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University of California Press CrossCultural Filmmaking
Book SynopsisThe authors of this text cover the practical, technical and theoretical aspects of documentary filming, from fundraising to exhibition. It discusses filmmaking styles and the assumptions that may hide unacknowledged behind them, as well as the practical and ethical issues involved.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: GETTING GOING 1. Documentary Styles 2. From Fieldwork to Filming PART TWO: NUTS AND BOLTS 3. Picture 4. Sound 5. Film or Video? Medium, Format, and Equipment PART THREE: STAGES OF FILMMAKING 6. Preproduction 7. Production 8. Postproduction 9. Distribution Appendix One: Release Forms Appendix Two: International Television Standards and Electricity Currents Appendix Three: Names and Addresses Appendix Four: Makes and Models Filmography Notes Acknowledgments Photo Credits Index
£34.00
University of California Press Hollywood 1938
Book SynopsisDrawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, this title analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond.Trade Review"A fascinating and substantial contribution to the cultural history of Hollywood film... Highly recommended." -- S. C. Dillon, Bates College ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Hollywood Looks at Its Audience Part One: The Campaign 1. Annus Horribilis Goldwyn's Folly Such a Thing as Bad Publicity The Moviegoing Habit 2. Exhibitors, the Movie Quiz Contest, and a Divided Industry The Minds of Exhibitors The Carrot and the Stick The Quiz Contest on the Ground What the Contest Did for Me Independents Rebel 3. The Campaign and the Press The Film Industry Speaks Its Mind Marginal Moviegoers The Gossip Columnists The Dailies Have Their Say Part Two: The Films 4. "The Finest Array of Productions" Ninety-Four Films The Death of Glamour Human Films The Human Side of Screwball You Can't Take It with You Four Daughters Boys Town Marie Antoinette That's Entertainment The Fourth Estate Conclusion: Motion Pictures' Worst Year Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Index
£50.40
University of California Press The Rice Room Growing Up ChineseAmerican from
Book SynopsisBen Fong-Torres was torn between an alluring American lifestyle - including Elvis and rock 'n' roll - and the traditional cultural heritage his proud immigrant parents struggled to instill in their five children. This title tells of growing up with a double identity - Chinese and American.
£18.90
University of California Press Hollywood 1938
Book SynopsisDrawing on the records of studio personnel, independent exhibitors, moviegoers, and the motion pictures themselves, this title analyzes what was wrong - and right - with Hollywood at the end of a heralded decade, and how the industry's troubles changed the making and marketing of films in 1938 and beyond.Trade Review"A fascinating and substantial contribution to the cultural history of Hollywood film... Highly recommended." -- S. C. Dillon, Bates College ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Hollywood Looks at Its Audience Part One: The Campaign 1. Annus Horribilis Goldwyn's Folly Such a Thing as Bad Publicity The Moviegoing Habit 2. Exhibitors, the Movie Quiz Contest, and a Divided Industry The Minds of Exhibitors The Carrot and the Stick The Quiz Contest on the Ground What the Contest Did for Me Independents Rebel 3. The Campaign and the Press The Film Industry Speaks Its Mind Marginal Moviegoers The Gossip Columnists The Dailies Have Their Say Part Two: The Films 4. "The Finest Array of Productions" Ninety-Four Films The Death of Glamour Human Films The Human Side of Screwball You Can't Take It with You Four Daughters Boys Town Marie Antoinette That's Entertainment The Fourth Estate Conclusion: Motion Pictures' Worst Year Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Notes Index
£27.00
University of California Press Getting It Wrong Debunking the Greatest Myths in
Book SynopsisMany of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths. In this book, the author confronts and dismantles prominent media-driven myths, describing how they can feed stereotypes, distort understanding about the news media, and deflect blame from policymakers.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "I'll Furnish the War": The Making of a Media Myth 2. Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds 3. Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth 4. TV Viewers, Radio Listeners, and the Myth of the First Kennedy-Nixon Debate 5. The Bay of Pigs-New York Times Suppression Myth 6. Debunking the "Cronkite Moment" 7. The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City 8. Picture Power? Confronting the Myths of the Napalm Girl Photograph 9. It's All about the Media: Watergate's Heroic-Journalist Myth 10. The "Fantasy Panic": The News Media and the "Crack-Baby" Myth 11. "She Was Fighting to the Death": Mythmaking in Iraq 12. Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting 13. Counterfeit Quotations: Swelling with a Digital Tide Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Getting It Wrong
Book SynopsisMany of American journalism's best-known and most cherished stories are exaggerated, dubious, or apocryphal. They are media-driven myths. The author confronts and dismantles prominent media-driven myths, describing how they can feed stereotypes, distort understanding about the news media, and deflect blame from policymakers.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction 1. "I'll Furnish the War": The Making of a Media Myth 2. Fright beyond Measure? The Myth of The War of the Worlds 3. Murrow vs. McCarthy: Timing Makes the Myth 4. TV Viewers, Radio Listeners, and the Myth of the First Kennedy-Nixon Debate 5. The Bay of Pigs-New York Times Suppression Myth 6. Debunking the "Cronkite Moment" 7. The Nuanced Myth: Bra Burning at Atlantic City 8. Picture Power? Confronting the Myths of the Napalm Girl Photograph 9. It's All about the Media: Watergate's Heroic-Journalist Myth 10. The "Fantasy Panic": The News Media and the "Crack-Baby" Myth 11. "She Was Fighting to the Death": Mythmaking in Iraq 12. Hurricane Katrina and the Myth of Superlative Reporting 13. Counterfeit Quotations: Swelling with a Digital Tide Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
£22.50
University of California Press Hollywood Made in China
Book SynopsisChina's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. This book examines this compelling dynamic, where the distinctions between Hollywood's dream factory and the PRC's Chinese dream of global influence become increasingly blurred.Trade Review"Timely and informative." * H-Diplo *"Hollywood Made in China is a timely contribution to film studies, media studies, and communication studies... impressive, far-reaching." * China Review *“Kokas’ work provides an insightful analysis of Sino-US co-ventures, and exemplifies an important approach to global media industries in general. . . .this is a groundbreaking book with an analysis that helps us understand how the Chinese government’s policy-making and Hollywood’s economic ambitions in the Chinese market complicate Sino-US media collaborations and construct ‘multilayered systems that unite the American and Chinese economies’.” * Asian Journal of Communication *"Hollywood Made in China is an elegant account of Hollywood’s evolving engagements in China’s commercial film environment... an accessible, intriguing study of an unlikely liaison." * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Like High Concept, scholar and industry consultant Justin Wyatt’s landmark 1994 book about Hollywood’s pivot towards packaged promotion - and merchandising-ready properties, Aynne Kokas’s Hollywood Made in China will be the seminal guidebook to understanding media in the era of the world’s pivot to China." - Karen Fang, University of Houston * China Review International *"A concise and lucid analysis." * China Quarterly *"...an informative book with updated real-world cases and textual analysis on Sino-US film co-production. For those less familiar with the topic, this book serves as a great introduction and resource." * Global Media and Communication *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Policy and Superheroes: China and Hollywood in Sino-US Relations 2. Hollywood's China: Mickey Mouse, Kung Fu Panda, and the Rise of Sino-US Brandscapes 3. Soft Power Plays: How Chinese Film Policy Influences Hollywood 4. Whispers in the Gallery: How Industry Forums Build Sino-US Media Collaboration 5. Compradors: How Above-the-Line Workers Brand Sino-US Film Production 6. Farm Labor, Film Labor: How Below-the-Line Workers Shape Sino-US Film Production Conclusion Appendix 1: Examples of Sino-US Film Collaboration by Type Appendix 2: Chinese Character Glossary Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
£64.00
University of California Press Comic Books Incorporated How the Business of
Book SynopsisComic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This extraordinary history begins at the medium's origin in the 1930s, when comics were a reviled, disorganized, and lowbrow mass medium, and surveys critical moments along the waymarket crashes, corporate takeovers, upheavals in distribution, and financial transformations. Shawna Kidman concludes this revisionist history in the early 2000s, when Hollywood had fully incorporated comic book properties and strategies into its business models and transformed the medium into the heavily exploited, exceedingly corporate, and yet highly esteemed niche art form we know so well today.Trade Review"The field needs studies like this, and it needs academics like Kidman who take on the sometimes unglamorous task of exposing the frames – the structures and infrastructures – within which, and between which, the colourful figures of comics and screen so fluidly move." * Times Higher Education *"Comic Books Incorporated chronicles the rise of the comic book business by documenting its emergence as a cultural product. Highlighting the transmedia infrastructures that made comic books possible, Kidman discusses comic books and their history as a medium, how comic books connect to politics and society, and the rise of comic book fan culture . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"Kidman’s methodology provides a fresh and exciting contribution to our understanding of the relationship between comics and Hollywood in the twenty-first century." * Media Industries Journal *
£27.00
University of California Press Runaway Hollywood
Book SynopsisAfter World War II, as cultural and industry changes were reshaping Hollywood, movie studios shifted some production activities overseas, capitalizing on frozen foreign earnings, cheap labor, and appealing locations. Hollywood unions called the phenomenon runaway production to underscore the outsourcing of employment opportunities. Examining this period of transition from the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Runaway Hollywood shows how film companies exported production around the world and the effect this conversion had on industry practices and visual style. In this fascinating account, Daniel Steinhart uses an array of historical materials to trace the industry's creation of a more international production operation that merged filmmaking practices from Hollywood and abroad to produce movies with a greater global scope.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Prologue: Movie Ruins Introduction: “Have Talent, Will Travel” part i: foundations 1 • All the World’s a Studio: Th e Design and Debates of Postwar “Runaway” Productions Case Study. Tax Evasion, Red-Baiting, and the White Whale: Moby Dick (1956) part i i: production 2 • London, Rome, Paris: Th e Infrastructure of Hollywood’s Mode of International Production 3 • Lumière, Camera, Azione!: Th e Personnel and Practices of Hollywood’s Mode of International Production Case Study. When in Rome: Roman Holiday (1953) part i i i: style 4 • A Cook’s Tour of the World: Th e Art of International Location Shooting Case Study. Mental Spaces and Cinematic Places: Lust for Life (1956) Epilogue: Sunken Movie Relics Appendix: Hollywood’s International Productions, 1948–1962 Notes Index
£22.50
University of California Press Specworld
Book SynopsisJohn Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and filmmaking practices, Caldwell takes readers into the world of production workshopping and trade mentoring to show media production as an untidy social constructrather than a unified, stable practice. This messy complex system, he argues, is full of discrete yet interconnected parts that include legacy production companies, marketers and influencers, aspirant online producers, data miners, financiers, talent agencies, and more. Caldwell peels away the layers of these embedded production systems to examine the folds,fault lines,and fracturesthat underlie a risky, high-pressure, and often exploitative industry. With insights on the ethical and human predicament faced by industry hopefuls and crossovercreators seeking professional careers, Caldwell offers new interpretive frames and research methods that allow readers to better see the hidden and multifaceted financial logics and forms of labor embedded in contemporary media production industries.Trade Review"The text is a wave to be surfed. . . . It will absolutely require Caldwellian levels of attention, vision, and language to measure up to the complexities of the world." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Ethics? Stress, Rifts, Bad Behavior 2 Framework: Spec, Folds, Leaks 3 Regimes: Craftworld, Brandworld, Specworld 4 Case: Warring Creator Pedagogies (The Aspirant’s Crossover Dilemma) 5 Folding: Stress Aesthetics, Compliance, Deprivation Pay 6 Case: Televisioning Aspirant Schemes 7 Fracturing: Rifts and Stress Points as System Self-Portraits 8 Case: Conjuring Microfinance to Overleverage Aspirants 9 Methods: Production Culture Research Design Acknowledgments Select Field Sites: Observations, Interviews, Transcriptions Notes Works Cited Index
£22.50
University of California Press Specworld
Book SynopsisJohn Thornton Caldwell's landmark Specworld demonstrates how twenty-first-century media industries monetize and industrialize creative labor at all levels of production. Through illuminating case studies and rich ethnography of colliding social-media and filmmaking practices, Caldwell takes readers into the world of production workshopping and trade mentoring to show media production as an untidy social constructrather than a unified, stable practice. This messy complex system, he argues, is full of discrete yet interconnected parts that include legacy production companies, marketers and influencers, aspirant online producers, data miners, financiers, talent agencies, and more. Caldwell peels away the layers of these embedded production systems to examine the folds,fault lines,and fracturesthat underlie a risky, high-pressure, and often exploitative industry. With insights on the ethical and human predicament faced by industry hopefuls and crossovercreators seeking professional careersTrade Review"The text is a wave to be surfed. . . . It will absolutely require Caldwellian levels of attention, vision, and language to measure up to the complexities of the world." * Film Quarterly *Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Ethics? Stress, Rifts, Bad Behavior 2 Framework: Spec, Folds, Leaks 3 Regimes: Craftworld, Brandworld, Specworld 4 Case: Warring Creator Pedagogies (The Aspirant’s Crossover Dilemma) 5 Folding: Stress Aesthetics, Compliance, Deprivation Pay 6 Case: Televisioning Aspirant Schemes 7 Fracturing: Rifts and Stress Points as System Self-Portraits 8 Case: Conjuring Microfinance to Overleverage Aspirants 9 Methods: Production Culture Research Design Acknowledgments Select Field Sites: Observations, Interviews, Transcriptions Notes Works Cited Index
£64.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The British Press and Broadcasting Since 1945
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Colin Seymour-Ure''s history of the press and broadcasting in post-war Britian offers a concise and fully up-to-date overview of the development of the media and its central role in British society.Trade Review"... this is a quite remarkably useful book. Something of a tour de force." Polticial Studies "The whole book is written with authority and detachment ....a model of comprehensiveness, conciseness and clarity." Parliamentary Affairs "... a welcome additional resource for students from a range of subject areas." SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables. General Editor's Preface. Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. 1. Snapshot: 1945/1998. 2. Which Media? What History?. 3. Media 1945-1995: the Press. 4. Media 1945-1995: Radio and Television. 5. Media Empires: Concentration, Conglomeration, Internationalization. 6. Content and Audiences. 7. Media, Government and Politics: the Intrusion of Television. 8. Media, Government and Politics: Prime Ministers and Parties. 9. Media Accountability: Government Policymaking. 10. Media Accountability: Markets, Self-Regulation and the Law. 11. Conclusion. Appendix: Provincial Evening Papers. Outline Chronology. Bibliography. Index.
£38.90
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consuming Television
Book SynopsisThis course text should encourage students to understand what contemporary audiences are all about. It is based on a recent survey of audiences undertaken by the ITC, and extrapolates from the most recent findings about the future prospects for both terrestrial and satellite/cable broadcasts.Trade Review"An invaluable book; the author knows a very great deal about television in a global sense and writes with a huge amount of infectious enthusiasm." Ian Mowatt, Glasgow Caledonian UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Audiences. 2. Technology. 3. Programmes. 4. Quality Television. 5. News. 6.Television, Politics, and Impartiality. 7. Offensive Television. 8. Children, Regulation, and the 'Effects' of Television. 9. Television's Uncertain Future. Postscript: "Don't Ask What does People Harm. Ask what Does Them Good". Notes. Bibliography.
£107.96
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Consuming Television
Book SynopsisConsuming Television is a textbook designed to introduce students to the role of television in contemporary society and to encourage an understanding of what contemporary audiences are all about. Written clearly and simply, and devoid of jargon Covers both the empirical and theoretical ground in a lively manner Unlike most books on the television audience, this volume looks at the programmes themselves, as well as the production process (including policies which affect television production) Trade Review"An invaluable book; the author knows a very great deal about television in a global sense and writes with a huge amount of infectious enthusiasm." Ian Mowatt, Glasgow Caledonian UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Audiences. 2. Technology. 3. Programmes. 4. Quality Television. 5. News. 6.Television, Politics, and Impartiality. 7. Offensive Television. 8. Children, Regulation, and the 'Effects' of Television. 9. Television's Uncertain Future. Postscript: "Don't Ask What does People Harm. Ask what Does Them Good". Notes. Bibliography.
£37.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Television in the Antenna Age
Book SynopsisTelevision in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an artthe book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate. Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events Trade Review“One could hardly ask for a more entertaining introduction to the history of entertainment media and its role in contemporary culture.” Stephen O’Leary, Annenberg School for Communication, USCTable of ContentsForeword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 No Small Potatoes 1 Communication and Transportation: The Divorce 1 Water, Water Everywhere 6 Electrical Bananas 9 Here Comes the Judge 10 Say What? 11 2 A Downstream Medium 21 The Show Business 22 Radical Consumerism Occupies the Middle 27 Networking 31 Quality Control 34 3 A Burning Bush? 37 Broadcasting: Love It or Need It? 38 A Vertical System of Culture 44 Compatible Software 46 4 Staging and Screening 53 Sets 53 Getting with the Program 55 The Origins of ABC 58 5 Corruption and Plateau 66 Technology 66 Industry 67 Art 67 Scandals and Shake-Outs 70 6 Dull as Paint and Just as Colorful 76 TV Rules 76 Just Plain Folks 84 Television Gothic 86 7 A Myth is as Good as a Smile 89 When No News Was Good News . . . in Prime Time 91 Shows Without Trees 94 As Real As It Got 98 Regulation and Social Effects 103 Programming and the Television Industry 108 8 Oligopoly Lost and Found 111 The Train and the Station 114 The Shock of the News 121 The Third Mask of Janus 126 Index 131
£94.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Television in the Antenna Age
Book SynopsisTelevision in the Antenna Age is a brief, accessible, and engaging overview of the medium's history and development in the US. Integrating three major concerns--television as an industry, a technology, and an artthe book is a basic primer on the complex, fascinating, and often overlooked story of television and its impact on American life. Covers the entire history of American television, from its urban, middle-class beginnings in the late 40s, to the contemporary impact of new technologies and consolidated corporate. Includes interview segments with industry insiders, pictures, and sidebars to illustrate important figures, trends, and events Trade Review“One could hardly ask for a more entertaining introduction to the history of entertainment media and its role in contemporary culture.” Stephen O’Leary, Annenberg School for Communication, USCTable of ContentsForeword ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii 1 No Small Potatoes 1 Communication and Transportation: The Divorce 1 Water, Water Everywhere 6 Electrical Bananas 9 Here Comes the Judge 10 Say What? 11 2 A Downstream Medium 21 The Show Business 22 Radical Consumerism Occupies the Middle 27 Networking 31 Quality Control 34 3 A Burning Bush? 37 Broadcasting: Love It or Need It? 38 A Vertical System of Culture 44 Compatible Software 46 4 Staging and Screening 53 Sets 53 Getting with the Program 55 The Origins of ABC 58 5 Corruption and Plateau 66 Technology 66 Industry 67 Art 67 Scandals and Shake-Outs 70 6 Dull as Paint and Just as Colorful 76 TV Rules 76 Just Plain Folks 84 Television Gothic 86 7 A Myth is as Good as a Smile 89 When No News Was Good News . . . in Prime Time 91 Shows Without Trees 94 As Real As It Got 98 Regulation and Social Effects 103 Programming and the Television Industry 108 8 Oligopoly Lost and Found 111 The Train and the Station 114 The Shock of the News 121 The Third Mask of Janus 126 Index 131
£30.35
Harvard University Press Dancing in the Street
Book SynopsisDetroit in the 1960s was a city with a pulse: people were marching in step with Martin Luther King, Jr.; dancing in the street with Martha and the Vandellas; facing off with city police. Through it all, Motown provided the beat. Here is the story of Motownas musical style and entrepreneurial phenomenonand of its relationship to Motor Town, USA.Trade ReviewThe publication of Dancing in the Streets, is an interesting one for an academic press; there's no shortage of general-audience books on the famed soul label, and other books have plumbed the immediate political ramifications of Berry Gordy's family-loan-turned-empire. But Smith aims not to glorify Motown as a can-do parable of black business, but to define it wholly--as a flawed microcosm of Detroit as much as one of black America. At once symptom and synecdoche, Motown is in her eyes the inevitable sum of its influences that somehow reenacted Detroit's external struggles on its own Grand Street stage. -- Peter Rubin * Boston Book Review *In her scholarly, informative, Dancing in the Street, Suzanne E. Smith reconsiders Motown, not just as the background music of the city's struggles but as a component of black Detroit's march for civil rights and social justice. -- Renée Graham * Boston Globe *Dancing in the Street is a wonderful blend of thorough research, firsthand interviews and an impassioned discussion of the music which keeps the book far away from the suffocating reaches of the academy. Smith, a Detroit native, has found in Motown's apparent order (its arrangements, performers and beats) the perfect juxtaposition to Detroit's growing disorder (in the riots, police violence and cultural devastation of urban renewal). * Detroit Metro Times *Though we would all count Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas and Marvin Gaye among Motown's greatest recording artists, Suzanne E. Smith would add another: Martin Luther King Jr...[Smith] is correct when she says it has become all but impossible to separate what happened in Detroit in the 1960s from the music that was playing when it did: as Norman Whitfield, the producer who replaced Holland-Dozier-Holland as the label's primary hitmaker, put it in a song he wrote for the Temptations, it was a 'Ball of Confusion.' Thirty years later, we're still unraveling it, and Dancing in the Street affords valuable insights to those of us who were there and those of us who weren't...It is fascinating reading for anyone who believes the sound of young America was not incompatible with the sound of struggle. -- Terry Lawson * Detroit Free Press *[Dancing in the Street discovers] a new approach to what had seemed an exhausted subject. [Suzanne Smith's] self-imposed task is to draw back from the larger picture of Motown's conquest of the international market, setting the company in its immediate context in Detroit, the community from which it emerged and after which it was named, and examining its relationship with the civil-rights struggle...[This book] adds a new dimension to our understanding of the forces that created music which has already outlasted the long hot summers for which it was designed. -- Richard Williams * Times Literary Supplement *In telling the story of the [Motown] label in its habitat, and telling it as an everyday tale of race in America, Suzanne Smith performs an act of historical rescue. -- Andrew Blake * The Independent *Now, thanks to the publication of the fascinating Dancing in the Street music fans as well as lovers of social history can grasp for the first time the unique nature of Detroit's daily social scheme and its impact on the lives of those who embodied the Motown Sound during the parallel cresting of the civil rights movement...Smith takes readers into the heretofore unexamined sphere of Detroit's sidewalk-level social ferment from Motown's founding in 1958 on through the city's devastating riots in 1967 and the related early-'70s flight from its precincts of the two enterprises central to its modern identity...If you've never heard about the Concept East Theater; or of WCHB, the first radio station built, owned, and operated by African-Americans; or never knew about organizations like the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; or the Freedom Now Part (the first all-black political party in the nation), Smith's text will explain their rich legacies. -- Timothy White * Billboard *Smith performs a valuable service in showing that Gordy, rather than being the rugged individualist often depicted, was the product of a hard-working and supportive family, one that had displayed a relentless self-help ethic for generations...To be sure, Smith is mainly concerned with the larger issues, but she does a good job of giving behind-the-scenes glimpses of the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and other Motown myths. While capitalism worked very well for Motown and its principles, Smith concludes, it was a far less effective system in exposing and eradicating the roots of racism. -- Edward Morris * Foreword Magazine *Suzanne E. Smith investigates the connections between music and a positive force: civil rights. Smith's compelling work depicts the exponential growth of the Motown recording company and reveals its role in shaping the civil rights movement in the urban North. * Publisher's Weekly *A finely rendered history of the storybook success of the 'Motown Sound,' arguably the most resonant cultural development of its time, within the localized context of urban turmoil and the civil-rights struggle...Relying on primary sources and on the recollections of Motown's acts, employees, and session players, Smith touchingly captures the industrious determination of a cultural community whose ambitions were underwritten by social cohesion and a generations-strong work ethic...She captures the spirit of this exciting time by focusing on individuals (Nat King Cole, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Motown discoveries like the Supremes and Marvin Gaye) whose actions were central to their era's cultural and civil-rights triumphs. More sobering is her re-creation of events leading to Detroit's 1967 riots, when intransigents on both sides of the color line overrode more moderate, conciliatory factions, leading the city toward a conflagration that permanently sundered the region's black and white communities. This reconstruction of Motown's meteoric popular rise during an era of fractious social division is compelling and informative for both aficionados of the music and students of American urban history. * Kirkus Reviews *That Detroit birthed a black music style, Motown, that conquered the white market at a time of unprecedented racial and social upheaval has attracted much comment. Investigation, Smith observes, has concentrated on how a black company, Motown Records, succeeded with white audiences and on the civil rights movement's effect on that success by fostering 'broader cultural integration.' Smite probes deeper...Tough stuff for a pop music book, but Smith answers rationally and evocatively in a serious book about the music biz that is excellent for pop music collections and downright obligatory for serious pop culture collections. * Booklist *Smith argues that [Motown's] immensely successful black-owned, Detroit-based corporation had an ambivalent attitude towards the changes brought about by Civil Rights campaigners in the 1960s: its music was designed for a multiracial audience, yet engaged with African-American politics. * Financial Times *Smith places Motown in its immediate context in the Detroit black community from which it emerged. She presents a focussed account of the city in the grip of social and political change. It is the approach which will endear the book to readers of both music journalism and historical narrative...Smith has used the rich tapestry of the Motown sound to present a truly exceptional book. It is well-argued and thought-provoking. -- J. Ahmed * Awaaz *Dancing in the Street, by Suzanne E. Smith, explores 1960s Motown music and culture against the backdrop of Detroit itself. She contrasts the racism that greeted migrating black auto workers with the shrewd way Motown created upbeat music that seemed to erase color lines. As Smith sees it, music and culture had to meet. -- David Hinckley * New York Daily News *While music in white society was seen as a diversion from the real world, Smith argues that in the black community it constituted daily life. Weighty, thorough stuff. -- Lois Wilson * Q Magazine *By pulling back "the veil of nostalgia that enshrouds" the Motown sound, Professor Smith provides a clearer and more realistic view of the accomplishments and limitations of Motown, the sound and the company. The study concludes that Motown's historical legacy encompasses outstanding contributions to the history of popular music, to the history of Black capitalism and to the history of the civil rights movement and race relations...This thoughtful and well-documented study will help readers to understand how "cultural politics" operates at grass-roots level. It will also provide them with an informative account of the Motown sound of the 1960s. * Race Relations Archive *Smith details the connection between the rise and success of Motown Records and the more specific histories of Detroit's civil rights struggles Dancing in the Street does and excellent job of detailing the fine line between the production of goods and the ideology behind that production. Suzanne Smith gives the reader an interesting history of Detroit in the1960s and of Motown and its cultural and musical impact, but she also provides a road map for other studies that seek to use culture as a means to understand larger historical situations. -- Kenneth J. Bindas * Historical Review *Suzanne Smith's wonderful new book, Dancing in the Streets: Motown and the Cultural Politics of Detroit, seeks to resituate the Motown sound within the history of the Motor City and, more broadly, to reconnect it to the larger historical moment of African American activism that was the 1960s. As Smith reminds us, a Motown hit like 'Dancing in the Street' was 'never just a party song'. From the outset Smith's engaging narrative immerses readers in the fascinating tale of how Motown rose from its humble beginnings in Detroit to become a corporate conglomerate far from its Motor City roots she must be given tremendous credit for identifying just how powerful and malleable this record company was as a symbol of the tumultuous 1960s. -- Heather Ann Thompson * Labor History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: "Can't Forget the Motor City" "In Whose Heart There Is No Song, To Him the Miles Are Many and Long": Motown and Detroit's Great March to Freedom "Money (That's What I Want)": Black Capitalism and Black Freedom in Detroit "Come See About Me": Black Cultural Production in Detroit "Afro-American Music, without Apology": The Motown Sound and the Politics of Black Culture "The Happening": Detroit, 1967 "What's Going On?" Motown and New Detroit Conclusion: "Come Get These Memories" Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Harvard University Press Creative Industries
Book SynopsisDrawing on industrial economics and contract theory, Caves explores the organization of creative industries, including visual and performing arts, movies, theater, sound recordings, and book publishing. In each, artistic inputs are combined with humdrum inputs. But Caves finds the deals bringing these inputs together are inherently problematic.Trade ReviewCreative Industries will appeal to the growing community of social scientists and humanists who are interested in and write about cultural policy. Even the economics-averse among them will have no excuse to avoid this gracefully written volume. It promises to be a much-needed touchstone for work in cultural economics, the sociology of art and culture, and the interdisciplinary field of arts and cultural policy analysis. -- Paul DiMaggio, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University[Caves] uses contract and industrial-organization theory to throw light on how and why the industries producing cultural goods and services--from literature to film, from rock music to opera--work as they do...Caves does not engage issues of ideology, nor of the political or economic importance of the arts, but simply sees the creative industries as fascinating areas of economic activity which have been largely neglected by economists...By documenting a wide range of commercial interactions across the creative industries, this comprehensive and immensely readable book shows persuasively that economic theory can help us understand the sheer business of making art happen. -- David Throsby * Times Literary Supplement *Richard Caves has filled a very large gap: until now virtually no one has addressed the economic organization of the arts and culture. This is a highly accessible work, in which huge volumes of scholarly and popular work have been uncovered, absorbed and assimilated in the finished product.Creative Industries is a splendid book. -- Richard Netzer, Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York UniversityCreative Industries explores the economics of the arts in exacting detail. With great skill and originality, Caves has analysed the economic forces operating in music, book publishing, painting, the theatre and movies. -- Winston Fletcher * Times Higher Education Supplement *Caves presents an excellent and readable discussion of the economics and organization of the creative arts industry Using an enormous amount of qualitative information, Caves combines the theory of contracts (a new development) with the economics of industrial organization to explain institutional arrangements (the contractual strategies of the market mediators) between artists (authors, actors, performers) and consumers. -- R. A. Miller * CHOICE *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction: Economic Properties of Creative Activities Part I: Supplying Simple Creative Goods 1. Artists as Apprentices 2. Artists, Dealers, and Deals 3. Artist and Gatekeeper: Trade Books, Popular Records, and Classical Music 4. Artists, Starving and Well-Fed Part II: Supplying Complex Creative Goods 5. The Hollywood Studios Disintegrate 6. Contracts for Creative Products: Films and Plays 7. Guilds, Unions, and Faulty Contracts 8. The Nurture of Ten-Ton Turkeys 9. Creative Products Go to Market: Books and Records 10. Creative Products Go to Market: Films Part III: Demand for Creative Goods 11. Buffs, Buzz, and Educated Tastes 12. Consumers, Critics, and Certifiers 13. Innovation, Fads, and Fashions Part IV: Cost Conundrums 14. Covering High Fixed Costs 15. Donor-Supported Nonprofit Organizations in the Performing Arts 16. Cost Disease and Its Analgesics Part V: The Test of Time 17. Durable Creative Goods: Rents Pursued through Time and Space 18. Payola 19. Organizing to Collect Rents: Music Copyrights 20. Entertainment Conglomerates and the Quest for Rents 21. Filtering and Storing Durable Creative Goods: Visual Arts 22. New versus Old Art: Boulez Meets Beethoven Epilogue Notes Index
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Harvard University Press Selling Sounds
Book SynopsisFrom Tin Pan Alley to grand opera, player-pianos to phonograph records, David Suisman’s Selling Sounds explores the rise of music as big business and the creation of a radically new musical culture. Provocative, original, and lucidly written, Selling Sounds reveals the commercial architecture of America’s musical life.Trade ReviewThis book is music to my ears-- a much needed history of the rise of the commercial music industry in the first decades of the twentieth century. Deeply researched, smartly argued, and engagingly written, Selling Sounds will sweep you off your feet. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar AmericaSelling Sounds masterfully charts the rise of the modern music industry in all its commercial complexity. As engaging as the new popular music Suisman describes, his account deserves an audience as wide as that music enjoyed. -- Emily Thompson, author of The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900-1933Ranging from Tin Pan Alley song pluggers to Supreme Court decisions on copyright, from Caruso's Victor Red Seal records to Black Swan, the first major black-owned record company, David Suisman's Selling Sounds is a marvelous cultural history of the ways the music industry retuned the soundscape of modern times in the United States. -- Michael Denning, Yale UniversityVirgin's music emporium will soon become a thing of the past: Like so many other retail music stores of late, it has announced that it is going out of business. The story of Selling Sounds, then, is especially timely. -- Ken Emerson * Wall Street Journal *A fascinating, well-written, richly detailed story of how music became a commodity in America...[Suisman's] scholarship is amazingly wide-ranging. -- William F. Gavin * Washington Times *[It's a] fascinating narrative that David Suisman unfurls...Here you learn everything from how the work of creating the songs is distributed to the various sales techniques employed by song pluggers (basically, the salesmen of music publishing), including the use of slides to add a visual component to the song. While there are numerous accounts of the position of so-called song pluggers in the development of popular music in the first decades of the 20th century, one rarely encounters a description that so accurately and compellingly details the quotidian life of these remarkable salesmen and the ways in which they learned to compete while peacefully coexisting...This [is a] really wonderful book. It warrants repeated readings and deep consideration. It is full of surprising revelations and some truly hilarious anecdotes. Well-researched and beautifully documented, replete with beautiful illustrations and photographs, this book belongs on the shelf of any reader serious about popular music and the music industry and given the impact of that industry on our daily lives, that really ought to be all of us. -- Chadwick Jenkins * PopMatters *Suisman...tell[s] an alluring story. -- George Anders * Forbes.com *A fascinating new book about the formative history of the American music business. -- Matt Miller * The Deal Magazine *Inventors ran wild during the years bracketing the turn of the 20th century, creating technology that repeatedly transformed the ways people heard and consumed music. It happened again a hundred years later, which makes David Suisman's lucid account of the emergence and consolidation of the music industry particularly welcome. -- Grant Alden * Wilson Quarterly *[A] meticulously researched history of [the music industry's] early days. -- Mark Athitakis * Washington Post *Though the story Suisman tells is a broadly familiar one, he has assembled valuable reminders of something many would rather ignore; namely, the extent to which the music we hear, and how we hear it, has less to do with our personal preferences than with what a large, well-organized sector of business makes available to us. Most listeners--and, I'd wager, artists--would surely prefer to see their musical experiences as a respite from capitalism, not a function of it. Still, it would be hard to deny that phenomena from the selling of youth culture back to itself in the form of rock and roll to the rise of ringtones as a tiny, publicly audible lifestyle indicator (and a fresh income stream) are rooted in structures and processes whose origins Suisman describes. -- Franklin Bruno * Los Angeles Times blog *With Selling Sounds, David Suisman kicks the legs out from the romantic account of the music industry's innocent start and slow move to commercial heartlessness. Suisman investigates the early decades of the popular music industry, from 1880 to 1930, and his descriptions of the upstart crews of scrappy entrepreneurs who hawked sheet music in the old days call to mind the corporate suits at major labels plugging the next Disney-spawned tween star or mall punk band. Put it in a pretty package and the kids will go ape for it. For Suisman popular music has always been heavily commercialized (songs, albums and artists are just more widgets to be peddled), and his book leaves one wondering whether the history of commercial music resembles the aesthetics of the pop song: the pattern has little variation but has proved to be endlessly repeatable, and mostly profitable. -- J. Gabriel Boylan * The Nation *If you're interested in the history of the music industry, or have wondered idly how the song that's stuck in your head got to be there, you should read David Suisman's detailed and entertaining Selling Sounds: The Commercial Revolution in American Music. Every page held a new discovery for me, from the competitive world of song pluggers (piano-and-crooner teams hired to perform songs in advance of the sheet music publication, often to "spontaneous" applause from plants in the audience), to the rise of the player-piano (in 1900, it would have been regarded as more potentially culture-transforming than phonographs), to the reason tenors surpassed sopranos in popularity (their voices better masked deficiencies in early recording), to Irving Berlin's nine rules--some seemingly contradictory--to writing a hit song. The chapter on Black Swan Records alone, which from 1921 to 1923 attempted to combine racial uplift with a viable business model, is worth the price of admission. Selling Sounds is a profound and fascinating book, not just for academics but for anyone with ears. -- Ed Park * The Millions *Table of Contents* Prologue * When Songs Became a Business * Making Hits * Music without Musicians * The Traffic in Voices * Musical Properties * Perfect Pitch * The Black Swan * The Musical Soundscape of Modernity * Epilogue * Abbreviations in Notes * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
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Harvard University Press Talk Radios America
Book SynopsisThe march to the Trump presidency began in 1988, when Rush Limbaugh went national. Brian Rosenwald charts the transformation of AM radio entertainers into political kingmakers. By giving voice to the conservative base, they reshaped the Republican Party and fostered demand for a president who sounded as combative and hyperbolic as a talk show host.Trade ReviewAt long last, Brian Rosenwald has filled a scholarly vacuum by offering a cogent, well-researched, and entertaining explanation of how Donald Trump was elected president. The conventional wisdom that Trump won by swinging 80,000 voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan might be factually accurate, but is too simplistic. Instead, Rosenwald proves that the outcome of the 2016 election was three decades in the making, made possible by the emergence of a candidate perfectly suited to capitalize on an environment created by the titans of talk radio. This is the book that provides proper context for the greatest election upset in modern American history. -- Michael Smerconish, Sirius XM and CNN hostRejecting claims that the medium acted as a Republican puppet, [Rosenwald] describes a curious relationship between the Grand Old Party and talk radio hosts, one that has had seriously deleterious consequences for American political life. * Financial Times *[Rosenwald] argues that the profit motive radicalized talk radio and with it the Republican Party…Because conflict and scaremongering drove ratings and ratings drove profits, the more extreme the hosts became, the more listeners they gained, and the more money they made. As they amassed power and influence, the hosts could demand fealty from the politicians they were discussing every day. -- Eric Alterman * The Nation *Moving the discussion of contemporary conservative media out of the realm of shadowy conspiracy theory and into the sunlight of deeply researched historical investigation, Brian Rosenwald shows how right-wing talk radio moved from the margins to the mainstream and warped American politics in the process. This book will be of vital interest to anyone concerned about restoring the quality of American democratic debate. -- Joseph Crespino, author of Atticus Finch: The Biography—Harper Lee, Her Father, and the Making of an American IconBefore there were social media echo chambers, before there was Fox News, there was Rush Limbaugh and his kin. Brian Rosenwald has told the definitive story of how a squad of outrageous, rule-breaking right-wing radio hosts set the Republican Party agenda and then overtook the party itself. Scholarly and yet eminently readable, this book is indispensable for understanding the world conservative media wrought. -- David Greenberg, Rutgers UniversityUpending conventional wisdom, Brian Rosenwald’s deeply researched book offers an incisive account of how conservative talk radio transformed American politics, altering the relationships between Congressional leaders and rank-and-file members, between activists and the party establishment, and between the demands of entertainment and the process of policymaking. -- Bruce J. Schulman, Boston UniversityThe rise of conservative talk radio has changed American politics and American life, and Brian Rosenwald tells a careful and comprehensive story of its rise and its mushrooming influence. From Rush Limbaugh’s humble beginnings to the election of Donald Trump, Talk Radio’s America shows through careful research and subtle argument how talk radio moved well beyond entertainment and grievance to change the role and makeup of mainstream media, the kinds of stories Americans consume, and the pliable nature of truth. A superb guide to one of the most potent forces in modern political history. -- John Dickerson, 60 Minutes correspondentA brisk, well-researched history of the rise and transformation of talk radio…A vigorous analysis of contemporary politics. * Kirkus Reviews *Demonstrate[s] that broadcasters like…Rush Limbaugh were just as important to building the Republican Party as deified political figures like George Wallace, William Buckley, or Pat Buchanan. Indeed, far from being a mere tool of the Republican Party, talk radio is revealed…as the dominant explanation for that party’s continued existence, an essential precondition of the far right’s cultural dominance today. * New Republic *Important and groundbreaking…Expertly shows how disparate strands in the American political landscape converged in the late 1980s to help make talk radio the potent political force it would become…A must-read for anybody hoping to understand how Trump captured the Republican presidential nomination. * Washington Examiner *Rosenwald takes a look at the rise of conservative radio from a variety of perspectives and offers a clear study of how policies, market forces, personalities, and timing played a role in creating a movement…The book is interesting from beginning to end. -- John M. Bublic * European Legacy *An informative account of talk radio and its impact on politics and policymaking. -- Glenn C. Altshuler * Pittsburgh Post-Gazette *In his 2016 presidential run, Donald Trump utilized styles of rhetoric similar to those of talk radio hosts in order to garner a strong base of loyal followers and rile up political activism amongst his supporters…This book could prove useful for those interested how media—both the form factor and the communicative aspects—affect political standing. -- Tyler M. Wilson * Communications Booknotes Quarterly *Documents Limbaugh’s formative role in turning an old technology into an instrument of power that transformed the Republican Party and political discourse in the United States…An important book…Goes a long way to documenting how an old medium helped create a new politics in the United States and paved the way for Donald Trump’s presidency. -- Vincent Mosco * IEEE Technology and Society Magazine *
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Harvard University Press The Making of Chinas Post Office
Book SynopsisThe Making of China’s Post Office traces the origins and early development—and the political maneuverings and economic imperatives—of the institution. Using Chinese archives, Tsai illustrates the extent to which local agency shaped the design and development of the first nationwide modernization project to directly impact people’s daily lives.
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Harvard University Press Walter Lippmann
Book SynopsisUnemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.Trade ReviewIt is unusual for a historical narrative to feature a journalist. Yet…Goodwin employs the writings of the once-famous newspaper columnist Walter Lippmann to describe the fervid U.S. debates that began with the 1929 stock-market crash. The device works beautifully. Lippmann, who wrote from 1931 to 1967, was so prolific, and his correspondence with other thinkers and decision makers was so cogent and extensive, that his oeuvre provides excellent material for examining a crucial moment in American history and essential aspects of the American economy, as hotly debated today as in Lippmann’s time…[An] insightful chronicle. -- George Melloan * Wall Street Journal *An excellent study of the man who was probably the most influential economics columnist and commentator of his era, even though he is not usually remembered as such. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *This is a timely biography. Lippmann’s concern to navigate through the real complexities and uncertainties of a transitional, even revolutionary, economic era while avoiding the appealing, easy answers was admirable… Lippmann is well worth re-discovering as we continue through our own period of economic and political upheaval, and this book sheds light on what made him an important figure who deserves to be better known. -- Diane Coyle * Enlightened Economist *From the early 1920s until the mid-1960s, Walter Lippmann was among the most prominent American public intellectuals, a sought-after adviser to politicians and the author of many books and more than a thousand articles and columns for The New Republic, the Herald Tribune, and The Washington Post. Goodwin’s worthy book serves to remind readers that Lippmann was more than a mere pundit. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *A fascinating glimpse into the workings of a brilliant mind striving mightily to understand the changing world around him and explain it to his readers… In splendid detail, Goodwin traces the process by which Lippmann, influenced by so many different minds from so many different fields, assumed the role that became his mission, that of public economist… No brief summary can do justice to either the richness of Lippmann’s ideas and prose or the skill with which Goodwin has woven his account of them. Quoting Lippmann liberally, the author does a masterful job of meshing disparate elements of material into a coherent narrative with a clarity that matches Lippmann’s own style… Goodwin’s superb work offers readers a fascinating guided tour across the landscape of one of the most unique and fertile minds of our time. -- Maury Klein * Harvard Business Review *Walter Lippmann set an unmatched standard for a journalist interpreting (and leavening) expert opinion to newspaper readers in the middle third of the twentieth century. He introduced Keynesian macroeconomics to the generation of the New Deal but never lost interest in markets themselves. He precipitated the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society after World War II but declined to join. And he remained on top of the story well into the Sixties, when the New Economics actually became public policy. It was a golden age. Craufurd Goodwin, who in the forty years that followed became the dean of the history of economic thought in America, has reanimated Lippmann and his approach with an eye to its many lessons for the present day. -- David Warsh, economicprincipals.comAnyone interested in the great economic and political events of the middle of the last century will have encountered Walter Lippmann. The prolific journalist and public intellectual wrote regular newspaper columns and numerous books wrestling with the challenges of economic depression, war, and reconstruction. In this volume, Goodwin provides a synthesis of the evolution of Lippmann’s views on economic issues… Goodwin concludes this fascinating volume with a brief chapter summing up Lippmann’s importance in creating the role of the public intellectual in economic policy. -- J. L. Rosenbloom * Choice *An insightful biography of esteemed journalist and philosopher Walter Lippmann…Opening up new perspectives on past political debates, Goodwin delivers a finely limned portrait of a man whose career was based on standards and purposes that seem to have largely disappeared from public life. * Kirkus Reviews *We have many pundits and probably too many economists. But we have no Walter Lippmann, and Craufurd D. Goodwin’s wonderful biography of the great journalist shows us why this is a tragedy. Lippmann was the voice of the profound generalist fighting the damaging defenders of meaningless abstraction. This is a fascinating book that reminds us how much better public commentary on the economy can be than it is today. -- Jeff Madrick, author of Seven Bad Ideas: How Mainstream Economists Have Damaged America and the World
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Harvard University Press I Will be Heard
Book SynopsisGarrison's letters offer an insight into the mind and life of an outstanding figure in American history, a reformer-revolutionary who sought radical changes in the institutions of his day, and who, perhaps more than any other single individual, was ultimately responsible for the emancipation of the slaves.Trade ReviewThese early letters are those of a propagandist already committed to the overthrow of slavery…This first handsome volume of letters provides fresh insights into the mind of an American radical who undertook 'to reform the morals of the age.' * Times Literary Supplement *
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Harvard University Press A House Dividing against Itself
Book SynopsisThis volume covers the five-year period in which Garrison's three sons were born and he entered the arena of social reform with full force.Trade ReviewThis second volume of The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison is, like its predecessor, a model of editorial excellence…Ruchames has supplied authentic and accurate texts for all these documents and has provided full but unobtrusive annotation…This volume illuminates one of the most complex and controversial phases of the abolitionist crusade. * Journal of American History *
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Princeton University Press Soft News Goes to War Public Opinion and
Book SynopsisThe American public has consistently declared itself less concerned with foreign affairs in the post-Cold War era. How can it be, then, that public attentiveness to US foreign policy crises has increased? This book represents a systematic attempt to explain this apparent paradox.Trade Review"Baum marshals an impressive body of research data to support his thesis, and he arranges it in a highly readable manner."--Choice "Soft News Goes to War is an important work. Prior to its publication, many researchers had speculated about the political consequences of soft news, but none had provided the rigorously derived conclusions that Baum does... [Readers] will find intriguing and provocative insights to reward them."--Paul R. Brewer, Perspectives on Political Science "[O]ne of the better political communication books of recent years... [T]his book will open the eyes of scholars and practitioners alike to the new world of public communication. Soft News Goes to War is a must read for those interested in the media, public opinion, and foreign policy."--Thomas E. Patterson, Political Science Quarterly "Presenting an important and carefully researched analysis, this timely book documents why political communication research can no longer ignore entertainment programming as an important source of political information."--Scott L. Althaus, Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics "Baum's study of 'soft news' is comprehensive... It is rare to see a combination of use-, content-, and effects-based research in a single work, and the author should be applauded for such efforts."--R. Lance Holbert, Public Opinion Quarterly "Baum presents a detailed theoretical model that serves as a foundation for his study of soft news. It is important that future research in this area use Baum's model as a foundation from which to bring greater sophistication (relative to greater complexity) in outlining the processes that generate soft news effects."--R. Lance Holbert, Public Opinion Quarterly "Baum sets us off on some productive paths for more research in the area. The book is well written, cautious, and generally impressive. I recommend it highly for all students of contemporary political communication and public opinion."--Susan Herbst, Political CommunicationTable of ContentsPREFACE ix CHAPTER ONE: War and Entertainment 1 Appendix. Defining "Attentiveness" 15 CHAPTER TWO: Soft News and the Accidentally Attentive Public 18 Appendix. Locating Changes in Cognitive Costs and Benefits 53 CHAPTER THREE: "I Heard It on Oprah" 57 Appendix. Content Analysis Coding Form 95 CHAPTER FOUR: Bringing War to the Masses 97 Appendix 1. On Using Opinionation as an Indicator of Attentiveness 133 Appendix 2. Variable Definitions 138 Appendix 3. Statistical Tables 144 CHAPTER FIVE: Tuning Out the World Isn't as Easy as It Used to Be 156 Appendix 1. Data Sources and Variable Definitions 195 Appendix 2. Testing for Floor and Ceiling Effects 200 Appendix 3. Comparing Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War 202 Appendix 4. Statistical Tables 204 CHAPTER SIX: Rallying Round the Water Cooler 212 Appendix 1. Variable Definitions 223 Appendix 2. Statistical Tables 225 CHAPTER SEVEN: Soft News and World Views: Foreign Policy Attitudes of the Inattentive Public 229 Appendix. Statistical Tables 259 CHAPTER EIGHT: Soft News, Public Opinion, and American Foreign Policy: The Good, the Bad, and the Merely Entertaining 269 Appendix. Statistical Tables 292 NOTES 295 REFERENCES 330 INDEX 345
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Princeton University Press Playbooks and Checkbooks
Book SynopsisWhat economic rules govern sports? How does the sports business differ from other businesses? This title takes a look at the fundamental economic relationships shaping modern sports. It focuses on the ways that the sports business does and does not overlap with economics. It uncovers the core paradox at the heart of the sports industry.Trade Review"Mr. Szymanski, an economics professor at the Cass Business School at City University in London, tackles the apparent paradoxes of the sports business in the head-on style of an N.F.L. linebacker... He displays an impressive global knowledge of sports ranging from basketball and cricket to tennis and rugby, and provides a wealth of revealing financial information as well as entertaining sports trivia."--Harry Hurt III, New York Times "Playbooks and Checkbooks is not a snoozer but a sleeper; equal parts eminently readable and wholly fascinating... Szymanski's non-elaborated notion places his book with the best art history, for art also is a creature of its time."--David M. Gordon, The Browser "Szymanski covers most relevant topics in modern sports economic theory in a very elegant and in my opinion comprehensible fashion. Personally, I really enjoyed his explanation of wage formation in sports labour markets, and his (sociological/historical) views on the development of sport as business... It is well written, well structured and sometimes even funny."--Kjetil K. Haugen, Nordic Sport Studies ForumTable of ContentsPreface vii Chapter One: Sports and Business 1 Chapter Two: Organizing Competition 27 Chapter Three: Sports and Antitrust 59 Chapter Four: Sporting Incentives 92 Chapter Five: Sports and Broadcasting 125 Chapter Six: Sports and the Public Purse 155 Epilogue 180 A Beginner's Guide to the Sports Economics Literature 185 Acknowledgments 197 Index 199
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Princeton University Press Ground Wars Personalized Communication in
Book SynopsisProvides an ethnographic portrait of two political campaigns, New Jersey Democrat Linda Stender's and that of Democratic Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, who both ran for Congress in 2008. This title examines how American political operatives use "personalized political communication" to engage with the electorate.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Doris Graber Award, Political Communication Section of the American Political Science Association "Although running for office by knocking on doors may seem quant and old-fashioned, this book asserts the continued importance of personal campaign contact despite the existence of mass media and social networking. Based on extensive participant observation in two competitive Democratic House races, Nielsen not only provides very extensive personal stories from the campaign trail but also discovers interesting patters and attempts to link them to social science theory."--Choice "The beauty of Nielsen's book is that he takes you inside the ground wars, into the mundane world of the political junkies and hangers-on who want to be close to the main action, even if the action involves a county election."--William D. Crano, PsycCritiquesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue: Welcome to the Campaigns 1 Chapter 1: Personalized Political Communication in American Campaigns 4 Chapter 2: The Ground War Enters the Twenty-first Century 35 Chapter 3: Contacting Voters at Home 63 Chapter 4: Organizing Campaign Assemblages 95 Chapter 5: Targeting Voters for Personal Contacts 133 Chapter 6: Always Fighting the Same Ground War? 171 Research Appendix 189 Notes 209 References 221 Index 235
£27.00
Princeton University Press Playbooks and Checkbooks
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Mr. Szymanski, an economics professor at the Cass Business School at City University in London, tackles the apparent paradoxes of the sports business in the head-on style of an N.F.L. linebacker. . . . He displays an impressive global knowledge of sports ranging from basketball and cricket to tennis and rugby, and provides a wealth of revealing financial information as well as entertaining sports trivia."---Harry Hurt III, New York Times"Playbooks and Checkbooks is not a snoozer but a sleeper; equal parts eminently readable and wholly fascinating. . . . Szymanski's non-elaborated notion places his book with the best art history, for art also is a creature of its time."---David M. Gordon, The Browser"Szymanski covers most relevant topics in modern sports economic theory in a very elegant and in my opinion comprehensible fashion. Personally, I really enjoyed his explanation of wage formation in sports labour markets, and his (sociological/historical) views on the development of sport as business. . . . It is well written, well structured and sometimes even funny."---Kjetil K. Haugen, Nordic Sport Studies Forum
£31.50
Princeton University Press Digital Renaissance What Data and Economics Tell
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Pluto Press Your Right to Know
Book SynopsisIf you've ever wanted to force open the secretive doors of government, this is the guide you need.Trade Review'Information is born free, but everywhere is in chains. Heather Brooke has written the Information Liberation Front guide to end the politicians' enslavement of the facts which belong to the public' -- Greg Palast, author The Best Democracy Money Can Buy'Heather Brooke pulls no punches when it comes to exposing how the government, public institutions and private companies all keep the British public in the dark. Even better, she tells readers how they can successfully challenge the system using the latest public access laws' -- Michael Crick, BBC journalist'Labour had been promising freedom of information for decades. Now we are getting it we need to keep the pressure on, and this is just the book to do that. All journalists should pick up these tricks' -- Jeremy Dear, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists'Both revealing and practical - a necessary antidote to the British culture of secrecy' -- David Banisar, Deputy Director of Privacy InternationalTable of ContentsForeword by Ian Hislop Introduction Chapter 1 - FOI in practice Chapter 2 - Scotland Chapter 3 - Laws of Access Chapter 4 - Central Government Chapter 5 - Intelligence, Security and Defence Chapter 6 - Transport Chapter 7 - The Justice System Chapter 8 - Law Enforcement and Civil Defence Chapter 9 - Health Chapter 10 - The Environment Chapter 11 - Local Government Chapter 12 - Education Chapter 13 - Private Companies Chapter 14 - Information about Individuals Conclusion Appendix - Letters for requesting information
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Pluto Press War Reporters Under Threat The United States and
Book SynopsisCombines critical scholarship with investigative journalism to examine the US government threat to journalists, a threat ignored or dismissed to date.Trade Review'Reminds us journalists always to ask the question: 'Are we mere messengers and voyeurs of war, or is the message we carry so valuable to the world beyond that it's worth the risk?'' -- John Pilger'In the shadow of 9/11 Paterson accuses the United States of acting with impunity in its targeting and killing of journalists and media workers. He provides a painstaking, thoughtful and ultimately damning case to answer over military adventures' -- Aidan White, director of the Ethical Journalism Network and former Director General of the International Federation of JournalistsTable of ContentsPreface 1. A Hidden War on the Media 2. The Culture of Press Intolerance: Collaboration and Suppression 3. Patterns of Violence: The Media Installation and the Media Worker Part I: Escalation Part II: Expansion of Anti-Press Violence 4. Media Response 5. Legality 6. Invisible Conflict? Appendix I: A Chronology of Attacks on Media Facilities and Personnel Linked to the U.S. Government Appendix II: Media Safety and Media Freedom Organisations Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd New Media New Policies
Book Synopsisaeo The first systematic study of the consequences of new media technologies for questions of access and regulation. aeo Criticises orthodox views of the Left and Right about media and communication policies. aeo Develops a major new framework for policy makers with regard to the media in the UK and elsewhere.Trade Review"The convergence of media technologies and industries is racing ahead of a maze of fragmented and increasingly obsolete policies rooted in the preconvegence era. New Media, New Policies lays down an integrated policy programme that challenges conventional thinking and provides an essential foundation for the forthcoming debates on policies for the UK information society." Professor W Melody, Center for Tele Information, Technical University of Denmark "A key book - and a key to new Labour thinking." James Curran, Goldsmiths' College "Much of what they have to say about policy is thoughtful and to be welcomed ... Collins and Murroni seek to provide a coherent perspective and clear policy guidelines for the future. Whether you are "new" or "old" labour, this is an important book that deserves to be widely read." Tribune "Their comprehensive and timely book is the first fruit of a major study of the media and telecommunications industries." The Times Higher Education Supplement "The scope of the book is wide, dealing with press, broadcasting and other audiovisual media ... it is all clearly written and explained in a reasonable and no-nonsense style which will make it both useful and attractive to students of British media policy, who need a short and reliable introduction to a wide range of issues. It should also appeal to politicians of the centre left who want some ready-made answers to questions about media policy." European Journal of Communication "The quality of its analysis of current UK communication policy issues ... is both cogent and clear ... A valuable contribution to the continuing debates on UK communication policy and a highly recommended text for teaching on these policy issues." LSE Magazine "This book is not simply an academic text ... [it is] a resource for government ... Many statements in the book translate into policies recently enacted or, perhaps, are about to be so." ScreenTable of ContentsPreface. Introduction. 1. Market Forces in Telecommunications. 2. Essential Facilities, Third Party Access and the Problems of Interconnection. 3. Concentration of Ownership. 4. Universal Service Obligation in Broadcasting and Telecommunications. 5. Freedom of Expression. 6. Audiovisual Policies: Too Much or Not Enough?. 7. Public Service Broadcasting: a Better BBC. 8. Convergence and Change: Reforming the Regulators. Conclusions. Appendix One. Appendix Two. Notes. References. Glossary. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Issues in Contemporary Documentary
Book SynopsisStates that although documentary history cannot be ignored, the genre needs to be understood as complex, multi-faceted, and influenced by a range of different contexts. This title describes the challenges of contemporary documentary by balancing theoretical discussion with use of material from Europe and North America and the developing world.Trade Review"Brings the study of documentary up-to-date through a range of contemporary examples, which is particularly useful for journalism students who are interested in documentary practice, whilst offering historians of film and television an important contextual resource for understanding issues in documentary today." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "Broad-ranging ... This book is undoubtedly recommended as an undergraduate textbooked, evidenced by its lucid exposition and easily accessible and clearly presented case studies; however, it nonetheless offers a useful account and summary of the key debates that surround and inform the terrain of the contemporary documentary." Times Higher Education "Jane Chapman's book offers students a clear introduction to some of the main questions and debates surrounding current documentary practice. Not only is the whole book developed around selected examples, it is informed throughout by the ethical, creative, and technological challenges of actually making films and programmes. Its strongly 'insider' viewpoint usefully complements the 'outsider' framings of most film and television studies." John Corner, University of Liverpool "In a clear, comprehensive style, Jane Chapman has vividly laid out the key issues in documentary. With attention to historical trends and theoretical debates this book will be of enormous use to scholars and practitioners of documentary. This book should find a wide audience among students and viewers of documentary." Paula Rabinowitz, University of MinnesotaTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Definitions - Issues and Influences.2. Representation - Problems, Purpose3. Objectivity/Subjectivity - Pursuing truth?4. Censorship - whose world is it?5. Authorial Voice - means of expression6. Reflexivity - techniques and reflection7. Audience - a world view or viewing the world?8. Ethics - shifting boundariesConclusions: continuities and changeBibliographyFilmography
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Issues in Contemporary Documentary
Book SynopsisDocumentary is fast changing: with the digital revolution and the enormous increase in Internet usage, the range of information and outlets for distribution continues to become more diverse. This title presents the challenges of contemporary documentary.Trade Review"Brings the study of documentary up-to-date through a range of contemporary examples, which is particularly useful for journalism students who are interested in documentary practice, whilst offering historians of film and television an important contextual resource for understanding issues in documentary today." Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television "Broad-ranging ... This book is undoubtedly recommended as an undergraduate textbooked, evidenced by its lucid exposition and easily accessible and clearly presented case studies; however, it nonetheless offers a useful account and summary of the key debates that surround and inform the terrain of the contemporary documentary." Times Higher Education "Jane Chapman's book offers students a clear introduction to some of the main questions and debates surrounding current documentary practice. Not only is the whole book developed around selected examples, it is informed throughout by the ethical, creative, and technological challenges of actually making films and programmes. Its strongly 'insider' viewpoint usefully complements the 'outsider' framings of most film and television studies." John Corner, University of Liverpool "In a clear, comprehensive style, Jane Chapman has vividly laid out the key issues in documentary. With attention to historical trends and theoretical debates this book will be of enormous use to scholars and practitioners of documentary. This book should find a wide audience among students and viewers of documentary." Paula Rabinowitz, University of Minnesota Table of ContentsAcknowledgements vii Introduction 1 1 Definitions: Issues and Influences 8 2 Representation: Problems, Purpose and Perspective 28 3 Objectivity/Subjectivity: Pursuing Truth? 48 4 Censorship: Whose World Is It? 72 5 Authorial Voice: Editorial and Message 93 6 Reflexivity: Techniques and Reflection 114 7 Audience: A World View or Viewing the World? 134 8 Ethics: Shifting Boundaries 156 Conclusion 178 Notes 182 Bibliography 186 Filmography 196 Index 201
£21.84
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Be Creative
Book SynopsisIn this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the euphoric moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment.Trade Review"From the person who more or less invented cultural labour studies as we know it comes this important set of essays, full of political passion and brilliant insight."David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds"We are so fortunate to have McRobbie as an expert guide, mapping this complex cultural terrain. The book is essential reading for those trying to understand creativity within the cultural landscape, how we got here, and the role of neoliberal economies in building and reproducing what it means to be ‘creative’."Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, Los AngelesTable of ContentsIntroduction: From The Social Network to The ‘Flexible Frau’, Visions of Creative Economy Chapter One: Unpacking the Politics of Creative Labour: The Rise of the Urban Hipster Economy Chapter Two: The Artist as Human Capital: Looking Back at London, New Labour and the ‘Modernisation of Culture’. Chapter Three: Club to Company Chapter Four: Gender and Work in the New Creative Economy Chapter Five: The Time and Space of Creative Labour: A response to the writing of Richard Sennett Chapter Six: Fashion Matters Berlin: Start Ups Scenes and Female Social Enterprise Chapter Seven: Conclusion; Concepts for Project Working in a European Frame
£49.50
Kogan Page Brand Sense
Book SynopsisMartin Lindstrom is the bestselling author of Buyology and Brand Child (published by Kogan Page). As one of the world's 100 most influential people according to TIME magazine, Lindstrom advises top executives at companies including the McDonald's Corporation, Nestlé, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, Pepsi, Unilever, and GlaxoSmithKline. Lindstrom speaks to a global audience of close to a million people every year and Brand Sense was acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as one of the five best marketing books ever published.Trade Review"A treasury of ideas for bringing new life to your brands...read this book and watch how the professionals do it!" * Philip Kotler, Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management *"A flash of insight." * The Economist *"An outstanding book." * The Marketer *
£27.83
Kogan Page Ltd Adland
Book SynopsisMark Tungate is a British journalist based in Paris. He is the author of six books about branding and marketing including Fashion Brands and The Escape Industry, both published by Kogan Page. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from Campaign and Advertising Age to the Financial Times. He also has a weekly column in the French marketing journal Strategies. Alongside his writing, he heads the jury of the Epica Awards.Trade Review"Immensely readable." * Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP *"A terrific book: intelligently written and thoroughly researched. A must read for anyone interested in advertising." * Sir Alan Parker *"A great story: full of character, fun and life." * Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi *"The story of the best advertising, told with the accuracy of the best journalism and with the style of the best literature." * Washington Olivetto, President, W/Brasil *"Ambitious in scope, the book sustains the interest of readers without getting bogged down in detail." * Irish Times *"Must-read for anyone interested in the advertising industry." * Editors’ Choice Summer 2013, Journal of Multidisciplinary Research *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Pioneers of persuasion; Chapter - 02: From propaganda to soap; Chapter - 03: Madison Avenue aristocracy; Chapter - 04: Creative revolutionaries; Chapter - 05: The Chicago way; Chapter - 06: The Brit pack; Chapter - 07: Eighties extravagance; Chapter - 08: The French connection; Chapter - 09: European icons; Chapter - 10: Media spins off; Chapter - 11: Consolidation incorporated; Chapter - 12: Japanese giants; Chapter - 13: The alternatives; Chapter - 14: Dotcom boom and bust; Chapter - 15: Latin spirit; Chapter - 16: International outposts; Chapter - 17: Shooting stars; Chapter - 18: Controversy in Cannes; Chapter - 19: New frontiers; Chapter - 20: The agency of the future
£29.99
Kogan Page Adland
Book SynopsisMark Tungate is a British journalist based in Paris. He is the author of six books about branding and marketing including Fashion Brands and The Escape Industry, both published by Kogan Page. His articles have appeared in publications ranging from Campaign and Advertising Age to the Financial Times. He also has a weekly column in the French marketing journal Strategies. Alongside his writing, he heads the jury of the Epica Awards.Trade Review"Immensely readable." * Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO, WPP *"A terrific book: intelligently written and thoroughly researched. A must read for anyone interested in advertising." * Sir Alan Parker *"A great story: full of character, fun and life." * Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi *"The story of the best advertising, told with the accuracy of the best journalism and with the style of the best literature." * Washington Olivetto, President, W/Brasil *"Ambitious in scope, the book sustains the interest of readers without getting bogged down in detail." * Irish Times *"Must-read for anyone interested in the advertising industry." * Editors’ Choice Summer 2013, Journal of Multidisciplinary Research *Table of Contents Chapter - 00: Introduction; Chapter - 01: Pioneers of persuasion; Chapter - 02: From propaganda to soap; Chapter - 03: Madison Avenue aristocracy; Chapter - 04: Creative revolutionaries; Chapter - 05: The Chicago way; Chapter - 06: The Brit pack; Chapter - 07: Eighties extravagance; Chapter - 08: The French connection; Chapter - 09: European icons; Chapter - 10: Media spins off; Chapter - 11: Consolidation incorporated; Chapter - 12: Japanese giants; Chapter - 13: The alternatives; Chapter - 14: Dotcom boom and bust; Chapter - 15: Latin spirit; Chapter - 16: International outposts; Chapter - 17: Shooting stars; Chapter - 18: Controversy in Cannes; Chapter - 19: New frontiers; Chapter - 20: The agency of the future
£87.30
University of British Columbia Press Hollywood North The Feature Film Industry in
Book SynopsisThis timely book recounts the story of British Columbia's rapid rise from relative obscurity in the film world to its current status as "Hollywood North."Table of Contents1 Cinema in the Age of Globalization2 Cinema As a Medium of Regional Industrial Development: A History of BC Film Production3 The Terms of Inclusion: British Columbia within the Political Economy of North American Film Production4 Promote It and They Will Come: Provincial Film Policy in British Columbia5 Locating British Columbia As Cinematic Place: Contending Regimes of Film Production6 Locating the BC Film IndustryAppendix: Partial List of BC Feature Film Credits, 1976-2000NotesReferencesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Hidden Agendas
Book SynopsisA controversial study showing how the political beliefs of journalists significantly affect the ideological slant of the news, skewing it further to the left than the political stance of the average Canadian.Trade ReviewHidden Agendas lays out the pervasive liberal-left bias in most big-city newsrooms. It should be a wake-up call for reporters and editors who believe themselves to be objective, but aren’t. -- Lorne Gunter * National Post *Hidden Agendas breaks new ground and expands our understanding of Canada’s media. But be forewarned: Whatever your preconceptions about who’s right, who’s left and who’s wrong, this little book is full of surprises. -- Terence Corcoran, editor-in-chief * Financial Post *With care and skill, Miljan and Cooper subject the poisonous debate over media bias to a healthy dose of scientific analysis. All future debate over the media will have to take their research into account. This book shows that bias isn’t just in the eye of the beholder. It’s also in the eyes of journalists, to whom we’re all beholden for our image of reality. -- Bob Lichter, president, Center for Media and Public Affairs, Washington, DC, and author of The Media Elite: America’s New PowerbrokersTable of ContentsPrefacePart 1: Context1 Why Journalists?2 Why the News?3 Are Journalists Agents of Control or of Change?Part II: Data4 Who Staffs Canada’s Media?5. Climate Change and Content AnalysisPart III: Issues6 Economic Issues7 Partition of Quebec8 The Courts and Social Issues9 Conclusions
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Brokering Access
Book SynopsisDrawing together the perspectives of social scientists, journalists, and ATI advocates, Brokering Access explores the policies and practices surrounding access to information in Canada, highlighting the struggle between the public’s desire for transparency and the government’s culture of secrecy.Table of ContentsForeword / Ann CavoukianIntroduction: On the Politics of Access to Information / Mike Larsen and Kevin WalbyPart 1: Access to Information, Past and Present1 Sustaining Secrecy: Executive Branch Resistance to Access to Information in Canada / Ann Rees2 Access Regimes: Provincial Freedom of Information Law across Canada / Gary DicksonPart 2: Behind Closed Doors -- Security and Information Control3 Flying the Secret Skies: Difficulties in Obtaining Data on Canadian Airport Security Screening Tests Following 9/11 / Jim Bronskill4 Access to Information in an Age of Intelligencized Governmentality / Willem de Lint and Reem Bahdi5 Accessing Dirty Data: Methodological Strategies for Social Problems Research / Yavar Hameed and Jeff MonaghanPart 3: Access to Information and Critical Research Strategies6 The Freedom of Information Act as a Methodological Tool: Suing the Government for Data / Matthew G. Yeager7 “He who controls the present, controls the past”: The Canadian Security State’s Imperfect Censorship under the Access to Information Act / Steve Hewitt8 Behind the Blue Line: Using ATI in Researching the Policing of Aboriginal Activism / Tia Dafnos9 Accessing the State of Imprisonment in Canada: Information Barriers and Negotiation Strategies/ Justin Piché10 Accessing Information on Streetscape Video Surveillance in Canada / Sean P. HierPart 4: Dispatches from the Fourth Estate -- Access to Information and Investigative Journalism11 Access, Administration, and Democratic Intent / Fred Vallance-Jones12 Access to Information: The Frustrations -- and the Hope / David McKie13 The Quest for Electronic Data: Where Alice Meets Monty Python Meets Colonel Jessep / Jim RankinPostscript / Suzanne LegaultIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Merry Laughter and Angry Curses The Shanghai
Book SynopsisMerry Laughter and Angry Curses investigates the proliferation of late-Qing-era tabloid journalism and the tabloids’ role in subverting the political and intellectual establishment.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Community of Fun2 Officialdom Unmasked3 Imagining the Nation4 Confronting the “New”5 Questioning the Appropriators6 The Market, Populism, and AestheticsConclusionNotesGlossary of Chinese Terms and NamesBibliographyIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Merry Laughter and Angry Curses
Book SynopsisThe end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese-owned newspapers become more influential than anyone could have anticipated, but it was the supposedly frivolous xiaobao, the little or minor papers, that captivated and empowered the public.Merry Laughter and Angry Curses reveals how the late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. As periodical publishing reached a fever pitch, tabloids had free rein to criticize officials, mock the elite, and scandalize readers. Tabloid writers produced a massive amount of anti-establishment literature, whose distinctive humour and satirical style were both potent and popular. This book shows the tabloid community to be both a producer of meanings and a participant in the social and cultural dialogue that would shake the foundations of imperial China and lead to the 1911 Republican Revolution.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Community of Fun2 Officialdom Unmasked3 Imagining the Nation4 Confronting the “New”5 Questioning the Appropriators6 The Market, Populism, and AestheticsConclusionNotesGlossary of Chinese Terms and NamesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
Cornell University Press Stagestruck
Book SynopsisStagestruck traces the making of a vibrant French theater industry between the reign of Louis XIV and the French Revolution.Trade ReviewClay uses rich and diverse sources to prove that dramatic performance, like luxury goods and other examples of material culture, reached a great number of French subjects during the eighteenth century.... Stagestruck is a carefully argued attack against the narrative of Parisian primacy that still dominates cultural discourses today, and a necessary read for any student of eighteenth-century French theatre as well as political, cultural, and economic history. -- Logan J. Connors * French Studies *"Lauren Clay's important new study documents a veritable theater boom whose extent had never been fully apprehended. She achieves a delicate balance between geographic and temporal breadth of coverage and depth of researchwriting a truly national yet locally grounded history that does justice to individuals taking actions in specific situations. By documenting the formation and day-to-day operations of a national marketplace for culture in eighteenth-century FranceStagestruck makes vital contributions to our fledgling understanding of markets in an increasingly commercial society." —Thierry Rigogne,The Journal of Modern HistoryLauren Clay's study of the business of theatre in eighteenth-century France is a model of ambitious thoughtful research. This is the rare work of French history that is truly national in scale and the author offers well-reasoned contributions to multiple fields of history.... [An] elegantly written and stunningly researched book. -- Clare Haru Crowston * Canadian Journal of History *Lauren R. Clay's take on the business of theatre in eighteenth-century France feels both vital and fresh, thanks to its focus on provincial France and its colonies rather than a more frequent Paris-centric take.... Her study is an engaging and necessary one, providing scholars and students alike with a new perspective from which to understand cultural production in the eighteenth century. -- Claire Trevien * French History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Making of a French Theater Industry1. Investing in the Arts2. Designing the Civic Playhouse3. The Extent and Limits of State Intervention4. Directors and the Business of Performing5. The Work of Acting6. Consumers of Culture7. The Production of Theater in the ColoniesEpilogue: Culture, Commerce, and the StateAppendix: Timeline of Inaugurations and Significant Renovations of Dedicated Public Theaters in France and the French Colonies, 1671–1789Notes Bibliography of Primary Sources Index
£41.40
University of Toronto Press Inside the Sports Pages Work Routines
Book SynopsisThe working world of contemporary sports journalism through the eyes of the reporters, editors, and athletes who inhabit it. An account and analysis of the ideology behind sports news.Trade Review'Lowes' book is a pioneering work that sets the standard for future studies in the area of sports print journalism ... This book would be a marvellous addition to a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate classes.' -- Ken Kirkwood Canadian Journal of Sociology Online 'The most compelling sports book I've read in some time.' -- David Leach Monday Magazine 'Inside the Sports Pages will prove to be of immense interest to sports fans, and students of popular culture, media, and journalism.' Midwest Book Review 'This study adds considerably to the literature on the sports-journalism process.' -- C. Sterling Choice
£40.50
University of Toronto Press Culture Communication and National Identity
Book Synopsis‘There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.’ So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada’s political sovereignty depends much less on Canadian content in television than has generally been accepted. His analysis focuses on television drama, at the centre of television policy in the 1980s.Collins questions the conventional image of Canada as a weak national entity undermined by its population’s predilection for foreign television. Rather, he argues, Canada is held together, not by a shared repertoire of symbols, a national culture, but by other social forces, notably political institutions. Collins maintains that important advantages actually and potentially flow from Canada’s wear national symbolic culture. Rethinking the relations
£33.30
University of Toronto Press So Close to the States
Book SynopsisThis book examines in detail the formation of Canadian feature film policy from the 1950s to the present. It pays special attention to the role played by producers, filmmakers, and government agencies, in relation to the changing production practices brought about by Canadian television. For Canadian policy-makers, the feature film was considered to be a signifier of cultural modernity. Filmmakers' desire to experiment with a new format was subverted by a political-economic agenda intent on using the format to create cultural authenticity for a nation lagging behind its neighbour to the South. Dorland crafts a careful historical analysis based on primary sources, including government records and in-depth personal interviews with key participants. Employing Foucault's concept of governmentality, Dorland analyses the state's interest in influencing and shaping feature film production. A major contribution to scholarship on Canadian cinema, So Close to the Stat
£25.19
University of Toronto Press On Location Canadas Television Industry in a
Book SynopsisOn Location fills a major gap in contemporary media and cultural studies debates that question the connections between the politics of place, culture, and commerce within the larger context of cultural globalization.
£51.85
