Entertainment and media law Books
Silman-James Press,U.S. The Biz: The Basic Business, Legal and Financial
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New York University Press Spreadable Media
Book SynopsisHow sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today's ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called user-generated content. Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of participatory culture, from internet memes to presidential tweets. The authors challenge our notions of what goes viral and how by examining factors such as the nature of audience engagement and the environment of participation, and by contrasting the concepts of stickinessaggregating attention in centralized placeswith spreadabilitydispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks. The former has often been the measure of media success in the online world, but the latter describes the actual ways Trade ReviewContent today, the authors suggest, can travel not only from the top down but also from the inside out. It is a remarkably different terrain than what we have been used to, one they effectively and stridently analyze. * Publishers Weekly *In Spreadable Media, media theorist Henry Jenkins, formerly of MIT and now at USC, and his coauthors, digital strategists Sam Ford and Joshua Green, make a convincing case that fan involvement in the re-creation and circulation of media content is not just an interesting side effect of man-to-many multimedia networks and smartphone video editing apps, but a significant force for empowerment and exploitation in and of itself...If you are in the music, move, television, or game business, this book is a must read. * Strategy and Business *It's about time a group of thinkers put the marketing evangelists of the day out to pasture with a thorough look at what makes content move from consumer to consumer, marketer to consumer and consumer to marketer. Instead of latching on to the notion that you can create viral content, Jenkins, Ford, and Green question the assumptions, test theories and call us all to task. Spreadable Media pushes our thinking. As a result, we'll become smarter marketers. Why wouldn't you read this book? -- Jason Falls,CEO of Social Media Explorer and co-author of No Bullshit Social MediaThe best analysis to date of the radically new nature of digital social media as a communication channel. Its insights, based on a deep knowledge of the technology and culture embedded in the digital networks of communication, will reshape our understanding of cultural change for years to come. -- Manuel Castells,Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern CaliforniaBy critically interrogating the ways in which media artifacts circulate, Spreadable Media challenges the popular notion that digital content magically goes & viral. This book brilliantly describes the dynamics that underpin people's engagement with social media in ways that are both theoretically rich and publicly meaningful. -- danah boyd, Microsoft ResearchFinally, a way of framing modern media creation and consumption that actually reflects reality and allows us to talk about it in a way that makes sense. It's a spreadable world and we are ALL part of it. Useful for anyone who makes media, analyzes it, consumes it, markets it or breathes. -- Jane Espenson,writer-producer of Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon a Time, and HusbandsSomething new is emerging from the collision of traditional entertainment media, Internet-empowered fan cultures, and the norms of sharing that are encouraged and amplified by social media. Spreadable Media is a compelling guide, both entertaining and rigorous, to the new norms, cultures, enterprises, and social phenomena that networked culture is making possible. Read it to understand what your kids are doing, where Hollywood is going, and how online social networks spread cultural productions as a new form of sociality. -- Howard Rheingold,author of Net SmartSolid analysis and detailed examples to make it sticky enough for the intended readerships of media scholars, media professionals, and fans. * International Journal of Communication *Spreadable Media is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how media works today. * Deep Media *A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content. * Kirkus *
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Silman-James Press,U.S. Dealmaking in Film & Television Industry: From
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Oxford University Press Inc Saving the News
Book SynopsisA detailed argument of how our government has interfered in the direction of America''s media landscape that traces major transformations in media since the printing press and charts a path for reform. In The Changing Ecosystem of the News, Martha Minow takes stock of the new media landscape. She focuses on the extent to which our constitutional system is to blame for the current parlous state of affairs and on our government''s responsibilities for alleviating the problem. As Minow shows, the First Amendment of the US Constitution assumes the existence and durability of a private industry. Although the First Amendment does not govern the conduct of entirely private enterprises, nothing in the Constitution forecloses government action to regulate concentrated economic power, to require disclosure of who is financing communications, or to support news initiatives where there are market failures. Moreover, the federal government has contributed financial resources, laws, and regulations Trade ReviewWhat the book does do rather successfully is destroy the myth that any and all forms of support for the media will necessarily undermine democracy and speech freedom. * Damian Tambini, Distinguished Policy Fellow, and Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, E-International Relations *What is remarkable about Martha Minow's book is that she is pragmatic about the enormous potential that this new form of content curation brings to society ... The need to regulate using the First Amendment as the guiding principle that Minow has so meticulously articulated in the book bears testimony to this unflinching zeal to preserve the cornerstones of democratic ideals, which are under serious threat in contemporary times. * Dr. Shameek Sen, Journal of Indian Law and Society *Thoughtful proposals for protecting the integrity of news...Minow underscores the urgency of restoring public interest to communications policy. * Kirkus *Table of ContentsPreface, by Newton Minow Introduction Chapter 1: News Deserts, Echo Chambers, Algorithmic Editors, and the Siren Call of Revenues Chapter 2: News Production and Distribution in the United States: Private Industry and Government Contributions Chapter 3: Does the First Amendment Forbid, Permit, or Require Government Support of News Industries Chapter 4: Constitutionally Inflected Reforms Coda Notes Index
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Oxford University Press Inc Liars
Book SynopsisWorldwide, people are circulating damaging lies and falsehoods through powerful social media platforms that reach billions. They range from claims that COVID-19 is a hoax to the theory that vaccines cause autism. In Liars, Cass Sunstein argues that free societies must generally allow falsehoods and lies, which cannot be excised from democratic debate. At the same time, governments should regulate specific kinds of falsehoods: those that genuinely endangerhealth, safety, and the capacity of the public to govern itself. Sunstein concludes that government and private institutions, like Facebook and Twitter, currently allow far too many lies, including those that threaten public health and democracy.Trade ReviewThis is a closely argued examination of lying and fake news, mainly in relation to US laws and organisations... He certainly shows it is a complex subject and offers some suggestions on how to deal with our Age of Deception without embracing Orwellian controls and restrictions. * Nigel Watson, Fortean Times *Sunstein has provided an excellent foundation for understanding the possible roles that the legal system and private institutions in the United States can play, bearing in mind, all the while, adherence to the First Amendment. * Clay Calvert, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *A passionate and forceful argument from America's pre-eminent legal scholar that our law ought to do more to protect the public from the harms of falsehood. * Robert Post, Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School *An increasing amount of what we hear and read is demonstrably factually false, and the acceptance of falsity has grave consequences for democratic decision-making. Drawing on legal doctrine, psychological research, and an impressive command of the dynamics of modern media, Cass Sunstein offers a sobering explanation of why factual falsity is increasingly prevalent in contemporary public discourse and why American free speech doctrine may do more to exacerbate than alleviate the problem. This book is essential reading in the modern political and media environment. * Frederick Schauer, David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia *An insightful, balanced, and readable book, by one of America's leading legal scholars — whether you ultimately agree with its suggestions or not, you will learn much from its analysis. * Eugene Volokh, Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Lies and Falsehoods Chapter 2: A Framework Chapter 3: Ethics Chapter 4: Stolen Valor Chapter 5: Truth Chapter 6: Falsehoods Fly Chapter 7: Your Good Name Chapter 8: Harm Chapter 9: Truth Matters Appendix: Excerpts from Policies of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Acknowledgments
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Oxford University Press Inc Social Media Freedom of Speech and the Future of
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is strongly recommended for those interested in the intersection of social media and politics and for instructors looking for readily comprehensible articles for their upper-division courses. * J. McQuiston, CHOICE *In this elegant volume, equally valuable to specialists and lay readers, two lifelong scholars of First Amendment jurisprudence gather an array of experts to explore the problems presented by digital technology and their possible solutions. * Jessica T. Mathews, Foreign Affairs *Lee Bollinger and Geoffrey Stone have done a great public service by assembling this extraordinary group of contributors to think through the risks to democracy posed by social media and the internet. Protecting our constitutional traditions, in the face of seismic technological change, and the unmooring of democratic foundations is one of the greatest challenges of our times. Yet, what emerges from this volume's thoughtfully constructed collection of essays, and the hard choices made by a commission tasked with synthesizing the many perspectives presented here, is invaluable guidance for what must be done now if we are to preserve meaningful public discourse and our democracy. The fact that so many distinguished leaders from government, academia, the tech industry, and journalism devoted their time to this project underscores the urgent need to chart a new course. * Valerie Jarrett, Former Senior Advisor to the President of the United States *I can think of no better introduction to the highly consequential question of regulating speech on social media. Bollinger and Stone have assembled an outstanding array of authors who, with clarity, felicity, and deep knowledge, cover the many facets of this pressing problem. * Robert Post, , Sterling Professor of Law, Yale Law School *Events in recent years have made plain the challenges that social media platforms present to our democracy-harmful speech, divisive speech, misinformation, foreign interference, and more. The First Amendment stands as both an ideal and a potential obstacle in addressing these challenges. Bollinger and Stone have enlisted an extraordinary array of leading experts to tackle these issues from all angles. This volume is invaluable for understanding and charting the future of American democracy. * Jack Goldsmith, Learned Hand Professor of Law, Harvard University *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors Opening Statement Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Regulating Harmful Speech on Social Media: The Current Legal Landscape and Policy Proposals Andrew J. Ceresney, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Courtney M. Dankworth, and David A. O'Neil Part One: An Overview of the Problem 1 Social Media and First Amendment Fault Lines David A. Strauss: 2 A Deliberate Leap in the Opposite Direction: The Need to Rethink Free Speech Larry Kramer: 3 The Disinformation Dilemma Emily Bazelon: 4 A Framework for Regulating Falsehoods Cass R. Sunstein: Part Two: Reforming Section 5 The Free Speech Industry Mary Anne Franks: 6 The Golden Era of Free Speech Erwin Chemerinsky and Alex Chemerinsky: 7 Section 230 Reforms Sheldon Whitehouse: Part Three: Content Moderation and the Problem of Algorithms 8 Algorithms, Affordances, and Agency Renée DiResta: 9 The Siren Call of Content Moderation Formalism evelyn douek: 10 Free Speech on Public Platforms Jamal Greene: 11 The Limits of Antidiscrimination Law in the Digital Public Sphere Genevieve Lakier: 12 Platform Power, Online Speech, and the Search for New Constitutional Categories Nathaniel Persily: 13 Strategy and Structure: Understanding Online Disinformation and How Commitments to "Free Speech" Complicate Mitigation Approaches Kate Starbird: Part Four: Other Possible Reforms 14 To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism Jack M. Balkin: 15 Follow the Money, Back to Front Yochai Benkler: 16 The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants Lawrence Lessig: 17 Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation: A Conversation Newton N. Minow, Nell Minow, Martha Minow, and Mary Minow: 18 Profit Over People: How to Make Big Tech Work for Americans Amy Klobuchar: Report of the Commission Katherine Adams, Martin Baron, Lee C. Bollinger, Hillary Clinton, Jelani Cobb, Russ Feingold, Christina Paxson, Geoffrey R. Stone Concluding Statement Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone Notes Index
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University of Illinois Press Art and Freedom of Speech
Book SynopsisArt on trial: exploring the Supreme Court's rulings on free expressionTrade Review"Bezanson writes in an accessible styles that engages even the uninformed reader and uses case studies to present a wide range of core issues and topics involving art and free speech. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Bezanson's dialectic is a mind feast."--AEJMC Hot Topics"Enormously stimulating and useful, this work reaches beyond legal theory to explore the role of art as a human product, its production, consumption, and meaning. Art and Freedom of Speech represents a brilliant mind at work--in a lovely, intellectually playful tone--on a very important human and political issue."--Linda R. Hirshman, author of Get to Work: . . . And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late"A comprehensive, in-depth examination of First Amendment principles as they pertain to the arts. Bezanson's detailed and lively analyses of Supreme Court arguments help clarify the conceptual bases of each case."--Joan DelFattore, author of The Fourth R: Conflicts Over Religion in America's Public SchoolsTable of ContentsIntroduction 1PART 1. ART AND THE AESTHETIC Story 1. Performance Art 7National Endowment for the Arts . Finley Story 2. The Artistic Turn? 50Barnes v. Glen Theatre Inc.PART 2. "WHAT MATTER WHO'S SPEAKING?" Story 3. Sources of Expression 83Boy Scouts of America v. Dale Story 4. Speaking Out of Thin Air 109Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Group of BostonPART 3. TRANSFORMATION Story 5. Politics and Community 155Jenkins v. Georgia Story 6. Genre: Rap and Rock 184Campbell [2 Live Crew] v. Acuff-Rose Story 7. Dangerous Art 214Virginia v. Black PART 4. GOOD ART Story 8. Art and Craft 261J. S. G. Boggs v. Bowron Judging Art and Its Quality: Reflections on Art and Free Speech 277 Notes 297 Index 309
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University of Illinois Press Game Faces
Book SynopsisSports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows, decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws related to privacy, defamation, and publicity--areas pertinent to the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer alike. She also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart of issues separating individual rights from the public''s perceiTrade Review“Recommended."--Choice "Sarah Fields' work on the history of sports and law dispels all doubt about the legitimacy of sports law as a field of study. Game Faces presents a convincing argument that cases about sports have made unique and important contributions to the law of privacy and free speech."--Erin Buzuvis, Western New England University"Sarah Fields combines her talents as a historian and a lawyer to guide us to and through the intersection of sport, celebrity, and the law. The precision and depth of this study is a gift to all interested in the rights of privacy and the control of one's public image."--Richard C. Crepeau, author of NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime"Game Faces is unique, effective, and impressive. I learned a great deal from it and appreciate how Fields addresses some complicated legal and ethical issues. Although most of us are not celebrities, many people in many disciplines will profit from considering the tension between the media and the freedom they are provided by the First Amendment and the personal autonomy of famous people to control (and profit from) their names, images, and likenesses. In part because we live in a celebrity obsessed culture, many readers should find Game Faces enlightening."--Daniel A. Nathan, author of Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal"Game Faces marks an important contribution to the field that is sure to shape and generate further discussion of the links between sport, law, identity, and power."--Journal of Sport History"This is an excellent book that clearly exhibits the painstaking research that went into this thought-provoking subject."--International Journal of Sport Communication
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MO - University of Illinois Press Speech Rights in America
Book SynopsisHow and why the First Amendment fails to protect speech rightsTrade Review"This is a thoughtful analysis ranging over history and recent cases."--Communication Booknotes Quarterly"An important work, offering sophisticated yet engaging analyses of First Amendment law and the media landscape in which we find ourselves in the United States."--Matthew Bunker, Reese Phifer Professor of Journalism, University of Alabama"A forceful and intellectually comprehensive argument that the First Amendment should be a positive, not simply a negative, guarantee that empowers and perhaps obliges government to protect the public ends of free expression. . . . Stein brings a breadth of perspectives and material to the subject that few, if any, have managed to do. Her book is an original and important contribution to our understanding of free expression in America."--Randall P. Bezanson, author of How Free Can the Press Be?
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University of Illinois Press Game Faces
Book SynopsisSports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. In Game Faces , Sarah K. Fields looks at the legal ramifications of the cases brought by six of them--golfer Tiger Woods, quarterback Joe Montana, college football coach Wally Butts, baseball pitchers Warren Spahn and Don Newcombe, and hockey enforcer Tony Twist--when faced with what they considered attacks on their privacy and image. Placing each case in its historical and legal context, Fields examines how sports figures in the U.S. have used the law to regain control of their image. As she shows, decisions in the cases significantly affected the evolution of laws related to privacy, defamation, and publicity--areas pertinent to the lives of the famous sports figure and the non-famous consumer alike. She also tells the stories of why the plaintiffs sought relief in the courts, uncovering motives that delved into the heart of issues separating individual rights from the public''s perceiTrade Review“Recommended."--Choice "Sarah Fields' work on the history of sports and law dispels all doubt about the legitimacy of sports law as a field of study. Game Faces presents a convincing argument that cases about sports have made unique and important contributions to the law of privacy and free speech."--Erin Buzuvis, Western New England University"Sarah Fields combines her talents as a historian and a lawyer to guide us to and through the intersection of sport, celebrity, and the law. The precision and depth of this study is a gift to all interested in the rights of privacy and the control of one's public image."--Richard C. Crepeau, author of NFL Football: A History of America's New National Pastime"Game Faces is unique, effective, and impressive. I learned a great deal from it and appreciate how Fields addresses some complicated legal and ethical issues. Although most of us are not celebrities, many people in many disciplines will profit from considering the tension between the media and the freedom they are provided by the First Amendment and the personal autonomy of famous people to control (and profit from) their names, images, and likenesses. In part because we live in a celebrity obsessed culture, many readers should find Game Faces enlightening."--Daniel A. Nathan, author of Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal"Game Faces marks an important contribution to the field that is sure to shape and generate further discussion of the links between sport, law, identity, and power."--Journal of Sport History"This is an excellent book that clearly exhibits the painstaking research that went into this thought-provoking subject."--International Journal of Sport Communication
£17.99
CRC Press The Essential Guide to the Business Law of
Book SynopsisAs esports has grown, the need for professional legal representation has grown with it. Justin's Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming provides a great baseline and will help prevent the legal horror stories of esports in the past. Mitch Reames, AdWeek and Esports InsiderJustinâs exploration of the business and law side of the esports sector fills a gap of knowledge that is an absolute necessity in truly understanding the esports space.Kevin Hitt, The Esports ObserverThe Essential Guide to the Business & Law of Esports & Professional Video Gaming covers everything you need to know about the past, present, and future of esports and professional video gaming. The book is written by one of the foremost attorneys and business practitioners in todayâs esports and professional gaming scene, Justin M. Jacobson, Esq. This guide is meant to provide you with an in-depth look at the business aTable of Contents1 Introduction to Esports & Professional Video Gaming Law 12 Intellectual Property Law and Its Impact on The Esports Business Ecosytem 553 Business and Tax Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosytem 734 Immigration and Employment Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosystem 895 Contract Law and Its Impact on the Esports Business Ecosytem 1036 Some Other Ancillary Esports Legal and Business Topics 171
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Media Law and Ethics
Book SynopsisThis comprehensive textbook provides a thoughtful introduction to both the legal and ethical considerations relevant to students pursuing careers in communication and media.The fully revised, sixth edition continues to integrate fundamental legal and ethical principles with cases and examples from both landmark moments and recent history. It expands upon the previous edition''s exploration of international and non-U.S. law, introduces a new chapter on digital and social media, and incorporates discussion of new technologies and media throughout its coverage of core topics such as privacy, intellectual property, defamation and commercial speech. Coverage of contemporary court cases and congressional hearings brings readers up to date on the evolving discussion surrounding Facebook, Twitter and today's other major online players.This hybrid textbook is ideal for undergraduate and graduate courses in media and communication that combine law and ethics.Online resourTrade Review"This new edition of Media Law and Ethics is a highly valuable and clearly written guide for media students and professionals who not only want to follow the law but also do the right thing. Through its use of real-life examples, it provides a practical approach to handling legal and ethical dilemmas in an era of rampant disinformation, rapid technological change, and media globalization." Jon Marshall, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, USA Table of Contents1. American Law, the Legal System and the Judicial Processes 2. Media Ethics: A Cognitive Framework 3. Prior Restraint 4. Defamation 5. Right of Privacy 6. Indecency and Obscenity 7. Digital and Social Media 8. Corporate Commercial Speech 9. Intellectual Property 10. Internatonal and Foreign Law
£90.24
University of California Press Creativity and Copyright Legal Essentials for
Book SynopsisWhat they won't teach you in film school:This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyrightlaws for screenwriters. Inspired by Strunk & White'sThe Elements of Style,this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals.Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect themselves and their worksfrom the legal quagmires they may encounter.Written by an unrivaled pair of experts, John L. Geiger and Howard Suber, who use real-life case studies to cover topics such as clearance, contracts, collaboration, and infringement,Creativity and Copyrightis poised to become an indispensable resource for beginners and experts alike.Trade Review"A screenwriter seeking a basic understanding of the most important legal issues that pertain to the field will likely find Creativity and Copyright useful and readable." * Publishing Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Disclaimer Introduction 1. Free for the Taking: What You Can Steal from Others, and What Others Can Steal from You 2. Clearance Required: What You Do Need Permission to Use 3. Collaboration 4. Selling to Others and Implied-in-Fact Contracts 5. Copyright Infringement 6. Your Legal Team 7. Confessions of an Expert Witness: Free for the Telling Epilogue: Creativity and Copyright Appendix A. Copyright Fundamentals Appendix B. Collaboration Problems Notes Index
£40.00
University of California Press Creativity and Copyright
Book SynopsisWhat they won't teach you in film school:This expertly written reference guide breaks down copyrightlaws for screenwriters. Inspired by Strunk & White'sThe Elements of Style,this elegant, short reference is the perfect guide for screenwriters and creative artists looking to succeed as industry professionals.Readers will quickly understand the laws that govern creativity, idea-making, and selling, and learn how to protect themselves and their worksfrom the legal quagmires they may encounter.Written by an unrivaled pair of experts, John L. Geiger and Howard Suber, who use real-life case studies to cover topics such as clearance, contracts, collaboration, and infringement,Creativity and Copyrightis poised to become an indispensable resource for beginners and experts alike.Trade Review"A screenwriter seeking a basic understanding of the most important legal issues that pertain to the field will likely find Creativity and Copyright useful and readable." * Publishing Research Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Disclaimer Introduction 1. Free for the Taking: What You Can Steal from Others, and What Others Can Steal from You 2. Clearance Required: What You Do Need Permission to Use 3. Collaboration 4. Selling to Others and Implied-in-Fact Contracts 5. Copyright Infringement 6. Your Legal Team 7. Confessions of an Expert Witness: Free for the Telling Epilogue: Creativity and Copyright Appendix A. Copyright Fundamentals Appendix B. Collaboration Problems Notes Index
£13.49
University of California Press American Health Crisis One Hundred Years of Panic
Book SynopsisA history of U.S. public health emergencies and how we can turn the tide. Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: consider the Great Influenza Pandemic of 191819 and COVID-19, the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria, the Reagan administration's antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump, American Health Crisis illuminates howdespite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout the worldvulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural inequalities across disparate geographies, income levels, and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural revisionings, suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisisconsiders the future of public health in the United States and, presenting a reinvigorated concept of health citizenship, argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.Trade Review"An ambitious work. . . .a book on public health can and should only be written in a way that is as inclusive, reflective, accessible in language, and structured as Halliwell’s. It is an important read for any practitioner of public health." * Amerikastudien/American Studies: A Quarterly *"Noteworthy." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1918: Woodrow Wilson, Crisis, and the Arc of Public Health Part 1: Geographies of Vulnerability: Environmental Health Crises 1. Disaster: Mississippi Flood, Buffalo Creek, Hurricane Katrina 2. Poverty: Dust Bowl, Urban Ghetto, Indian Reservation 3. Pollution: Nuclear Fallout, Water Contamination, Climate Change Part 2: States of Vulnerability: Crises of Prevention and Treatment 4. Virus: Influenza, Polio, HIV/AIDS 5. Care: Postwar Hospitals, Community Action, Vet Centers 6. Drugs: Methadone, Diazepam, Fentanyl Conclusion 2018: Obama, Trump, and the Future of Health Citizenship Coda 2020 Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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Random House USA Inc A Vast Conspiracy The Real Story of the Sex
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story on FXThe definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, the extraordinary ordeal that nearly brought down a president—with a new preface by the author that reframes the events in light of the Me Too movement “A story as taut and surprising as any thriller . . . [an] unimpeachable page-turner.”—People First published a year after the infamous impeachment trial, this propulsive narrative captures the full arc of the Clinton sex scandals—from their beginnings in a Little Rock hotel to their culmination on the floor of the United States Senate with only the second vote on presidential removal in American history. Rich in character and fueled with the high octane of a sensational legal thriller, A Vast Conspiracy has indelibly shaped our understanding of this disastrous moment in Ame
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Harvard University Press The Right of Publicity Privacy Reimagined for a
Book SynopsisFrom athletes to victims of revenge porn, people have been transformed into intellectual property. Who controls one's identity? Jennifer Rothman uses the right of publicity a little-known law to answer this question. By tracing the right's origins to privacy laws in the 1800s, she finds a way to reclaim privacy for a public world.Trade ReviewA fascinating read for anyone who is interested in the nuts and bolts of right of publicity law and how the doctrine evolved to where it is today. It also will serve as a valuable resource for litigators looking for guidance on how to reconcile the seemingly contradictory precedent in a way that is understandable…This book will quickly become one of the most cited sources by litigants and courts grappling with right of publicity issues. -- Stephanie S. Abrutyn * Communications Lawyer *An unquestionably important book. Masterfully researched and deftly crafted, it is probably the best single source for gaining a deep understanding of the doctrine’s history, context, and politics… Deserves a place among the must-reads of American right of publicity law. -- Eric E. Johnson * IP Law Book Review *A formidable book that maps out the contours of the publicity right in an appealing and timely way. -- Eleanor Wilson * Journal of Intellectual Property Law and Practice *Rothman’s important book is an excellent contribution to the field, one that will hopefully provoke courts and legislatures to rethink their headlong expansion of the right of publicity. It should be required reading for anyone dealing with the right of publicity. -- Mark Lemley * Michigan Law Review *Rothman provides a complete legal and cultural history of the right of publicity, tracing its development from the late 1800s to its modern-day expansion as a transferable right of property. Fascinating details of the individuals behind the cases, including celebrities and private citizens, inform how the law’s current contours have been shaped…Indispensable. -- Rachel Bridgewater * Library Journal *This is the definitive biography of the right of publicity, whose boundaries have exploded in recent years. Jennifer Rothman tells the story with zest, explaining how we should restructure this right in our fame-obsessed age. -- Jack M. Balkin, Yale Law SchoolThe book is a fascinating read for anyone interested in gaining a better understanding of the nuts and bolts of right of publicity law and how the doctrine evolved to where it is today. Rothman concisely connects the dots among seemingly irreconcilable court decisions while debunking myths about the early case-law. -- Stephanie Abrutyn, Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Litigation at HBORothman makes a crucial argument that goes to the heart of the current legal doctrine. -- Jessica Litman, author of Digital CopyrightJennifer Rothman has written an important, informative study of the right of publicity as it has developed in the United States and its connections to a robust privacy right. By reexamining the past, she has elaborated principles that will be useful in defining both publicity and privacy rights for the digital age. -- Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
£31.41
University Press of Kansas The Miracle Case Film Censorship and the Supreme
Book SynopsisRoberto Rossellini's ""Il Miracolo"" is deceptively simple: a demented peasant woman is seduced by a stranger she believes to be Saint Joseph, is socially ostracized for becoming pregnant out of wedlock, but is finally redeemed through motherhood. This book explores the unique place that the movies occupy in American culture.
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Lexington Books New Media Old Regimes Case Studies in Comparative
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewNew Media, Old Regimes is one of the most interesting and innovative studies of comparative communications law available. Eko's use of a case-study approach to reveal the tensions between different political and cultural systems and their differing concepts of freedom of expression is extremely effective and enlightening. -- Eric Easton, University of BaltimoreThis book offers both a contribution to the theoretical foundations of comparative communication law and policy and thought-provoking case studies that illustrate clashes between culturally specific interpretations of communication rights and obligations. -- Manuel Puppis, Univeristy of Zurich, SwitzerlandThis is a fine book by an able media law scholar, whose research has informed me over the years, especially when I wanted to expand my "reverse perspective" on American law on freedom of speech and the press." -- Kyu Ho Youm, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationTable of ContentsChapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Comparative Communication Law Part 1. Theoretical Approaches Chapter 2. Systemic Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Regulatory Regimes and Policy Transfer Chapter 3. Politico-Cultural Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Exceptionalism, Mentalities, and Asymmetries Chapter 4. The European Supranational Communication Law and Policy Regime Chapter 5. Multilateral Resolution of Communication Problems: The International Communications Regulatory Regime Part 2. Comparative Case Studies in International Communication Law and Policy Chapter 6. New Media, Old Authoritarian Regimes: Instrumentalization of the Internet and Networked Social Media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North Africa Chapter 7. Old Religions, Old Mentalities: The Mohammad Cartoons Affair as a Clash of Religious "Establishmentalities" Chapter 8. New Technologies, Old Mentalities: The Internet, the Minitel, and Exceptionalist Information and Communication Technology Policy Chapter 9. New Technologies, Old Big Brother: Internet Surveillance and "Governmentality" in the United States and the Russian Federation Chapter 10. American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Harmonization of Intellectual Property Law by the United States and France Chapter 11. New Media Old Images: Re-presentation of the Problem of Online Child Pornography Under International, European, and American Law Chapter 12. New Realities, Old Ideologies: Communication Policy Transfers and "Developmentality" in Africa Chapter 13. New Media, Ancient Animosities: "Propaganda of the Deed" and the Laws of War in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999 Epilogue
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Rlpg/Galleys Regulating the Web
Book SynopsisSince its popularization in the mid 1990s, the Internet has impacted nearly every aspect of our cultural and personal lives. Over the course of two decades, the Internet remained an unregulated medium whose characteristic openness allowed numerous applications, services, and websites to flourish. By 2005, Internet Service Providers began to explore alternative methods of network management that would permit them to discriminate the quality and speed of access to online content as they saw fit. In response, the Federal Communications Commission sought to enshrine net neutrality in regulatory policy as a means of preserving the Internet's open, nondiscriminatory characteristics. Although the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internet's structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a varietyTrade ReviewRegulating the Web is a series of 11 essays that grew out of panel discussions from the 2011 National Communication Association meeting. As such, it shares the strengths found in many books growing out of conferences. It is well researched and full of very current information as of the time of its publication. Contributors present novel and informative perspectives on the history, politics, and current state of the Internet. This is a worthwhile read for audiences interested in the topic of net neutrality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *Network neutrality is one of the most important policy issues of the 21st century, with implications for the future of politics, intellectual life, culture, the economy, and more. This smart, sophisticated, and cutting-edge collection offers both a solid introduction and a comprehensive overview of the best thinking of proponents of an open internet. -- Thomas Streeter, University of VermontTable of ContentsRegulating the Web: An Introduction Zack Stiegler Part I: Background and Principles1 Chapter 1: Visions of Modernity: Communication, Technology and Network Neutrality in Historical Perspective Michael Felczak Chapter 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality: A Historical Genealogy of the Discourse of Net Neutrality Danny Kimball Chapter 3: Transparency, Consumers, and the Pursuit of an Open Internet: A Critical Appraisal Jeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick Schmidt Chapter 4: Applying Common Carriage to Network Neutrality Pallavi Guniganti and Mark Grabowski Part II: Institutional Perspectives Imagining Equilibrium: The Figure of the Dynamic Market in the Net Neutrality Debate Daniel Faltesek Chapter 6: Axiology and the FCC: Regulation as Ideological Process Benjamin Cline Part III: Net Neutrality as Cultural and Political Debate Chapter 7: Framing the Net Neutrality Debate Zack Stiegler and Dan Sprumont Chapter 8: Informationism as Ideology: Technological Myths in the Net Neutrality Debate Brian Dolber Part IV: Socio-Cultural Implications Chapter 9: A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network Neutrality Tina Sikka Chapter 10: Network Neutrality, Mobile Networks, and User-Generated Activism Michael Daubs Chapter 11: Beyond the Series of Tubes: Strategies for Advancing Media Reform John Nathan Anderson
£91.80
Lexington Books American Exceptionalism the French Exception and
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA highly sophisticated and important work that should not only move the field of communication law and policy into a new era, but do the same for the study of comparative law, legal globalization, Internet governance, law and society, and, indeed, international relations. -- Sandra Braman, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeThis book offers a superb investigation of French and American exceptionalism, a value in national philosophies and practices that has not received sufficient attention in communication scholarship. Eko’s work provides new ways of charting exceptionalism’s role in the development of legal regimes around intellectual property, freedom of speech and technological innovations, enriching our understanding of global media with its compelling depth and power. -- Sharon L. Strover, University of Texas, AustinTable of ContentsPart I: Theoretical Approaches Chapter 1: American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Digital Media Law Chapter 2: Freedom of Expression in The United States and France: Political, Ideological & Cultural Contexts Chapter 3: American Exceptionalism and Internet Law Chapter 4: The French Exception (L'Exception Française) and Digital Media Law Part II: Case Studies: Exceptionalism and Media Law in the United States and France Chapter 5: New Media, Same Old Sex Scandals: Comparative Exceptionalism, Freedom of Expression and Invasion of Privacy in France and the United States Chapter 6: Intellectual Property Law and the Transfer of Collective Journalistic Works from Real Space to Cyberspace: The Case of the United States and France Chapter 7: New Media, Old Interest Groups: Civil Society and Digital Media Law in the United States and France Chapter 8: Google Books, “Linguistic Capitalism” and the Exceptional Intellectual Property Law Regimes of the United States and France Chapter 9: Intellectual Property, Freedom of Expression, and Regulation of Internet “Gripe Sites” in the United States and France
£89.10
Lexington Books New Media Old Regimes
Book SynopsisNew Media, Old Regimes: Case Studies in Comparative Communication Law and Policy, by Lyombe S. Eko, is a collection of novel theoretical perspectives and case studies which illustrate how different communication law regimes conceptualize and apply universal ideals of human rights and freedom of expression to media controversies in real space and cyberspace. Eko's investigation includes such controversial communication policy topics as North African regimes' failed use of telecommunications to suppress the social change of the Arab Spring, the Mohammad cartoon controversy in Denmark and France, French and American policy of development and diffusion of the Minitel and the Internet, American and Russian regulation of internet surveillance, the problem of managing pedopornography in cyberspace and real space, and other current communication policy cases. This study will aid readers not only to understand different national and cultural perspectives of thorny communication issues, but also show that though freedom of expression is a pluralistic concept, the actions of all political regimes at the national, transnational, and international levels must be held up to the universal standards of freedom of expression set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. New Media, Old Regimes provides essential scholarship on comparative communication law and policy in a world of new media.Trade ReviewNew Media, Old Regimes is one of the most interesting and innovative studies of comparative communications law available. Eko's use of a case-study approach to reveal the tensions between different political and cultural systems and their differing concepts of freedom of expression is extremely effective and enlightening. -- Eric Easton, University of BaltimoreThis book offers both a contribution to the theoretical foundations of comparative communication law and policy and thought-provoking case studies that illustrate clashes between culturally specific interpretations of communication rights and obligations. -- Manuel Puppis, Univeristy of Zurich, SwitzerlandThis is a fine book by an able media law scholar, whose research has informed me over the years, especially when I wanted to expand my "reverse perspective" on American law on freedom of speech and the press." -- Kyu Ho Youm, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass CommunicationTable of ContentsChapter 1. Mapping the Terrain of Comparative Communication Law Part 1. Theoretical Approaches Chapter 2. Systemic Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Regulatory Regimes and Policy Transfer Chapter 3. Politico-Cultural Approaches to Comparative Communication Law and Policy: Exceptionalism, Mentalities, and Asymmetries Chapter 4. The European Supranational Communication Law and Policy Regime Chapter 5. Multilateral Resolution of Communication Problems: The International Communications Regulatory Regime Part 2. Comparative Case Studies in International Communication Law and Policy Chapter 6. New Media, Old Authoritarian Regimes: Instrumentalization of the Internet and Networked Social Media in the "Arab Spring" of 2011 in North Africa Chapter 7. Old Religions, Old Mentalities: The Mohammad Cartoons Affair as a Clash of Religious "Establishmentalities" Chapter 8. New Technologies, Old Mentalities: The Internet, the Minitel, and Exceptionalist Information and Communication Technology Policy Chapter 9. New Technologies, Old Big Brother: Internet Surveillance and "Governmentality" in the United States and the Russian Federation Chapter 10. American Exceptionalism, the French Exception, and Harmonization of Intellectual Property Law by the United States and France Chapter 11. New Media Old Images: Re-presentation of the Problem of Online Child Pornography Under International, European, and American Law Chapter 12. New Realities, Old Ideologies: Communication Policy Transfers and "Developmentality" in Africa Chapter 13. New Media, Ancient Animosities: "Propaganda of the Deed" and the Laws of War in the NATO/Yugoslav War of 1999 Epilogue
£53.10
Lexington Books Regulating the Web
Book SynopsisAlthough the FCC established a net neutrality policy in 2010, debate continues as to who ultimately should have authority to shape and maintain the Internetâs structure. Regulating the Web brings together a diverse collection of scholars who examine multiple the net neutrality policy and surrounding debates from a variety of perspectives.Trade ReviewRegulating the Web is a series of 11 essays that grew out of panel discussions from the 2011 National Communication Association meeting. As such, it shares the strengths found in many books growing out of conferences. It is well researched and full of very current information as of the time of its publication. Contributors present novel and informative perspectives on the history, politics, and current state of the Internet. This is a worthwhile read for audiences interested in the topic of net neutrality. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers/faculty, and professionals. * CHOICE *Network neutrality is one of the most important policy issues of the 21st century, with implications for the future of politics, intellectual life, culture, the economy, and more. This smart, sophisticated, and cutting-edge collection offers both a solid introduction and a comprehensive overview of the best thinking of proponents of an open internet. -- Thomas Streeter, University of VermontTable of ContentsRegulating the Web: An Introduction Zack Stiegler Part I: Background and Principles1 Chapter 1: Visions of Modernity: Communication, Technology and Network Neutrality in Historical Perspective Michael Felczak Chapter 2: What We Talk About When We Talk About Net Neutrality: A Historical Genealogy of the Discourse of Net Neutrality Danny Kimball Chapter 3: Transparency, Consumers, and the Pursuit of an Open Internet: A Critical Appraisal Jeremy Carp, Isabella Kulkarni, and Patrick Schmidt Chapter 4: Applying Common Carriage to Network Neutrality Pallavi Guniganti and Mark Grabowski Part II: Institutional Perspectives Imagining Equilibrium: The Figure of the Dynamic Market in the Net Neutrality Debate Daniel Faltesek Chapter 6: Axiology and the FCC: Regulation as Ideological Process Benjamin Cline Part III: Net Neutrality as Cultural and Political Debate Chapter 7: Framing the Net Neutrality Debate Zack Stiegler and Dan Sprumont Chapter 8: Informationism as Ideology: Technological Myths in the Net Neutrality Debate Brian Dolber Part IV: Socio-Cultural Implications Chapter 9: A Critical Theory of Technology Approach to the Study of Network Neutrality Tina Sikka Chapter 10: Network Neutrality, Mobile Networks, and User-Generated Activism Michael Daubs Chapter 11: Beyond the Series of Tubes: Strategies for Advancing Media Reform John Nathan Anderson
£40.50
Rowman & Littlefield A Students Guide to Mass Communication Law
Book SynopsisA unique learning tool for students in journalism and mass communication, A Student''s Guide to Mass Communication Law is written for students by a top student. Amber Nieto and her professor John F. Schmittwho also brings his experience as a lawyer and a journalisthave created an easy-to-read study guide to be used alongside any main textbook on media law or communication law. An outline format allows for quick reference and for instructors to choose material useful to their courses. Including a glossary and the text of the U.S. Constitution, this concise guide covers key areas such as free speech, freedom of the press, censorship, the student press, defamation and libel, privacy, intellectual property, fair trial issues, shield laws, freedom of information, obscenity, electronic media regulation, media ownership, and advertising. A Student''s Guide helps students understand textbook material and serves as an ongoing refresher course on the basics of mass communication law and media law.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 1 Sources of the Law Chapter 3 2 Origin of American Free Speech and Free Press Chapter 4 3 Censorship or "Prior Restraint" Chapter 5 4 The Student Press in America Chapter 6 5 Injury to Reputation: Defamation Chapter 7 6 The Right of Privacy Chapter 8 7 Intellectual Property Chapter 9 8 Prejudicial Publicity and Fair Trial Issues Chapter 10 9 Reporters, Shield Laws, and Other Protections Chapter 11 10 Transparency and Freedom of Information Chapter 12 11 Obscenity and America Chapter 13 12 Regulation of Electronic Media Chapter 14 13 Issues Affecting Media Ownership Chapter 15 14 The Law of Advertising Chapter 16 Glossary Chapter 17 Constitution of the United States of America
£37.52
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Culture Conglomerates
Book SynopsisThis succinct overview explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Former producer William M. Kunz shows how the current structure of these industries has evolved and how this structure impacts the production and distribution of cultural products. Providing a critical view without taking a political stance, Kunz focuses on film and TV in order to give an in-depth portrait of these industries and their dynamic relationship to each other. Ideal as a supplement for a variety of media courses_such as media and society, policy, economics, and criticism_this student-friendly text includes synopses of key media regulations and policies, discussion questions, a glossary, and interesting sidebars.Trade ReviewCulture Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries...offers a new analysis of the growing consolidation in the visual media—film and television. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly, December 2008 *Kunz's book is a marvelous addition to the large body of literature on the media industries from a political economy perspective. He asks some fundamental questions about the high degree of concentration in film and television industries and its relationship to the failure of corporate media to create an informed citizenry. Equally important, Kunz demonstrates how the U.S. government and the dominant corporations have worked hand in hand since Ronald Reagan's presidency to create this situation in the United States. The book is well researched, well argued, and lucidly written. This is not 'abstract' empiricism but solid political-economic research that will be useful for researching and teaching for years to come. -- Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Why Ownership Matters Chapter 2 Conglomeration in the Motion Picture Industry Chapter 3 Conglomeration in the Broadcast Television Industry Chapter 4 Patterns of Ownership in Motion Picture Distribution Chapter 5 Patterns of Ownership in Prime Time Network Programming Chapter 6 Conglomeration in Cable and Satellite Television Systems and Services Chapter 7 Why Ownership Matters, Revisited Chapter 8 Discussion Questions Chapter 9 Terms and Concepts 10 Selected Bibliography
£99.90
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Culture Conglomerates
Book SynopsisThis succinct overview explains conglomeration and regulation in the film and television industries, covering its history as well as the contemporary scene. Former producer William M. Kunz shows how the current structure of these industries has evolved and how this structure impacts the production and distribution of cultural products. Providing a critical view without taking a political stance, Kunz focuses on film and TV in order to give an in-depth portrait of these industries and their dynamic relationship to each other. Ideal as a supplement for a variety of media courses_such as media and society, policy, economics, and criticism_this student-friendly text includes synopses of key media regulations and policies, discussion questions, a glossary, and interesting sidebars.Trade ReviewCulture Conglomerates: Consolidation in the Motion Picture and Television Industries...offers a new analysis of the growing consolidation in the visual media—film and television. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly, December 2008 *Kunz's book is a marvelous addition to the large body of literature on the media industries from a political economy perspective. He asks some fundamental questions about the high degree of concentration in film and television industries and its relationship to the failure of corporate media to create an informed citizenry. Equally important, Kunz demonstrates how the U.S. government and the dominant corporations have worked hand in hand since Ronald Reagan's presidency to create this situation in the United States. The book is well researched, well argued, and lucidly written. This is not 'abstract' empiricism but solid political-economic research that will be useful for researching and teaching for years to come. -- Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Why Ownership Matters Chapter 2 Conglomeration in the Motion Picture Industry Chapter 3 Conglomeration in the Broadcast Television Industry Chapter 4 Patterns of Ownership in Motion Picture Distribution Chapter 5 Patterns of Ownership in Prime Time Network Programming Chapter 6 Conglomeration in Cable and Satellite Television Systems and Services Chapter 7 Why Ownership Matters, Revisited Chapter 8 Discussion Questions Chapter 9 Terms and Concepts 10 Selected Bibliography
£34.20
Taylor & Francis Ltd Regulating Audiovisual Services 4 Library of
Book SynopsisIn recent years, the changing nature of audiovisual services has had a significant impact on regulatory policy and practice. The adoption of digital technology means that broadcasting, cable, satellite, the Internet and mobile telephony are converging, enabling each of them to deliver the same kinds of content and allowing users to exercise much greater choice over the kind of material that they receive and when they receive it. The essays examine the implications for regulatory design, asking whether there is still a role for traditional-style state controls, or whether other techniques, such as competition in the market and self-regulation, are more appropriate. They also explore how, in the digital era, structural issues of media ownership and control become problems of access and interconnection between services and how content regulation focuses more on problems raised by the interactions between providers and users, the relationship between freedom of information and technologiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Convergence and Regulation: New challenges for European multimedia policy: a German perspective, Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem; Regulatory convergence? Douglas W. Vick. Part II Techniques of Regulation: Television and the public interest, Cass R. Sunstein; Self regulation and the media, Angela J. Campbell; Controlling the new media: hybrid responses to new forms of power, Andrew Murray and Colin Scott; Shielding children: the European way, Michael D. Birnhack and Jacob H. Rowbottom. Part III Structural Regulation: Media Concentration and Ownership: Rethinking European Union competence in the field of media ownership: the internal market, fundamental rights and European citizenship, Rachael Craufurd Smith; The goal of pluralism and the ownership rules for private broadcasting in Germany: re-regulation or de-regulation? Peter Humphreys; Architectural censorship and the FCC, Christopher S. Yoo; Media structure, ownership policy, and the 1st Amendment, C. Edwin Baker; Control over technical bottlenecks - a case for media ownership law?, Thomas Gibbons. Part IV Issues in Regulating New Media: The regulation of interactive television in the United States and the European Union, Hernan Galperin and François Bar; The 'right to information' and digital broadcasting: about monsters, invisible men and the future of European broadcasting regulation, Natali Helberger; Access to content by new media platforms: a review of the competition law problems, Damien Geradin; Television as something special? Content control technologies and free-to-air TV, Andrew T. Kenyon and Robin Wright; Yahoo! Cyber-collision of cultures: who regulates?, Horatia Muir Watt; Spectrum auctions: yesterday's heresy, today's orthodoxy, tomorrow's anachronism: taking the next step to open spectrum access, Eli Noam; Spectrum flash dance: Eli Noam's proposal for 'open access' to radio waves, Thomas W. Hazlett; Name Index.
£308.75
University Press of America Television Courtroom Broadcasting Effects
Book SynopsisCourt and policy makers have increasingly had to deal withand sometimes even embracetechnology, from podcasts to the Internet. Televised courtroom broadcasting especially remains an issue. The debate surrounding the US Supreme Court and federal courts, as well as the great disparity between different forms of television courtroom broadcasting, rages on. What are the effects of television courtroom broadcasting? Does research support the arguments for or against? Despite three Supreme Court cases on television courtroom broadcasting, the common thread between the cases has not been highlighted. The Supreme Court in these cases maintains a common theme: there is not a sufficient body of research on the effects of televising courtroom proceedings to resolve the debate in a confident manner.Trade ReviewThis book is a corrective. First, it recounts the arguments for and against television in courtrooms, and reveals most of them to be self-serving assertions with next to no evidence to support them. Second, it takes the claims and counterclaims seriously, and sets out a sensible approach to replace hot air with hard evidence. This topic is timely. Courts are under pressure to revise their rules. It will become the indispensable read for everyone interested in the topic. * The Barrister *It recounts the arguments for and against. . . and reveals most of them to be self-serving assertions with next to no evidence to support them. . . it takes the claims and counterclaims seriously, and sets out a sensible approach to replace hot air with hard evidence. This topic is timely. Courts are under pressure to revise their rules. It will become the indispensible read for everyone interested in the topic. -- Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall, University of California BerkeleyQuestions many of the assumptions. . . as well as raising several other issues that have not been extensively addressed. . . a new, interesting and useful perspective to the discussion and debate. -- Eric P. Robinson, deputy director, Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media; managing editor, Reynolds Courts and Media Law Journal[This book] is the most comprehensive research-based assessment of the pros and cons of television broadcasting available on the market today. . . All those of us with an interest in open justice will welcome this book as making a major contribution to the debate, being perhaps the only book on the market that provides a totally objective assessment of the evidence to date. -- Duncan Bloy, Ph.D., School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University; co-author Hadwin and Bloy: Law and the Media, Second EditionAn essential read for anyone interested in justice and the media in the twenty-first century. -- Glen Creeber, Ph.D., senior lecturer in television studies, Aberystwyth University; author of The Television Genre Book and Studying Television: An IntroductionTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Supreme Court and the Research Challenge 3 Camera Developments in US 4 Cameras: The UK Perspective 5 What Exactly is Courtroom Broadcasting? 6 What is Television Courtroom Broadcasting (TCB)? 7 Are There TCB Genres and Formats? 8 General (Non Social Science) Research Literature 9 General (Non Social Science) Research Themes 10 Empirical Research and Themes 11 The Psychology Challenge 12 The Distraction Challenge 13 The Location Challenge 14 Education Effects Research 15 Education Effects Challenge 16 TCB Effects: Meeting the Research Challenges 17 The First TCB Eye Tracking Demonstration 18 Conclusion Appendix 1: Select General Literature on Courtroom Broadcasting Appendix 2: Summary and Categorisation of Supreme Court Effects Issues and Concerns Appendix 3: General (Non Social Science) Research Literature Bibliography Index
£93.60
University Press of America Crime At El Escorial
Book SynopsisCrime at El Escorial presents a comparative social and judicial analysis of an 1892 child murder, drawing from newspaper archives among other historical documents. D.J. Walker discusses the role of Spain's intellectual elite in crystallizing dissatisfaction with the popular jury through its criticism of the masses and the impact of journalists' fictionalized representations of the murder on public opinion.Trade ReviewD. J. Walker’s Crime at El Escorial was a path-breaking study of the Spanish press and its influence on the public and jurisprudence. I know of no other historical examination of this subject area that is as richly detailed, comparative and fully researched. Professor Walker was able to coalesce impressive archival and literary sources in this volume. The addition of the epilogue to the revised edition brings the jury question to the forefront of the study. There are many problems with the jury system as currently practised here in the US and elsewhere. Crime at El Escorial brings a powerful, evocative historical element that should be welcome in any meaningful public discussion of the jury system and its equity. I recommend this work to anyone interested in such a discussion in the past or at present. * Bulletin of Spanish Studies *Crime at El Escorial is an illuminating, well-documented study of the rise of a mass readership and the power of the popular press in Spain, as seen through the 1892 murder of a child. In this most welcome revised edition, Walker includes new material on the case, bringing it up to the present with the reinstitution of the jury trial in 1995. -- Noël Valis, Yale UniversityA compelling account of the coverage of a brutal child murder near Madrid in 1892 and its fallout, D.J. Walker’s book explores the power and the nature of journalism in late nineteenth-century Spain. The unremitting focus on sensationalism and the failure to engage with broader issues raised by the case had serious consequences, including undermining the legitimacy of the new jury system. -- Adrian Shubert, professor of history, York UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Mass Taste and Crime Reporting in the Spanish Press of the 1890s Chapter Two: Fictionalizing the Escorial Crime Chapter Three: The Escorial Case as Rural Gothic Chapter Four: The Case of the “Niño de el Escorial” and the Attack on the Jury Chapter Five: Missed Opportunities Epilogue Bibliography Index
£33.25
University Press of America Television Courtroom Broadcasting Effects
Book SynopsisCourt and policy makers have increasingly had to deal withand sometimes even embracetechnology, from podcasts to the Internet. Televised courtroom broadcasting especially remains an issue. The debate surrounding the US Supreme Court and federal courts, as well as the great disparity between different forms of television courtroom broadcasting, rages on. What are the effects of television courtroom broadcasting? Does research support the arguments for or against? Despite three Supreme Court cases on television courtroom broadcasting, the common thread between the cases has not been highlighted. The Supreme Court in these cases maintains a common theme: there is not a sufficient body of research on the effects of televising courtroom proceedings to resolve the debate in a confident manner.Trade ReviewThis book is a corrective. First, it recounts the arguments for and against television in courtrooms, and reveals most of them to be self-serving assertions with next to no evidence to support them. Second, it takes the claims and counterclaims seriously, and sets out a sensible approach to replace hot air with hard evidence. This topic is timely. Courts are under pressure to revise their rules. It will become the indispensable read for everyone interested in the topic. * The Barrister *It recounts the arguments for and against. . . and reveals most of them to be self-serving assertions with next to no evidence to support them. . . it takes the claims and counterclaims seriously, and sets out a sensible approach to replace hot air with hard evidence. This topic is timely. Courts are under pressure to revise their rules. It will become the indispensible read for everyone interested in the topic. -- Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean’s Professor, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall, University of California BerkeleyQuestions many of the assumptions. . . as well as raising several other issues that have not been extensively addressed. . . a new, interesting and useful perspective to the discussion and debate. -- Eric P. Robinson, deputy director, Reynolds National Center for Courts and Media; managing editor, Reynolds Courts and Media Law Journal[This book] is the most comprehensive research-based assessment of the pros and cons of television broadcasting available on the market today. . . All those of us with an interest in open justice will welcome this book as making a major contribution to the debate, being perhaps the only book on the market that provides a totally objective assessment of the evidence to date. -- Duncan Bloy, Ph.D., School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University; co-author Hadwin and Bloy: Law and the Media, Second EditionAn essential read for anyone interested in justice and the media in the twenty-first century. -- Glen Creeber, Ph.D., senior lecturer in television studies, Aberystwyth University; author of The Television Genre Book and Studying Television: An IntroductionTable of Contents1 Introduction 2 The Supreme Court and the Research Challenge 3 Camera Developments in US 4 Cameras: The UK Perspective 5 What Exactly is Courtroom Broadcasting? 6 What is Television Courtroom Broadcasting (TCB)? 7 Are There TCB Genres and Formats? 8 General (Non Social Science) Research Literature 9 General (Non Social Science) Research Themes 10 Empirical Research and Themes 11 The Psychology Challenge 12 The Distraction Challenge 13 The Location Challenge 14 Education Effects Research 15 Education Effects Challenge 16 TCB Effects: Meeting the Research Challenges 17 The First TCB Eye Tracking Demonstration 18 Conclusion Appendix 1: Select General Literature on Courtroom Broadcasting Appendix 2: Summary and Categorisation of Supreme Court Effects Issues and Concerns Appendix 3: General (Non Social Science) Research Literature Bibliography Index
£45.00
McFarland & Company The Law for Comic Book Creators Essential
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£23.74
Stanford University Press All Judges Are PoliticalExcept When They Are Not
Book SynopsisComparing law to the American practice of common courtesy, this book explains how our courts not only survive under conditions of suspected hypocrisy, but actually depend on these conditions to function.Trade Review"In using courtesy to account for the current state of our legal system, Bybee offers a fresh take on debates over judicial legitimacy and legal realism. Rejecting the contention that the public is simply confused, he presents an original answer to the puzzle of the public's paradoxical perceptions of the judiciary. The pull of his explanation and the unconventional but commonsense appeal of his account are engaging and provocative." -- Helena Silverstein * Law and Social Inquiry *"All Judges Are Political—Except When They Are Not successfully points out the conflicting roles that judges fill and demonstrates that these roles do not intrinsically compromise legal legitimacy. In the course of achieving this goal, Bybee uses substantive sources and unique comparisons to present intriguing ideas and theories. I recommend the book for anyone with an interest in the subject matter who does not mind a distinctly scholarly approach. The book would make a great addition to collegiate and law school libraries." -- Jeff McGowan * Law Library Journal *"Bybee offers a truly fresh and important response to one of the most important questions in the cultural study of law: how can law sustain its legitimacy in the face of the understanding that it is essentially political? Arguing that law's hypocrisy actually strengthens it, Bybee makes a connection to courtesy that is really quite ingenious and illuminating. This is a wonderful new vehicle for understanding how courts work." -- Austin Sarat * Amherst College *"Judicial authority is not in grave danger, at least in the terms that some alarmists imagine. In conversation with mainstream approaches to judicial practice, this remarkably original work contends that law's deceits sustain order and moderate conflict, all the while sustaining hierarchy. A major accomplishment." -- Michael W. McCann * University of Washington *"Between costly partisan judicial elections and a Supreme Court that appears frozen in an ideological 5-4 split, there has never been a more apt time to answer conclusively the question of whether judges are apolitical oracles or ideological politicians. Bybee's answer—they are both—sounds at first like a discomfiting one. But in this fascinating book he shows that the courts' very survival in fact rests on the white lie of this fundamental tension." -- Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor * Slate.com *
£16.14
Stanford University Press Pregnant with the Stars
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What do celebrity baby bumps, boobs, and booties have to do with the law? In this compelling and creative new book, Renée Cramer suggests that contemporary culture's fascination with these subjects reveals much about the complex web of social and legal regulations that shape our understanding of pregnancy, the body and femininity." -- Susan Burgess * Ohio University *"When people hear I study celebrity, they often ask, 'What's going on with the obsession with celebrity pregnancy and baby bumps?' Finally, I have somewhere to direct them. Pregnant with the Stars takes a nuanced and engaging look at celebrity pregnancy, connecting the baby bump craze to larger issues governing women's bodies and what we expect and demand from them." -- Anne Helen Petersen * Features Writer at BuzzFeed and author of Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema *"Pregnant with the Stars is as entertaining as it is illuminating. Cramer has a rare gift for drawing our attention to everyday forms of power that occur at the intersection of popular culture, politics and the law and converge in our gaze on women's bodies." -- Claire Rasmussen * University of Delaware *"Americans have voraciously consumed images of gorgeous, famous pregnant bodies—from Demi to Kiera—while ordinary women have officially lost rights, dignity, and safety as fertile persons. Renée Cramer cracks open interpretations of this development, inviting us to consider the consequences of celebrating those beyond our reach, while millions of real women are threatened with ignobility and ignominy." -- Rickie Solinger * author of Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know *"Cramer's examination of celebrity pregnancy reminds us that robust analysis can also be wildly fun. Pregnant with the Stars reveals how the pop culture portrayal of pregnant women's bodies undermines equality and deeply-held social values. Readers of all kinds will enjoy the book and want to talk about it—online, at work, in the classroom, and beyond." -- Chrysanthi Leon * University of Delaware *"Cramer sees our obsession with pregnant celebrities as a distraction from birth-control politics....She urges women not to let what is an individual experience be influenced by celebrity-pregnancy hype." -- Crystal Erickson * Bitch Magazine *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Obsession with the Celebrity Bump chapter abstractThis chapter explains why it is important to understand contemporary interest in the celebrity baby bump, and situates that interest within the law and society literature. The chapter argues that by compelling us to "watch" and to "want," media coverage of the pregnant celebrity body becomes an interpretive lens through which to view the twin pillars of the state in late neoliberalism: an expansion of technologies of governance through proxies that enable state- and self-regulation, and totalizing commodification via global capitalism. The chapter explains the feminist, sociolegal, and interpretive approach taken in the research and provides a narrative of the author's interaction with the topic. 1Law, Popular Culture, and Pregnancy in America chapter abstractUsing the famous Demi Moore cover for Vanity Fair as a frame of reference, this chapter traces the changing ways that law and popular culture have treated pregnancy, from the 1970s to the contemporary period. It examines jurisprudence relating to pregnancy and pregnancy discrimination, as well as abortion and birth control, to argue that women have achieved a measure of equality under the law – while being constructed as more responsible for the outcomes of their pregnancy than ever before. The chapter simultaneously examines televised and filmic representations of pregnancy in the popular culture – from I Love Lucy to Murphy Brown to Friends to demonstrate an increasing comfort with pregnant women in the public eye. 2Celebrity Bumps, Boobs, and Booties chapter abstractThis chapter examines media coverage of celebrity pregnancies to analyze the normative and idealized views of femininity in evidence in them. It argues that the media offers a limited range of possibilities for pregnant women: they can be "good girls," "bad girls (and those redeemed by motherhood," "hot, sexy mamas," and "yummy mummies." In all of these possibilities it is clear that dominant norms of race, class, and femininity are driving the media representations of these stars. 3Wanting the Bump chapter abstractThis chapter examines the commodification of pregnancy, and all things pregnancy related, through media coverage of celebrity pregnancies. It argues that when women are told to want the pregnant celebrity body, they are confronted by the objectification of that body and multiple modes of commodification: of pregnancy, of the child itself – or at least its image, and of the "rockin' beach-worthy post-baby body." And, even as women are confounded by our inability to attain what they are told is perfection, they are provided strategies and products that promise rescue, for a cost. 4Surveilling the Stars chapter abstractThis chapter argues that when women watch the pregnant celebrity, they are encouraged, to surveil, to gossip, and to judge. Ultimately, they are enlisted in the regulation of the bodies of all pregnant women, even as women are called on to accept and internalize their own regulation. The medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth necessitates high levels of surveillance during gestation and birth, and facilitates an intimate, but mediated, relationship between the woman and the fetus. The chapter argues that as women judge and regulate the bodies of pregnant celebrities, they are simultaneously accepting and internalizing the very same regulations of themselves. 5Governing the Body through the Bump chapter abstractThis chapter investigates the various moments and places where governance occurs of pregnant women. It shows that the state, through legislation and jurisprudence, plays an active role in constraining women's choices about and during pregnancy, and looks at very recent bills and laws that limit women's power. It also argues that the state engages proxies: corporations, media, and average people on the street – to govern pregnant women in the most mundane and daily ways imaginable. 6Rebel Renderings and a Micro-politics of Inscrutability chapter abstractThis chapter examines spaces of hope – coverage of celebrity pregnancies that deviate from the norm. It argues that coverage of the pregnancies and pregnant performances of M.I.A., Pink, and Christina Aguilera highlight "bold bumps" that envision motherhood in rebellious ways. The chapter also includes a discussion of surrogacy, lesbian-headed households, and single mothers, and argues that they disrupt patriarchal assumptions of mothering and pregnancy. The chapter closes with a look at the pregnancy of Mila Kunis, about whom the press was unable to write a coherent narrative, and whose performances of pregnancy remained inscrutable. Drawing on work by James Scott and Boaventura de souse Santos, the chapter argues that emancipation and liberation are achieved through small, inscrutable daily practices of living under the radar of the watching state and its proxies.
£84.15
Stanford University Press Pregnant with the Stars
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What do celebrity baby bumps, boobs, and booties have to do with the law? In this compelling and creative new book, Renée Cramer suggests that contemporary culture's fascination with these subjects reveals much about the complex web of social and legal regulations that shape our understanding of pregnancy, the body and femininity." -- Susan Burgess * Ohio University *"When people hear I study celebrity, they often ask, 'What's going on with the obsession with celebrity pregnancy and baby bumps?' Finally, I have somewhere to direct them. Pregnant with the Stars takes a nuanced and engaging look at celebrity pregnancy, connecting the baby bump craze to larger issues governing women's bodies and what we expect and demand from them." -- Anne Helen Petersen * Features Writer at BuzzFeed and author of Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema *"Pregnant with the Stars is as entertaining as it is illuminating. Cramer has a rare gift for drawing our attention to everyday forms of power that occur at the intersection of popular culture, politics and the law and converge in our gaze on women's bodies." -- Claire Rasmussen * University of Delaware *"Americans have voraciously consumed images of gorgeous, famous pregnant bodies—from Demi to Kiera—while ordinary women have officially lost rights, dignity, and safety as fertile persons. Renée Cramer cracks open interpretations of this development, inviting us to consider the consequences of celebrating those beyond our reach, while millions of real women are threatened with ignobility and ignominy." -- Rickie Solinger * author of Reproductive Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know *"Cramer's examination of celebrity pregnancy reminds us that robust analysis can also be wildly fun. Pregnant with the Stars reveals how the pop culture portrayal of pregnant women's bodies undermines equality and deeply-held social values. Readers of all kinds will enjoy the book and want to talk about it—online, at work, in the classroom, and beyond." -- Chrysanthi Leon * University of Delaware *"Cramer sees our obsession with pregnant celebrities as a distraction from birth-control politics....She urges women not to let what is an individual experience be influenced by celebrity-pregnancy hype." -- Crystal Erickson * Bitch Magazine *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: Obsession with the Celebrity Bump chapter abstractThis chapter explains why it is important to understand contemporary interest in the celebrity baby bump, and situates that interest within the law and society literature. The chapter argues that by compelling us to "watch" and to "want," media coverage of the pregnant celebrity body becomes an interpretive lens through which to view the twin pillars of the state in late neoliberalism: an expansion of technologies of governance through proxies that enable state- and self-regulation, and totalizing commodification via global capitalism. The chapter explains the feminist, sociolegal, and interpretive approach taken in the research and provides a narrative of the author's interaction with the topic. 1Law, Popular Culture, and Pregnancy in America chapter abstractUsing the famous Demi Moore cover for Vanity Fair as a frame of reference, this chapter traces the changing ways that law and popular culture have treated pregnancy, from the 1970s to the contemporary period. It examines jurisprudence relating to pregnancy and pregnancy discrimination, as well as abortion and birth control, to argue that women have achieved a measure of equality under the law – while being constructed as more responsible for the outcomes of their pregnancy than ever before. The chapter simultaneously examines televised and filmic representations of pregnancy in the popular culture – from I Love Lucy to Murphy Brown to Friends to demonstrate an increasing comfort with pregnant women in the public eye. 2Celebrity Bumps, Boobs, and Booties chapter abstractThis chapter examines media coverage of celebrity pregnancies to analyze the normative and idealized views of femininity in evidence in them. It argues that the media offers a limited range of possibilities for pregnant women: they can be "good girls," "bad girls (and those redeemed by motherhood," "hot, sexy mamas," and "yummy mummies." In all of these possibilities it is clear that dominant norms of race, class, and femininity are driving the media representations of these stars. 3Wanting the Bump chapter abstractThis chapter examines the commodification of pregnancy, and all things pregnancy related, through media coverage of celebrity pregnancies. It argues that when women are told to want the pregnant celebrity body, they are confronted by the objectification of that body and multiple modes of commodification: of pregnancy, of the child itself – or at least its image, and of the "rockin' beach-worthy post-baby body." And, even as women are confounded by our inability to attain what they are told is perfection, they are provided strategies and products that promise rescue, for a cost. 4Surveilling the Stars chapter abstractThis chapter argues that when women watch the pregnant celebrity, they are encouraged, to surveil, to gossip, and to judge. Ultimately, they are enlisted in the regulation of the bodies of all pregnant women, even as women are called on to accept and internalize their own regulation. The medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth necessitates high levels of surveillance during gestation and birth, and facilitates an intimate, but mediated, relationship between the woman and the fetus. The chapter argues that as women judge and regulate the bodies of pregnant celebrities, they are simultaneously accepting and internalizing the very same regulations of themselves. 5Governing the Body through the Bump chapter abstractThis chapter investigates the various moments and places where governance occurs of pregnant women. It shows that the state, through legislation and jurisprudence, plays an active role in constraining women's choices about and during pregnancy, and looks at very recent bills and laws that limit women's power. It also argues that the state engages proxies: corporations, media, and average people on the street – to govern pregnant women in the most mundane and daily ways imaginable. 6Rebel Renderings and a Micro-politics of Inscrutability chapter abstractThis chapter examines spaces of hope – coverage of celebrity pregnancies that deviate from the norm. It argues that coverage of the pregnancies and pregnant performances of M.I.A., Pink, and Christina Aguilera highlight "bold bumps" that envision motherhood in rebellious ways. The chapter also includes a discussion of surrogacy, lesbian-headed households, and single mothers, and argues that they disrupt patriarchal assumptions of mothering and pregnancy. The chapter closes with a look at the pregnancy of Mila Kunis, about whom the press was unable to write a coherent narrative, and whose performances of pregnancy remained inscrutable. Drawing on work by James Scott and Boaventura de souse Santos, the chapter argues that emancipation and liberation are achieved through small, inscrutable daily practices of living under the radar of the watching state and its proxies.
£21.59
Scarecrow Press American Theatrical Regulation 16071900
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the scope and nature of statutory and common-law American theatrical regulation. An introduction provides context as well as definitions of legal terms that appear throughout.Trade Review...accomplishes what it sets out to do. All levels. * CHOICE *
£131.40
Scarecrow Press Constraining Public Libraries
Book SynopsisIn Constraining Public Libraries: The World Trade Organization''s General Agreement on Trade in Services, the authors present a compelling argument for why the library community should be concerned about the effect of international trade agreements on the ability to deliver library and information services to the public. The book begins with a rigorous yet succinct description of the relevant provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), proceeds to discuss how it is likely to impact particular public library services, and then discusses how the library community could best respond to these challenges. While there cannot be certainty when considering how GATS will ultimately impinge upon public libraries, this book pinpoints potential problem areas. It is a valuable tool in informing the dialogue within public libraries on the World Trade Organization, and providing the foundation for effective advocacy at the domestic and international levels to ensure that public Trade Review...detailed, carefully argued...Solid, extensively documented...timely and useful...it provides an increasingly rare and thoughtful discussion of certain aspects of library management... * Library Journal, 4/15/2007 *The value of this book lies in its thoroughness and enumeration of problem areas.... Of interest to those working in government funded or the public sectors. * Par Public Administration Review, February 2009 *In this study, Trosow and Nilsen consider the potential effects of various provisions of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) on the delivery of public library services. Following a review of the WTO framework, the authors (both U. of Western Ontario) outline the general requirements of the GATS agreement and identify areas where public libraries may be susceptible to legal challenges from private service providers. They also suggest specific steps for building more effective advocacy programs for public libraries. The pertinent sections of the GATS agreement are found in the appendix. * Reference and Research Book News, May 2007 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Foreword Part 2 Preface Chapter 3 1. Introduction: What Has GATS Got to Do with Libraries? Chapter 4 2. The Scope of GATS Coverage Chapter 5 3. The GATS Disciplines: Classification and Commitment of Services Chapter 6 4. Do Public Libraries Operate on a Commercial Basis and Compete with Other Service Suppliers? Chapter 7 5. The Perils of Privatization: Commericialization and Privatization of Public Libraries and Library Services Chapter 8 6. Avoiding the Negative Impacts of Trade in Services Chapter 9 7. Advocacy for Public Libraries Chapter 10 8. International Trade Policy as Information Policy Part 11 Appendix A: Pertinent Sections of the GATS Agreement Part 12 Appendix B: Pertinent Sections of the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding (DSU) Part 13 Appendix C: The IFLA Position on the World Trade Organization (2001) Part 14 Appendix D: Canadian Library Association Letter to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Part 15 GATS Glossary Part 16 Bibliography Part 17 Index Part 18 About the Authors
£84.60
New York University Press Cached Decoding the Internet in Global Popular
Book SynopsisIn the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. The author illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology.Trade ReviewThe strengths of Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culturelie in its rich, detailed, engaging, and engrossing stories of the Internet. Schulte convincingly shows technology as a product of historical legacies, as well as cultural and politics. -- Bessie Chu * International Journal of Communication *This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte's elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years. -- Siva Vaidhyanathan,Chair of the Department of Media Studies at The University of VirginiaSchulte (Univ. of Arkansas) captures the reader's attention in the first chapter by showing how the science fiction film WarGames(1983) gave the Internet both a game for teenagers and a 'potential weapon for global destruction....' A useful, scholarly resource for readers interested in the cultural development of the Internet. * Choice *Cachedclosely captures popular struggles over the narration of computing technology, and the ensuing responses by society in both trying to dismantle as well as reinforce the boundaries of access to computer networking technologies. Schulte convincingly narrates these struggles by engaging with the changing debates on the functionalism of computing technologies. * Telecommunications Policy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1 The "WarGames Scenario": Regulating Teenagers and Teenaged Technology 2 The Internet Grows Up and Goes to Work: User-Friendly Tools for Productive Adults 3 From Computers to Cyberspace: Virtual Reality, the Virtual Nation, and the CorpoNation 4 Self-Colonizing eEurope: The Information Society Merges onto the Information Superhighway5 Tweeting into the Future: Affecting Citizens and Networking Revolution Conclusion Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
£22.79
New York University Press The Makeover Reality Television and Reflexive
Book SynopsisIntervenes in debates about both reality television and audience research, offering the concept of the reflexive self to move these debates forwardTrade ReviewLike all ground-breaking studies of culture, The Makeover, appropriately, tells us not just about its object, narrowly construed, but about ourselves, the society we have created, and the contradictions that permeate both. Sender combines detailed empirical research with thoughtful and nuanced interpretation to provide us with a timely meditation on the limitsand potentialsof reflexivity. The result is a smart and original contribution to the way we think about popular culture and its relation to broader questions of self-hood, identity, and power. -- Mark Andrejevic,University of QueenslandWith its central focus on audience practices, Senders lucidly-written book is unique among the growing body of scholarship on reality TV. While offering a smart and provocative analysis of the complex appeal of specific & makeover shows, she also makes a major contribution to active audience theory. In particular, she problematizes the issue of reflexivity, in the context both of viewers relationships with the shows and in their roles as research participants. In doing so she challenges all audience scholars to examine more carefully the very nature of the research encounter. -- S. Elizabeth Bird,author of The Audience in Everyday LifeA success on multiple levels. Sender's analysis... provides strong insight into the social significance of reality television. * Contemporary Sociology *Table of ContentsSelf-Projects: Makeover Shows and the Reflexive Imperative2 Gender and Genre: Making Over Women's Culture 3 Not Like Paris Hilton: Instruction and Consumption in Makeover Shows4 Shame on You: Schadenfreude and Surveillance5 Feeling Real: Empirical Truth and Emotional Authenticity6 Mirror, Mirror: The Reflexive Self7 Research Reflexivity: Audiences and Investigators in Context8 Once More with Feeling: Reconsidering Reflexivity
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New York University Press Spreadable Media
Book SynopsisHow sharing, linking, and liking have transformed the media and marketing industries Spreadable Media is a rare inside look at today's ever-changing media landscape. The days of corporate control over media content and its distribution have been replaced by the age of what the digital media industries have called user-generated content. Spreadable Media maps these fundamental changes, and gives readers a comprehensive look into the rise of participatory culture, from internet memes to presidential tweets. The authors challenge our notions of what goes viral and how by examining factors such as the nature of audience engagement and the environment of participation, and by contrasting the concepts of stickinessaggregating attention in centralized placeswith spreadabilitydispersing content widely through both formal and informal networks. The former has often been the measure of media success in the online world, but the latter describes the actual ways Trade ReviewContent today, the authors suggest, can travel not only from the top down but also from the inside out. It is a remarkably different terrain than what we have been used to, one they effectively and stridently analyze. * Publishers Weekly *In Spreadable Media, media theorist Henry Jenkins, formerly of MIT and now at USC, and his coauthors, digital strategists Sam Ford and Joshua Green, make a convincing case that fan involvement in the re-creation and circulation of media content is not just an interesting side effect of man-to-many multimedia networks and smartphone video editing apps, but a significant force for empowerment and exploitation in and of itself...If you are in the music, move, television, or game business, this book is a must read. * Strategy and Business *It's about time a group of thinkers put the marketing evangelists of the day out to pasture with a thorough look at what makes content move from consumer to consumer, marketer to consumer and consumer to marketer. Instead of latching on to the notion that you can create viral content, Jenkins, Ford, and Green question the assumptions, test theories and call us all to task. Spreadable Media pushes our thinking. As a result, we'll become smarter marketers. Why wouldn't you read this book? -- Jason Falls,CEO of Social Media Explorer and co-author of No Bullshit Social MediaThe best analysis to date of the radically new nature of digital social media as a communication channel. Its insights, based on a deep knowledge of the technology and culture embedded in the digital networks of communication, will reshape our understanding of cultural change for years to come. -- Manuel Castells,Wallis Annenberg Chair of Communication Technology and Society, University of Southern CaliforniaBy critically interrogating the ways in which media artifacts circulate, Spreadable Media challenges the popular notion that digital content magically goes & viral. This book brilliantly describes the dynamics that underpin people's engagement with social media in ways that are both theoretically rich and publicly meaningful. -- danah boyd, Microsoft ResearchFinally, a way of framing modern media creation and consumption that actually reflects reality and allows us to talk about it in a way that makes sense. It's a spreadable world and we are ALL part of it. Useful for anyone who makes media, analyzes it, consumes it, markets it or breathes. -- Jane Espenson,writer-producer of Battlestar Galactica, Once Upon a Time, and HusbandsSomething new is emerging from the collision of traditional entertainment media, Internet-empowered fan cultures, and the norms of sharing that are encouraged and amplified by social media. Spreadable Media is a compelling guide, both entertaining and rigorous, to the new norms, cultures, enterprises, and social phenomena that networked culture is making possible. Read it to understand what your kids are doing, where Hollywood is going, and how online social networks spread cultural productions as a new form of sociality. -- Howard Rheingold,author of Net SmartSolid analysis and detailed examples to make it sticky enough for the intended readerships of media scholars, media professionals, and fans. * International Journal of Communication *Spreadable Media is an essential read for anyone who wants to understand how media works today. * Deep Media *A wide-ranging examination of the contemporary media environment as individuals increasingly control their own creation of content. * Kirkus *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments How to Read This Book Introduction: Why Media Spreads 1 Where Web 2.0 Went Wrong 2 Reappraising the Residual 3 The Value of Media Engagement 4 What Constitutes Meaningful Participation? 5 Designing for Spreadability 6 Courting Supporters for Independent Media 7 Thinking Transnationally Conclusion Notes References Index About the Authors
£66.60
New York University Press Sexual Futures Queer Gestures and Other Latina
Book SynopsisWinner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language AssociationFinalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationSexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana María Rodríguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm.Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the book's varied archivewhich includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claimsseeks to bring to the Trade ReviewThe books intriguing methodological protocols, its vibrant archives, and its foregrounding of a Latina femme perspective make it a commanding contribution to performance studies, porn studies, women of color feminisms, Latinastudies, and queer of color critique. That is productively engages such a wide range of disciplines speaks to the success of its own amorous gesturing. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Fun, sensual, and theoretically sophisticated, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings questions facile binary oppositions by exploring the intricate and perverse world of fantasy and pleasure, particularly in contexts in which marginality, submission, and racialization seem to foreclose key moments of identification for queer subjects of color. -- Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,author of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Caribbean Context With a distinctly lush style of inquiry, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings mobilizes the stereotype of the hyperbolically gestural Latina femme with and for both pleasure and politics. Juana María Rodríguez is a fierce critic in all the best senses of that word. -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer HistoriesThrough sensuous and seductive prose, Juana María Rodríguez demonstrates how queer gesture highlights the tension between socially inscribed corporeal regulation and agential enactments of subjectivity. Pivoting away from this binary through a reading of Latin@ excess, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings demands that we radically reclaim abject sex as a site of queer futurity. -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History Table of Contents" v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Who's Your Daddy? Queer Kinship and Perverse Domesticity 29 2. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Other Utopian Longings 69 3. Gesture in Mambo Time 99 4. Latina Sexual Fantasies, the Remix 139 The Afterglow 183
£58.50
New York University Press The PostRacial Mystique Media and Race in the
Book SynopsisUsing examples from both mainstream and niche media - from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media, this book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America.Trade ReviewThrough a series of well chosen and meticulously analyzed case studies, Squires illuminates how postracialism came to be part of the national imaginary and makes a convincing argument for why it ultimately cannot camouflage the ways in which race still matters in the U.S. social life. * Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to Post-Racial America 1. Post-Racial News: Covering the "Joshua Generation" 2. Brothers from Another Mother: Rescripting Religious Ties to Overcome the Racial Past 3. The Post-Racial Family: Parenthood and the Politics of Interracial Relationships on TV 4. Post-Racial Audiences: Discussions of Parenthood's Interracial Couple 5. Not "Post-Racial," Race-Aware: Blogging Race in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Back to the Post-Racial Future Notes Index About the Author
£58.50
New York University Press Commodity Activism Cultural Resistance in
Book SynopsisDiscusses what happens when the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying somethingTrade ReviewWithout doubt this important collection of essays will contribute significantly to the new and growing field of 'critical consumer studies'. -- J.R. Mitrano * CHOICE *Commodity activism has a long history but never has its significance been more complex to unravel than today, when the boundaries and direction of political action are unclear, commercial forces mobilize consumers values to secure their emotional loyalty, and individual consumers hope their choices mean that & something is being done. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser's smart, empirically rich and globally wide-ranging new collection provides us with very welcome coordinates in this difficult terrain. -- Nick Couldry,author of Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After NeoliberalismCommodity Activism is eminently useful. Mukherjee and Banet-Weisers collection is animportant intervention into what had become a tired debate about political agency and consumer culture. It is also a very timely anthology, helping us better understand the practices of a current generation ofactivists who recognize that the terrain upon which they struggle is not some idealized land of pure politics outside the influence of consumer culture, but instead, a challenging topography of brands and logos, style and story, celebrity and spectacle. * International Journal of Communication *Commodity Activism will be out of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those focused on critical/consumer studies, American studies, media studies, and critical rhetorical studies. Any academic interested in exploring consumer politics, or contemporary trends in social activism, or in constituting social controversy, will find this text replete with starting points for future scholarship. * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Marita Sturken Introduction: Commodity Activism in Neoliberal Times Sarah Banet-Weiser and Roopali MukherjeePart One: Brand, Culture, Action 1 Brand Me "Activist" Alison Hearn 2 "Free Self-Esteem Tools?" Sarah Banet-Weiser 3 Citizen Brand Laurie Ouellette 4 Good Housekeeping Jo LittlerPart Two: Celebrity, Commodity, Citizenship 5 Make It Right? Brad Pitt, Post-Katrina Rebuilding, and the Spectacularization of Disaster Kevin Fox Gotham 6 Diamonds (Are from Sierra Leone): Roopali Mukherjee 7 Salma Hayek's Celebrity Activism Isabel Molina-Guzman 8 Mother Angelina Alison Trope 9 "Fair Vanity" Melissa M. BroughPart Three: Community, Movements, Politics 10 Civic Fitness Samantha King 11 Eating for Change Josee Johnston and Kate Cairns 12 Changing the World One Orgasm at a Time Lynn Comella 13 Pay-for Culture John McMurria 14 Feeling Good While Buying Goods Mari Castaneda About the Contributors Index
£59.50
New York University Press Commodity Activism Cultural Resistance in
Book SynopsisDiscusses what happens when the most common way we participate in social activism is by buying somethingTrade ReviewWithout doubt this important collection of essays will contribute significantly to the new and growing field of 'critical consumer studies'. -- J.R. Mitrano * CHOICE *Commodity activism has a long history but never has its significance been more complex to unravel than today, when the boundaries and direction of political action are unclear, commercial forces mobilize consumers values to secure their emotional loyalty, and individual consumers hope their choices mean that & something is being done. Roopali Mukherjee and Sarah Banet-Weiser's smart, empirically rich and globally wide-ranging new collection provides us with very welcome coordinates in this difficult terrain. -- Nick Couldry,author of Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After NeoliberalismCommodity Activism is eminently useful. Mukherjee and Banet-Weisers collection is animportant intervention into what had become a tired debate about political agency and consumer culture. It is also a very timely anthology, helping us better understand the practices of a current generation ofactivists who recognize that the terrain upon which they struggle is not some idealized land of pure politics outside the influence of consumer culture, but instead, a challenging topography of brands and logos, style and story, celebrity and spectacle. * International Journal of Communication *Commodity Activism will be out of interest to a wide range of scholars, including those focused on critical/consumer studies, American studies, media studies, and critical rhetorical studies. Any academic interested in exploring consumer politics, or contemporary trends in social activism, or in constituting social controversy, will find this text replete with starting points for future scholarship. * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Marita Sturken Introduction: Commodity Activism in Neoliberal Times Sarah Banet-Weiser and Roopali MukherjeePart One: Brand, Culture, Action 1 Brand Me "Activist" Alison Hearn 2 "Free Self-Esteem Tools?" Sarah Banet-Weiser 3 Citizen Brand Laurie Ouellette 4 Good Housekeeping Jo LittlerPart Two: Celebrity, Commodity, Citizenship 5 Make It Right? Brad Pitt, Post-Katrina Rebuilding, and the Spectacularization of Disaster Kevin Fox Gotham 6 Diamonds (Are from Sierra Leone): Roopali Mukherjee 7 Salma Hayek's Celebrity Activism Isabel Molina-Guzman 8 Mother Angelina Alison Trope 9 "Fair Vanity" Melissa M. BroughPart Three: Community, Movements, Politics 10 Civic Fitness Samantha King 11 Eating for Change Josee Johnston and Kate Cairns 12 Changing the World One Orgasm at a Time Lynn Comella 13 Pay-for Culture John McMurria 14 Feeling Good While Buying Goods Mari Castaneda About the Contributors Index
£23.74
New York University Press The Social Media Reader
Book SynopsisCelebrates the fluid media landscape and its possibilitiesTrade Review"The Social Media Reader [is] groundbreaking in both form and content: evidence of the transformative power and potential of social media." * Studies in American Culture *"The book already casts a broad net and brings in many treasures exploring issues around social media in so many fields. It makes for an excellent, vital read and makes a necessary to push into more thoughtful explorations on the topic." * Hyperallergic.com *"Collective intelligence, shareable goods, collaborative learning, demand media: all are explained by this wonderful book, and all are embodied by it. Many of the biggest names in digital and new media studies are here in a tome ready for the classroom that collects both canonical and original work. An outstanding addition to any media scholar or enthusiasts personal library." -- Jonathan Gray,author of Show Sold SeparatelyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The People Formerly Known as the Audience 2 Sharing Nicely 3 Open Source as Culture/Culture as Open Source 4 What Is Web 2.0? Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software 5 What Is Collaboration Anyway? 6 Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle 7 From Indymedia to Demand Media 8 Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls: The Politics of Transgression and Spectacle 9 The Language of Internet Memes 10 The Long Tail 11 REMIX 12 Your Intermediary Is Your Destiny 13 On the Fungibility and Necessity of Cultural Freedom 14 Giving Things Away Is Hard Work 15 Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry 16 Gin, Television, and Social Surplus 17 Between Democracy and Spectacle 18 DIY Academy? Cognitive Capitalism, Humanist Scholarship, and the Digital Transformation About the Contributors Index
£59.50
New York University Press The Social Media Reader
Book SynopsisCelebrates the fluid media landscape and its possibilitiesTrade Review"The Social Media Reader [is] groundbreaking in both form and content: evidence of the transformative power and potential of social media." * Studies in American Culture *"The book already casts a broad net and brings in many treasures exploring issues around social media in so many fields. It makes for an excellent, vital read and makes a necessary to push into more thoughtful explorations on the topic." * Hyperallergic.com *"Collective intelligence, shareable goods, collaborative learning, demand media: all are explained by this wonderful book, and all are embodied by it. Many of the biggest names in digital and new media studies are here in a tome ready for the classroom that collects both canonical and original work. An outstanding addition to any media scholar or enthusiasts personal library." -- Jonathan Gray,author of Show Sold SeparatelyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 The People Formerly Known as the Audience 2 Sharing Nicely 3 Open Source as Culture/Culture as Open Source 4 What Is Web 2.0? Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software 5 What Is Collaboration Anyway? 6 Participating in the Always-On Lifestyle 7 From Indymedia to Demand Media 8 Phreaks, Hackers, and Trolls: The Politics of Transgression and Spectacle 9 The Language of Internet Memes 10 The Long Tail 11 REMIX 12 Your Intermediary Is Your Destiny 13 On the Fungibility and Necessity of Cultural Freedom 14 Giving Things Away Is Hard Work 15 Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars? Grassroots Creativity Meets the Media Industry 16 Gin, Television, and Social Surplus 17 Between Democracy and Spectacle 18 DIY Academy? Cognitive Capitalism, Humanist Scholarship, and the Digital Transformation About the Contributors Index
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New York University Press Sexual Futures Queer Gestures and Other Latina
Book SynopsisWinner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language AssociationFinalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationSexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings proposes a theory of sexual politics that works in the interstices between radical queer desires and the urgency of transforming public policy, between utopian longings and everyday failures. Considering the ways in which bodily movement is assigned cultural meaning, Juana María Rodríguez takes the stereotypes of the hyperbolically gestural queer Latina femme body as a starting point from which to discuss how gestures and forms of embodiment inform sexual pleasures and practices in the social realm.Centered on the sexuality of racialized queer female subjects, the book's varied archivewhich includes burlesque border crossings, daddy play, pornography, sodomy laws, and sovereignty claimsseeks to bring to the Trade ReviewThe books intriguing methodological protocols, its vibrant archives, and its foregrounding of a Latina femme perspective make it a commanding contribution to performance studies, porn studies, women of color feminisms, Latinastudies, and queer of color critique. That is productively engages such a wide range of disciplines speaks to the success of its own amorous gesturing. * GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies *Fun, sensual, and theoretically sophisticated, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings questions facile binary oppositions by exploring the intricate and perverse world of fantasy and pleasure, particularly in contexts in which marginality, submission, and racialization seem to foreclose key moments of identification for queer subjects of color. -- Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,author of Coloniality of Diasporas: Rethinking Intra-Colonial Migrations in a Caribbean Context With a distinctly lush style of inquiry, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings mobilizes the stereotype of the hyperbolically gestural Latina femme with and for both pleasure and politics. Juana María Rodríguez is a fierce critic in all the best senses of that word. -- Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer HistoriesThrough sensuous and seductive prose, Juana María Rodríguez demonstrates how queer gesture highlights the tension between socially inscribed corporeal regulation and agential enactments of subjectivity. Pivoting away from this binary through a reading of Latin@ excess, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings demands that we radically reclaim abject sex as a site of queer futurity. -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History Table of Contents" v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Who's Your Daddy? Queer Kinship and Perverse Domesticity 29 2. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Other Utopian Longings 69 3. Gesture in Mambo Time 99 4. Latina Sexual Fantasies, the Remix 139 The Afterglow 183
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New York University Press Sounds of Belonging U.S. Spanishlanguage Radio
Book SynopsisInvestigating the cultural and political history of U S Spanish-language broadcasts throughout the twentieth century, this book reveals how these changes have helped Spanish-language radio secure its dominance in the major US radio markets.Trade ReviewSounds of Belonging provides insightful, original research on important developments in Spanish-language radio and makes a unique contribution to the field. Casillasenriches our understanding of U.S. radio history and Latino culture. -- Joy Hayes,author of Radio Nation: Communication, Popular Culture, and Nationalism in MexicoMethodically argued and supported with rare archival detail, Sounds of Belonging provides a sorely needed account of U.S. Mexican community radio and Chicano-based Spanish-language radio. Beautifully written and thoroughly researched, Sounds of Belonging makes a significant intervention into Latina/o media studies and media history more generally. -- Isabel Molina-Guzman,author of Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the MediaDolores Ines Casillass important study sheds new light on Spanish-language radio, noting how it allows marginalized Latinos to claim a place within a hostile environment. * The Journal of American History *Casillas offers an incisive analysis of the origins and evolution of Spanish-language radio in the US and its key role in shaping the public discourse about citizenship and immigration issues in the 20thcentury.With precision and engaging storytelling, Casillas describes how radio became a critical medium that gave Latino/as and Chicano/as access to a public forum about matters that affected them directly in a country where many were socially and culturally disenfranchised.This book is a much-needed contribution to conversations about the complex dynamics at the intersections of mass media, language, race, and social justice issues. * Choice *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments ix A Note on Language xiii Introduction: Public Advocacy on U.S. Spanish-Language 1 Radio 1. Acoustic Allies: Early Latin-Themed and Spanish-Language 21 Radio Broadcasts, 1920s-1940s 2. Mixed Signals: Developing Bilingual Chicano Radio, 51 1960s-1980s 3. Sounds of Surveillance: U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Patrols 83 La Migra 4. Pun Intended: Listening to Gendered Politics on Morning 101 Radio Shows 5. Desperately Seeking Dinero: Calculating Language and Race 127 within Radio Ratings Afterword 147 Notes 153 Bibliography 183 Index 207 About the Author 221
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New York University Press The PostRacial Mystique Media and Race in the
Book SynopsisUsing examples from both mainstream and niche media - from prime-time television series to specialty Christian media and audience interactions on social media, this book draws upon a variety of disciplines including communication studies, sociology, and cultural studies in order to understand emergent strategies for framing post-racial America.Trade ReviewThrough a series of well chosen and meticulously analyzed case studies, Squires illuminates how postracialism came to be part of the national imaginary and makes a convincing argument for why it ultimately cannot camouflage the ways in which race still matters in the U.S. social life. * Journal of Communication *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Welcome to Post-Racial America 1. Post-Racial News: Covering the "Joshua Generation" 2. Brothers from Another Mother: Rescripting Religious Ties to Overcome the Racial Past 3. The Post-Racial Family: Parenthood and the Politics of Interracial Relationships on TV 4. Post-Racial Audiences: Discussions of Parenthood's Interracial Couple 5. Not "Post-Racial," Race-Aware: Blogging Race in the Twenty-First Century Conclusion: Back to the Post-Racial Future Notes Index About the Author
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