Industry and industrial studies Books

Book SynopsisStandard economic models assume that many small investors own firms. This is so in most large US firms, but individuals or families generally hold controlling blocks in smaller US firms and in most other countries. This work examines the economic and legal issues of concentrated ownership.

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Book SynopsisAlthough it has long been accepted that economics can provide tools with which to understand science, economics has shifted its focus to the economic agent as information processor. This collection of essays presents an overview of this area.

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Book SynopsisAdvances in artificial intelligence (AI) highlight the potential of this technology to affect productivity, growth, inequality, market power, innovation, and employment. This volume seeks to set the agenda for economic research on the impact of AI. It covers four broad themes: AI as a general purpose technology; the relationships between AI, growth, jobs, and inequality; regulatory responses to changes brought on by AI; and the effects of AI on the way economic research is conducted. It explores the economic influence of machine learning, the branch of computational statistics that has driven much of the recent excitement around AI, as well as the economic impact of robotics and automation and the potential economic consequences of a still-hypothetical artificial general intelligence. The volume provides frameworks for understanding the economic impact of AI and identifies a number of open research questions. Contributors: Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Philippe Aghion, Collège de France Ajay Agrawal, University of Toronto Susan Athey, Stanford University James Bessen, Boston University School of Law Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School of Management Colin F. Camerer, California Institute of Technology Judith Chevalier, Yale School of Management Iain M. Cockburn, Boston University Tyler Cowen, George Mason University Jason Furman, Harvard Kennedy School Patrick Francois, University of British Columbia Alberto Galasso, University of Toronto Joshua Gans, University of Toronto Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto Austan Goolsbee, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School Ginger Zhe Jin, University of Maryland Benjamin F. Jones, Northwestern University Charles I. Jones, Stanford University Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University Anton Korinek, Johns Hopkins University Mara Lederman, University of Toronto Hong Luo, Harvard Business School John McHale, National University of Ireland Paul R. Milgrom, Stanford University Matthew Mitchell, University of Toronto Alexander Oettl, Georgia Institute of Technology Andrea Prat, Columbia Business School Manav Raj, New York University Pascual Restrepo, Boston University Daniel Rock, MIT Sloan School of Management Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University Robert Seamans, New York University Scott Stern, MIT Sloan School of Management Betsey Stevenson, University of Michigan Joseph E. Stiglitz. Columbia University Chad Syverson, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Matt Taddy, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Steven Tadelis, University of California, Berkeley Manuel Trajtenberg, Tel Aviv University Daniel Trefler, University of Toronto Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management Hal Varian, University of California, Berkeley

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Book SynopsisHow do artists, collectors, dealers and curators whose lives and livelihoods are so intimately affected by the valuation of art manage to cope with such an intangible market? To answer this question, this book focuses on the localized and typical world of the St Louis art scene.

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Book SynopsisDuring most of the nineteenth century, physicians and pharmacists alike considered medical patenting and the use of trademarks by drug manufacturers unethical forms of monopoly; physicians who prescribed patented drugs could be, and were, ostracized from the medical community. In the decades following the Civil War, however, complex changes in patent and trademark law intersected with the changing sensibilities of both physicians and pharmacists to make intellectual property rights in drug manufacturing scientifically and ethically legitimate. By World War I, patented and trademarked drugs had become essential to the practice of good medicine, aiding in the rise of the American pharmaceutical industry and forever altering the course of medicine. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused archival material, Medical Monopoly combines legal, medical, and business history to offer a sweeping new interpretation of the origins of the complex and often troubling relationship between the phaTrade Review"Immensely informative." * New York Review of Books *"Gabriel’s brilliant account of patent and trademark law and use is the first comprehensive attempt to integrate the history of pharmaceuticals . . . in the wider setting of economic history and intellectual property law history and represents a milestone in that respect." * Isis *"In his thought-provoking and well-researched book, Gabriel explores the evolution of patenting, and to a lesser extent, trademark registration, in the American pharmaceutical industry. It is a fascinating and timely contribution." * EH.net *"To legal historians interested in the regulatory state and corporate capitalism, Gabriel's well researched book offers new insight into monopoly as an analytic category and antimonopoly sentiment as a driver for law and policy. Gabriel also provides a unique perspective on the development of modem intellectual property, a story not previously told from the viewpoint of pharmacists and travelling drug salesmen." * Law & History Review *"This fascinating book serves as a pointed reminder that the sources of therapeutic rationale are just as much tied to the production and regulation of therapies as the collective decision-making on ethical practice." * New Books in Medicine *"Medical Monopoly: Intellectual Property Rights and the Origins of the Modern Pharmaceutical Industry, by historian of medicine and the biomedical sciences Joseph M.Gabriel, is a significant and beautifully written book. By linking the study of patenting and other monopolistic practices in the pharmaceutical industry, such as trademarks, to the history of therapeutic reform, it makes an original and valuable contribution to the historiography in a variety of fields, from intellectual property to therapeutic reform, medical ethics, and the pharmaceutical industry. Medical Monopoly is therefore of relevance to a broad range of scholars, but also to clinicians, bioethicists, and the wider public concerned by the power of companies and the potential for conflicts of interest within modern medicine." * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *"Gabriel’s study of the early pharmaceutical industry in the U.S. is an outstanding addition to new literature. To illustrate this complex argument, Gabriel does a superb job of weaving together broad trends in patent, trademark, and antitrust law with the evolution of drug manufacturing and medical practice. The book is packed with fascinating case studies of products and their makers. Like a skilled ethnographer, Gabriel is more intent on reconstructing how past actors conceived of their actions than passing judgment on them. Paying careful and fruitful attention to “the relationship between names and things,” he avoids oversimplifying the motives of makers, prescribers, and users of drugs. Gabriel rewrites not only the history of the pharmaceutical industry but that of American medicine as well. Specialists in the history of medicine, science, and technology will appreciate his work for the fresh perspective he provides on familiar subjects. Specialists in health care policy and public health will find useful insights into contemporary debates over bioequivalence and its global implications. Finally, historians of intellectual property rights will find much to interest them in this book." * The American Historical Review *“In this important new book, Gabriel traces the surprisingly dynamic relationship between intellectual property and the economics and politics of the pharmaceutical industry. Medical Monopoly narrates the formation and reorganization of the ‘ethical pharmaceutical industry’ in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries around questions of patents, trademarks, and a series of mutually defining alliances made between the medical profession and the modern pharmaceutical enterprise. Gabriel’s research in preparation for this volume has been meticulous, and his narrative pacing will help audiences from many different fields engage with the provocative story he has to tell. The resultant work is an elegant demonstration of the power of historical analysis in understanding the present-day connections between patents, trademarks, medical science, and the marketplace, with substantial implications for contemporary policy and practice.” -- Jeremy A. Greene, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine“In this lively account, Gabriel takes us back to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to explore the early histories of the manufacturing, marketing, patenting, and regulation of drugs and their roles in transforming the practice of American medicine. Marrying a keen eye for detail with attention to the larger picture, Gabriel explores the tensions between beneficence and business in the emergent pharmaceutical industry. This meticulously researched book establishes Gabriel as one of the nation’s experts on the pharmaco-medical enterprise in America from the early Republic to the Progressive Era.” -- Elizabeth Watkins, University of California, San Francisco“Medical Monopoly is a fascinating book about the history of intellectual property (IP) rights in pharmaceuticals. Gabriel traces the role that patents and trademarks played in the development of the pharmaceutical industry, explores the question of whether IP rights promoted research and development, and identifies the changing attitudes of physicians and scientists to the propriety of patenting drugs. The book reaches a number of conclusions that are surprising to the contemporary student of both IP and pharmaceuticals, and Gabriel does a nice job of marshaling the massive amount of evidence he uncovered into a chronological narrative. This important work will be of interest to historians of patents and trademarks; to historians of medicine, science, and technology; and to scholars of contemporary IP and science policy.” -- Catherine Fisk, University of California, IrvineTable of ContentsA Note about Terms Introduction 1 Medical Science and Property Rights in the Early Republic 2 Monopoly and Ethics in the Antebellum Years 3 In the Shadow of War 4 Therapeutic Reform and the Reinterpretation of Monopoly 5 The Ambiguities of Abundance 6 The Embrace of Intellectual Property Conclusion: The Promise of ReformAcknowledgments Archival Collections ConsultedNotes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Tilly and Kopsidis have not only read a prodigious range of secondary sources on the diverse regional economies that evolved into modern Germany, but configured that literature into a narrative that connects its industrialization to geopolitics, state formation, public policy, and institutional development that goes back through heuristically demarcated stages of time into the eighteenth century. This book should be listed first on every bibliography in economic history.” -- Patrick Karl O'Brien, London School of Economics“During the nineteenth century the German economy developed into one of the most advanced in the world. Tilly and Kopsidis masterfully explain this rise to economic and technological leadership, starting with agricultural and institutional transformation in the eighteenth century and following the story through to the development, by the end of the nineteenth century, of distinctive financial institutions that supported an advanced industrial economy. Their account is lucid, creative, and well-grounded in both the research literatures and the broader sources. This volume provides an excellent entrée into the specialist literatures (in both German and English) and will serve as the standard English-language reference.”— -- Timothy W. Guinnane, Yale University"This book describes the fascinating transformation of a backward inland area into a leading industrial economy. In their authoritative synthesis, Tilly and Kopsidis shed new light on subjects that form the staple of the economic history of industrialization—including unbalanced growth, railway construction and financing, and the modernization of agriculture—drawing on recent research to which both authors have made significant contributions." -- Ulrich Pfister, University of Münster"This book is an invaluable source of inspiration for everyone seeking to update themselves on Germany’s industrialization and the current state of research." * Journal of Economic Literature *"Tilly and Kopsidis are opening a new narrative for questioning how institution and political regimes adopt technological change. For our current times, reading their work is an opportunity for expanding the new dynamics of capitalism development, especially in how new models of commercialization and production, as platform capitalism, are disrupting our current institutional regimes." * H-Environment *"Tilly and Kopsidis are opening a new narrative for questioning how institution and political regimes adopt technological change. For our current times, reading their work is an opportunity for expanding the new dynamics of capitalism development, especially in how new models of commercialization and production, as platform capitalism, are disrupting our current institutional regimes. In that way, Tilly and Kopsidis are offering a new question about the sense of institutional change." * H-Net *"With their clearly-structured collation of quantitative economic-historical research, Kopsidis and Tilly succeed in synthesizing the multifaceted nature of German industrialization... The book is a wonderful introduction to the economic history of industrialization and it belongs in every well-stocked library." * H-Soz-Kult (translated from German) *"A concise, yet highly differentiated and insightful narrative of the making of the German industrial economy that connects industrialization to agriculture, state formation, the emergence of a modernizing bureaucracy, public and social policy, scientific knowledge and technology, migration and demography, and the change in financial institutions." * Agricultural History *"For historians of the industrial revolution, contemplating Germany’s rise to an efficient, innovative and productive industrial economy is a must. Tilly and Kopsidis provide a fresh perspective on German economic history by considering many previous explanations and using the most recent scholarship, their own work as well as their deep reading into the subject matter." * EH.Net *"This concise book is an update of Tilly’s 1990 Vom Zollverein zum Industriestaat, first of all taking account of new material that enables the authors to move beyond the then conventional account of German industrialization; but second, extending the coverage back to the institutional roots of German development in the eighteenth century. This is a major shift. . . to a history in which the role of state and public administration, demography, and education gains due emphasis." * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction, with Reflections on the Role of Institutional Change Part One: Old Regime and Eighteenth-Century Origins of German Industrialization One / Population and the Economy Two / German Regions and the Beginnings of Early Industrialization Three / Agricultural Change from the 1760s to the Early Nineteenth Century Four / Institutional Change and the Role of Early Nineteenth-Century Prussian-German Reforms Part Two: Early Industrialization, 1815–1848/49 Five / Early Industrialization, Government Policies, and the German Zollverein Six / The Crises of the 1840s Part Three: The Growth of Industrial Capitalism up to the 1870s Seven / “Industrial Breakthrough” and Its Leading Sectors Eight / Labor and Capital in the Industrial Breakthrough Period Nine / Agriculture in the Period of Take-Off and Beyond Ten / Money and Banking in the Railway Age Part Four: Germany’s Emergence as an Industrial Power, 1871–1914 Eleven / Growth Trends and Cycles Twelve / The Growth of Industrial Enterprise, Large and Small Thirteen / Industrial Finance, Money, and Banking Fourteen / Germany in the World Economy, 1870s to 1914 Fifteen / Urban Growth, 1871–1914: Economic and Social Dimensions Epilogue: German Industrialization from a Twentieth-Century Perspective Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMeasuring innovation is a challenging task, both for researchers and for national statisticians, and it is increasingly important in light of the ongoing digital revolution. National accounts and many other economic statistics were designed before the emergence of the digital economy and the growth in importance of intangible capital. They do not yet fully capture the wide range of innovative activity that is observed in modern economies. This volume examines how to measure innovation, track its effects on economic activity and on prices, and understand how it has changed the structure of production processes, labor markets, and organizational form and operation in business. The contributors explore new approaches to and data sources for measurement, such as collecting data for a particular innovation as opposed to a firm and using trademarks for tracking innovation. They also consider the connections between university-based R&D and business start-ups and the potential impacts of innoTrade Review"For those of us interested in the need to measure better—which means understanding better—the increasingly intangible economy, this is a really interesting book. It covers the waterfront from conceptual frameworks down to nitty gritty measurement questions." * Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist *"Despite their wide range, the essays in this book add up to a fascinating glimpse of an emerging new understanding of the twenty-first century economy, like a distant building taking shape as you approach it on a foggy day. They also underline the importance of research on statistics describing the economy. . . . A valuable contribution to the task of understanding the world innovation is creating." * Business Economics *Table of ContentsPrefatory NoteIntroduction Carol Corrado, Jonathan Haskel, Javier Miranda, and Daniel Sichel I. Expanding Current Measurement Frameworks1. Expanded GDP for Welfare Measurement in the Twenty-First Century Charles Hulten and Leonard I. Nakamura2. Measuring the Impact of Household Innovation Using Administrative Data Javier Miranda and Nikolas Zolas3. Innovation, Productivity Dispersion, and Productivity Growth Lucia Foster, Cheryl Grim, John C. Haltiwanger, and Zoltan Wolf II. New Approaches and Data4. How Innovative Are Innovations? A Multidimensional, Survey-Based Approach Wesley M. Cohen, You-Na Lee, and John P. Walsh5. An Anatomy of US Firms Seeking Trademark Registration Emin M. Dinlersoz, Nathan Goldschlag, Amanda Myers, and Nikolas Zolas6. Research Experience as Human Capital in New Business Outcomes Nathan Goldschlag, Ron Jarmin, Julia Lane, and Nikolas Zolas III. Changing Structure of the Economy7. Measuring the Gig Economy: Current Knowledge and Open Issues Katharine G. Abraham, John C. Haltiwanger, Kristin Sandusky, and James R. Spletzer8. Information and Communications Technology, R&D, and Organizational Innovation: Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production Pierre Mohnen, Michael Polder, and George van Leeuwen9. Digital Innovation and the Distribution of Income Dominique Guellec IV. Improving Current Measurement Frameworks10. Factor Incomes in Global Value Chains: The Role of Intangibles Wen Chen, Bart Los, and Marcel P. Timmer11. Measuring Moore’s Law: Evidence from Price, Cost, and Quality Indexes Kenneth Flamm12. Accounting for Innovations in Consumer Digital Services: IT Still Matters David Byrne and Carol Corrado13. The Rise of Cloud Computing: Minding Your Ps, Qs, and Ks David Byrne, Carol Corrado, and Daniel Sichel14. BEA Deflators for Information and Communications Technology Goods and Services: Historical Analysis and Future Plans Erich H. Strassner and David B. Wasshausen Contributors Author Index Subject Index

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Book SynopsisMost people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this work, the author sets conventional wisdom on its head. He states that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing.

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Book SynopsisHow do business enterprises control their subunits? In what ways do existing paths of communication within a firm affect its ability to absorb new technology and techniques? How do American banks affect how companies operate? Do theoretical constructs correspond to actual behavior? Because business enterprises are complex institutions, these questions can prove difficult to address. All too often, firms are treated as the atoms of economics, the irreducible unit of analysis. This accessible volume, suitable for course use, looks more closely at the American firminto its internal workings and its genesis in the Gilded Age. Focusing on the crucial role of imperfect and asymmetric information in the operation of enterprises, Inside the Business Enterprise forges an innovative link between modern economic theory and recent business history.

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Book SynopsisBy the turn of the century, the largest generation of Americans in history, the Baby Boomers, will be approaching 65 years old. But as the demand for health and long-term care is growing dramatically, health care programs have been shrinking instead of expanding to meet the older generation's needs. In this timely book, John R. Wolfe offers practical solutions to the coming health crisis, exploring innovative ways of developing insurance plans for the care of the large, aging Baby Boom generation and beyond. In previous decades, when younger Americans far outnumbered older ones, retirees could depend on financial support through taxes from the population at large. But as Boomers retire and the work force begins to shrink, there will be a disproportionately large population of retirees to workers. With such a big jump in the percentage of older Americans in the population, fewer workers will be able to to transfer funds, through taxes, to retirees. Moreover, other traditionally reliab

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Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking study, Oliver Zunz examines how the growth of corporations changed

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Book SynopsisThis book examines how to promote industrial development in low-income countries. It considers the role of traders in the evolution of a cluster, the role of managerial human capital, the effect of the 'China shock', and the role of industrial policies focused on international knowledge transfer in supporting the upgrading of clusters.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Scope and Significance of the Study PART I: THE ROLE OF TRADERS IN CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT Overseas Vietnamese Traders in a Garment Cluster in Vietnam Petty Traders in a Garment Cluster in Kenya PART II: THE ROLE OF MANAGERIAL HUMAN CAPITAL IN THE UPGRADING PROCESS The Product Ladder in the Steel-Bar Industry in Vietnam The Move to the Formal Sector in the Metalwork Industry in Kenya PART III: THE CHINA SHOCK AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT The Coping Strategy of the Electrical Fittings Industry in Pakistan The V-Shaped Growth in the Leather Shoe Industry in Ethiopia PART IV: THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES International Knowledge Transfer in a Garment Cluster in Bangladesh Misfired Promotion of the Export-Oriented Garment Industry in Ethiopia Conclusion: Towards the Design of Effective Industrial Development Policies

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Book SynopsisPresents case studies of how North American, Asian, and Oceanic governments have intervened to help ailing industries, and the impact their actions have had on the industry, the country's economy, and the growth of free trade. The primary goal is to find alternatives to knee-jerk import controls. I

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Book SynopsisIn this powerful anthropological study of a Bolivian tin mining town, Nash explores the influence of modern industrialization on the traditional culture of Quechua-and-Aymara-speaking Indians.Trade ReviewMore than an anthropological account of indigenous miners in far off Bolivia, the book is a serious rendering of the contemporary social, economic, and political reality at the industrial world periphery. Technology and CultureTable of ContentsThe Miners' History; Belief and Behaviour in Family Life; Community Integration and Worker Solidarity; The Natural and the Supernatural Order; Conditions of Work in the Mine; Wages, Prices, and the Accumulation of Capital in Mining; Labour Conflict and Unionization; Community and Class Consciousness.

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeith Roberts knows his history and is highly informed on the nature of today's comparable instruments and institutions. By placing his story within changing political, social, and cultural settings and by presenting it in a fascinating, well-written way unencumbered by technical jargon, he opens a new field in the discipline of business history. -- Alfred D. Chandler, emeritus, Harvard Business School, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for history Business history has largely ignored the ancient world, while in fact there is considerable evidence that business played an important in it. This book provides an accessible, well written validation of this argument. -- Karl Moore, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University An excellent book. Booklist Roberts's well-documented, readable book provides valuable insight into the past and lessons for the present...highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by William H. McNeill Preface List of Terms Introduction 1 Business in the Ancient Middle East 1. The Beginning 2. Middle Eastern Empires, 1600-323 B.C.E. 2 Business in Ancient Greece 3. Markets and Greece 4. Business in Athens 5. Hellenistic History: Prologue to Revolution 6. The Hellenistic Business Environment 7. Hellenistic Business 3 Business in Ancient Rome 8. The Early Roman Republic 9. The Late Roman Republic, 201-31 B.C.E. 10. The Principate, 31 B.C.E.-192 C.E. 11. Roman Society 12. Roman Businesses 13. The Downfall of Ancient Business Concluding Note Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewKeith Roberts knows his history and is highly informed on the nature of today's comparable instruments and institutions. By placing his story within changing political, social, and cultural settings and by presenting it in a fascinating, well-written way unencumbered by technical jargon, he opens a new field in the discipline of business history. -- Alfred D. Chandler, emeritus, Harvard Business School, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize for history Business history has largely ignored the ancient world, while in fact there is considerable evidence that business played an important in it. This book provides an accessible, well written validation of this argument. -- Karl Moore, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University An excellent book. Booklist Roberts's well-documented, readable book provides valuable insight into the past and lessons for the present...highly recommended. ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword, by William H. McNeill Preface List of Terms Introduction 1 Business in the Ancient Middle East 1. The Beginning 2. Middle Eastern Empires, 1600-323 B.C.E. 2 Business in Ancient Greece 3. Markets and Greece 4. Business in Athens 5. Hellenistic History: Prologue to Revolution 6. The Hellenistic Business Environment 7. Hellenistic Business 3 Business in Ancient Rome 8. The Early Roman Republic 9. The Late Roman Republic, 201-31 B.C.E. 10. The Principate, 31 B.C.E.-192 C.E. 11. Roman Society 12. Roman Businesses 13. The Downfall of Ancient Business Concluding Note Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisA history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.Table of Contents Introduction 1. History of Iron and Steel in Mexico 2. Government Promotion, Participation, and Regulation 3. Foreign Exchange Costs and Import Substitution 4. Forward Linkages and the Price Effects of Import Substitution 5. Production and Consumption: The Forward Linkages of the Steel Industry 6. Steel Consumption by Industrial Sector and Projections for 1970 7. Raw Materials and Fuels: The Backward Linkages of the Iron and Steel Industry 8. Mexican Foreign Trade in Iron and Steel Products 9. Conclusion Appendix A. Domestic Prices, Costs of Imports, and Tariffs for Flat-rolled Products Appendix B. Estimated Costs for a Hypothetical Plant in Monclova, Coahuila Appendix C. Data for Correlations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider''s view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances. Now, writing with wit and elegance, he juxtaposes the stories of the perfumes -- one created by a Frenchman in Paris for an exclusive luxury-goods house, the other made in New York by actress Sarah Jessica Parker and Coty, Inc., a giant international corporation. We follow Coty''s mating of star power to the marketing of perfume, watching Sex and the City''s Parker heading a hugely expensive campaign to launch a scent into the overcrowded celebrity market. Will she match the success of Jennifer Lopez? Does

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Book Synopsis* Are cultural identities socially constructed?* How are race, nation, sex and gender constructed and represented on television?* What is the impact of globalization on television and cultural identities?This introductory text examines issues of television and cultural identities in the context of globalization. It is a wide-ranging volume, exploring many of the central cultural issues in contemporary cultural studies, such as media, globalization, language, gender, ethnicity, cultural politics and identity - perhaps the topic of cultural studies over the past decade. At the core of the book are two critical arguments - that television is a proliferating resource for the construction of cultural identity, and that cultural identity is not a fixed essential 'thing' but a contingent social construction to which language is central.The book will be essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on television and cultural identities in the fields of cuTrade Review"As an introduction to cultural studies, with very clear capsule reviews of complex interdisciplinary literatures, it will be a useful supporting text for many cultural geography courses. As a clear introduction to key debates about identity and cultural politics this book is highly successful" - James KnealeTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordAcknowledgementsIntroductiontelevision, globalization and cultural identitiesDisturbing cultural identitiesGlobal television and global cultureThe construction and representation of race and nationThe construction and representation of sex and genderAudiences, identity and television talkTelevision and the cultural politics of identityTelevision and cultural identitiesa summaryGlossary of key conceptsBibliographyIndex.

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Book Synopsis Where does our sense of identity and belonging come from? How does culture produce and challenge identities? Identity and Culture looks at how different cultural narratives and practices work to constitute identity for individuals and groups in multi-ethnic, âpostcolonialâ societies. Uses examples from history, politics, fiction and the visual to examine the social power relations that create subject positions and forms of identity Analyses how cultural texts and practices offer new forms of identity and agency that subvert dominant ideologies This book encompasses issues of class, race, and gender, with a particular focus on the mobilization of forms of ethnic identity in societies still governed by racism. It a key text for students in cultural studies, sociology of culture, literary studies, history, race and ethnicity studies, media and film studies, and gender studies.Table of ContentsPreface IntroductionSubjectivity and IdentityHistory, Nation and IdentityHistory, Voice and Representation: Aboriginal Women's Life Writing Narratives of Identity and Difference: Voicing Black British History Identity, Origins and Roots Diasporic Identities: South Asian British Women's Writing Visualizing Difference: South Asians on Screen Competing Cultures, Competing ValuesConcluding ReflectionsNotesGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis* What is the relationship between youth culture and popular music?* How have they evolved since the second world war?* What can we learn from a global perspective?In this lively and accessible text, Andy Bennett presents a comprehensive cultural, social and historical overview of post-war popular music genres, from rock 'n' roll and psychedelic pop, through punk and heavy metal, to rap, rave and techno. Providing a chapter by chapter account, Bennett also examines the style-based youth cultures to which such genres have given rise. Drawing on key research in sociology, media studies and cultural studies, the book considers the cultural significance of respective post-war popular music genres for young audiences, with reference to issues such as space and place, ethnicity, gender, creativity, education and leisure. A key feature of the book is its departure from conventional Anglo-American perspectives. In addition to British and US examples, the book refers to studies Trade Review"…commendably wide-ranging in scope and addresses a long-standing gap in the market.” – European Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordIntroductionPost-war youth and rock 'n' rollSixties rock, politics and the counter cultureHeavy metalPunk and punk rockReggae and Rasta cultureRap music and hip hop cultureBhangra and contemporary Asian dance musicContemporary dance music and club cultureYouth and music-makingWhose generation? Youth, music and nostalgiaReferencesGlossaryIndex.

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Book Synopsis* What are the latest developments in the production, representation and reception of media output, produced by, for or about ethnic minorities?* What informs the questions media researchers ask and pursue when examining the mass media and ethnic minorities?* What are the principal forces of change currently shaping the field?There are few media issues more pressing, or potentially more consequential, than the representation of ethnic minorities. This authoritative text therefore brings together leading international researchers who have examined some of the latest processes of change (and continuity) informing the field of ethnic minorities and the media. Numerous studies of 'race', racism and the mass media have been conducted in the past. However, both the media landscape and the cultural field of ethnic minorities are fast changing, and this book addresses the recent developments which have threatened to outpace our ability to map, understand and intervene in procesTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordAcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsIntroductionEthnic minorities and media researchmapping the fieldPart one: Changing representationsNew(s) racisma discourse analytical approachWhite watchDreaming of a white...Part two: Changing contexts of productionThe paradox of African American journalistsA rock and a hard placemaking ethnic minority televisionBlack representation in the post network, post civil rights world of global mediaPart three: Changing cultures of identityIn whose image? TV criticism and black minority viewersEthnicity, national culture(s) and the interpretation of televisionTransnational communications and diaspora communitiesMedia and diasporic consciousnessan exploration amoung Iranians in LondonAfterword: On the right to communicateMedia and the 'public sphere' in multi-ethnic societiesGlossaryReferencesIndex.

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Book Synopsisâœa welcome addition to a growing body of scholarly writingâ a comprehensive critical survey of the literature on cultural heritage and tourism and associated issues in the fields of cultural and media studies over the previous decade. These concepts and issues are clearly presented and exemplified in the case studies of numerous sites of cultural displayââ Southern Review Why is culture so widely on display? What are the major characteristics of contemporary cultural display? What is the relationship between cultural display and key features of contemporary society: the rise of consumerism; tourism; âidentity-speakâ; globalization? What can cultural display tell us about current relations of self and other, here and there, now and then? Culture on Display invites the reader to visit culture. Reflecting on the contemporary proliferation of sites displaying culture in visitable form, it offers fresh ways of thinking about tTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordIntroductionculture as somewhere to goA culture on displayViews through the hotel windowThe city on displayTheming culture/theming natureVisitable historyExhibiting the otherVirtual destinationsReferencesIndex.

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Book Synopsis* How is science represented by the media?* Who defines what counts as a risk, threat or hazard, and why?* In what ways do media images of science shape public perceptions?* What can cultural and media studies tell us about current scientific controversies?Media, Risk and Science is an exciting exploration into an array of important issues, providing a much needed framework for understanding key debates on how the media represent science and risk. In a highly effective way, Stuart Allan weaves together insights from multiple strands of research across diverse disciplines. Among the themes he examines are: the role of science in science fiction, such as Star Trek; the problem of 'pseudo-science' in The X-Files; and how science is displayed in science museums. Science journalism receives particular attention, with the processes by which science is made 'newsworthy' unravelled for careful scrutiny. The book also includes individual chapters devoted to how the media porTable of ContentsSeries editor's forewordIntroductionmedia, risk and scienceScience fictionsScience in popular cultureScience journalismMedia, risk and the environmentBodies at risknews coverage of AIDSFood scaresmad cows and GM foodsFigures of the humanrobots, androids, cyborgs and clonesGlossaryReferencesIndex.

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Book Synopsis âœa simple yet excellent overview of the multilayered path of audience research, tracing its evolution over the last centuryââ European Journal of Communication*How has the concept of 'the audience' changed over the past 50 years?*How do audiences become producers and not just consumers of media texts?*How are new media affecting the ways in which audiences are researched?The audience has been a central concept in both in media and cultural studies for some considerable time, not least because there seems little point exploring forms of increasingly global communication in terms of their content if the targets of media messages are not also the focus of study. This book ranges across a wide literature, taking both a chronological as well as thematic approach, in order to explore the ways in which the audience, as an analytical concept has changed, as well as examining the relationships which audiences have with texts and the ways in which they Table of ContentsSeries editor's foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Audiences todayAudiences in historical perspectiveAudience commodities and audience activismCause and effect: Theories in flux The audience as citizen: Media, politics and democracyFan audiences: Identity, consumption and interactivity New media, new audience, new research? GlossaryReferencesIndex.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the relationships between society andmaterial culture: the interaction between people and things.Tim Dant argues that the traditional approach to materialculture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects,largely overlooking the material impact that objects have oneveryday life in late modernity. Dant resists the now well-establishedmodel of consumption as the principal relationshipwith âthingsâ in our lives. Using the motor car as a recurringtheme, he shows how we confront our society through materialinteraction with the objects that surround us.Materiality and Society draws on debates with historical,philosophical and theoretical discourses that address materiality,from Braudel and Merleau-Ponty to Heidegger and Latour. Thebook opens up new lines of enquiry and makes a convincingcase for the closer study of the interaction between people andthings.This book is key reading for students and researchers in a varietyof disciplines concerned with sociaTable of Contents1.The sociality of things2.Material civilization3.Technology and society4.Agency, affordances and actor networks5.Being with materiality6.Material interaction7.Materiality and society

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Book Synopsis"Chas Critcher's study is doubly welcome as it discusses theoretical underpinnings thoroughly, and also provides a set of illustrative case studies... This is an important and stimulating book for a range of audiences." VISTA Vol 8 no 3 How are social problems defined and responded to in contemporary society? What is the role of the media in creating, endorsing and sustaining moral panics? The term `moral panic' is frequently applied to sudden outbreaks of concern about social problems. Chas Critcher critically evaluates the usefulness of moral panic models for understanding how politicians, the public and pressure groups come to recognise apparent new threats to the social order, and he scrutinizes the role of the media, especially the popular press. Two models of moral panics are identified and explained, then applied to a range of case studies: AIDS; rave culture and the drug ecstasy; video nasties; child abuse; paedophilia. Examples of moraTable of ContentsSeries editor's foreword - Acknowledgements - Introduction: original thoughts - Part one: the models - Made in Britain: the processual model of moral panics - Notes from a big country: the attributional model of moral panics - Part two: case studies - Unhealthy preoccupations: AIDS - Out of their minds: ecstasy and raves - A rocky horror show: video nasties - Suffer the little children: child abuse in families - Monstrous ideas: paedophilia - Part three: implications - Universal pictures: international comparisons - No news is good news: the role of the media - Time for a make-over: the models revisited - Myth appropriation: the childhood theme - Underwriting risk: moral panics and social theory - Afterword - Glossary - References - Index.

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Book SynopsisPraise for the first editionâœThe selection is judicious and valuably supplemented by thorough commentaries that contextualise and clarify the debates and issues and the importance of each excerpt. Though today there may be many readers in and around cultural and media studies, Easthope and McGowanâs remains vitalââ Times Higher Educational SupplementThis Reader introduces the key readings in critical and cultural theory. It guides students through the tradition of thought, from Saussureâs early writings on language to contemporary commentary on world events by theorists such as Baudrillard and ÅiÅek. The readings are grouped according to six thematic sections: Semiology; Ideology; Subjectivity; Difference; Gender and Race; and Postmodernism. The second and expanded edition of this highly successful Reader reflects the growing diversity of the field. Featuring thirteen new essays, including essays by Homi Bhabha, Simone de Beauvoir, Franz Fanon and JudiTable of ContentsSection 1: SemiologyIntroduction1.1 Ferdinand de Saussure, from Course in General Linguistics 1.2 Roland Barthes, from Mythologies 1.3 Pierre Macherey, from A Theory of Literary Production 1.4 Umberto Eco, from The Narrative Structure in Fleming 1.5 Colin MacCabe, from Realism and the Cinema Section 2: Ideology Introduction 2.1 Karl Marx, from Preface to the Cinema 2.2 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, from The German Ideology 2.3 Louis Althusser, from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatus 2.4 Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex 2.5 Edward Said, from Orientalism 2.6 Homi K. Bhabha, from The Other Question 2.7 Slavoj Zizek, from The Sublime Object of Ideology Section 3: Subjectivity Introduction 3.1 Sigmund Freud, from Beyond the Pleasure Principle 3.2 Jacques Lacan, the Mirror Stage from Ecrits 3.3 Franz Fanon, from Black Skins, White Masks 3.4 Julia Kristevea, from The System and the Speaking Subject 3.5 Michel Foucault, from Discipline and Punish 3.6 Michel Foucault, from The History of Sexuality 3.7 Roland Barthes, from The Pleasure of the Text Section 4: Difference Introduction 4.1 Jacques Derrida Differance Section 5: Gender Introduction5.1 Sigmund Freud, On the Universal Tendency... 5.2 Helene Cixous, from Sorties 5.3 Laura Mulvey, from Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 5.4 Manthia Diawara, from Black Spectatorship 5.5 Kobena Mercer, from Reading Racial Fetishism 5.6 Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, from Real and Imagined Women 5.7 Judith Butler, from Gender Trouble 5.8 Homi K. Bhabha, from "Race", Time and the Revision of Modernity Section 6: Postmodernism Introduction 6.1 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Postmodern Condition 6.2 Jean Baudrillard, from Simulations 6.3 Jean-Francois Lyotard, from The Inhuman 6.4 Jacques Derrida, from The Gift of Death 6.5 Jean Baudrillard, from The Spirit of Terrorism 6.6 Slavoj Zizek, from Welcome to the Desert of the Real Summaries Biographies References and Index

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Book SynopsisMuseums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in museums can exceed their designated roles as documents or specimens. In this wideranging and original book, Michelle Henning explores how historical and contemporary museums and exhibitions restage the relationship between people and material things. In doing so, they become important sites for the development of new forms of experience, memory and knowledge. Henning reveals how museums can be theorised as a form of media. She discusses both historical and contemporary examples, from cabinets of curiosity, through the avant-garde exhibition design of Lissitzy and Bayer; the experimental museums of Paul Otlet and Otto Neurath; to science centres; immersive and virtual museums; and major developments such as Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate Modern in London and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. Museums, Media and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsSeries Editor's forewordIntroductionObjectDisplayMedia PublicArchive

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Book Synopsis âœThis exciting book goes to the heart of a creative commercialand public service culture - it shows why ITV matters and howit was made to work so well. A tremendous contribution.â Professor Jean Seaton, University of WestminsterâœThis is a valuable addition to studies of ITV's history andprogramming...âTom O'Malley, Professor of Media Studies, University of Wales, Aberyswyth, and Co-Editor of Media History. Since breaking the BBCâs monopoly in 1955, ITV has been at thecentre of the British television landscape. To coincide with thefiftieth anniversary of the first ITV broadcast, this accessible bookoffers a range of perspectives on the complex and multifaceted history ofBritainâs first commercial broadcaster.The book explores key tensions and conflicts which have influenced theITV service. Chapters focus on particular institutions, includingLondon Weekend Television and ITN, and programme forms, includingWho Wants to be a Millionaire?, UpsTable of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Histories From Start-up to Consolidation: Institutions, Regions and Regulation in the History of ITVA Prodigious Act of Memory: What Would an ITV Canon Look Like? And the Rest is History: Lew Grade, the Creation Myth and Television HistoriographyPart 2: Institutions The Transatlantic Adventures of British Television in the 1950s: Funding, Production, Programmes, Formats and the 'Official' History of ITVMammon’s Television? ITV in Wales, 1959-63From Newsreels to a Theatre of News: The Growth and Development of Independent Television NewsLWT in the 1980s: Factual Programmes, Public Service Obligations, Financial IncentivesPart 3: Texts and Intertexts Channeling Celebrity: ITV and the Construction of Television FameRooms Within Rooms: Upstairs Downstairs and the Studio Costume Drama of the 1970sWho Wants to be a Fan of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Television Criticism, “Popular Aesthetics” and the Question of Fan/Academic TastesReal People with Real Problems'?: Public Service Broadcasting, Commercialism and Trisha Conclusion Historical Timeline: The ITV Companies and the Broadcasting ActsIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of a key concept in media and technology studies: domestication. Theories around domestication shed light upon the process in which a technology changes its status from outrageous novelty to an aspect of everyday life which is taken for granted. The contributors collect past, current and future applications of the concept of domestication, critically reflect on its theoretical legacy, and offer comments about further development. The first part of Domestication of Media and Technology provides an overview of the conceptual development and theory of domestication. In the second part of the book, contributors look at a diverse range of empirical studies that use the domestication approach to examine the dynamics between users and technologies. These studies include: Mobile information and communications techologies (ICTs) and the transformation of the relationship between private and the public spheres Home-based internet use: theTable of Contents1. Introduction Part I. Updating domestication: Theory and its history 2. What’s ‘home’ got to do with it? Contradictory dynamics in the domestication of technology and the dislocation of domesticity 3. Domestication: the enactment of technology 4. Domestication running wild. From the moral economy of the household to the mores of a culture 5. The triple articulation of ICTs. Media as technological objects, symbolic environments and individual texts 6. Empirical studies using the domestication framework II. Applying domestication: Empirical work < 7. “Fitting the internet into our lives” IT courses for disadvantaged users 8. The bald guy just ate an orange. Domestication, work and home 9. Making a ‘home’. The domestication of Information and Communication Technologies in single parents’ households 10. From cultural to information revolution. ICT domestication by middle-class Chinese families 11. Domestication at work in small businesses III. Outlook 12. Domesticating domestication. Reflections on the life of a concept

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Book Synopsis"Key Themes in Media Theory is wonderfully wide-ranging and deservedly destined to become a key text for students of Media Studies." Professor John Storey, University of Sunderland, UK"The very best text books are not just summaries of complex ideas for a student audience or an introduction to a critical canon; the very best add something to the canon they reflect upon, and Dan Laugheyâs Key Themes in Media Theory is one such book. [It] is not a means to an end, as many such books can be. Rather it is a motivational primer, and one that should send both students and teachers heading to the library toread the theorists presented here again, for the first time." Richard Berger, Art, Design, Media; The Higher Education Academy, UK What is media theory? How do media affect our actions, opinions and beliefs? In what ways do media serve powerful political and economic interests? Is media consumerism unhealthy or is Table of ContentsList of figures and illustrationsAcknowledgementsWhat is media theory?Behaviourism and media effectsModernity and medium theoryStructuralism and semioticsInteractionism and structurationFeminisms and genderPolitical economy and postcolonial theoryPostmodernity and information societyConsumerism and everyday lifeDebating media theory GlossaryReferences

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Book Synopsis"An invaluable collection for anyone researching or teaching cult cinema ... The Cult Film Reader is an authoritative text that should be of value to any student or researcher interested in challenging and transgressive cinema that pushes the boundaries of conventional cinema and film studies." Science Fiction Film and Television"A really impressive and comprehensive collection of the key writings in the field. The editors have done a terrific job in drawing together the various traditions and providing a clear sense of this rich and rewarding scholarly terrain. This collection is as wild and diverse as the films that it covers. Fascinating." Mark Jancovich, Professor of Film and Television Studies, University of East Anglia, UK"It's about time the lunatic fans and loyal theorists of cult movies were treated to a book they can call their own. The effort and knowledge contained in The Cult Film Reader will satisfy even the most ravenousTable of ContentsThe Concepts of Cult1.Harry Allan Potamkin (1932), Film Cults.2. Walter Benjamin (1936). The work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.3. Susan Sontag (1964). Notes on Camp.4. Andrew Ross (1989). The Uses of Camp.5. Umberto Eco (1986). Cult Movies and Intertextual Collage.6. Barry Keith Grant (1991). Science Fiction Double Feature; Ideology in the Cult Film.7. Anne Jerslev (1992). Semiotics by Instinct: Cult Film as a Signifying Practice between Film and Audience.8. Jeffrey Sconce (1995). Trashing the Academy: Taste, Excess and an Emerging Politics of Cinematic Style.9. Joan Hawkins (2000). Sleaze Mania, Euro-Trash and High Art: the Place of European Art Films in American Low Culture.10. Matt Hills (2002). Media Fandom, Neo-Religiosity and Cult(ural) Studies.11. Mark Jancovich (2002). Cult Fictions: Cult Movies, Subcultural Capital and the Production of Cultural Distinctions.Cult Case Studies12. Jean Vigo (1932). Un chien andalou.13. Joan Hawkins (2000), The Anxiety of Influence: Georges Franju and the Medical Horror Shows of Jess Franco.14. Eric Schaefer (1997). The Obscene Seen: Spectacle and Transgression in Postwar Burlesque Film.15. Parker Tyler (1963). Orson Welles and the Big Experimental Film Cult.16. Gary Hentzi (1993). Little Cinema of Horrors.17. Welch Everman (1993). What is a Cult Horror Film?18. Harry Benshoff (2000). Blaxploitation Horror Films: Generic Reappropriation or Reinscription.19. Chibnall, Steve (2003). Get Carter in Context.20. Noel Carroll (1998). The Future of Allusion: Hollywood in the Seventies (and beyond).21. Janet Staiger (2000). Hitchcock in Texas: Intertextuality in the Face of Blood and Gore.22. Steven Jay Schneider (2004). The Essential Evil in/of Eraserhead.23. Lawrence O’Toole (1979). The Cult of Horror.24. J.P. Telotte (2001). The Blair Witch Project Project: Film and the Internet.National and International Cults25. J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum (1983) El Topo: Through the Wasteland of Counterculture.26. Gary Needham (2003), Playing with Genre: Defining the Italian giallo27. Leon Hunt (2000). Han’s Island Revisited: Enter the Dragon as a Transnational Cult Film.28. Annalee Newitz (1995). Magical Girls and Atomic Bomb Sperm; Japanese Animation in America.29. Jinsoo An (2001). The Killer: Cult Film and Transcultural (Mis)Reading.30. Harmony Wu (2003). Trading in Horror, Cult, and Matricide: Peter Jackson’s Phenomenal Bad Taste and New Zealand Fantasies of Inter/National Cinematic Success.31. Sheila J. Nayar (2004). Invisible Representation; the Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema.32. Nezih Erdogan (2002), Mute Bodies, Disembodied Voices: Notes on Sound in Turkish Popular Cinema.33. Tom Mes (2003). Ichi the Killer.Cult Consumption34. Siegfried Kracauer (1926), The Cult of Distraction.35. Pierre Bourdieu (1979), Distinction.36. Bruce Austin (1981). Portrait of a Cult Film Audience: the Rocky Horror Picture Show.37. Gina Marchetti (1986). Subcultural Studies and the Film Audience: Rethinking the Film Viewing Context.38. David Sanjek (1990), Fans' notes: the Horror Film Fanzine.39. Henry Jenkins (1992). Get a Life: Fans, Poachers, Nomads.40. John Fiske (1992). The Cultural economy of Fandom.41. Martin Barker, Jane Arthurs and Ramaswami Harindranath (2001), The Crash Controversy: Reviewing the Press.42. I.Q. Hunter (2000) Beaver Las Vegas; a Fan Boy’s Defence of Showgirls.43. Martin Barker, Ernest Mathijs & Xavier Mendik (2006), Menstrual Monsters: the Reception of the Ginger Snaps Cult Horror Franchise.Bibliography of Cult Film ResourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisAnimation is one of the fastest-growing fields in film and television, and it is also integral to video games and web development. Once an esoteric and hard-won skill, technology has advanced to the point that simple animated projects can now be produced on a home PC. Its many enthusiasts have fuelled a range of new courses in universities, and in public and private colleges. Drawing on their extensive experience in the field, the authors offer a systematic overview of the role of the animation producer and the production process. They explain how to develop a concept, pitch it to obtain funding, and find a market. They offer detailed advice on recruiting a team, managing different stages of production (including overseas suppliers), quality control, budgeting and scheduling. They also outline the key aspects of 2D and 3D production.From project development, seeking investment to pre- and post-production, for film, television, and the web, The Animation Producerâs Handbook is theTable of ContentsChapter One - Animation: A Definition and HistoryChapter Two – The ProducersChapter Three – The Concept and The Pitch BibleChapter Four – Project DevelopmentChapter Five – Setting Up The Pre-Production Process Chapter Six – The 2D Production Proccess – Part OneChapter Seven – The 2D Production Process – Part TwoChapter Eight – 2D ProductionChapter Nine – Pre-Production – 3D AnimationChapter Ten – Production – 3D AnimationChapter Eleven – Picture Post-Production/Sound Post-ProductionChapter Twelve – Producing Flash, Stop Motion & Multipath MoviesGlossaryAppendix

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Book Synopsis What are âglobal crises' and how do they differ from earlier crises? What do recent studies of global crises reporting tell us about the role of the news media in the global age? What are the current trends in the fields of journalism and civil society that are now re-shaping the public communication of crises? From climate change to the global war on terror, from forced migration to humanitarian disasters - these are just some of the global crises addressed in this accessible, ground-breaking book. For the first time, the author situates diverse threats to humanity in a global context and examines how, why and to what extent they are conveyed in today's news media. Global crises are conceived as the dark side of a globalizing world, but how they become reported and constituted in the news media can also help sustain emergent forms of global awareness, global citizenship and global civil society.The book: Draws on original research and scholarship in the fTable of Contents1. Global crisis, what crisis? 2. Journalism in the global age 3. (Un)natural disasters: The calculus of death and the ritualization of catastrophe4. Ecology and climate change: From science and sceptics to spectacle and…5. Forced migrations and human rights: Antinomies in the mediated ethics of care6. New wars and the global war on terror: On vicarious, visceral violence 7. The 'CNN effect' and 'compassion fatigue': Researching beyond commonsense8. Humanitarian NGOs, news media and the changing relations of communicative power 9. Global crisis reporting: Conclusions Glossary

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Book SynopsisEthical consumption, fair trade, consumer protests, brand backlashes, green goods, boycotts and downshifting: these are all now familiar consumer activities - and in some cases, are almost mainstream. They are part of the expanding field of 'radical consumption' in a world where we are encouraged to shop for change.But just how radical are these forms of consumption? This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to examining contemporary radical consumption, analyzing its possibilities and problems, moralities, methods of mediation and its connections to wider cultural formations of production and politics. Jo Littler argues that we require a more expansive vocabulary and to open up new approaches of enquiry in order to understand the area's many contradictions, strengths and weaknesses. Drawing on a number of contemporary theories, terms and debates in media and cultural studies, she uses a range of specific case studies to bring theory to life.By analysing practices of radiTable of Contents1 Sanctimonious shopping? Ethical consumption as a ‘crisis of moralism’2 Cosmopolitanism caring:Globalisation, charity and the activist-consumer3 Greenwash, Whitewash, Hogwash?CSR and the media management of consumer concern 4 Interior economies: Anti-consumer activism and the limits of reflexivity5 Ecologies of green consumption

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Book Synopsis"The authors are familiar with the emerging jargon of media convergence and they define large parts of it well. They have also laboured impressively to gather and define useful examples of journalese âThis book is a labour of love that reflects immense care and learning. It makes a helpful contribution to a fledgling field of academia and to uniting the cultures of news and journalism studies."Tim Luckhurst, University of Kent, UKThis comprehensive glossary offers clear and insightful definitions of the most significant keywords in news and journalism studies.Ranging from 'above the fold' to 'zinger', and with over 400 terms in between, it covers words associated with newspapers, radio and television news, magazines, photojournalism and internet reporting. Other examples include 'agenda setting', 'libel', 'news values', 'objectivity,' 'scoop' and 'tabloidization'. Written by two of the field's leading scholars, it offers an informed perspective on the key terTable of ContentsRanging from 'above the fold' to 'zinger', and with over 400 terms in between, it covers words associated with newspapers, radio and television news, magazines, photojournalism and internet reporting. Other examples include 'agenda setting', 'libel', 'news values', 'objectivity,' 'scoop' and 'tabloidization'.

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Book SynopsisFrom a boom in theatrical features to footage posted on websites such as YouTube and Google Video, the early years of the 21st century have witnessed significant changes in the technological, commercial, aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of documentaries on film, television and the web. In response to these rapid developments, this book rethinks the notion of documentary, in terms of theory, practice and object/s of study. Drawing together 26 original essays from scholars and practitioners, it critically assesses ideas and constructions of documentary and, where necessary, proposes new tools and arguments with which to examine this complex and shifting terrain. Covering a range of media output, the book is divided into four sections: Critical perspectives on documentary forms and concepts The changing faces of documentary productionContemporary documentary: borders, neighbours and disputed territories Digital and online Table of ContentsPart 1: Critical perspectives on documentary forms and concepts 'Documentary studies': dimensions of continuity and transition by John CornerThe question of evidence, the power of rhetoric and documentary film by Bill NicholsFirst-person films: some theses on self-inscription by Michael Renov 'To leave the confinements of his humanness': authorial voice, death and constructions of nature in Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man by Thomas AustinCollective subjectivity in The Children of Golzow vs. alienation in 'western' interview documentary by Silke PanseDocumentary as critical and creative research by Mike WayneReframing ethnographic film by Paul BasuTranscendental realism in documentary by Erik KnudsenFilming the 'invisible' by Michael ChananPart 2: The changing faces of documentary productionDeveloping and producing a feature documentary: the case of Deep Water by Wilma de Jong Filmmakers and their subjects by Jerry RothwellFrom eight-man crew to one-woman band: my life in television by Marilyn Gaunt'You want to know that, this is real, this is what happened': an interview with John Smithson by Wilma de Jong and Thomas Austin'The idea that there's a "truth" that you discover is like chasing the end of a rainbow': an interview with Ralph LeeWilma de Jong Rice N Peas: alternative, independent and provocative byIshmahil Blagrove, Jr'The importance of memory': an interview with Ai Xiaoming by Sue ThornhamPart 3: Contemporary documentary: borders, neighbours and disputed territoriesDrama-documentary, ethics and notions of performance: the 'flight 93' films by Paul WardMockumentary: a call to play by Craig Hight Documentary modes of engagement by Annette Hill'Ask the fastidious woman from Surbiton to hand-wash the underpants of the aging Oldham Skinhead...': Why not Wife Swap? by Su Holmes and Deborah JermynSimulating the public sphere by Jon DoveyThe work of work: reality TV and the negotiation of neoliberal labour in The Apprentice by Nick Couldry and Jo LittlerPart 4: Digital and online documentaries: opportunities and limitationsDocumentary viewing platforms by Ana VicenteOnline documentary by Danny BirchallPublic domains: engaging Iraq through experimental documentary digitalities by Patricia R. Zimmermann Documentary on YouTube: the failure of the direct cinema of the slogan by Alexandra Juhasz

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Book SynopsisEverything you need to know about new media in one accessible, easy to navigate volume!From Facebook to the iPhone, from YouTube to Wikipedia, from Grand Theft Auto to Second Life - this book explores new mediaâs most important issues and debates in an accessible and engaging text for newcomers to the field. With technological change continuing to unfold at an incredible rate, Digital Cultures rounds-up major events in the mediaâs recent past to help develop a clear understanding of the theoretical and practical debates that surround this emerging discipline. It addresses issues such as: What is new media? How is new media changing our lives? Is new media having a positive or negative effect on culture and human communication? Each chapter contains case studies which provide an interesting and lively balance between the well-trodden and the newly emerging themes in the field. Topics covered include digiTable of Contents1: DIGITAL HISTORIES: Origins and Development 2: INTERPRETING NEW MEDIA: Digital Theory 3: ON THE NET: The World Wide Web 4: HIGH DEFINTIONS: Digital Television 5: WIDE SCREENS: Digital Cinema6: GAME CULTURE 7: VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES: Self and Society 8: GLOBAL DIVISIONS: The Digital Divide 9: DIGITAL SOUNDS: Music and Multimedia 10: FUTURE SHOCK: After the Knowledge Economy

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Book Synopsis"From its historical roots through to the contemporary moment, the collection of essays, written by eminent scholars in the field, demonstrate so clearly how Indian cinema is more than the sum of its parts. An essential text for anyone wishing to understand properly the full complexities of Hindi cinema."Professor Susan Hayward, University of Exeter, UK"We are finally at a point when the study of Bollywood is a fully fledged field in Film Studies."Professor Dina Iordanova, University of St. Andrews, Scotland"The Bollywood Reader extends the discursive boundaries of Indian popular cinema in interesting and complex ways. In putting together this volume, the editors have performed magnificently."Professor Wimal Dissanayake, University of Hawaii, USA What is Bollywood cinema? How does it operate as an industry? Who are the audiences of Bollywood cinema? These are just some of the questions addressed in this lively and fascinTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction1. The Essential Bollywood.Part I: Theoretical Frameworks2. 'Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity'3. 'Towards a Theoretical Critique of Bombay Cinema'4. 'Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction' 5. '"In the throes of change: exhibition, production and distribution" in Indian Popular Cinema: Industry, Ideology and Consciousness' 6. ‘Secret Politics Essay’ excerpted from The Secret Politics of Our Desires: Innocence, Culpability and Indian Popular Cinema. 7. ‘The National-Heroic Image’ from National Identity in Indian Popular Cinema: 1947-1987. Part II: Recent Trajectories8. ‘Avenging Women in Indian Cinema’9. "Figuring Mother India: The Face of Nargis," in India Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India 10. "What is Behind Film Censorship?: The Khalnayak Debates." 11. “The Home and the Nation: Consuming Culture and Politics in Roja” in Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India. 12. "Inside and Out: Song and Dance in Bollywood Cinema." 13. ‘Invisible Representation: The Oral Contours of a National Popular Cinema’14. “Imagining the family: an Ethnography of Viewing Hum Aapke Hain Kaun.” Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Public Culture in India. Part III: Bollywood Abroad and Beyond15. 'The “Bollywoodization” of the Indian Cinema: Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena'16. "Bollywood and the Frictions of Global Mobility" from Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow. 17. ‘Itineraries of Indian Cinema: African Videos, Bollywood and Global Media’ in Multiculturalism, Postcolonialism and Transnational Media. 18. ‘Ever Since You've Discovered the Video, I've Had No Peace’: Diasporic Spectators Talk Back to Indian Media. 19. ‘Queer as Desis: Secret Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Bollywood Films in Diasporic Urban Ethnoscapes’ from Bollywood: Sociology Goes to the Movies. 20. ‘On the Cinematic Assemblage and the Case of Bollywood: Some Theses’ (previously unpublished chapter specifically commissioned for this Reader).Select KeywordsSelect TimelineFurther Reading

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Book SynopsisThe first edition of this book immediately became a defining text for feminist television criticism, with an influence extending across television, media and screen studies â and the second edition will be similarly agenda-setting. Completely revised and updated throughout, it takes into account the changes in the television industry, the academic field of television studies and the culture and politics of feminist movements.With fifteen of the eighteen extracts being new to the second edition, the readings offer a detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies, topics and approaches, including genres, audiences, performers and programmes such as 'Sex and the City', âPrime Suspectâ, Oprah and Buffy.With a new introduction to the volume tracing developments in the field and introductions to each thematic section, the editors engage in a series of debates surrounding the main issues of feminist television scholarship. They explore how television represents feminism and considTable of ContentsIntroductionIntroduction to Part One: Programmes and Heroines1. The Search for Tomorrow in Today’s Soap Operas: Notes on a Feminine Narrative Form - Tania Modleski2. “Sex and the City” and Consumer Culture: Remediating Postfeminist Drama – Jane Arthurs3. Women with a Mission: Lynda La Plante, DCI Jane Tennison and the Reconfiguration of TV Crime Drama – Deborah Jermyn4.Divas, Evil Black Bitches, and Bitter Black Women: African-American Women in Postfeminist and Post-Civil Rights Popular Culture – Kimberly Springer5.“Ellen”, Television and the Politics of Gay and Lesbian Visibility – Bonnie J. Dow6.You’d Better Recognize: Oprah the Iconic and Television Talk – Beretta E. Smith-Shomade7.“Take Responsibility for Yourself” Judge Judy and the Neoliberal Citizen – Laurie Ouellette8.Feeling Like a Domestic Goddess: Postfeminism and Cooking – Joanne Hollows9.Feminism Without Men: Feminist Media Studies in a Post-Feminist Age – Karen Boyle10.Girls Rule! Gender, Feminism, and Nickelodeon – Sarah Banet-Weiser11.The (In)visible Lesbian: Anxieties of representation in the L word – Susan J. Wolfe and Lee Ann RoripaughIntroduction to Part Two: Audiences, Reception Contexts, and Spectatorship12.Women’s Genres: Melodrama, Soap Opera, and Theory – Annette Kuhn13. Melodromatic Identifications: Television Fiction and Women’s Fantasy – Ien Ang14.National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City – Purnima Mankekar15.Defining Asian Femininity: Chinese Viewers of Japanese TV Dramas in Singapore – Elizabeth MacLachlan and Geok-lian Chua16.The Globalization of Gender: Ally McBeal in Post-Socialist Slovenia – Ksenija Vidmar-Horvat17.The Performance and Reception of Televisual ‘Ugliness’ in “Yo soy Betty la Fea” – Yeidy M. Rivero18.Sob Stories, Merriment, and Surprises: The 1950s Audience Participation Show on Network Television and Women’s Daytime Reception – Marsha F. CassidyBibliography

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Book SynopsisThis popular introductory book provides a clear introduction to the key ideas within media studies. The friendly writing style and everyday examples, which made the first edition a favourite with students and lecturers alike, has been retained and updated in this new edition. This comprehensive text provides a wide-ranging perspective on the Media and: Uses examples and case studies from the real world Shows how key concepts can help us understand the relationship between the Media and society Provides a clear explanation of how critical perspectives on the Media construct thinking about media businesses, texts and audiences The fully updated new edition features new boxed summaries of critical approaches and key thinkers. Chapters cover the main topics that students are likely to encounter in their studies, including advertising, media and violence, news, politics, young audiences, globalization, sport, popular music and new technology. This book is essential reTable of ContentsIntroductionMedia texts: Features and deconstructionsMedia institutions: Key areas and their implications for understanding mediaAudiences and effects: Defining audiences and exploring their relationships with textsMedia - audience - influence: Questions of effects: politics, children, violencePopular music: Questioning the popular, questioning control, questioning the globalThe media and new technology: Technologies changing the media and changing consumptionAdvertising: Its relationship with media industries and with audiencesNews: Different kinds of news: Constructing the worldSport and representation: Media defining sport; sport as business; sport and meaningGlobalization and the media: Questions of power and cultural exchangeGlossaryReferencesSelected websites

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Book SynopsisNews Culture offers a timely examination of the forms, practices, institutions and audiences of journalism. Having highlighted a range of pressing issues confronting the global news industry today, it proceeds to provide a historical consideration of the rise of 'objective' reporting in newspaper, radio and television news.It explores the way news is produced, its textual conventions, and its negotiation by the reader, listener or viewer as part of everyday life. Stuart Allan also explores topics such as the cultural dynamics of sexism and racism as they shape news coverage, as well as the rise of online news, citizen journalism, war reporting and celebrity-driven infotainment.Building on the success of the bestselling previous editions, this new edition addresses the concerns of the news media age, featuring: An expanded chapter on news, power and the public sphere A chapter-length discussion of war journalism, tracing key factors shaping reportage from the battTable of ContentsSeries Editor's foreword Introduction: The culture of news News, power and the public sphereThe rise of 'objective' newspaper reporting The early days of radio and television news Making news, reporting truths The cultural politics of news discourse News, audiences and everyday life The gendered realities of journalism Racial diversity in the newsWar reportingCitizen journalism in times of crisisGood journalism is popular culture References Index

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Book Synopsis"This is an impressively cogent account of the complex, shifting media landscape in France, agreeably written by an acknowledged expert in the field ... finding a workable balance between research expertise and usefulness for teaching is never easy, but this volume comes as close as possible to getting it right."Journal of European Studies 2012 42: 94"Thanks to his intimate knowledge of French politics and culture, Kuhn has brilliantly captured what makes the uniqueness of the French media system."Thierry Vedel, Senior Research Fellow at Sciences Po in Paris"This book achieves the remarkable and all too rare combination of offering an extremely clear, accessible and well organised introduction for students of the French Media and providing a host of new perspectives to those well versed in the field."Dr David Levy, Director, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of OxTable of ContentsIntroduction Historical development of the media in France The contemporary media landscape Media pluralism Media policy and regulation The political executive and news management The media, image projection and celebrity politics The French media on the world stage Conclusion

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Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1994, this book links the distant past with the urgent problems of today, taking the reader on a literary and scientific tour of global pollution from pre-history to the post-industrial age. Ancient problems such as lead poisoning in Rome and water pollution in Mesopotamia provide the background to a discussion of modern catastrophes including the hole in the ozone layer, climate change and the global drinking water crisis. The book chronicles 800 years of pollution in London, charts the growth of environmental activism and spotlights the rise of the consumer society as the driving force behind today's malaise. Table of Contents1. A Brief History of Pollution 2. The City as Source of Pollution 3. Why Care? Pollution, Nature and Ethics 4. The First Consumer Revolution 5. Water Pollution and Chemical Contamination 6. The Poisoned Atmosphere 7. An All Consuming Passion 8. Energy and Survival 9. Pollution in the Making: The Example of Asia 10. The Politics of Pollution

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Book SynopsisSakade challenges the narrative that the focus of British manufacturing went from Empire to Europe and argues rather that, following the Second World War, the key relationship was in fact trans-Atlantic.There is a commonly accepted belief that, during the twentieth century, British manufacturing declined irreparably, that Britain lost its industrial hegemony. But this is too simplistic. In fact, in the decades after 1945, Britain staked out a new role for itself as a key participant in a US-led process of globalisation. Far from becoming merely a European player, the UK actually managed to preserve a key share in a global market, and the British defence industry was, to a large extent, successfully rehabilitated. Sakade returns to the original scholarly parameters of the decline controversy, and especially questions around post-war decline in the fields of high technology and the national defence industrial base. Using the case of the strategically critical military and civilTable of ContentsIntroduction: Britain’s ‘new role’ between Europe and the US after 1945 Part I. The Post-War British Aircraft Industry, 1943-1964 1. The origins of Anglo-American production collaboration in the first jet-age (1943-56) 2. Sandy’s Defence White Paper and the Rationalisation of the British Aircraft Industry, 1957–60 3. BOAC’s Financial Crisis and the End of the "Fly British" Policy, 1963–66 Part II. The British Dilemma. 1964-1969 4. The Cancellation of Britain’s Top Projects, 1963–65 5. The Politics Behind the Plowden Doctrine: European and American Alternatives for the British Aircraft Industry 6. The "European Technological Community" and the Anglo-German MRCA project, 1966–69 Part III. European cooperative airliner projects and Anglo–American Industrial Collaboration, 1968-1982 7. The second jet age and the bankruptcy of Rolls-Royce, 1967–71 8. Trapped in a Loveless Marriage: The Anglo-French Concorde crisis of 1974 9. Playing a Double Game: The British aircraft industry in the third jet age Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn contemporary global capitalism, the most powerful corporations are innovation or intellectual monopolies. The book's unique perspective focuses on how private ownership and control of knowledge and data have become a major source of rent and power. The author explains how at the one pole, these corporations concentrate income, property and power in the United States, China, and in a handful of intellectual monopolies, particularly from digital and pharmaceutical industries, while at the other pole developing countries are left further behind.The book includes detailed empirical mappings of how intellectual monopolies develop and transform knowledge from universities and open-source collaborations into intangible assets. The result is a strategy that combines undermining the commons through privatization with harvesting from the same commons. The book ends with provoking reflections to tilt the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism and arguing that desired cTrade Review"This book is important reading for scholars and policy makers. It captures the contours of an emerging new era where global monopoly power increasingly is based on knowledge assets and access to data. It includes detailed empirical mappings of how digital intellectual monopolies, primarily located in the US and China, develop and transform knowledge from universities and open source collaborations into intangible assets. It shows how intellectual monopoly capitalism reinforces global inequality. The book raises important issues in relation to current views on intellectual property, anti-trust policy and development strategies." — Bengt-Åke Lundvall, Emeritus Professor, Aalborg University and Lund University. "Capitalism, Power and Innovation is a must read for scholars, policy makers, and activists who would like to understand the developing forms of intellectual monopoly capitalism. The volume brings together theoretical analyses, empirical research, and case studies and presents the reader with new insights on the rise of intellectual monopolies in sectors such as technology and pharmaceuticals; the interplays of the US and China through their intellectual monopolies; and the impact of intellectual monopoly capitalism on developing economies. As such, it not only provides an elaboration of the emergence and the rise of the intellectual monopolies but also untangles the effects of intellectual monopoly capitalism at various levels. The contributions in this volume are also an excellent starting point for researchers delving into the question of how science and technology is being transformed by powerful interests in modern capitalism." Prof. Özgür Orhangazi, Kadir Has University."Knowledge and innovation can be the basis of development. Much of today's innovation occurs in transnational innovation networks. This book asserts that these networks are organized through power relations and are increasingly dominated by intellectual monopolies. Unfortunately, the developing countries participating in these networks are not approaching the borders or advancing on the path of development. Cecilia Rikap contributes new evidence and looks through different lenses at the relationship between knowledge, innovation networks and power. She analyses how intellectual income is captured, what are the channels for that and who captures it. On this basis, she proposes specific policies to allow developing countries to benefit more from the knowledge created even in these countries, and to avoid an extractivism of pure knowledge from the periphery to the centre. Thank you for this effort, which nurtures the discussion to have a better and less unequal world." — Gabriela Dutrénit, Distinguished Professor at the Autonomous Metropolitan University and coordinator of the Latin American Network on Learning, Innovation and Competence building (LALICS)."In a time when intangible assets have become a critical factor of value creation and economic growth, our understanding of capitalism and its implications needs ground-breaking thinking. Cecilia Rikap’s book on Capitalism, Power and Innovation presents frontier research on the nature and formation of intellectual monopoly capitalism and its impact of the peripheries. It is a must read for scholars and policy makers." — Prof. Xiaolan Fu, Technology and Management Centre for Development, Department of International Development, University of Oxford "Capitalism, Power and Innovation gives us the right tools to understand how a digitalisation driven by an interplay between the US GAFA (Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon) and the likes from China can deeply constrain countries development and the fate of workers around the world. This roadmap is thus very welcome." — Prof. Pascal Petit, Emeritus Research Director at the CNRS.Table of Contents1 Introduction Section 1. Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism 2 The emergence of Intellectual Monopoly Capitalism 3 Knowledge privatization and power relations in the knowledge commons 4 The interplays of US, China and their intellectual monopolies 5 Research universities: between subordination and intellectual monopoly.Section 2. Global intellectual monopolies. Illustrative cases. 6 Technological cooperation and competition among big pharmaceuticals 7 Apple: from legal towards data-driven intellectual rentiership 8 Amazon’s data-driven intellectual monopoly 9 State Grid Corp: an intellectual monopoly relying on China's innovation system 10 Rentiership, predation, and their implications for workers. Section 3. Effects of intellectual monopoly capitalism on the peripheries 11 Why we need new development policies under intellectual monopoly capitalism 12 Singapore’s innovation hub. A source of rents for intellectual monopolies. 13 Pharmaceutical knowledge extractivism from a semi-peripheral university. 14 Tilting the scale against intellectual monopoly capitalism

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