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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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'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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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* 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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* 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.
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