Media, entertainment, information Books
Seven Stories Press,U.S. Microradio & Democracy
Book SynopsisMicroradio and Democracy discusses the role of citizen access to communications in a democratic society, and how diversity, localism, and core political speech are undermined by corporate control of the public airwaves. Ruggiero examines the emergence of microradio activism in recent court cases, and the links between the microradio struggle and larger movements for democracy and social justice. Illustrated with photos and graphics, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned about keeping free speech for communities, not corporations.
£5.95
Temple University Press,U.S. Dark Days in the Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed at
Book SynopsisShines a new light on a dark era in American journalismTrade Review"Writing a blurb for this book would be a snap: 'Every serious journalist should read this fascinating, superbly researched, thoroughly documented, and invaluable historical account of a frightening, sustained and vicious assault on robust journalism-an assault that has great resonance today,' is what I'd say...For those not old enough to have lived through this time in our nation's history, having the chance this book gives to absorb its valuable lessons is a gift worth sampling." -Nieman ReportsTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Awakening the newsroom; 2. The Communist connection; 3. Prelude to an investigation; 4. Reds in the newsroom; 5. The specter Of McCarthy; 6. Dark clouds over the newsroom; 7. The investigation; 8. Deeper trouble; 9. Journalists and the First Amendment; 10. Lessons from the past
£999.99
University of Alaska Press On Time Delivery: The Dog Team Mail Carriers
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J Ross Publishing Branded Entertainment: Dealmaking Strategies &
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£40.80
Grolier Club of New York A. J. A. Symons – A Bibliomane, His Books, and
Book SynopsisA. J. A. Symons was, as Simon C. W. Hewett puts it, “a bibliophile, bibliographer, bookdealer, calligrapher, serial club founder, gourmet, author, biographer, and expert on Baron Corvo, Oscar Wilde, and Victorian musical boxes.” He is perhaps best remembered as the author of The Quest for Corvo. Simon Hewett draws on his own collection, highlighted in a 2018 exhibition at the Grolier Club, representing Symons interests through manuscripts, books, letters, membership lists, photos, catalogues, rule books, and ephemera.
£999.99
Berrett-Koehler Never in My Wildest Dreams: A Black Woman's Life
Book SynopsisBelva Davis recounts her remarkable journey from Monroe, Louisiana, up through the black radio industry in Oakland to become an award-winning news anchor known as the Walter Cronkite of the Bay Area.Never in My Wildest Dreams is a memoir with a message. Raised in a dysfunctional family in Louisiana and the San Francisco Bay area, Belva Davis rose through the black radio industry, became the first black female reporter west of the Mississippi with her hiring at KPIX, and eventually anchored KQEDâs âœEvening Edition,â the stationâs nightly news show. Overcoming personal and career obstacles, Davis reported on some of the eraâs most explosive stories, including the rise and fall of the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, and the Moscone/Milk murders. The book also recounts Davisâs interviews with world leaders, including Fidel Castro and three U.S. presidents.
£13.49
ISI Books Living on Fire: The Life of L. Brent Bozell Jr.
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Michigan State University Press Indian Country: Telling a Story in a Digital Age
Book SynopsisStorytelling has always been an important part of Native culture. Stories play a part in everyday Native life - they are often oral and rich in detail and language and serve as a form of recording history. Digital media now allow for the extension of this storytelling.This necessary text evaluates how digital media are changing the rich cultural act of storytelling within Native communities, with a specific focus on Native newsroom norms and routines.The authors argue that the non-Native press often leave consumers with a stereotypical view of American Indians, and aim to give a more authentic representation to Native journalism. With interviews from more than forty Native journalists around the country, this book is essential to understanding how digital media possibly advances the distribution of storytelling within the American Indian community.
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Chicago Review Press This I Know: Marketing Lessons from Under the
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Verso Books The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story
Book SynopsisLeonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico, helping to organize the assassination of Trotsky. "As long as I live," Stalin said, "not a hair of his head shall be touched." It did not work out like that.Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst, a colleague, friend and protégé of Freud's. He was rich, secretive and-through his friendship with a famous Russian singer- implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937. Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, questioned by the FBI. Was Motty everybody's friend or everybody's enemy?Mary-Kay Wilmers, best known as the editor of the London Review of Books, began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center of the story stands the author herself-ironic, precise, searching, and stylish-wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she's entitled to know.Trade ReviewUnlike the hordes of amateur historians who have mobbed the world's libraries over the past decade on the theory that reconstructing lineage equates to personal discovery, Wilmers is up to something that commands general attention. -- Christopher Glazek * New Yorker *Wilmers' adventures in digging through [the Eitingons'] lost world makes Mary-Kay one of the book's most intriguing characters. * Harper’s *Like characters in some Russian Jewish Stalinist Freudian capitalist 20th-century fairy tale, the Eitingons are larger than life, their fates bitter and all too human. * New York Times *A superbly written book, The Eitingons is much more than a family history, for the author has a deep knowledge of the cultural and political context, whether of twentieth-century America or the Soviet Union, in which they lived. It stands as an intimate portrait of a world that seems far removed from our own. * The Observer *The Eitingons is a riveting history of the twentieth century. It deals with war, displacement, murder, espionage, the Jewish diaspora and psychoanalysis. It explains Trotsky's assassination, the growth of Freud's teachings, the importance of the fur trade, the uses of money and the lure of the past. There is a lightness and a truthfulness in the narrative that makes you turn every page with pure fascination. -- Colm TóibínWilmers pieces together what she can of the shadowy life of Leonid Eitingon, a high-level KGB killer ... and looks for clues that her grandfather's cousin Max, a protégé of Freud in Berlin, and Motty, a New York fur trader, were also working for Stalin. What emerges is a fascinating story of family secrets and silences. * New Statesman *Well researched, bold, and revealing, Wilmers's book transforms a series of dark family secrets into an illuminating experience for anybody brave enough to delve into the enigma of family history. * Publishers Weekly *Compelling... [Wilmers] has produced a deeply-researched family chronicle, which bears only a trace resemblance to the memoirs that dominate the book industry. * Barnes and Noble Review *
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Four Courts Press Ltd Irish Media: A Critical History
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Birlinn General Detroit 67: The Year That Changed Soul
Book SynopsisFULLY REVISED AND EDITED PAPERBACK EDITION Shortlisted for Penderyn Music Prize Detroit 67 is the story of Motor City in the year that changed everything. Twelve chapters take you on a turbulent year-long journey through the drama and chaos that ripped through the city in 1967 and tore it apart in personal, political and interracial disputes. It is the story of Motown, the break-up of The Supremes and the damaging disputes at the heart of the most successful African-American music label ever. Set against a backdrop of urban riots, escalating war in Vietnam and police corruption, the book weaves its way through a year when soul music came of age and the underground counterculture flourished. LSD arrived in the city with hallucinogenic power and local guitar band MC5 - selfstyled holy barbarians of rock - went to war with mainstream America. A summer of street-level rebellion turned Detroit into one of the most notorious cities on earth, known for its unique creativity, its unpredictability and self-lacerating crime rates. The year 1967 ended in social meltdown, rancour and intense legal warfare as the complex threads that held Detroit together finally unravelled. Features the story of DETROIT, a major motion picture.Trade Review'Cosgrove weaves a compelling web of circumstance that maps a city struggling with the loss of its youth to the Vietnam War, the hard edge of the civil rights movement and ferocious inner-city rioting ... a whole-hearted evocation of people and places' - Independent
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc RFID and the Internet of Things
Book SynopsisRFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology allows for automatic identification of information contained in a tag by scanning and interrogation using radio frequency (RF) waves. An RFID tag contains an antenna and a microchip that allows it to transmit and receive. This technology is a possible alternative to the use of barcodes, which are frequently inadequate in the face of rapid growth in the scale and complexity of just-in-time inventory requirements, regional and international trade, and emerging new methods of trade based on it. Use of RFID tags will likely eventually become as widespread as barcodes today. This book describes the technologies used for implementation of RFID: from hardware, communication protocols, cryptography, to applications (including electronic product codes, or EPC) and middleware. The five parts of this book will provide the reader with a detailed description of all the elements that make up a RFID system today, including hot topics such as the privacy concerns, and the Internet of Things.Table of ContentsForeword xi Guy Pujolle Part One: Physics of RFID 1 Chapter 1. Introduction 3 Simon Elrharbi, Stefan Barbu 1.1. Bibliography 5 Chapter 2. Characteristics of RFID Radio Signals 7 Simon Elrharbi, Stefan Barbu 2.1. Description and operating principle of RFID systems 7 2.2. Transmission channel 19 2.3. First level electric model in inductive coupling 31 2.4. Bibliography 55 Chapter 3. RFID Communication Modes 57 Simon Elrharbi, Stefan Barbu 3.1. Communication modes 57 3.2. Bibliography 68 Part Two: RFID Applications 69 Chapter 4. Applications 71 François Lecocq, Cyrille Pépin 4.1. Introduction 71 4.2. History: evolution from barcodes to RFID tags 72 4.3. RFID tags 83 4.4. Normalization/standardization 89 4.5. Advantages/disadvantages of RFID tags 98 4.6. Description of RFID applications 102 4.7. Application examples 103 4.8. Conclusion 109 4.9. Bibliography 111 Part Three: Cryptography of RFID 113 Chapter 5. Cryptography and RFID 115 Julien Bringer, Hervé Chabanne, Thomas Icart, Thanh-Ha Le 5.1. Introduction 115 5.2. Identification protocols and security models 116 5.3. Identification protocols 121 5.4. Conclusion. Physical attacks on RFID devices 141 5.5. Bibliography 144 Part Four: EPCglobal 151 Chapter 6. EPCglobal Network 153 Dorice Nyamy, Mathieu Bouet, Daniel de Oliveira Cunha, Vincent Guyot 6.1. Introduction 153 6.2. Tags 154 6.3. EPCglobal architecture 164 6.4. Conclusion 179 6.5. Bibliography 180 Part Five: Middleware 183 Chapter 7. Middleware for the Internet of Things: Principles 185 David Durand, Yann Iagolnitzer, Patrice Krzanik, Christophe Loge, Jean-Ferdinand Susini 7.1. Distributed applications 187 7.2. RPC: Remote Procedure Call 188 7.3. Object-oriented middlewares 189 7.4. Summary of object-oriented middleware architectures 195 7.5. The XML revolution 199 7.6. Middleware for the Internet of Things 208 7.7. Conclusion 213 7.8. Bibliography 213 Chapter 8. Middleware for the Internet of Things: Standards 217 Yann Iagolnitzer, Patrice Krzanik, Jean-Ferdinand Susini 8.1. EPCglobal application environment 218 8.2. General introduction to message-oriented middleware 219 8.3. Service-oriented middleware 231 8.4. Conclusion 242 8.5. Bibliography 242 Chapter 9. Middleware for the Internet of Things: Some Solutions 245 Yann Iagolnitzer, Patrice Krzanik, Jean-Ferdinand Susini 9.1. EPCglobal and SUN Java RFID software 246 9.2. .NET and RFID services platform 250 9.3. IBM Websphere RFID Suite 256 9.4. Singularity 258 9.5. Middleware for embedded systems 260 9.6. ObjectWeb projects and the Internet of Things 265 9.7. Conclusion 276 9.8. Bibliography 276 List of Authors 279 Index 283
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Intercollegiate Studies Institute Start the Presses!: A Handbook for Student
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. War of Words: Memoir of a South African
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The Library of America Reporting World War II: American Journalism
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ISI Books If Not Us, Who?: William Rusher, 'National
Book SynopsisA biography of William Rusher, long-time publisher of the National Review. It paints a portrait of an erudite, witty, yet earnest leader who served as an indispensable link between the Right’s theorists and its political practitioners throughout conservatism’s historic rise.
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Catapult Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide
Book SynopsisEverything you’ve ever wanted to know about publishing but were too afraid to ask is right here in this funny, candid guide written by an acclaimed authorThere are countless books on the market about how to write better but very few books on how to break into the marketplace with your first book. Cutting through the noise (and very mixed advice) online, while both dispelling rumors and remaining positive, Courtney Maum's Before and After the Book Deal is a one–of–a–kind resource that can help you get your book published.Before and After the Book Deal: A Writer's Guide to Finishing, Publishing, Promoting, and Surviving Your First Book has over 150 contributors from all walks of the industry, including international bestselling authors Anthony Doerr, Roxane Gay, Garth Greenwell, Lisa Ko, R. O. Kwon, Rebecca Makkai, and Ottessa Moshfegh, alongside cult favorites Sarah Gerard, Melissa Febos, Mitchell S. Jackson, and Mira Jacob.Agents, film scouts, film producers, translators, disability and minority activists, and power agents and editors also weigh in, offering advice and sharing intimate anecdotes about even the most taboo topics in the industry. Their wisdom will help aspiring authors find a foothold in the publishing world and navigate the challenges of life before and after publication with sanity and grace.Are MFA programs worth the time and money? How do people actually sit down and finish a novel? Did you get a good advance? What do you do when you feel envious of other writers? And why the heck aren’t your friends saying anything about your book? Covering questions ranging from the logistical to the existential (and everything in between), Before and After the Book Deal is the definitive guide for anyone who has ever wanted to know what it’s really like to be an author.
£12.99
Belt Publishing Amelia Bloomer
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GracePoint Publishing Dare to Own You
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£23.93
Rutgers University Press Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences
Book SynopsisMedia Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world’s population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values and how they influence media consumption and production throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, South Korea, Singapore, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iran and many others. The book’s contributors are especially interested in investigating media and their intersections with narrative, medium, technologies, and culture through the lenses that are particularly Asian by turning to Asian sociopolitical and cultural milieus as the meaningful interpretive framework to understand media. This timely and cutting-edge research is essential reading for those interested in transnational and global media studies. Trade Review“Media Culture in Transnational Asia is one of the most informative books on Asian cultural studies, examining the dynamics of the local and global forces in the trans-Asian mediascape from a local or Asian point of view. With its focus on the production and circulation of media products, old and new, both within and across national borders, this edition rewards its readership with a rich, productive dialogue among different nations, regions, and perspectives that sounds the possibilities of a rising new pan-Asian community.” -- Suk Koo Rhee * professor at Yonsei University *"Global and glocal, pan-Asian or trans-Asian, from radio to mukbang, this pithy volume presents a provocative collection of scholarship that interrogates transnational media culture in Asia—a region that is steeped in tradition yet burgeoning in exciting new ways. Media Culture in Transnational Asia is a timely and valuable contribution to media studies and Asian studies." -- Sun Sun Lim * professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design *Latinx Pop Lab podcast interview with HyeSu Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1y_8qPcvA0feature=youtu.be * Latinx Pop Lab podcast *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Hyesu Park and Maya Dodd Part I: Transnational Approach Chapter 1: Converging on Love and Indifference: Mediated Otherness in South and East Asia Rea Amit Chapter 2: The Child Bride: Unpacking the Popularity of the Indian Television Show Balika Vadhu in Vietnam Shubhda Arora and Juhi Jotwani Chapter 3: Star Construction in the Era of Media Convergence: Pro-Am Online Videos, Co-creative Culture, and Transnational Chinese Icons on YouTube Dorothy Wai Sim Lau Chapter 4: Screen to Screen: Adaptation and Transnational Circulation of Chinese (Web) Novels for Television W. Michelle Wang Chapter 5: Rhetorical Liminality in Southeast Asian Media Representations of Human Trafficking John Gagnon Chapter 6: Addressing Transnational Legacies of Colonialism in East Asia: Cases from Contemporary Japanese Art Hiroki Yamamoto Part II: Single-nation Approach Chapter 7: Media, Narrative, and Culture: Narrativizing and Contextualizing Korean Mukbang Shows Hyesu Park Chapter 8: Construction, Consumption, and Representation of White Supremacy in Sri Lankan Advertisements: Living White While Being Non-White Asantha U. Attanayake Chapter 9: A Liminal Bengali Identity: Film Culture in Bangladesh Sabiha Huq Chapter 10: Screening Southeast Asia: Film, Politics, and the Emergence of the Nation in Post-War Southeast Asia Darlene Machell de Leon Espena Chapter 11: Afghan Media and Culture in Transition Alireza Dehghan Chapter 12: A Semiotic Analysis of Symbolic Actions of Iranian Instagram Users Hamid Abdollahyan and Hoornaz Keshavarzia Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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Rutgers University Press Indie Cinema Online
Book SynopsisIndie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and exhibition are shifting with the advent of online streaming, simultaneous release strategies, and web series, this book analyzes sites such as SundanceTV, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and other online spaces as a means of redefining independent cinema in a digital era. Analyzing the intersections among cinema studies, cultural studies, and new media studies within contemporary convergence culture, author Sarah E.S. Sinwell looks at sites of media convergence that are often ignored within most studies of digital media. Emphasizing the ways in which the forms and technologies of media culture have changed during the age of convergence, this book analyzes contemporary production, distribution, and exhibition practices as a means of examining the changing meanings of independent cinema within digital culture.Trade Review"Indie cinema has been moving increasingly online and Sarah Sinwell's book is the first to offer a comprehensive mapping of this new and exciting terrain. Paying attention to the key players in the field and offering a host of interesting examples, the book is an extremely welcome addition to the blossoming field of independent cinema studies." -- Yannis Tzioumakis * author of American Independent Cinema *"Sarah Sinwell's Indie Cinema Online is an engaging and provocative examination of independent cinema in the past two decades. Through detailed case studies, Sinwell captures the promise and the challenge to independent cinema with the current array of release windows and the drastically changed distribution and marketing mechanisms. Sinwell's project opens new avenues to shape our understanding and appreciation of independent cinema in the 21st century." -- Justin Wyatt * author of High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood *"Sarah E. S. Sinwell’s excellent investigation into American independent cinema in the digital age is, above all things, extremely timely....Indie Cinema Online is therefore a vital contribution to a historiography of American independent cinema: aware of its past, revealing about its present, and preparing us for the challenges and issues that will shape its future." * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"Indie cinema has been moving increasingly online and Sarah Sinwell's book is the first to offer a comprehensive mapping of this new and exciting terrain. Paying attention to the key players in the field and offering a host of interesting examples, the book is an extremely welcome addition to the blossoming field of independent cinema studies." -- Yannis Tzioumakis * author of American Independent Cinema *"Sarah Sinwell's Indie Cinema Online is an engaging and provocative examination of independent cinema in the past two decades. Through detailed case studies, Sinwell captures the promise and the challenge to independent cinema with the current array of release windows and the drastically changed distribution and marketing mechanisms. Sinwell's project opens new avenues to shape our understanding and appreciation of independent cinema in the 21st century." -- Justin Wyatt * author of High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood *"Sarah E. S. Sinwell’s excellent investigation into American independent cinema in the digital age is, above all things, extremely timely....Indie Cinema Online is therefore a vital contribution to a historiography of American independent cinema: aware of its past, revealing about its present, and preparing us for the challenges and issues that will shape its future." * New Review of Film and Television Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Indie Via Instant Viewing: Now Streaming on Netflix and Hulu 2 Simultaneous Release Strategies: Soderbergh and the Screening Room 3 DIY Distribution: YouTube, Four Eyed Monsters, and Girl Walks Into A Bar 4 The Fourth Screen: Sundance, Shorts, and Cell Phones Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author Bibliography Mediagraphy Index
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Rutgers University Press Indie Cinema Online
Book SynopsisIndie Cinema Online investigates the changing nature of contemporary American independent cinema in an era of media convergence. Focusing on the ways in which modes of production, distribution, and exhibition are shifting with the advent of online streaming, simultaneous release strategies, and web series, this book analyzes sites such as SundanceTV, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, and other online spaces as a means of redefining independent cinema in a digital era. Analyzing the intersections among cinema studies, cultural studies, and new media studies within contemporary convergence culture, author Sarah E.S. Sinwell looks at sites of media convergence that are often ignored within most studies of digital media. Emphasizing the ways in which the forms and technologies of media culture have changed during the age of convergence, this book analyzes contemporary production, distribution, and exhibition practices as a means of examining the changing meanings of independent cinema within digital culture.Trade Review"Indie cinema has been moving increasingly online and Sarah Sinwell's book is the first to offer a comprehensive mapping of this new and exciting terrain. Paying attention to the key players in the field and offering a host of interesting examples, the book is an extremely welcome addition to the blossoming field of independent cinema studies." -- Yannis Tzioumakis * author of American Independent Cinema *"Sarah Sinwell's Indie Cinema Online is an engaging and provocative examination of independent cinema in the past two decades. Through detailed case studies, Sinwell captures the promise and the challenge to independent cinema with the current array of release windows and the drastically changed distribution and marketing mechanisms. Sinwell's project opens new avenues to shape our understanding and appreciation of independent cinema in the 21st century." -- Justin Wyatt * author of High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood *"Sarah E. S. Sinwell’s excellent investigation into American independent cinema in the digital age is, above all things, extremely timely....Indie Cinema Online is therefore a vital contribution to a historiography of American independent cinema: aware of its past, revealing about its present, and preparing us for the challenges and issues that will shape its future." * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"Indie cinema has been moving increasingly online and Sarah Sinwell's book is the first to offer a comprehensive mapping of this new and exciting terrain. Paying attention to the key players in the field and offering a host of interesting examples, the book is an extremely welcome addition to the blossoming field of independent cinema studies." -- Yannis Tzioumakis * author of American Independent Cinema *"Sarah Sinwell's Indie Cinema Online is an engaging and provocative examination of independent cinema in the past two decades. Through detailed case studies, Sinwell captures the promise and the challenge to independent cinema with the current array of release windows and the drastically changed distribution and marketing mechanisms. Sinwell's project opens new avenues to shape our understanding and appreciation of independent cinema in the 21st century." -- Justin Wyatt * author of High Concept: Movies and Marketing in Hollywood *"Sarah E. S. Sinwell’s excellent investigation into American independent cinema in the digital age is, above all things, extremely timely....Indie Cinema Online is therefore a vital contribution to a historiography of American independent cinema: aware of its past, revealing about its present, and preparing us for the challenges and issues that will shape its future." * New Review of Film and Television Studies *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1 Indie Via Instant Viewing: Now Streaming on Netflix and Hulu 2 Simultaneous Release Strategies: Soderbergh and the Screening Room 3 DIY Distribution: YouTube, Four Eyed Monsters, and Girl Walks Into A Bar 4 The Fourth Screen: Sundance, Shorts, and Cell Phones Conclusion Acknowledgments About the Author Bibliography Mediagraphy Index
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Rutgers University Press New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project
Book SynopsisNew Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project. Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America. Trade Review“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 An American Documentary Tradition2 Brave New World: Reframing and Reclaiming the Americas3 Americans All, Immigrants All: Toward Cultural Democracy4 Wings for the Martins: Cit-com5 Democracy in Action: Dramatizing the Democratic Process6 Pleasantdale Folks: Social Security SoapConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press New Deal Radio: The Educational Radio Project
Book SynopsisNew Deal Radio examines the federal government's involvement in broadcasting during the New Deal period, looking at the U.S. Office of Education's Educational Radio Project. The fact that the United States never developed a national public broadcaster, has remained a central problem of US broadcasting history. Rather than ponder what might have been, authors Joy Hayes and David Goodman look at what did happen. There was in fact a great deal of government involvement in broadcasting in the US before 1945 at local, state, and federal levels. Among the federal agencies on the air were the Department of Agriculture, the National Park Service, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Theatre Project. Contextualizing the different series aired by the Educational Radio Project as part of a unified project about radio and citizenship is crucial to understanding them. New Deal Radio argues that this distinctive government commercial partnership amounted to a critical intervention in US broadcasting and an important chapter in the evolution of public radio in America. Trade Review“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *“In their insightful and lively account of the long-neglected history of the Educational Radio Project, David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Hayes have illuminated one of the major 'missing links' of American radio history, radio’s unique role in the nexus of education, and civic culture during a crucial period of upheaval, as well as the innovative cast of characters behind its development.” -- Michele Hilmes * Professor Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison *"The rise and demise of the Educational Radio Project has much to teach us today about the challenges facing public media in the United States and how the determined efforts of activists a century ago demanded a public-interest broadcast culture.” -- Derek Vaillant * author of Across the Waves: How the United States and France Shaped the International Age of Radio *“Hayes and Goodman's timely examination of educational broadcasting—and the government interventions that made it possible—holds key lessons for confronting media-related challenges facing us today.” -- Victor Pickard * University of Pennsylvania *"New Deal docudramas provide ‘missing link’ in history of educational radio," by David Goodman and Joy Elizabeth Harris * Current *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction1 An American Documentary Tradition2 Brave New World: Reframing and Reclaiming the Americas3 Americans All, Immigrants All: Toward Cultural Democracy4 Wings for the Martins: Cit-com5 Democracy in Action: Dramatizing the Democratic Process6 Pleasantdale Folks: Social Security SoapConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Rutgers University Press Playing with History: American Identities and
Book SynopsisSince the advent of the American toy industry, children’s cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American history, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of the American story and ideals of citizenship over the last one hundred years. This book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century, tracing the messages conveyed by racist toy banks, early governmental interventions meant to protect the toy industry, influences and pressures surrounding Cold War stories of the western frontier, the fractures visible in the American story at a mid-century history themed amusement park. The study culminates in a look at the successes and limitations of the American Girl Company empire. Trade Review"Playing with History: American Identities and Children’s Consumer Culture doesn’t just explain the critical messages to children delivered by toys, amusements, and books, it provides a window into twentieth-century American life and the children who grew up receiving those messages—about race, class, and gender. It is both a powerful and an exceptionally interesting work of history. The rich details and the wonderful descriptions make this a pleasure to read." — Janet Golden, author of Babies Made Us Modern: How Infants Brought Americans into the Twentieth Century "Molly Rosner’s richly imagined study captures the complicated ways children’s things—toys, trains, dolls, books and a forgotten amusement park—smuggled lessons of history into hours of play and taught generations of white Americans to feel at home in a culture driven by consumption and fractured by class, gender and race." — Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead "Molly Rosner has provided us with a lively and vitally important addition to the historical literature on children, consumerism, and twentieth-century American culture. Perceptive, nuanced, thoroughly researched, imaginative, and beautifully written, Playing with History: American Identities and Children's Consumer Culture will not only appeal to, but inform educators, students, parents, and general readers about the process through which our children have, over the past century, learned what it meant to be an American." — David Nasaw, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History Emeritus at CUNY Graduate Center.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Made in America: The Rise of the American Toy Industry 2 Dolling Up History: 1930s Antique Dolls and the Clark Doll Study 3 “Gosh, It’s Exciting to Be an American”: The “Orange” and Landmark History Books during the Cold War 4 Family Fun for Everyone? Freedomland U.S.A., 1960–1964 5 Selling Multicultural Girlhood: The American Girl Doll, 1986 to Present Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Index
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