is a rigorous interdisciplinary examination of cinema as a vehicle for personal and social transformation. Tony Kashani builds a theory of humanistic transformation by discussing many movies while engaging the works of Erich Fromm, Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Hannah Arendt, Edgar Morin, Carl Jung, among others.

is a text that examines the visual discourse of Orientalism through the pedagogy of contemporary graphic narratives. Using feminist, critical race, and postcolonial theoretical and pedagogical lenses, the book uses visual discourse analysis and visual semiology to situate the narratives within Islamophobia and neo-Orientalism in the post-9/11 media context.

is a book series with Peter Lang Publishers specifically designed to address the needs of both students and teachers in watching, comprehending, and using media. We are aware of the blatant and insidious uses and effects of media in a corporate-driven globalized world and recognize that educators are often ill-equipped to address this pedagogical force in any critical way. We are also aware of the possibilities of using a wide range of educational settings to raise consciousness about media relations and realities and promote critical, creative alternatives to contemporary mainstream practices.

examines collectively the ethical issues that have arisen in media-driven everyday life and will that arise as paradigm shifts occur on a global scale. Chapters in the book use critical theory to look at issues of free market fundamentalism, journalism’s erosion of communication of truth, yielding self-censorship in the media, music and morality, and much more.