Explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. This book argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture's scripts for 'emotional' behavior and that the accelerating impoverishment of interiority is a symptom of our increasingly media-saturated culture.
How do I become a studio singer? What must I do in preparation for that career? What should I know before I go into my first recording session? Answering these questions, this comprehensive book/CD-ROM package provides the basic training and information to pursue a career as a professional studio vocalist.
This compelling study places 'Back to the Future' in the context of Reaganite America, discusses Robert Zemeckis's film-making technique and its relationship to the 'New New Hollywood', explores the film's attitudes to teen culture of the 1950s and 1980s and its representation of science, atomic power and time travel.
A grammar and usage handbook that works for both beginning and continuing media writers, provides explanations and examples, as well as answers to grammar or usage questions. It includes 'from writer to writer' perspective that engages students and guides them through the writing process.
Provides an empirical investigation into the moral performance of the media. Based on 22 focus groups, three nationally representative questionnaire surveys and interviews with senior media personnel and regulators, this book charts the changing position of the media as a moral voice representing ways in which we live.
At the heart of this fascinating book is one of the central questions of our age: is the internet a revolutionary innovation that will overthrow the established order, or will it turn out to have been an unruly technology, that will never escape the controlling embrace of corporations and governments? (Guardian)
This work explores scientific uncertainty and media coverage of science in such major public issues as AIDS, biotechnology, dioxin, global warming, and nature vs nurture. It examines the interrelations of the media in constructing and explaining uncertainty.
A study of nine film authors from France, Italy and Spain who since the 1980s have blurred the boundaries between art-house and mainstream, and national and transnational film production. It examines how the individuals have maintained a dialectical relationship with the authorial tradition of the national cinema to which each belongs.
When 24 exploded onto TV screens in 2001, Time magazine called it one of the 'Best Television Events of the Decade'. This book brings together critical discussions of 24 from a wide range of perspectives. It looks in detail at the creative and controversial features of 24.
Delves into the theatre of Spanish dramatist Jose Maria Rodriguez Mendez, one of the most significant Spanish playwrights of the twentieth century and an acerbic cultural commentator. This book traces the development of Rodriguez Mendez's work from the hard times of the Franco dictatorship through the uncertainties of the transition to democracy.
A directory to the film, television, video and commercial production industry, providing information on products and services to the industry, giving detailed listings on over 16, 500 companies and freelance crew. Volume 2 is a free pocket sized version available when purchasing Volume 1.
Culture, Raymond Williams once wrote, is one of the most difficult words in language. Since then the concept has become part of our everyday vocabulary; it is used in a variety of different contexts: to describe the behaviour of corporations or criminals; to provide personal and national identity; it even gives its name to a Department of State.
This text gives a broad-scale, easily-understandable, demographic portrait of the USA with hard data from the US census and many other sources. Featured topics include: economic policy; political and social processes; energy; education; fiscal policies; religion; philosophy; and public policy.
Based as usual on confidential oral and written sources, this book throws light on the European Council of 16-17 December, 2004. The council was about Turkey or, more specifically, about whether and on what terms the EU should open accession negotiations with the Turkish government.
This work examines the rise, fall and re-emergence of Canadian exhibitor, Ciniplex. The text looks at the elements of its theatre circuit, and with the aid of photographs, examined here, too, is an overview of the corporation's fledgling Gallery circuit, Cineplex Odeon's short-lived UK subsidiary.
Tells the story of the Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch. The author describes how a series of 'it must have been fate' incidents brought her together with Tony Simons and Kinky Friedman, and how, in 1998, the three of them decided to create a no-kill haven for homeless and abused animals in the Texas Hill Country.
Addresses the issue of sport as a form of pleasure, contending that sport, like any form of popular culture, reveals a lot about the society in which it appears. This book examines sports through Marxist, feminist, and poststructuralist viewpoints. It explores the intersections of sport and politics, sport and class, and sport and identity.
A close study of the relationship between text and film versions of Great Expectations. Literature and film studies students will find plenty of material to support their courses and essay writing on how the film versions provide different readings of the original text.
Examines the world of communications as a space of mobility that overlaps uneasily with the world of sovereign, territorial nation-states. This book investigates specific policy problems encountered as international organizations try to manage a space that contradicts and supports existing systems of governance, identity, and technology.
Challenges the traditional boundaries between high and low culture. This volume addresses such topics as the blurring of genres, television and identity, and the sophistication of television audiences by examining examples from soap operas, televised adaptations of classic novels, film noir, and popular shows.
American Independent cinema has been an important creative and cultural media entity for the past fifteen years. This title questions the supposed autonomy of this cinema and asks if independent film can possibly survive in the face of the mass-production and profit of Hollywood.
Pride and Prejudice is a classic piece of literature and with several screen versions available (featuring stars such as Keira Knightley), as well as a Bollywood version. This book offers a rich source of study material to help students understand the reciprocal relationship between film and literature.
Addressing how national immigration concerns play out at urban, rural, and suburban levels in New York, this book offers fresh insight into an area of study that has long been focused primarily on cities. It presents immigrant stories and community responses that underscore the need to recognize the diversity of Latino/a immigrant experiences.
This book is an educational insight into journalism and the choices a journalist makes when covering 'big' stories. It covers major stories Peter played a key part in, as well as detailing his work in shaping new relationships between the media and the Police.
Local government is at the forefront of development. In South Africa the ambitious policy objectives of post-apartheid reconstruction and development hinge on the successful creation of a democratic tier of government close to the people. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to developmental local government.
This new dictionary includes over 2, 200 concise, accessible, and extensively cross-referenced entries for terms regularly encountered by students and professionals working within the diverse fields of media and communication studies, including advertising, digital culture, new media, telecommunications, and visual culture.
'Sussman is a severe critic of mass media culture, and a yet more severe critic of the interests behind it. His book is a long, powerful and sophisticated polemic... an entertaining read, filled with intriguing detail... An important contribution to an area of concern within international affairs' - International Affairs
The focus of this work is the British Showcase circuit and aims to give an insight into the UK subsidiary's philosophy and development and with the aid of photographs, takes in an architectural apparaisal, in particular facades, foyers, auditoria and projection galleries.
Multiculturalism has become an ambiguous but potent battle cry in US society, lauded by proponents as a call to tolerate different cultural traditions and values, and deplored by detractors as an attack on the highest standards of Western culture. This anthology explores this controversial social movement from various humanist perspectives.
At a time of rapid global change, development NGOs are having to scale up their impact, diversify their activities, respond to long-term crises and improve their performance on all fronts. This title offers an analysis to how NGDOs can fulfill these demanding expectations.
The U.S. mainstream media have a love and hate relationship with Latina/os. On the one hand the media treat as hot property such stars as Jennifer Lopez, Eva Longoria and America Ferrera; on the other they contribute to the role of Latina/os as eternal foreigners, having continually to assert their belonging and citizenship.
The second edition of Electronic Publishing and Libraries. It aims to quantify the future size of the electronic publishing industry, and provides practical data to support investment decisions as an aid to forward planning. All sources of the original book are revised and updated.
In the many accounts of MGM's studio history, little is mentioned of its connections with cinema exhibition. This work presents an outline of the California studio, the later international and UK circuit's heritage better known for productions such as Ben Hur and The Wizard of Oz.
Sarah Kozloff's study of William Wyler's drama about three Servicemen struggling to adapt to civilian life on their return home after World War II addresses the Best Years' status as a 'social problem' film depicting class divisions and the psychological effects of war, as well as its reception history and contemporary relevance.
The G8 represents the major political drivers of contemporary globalisation. It is also the most powerful political force behind the multilateral institutions that are shaping global economic practice and governance. This book provides a report card of the G8 commitments over the past three summits (1999, 2000 and 2001).
A selection of 20 papers from the 14th biennial conference of the International Telecommunications Society, covering a variety of topics related to the digital society and providing a balanced overview of current and emerging issues of high relevance to policymakers, researchers and private companies.
This work looks at the company which had set out to revolutionize UK cinema-going habits. This alternative circuit's distinctive features are examined from it's Panton Street inception; the parallel operation of the more semier club cinema traditions, the gentle descent to its 1979 takeover.
The Impact of 9-11 on the Media, Arts, and Entertainment is the fourth volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? This volume's contributors include P.J. Crowley, Mel Dubnick, Nancy Snow, Michele Cloonan, and other leading scholars.
Henry Taylor's long life (1825-1931) gave him an unusual perspective on change in American society. This book talks about his journey across the western continent in search of fortune, offers insight into the problems and successes of the early homesteaders and settlers, and concerns his later travels and his reflections on his long life.
Between 2008 and 2012, the UK plans to turn off its conventional analogue terrestrial television and switch fully to digital TV. This book presents a study of the policy of digital switchover. It shows how, for success, public policy needs to work in conjunction with competitive market forces and with organised broadcasting industry collaboration.
The rise of 'New Wave' cinema in 1970s Hong Kong has had a significant cultural and economic impact on the film industry of China. This title presents a picture of the films made in this era and the complexity of issues they tackle such as East-West conflict, colonial politics, the struggle of women in a modernizing Asian city and identity crisis.
* A leading media theorist engages with the world of blogs and social networking sites. * Jodi Dean is well known for her work on media theory and what she calls communicative capitalism'. * The book is a highly original reflection on the way we communicate and think in new media like blogs, Twitter and Facebook.
Offers an account of the ways in which successive media of electronic communication have been anticipated, debated, and taken up in the twentieth-century United States. Illuminating both the continuities and disjunctions between old media and new, this book offers insights into the relationship between technological change and cultural form.
Grey Gardens (1975) is one of most important documentary films of the past thirty years, gaining the status of a cult classic. Matthew Tinkcom argues thatthe filmreshaped documentary cinema by moving the non-fiction camera to the heart of the household, a private space into which film-makers had seldom previously ventured.
Major new contribution to the hot topic of children and internet from one of the world's leading researchers in this area. Considers children's everyday practices of internet use in relation to the complex socio-cultural conditions of contemporary childhood.
This work explores the questions and conflicts of gender, sexuality, and identity in contemporary European cinema. It covers the varying deployments of lesbian, gay and queer representation to re-define notions of national identity and culture from within a diverse European context.
* Muhlmann is highly regarded as one of the outstanding young scholars of journalism and political communication. * Polity recently published A Political History of Journalism by the same author. This book is designed as a companion volume; it focuses on the relation of journalism to democracy.
So what makes a man who is often making headlines as he is buying the media outlets that generate them, tick? With unprecedented access to Rupert Murdoch, his associates, and his family, Wolff chronicles the astonishing growth of the mogul's media empire. Written in the irresistible style that only an award-winning columnist for Vanity Fair can deliver and offering a glimpse into a man who wields extraordinary power on a world wide scale.
On the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was nineteen years old. Issues of identity and transition were the talk among Israeli intellectuals, including the writer Nissim Rejwan. This book, the third installment of Rejwan's memoirs, chronicles his life as an Iraqi Jew in Israel during the country's adolescence, 1967-1988.
Looks at the images made of and by African Americans, extending back to the 1700s when a portrait of African-born poet Phillis Wheatley was drawn by her friend, the slave Scipio Moorhead. This book features colour reproductions of over 100 portraits in various media, ranging from paintings and silhouettes to book frontispieces and prints.
Journalism has an indelible effect on our world view. This book examines how we get this information and the many practical, political and professional decisions that the journalist has to make, as part of the process of delivering that information to us.
Explores approaches for engaging and understanding young people's political activity and looks at the adoption of information and ICTs as a means to facilitate the engagement of young people in democratic societies. This book presents research and an analysis of ICTs, citizenship and young people from an international group of scholars.
Looks at the ways the global form of capitalism affects our lives. This book analyzes how changes in work ethic, in our attitudes toward merit and talent, and in public and private institutions contributes to 'the spectre of uselessness'. It concludes with suggestions to counter this disturbing culture.
Separates fact from fiction and explains why and how GM crops can help us combat poverty, starvation and disease in the developing world, in a safe and responsible way. The author explains the technology and looks at the differences and similarities between genetic modification, conventional plant breeding, and natural processes.
Presents the political history of middle-class African American women during World War I, focusing on their patriotic activity and social work. This work argues that black women approached the war from the nexus of the private sphere of home and family and the public sphere of community and labour activism.
An account of how popular films in America, just after the close of the Second World War, played out America's mood at that crucial time. This book is also a revisionist challenge to the scholarly understanding of this mood, has tended to be seen as characterized by an abiding pessimism most clearly manifested in the films noir of the period.
Werner Schroeter is one of the most influential directors of the New German cinema. This book, drawing upon such theorists as Gilles Deleuze, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht, seeks to unravel the labyrinth of signs and images threading throughout Schroeter's films. It analyses his use of allegorical montage, cinematic tableaux and gestures.
Offers insight into media myths and spectacles of sexuality. Using examples from popular TV shows, fashion and beauty magazines, movies and websites, this book shows the ways in which sexuality is rigidly and restrictively defied in media - often in ways detrimental to girls' healthy development.
* Muhlmann is highly regarded as one of the outstanding young scholars of journalism and political communication. * Polity recently published A Political History of Journalism by the same author. This book is designed as a companion volume; it focuses on the relation of journalism to democracy.