📚 Media Studies

Books with media studies on their catalogue record, first published between 1837 and 2018, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject media studies in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,081 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Reverse Design	Patrick Holleman	2018	36
	Regarding the Pain of Others	Susan Sontag	2002	27
	Gender Trouble	Judith Butler	1989	23
	Understanding video games	Simon Egenfeldt-Nielsen	2007	23
	The public relations handbook	Alison Theaker	2002	20
	Understanding Communication Research Methods	Stephen M. Croucher	2014	20
	Subculture	Dick Hebdige	1981	19
	Photography	Liz Wells	1996	19
	Typographia	Thomas F. Adams	1837	18
	What the dog saw and other adventure stories	Malcolm Gladwell	2009	18
	The art of watching films	Joseph M. Boggs	1978	15
	AS media studies	Peter Wall	2001	15
	Fashion Journalism	Julie Bradford	2014	15
	Indelible Shadows	Annette Insdorf	1983	14
	How to Market Books	Alison Baverstock	1990	14
	Media Today	Joseph Turow	1998	14
	The handbook of media and communication research	Klaus Bruhn Jensen	2002	14
	Everything Bad Is Good for You	Steven Johnson	2004	13
	Mass communication theory	Stanley J. Baran	1994	12
	Understanding digital literacies	Rodney H. Jones	2012	12
	Introducing Language and Intercultural Communication	Jane Jackson	2014	12
	Media Studies	Paul Long	2012	11
	Routledge Companion to Design Research	Paul Rodgers	2014	11
	Visionary film	P. Adams Sitney	1973	10
	History of Art	Marcia Pointon	1997	10
	Dictionary of media and communication studies	Watson, James	2000	10
	Media entertainment	Dolf Zillmann	2000	9
	Media studies	Julian McDougall	2012	9
	Communication theories	Werner J. Severin	1979	8
	Understanding audiences	Robert H. Wicks	2000	8

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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