In our media-saturated world, the line between reality & fiction has grown thinner & more confusing. With an insider's view of the media, the author's stories take us into a hall of mirrors where men & women struggle to understand themselves & their relationships with one another. ...

When Susan & Gary Wilson move into a new home in the Louisiana town where she grew up, they are a little overwhelmed by the enthusiastic attentions of their neighbour Steve Glover. Things get even worse when Steve starts revealing an unusually detailed knowledge of their home life, & this leads Susan to sneak into his house looking for answers. What she discovers is a bank of sophisticated surveillance equipment wired to cameras hidden around her house, & scores of videotapes recording her family's most intimate moments. However, when she then discovers that video voyeurism is not illegal & that Steve therefore cannot be convicted, Susan begins an epic struggle to see that justice is done. ...

Drawing from the knowledge, experience, & insight of leading engineers, researchers, & scholars in the field, this book provides coverage of the basic foundations of speech, audio, image, & video processing & associated applications to broadcast, storage, search & retrieval, & communications. ...

Documentary looking at culture & politics in modern Italy. The film examines the ways in which Silvio Berlusconi's political & media monopolies have shaped public opinion & the aspirations of young people in a country that has become increasingly fixated upon television, sex & celebrity. ...

James Newman's introduction guides the reader through the world of videogaming, providing a history of the videogame, from its origins in the computer lab to its contemporary status as a global entertainment industry, with characters such as Lara Croft & Sonic the Hedgehog. ...

A collection providing both an overview of the field of Videogame art, positioning it within a social & commercial context with reference to other forms of digital & pictorial art, & to the mainstream videogames industry. This book details specialized areas of the subject such as machinima & games console artwork & more. ...

Videojournalism is a field that has grown out of traditional print photojournalism, slideshows that combine sound & pictures, public radio, documentary filmmaking & the best of television news features. This book covers the foundations of videojournalism: reporting, interviewing, writing, editing, & storytelling. ...