecturer in the Department of Media at Northumbria University, UKJULIA KENNEDY Senior Lecturer in Journalism at University College Falmouth, UKPLAMENA KOURTOVA PhD Candidate in Ethnomusicology at Florida State University, USASTEPHEN MADDISON Principal Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of East London, UKSUSANNA PAASONEN Professor of Media Studies at University of Turku, FinlandJULIAN PETLEY Professor of Journalism and Screen Media in the School of Arts, Brunel University, UKCAROLINE RUDDELL Lecturer in Film and Television at St. Mary's University College at Strawberry Hill, UKCLARISSA SMITH Reader in Sexual Cultures at the University of Sunderland, UKADAM STAPLETON PhD candidate in the school of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, Australia