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Pluto Press Shooting a Revolution
Book SynopsisWhat has been the impact of visual media on the Syrian conflict?Trade Review'This gripping work maps the media transformations in Syria - from the high hopes during the 2011 protests to the depression and despair of a never-ending war... what hits us most is Della Ratta's deep insider knowledge to blend personal insights with urgent critical theory. Tactical media theory at its best' -- Geert Lovink, founding director of the Institute of Network Culture, author of Networks Without a Cause'In this innovative and original book, Donatella Della Ratta critically engages with the visualization of violence and the violence inherent to visuality, in the Syrian conflict. Essential reading for scholars of media, visual cultures, film, politics, political economy and sociology and those interested in understanding war in the digital age' -- Dina Matar, Head, Centre for Global Media and Communication, SOAS'An original reflection on the relationship between images and violence in Syria which reveals, the paradox of our hyperconnected societies well beyond Syria itself' -- Internazionale'An intellectual adventure that unfolds in a sequence shot between the Syrian war, the media social and not, the protagonists and the extras' -- Alfabeta2Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration Glossary Introduction 1. Making Media, Making the Nation: Syria's Tanwir in Neoliberal Times 2. The Whisper Strategy 3. The Death of Tanwir in Real-Time Drama 4. The People's 'Raised Hands' 5. Fear and Loathing on the Internet: The Paradoxes of Arab Networked Activism 6. Screen Fighters: Filming and Killing in Contemporary Syria 7. Syria's Image-Makers: Daesh Militants and Non-Violent Activists 8. Notes on a Theory of Violence and the Visual in the Networked Age Notes Bibliography Index
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Hyperion The Tender Bar
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MJ - Ohio University Press The Fifth Directory of Periodicals
Book SynopsisThe Fifth Directory of Periodicals is expressly organized for scholars in the humanities who are looking for appropriate places to submit manuscripts for publication.Trade Review“Anyone involved with scholarly publishing will find this a useful and practical research tool.”
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Rise of Abraham Cahan Jewish Encounters
Book SynopsisPart of the Jewish Encounters seriesThe first general-interest biography of the legendary editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, the newspaper of Yiddish-speaking immigrants that inspired, educated, and entertained millions of readers; helped redefine journalism during its golden age; and transformed American culture. Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and Yiddish newspapers, Abraham Cahan founded the Yiddish daily in New York City in 1897. Over the next fifty years he turned it into a national newspaper that changed American politics and earned him the adulation of millions of Jewish immigrants and the friendship of the greatest newspapermen of his day, from Lincoln Steffens to H. L. Mencken. Cahan did more than cover the news. He led revolutionary reforms—spreading social democracy, organizing labor unions, battling communism, and assimilating immigrant Jews into American society, most notably via his groundbreaking a
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University of Oklahoma Press Loren Miller Civil Rights Attorney and
Book Synopsis“Either we shall have to make democracy work for every American,” Loren Miller declared, or “we shall not be able to preserve it for any American.” The story told here is of an American original who defied societal limitations to reshape the racial and political landscape of twentieth-century America.Trade ReviewIn this book, Amina Hassan recovers the forgotten story of the biracial African American writer, newspaper editor, radical activist, and respected judge who also happened to be one of the most important civil rights lawyers of the twentieth century. Everyone should know Loren Miller's story. This is a tremendous achievement."" - Kenneth W. Mack, author of Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer""What an outstanding and incredible work on civil rights attorney Loren Miller! I salute Amina Hassan's keen analysis of Miller's journalistic approach to advancing civil rights for Black Americans."" - Diane E. Watson, U.S. Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia, 1999 - 2001, and U.S. Representative from California, 2001 - 2011""Amina Hassan has written a superb biography of California attorney Loren Miller, who played a major role in civil rights reform on the local, state, and national levels between 1940 and 1965. Hassan's book belongs on the shelves of historians, urban studies scholars, and anyone interested in the movement for racial equality in the United States."" - Martin Schiesl, author of The Politics of Efficiency: Municipal Administration and Reform in America, 1880 - 1920""A recommended work that adds to the corpus of civil rights histories and offers a rich portrait of a central figure in the related struggle in California."" - The Library Journal
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Random House USA Inc The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Laurie Notaro has an uncanny ability to attract insanity—and leave readers doubled over with laughter. Need proof? Check out The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death and try not to bust a gut. Join Notaro as she experiences the popular phenomenon of laser hair removal (because at least one of her chins should be stubble-free); bemoans the scourge of the Open Mouth Coughers on America’s airplanes and in similarly congested areas; welcomes the newest ex-con (yay, a sex offender!) to her neighborhood; and watches, against her own better judgment, every Discovery Health Channel special on parasites and tapeworms that has ever aired—resulting in an overwhelming fear that a worm the size of a python will soon come a-knocking on her back door. In Notaro’s world, strangers are stranger than fiction. One must always check the hotel bathroom for hobo hairs and consciously remember
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Random House USA Inc Yours In Truth A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Book SynopsisAn intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post “A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The New York Times Book Review Ben Bradlee was a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a century—a close friend to John F. Kennedy; the center of D.C. social life; and a crusty, charismatic editor whose decisions at the helm of the Post during Watergate changed the course of history. Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradlee’s forty-five-year career—from his early days as a pre
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The University Press of Kentucky Henry Watterson and the New South The Politics of
Book SynopsisHenry Watterson (1840--1921), editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal from the 1860s through WWI, was one of the most important and widely read newspaper editors in American history.
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The University Press of Kentucky A Voice in the Box My Life in Radio
Book SynopsisThe host of The Bob Edwards Show and Bob Edwards Weekend on Sirius XM Radio, Bob Edwards became the first radio personality with a large national audience to take his chances in the new field of satellite radio.
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John Wiley & Sons Wired TV Laboring Over an Interactive Future
Book SynopsisTrade Review"With contributions from prominent scholars, Wired TV offers rigorous and exacting essays that address the dramatic shift occurring in a business that produces, sells, and resells mass entertainment." -- Daniel Bernardi * San Francisco State University *"Wired TV offers rich, creative, and original thinking about television’s digital era. It is essential reading for anyone following contemporary media industries." -- Jennifer Holt * author of Empires of Entertainment *"Media scholar Denise Mann has gathered engaging essays that discuss the ways that television programming has changed as a result of the Internet. Recommended." * Choice *"Provides tremendously valuable insights by top scholars in television studies. The essays are grounded in strong, compelling research and collectively provide a rich snapshot of the tensions, anxieties, and especially failures of this particular moment in US television's development." * Cinema Journal *"This collection avoids the trap of framing itself within an easy narrative of progress or adaptive evolution. Rather, it highlights a range of responses to the disruptive influence of experimentation and the ways in which the networks have attempted to return to 'business as usual' from 2010 onward." * Journal of American Culture *Table of ContentsAcknolwedgmentsIntroduction: When Television and New Media Work Worlds CollideDenise Mann1. Authorship Up for Grabs: Decentralized Labor, Licensing, and the Management of Collaborative CreativityDerek Johnson2. In the Game: The Creative and Textual Constraints of Licensed Video GamesJonathan Gray3. Going Pro: Gendered Responses to the Incorporation of Fan Labor as User-Generated ContentWill Brooker4. Labor of Love: Charting The L WordJulie Levin Russo 5. The Labor Behind the Lost ARG: WGA's Tentative Foothold in the Digital AgeDenise Mann6. Post-Network Reflexivity: Viral Marketing and Labor ManagementJohn T. Caldwell7. Fan Creep: Why Brands Suddenly Need "Fans"Robert V. Kozinets8. Outsourcing The OfficeM. J. Clarke9. Convergent Ethnicity and the Neo-Platoon Show: Recombining Difference in the Post-Network EraVincent Brook10. Translating Telenovelas in a Neo-Network Era: Finding an Online Home for MyNetwork SoapsKatynka Z. Martínez11. The Reign of the "Mothership": Transmedia's Past, Present, and Possible FuturesHenry JenkinsNotes on ContributorsIndex
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Up from the Projects An Autobiography
Book SynopsisProlific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover InstitutionTable of Contents Preface ONE Starting Out TWO Rudderless and Drifting THREE In the Army Now FOUR Heading West for Opportunity FIVE Heading East for Opportunity SIX Teaching and Preaching SEVEN Afterthoughts Index
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Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Up from the Projects An Autobiography
Book SynopsisProlific author Walter E. Williams recalls some of the highlights and turning points of his life. From his lower middle class beginnings in a mixed but predominantly black neighbourhood in West Philadelphia to his department chair at George Mason University, Williams tells an ‘only in America’ story of a life of achievement.Trade ReviewWhen I finished reading Up from the Projects, I wished it had been a longer book. But it got the job done—and its insights are much needed today." — Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover InstitutionTable of Contents Preface ONE Starting Out TWO Rudderless and Drifting THREE In the Army Now FOUR Heading West for Opportunity FIVE Heading East for Opportunity SIX Teaching and Preaching SEVEN Afterthoughts Index
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MJ - Ohio University Press Menckens America H. L. Mencken
Book SynopsisLong famous as a political, social, and cultural gadfly, journalist and essayist H. L. Mencken was unafraid to speak his mind on controversial topics and to express his views in a deliberately provocative manner.Mencken was prolific; much of his best work lies buried in the newspapers and magazines in which it originally appeared.Trade Review“This little book, if read, could revive H.L. Mencken's reputation.” * Los Angeles Times *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Evidence of My Existence
Book SynopsisFrom a leper colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next.Trade Review“Photojournalists tell stories with pictures, imparting a unique view of an event, a personality, a landscape. Lo Scalzo, veteran staff photographer for U.S. News & World Report, offers his own stories of the world in this compelling memoir.…What makes this memoir distinct is how it interweaves written snapshots detailing his personal journey, an insider’s look into the field of photojournalism, a study of the creative process, and a descriptive travelog….For all libraries.”“This is not a picture book. Instead, it is a rare and meaningful look into the life of a photojournalist.”“Set against a backdrop of the most stunning settings the world to offer—from India to Antarctica—Evidence of My Existence is an intimate and intricate exploration of ambition and the difficult decisions artists are forced to make in search of a balance between work, the love of work, and love itself. Jim Lo Scalzo serves as a brilliant guide—by turns hilarious and heart-torn— and has created a masterful memoir, an exquisite debut!” * author of Which Brings Me to You and Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees *“The memoir is the story of his travels, but it is also much more: It is the story of a photographer coming to terms with his abilities and limitations, and, especially, with the sacrifices that one makes to pursue such a career.””This is what it's like to be a photojournalist living on the front lines of the best stories in the world. From Afghanistan to Alaska, Lo Scalzo captures the rush, the payoff and the personal sacrifice that comes with making great pictures. He's not only got a great eye for finding the shot, but a great ear for telling the tale.”“In a world where courage and integrity spend ever more time on the Endangered Species List, Jim Lo Scalzo's Evidence of My Existence is a bracing tonic. An utterly compelling tale that should inspire us all to greater heights!” * former editor of U.S. News & World Report *
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MJ - Ohio University Press Evidence of My Existence
Book SynopsisFrom a leper colony in India to an American research station on the Antarctic Peninsula, from the back rooms of the White House to the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Evidence of My Existence tells a unique and riveting story of seventeen years spent racing from one photo assignment to the next.Trade Review“Photojournalists tell stories with pictures, imparting a unique view of an event, a personality, a landscape. Lo Scalzo, veteran staff photographer for U.S. News & World Report, offers his own stories of the world in this compelling memoir.…What makes this memoir distinct is how it interweaves written snapshots detailing his personal journey, an insider’s look into the field of photojournalism, a study of the creative process, and a descriptive travelog….For all libraries.”“This is not a picture book. Instead, it is a rare and meaningful look into the life of a photojournalist.”“Set against a backdrop of the most stunning settings the world to offer—from India to Antarctica—Evidence of My Existence is an intimate and intricate exploration of ambition and the difficult decisions artists are forced to make in search of a balance between work, the love of work, and love itself. Jim Lo Scalzo serves as a brilliant guide—by turns hilarious and heart-torn— and has created a masterful memoir, an exquisite debut!” * author of Which Brings Me to You and Compulsions of Silkworms and Bees *“The memoir is the story of his travels, but it is also much more: It is the story of a photographer coming to terms with his abilities and limitations, and, especially, with the sacrifices that one makes to pursue such a career.””This is what it's like to be a photojournalist living on the front lines of the best stories in the world. From Afghanistan to Alaska, Lo Scalzo captures the rush, the payoff and the personal sacrifice that comes with making great pictures. He's not only got a great eye for finding the shot, but a great ear for telling the tale.”“In a world where courage and integrity spend ever more time on the Endangered Species List, Jim Lo Scalzo's Evidence of My Existence is a bracing tonic. An utterly compelling tale that should inspire us all to greater heights!” * former editor of U.S. News & World Report *
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John Wiley & Sons Dispatches and Dictators Ralph Barnes for the
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Pathfinder Books Ltd Black Music White Business Illuminating the Political Economy of Jazz
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Berklee Press Publications Music Smarts The Inside Truth and Roadtested
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Berklee Press Publications Music Industry Forms The 75 Most Important
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Teacher Created Materials, Inc Amusement Parks Around America
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Russian Cinema
Book SynopsisA Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xv Notes on Transliteration and References xvi Introduction 1 Birgit Beumers Part I Structures of Production, Formation, and Exhibition 21 1 The Film Palaces of Nevsky Prospect: A History of St Petersburg’s Cinemas, 1900–1910 23Anna Kovalova 2 (V)GIK and the History of Film Education in the Soviet Union, 1920s–1930s 45Masha Salazkina 3 Lenfilm: The Birth and Death of an Institutional Aesthetic 66Robert Bird 4 The Adventures of the Kulturfilm in Soviet Russia 92Oksana Sarkisova 5 Soiuzdetfilm: The Birth of Soviet Children’s Film and the Child Actor 117Jeremy Hicks Part II For the State or For the Audience? Auteurism, Genre, and Global Markets 137 6 The Stalinist Musical: Socialist Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism 139Richard Taylor 7 Soviet Film Comedy of the 1950s and 1960s: Innovation and Restoration 158Seth Graham 8 Auteur Cinema during the Thaw and Stagnation 178Eugénie Zvonkine 9 The Blokbaster: How Russian Cinema Learned to Love Hollywood 202Dawn Seckler and Stephen M. Norris 10 The Global and the National in Post]Soviet Russian Cinema (2004–2012) 224Maria Bezenkova and Xenia Leontyeva Part III Sound – Image – Text 249 11 The Literary Scenario and the Soviet Screenwriting Tradition 251Maria Belodubrovskaya 12 Ideology, Technology, Aesthetics: Early Experiments in Soviet Color Film, 1931–1945 270Phil Cavendish 13 Learning to Speak Soviet: Soviet Cinema and the Coming of Sound 292Lilya Kaganovsky 14 Cinema and the Art of Being: Towards a History of Early Soviet Set Design 314Emma Widdis 15 Stars on Screen and Red Carpet 337Djurdja Bartlett 16 Revenge of the Cameramen: Soviet Cinematographers in the Director’s Chair 364Peter Rollberg Part IV Time and Space, History and Place 389 17 Soldiers, Sailors, and Commissars: The Revolutionary Hero in Soviet Cinema of the 1930s 391Denise J. Youngblood 18 Defending the Motherland: The Soviet and Russian War Film 409Stephen M. Norris 19 Shooting Location: Riga 427Kevin M. F. Platt 20 Capital Images: Moscow on Screen 452Birgit Beumers Part V Directors’ Portraits 475 21 Boris Barnet: “This doubly accursed cinema” 477Julian Graffy 22 Iulii Raizman: Private Lives and Intimacy under Communism 500Jamie Miller 23 The Man Who Made Them Laugh: Leonid Gaidai, the King of Soviet Comedy 519Elena Prokhorova 24 Aleksei Gherman: The Last Soviet Auteur 543Anthony Anemone 25 Knowledge (Imperfective): Andrei Zviagintsev and Contemporary Cinema 565Nancy Condee Appendix Chronology of Events in Russian Cinema and History 585 Bibliography 614 Index 631
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Green Communications
Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive view of green communications considering all areas of ICT including wireless and wired networks.It analyses particular concepts and practices, addressing holistic approaches in future networks considering a system perspective.It makes full use of tables, illustrations, performance graphs, case studies and examples making it accessible for a wide audience.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Preface 1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals: Categorization of Green Communication concepts 3. Fundamentals: Energy Efficiency Metrics and Performance Tradeoffs of Green Wireless networks Trade-offs and metrics of green communication 4. Fundamentals: Embodied energy of communication devices 5. Wireless: Energy efficient Base stations 6. Wireless: Network design and planning 7. Wireless: Green Radio 8. Wireless: Network management 9. Wireless: Home and Enterprise Networks 10. Wireless: Towards Delay Tolerant Cognitive Cellular Networks 11. Wireless: Green MTC, M2M, Internet of Things 12. Wireless: Energy Saving standardization in Mobile and Wireless Communication Systems 13. Wireline: Routing, Switching and Transport 14. Wireline: Energy Efficient Ethernet 15. Wireline: Green Optical Networks 16. Wireline: Energy Efficient Networking in Modern Data Center 17. Wireline: SDN-Enabled Energy-Efficient Network Management 18. Wireline: Energy Efficiency Protocol Design 19. Wireline: Energy Efficiency benefits due to Information Centric Networking 20. Wireline: Energy Efficient Standards for Wireline Communications 21. Conclusion
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St Martin's Press Avid Reader A Life
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Picador USA In Extremis
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Finalist for the Costa Biography Award and long-listed for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. Named a Best Book of 2018 by Esquire and Foreign Policy. An Amazon Best Book of November, the Guardian Bookshop Book of November, and one of the Evening Standard's Books to Read in NovemberNow, thanks to Hilsum's deeply reported and passionately written book, [Marie Colvin] has the full accounting that she deserves. --Joshua Hammer, The New York TimesThe inspiring and devastating biography of Marie Colvin, the foremost war reporter of her generation, who was killed in Syria in 2012, and whose life story also forms the basis of the feature film A Private War, starring Rosamund Pike as Colvin. When Marie Colvin was killed in an artillery attack in Homs, Syria, in 2012, at age fifty-six, the world lost a fearless and iconoclastic war correspo
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St. Martin's Griffin Rachel Maddow
Book SynopsisThe first biography of the most popular anchor in cable news.Rachel Maddow has beaten the odds in a way that's novel in today's America: she uses her brain. In a world of banal and opinionated soundbites, she regularly crushes Sean Hannity's ratings thanks to her deeply researched reports. And in our highly polarized world, Maddow amiably engages the staunchest conservatives, while never hesitating to expose their light-on-facts defenses. As a result, she''s become the top anchor for MSNBC and a beloved representative for all that progressive America holds dear. The news that Maddow was the first publicly-out lesbian to anchor a prime-time TV news show seemed almost anticlimactic to her millions of viewers, who will be surprised and intrigued by little-known details of her life, as written by New York Times bestselling biographer Lisa Rogak. Growing up in a conservative California town and viewing herself as a perennial outsider help
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St Martin's Press While You Were Out
Book SynopsisFrom award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them.Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard.But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfoldinga heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the u
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St Martin's Press Still Pictures
Book SynopsisSuperb . . . [The] final, splendid, most personal work of [Janet Malcolm's] long career. Charles Finch, The New York Times Book ReviewFor decades, Janet Malcolm's books and dispatches for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books poked and prodded at reportorial and biographical convention, gesturing toward the artifice that underpins both public and private selves. In Still Pictures, she turns her gimlet eye on her own lifea task demanding a writer just as peerlessly skillful as she was widely known to be.Still Pictures, then, is not the story of a life but an event on its own terms, an encounter with identity and family photographs as poignant and original as anything since Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida. Malcolm looks beyond the content of the image and the easy seductions of self-recognition, constructing a memoir from memories that pose questions of their own. Still Pictures begi
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WW Norton & Co The Nine Lives of Pakistan Dispatches from a
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country.
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WW Norton & Co The Unquiet Englishman A Life of Graham Greene
Book SynopsisA Finalist for the 2022 Edgar Award A Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of the Year A vivid, deeply researched account of the tumultuous life of one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists, the author of The End of the Affair.Trade Review"Diligently researched... [A]n astute and sympathetic biography." -- D.J. Taylor - Wall Street Journal"Authoritative and thoroughly researched, while being superbly readable... [The Unquiet Englishman] should long serve as the standard biography [of Graham Greene]." -- Dan Cryer - Boston Globe"[Richard Greene] displays an authoritative grasp of his subject. In a brisk and transparent style, he covers every chapter of Graham Greens' tumultuous life." -- Mary Ann Gwinn - Minneapolis Star Tribune"As [Graham] Greene’s rate of book and film production increases, the narrative becomes a dizzying merry-go-round of travel, publication, sex, alcohol, religion, money, adultery, self-loathing, intrigue and betrayal…[The Unquiet Englishman] bounds along with fluency, clarity and wry humour." -- John Walsh - Sunday Times"Thank goodness for Richard Greene, whose splendid one-volume biography…conjures [Graham Greene] in all his perplexing variety…Cogently argued and happily free of jargon, [The Unquiet Englishman] offers a long-needed antidote to ‘dirty linen’ biographers who have sought to expose a darker shade of Greene and, in consequence, lost sight of the books. At last Graham Greene has the biographer he deserves." -- Ian Thomson - Evening Standard"Cause for celebration…[Richard Greene] gives us a nicely written and well-judged cradle-to-grave portrait that needed to be conventional and unshowy, and is all the better for it…[He] has mastered a tremendous amount of material." -- Nicholas Shakespeare - Spectator"[Richard Greene] writes briskly and engagingly, with a wry wit and an endearing fondness for trivia and puns…[Graham] Greene emerges from these pages in three dimensions, as a uniquely fascinating man…We badly needed a sympathetic but clearheaded life of Greene, and this book fills the gap admirably." -- Jake Kerridge - Sunday Telegraph"Insightful... Though the narrative never loses its focus on Greene as an artist, readers will learn much about the daunting ideological barriers that Greene pushed through to craft his art... A complete portrait of a many-faceted titan." -- Booklist (starred review)"Greene's life story is both interesting and fascinating, and this balanced account offers the best reading of how his personal life infused and enriched his work." -- Library Journal (starred review)"Vivid…it’s awe-inspiring that Greene fit so much into a single life, and it’s no small feat that his latest biographer has so skillfully captured that life in a single work." -- Publishers Weekly
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Random House USA Inc The Prince of Frogtown
Book SynopsisIn the final volume of the Pulitzer Prize–winner's bestselling and beloved American saga that began with All Over but the Shoutin’ and continued with Ava’s Man, this evocative family memoir” (Boston Globe) delivers an unforgettable rumination about fathers and sons.Bragg documents a mesmerizing journey back in time to the lush Alabama landscape of his youth, to Jacksonville's one-hundred-year-old mill and to his father, the troubled, charismatic hustler coming of age in its shadow.Inspired by Rick Bragg's love for his stepson, The Prince of Frogtown also chronicles his own journey into fatherhood, as he learns to avoid the pitfalls of his forebearers. With candor, insight, and tremendous humor, Bragg seamlessly weaves these luminous narrative threads together.
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Random House USA Inc Yours in Truth A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee
Book SynopsisAn intimate profile of the legendary Washington Post editor whose life and career encompassed Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the Kennedys—as portrayed by Tom Hanks in the Steven Spielberg film The Post “A fairly complete and rare portrait of this last of the lion-king newspaper editors.”—The New York Times Book Review Ben Bradlee was a fixture on the American scene for nearly half a century—a close friend to John F. Kennedy; the center of D.C. social life; and a crusty, charismatic editor whose decisions at the helm of the Post during Watergate changed the course of history. Granted unprecedented access to Bradlee and his colleagues, friends, and private files, Jeff Himmelman draws on never-before-seen internal Post memos, correspondence, personal photographs, and private interviews to trace the full arc of Bradlee’s forty-five-year career—from his early days as a pre
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Random House USA Inc Moyers on America
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Barcharts, Inc Mass Communications Law
Book SynopsisAny media or journalism student needs to be aware of the laws that govern disseminating information to the general publicâthat's why having this comprehensive, 3-panel study guide is a no-brainer! From censorship to defamation, every aspect of media law is thoroughly covered in an easy-to-use format that breaks down information for quick accessibility. Key definitions and specific case examples further help make the idea of media rights and responsibilities more understandable.
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Pelican Publishing Co Creating Blockbusters How to Generate and Market
Book SynopsisA guide to creating 'ever-cool' entertainment. An asset to entertainment executives or anyone aiming to create the next big hit, this book offers guidelines for developing concepts and marketing blockbusters. Whether it is a best-selling novel, a video game, or a high-tech toy, blockbusters play a big part in American society. Despite the prominence of these breakthrough hits, most entertainment ventures do not survive in today's competitive market. This guide identifies the key principles that will ensure lasting success.
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Pelican Publishing Company Off Air
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Pelican Publishing Co From the Outhouse to the Mouse House
Book SynopsisA positive how-to guide for the road to success! After graduating from college, Eva Steortz moved across the country on a whim to seek better opportunities. She took a leap of faith and answered a job ad for The Walt Disney Company, and in a true Cinderella story, she rose through the ranks to eventually become vice president. She reveals the unspoken truths about the crap you cant control in your career while focusing on the areas you can control. She discusses how to rally your relationships, possess positive style, master self-motivation, and the simple secrets to crafting your happily ever after plan. Her mission is to inspire others to aim high in their careers, and Steortz provides the tools to get to the top.
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History Press Edgar Allan Poes Charleston
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History Press Tales from the National Press Club
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History Press North Plattes Keith Blackledge Lessons from a
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Simon & Schuster The Story A Reporters Journey
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PublicAffairs My Home Team: A Sportswriter's Life and the
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PublicAffairs Two Beats Ahead: What Musical Minds Teach Us
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Not Stated The Freaks Came Out to Write The Definitive
Book SynopsisA rollicking history of America's most iconic weekly newspaper told through the voices of its legendary writers, editors, and photographers. You either were there or you wanted to be. A defining New York City institution co-founded by Norman Mailer, The Village Voice was the first newspaper to cover hip-hop, the avant-garde art scene, and Off-Broadway with gravitas. It reported on the AIDS crisis with urgency and seriousness when other papers dismissed it as a gay disease. In 1979, the Voice’s Wayne Barrett uncovered Donald Trump as a corrupt con artist before anyone else was paying attention. It invented new forms of criticism and storytelling and revolutionized journalism, spawning hundreds of copycats. With more than 200 interviews, including two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, Colson Whitehead, cultural critic Greg Tate, gossip columnist Michael Musto, and feminist writers V
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Amazon Publishing Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature
Book SynopsisA deeply personal memoir about one woman’s journey to finding her voice and rewriting her story by the creator and host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books™. Zibby Owens has become a well-known personality in the publishing world. Her infectious energy, tasteful authenticity, and smart, steadfast support of authors started in childhood, a precedent set by the profound effect books and libraries had on her own family. But after losing her closest friend on 9/11 and later becoming utterly stressed out and overwhelmed by motherhood, Zibby was forgetting what made her her. She turned to books and writing for help. Just when things seemed particularly bleak, Zibby unexpectedly fell in love with a tennis pro turned movie producer who showed her the path to happiness: away from type-A perfectionism and toward letting things unfold organically. What unfolded was a meaningful career, a great love, and finally, her voice, now heard by millions of listeners. An honest and moving story about relationships, love, food issues, the writing life, and finding one’s true calling, Bookends will inspire and uplift.Trade Review“Owens (Princess Charming), host of the podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books and cofounder of Zibby Books, chronicles her path from shy, bookish child to busy mom and media company CEO in this zippy debut…Owens’s infectious enthusiasm radiates with charm, as do her earnest reflections on motherhood. Bibliophiles will breeze through this.” —Publishers Weekly “Owens recounts falling in love again after divorce and offers encouragement and advice to mothers and women trying to get it all done. Her insights into dealing with grief are touching, and readers experiencing loss may find solace in her story.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is an endearing memoir reflecting on a woman’s defining moments in life that will likely resonate with Owens’ fans and also readers who enjoy stories about writers with a New York City backdrop.” —Booklist “Bookends, Zibby’s memoir, is a remarkably poignant story about family, relationships, love, life, and finding one’s true calling…Her writing flows off the page and offers something for everyone. If you’ve experienced heartache, depression, relationship pain, weight issues, felt punched in the face by life and loss…come through it alive and kickin’—you will fly through each page of Bookends. Zibby’s inspiring account provides helpful insight and hope to everyone who reads it.” —Quest Magazine “Part literary love story, part family history, it’s a propulsive read that chronicles Owens’s complicated relationships—with food, with romance, with books, with vast wealth—all told with self-effacing warmth…heartfelt and touching.” —Claire Gibson, Avenue Magazine “In this new memoir…she takes on the role of accomplished author herself, as she beautifully reveals the loves and losses that have shaped her life, and discovers what it means to truly find your place in the world.” —Town & Country “When Owens writes with this blend of vulnerability and approachability, the reader feels as if a close friend is sharing her story with you…Bookends is proof that anyone has the power to rewrite their narrative, if only they are open to fully experiencing all that life puts in their path.” —Hippocampus Magazine “Zibby Owens’s Bookends is a candid and charming memoir about the ups and downs of midlife through the lens of reading and books. Zibby, one of the most beloved book influencers in America, shares how books can help us through tough times. An inspiring and hopeful read.” —Arianna Huffington, founder and CEO, Thrive Global “I knew Zibby was an ardent supporter of authors, but I didn’t realize she was such a fantastic writer herself. Insightful, helpful, authentic, and unifying, the tone of this beautifully written, memorable memoir is just so Zibby. A great choice for every busy mom.” —Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Four Winds “Zibby Owens has always been a terrific interviewer of authors, but it wasn’t until I read her book that I realized how deep her passion for literature truly runs. Her story is a valentine to falling in love with the written word, and for a writer—and readers—that’s the sweetest kind of tale.” —Mitch Albom, New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger in the Lifeboat “A tender, intelligent coming-of-age tale, by turns poignant and hilarious, Bookends gripped me from the first sentence. This is the kind of book you hide in the bathroom to finish, ignoring the cries of your kids and the ringing phone. But it’s also a serious meditation on the dangerous constraints of contemporary motherhood and the nature of privilege. I dare you to read it and not fall in love with Zibby!” —Joanna Rakoff, author of international bestselling memoir My Salinger Year “Zibby Owens has such an infectious enthusiasm—for life, for love, for her friends and family, but above all else for books—her prose glows with it. Thus Bookends acts on two levels: it is both a personal journey from mute child to gregarious author, who spends her days talking to and about writers, and a virtual bookshelf, the kind you sometimes find in a summer rental, groaning with well-loved spines.” —Deborah Copaken, New York Times bestselling author of Ladyparts and Shutterbabe “Bookends is a testament to the healing power of literature, love, and above all, allegiance to one’s true self. Zibby Owens guides us, like a comforting friend, through her journey of loss and reinvention, reminding us, in the end, of our endless capacity for love.” —Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance “Lucky for us, Zibby Owens—a relentless cheerleader for authors known and unknown—has paid homage to books and the role reading has played in her endlessly fascinating life by writing her own.” —Katie Couric “There are no words other than: WOW! Zibby’s work is gorgeous, raw, honest, heartbreaking, and funny. Zibby inspires me.” —Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author
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SAGE Publications Inc Dynamics of Media Writing: Adapt and Connect
Book SynopsisDynamics of Media Writing Third Edition gives students transferable skills that can be applied across all media platforms—from traditional mass media formats like news, public relations, and advertising to emerging digital media platforms. Whether issuing a press release or tweeting about a new app, today’s media writers need to adapt their message for each specific media format in order to successfully connect with their audience. Throughout this text, award-winning teacher and college media adviser Vincent F. Filak introduces fundamental writing skills that apply to all media, while also highlighting which writing tools and techniques are most effective for specific media formats and why. User-friendly and loaded with practical examples and tips from professionals across mass media, this is the perfect guide for any student wanting to launch a professional media writing career.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments About the Author PART I. THE BASICS YOU NEED, REGARDLESS OF FIELD Chapter 1. Know Your Audience How to Define an Audience Key Questions to Ask in Serving Your Readers What Attracts an Audience? What Audiences Need to Know and How to Make Them Care The Big Three Chapter 2. Being Accurate, Relying on the Facts Why Is Journalism Such a Picky Field? Why Media Professionals Matter More Than Ever Making Sure You Are Sure Examining the Broader Issues The Big Three Chapter 3. Grammar, Style and Language Basics Why Do Grammar and Style Matter? Sentence Structure Sentence Length Read Your Work Aloud How to Keep Writing Tight and Right The Big Three Chapter 4. Basic Media Writing The “Killer Be’s” of Good Writing The Inverted Pyramid Leads: The Prominence of Importance Types of Leads Problematic Leads and Potential Fixes How to Order the Rest of Your Pyramid The Big Three Chapter 5. Interviewing Interview Preparation Places to Dig Getting the Interview Interacting With Your Source Interviewing via Email or Text Interviewing for Multiple Media The Questions Interview Flow Silence as an Ally The Nonverbal Approach: How to Ask a Question Without Asking The End of the Interview (Almost) Follow-Up Interviews The Big Three Chapter 6. Writing for Websites and Blogs Working on the Web Blogging Best Blogging Practices How to Build a Quality Blog Post Linking and Other Interactive Elements Engaging Readers The Big Three Chapter 7. Social Media What Does Social Media Do? Why Is Social Media Valuable? Social Media Tools How to Avoid #Fail Building a Social Media Audience The Big Three Chapter 8. Law and Ethics in Media Writing The First Amendment Libel Legal Defenses Against Libel Getting SLAPP-ed Anyway Copyright How to Avoid Copyright Infringement Ethics and the Media Ethical Concerns How to Work Through Ethical Dilemmas Determining Your Own Approach to Ethics The Big Three PART II. FOCUS ON NEWS MEDIA Chapter 9. Reporting: The Basics and Beyond Event Coverage Preparing for the Event How to Cover the Event News Reporting Beyond the Event Beats Features Profile Writing Localizations Obituaries The Big Three Chapter 10. Writing for Traditional Print News Products Nuances for Print Writing Attributions Expanding the Inverted Pyramid The Big Three Chapter 11. Writing for Broadcast Nuances for Broadcast Writing Structure Integrating Additional Elements Types of Stories Polishing Your Final Piece for Delivery The Big Three PART III. FOCUS ON MARKETING MEDIA Chapter 12. Public Relations Defining PR Types of PR Writing Keys to PR Why the Media Matters The Big Three Chapter 13. Advertising Defining Advertising The Creative Brief Message Formation Writing in Advertising The Big Three Chapter 14. Marketing Brands and Branding Campaigns Versus Brands Useful Marketing Platforms and Tools Copywriting for a Brand Ways to Work With and for Your Readers Writing Creatively for Marketing The Big Three Glossary Index
£109.80
University of Arkansas Press Forward Positions: The War Correspondence of
Book SynopsisAmong journalists—and particularly war correspondents—Homer Bigart was the standard-bearer. Previously available only in crumbling library copies of the Tribune and the Times or in the dusty bins of microfiche repositories, his keen insights into warfare and the minds of those who wage it are now collected in a volume that offers a rare glimpse at a breed of journalist that had already passed into legend by the time of Bigart's death.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Emergency Broadcasting & 1930'S Am Radio
Book SynopsisThe voice we hear on the radio—the voice with no body attached—is a key element in the history of media in the twentieth century. Before television and the internet, there was radio; and much of what defined the makeup of these newer media was influenced by the way radio was broadcast to people and the way people listened to it.Emergency Broadcasting focuses on key moments in the history of early radio in order to come to an understanding of the role voice played in radio to describe national crises, a fictional invasion from outer space, and general entertainment. Taking the Hindenburg disaster, The War of the Worlds hoax, Franklin Roosevelt's Fireside Chats, and the serial mystery The Shadow as his focal points, Edward Miller illustrates how the radio, for the first time, instantly communicated to a mass audience, and how that communication—where the voice counts more than the image—is still at work today in television and the World Wide Web.Theoretically sophisticated, yet grounded in historical detail, Emergency Broadcasting offers a unique examination of radio and at the same time develops a complex understanding of the media whose birth is owed to the innovations—and disembodied power—established by it.Trade Review"In an era dominated by television and increasingly focused on the Internet as the new kid on the media block, Miller offers a valuable history lesson by reminding us of the power once yielded by radio. The best inoculation against the hyperbolic claims of new media is to understand the commonalities as well as the unique features of the various media that have shaped public consciousness in the past century. In this still unfolding narrative, radio has often been overlooked or taken for granted. Miller helps us avoid these mistakes and should encourage us all to take another, closer listen to the voices in the ether."—Larry Gross, Sol Worth Professor, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania"Miller's book is a wholly original contribution to the study of both early American and contemporary radio. Perhaps his greatest strength is his ability to integrate theory with historical evidence. Miller's reading of both the "War of the Worlds" and FDR's Fireside Chats as being inflected by the radio reporting of the Hindenberg disaster is as unique as it is valuable. Emergency Broadcasting belongs alongside other significant radio books such as Noise Water Meat and Wireless Imagination."—Martin Spinelli, Ph.D., Professor of Radio and Media Studies, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York"Miller adds a theoretical context with which to assess these programs, and he effectively ties his findings to radio (and Internet) content available today. His approach is surely timely for he is really exploring how radio dealt (and deals) with real or imagined threats to national security."—The Journalism and Mass Communication EducatorTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: Thrown Voices2. The Uncanny Home and the Transmitted Voice3. The Recital of the Hindenburg Disaster4. Radio and the Voice and Body of the President5. The Case of the "War of the Worlds"6. Echo's Broadcast: Desire and Disembodiment7. Body and Space in the Radio and InternetNotesBibliographyIndex
£999.99
WW Norton & Co Sell Your Story in A Single Sentence: Advice from
Book SynopsisFinally, a guide by a leading Hollywood insider who actually knows the answer—and now she shows you how to do it yourself! Lane Shefter Bishop, CEO of Vast Entertainment, explains the key to selling your screenplay, novel, or script. This comprehensive guide to opening career doors is the first of its kind, highlighting the tips and techniques for making your story stand out. From tips on character development to hints on points to avoid, Bishop covers all your bases when selling your story.
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