Media studies Books

Book SynopsisDo you want to study influencers? Opinions and comments on a set of posts? Look at collections of photos or videos on Instagram? Qualitative Research Using Social Media guides the reader in what different kinds of qualitative research can be applied to social media data. It introduces students, as well as those who are new to the field, to developing and carrying out concrete research projects. The book takes the reader through the stages of choosing data, formulating a research question, and choosing and applying method(s).Written in a clear and accessible manner with current social media examples throughout, the book provides a step-by-step overview of a range of qualitative methods. These are presented in clear ways to show how to analyze many different types of social media content, including language and visual content such as memes, gifs, photographs, and film clips. Methods examined include critical discourse analysis, content analysis, multimodal anTrade Review''An indispensable guide for those who want to learn about, and practically undertake, qualitative social media research of popular platforms.'' —Professor Per Ledin, Södertörn University and author of Doing Visual Analysis, From Theory to Practice"Bouvier and Rasmussen provide an informative, clearly written and indispensable guide for readers investigating social media data or contemplating doing so. A welcome handbook for all research methods courses that seek to remain informed and up to date." —Paul Cobley, Professor in Language and Media, Middlesex UniversityTable of ContentsAbout the authors. 1. Introduction. 2. Qualitative Content Analysis – text and speech-based material. 3. Qualitative Visual Content Analysis. 4. Analyzing social media language with critical discourse analysis. 5. Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. 6. Multimodal Narrative Analysis of Video Clips. 7. Online Ethnography. 8. Focus Group Interviews. 9. Conclusion. Bibliography. Acknowledgements.

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Book SynopsisThe Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided by new technologies.In this new edition, Paul Bradshaw presents an engaging mix of technological expertise with real-world practical guidance to illustrate how those training and working as journalists can improve the development, presentation, and global reach of their stories through webbased technologies.Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition features: A new chapter dedicated to writing for email and chat, with updated case studies New sections covering online abuse, news avoidance, and trust Updated coverage of accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity in sourcing, writing for social media, and audio and video New formats, including social audio, audiograms, Twitter threads, the âœStoriesâ format, charticles, aTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction Histories, futures, and the changing business and technologies of journalism Finding leads and sources online Writing for the web Writing for social media Email newsletters, chat and curation Live and mobile journalism — and verification Online audio Video for the web and social media Data Journalism Interactivity, code and analytics Community, social media management and UGC Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides a comprehensive understanding of the technology architecture, physical facility changes and most importantly the new media management workflows and business processes to support the entire lifecycle of the IP broadcast facility from an engineering and workflow perspective. Fully updated, this second edition covers the technological evolutions and changes in the media broadcast industry, including the new standards and specifications for live IP production, the SMPTE ST2110 suite of standards, the necessity of protecting against cyber threats and the expansion of cloud services in opening new possibilities. It provides users with the necessary information for planning, organizing, producing and distributing media for the modern broadcast facility.Key features of this text include: Strategies to implement a cost-effective live and file-based production and distribution system. A cohesive, big-picture viewTrade ReviewPraise for the first edition: 'To my knowledge this is the first attempt by anyone to document the changing technology in broadcast engineering. Gary does it very well; it could finish up as the industry bible on the subject.' - David MacGregor, Chairman, TSL, UK Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1 Overview Chapter 2 Standards, Protocols and Acronyms Chapter 3 Business Processes and Integration Chapter 4 – Ingest / Acquistion / Capture Chapter 5 Workflow and Processes Chapter 6 Media Management Chapter 7 Technology Infrastructure and Engineering Chapter 8 Transmission and Delivery Chapter 9 Cloud Chapter 10 Artificial Intelligence Chapter 11 - Facility Planning and Design Chapter 12 – Review Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe third edition of this text maintains its place as a key resource for learning the foundational and emerging theories in the field of interpersonal communication. With each chapter devoted to a specific theory and authored by experts in that theory, the book gives students and scholars a comprehensive overview of this field. This edition features an expanded discussion of theory development and evaluation, a new section on theories of identity and difference in close relationships, and increased attention to social media.With the theory chapters sharing the same structure, the book ensures consistent coverage of topics within each theory. This book is an essential text for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in interpersonal communication and is a valued resource for scholars. Trade ReviewAccolades for the Second Edition: Winner of the Gerald Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication AssociationTable of Contents1. Introduction: Meta-Theory and Theory in Interpersonal Communication Research Part 1: Individually-Centered Theories of Interpersonal Communication 2. Affection Exchange Theory: A Bio-Evolutionary Look at Affectionate Communication 3. Attribution Theory: Finding Good Cause in the Search for Theory 4. Multiple Goals Theories: From Message Production to Evaluation 5. Problematic Integration Theory: Uncertainty and Related Communication Challenges 6. Relational Framing Theory: Drawing Inferences about Relationships from Interpersonal Interactions 7. Dual Process and Advice Response Theories: Explaining Outcomes of Supportive Communication 8. The Theory of Motivated Information Management: Struggles with Uncertainty and Its Outcomes Part 2: Discourse/Interaction-Centered Theories of Interpersonal Communication 9. Communicated Narrative Sense-Making Theory: Bridging Storytelling, Relationships, and Well-Being 10. Communication Accommodation Theory: Converging Toward an Understanding of Communication Adaptation in Interpersonal Relationships 11. Discrepant Verbal-Nonverbal Profile Theory: Making Sense of Contradicting Messages in Interpersonal Communication 12. Expectancy Violations Theory and Interaction Adaptation Theory: From Expectations to Interactions 13. Face Theory: The Ongoing Performances of Our Lives 14. Normative Rhetorical Theory: Explaining What Works in Challenging Communication Situations 15. Relational Dialectics Theory: A Dialogic Theory of Meaning-Making 16. A Theory of Transcendent Interactions: The Ultimate Communication Thrill Ride Part 3: Identity-Centered Theories of Interpersonal Communication 17. Communication Theory of Identity: Understanding the Multi-layered Nature of Identity 18. Critical Feminist Theory: Giving Voice and Visibility to Gendered Experiences 19. Critical Race Theory: Dismantling Racial Oppression Through Interpersonal Communication 20. Intersectionality: Theoretical Lineages Toward Interpersonal Legacies 21. Strong Black Woman Collective Theory: Understanding the Group-level Communication Practices of Black Women 22. Queer Theory: Troubling Interpersonal Expectations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality Part 4: Relationship-Centered Theories of Interpersonal Communication 23. Attachment Theory: A Communication Perspective 24. Communication Privacy Management Theory: Significance for Interpersonal Communication 25. Developmental Theories of Relationships: Approaches to Understanding the Relational Lifespan 26. The Theory of Resilience and Relational Load: Investing in Relationships to Promote Resilience 27. Media Multiplexity Theory: Explaining Tie Strength and Technology Use 28. Relational Turbulence Theory: Interpersonal Communication During Times of Transition 29. Social Exchange Theories: Calculating the Rewards and Costs of Personal Relationships 30. The Theory of Interpersonal Knowledge: Interaction Requirements to Develop Dyad-Specific Familiarity 31. Truth-Default Theory: Changing Our Understanding of Human Deception

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Book SynopsisIn this critical primer, Michael Z. Newman introduces newcomers to the key concepts, issues, and vocabulary of media studies. Across ten chapters, Newman examines topics from text and audience to citizenship and consumerism, drawing on a myriad of examples of media old and new. Film and TV rub shoulders with mobile games and social media, and popular music and video sharing platforms with journalism and search engines. While the book takes a critical, cultural approach, it covers topics that apply across many kinds of media scholarship, bridging the humanities and the social sciences and looking at media as a global phenomenon. It considers media in relation to society and its unequal structures of power, and relates media representations to their conditions of production in media industries and consumption in the everyday lives of audiences and users. Spanning the historical periods of mass media and online participatory culture, it also probes assumptions about media that wTrade Review"Bravo to Michael Newman for expertly rendering the dense and sometimes unwieldy discipline of media studies into an approachable and useable form for instructors and students. Having studied and taught media studies for a quarter of a century, this is the first book I have encountered that adequately captures and explains a media studies approach for undergraduate students. Deeply grounded in key classic and contemporary work of the field, Newman deftly explores the broad range of media with which today’s students engage. Critical questions related to race, gender, and sexuality are impressively integrated throughout the book. Finally, the ‘toolkit' approach makes this an infinitely flexible text for instructors and students."Kathleen Battles, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication, Journalism, and Public Relations, Oakland University, USA"The Media Studies Toolkit skillfully breaks down its many approaches and concepts, producing always accessible, smart and up-to-date discussions. Keeping in mind the politics of media, Michael Z. Newman demystifies and brings alive the critical complexities of media studies, whether focusing on "‘legacy"’ media, the buzz of participatory culture, or doing a textual analysis. Ranging from the classic model of industry-text-audience, to key issues of media regulation, representation and globalisation, this accomplished book really is a one-stop source of clear-headed wisdom, analysis and ‘how-to’ guidance."Matt Hills, Professor of Journalism and Media, University of Huddersfield, UK "Michael Z. Newman's The Media Studies Toolkit is a welcome addition to the field of film and media studies. Newman's accessible and engaging writing in addition to the many varied examples that assist in explaining the foundational concepts of the field make this text a valued contribution to training up students to become more critically literate consumers and creators." Kristen J. Warner, Associate Professor of Journalism and Creative Media, University of Alabama, USA"Michael Newman accomplishes the seemingly impossible: offering an accessible, engaging, and inclusive overview of media studies. Skillfully blending classic concepts with contemporary examples drawn across a wide range of media forms, The Media Studies Toolkit provides students with a welcoming introduction to where the field has been and where it is going. Equally important, Newman shows how to research, apply, and connect ideas drawn from both humanistic and social scientific studies of media."Alisa Perren, Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film and Co-Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries, The University of Texas at Austin, USATable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Industry 3. Text 4. Audience 5. Representation 6. Ideology 7. Policy and Regulation 8. Citizenship 9. Consumerism 10. Technology 11. Global and Local

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Book SynopsisExploring what academic podcasting is and what it could be, this book is the first to consider the why, what, and how academics engage with this insurgent, curious craft.Featuring interviews with 101 podcasting academics, including scholars and teachers of podcasting, this book explores the motivations of scholarly podcasters, interrogates what podcasting does to academic knowledge, and leads potential podcasters through the creation process from beginning to end. With scholarship often trapped inside expensive journals, wrapped in opaque language, and laced with a standoffish tone, this book analyses the implications of moving towards a more open and accessible form. This book will also inform, inspire, and equip scholars of any discipline, rank, or affiliation who are considering making a podcast or who make podcasts with the background knowledge and technical and conceptual skills needed to produce high-quality podcasts through a reflexive critique of current practiTrade Review'Scholarly Podcasting: An Insurgent, Curious Craft reminds me of a quilt, lovingly stitched together from the scraps of over a hundred sources. The sources, in this case, are not threadbare shirts and bedsheets but academics who make podcasts, interviewed about why we podcast, what we podcast, and how we podcast. But the art of the book comes from the way the author has stitched these interviews together, letting resonant or discordant perspectives sit side by side and thus resisting a single, authoritative account of a still-emerging scholarly practice.'Hannah McGregor, Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Amplify Podcast Network'A fascinating and practical guide to why and how academics use podcasting to invigorate learning, spread knowledge to a much wider audience, and share the passion that made them scholars in the first place! The oral nature of the interviews is refreshing and relatable, and reflects the accessibility and intimacy that are such valued characteristics of the podcast medium.'Siobhán McHugh, award-winning podcaster and author of 'The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories Through Sound''What a resource. More than 100 pages of conversations related to academic podcasting. Ian did a great job of corroborating this nuanced insight for those who say podcasting is easy. The book, though focused on scholarly podcasts, highlights all of the layers that are necessary to have a near perfect podcast, which is applicable to anyone producing a podcast. Thanks a mil!'Kim Fox, Founder of PodFest Cairo, Executive producer of Ehky Ya Masr Podcast and Professor at the American University in Cairo'Drawn from the experience of exceptional roster of academics, Ian M. Cook’s synthesises a conceptually insightful and practically useful exploration of scholarly podcasting. Extensive quotations are thematically organised to explore podcasting’s pedagogic and research applications. His interviewees discuss how their scholarly identities are shaped through creative practice along with reflecting on podcasting’s potential disruption of text-based knowledge production and dissemination traditions. Scholarly Podcasting: Why, What, How? is an important addition to "podcast studies" research and is required reading for scholars wanting to enter the sound field of scholarly podcasting.'Dr Dario Llinares, The Cinematologists Podcast and The Podcast Studies Podcast.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Why? Because It’s Insurgent 3. What? A Curiosity Generator 4. How? With Craft 5. Annexes

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Book SynopsisResisting the News brings together unique insights from activists and alternative-media users to offer a distinctive perspective on the problems of journalism todayand how to fix them.Using critical-cultural theory and, in particular, the conceptual frameworks of ritual communication and interpretive communities, this book examines how audiences filter their interpretations of mainstream news through the prisms of their identities and experiences with alternative media and political protest. Jennifer Rauch gives voice to alternative-media audiences and illuminates the cultural resources, values, assumptions, critical skills, and discursive strategies through which they make sense of their news environments. Drawing on a 15-year research project, Rauch employs a variety of qualitative, quantitative, and quasi-ethnographic methods, including focus groups, media-use diaries, close-ended surveys, and open-ended questions, to paint a layered portrait of liberal and conservaTrade Review"News audiences tend to be talked at rather than talked with. But Jennifer Rauch has done the hard yards of seeking out and listening to those people who choose to consume alternative news media. The fascinating result blends empirical rigour with theoretical nuance, delivering insights of great value to scholars, journalists and citizens alike." -- Tony Harcup, University of Sheffield"News audiences tend to be talked at rather than talked with. But Jennifer Rauch has done the hard yards of seeking out and listening to those people who choose to consume alternative news media. The fascinating result blends empirical rigour with theoretical nuance, delivering insights of great value to scholars, journalists and citizens alike."Tony Harcup, Emeritus Fellow in Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, UK"Jennifer Rauch has bestowed upon us a highly innovative and timely roadmap for understanding alternative media and their audiences. This deeply empirical and eminently readable book is perfect for students, researchers, activists, and anyone who dares to believe a better media system is possible."Victor Pickard, Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USATable of Contents1. Popular Theories of Mainstream and Alternative News 2. The Probability of Resistance in Empirical News Audiences 3. Parsing Divergent Responses to Mainstream News 4. Lay Theories about the Mass Audience for News 5. Lay Theories of the Political Economy of News 6. Activist Interactions With Mainstream Journalism 7. Alternative Media Rituals and Subcultural Capital 8. News Omnivores, Hybrid Media, and Alternative Ideals 9. Partisan Interpretations of Media Problems and Solutions 10. Journalism in an Age of Alternatives

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Book SynopsisMoving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship.Showcasing diverse perspectives, the handbook facilitates active engagement in different cultural traditions and theoretical orientations that are global in scope but local in effect. It begins by exploring past efforts to diversify the field, continuing on to examine theoretical concepts, models, and principles rooted in local cumulative wisdom. It does not limit itself to the mass-interpersonal communication divide, but rather seeks to frame theory as global and inclusive in scope.The book is intended for communication researchers and advanced students, with relevance to scholars with an interest in theory within information science, library science, social and cross-cultural psychology, muTrade Review"The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory by Miike and Yin is an intellectual tour de force that boldly grapples with "mainstream" Eurocentric paradigms while introducing a refreshing range of both well known and nascent concepts that open up space for global communicative inquiry. I would encourage all those interested in decentering the existing hegemonic teaching of communication theory to add this to their personal libraries." Ronald L. Jackson II, Author of Encyclopedia of Identity, Past President, National Communication Association"An admirably comprehensive and critical intervention on historicizing as well as defining the emerging contours of communication theories. The editors, Yoshitaka Miike and Jing Yin, have gathered a diverse group of scholars from across the world to produce an outstanding handbook which will be extremely useful equally for seasoned academics as well as research students." Professor Daya Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University, author of International Communication: Continuity and Change. Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Foreword Introduction: Global Interventions in Search of Communication Theory in Human Diversity Part I: Historical Interventions 1 A Conversation on the History of Paradigmatic Dialogue in Communication Theory: Brenda Dervin and the 1985 ICA Conference 2 Paradigmatic Debates, Theoretical Diversity, and the IAMCR: A Historical Perspective 3 Unity in Diversity: Multiculturalism, Guilt/Victimage, and a New Scholarly Orientation 4 Towards Asian Communication Theory: An Intellectual Journey Part II: African Interventions 5 Afrocentricity and the Cultural Question: On Theorizing Humanity and Communication 6 Maatian Ethics, Sdmw and Communicative Practice: The Conception and Cultivation of the Sedjemic Person 7 Humane Communication in African Languages: African Philosophical Perspectives 8 Frank Okwu Ugboajah, Oramedia, and the Ethical Paradigm of Development (Civilization) Part III: Asian Interventions 9 The Question of Asianness in Asian Communication Studies: Notes on Asiacentricity and Its Critics 10 Rethinking Eurocentric Visions in Feminist Communication Research: Asiacentric Womanism as a Theoretical Framework 11 Al-Fārābī and Ibn Khaldūn as Communication Theorists: The New Science of Society before the European Enlightenment 12 Toward a Gandhian Theory of Communication: The Ahimsa (Nonviolent) Way to Truth and Liberation 13 Confucianism and Communication in East Asia: A Revisit 14 Principles of Chinese Communication: A Philosophical Outline Part IV: Latin American Interventions 15 Paulo Freire, Communication and Conscientization for Liberation 16 Between Social Semiosis and Mediatizations: Towards a Dictionary of Eliseo Verón’s Theoretical Contributions 17 Luis Ramiro Beltrán and Theorizing Horizontal and Decolonial Communication 18 Latin American Interventions to the Practice and Theory of Communication and Social Development: On the Legacy of Juan Díaz Bordenave 19 Buen Vivir as a Critique of Communication for Development Part V: European Interventions 20 Media Theories in the US and Europe: Fragmented Notions and Macroscopic Visions 21 Changing Narratives of Cultural Studies in Britain and the USA: Dialogue and Difference 22 German and French Theories of Communication: Comparative Perspectives with Regard to the Social and Epistemological Body of Science 23 Özséb Horányi and the Participatory Theory of Communication 24 Russian Traditions of Communication Theory Part VI: Diverse Interventions 25 Communicating in "Global" English: Promoting Linguistic Human Rights or Being Complicit with Linguicism and Linguistic Imperialism 26 Culture-Centered Approach to Communicating Health and Development: Communication, Social Justice, and Social Change 27 Perspectives and Approaches to Intercultural Communication Competence: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis 28 Environmental Communication Theory and Practice for Global Transformation: An Ecocultural Approach 29 The Way of Coyolxauhqui: An Indigenous Mexica-Inspired Imperative for Deconstruction as a Spiritual Practice

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Book SynopsisDrawing on research from multiple disciplines and international case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of online disinformation and its potential countermeasures. Disinformation and Manipulation in Digital Media presents a model of the disinformation process which incorporates four cross-cutting dimensions or themes: bad actors, platforms, audiences, and countermeasures. The dynamics of each dimension are analysed alongside a diverse range of international case studies drawn from different information domains including politics, health, and society. In elucidating the interrelationship between the four dimensions of online disinformation and their manifestation in different international contexts, the book demonstrates that online disinformation is a complex problem with multiple, overlapping causes and no easy solutions. The book's conclusion contextualises the problem of disinformation within broader social and political trends Table of Contents1. Introduction: Information Pathologies ; 2. Bad Actors ; 3 Platforms ; 4. Audiences ; 5. Countermeasures ; 6. Conclusion: Post-Truth Communication

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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together the ideas of key global scholars focusing on the lives of youth and young adults, examining their visual and cultural identity constructs.Embracing an international perspective encompassing the Global North and Global South, chapters explore expressions and performances of youth and young adults as shifting and entangled, in and through the clothed body, gender, sexuality, race, artistic and pedagogical making practices, in spaces and places, framed by new materialism, social media, popular and material culture. The overarching emphasis of the collection is on youth and young adults' strategies for engaging in and with the world, becoming a someone, and belonging, in settings that include a juvenile arbitration program, an artist community, high schools, universities, families and social media.This truly interdisciplinary and international collection will have resonance not just within cultural and media studies, but also in education, aTrade Review"Fiona Blaikie has assembled and edited an excellent international collection. The book highlights how youth navigate tensions between marginalities, lived realities, and the demands of school, work and family; how they ‘story’ their everyday lives, including through place-, meme-, and video-making; and their experiences of profound exclusions around race, gender and sexuality. This book feels fresh and urgent as Blaikie has ensured that diverse young people’s viewpoints and experiences figure prominently, discussed through cutting-edge critical and new materialist theorizing. The prominence of arts-based methodologies is also exciting; the art is innovative, moving, instructive and often enmeshed in the entire fabric of a chapter. I love this collection and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in current youth studies."- Rebecca Raby, Brock University, Canada"This collection has multiple dimensions. It contributes to debates about the geopolitics of knowledge-production by attending closely to the importance of contexts around the world. It engages with the gendered interest in subjectivities and meaning-making by introducing non-human elements and the theoretical encouragements of postmaterialism to add further complexity and angle to our understanding. It invites readers to use new concepts such as worlding to expand their appreciation of the narratives that people develop to explain themselves. It expands a lexicon of gender and of ways of seeing and looking and asks us to embrace senses, celebrating as it does, creativity, difference, light and colour."- Robert Morrell, University of Cape Town, South Africa"This wisely edited volume brings together a distinguished, visionary and international group of scholars engaging with some of the most significant and pressing social and cultural questions of our time. The contributors to this volume boldly orient readers to environments and expressive forms shaping people’s everyday lives within a global context. I am confident that this collection of essays will inform current and future thinking by those concerned with the creation, interrogation and dissemination of expressive culture."Doug Blandy, University of Oregon, USA"Fiona Blaikie’s edited anthology takes us into contemporary youth cultures through humanistic research across international contexts. These research narratives embody the voices of young people who speak about nuanced sites of engagement and belonging on their own terms from emic true-to-life perspectives. Simultaneously, these chapters also create new spaces for research and researchers, pioneering sites of reflexivity and representation which engender respect and communion rather than "othering." Blaikie’s keen insights and choices in the curation of these poignant accounts reveal young adult perspectives of authentic being, providing entry into participant worlds heretofore unexplored."- Christine Staikidis, University of Northern Illinois, USA"Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth is an anthology of the world worlding, such as youth (re)enacting with/in social media sites, schools for boys in Canada and young women in India navigating how to dress in the male-dominated engineering classrooms or girls redressing themselves in U.S. juvenile arbitration—all blending the material/physicality of embodied affect and the semiotics (sign systems of language and images) of being in and of the world. Visual and Cultural Identity Constructs of Global Youth explores what matters today to youth and young adults in the process of fostering new ontological dispositions of being and belonging in the world that counter the current socio-political agendas of hate, bullying, sexism, racism, and religious persecution. The stories matter because they attend to specific experience, place, encounters, and active engagement with the materiality of context inseparable from semiotic constructs. The anthology is a must-read primer on non-representational new materialism theory to consider how the world is affecting youth and how youth are affecting the world, and to generate speculative fabulations of possible ethical futures."- Karen Keifer-Boyd, The Pennsylvania State University, USA"Dr. Blaikie is to be congratulated for bringing together such a thoughtful collection of diverse voices, revealing the complexities and nuances of youth life and learning in a global context. Surprisingly, little research has been done pertaining to the communities of youth given attention in this book. Dr. Blaikie and her colleagues bring marginalized youth to the center of the discussion, which could push such research forward in important ways. The collection has some absolute gems, like O’Donoghue’s and Ringrose’s investigations of masculinities, Ivashkevich’s chapter on adjudicated girls, and McLaughlin-Alcock’s look at artists in Jordan among others. After conducting decades of youth research inside schools and out, this collection caused me to think about potential new projects, which is my criterion for the best thing a book can do for a researcher."- Kerry Freedman, Northern Illinois University, USA"This wonderful collection of international and inter-disciplinary chapters offer youth researchers new ways of doing situated, ethical, political and response-able research on mediated youth cultures. From re-storying belonging via poetic inquiry with refugee youth to addressing the embodied traumas of idealised classed and racialised femininity through digital media making with young women in a first-time offender programme, each chapter moves and transports the reader to engage with some complex micro-assemblages of youth culture across diverse spaces and places. Collectively the chapters also powerfully illustrate the necessity and challenge of weaving critical post-theories with art-ful methodologies that make the more-than of how research praxis can build to in-form more equitable worldings of a youth justice to come. This is a volume to learn from, become-with and make matter."- EJ Renold, Cardiff University, United KingdomTable of ContentsIntroduction Part One: Contextualizing Embodiments in Space and Place 1. Becoming Somebody in Boys’ Schools: The Significance of Place 2. Worlding Youth: Visual and Narrative Vignettes Embodying Being, Becoming, and Belonging 3. About Facing the Other: The Impression Management of Young LGBTQ Adults in Contemporary Vietnam 4. Reconciling Divergent Realms in the Lives of Marginalized Students Part Two: Making and Engaging 5. Boys and Their Memes: Exploring Networked Homosocial Masculinity 6. Race, Gender, Sexuality in South African Teenage Girls’ Construction of ‘Porn Stars’ 7. A TikTok Assemblage: Girlhood, Radical Media Engagement, and Parent-Child Generativity 8. Storied Matter: Research on Young People’s Felt, Sensed and Storied Designs 9. "I Love My Body": Adjudicated Girls Confront Their Embodied Traumas and Idealized Female Representations Through Digital Media Making Part Three: Becoming and Belonging 10. Becoming Professional, Being Respectable: The Politics of College Dressing in South India 11. Living a Queer Life in Vietnam 12. Politics of Belonging Among Young Public Artists in Amman, Jordan 13. Trans-Languaging and Wonder: A Poetic Inquiry into Newcomer Belonging.

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Book SynopsisThe seventh edition of this field-leading textbook provides an accessible and rigorous presentation of major theories of persuasion and their applications to a variety of real-world contexts.In addition to presenting established theories and models, this text encourages students to develop and apply general conclusions about persuasion in real-world settings. Along the way, students are introduced to the practice of social influence in an array of contexts (e.g., advertising, marketing, politics, interpersonal relationships, social media, groups) and across a variety of topics (e.g., credibility, personality, deception, motivational appeals, visual persuasion). The new edition features expanded treatment of digital and social media; up-to-date research on theory and practice; an increased number of international cases; and new and expanded discussions of topics such as online influencers, disinformation and 'fake news,' deepfakes, message framing, normative influence, stigmatTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1 Why Study Persuasion? 2 What Constitutes Persuasion? 3 Attitudes and Consistency 4 Credibility5 Communicator Characteristics and Persuasion 6 Conformity and Influence in Groups 7 Language and Persuasion 8 Nonverbal Influence 9 Structuring and Ordering Persuasive Messages 10 Compliance Gaining 11 Sequential Persuasion 12 Deception 13 Motivational Appeals 14 Visual Persuasion 15 Esoteric Forms of Persuasion16 The Ethics of PersuasionAuthor IndexSubject Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explains the broader context of what the art and craft of motion picture editing entails, framing the creative acts of editing within an overall view of the production process and requirements for effective storytelling.This book offers real experiences and advice from seasoned editors on the editing process, providing a detailed examination of filmmaking from the editorâs point of view and exploring how best to cultivate creative relationships with other areas of production to form the final personality of the film. Emphasizing both practicality and creativity, industry veteran Michael Hoggan successfully bridges the gap between the mechanical skills of editing and the thought process behind these decisions. While most books focus primarily on the mind of the creator, this book explores the evolution of practices in film production and editing with respect to the ever-changing expectations of the audience. As the book demonstrates, understanding editing from the auTable of Contents1. Snapshot of the Invisible Artist 2. Motion Picture Editor and the Story (the Script) 3. The Motion Picture Editor / Director Partnership 4. The Motion Picture Editor and the Actor’s Performance 5. The Motion Picture Editor and Cinematographer 6. Overview of the Editing Process 7. Narratives Editing: Principles and Techniques - Film Editing "Rules" 8. Forming the "Editor’s Cut," Its Creative Opportunities 9. The Motion Picture Editor and Sound Design 10. The Motion Picture Editor and the Audience Appendix: Film Production’s Historical Timeline About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis fully-updated fourth edition introduces readers to the rich tapestry of persuasive technique and scholarship, interweaving perspectives from rhetoric, critical theory, and social science and applying their insights to practical political, social, and business contexts.This text examines current and classical theory through the lens of contemporary culture, encouraging readers to explore the nature of persuasion and to understand its impact in their lives. Employing a contemporary approach, it draws from popular culture, mass media, social media, advertising, political campaigns, and social movements to help readers become informed creators and consumers of persuasive messages. Case studies show how and why people fall for persuasive messages, demonstrating how persuasion works at a cognitive level. This new edition includes extended treatment of the ethics of persuasion, including opposing views on handling controversial issues in the college classroom; a new chapter on Table of ContentsPart 1: Understanding Persuasion 1. The Study of Persuasion 2. Globalized View of Persuasion 3. The Psychology of Persuasion 4. The Ethics of Persuasion Part 2: Approaches to Persuasion 5. Coactive Persuasion 6. Verbal and Nonverbal Elements of Persuasion 7. Framing Persuasive Messages 8. Argumentation and Persuasion 9. Cognitive Shorthands Part 3: Contexts of Persuasion 10. Persuasive Campaigns 11. Advertising and Persuasion 12. Political Campaigning 13. Social Movements and Persuasion 14. Conflict and Negotiation

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Book SynopsisThis complete guide to the Avid S6 console offers the best techniques and practices from a seasoned industry veteran, Curt Schulkey, for utilizing its unique features and functions.The Avid S6 was created to be the industry standard virtual mixing console; however, it is so feature-packed that it can be difficult for new users to navigate. This book provides the ultimate guide to breaking down these amazing features and demonstrating how to use them effectively in your next project, with easy-to-follow instructions, rich illustrations, and general real-world advice from the author.This book takes students from neophyte to high-level intermediate. Readers should begin with a functional knowledge of Pro Tools and general understanding of mixing for cinema, but previous knowledge of mixing surfaces is not necessary as this book provides guidance through rudimentary, basic, and intermediary level workflows.Table of ContentsPart I – Fundamental Knowledge Welcome to the S6 1. Beginning Work on the Avid S62. Starting the S6 Systems3. Mixing with Mouse and Keyboard4. Setting Up the Settings5. The Channel StripPart II – Basic Tools for Mixing6. Basic Tools and Modes7. Meters8. Three Ways to Approach Mixing9. Ready for Mixing at a Basic LevelPart III – Intermediate Tools10. More Advanced Features11. Soft Keys12. Spill Zones – What, Why, and Where are they?13. Track Layouts and the Tracks ScreenPart IV – Options and Extras14. Master Meter Modules15. The Master Post Module16. The Joystick Module17. Snapshots18. Expand Faders19. Making Selections in the Pro Tools Timeline20. Colors and Lights21. What is Next?Appendix: A collection of disconnects facts and featuresAppendix 2: System Settings – User PreferencesAppendix 3: Button Names LookupAppendix 4: Soft Key Quick-Jump Shortcuts

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Book SynopsisNow in its tenth edition, the Audio Production Worktext offers a comprehensive introduction to audio production in radio, television, and film. This hands-on, student-friendly text demonstrates how to navigate modern radio production studios and utilize the latest equipment and software. Key chapters address production planning, the use of microphones, audio consoles, and sound production for the visual media. The reader is shown the reality of audio production both within the studio and on location. New to this edition is material covering podcasting, including online storage and distribution. The new edition also includes an updated glossary and appendix on analog and original digital applications, as well as self-study questions and projects that students can use to further enhance their learning.The accompanying instructor website has been refreshed and includes an instructor's manual and PowerPoint images. This book remains an essential text for auTable of ContentsChapter 1. Production Planning Chapter 2. The Studio Environment Chapter 3. Digital Audio Production Chapter 4. Microphones Chapter 5. The Audio Console. Chapter 6. Podcasting and Sports/Talk Radio Chapter 7. Monitor Speakers and Studio Accessories Chapter 8. Signal Processing and Audio Processors Chapter 9. Production Situations Chapter 10. Location Sound Recording Chapter 11. Sound Production for the Visual Media Chapter 12. Internet Radio and Other Distribution Platforms Glossary Appendix: The World of Analog and Original Digital

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Book SynopsisThis book critically explores how meanings of independence' are constructed and reconfigured by public service broadcasters in the global south, with a particular focus on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC). Blessed Ngwenya questions the institutional, political economy and world systems paradigms born out of coloniality which continue to influence broadcasting and media in the global south, and instead presents a radical local understanding of freedom in the present day. The author draws on detailed empirical interviews with members of staff from across the SABC, including board members, senior management, and journalists, offering an intimate insight into how the participants themselves perceive, understand, and deal with the issues and problems they face in relation to independence. Framed by a rich analysis of the historical context, this book provides readers with the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to place the everyday experiences and needs of tTable of Contents1. Introduction: Thought, Word and Deed 2. Foundations of Public Service Broadcasting (PSB) in South Africa 3. The Early Transition of the SABC From State Broadcaster to Post-Apartheid Broadcaster 4. Citizen and Consumer 5. The ANC and the Hazards of Neo-Liberal Midwifery 6. Controversies and Challenges to Contemporary Broadcasting 7. SABC ‘Independence’ Conceptions and Dilemmas of Universality

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Now in its sixth edition, this essential guide for students provides accessible definitions of a comprehensive range of genres, movements, world cinemas, theories and production terms.This fully revised and updated book includes new topical entries that explore areas such as film and the environmental crisis; streaming and new audience consumption; diversity and intersectionality; questions related to race and representation; the Black Lives Matter movement; and New Wave Cinemas of Eastern European countries. Further new entries include accented/exilic cinema, border-cinema, the oppositional gaze, sonic sound and Black westerns. Existing entries have been updated, including discussion of #MeToo, and more contemporary film examples have been added throughout.This is a must-have guide for any student starting out on this fascinating area of study and arguably the greatest art form of modern times.

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Book SynopsisCharacters are central to our experiences of screened fictions and invite a host of questions. The contributors to Screening Characters draw on archival material, interviews, philosophical inquiry, and conceptual analysis in order to give new, thought-provoking answers to these queries. Providing multifaceted accounts of the nature of screen characters, contributions are organized around a series of important subjects, including issues of class, race, ethics, and generic types as they are encountered in moving image media. These topics, in turn, are personified by such memorable figures as Cary Grant, Jon Hamm, Audrey Hepburn, and Seul-gi Kim, in addition to avatars, online personalities, animated characters, and the ensembles of shows such as The Sopranos, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad.Trade Review"This book is a remarkably accessible collection of essays on some of the most theoretically complex aspects of actors and acting on film and in other media. It also covers a wide selection of films, TV-series, and computer games, making it a standard work in the fields of Cognitive Film Studies, Philosophy and Film, and even Celebrity Studies." --Erik Hedling, Professor, Lund University, SwedenTable of ContentsCONTENTS ; ;List of Figures ; ;Acknowledgments ; ;Notes on Contributors ; ;Foreword: Consorting with Characters ; Murray Smith ; ;Introduction: Screening Characters ; Johannes Riis and Aaron Taylor ; ;Part 1: The Importance of Actors ; ;1. Seeing and Hearing Screen Characters: Stars, Twofoldness, and the Imagination ;Ted Nannicelli ; ;2. Character and the Star Vehicle: The Impact of Casting Cary Grant ;Kathrina Glitre ; ;3. Character Collaborations: The Writer-Actor Relationship in Mad Men ;R. Colin Tait ; ; ;Part 2: Social Types, Social Contexts ; ;4. Being Typical and Being Individual ;Henry Bacon ; ;5. The Mark of the Social: Stereotypes, Folk Psychology and Metonymy in Mainstream Film ;Tico Romao ; ;6. Racialized Disgust and Character in Film ;Dan Flory ; ; ;Part 3: Medium-Specific Features and Constraints ; ;7. Impossible Characterizations ;Paisley Livingston ; ;8. Performative Metamorphosis: Animated Characters and Spectator Proximity ;Pete Sillett ; ;9. Social Media as Interface, or How Characters Enter Our Everyday Reality ;Philippe Gauthier ; ;10. Owning Our Actions: Identification with Avatars in Video Games ;Andreas Gregersen ; ; ;Part 4: Emotional and Moral Engagement ; ;11. Ethical Criticism and Fictional Characters as Moral Agents ;Carl Plantinga ; ;12. Absorbed Character Engagement: From Social Cognition Responses to the Experience of Fictional Constructions ;Katalin Bálint and Ed Tan ; ;13. "Familiarity Breeds Contempt:" Why Fascination, Rather than Repeat Exposure, Better Explains the Appeal of Antiheroes on Television ;Malcolm Turvey ; ; ;Part 5: The Character within Genres ; ;14. Girls Who Can Leap Through Time: Shojo and Time Travel in East Asian Media ;Jinhee Choi ; ;15. Action and Affordances: The Action Hero’s Skilled and Surprising Use of the Environment ;Birger Langkjær and Charlotte Sun Jensen ; ;16. Introducing Characters in Television Crime Series: Stylistic and Narrative Strategies ; Lennard Højbjerg ; ;Index ;

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume focuses on South and East Asian cinema, exploring transnational connections between these film industries from the point of view of narratives, topics and themes, as well as in terms of co-productions. At a time of resurgent nationalisms and increasing fortifications of (actual and symbolic) borders, the chapters in this book explore cinematic work that challenge these boundaries and promote a reflection on the social, cultural, political and economic value of international exchanges and collaborations within the context of Asia.Indeed, notwithstanding the aforementioned tendency to implement border policing and the revival of nationalist sentiments, South and East Asian cinemas retain a strong transnational character, as not only genres and themes are borrowed and exchanged across borders, but also the popularity of the Indian, Chinese and Korean film industries extend well beyond their national borders within Asia as well as in the West. The chaptTable of Contents1. Critical trends in transnational cinema: Inter-Asian productions and exchanges 2. The emergence of China-India film co-production: policy and practice 3. Subalterns and the city: Dubai as cross-cultural caravanserai in City of Life and Pinky Memsaab 4. Repetition and difference in East Asian gothic cinema: the Bunshinsaba film series 5. Between cultural performance and cultural activism: contemporary documentary film festivals in India 6. Is Everybody Kung Fu Fighting? Indian Popular Cinema and Martial Arts Films

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist society.Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm, E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, Günther Anders, M. N. Roy, Angela Davis, C. L. R. James, Rosa Luxemburg, Eve Mitchell, and Cedric J. Robinson, the book provides readings of works that inform our understanding of how to critically theorise communication in society. The topics covered include the relationship of capitalism, racism, and patriarchy; communication and alienation; the base/superstructure-problem; the question of how one should best define communication; the political economy of communication; ideology critique; the connection of communication and struggles for alternatives. Written for a broad audience of students and scholars interested in contemporary critical theory, this book will be usefTrade Review'In this volume, Christian Fuchs collected and partly updated his recently published articles analysing some key twentieth-century critical/Marxist contributions to the media and communication theory. His work makes an unparalleled contribution to the critical literature of communication studies by analysing, from a Marxist perspective, different dimensions and diverse contexts of mass communication, such as the base-superstructure relationship, human alienation, ideology, hegemony, and its reproductive power for capitalism and its contemporary forms and manifestations, such as authoritarianism, fascism, nationalism, and digital capitalism. A must-read for every critical scholar in the field.'Slavko Splichal, University of LjubljanaTable of Contents1. Introduction ; 2. Erich Fromm and the Critical Theory of Communication ; 3. Revisiting the Althusser/E. P. Thompson-Controversy: Towards a Marxist Theory of Communication ; 4. Raymond Williams’s Communicative Materialism ; 5. Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of the Production of Space and the Critical Theory of Communication ; 6. Towards A Critical Theory of Communication with Georg Lukács’s and Lucien Goldmann ; 7. Günther Anders’s Critical Theory of Technology ; 8. Jean-Paul Sartre as Critical Theorist of Communication. An Engagement with "Critique of Dialectical Reason" ; 9. M. N. Roy, Socialist Humanism, and the Critical Analysis of Communication ; 10. Capitalism, Racism, Patriarchy ; 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines the shift toward positive and more accurate portrayals of mental illness in entertainment media, asking where these succeed and considering where more needs to be done. With studies that identify and analyze the characters, viewpoints, and experiences of mental illness across film and television, it considers the messages conveyed about mental illness and reflects on how the different texts reflect, reinforce, or challenge sociocultural notions regarding mental illness. Presenting chapters that explore a range of texts from film and television, covering a variety of mental health conditions, including autism, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, and more, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, and mental health.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Why depictions of mental illness matter 2."Remember what Dr. Lopez said": Portrayals of mental health care in Nickelodeon’s The Loud House 3."And I suffer from short-term memory loss": Understanding presentations of mental health in Pixar’s Finding Nemo and Finding Dory through communication theory of identity 4.Family narratives and mental illness in This is Us 5.Cognitive differences in Star Trek: The case and evolution of Reginald Barclay 6.Popular culture and the (mis)representation of Asperger’s: A study on the sitcoms Community and The Big Bang Theory 7.Psychopath, Sociopath, or Autistic: Labeling and framing the brilliance of Sherlock Holmes 8.When Saga Norén meets neurotypicality: A liminal encounter along The Bridge 9.The Girl on the Swing: An analysis of cues and depression in Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice (2005) 10.Depictions of depression and eating disorders in My Mad Fat Diary 11."Portraying real feelings with comedy on top": Postpartum depression storylines and domestic sitcoms 12.Ruby Wax: Comedy, celebrity capital, and (re)presentations of mental illness 13.Post-traumatic stress disorder in the films Taxi Driver and You Were Never Really Here: A comparative progressive approach 14.Bipolar and Shameless: Showtime’s portrayal of living and working with bipolar disorder 15.Wrestling with eating disorders: Transmedia depictions of body issues in WWE’s women’s professional wrestling 16.Conclusion: Destigmatizing mental illness and neurodiversity in entertainment media

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a bold and dynamic examination of Lars von Trierâs cinema by interweaving philosophy and theology with close attention to aesthetics through style and narrative. It explores the prophetic voice of von Trier's films, juxtaposing them with Ezekiel's prophecy and Ricoeurâs symbols of evil, myth, and hermeneutics of revelation. The films of Lars von Trier are categorized as extreme cinema, inducing trauma and emotional rupture rarely paralleled, while challenging audiences to respond in new ways. This volume argues that the spiritual, biblical content of the films holds a key to understanding von Trierâs oeuvre of excess. Spiritual conflict is the mechanism that unpacks the filmsâ notorious excess with explosive, centrifugal force. By confronting the spectator with spiritual conflict through evil, von Trier's films truthfully and prophetically expose the spectatorâs complicity in personal and structural evil, forcing self-examination through theological thTrade Review"Lars von Trier has long been both praised and criticized as a provocateur and a jester, a genius and a charlatan, a visionary and a contrarian. Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran adds an original and compelling perspective to this critical debate: von Trier as modern prophet-artist whose films explore the theologically-inflected struggles of good and evil. Drawing on Ricoeur, phenomenology, Levinas, and the prophet Ezekiel, she argues persuasively that von Trier’s much vaunted style of cinematic excess serves as a means of expressing spiritual conflict and of exploring the reality of evil in a secular world. She brings a keen theological and aesthetic perspective to von Trier’s films and reveals layers of theological depth and spiritual meaning that have remained hitherto concealed or overlooked by many critics. In a stunning move, she shows how von Trier’s work can be understood as articulating a ‘prophetic voice’ – in the manner and tradition of Ezekiel – that not only examines evil as an expression of spiritual conflict but confronts the viewer with their own complicity in the evil permeating our contemporary world. Lars von Trier’s Cinema is an impressive and important achievement, introducing fascinating new ways of understanding the theological dimensions of von Trier’s provocative body of work." - Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University"Is it possible the shocking, harrowing, even repulsive moments in Von Trier’s oeuvre have a moral, even prophetic telos? Ver Straten-McSparran challenges skeptics to reckon with similarly appalling, even offensive sign-acts of the Biblical traditio. Then, as now, extreme times may require extreme prophetic voices. Von Trier’s methods will always stir controversy and debate, but Ver Straten-McSparran convincingly argues his central message abides throughout: evil itself is being trivialized, ignored, and, therefore, empowered. At his best, Von Trier drives us to honestly face evil in the world and in ourselves, and to urgently look for grace, even in the most unlikely places." - Joseph G. Kickasola, Professor of Film and Digital Media, Baylor University"Whatever you think of Lars von Trier’s films—and I’ve both loved and loathed certain of them—they are always fodder for discussion and serious consideration, even spiritual contemplation. In this fascinating scholarly work, Rebecca Ver Straten-McSparran makes a compelling case for von Trier as a prophetic filmmaker, in the biblical sense of the word. Daring, surprising, insightful, and passionate, this book is a great example of how theology and cinema can be natural conversation partners." - Brett McCracken, film critic and senior editor, The Gospel Coalition"One cannot understand Lars von Trier as a filmmaker without also understanding him as a prophetic theologian. So argues Ver Straten-McSparran, finding insight from the Old Testament prophet Ezekiel. Here is must reading for anyone interested in unpacking the extreme cinema of this controversial Dane." - Robert K. Johnston, Senior Professor of Theology and Culture and Co-Director of the Reel Spirituality Institute, Fuller Seminary"Ver Straten-McSparran’s groundbreaking book is a welcome addition to a subfield of study which too often plays it safe with the filmmakers and films they consider in-depth. […] This contribution to the canon of Religion and Film scholarship is an excellent example of multi-disciplinary fearlessness and offers a unique biblical, filmic, and theological approach to an important contemporary artist whose films force us to grapple with life’s big questions even if they make us uncomfortable by exposing modern hypocrisy, idolatry, and evil." - Jeanette Solano, Journal of Religion & FilmTable of Contents1 Context: Prophets and Prophecy, Ezekiel, and the Spirit 2 The Artist as Prophet: Affinities in Dante, Milton, Dostoyevsky, O’Connor, and Tarkovsky 3 Aesthetics of Prophecy: Narrative Structures and Prophetic Themes 4 Aesthetics of Image, Sound, and Style: Embodying the Prophetic Voice 5 Antichrist: Paradise Lost: Our Capacity for Evil

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Book SynopsisKey Writers on Art: The Twentieth Century offers a unique and authoritative guide to modern responses to art. Featuring 48 essays on the most important twentieth century writers and thinkers and written by an international panel of expert contributors, it introduces readers to key approaches and analytical tools used in the study of contemporary art. It discusses writers such as Adorno, Barthes, Benjamin, Freud, Greenberg, Heuser, Kristeva, Merleau-Ponty, Pollock, Read and Sontag.Trade Review'This marvelously lucid book will prove invaluable for students and teachers alike.' - David Carrier, Cleveland Institute of Art, USA'This marvelously lucid book will prove invaluable for students and teachers alike.' - David Carrier, Cleveland Institute of Art, USATable of ContentsChapter 1 Theodor Adorno (1903–69), Richard Hooker; Chapter 2 Rudolf Arnheim (1904–), David Pariser; Chapter 3 Mieke Bal (1946–), Norman Bryson; Chapter 4 Roland Barthes (1915–80), Mary Bittner Wiseman; Chapter 5 Jean Baudrillard (1929–), Mike Gane; Chapter 6 Michael Baxandall (1933–), D.R. Edward Wright; Chapter 7 Clive Bell (1881–1964), Carol S. Gould; Chapter 8 Walter Benjamin (1892–1940), Marcus Bullock; Chapter 9 John Berger (1926–), Alan Wallach; Chapter 10 Pierre Bourdieu (1930–2002), Bridget Fowler; Chapter 11 Norman Bryson (1949–), Mieke Bal; Chapter 12 T.J. Clark (1943–), Jonathan Harris; Chapter 13 R.G. Collingwood (1889–1943), Aaron Ridley; Chapter 14 Benedetto Croce (1866–1952), Hugh Bredin; Chapter 15 Hubert Damisch (1928–), Ernst Van Alphen; Chapter 16 Arthur C. Danto (1924–), Mark Rollins; Chapter 17 Jacques Derrida (1930–), Stuart Sim; Chapter 18 John Dewey (1859–1952), Casey Haskins; Chapter 19 Henri Focillon (1881–1943), Alexandra Gajewski-Kennedy; Chapter 20 Michel Foucault (1926–84), David Macey; Chapter 21 Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), David Macey; Chapter 22 Roger Fry (1866–1934), Carol S. Gould; Chapter 23 Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), Nicholas Davey; Chapter 24 Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001), Juliet Graver Istrabadi; Chapter 25 Nelson Goodman (1906–98), Charles Nussbaum; Chapter 26 Clement Greenberg (1909–94), Paul Barlow; Chapter 27 Arnold Hauser (1892–1978), Paul Barlow; Chapter 28 Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), Paul Gorner; Chapter 29 Julia Kristeva (1941–), Kelly Oliver; Chapter 30 Jacques Lacan (1901–81), David Macey; Chapter 31 Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985), Donald Dryden; Chapter 32 Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–), Boris Wiseman; Chapter 33 Alain Leroy Locke (1886–1954), Tommy L. Lott; Chapter 34 Jean-François Lyotard (1924–98), Stuart Sim; Chapter 35 Émile Mâle (1862–1954), Julian M. Luxford; Chapter 36 André Malraux (1901–76), Geoffrey T. Harris; Chapter 37 Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–61), Daniel F. Chamberlain; Chapter 38 Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968), Juliet Graver Istrabadi; Chapter 39 Griselda Pollock (1949–), Sue Malvern; Chapter 40 Herbert Read (1893–1968), Michael Paraskos; Chapter 41 Meyer Schapiro (1904–96), David Craven; Chapter 42 Georg Simmel (1858–1918), Willi Goetschel; Chapter 43 Susan Sontag (1933–), Carl Rollyson; Chapter 44 Adrian Stokes (1902–72), Stephen Kite; Chapter 45 Aby Warburg (1866–1933), Richard Woodfield; Chapter 46 Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Peter B. Lewis; Chapter 47 Heinrich Wölfflin (1864–1945), Linnea Wren, Travis Nygard; Chapter 48 Richard Wollheim (1923–), Lloyd Reinhardt; Chapter 49 Wilhelm Worringer (1881–1965), Marcus Bullock;

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Book SynopsisFeaturing over eighty essays, Cultural Theory: The Key Thinkers is a seminal guide to the literary critics, sociologists, historians, artists, philosophers and writers who have shaped culture and society, and the way in which we view them. Ranging from Arnold to Le Corbusier, from Eco to Marx, the entries offer a lucid analysis of the work of influential figures in the study of cultural theory, making this the perfect introduction for the student and general reader alike.Trade Review'Genuinely interdisciplinary' - Media Education JournalTable of ContentsChapter 1 ADORNO, THEODOR WIESENGRUND (1903–1969); Chapter 2 ALTHUSSER, LOUIS (1918–1990); Chapter 3 ARENDT, HANNAH (1906–1975); Chapter 4 ARISTOTLE (384–322 BC); Chapter 5 ARNOLD, MATTHEW (1822–1888); Chapter 6 BAKHTIN, MIKHAIL (1895–1975); Chapter 7 BARTHES, ROLAND (1915–1980); Chapter 8 BATAILLE, GEORGES (1897–1962); Chapter 9 BAUDRILLARD, JEAN (1929– ); Chapter 10 BENEDICT, RUTH (1887–1948); Chapter 11 BENJAMIN, WALTER (1892–1940); Chapter 12 BLOCH, ERNST (1885–1977); Chapter 13 BOURDIEU, PIERRE (1930– ); Chapter 14 BRECHT, BERTOLT (1898–1956); Chapter 15 CASTORIADIS, CORNELIUS (1922–1997); Chapter 16 CHOMSKY, NOAM (1928– ); Chapter 17 CIXOUS, HÉLÈNE (1937– ); Chapter 18 DELEUZE, GILLES (1925–1995) AND GUATTARI, FÉLIX (1936–1992); Chapter 19 DE MAN, PAUL (1919–1983); Chapter 20 DERRIDA, JACQUES (1930– ); Chapter 21 DESCARTES, RENÉ (1596–1650); Chapter 22 DEWEY, JOHN (1859–1952); Chapter 23 DURKHEIM, EMILE (1858–1917); Chapter 24 ECO, UMBERTO (1932– ); Chapter 25 ELIAS, NORBERT (1897–1990); Chapter 26 FANON, FRANTZ (1925–1961); Chapter 27 FOUCAULT, MICHEL (1926–1984); Chapter 28 FREUD, SIGMUND (1856–1939); Chapter 29 GADAMER, HANS-GEORG (1900– ); Chapter 30 GEERTZ, CLIFFORD (1926– ); Chapter 31 GIDDENS, ANTHONY (1938– ); Chapter 32 GOFFMAN, ERVING (1922–1982); Chapter 33 GRAMSCI, ANTONIO (1891–1937); Chapter 34 HABERMAS, JÜRGEN (1929– ); Chapter 35 HALL, STUART (1932– ); Chapter 36 HEGEL, GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH (1770–1831); Chapter 37 HEIDEGGER, MARTIN (1889–1976); Chapter 38 HOGGART, RICHARD (1918– ); Chapter 39 HORKHEIMER, MAX (1895–1973); Chapter 40 HUME, DAVID (1711–1776); Chapter 41 HUSSERL, EDMUND (1859–1938); Chapter 42 IRIGARAY, LUCE (1932– ); Chapter 43 JAKOBSON, ROMAN (1896–1982); Chapter 44 JAMES, C. L. R. (CYRIL LIONEL ROBERT) (1901–1989); Chapter 45 JAMESON, FREDRIC (1934– ); Chapter 46 JUNG, CARL GUSTAV (1875–1961); Chapter 47 KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804); Chapter 48 KRISTEVA, JULIA (1941– ); Chapter 49 KUHN, THOMAS S. (1922–1996); Chapter 50 LACAN, JACQUES (1901–1981); Chapter 51 LEAVIS, F. R. (1895–1978); Chapter 52 LE CORBUSIER (1887–1965); Chapter 53 LE DOEUFF, MICHÈLE (1948– ); Chapter 54 LÉVINAS, EMMANUEL (1906–1995); Chapter 55 LÉVI-STRAUSS, CLAUDE (1908– ); Chapter 56 LUKÁCS, GYORGY (1885–1971); Chapter 57 LYOTARD, JEAN-FRANÇOIS (1925–1998); Chapter 58 MACINTYRE, ALASDAIR (1929– ); Chapter 59 MALRAUX, ANDRÉ (1901–1976); Chapter 60 MARX, KARL (1818–1883); Chapter 61 MAUSS, MARCEL (1872–1950); Chapter 62 MERLEAU-PONTY, MAURICE (1907–1961); Chapter 63 MILL, JOHN STUART (1806–1873); Chapter 64 NIETZSCHE, FRIEDRICH (1844–1900); Chapter 65 NUSSBAUM, MARTHA C. (1947– ); Chapter 66 OAKESHOTT, MICHAEL (1901–1990); Chapter 67 PARSONS, TALCOTT (1902–1979); Chapter 68 PEIRCE, CHARLES SANDERS (1839–1914); Chapter 69 PLATO (c.428–c.348 BC); Chapter 70 POPPER, KARL (1902–1994); Chapter 71 RAWLS, JOHN (1921– ); Chapter 72 RICOEUR, PAUL (1913– ); Chapter 73 RORTY, RICHARD (1931– ); Chapter 74 ROSE, GILLIAN (1947–1995); Chapter 75 ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES (1712–1778); Chapter 76 SAID, EDWARD (1935– ); Chapter 77 SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL (1905–1980); Chapter 78 SAUSSURE, FERDINAND DE (1857–1913); Chapter 79 SCHUTZ, ALFRED (1899–1959); Chapter 80 SIMMEL, GEORG (1858–1918); Chapter 81 SKINNER, B. F. (BURRHUS FREDERIC) (1904–1990); Chapter 82 SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790); Chapter 83 SONTAG, SUSAN (1933– ); Chapter 84 TAYLOR, CHARLES (1931– ); Chapter 85 WEBER, MAX (1864–1920); Chapter 86 WILLIAMS, RAYMOND (1921–1988); Chapter 87 WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG (1889–1951);

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Book SynopsisFrom Easy Rider to The Blair Witch Project, this book is a comprehensive examination of the independent film scene. Exploring the uneasy relationship between independent films and the major studios, the contributors trace the changing ideas and definitions of independent cinema, and the diversity of independent film practices.They consider the ways in which indie films are marketed and distributed, and how new technologies such as video, cable and the internet, offered new opportunities for filmmakers to produce and market independent films.Turning to the work of key auteurs such as John Sayles and Haile Gerima, contributors ask whether independent filmmakers can also be stars, and consider how indie features like Boys Don't Cry and Shopping for Fangs address issues of gender, sexuality and ethnicity normally avoided by Hollywood.For all students of film studies and American studies, this cultural journey through independent film history will be an absolute must read.Table of Contents1. Introduction: From the Margins to the Mainstream Part 1: Critical Formations 2. Introduction to 'Critical Formations' 3. The Independent Feature Movement 4. Independence for Independents 5. Dimension Pictures: Portrait of a 1970s Independent 6. End of the Indies 7. Alternative Cinemas Part 2: Cult Film/Cool Film 8. 'Queen of the Indies': Parker Posey's Niche Stardom and the Taste Cultures of Independent Film 9. Dark, Disturbing, Intelligent, Provocative, and Quirky: Avant-garde Cinema of the 1980s and 1990s 10. Communitarianism, Film Entrepreneurism and the Crusade of Troma Entertainment Part 3: Iconoclasts & Auteurs 11. John Sayles, Independent Filmmaker: Bet on Yourself 12. Haile Gerima: Sacred Shield of Culture 13. Seminal Fantasies: Wakefield Poole, Pornography, Independent Cinema and the Avant-Garde Part 4: Identity Hooks - Cultural Binds 14. Generation Q's ABCs: Queer Kids and 1990s Independent Films 15. Just Another Girl Outside the Neo-Indie 16. Guests at The Wedding Banquet: The Cinema of the Chinese Diaspora and the Rise of the American Independents Part 5: Shifting Markets, Changing Media 17. Revisiting 1970s Independent Distribution and Marketing Strategies 18. Digital Deployment(s) 19. The IFC and Sundance: Channeling Independence

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Book SynopsisNow You See It, Richard Dyer's groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, has been revised for a second edition, and features an introduction by Juliane Pidduck outlining developments in lesbian and gay cinema since 1990. Now You See It examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D'Amour, and Word Is Out, in their lesbian/gay context as well as bringing to light many other forgotten but remarkable films. Each film is examined in detail in relation to both film type and tradition and the sexual subculture in which it was made.Table of ContentsIntroduction to the first edition; Introduction to the second edition; 1: Sweden 1916; 2: Weimar; 3: Shades of genet; 4: Underground and after; 5: Lesbian/Woman; 6: From and for the movement; 7: After 1980

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Book SynopsisThis is the first anthology devoted exclusively to the subject of colour in film and its history, production and technology.Set out in thematic sections, the book addresses key issues in the field including: the development of colour technology how visual stule was affected by the shift from black and white to colour colour in film theory and the writings of authors such as Bresson, Eisenstein and Oshima colour in the films of Godard, Hitchcock, Almodovar and many more. Including case studies too, this is the perfect introductory guide to a key element in film form and theory. A must for any student starting a film studies course. Trade Review'[This book] remains an important stepping-stone in film studies... [and] can be considered an accomplishment'. - Film InternationalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments General Introduction Brian Price PART ONE: COLOR TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL STYLE Introduction 1. Technicolor Steve Neale 2. Color Consciousness Natalie Kalmus 3. Minor Hazards: Disney and the Color Adventure J.P. Telotte 4. The Post-War Struggle for Color Dudley Andrew PART TWO: COLOR THEORY Introduction 5. Remarks on Color Film Rudolf Arnheim 6. A Bergsonian Film: The Picasso Mystery André Bazin 7. from Chromophobia David Batchelor 8. Color, the Formless and Cinematic Eros Brian Price 9. The Colours of Haptic Space: Black and White in Moving Images Trond Lundemo PART THREE: THE FILMMAKER AS COLOR THEORIST Introduction 10. On Colour Sergei Eisenstein 11. Banishing Green Nagisa Oshima 12. Reflections on Color Eric Rohmer 13. Of Taste and Colors Eric Rohmer 14. Painting Film Stan Brakhage PART FOUR: CASE STUDIES Introduction 15. Hitchcock’s Color Designs Richard Allen 16. All that Heaven Allows: Color, Narrative Space, Melodrama Mary Beth Haralovich 17. Demonstrating Three-Strip Technicolor: Becky Sharp Scott Higgins 18. Costuming and the Color System: Leave Her to Heaven Marshall Deutelbaum 19. The Articulation of Color in a Filmic System: Deux ou trois chosesque je sais d’elle Edward Branigan 20. Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert: Painting as Ventriloquism and Color as Movement (Architecture and Painting) Angela Dalle Vacche 21. Blue Peter Wollen Select bibliography, compiled by Angela Dalle Vacche Index

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Book SynopsisFeaturing a wide range of exercises, examples, and images, this textbook provides a practical way of analyzing the discourses of the global media industries. Building on a comprehensive introduction to the history and theory of global media communication, specific case studies of lifestyle and entertainment media are explored with examples from films, global women''s magazines, Vietnamese news reporting and computer war games. Finally, this book investigates how global media communication is produced, looking at the formats, languages and images used in creating media materials, both globally and in localized forms. At a time when the media is becoming increasingly global, often with the same films, news and television programmes shown all over the world; Global Media Discourse provides an accessible, lively introduction into how globalization is changing the language and communicative practices of the media. Integrating a range of approaches, includinTrade Review'Concise and absorbing, Global Media Discourse is an indispensable resource for all media and communication students, and professionals, and anyone interested in the impact of globalisation on media discourse and communication. It offers a dynamic synthesis of new research on globalisation, new trends in global media communication, and influential linguistic and visual discourses favoured by transnational media conglomerates to assert power and shape global consciousness and politics.Every section is a powerful blend of resOverall, Machin and Van Leeuwen impress with their succinct and fluent style and the quality of content which together make Global Media Discourse a highly recommended reading.'- EscalateTable of ContentsContents Introduction Part One: Context Chapter 1: Histories of Media Globalisation Chapter 2: Theories of media globalisation Part Two: Discourses Chapter 3: Discourses of identity and community Chapter 4: Discourses of Sex and Work Chapter 5: Discourses of War Part Three: Language and Image Chapter 6: Global Genres Chapter 7: Global Languages Chapter 8: Global Images Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisNew Media: A Critical Introduction is a comprehensive introduction to the culture, history, technologies and theories of new media. Written especially for students, the book considers the ways in which ''new media'' really are new, assesses the claims that a media and technological revolution has taken place and formulates new ways for media studies to respond to new technologies.The authors introduce a wide variety of topics including: how to define the characteristics of new media; social and political uses of new media and new communications; new media technologies, politics and globalization; everyday life and new media; theories of interactivity, simulation, the new media economy; cybernetics, cyberculture, the history of automata and artificial life.Substantially updated from the first edition to cover recent theoretical developments, approaches and significant technological developments, this is the best and by far the most comprehensive textbook availaTrade Review'This second edition of New Media: A Critical Introduction builds on the strengths of the first edition to improve and update one of the best textbooks in the field. The authors have provided a wealth of new material, resulting in a very detailed and illuminating overview of many important new trends emerging from the intersections of culture and technology.' - Jamie Sexton, Aberystwyth University, UK'Far more than simply an upgrade or update, this second edition continues its predecessor’s finely-honed critical engagement with the most significant current debates about the new media, both within and outside academia. This should be required reading for anyone interested in this all-important, but much-mythologised, subject.' – Julian Petley, Brunel University, UK'I think there is little doubt that this is an important book... Because of their different backgrounds, the authors are able to provide a wealth of examples, quotes, references etc. which help to make the book a veritable treasure trove of materials.' – PoV'Firstly, the book does very well what it defines as its purpose - to introduce, critically, its area of concern. To this end it is certainly comprehensive. Very little is left uncovered in the careful negotiation of the issue of what we mean by 'new'. Secondly, it takes its subject matter very seriously and manages to offer readers a clear engaging journey through such areas as 'economics and networked media culture' and 'the technological shaping of everyday life'... Thirdly, it strikes the right balance between detail and moving on so a lot is covered but there is enough depth for students to get enough from this as a 'core text' without needing to endlessly chase references to get to the heart of each area... This second edition certainly addresses these challenges head on with critical precision and balance.' – The Higher Education Academy'This second edition of New Media: A Critical Introduction builds on the strengths of the first edition to improve and update one of the best textbooks in the field. The authors have provided a wealth of new material, resulting in a very detailed and illuminating overview of many important new trends emerging from the intersections of culture and technology.' – Jamie Sexton, Aberystwyth University, UK'Far more than simply an upgrade or update, this second edition continues its predecessor’s finely-honed critical engagement with the most significant current debates about the new media, both within and outside academia. This should be required reading for anyone interested in this all-important, but much-mythologised, subject.' – Julian Petley, Brunel University, UK'I think there is little doubt that this is an important book... Because of their different backgrounds, the authors are able to provide a wealth of examples, quotes, references etc. which help to make the book a veritable treasure trove of materials.' – PoV'Firstly, the book does very well what it defines as its purpose - to introduce, critically, its area of concern. To this end it is certainly comprehensive. Very little is left uncovered in the careful negotiation of the issue of what we mean by 'new'. Secondly, it takes its subject matter very seriously and manages to offer readers a clear engaging journey through such areas as 'economics and networked media culture' and 'the technological shaping of everyday life'... Thirdly, it strikes the right balance between detail and moving on so a lot is covered but there is enough depth for students to get enough from this as a 'core text' without needing to endlessly chase references to get to the heart of each area... This second edition certainly addresses these challenges head on with critical precision and balance.' – The Higher Education AcademyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. List of Case Studies. Authors’ Biographies. Preface to the Second Edition Introduction The Book’s Purpose. Our Approach to the Subject. The Book’s Historical Dimension. The Book’s Emphasis on Wider Questions of Culture and Technology. The Book’s Organisation. How to Use the Book. The Book’s Parts Part 1: New Media and New Technologies 1.1 New Media: Do we Know What They Are? 1.2 The Characteristics of New Media: Some Defining Concepts 1.3 Change and Continuity 1.4 What Kind of History? 1.5 Who was Dissatisfied with Old Media? 1.6 New Media: Determining Or Determined? Bibliography Part 2: New Media and Visual Culture 2.1 What Happened to Virtual Reality? 2.2 The Virtual and Visual Culture 2.3 The Digital Virtual 2.4 Immersion: A History 2.5 Perspective, Camera, Software 2.6 Virtual Images/Images of the Virtual 2.7 Digital Cinema. Bibliography Part 3: Networks Users and Economics 3.1 Introduction 3.2 What Is the Internet? 3.3 Historicising Net Studies 3.4 Economics and Networked Media Culture 3.5 Political Economy 3.6 The Social Form of New Media 3.7 Limits on Commercial Influence 3.8 Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Internet 3.9 The Digital Divide 3.10 Boom and Bust in the Digital Economy 3.11 Intellectual Property Rights, Determined and Determining 3.12 Music as New Media 3.13 The Long Tail 3.14 Going Viral 3.15 Fragmentation and Convergence 3.16 Wiki Worlds and Web 2.0 3.17 Identities and Communities Online 3.18 Being Anonymous 3.19 Belonging 3.20 Living in the Interface 3.21 The Internet and the Public Sphere 3.22 User-Generated Content: We are all Fans Now 3.23 YouTube and Post Television 3.24 Conclusion. Bibliography Part 4: New Media In Everyday Life 4.1 Everyday Life In Cyberspace 4.2 Everyday Life In a Media Home 4.3 The Technological Shaping of Everyday Life 4.4 The Everyday Posthuman: New Media and Identity 4.5 Gameplay 4.6 Conclusion: Everyday Cyberculture. Bibliography Part 5: Cyberculture: Technology, Nature and Culture 5.1 Cyberculture and Cybernetics 5.2 Revisiting Determinism: Physicalism, Humanism and Technology 5.3 Biological Technologies: The History of Automata 5.4 Theories of Cyberculture. Bibliography Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisProviding a key resource to new students, Film: The Essential Study Guide introduces all the skills needed to succeed on a film studies course.This succinct, accessible guide covers key topics such as: Using the library Online research and resources Viewing skills How to watch and study foreign language films Essay writing  Presentation skills Referencing and plagiarism Practical Filmmaking Including exercises and examples, Film: The Essential Study Guide helps film students understand how study skills are applicable to their learning and gives them the tools to flourish in their degree.Table of ContentsContributor Notes 1. Studying film at University Sue Harper 2. The Independent Student Ruth Doughty & Deborah Shaw 3. University Life: The Student Perspective Louise Buckler & Simon Hobbs 4. Lecture and Seminar Skills Ruth Doughty & Deborah Shaw 5. The Library: The Lecturer's Perspective Justin Smith 6. Library: The Librarian's Perspective David Francis & Greta Friggens 7. Research Skills Sue Harper 8. Reading Skills Ruth Doughty & Deborah Shaw 9. Online Research and Resources Ruth Doughty 10. Viewing Skills Van Norris 11. How to Watch and Study Foreign Language Films Reka Buckley & Deborah Shaw 12. Essay Writing Christine Etherington-Wright 13. Referencing and Plagiarism Lincoln Geraghty 14. Writing on Film Laurie Ede 15. Making the Most of Feedback Laurel Forster 16. Exam Preparation Emma Dyson & Paul Spicer 17. Presentation Skills Dave Allen 18. Screenwriting Craig Batty 19. Practical Filmmaking Dylan Pank and Karen Savage

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Book SynopsisJournalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboyâs extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its future directions are addressed, through chapters covering: the history and development of Journalism Studies how journalists are created through training and education changing research methods and processes in journalism the impact of the âend productâ in wider society global perspectives on journalism technology and the future of the discipline. Situated within a fast growing and dynamic field of study, this engaging introduction will be valuable reading for students of journalism, media and communication, along with those seeking to develop a broader understanding of contemporary journalism.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Studies of journalism: the beginnings 2. Education and Training: Between a Hack and a Hard Place 3. Journalism Studies and Research Approaches 4. Debates on the processes of journalism 5. Products 6. Journalism Across Borders: Imperial, International, Global 7. Journalism Studies: Engagements with Technology and Industrial Change Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an indispensable cutting edge book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism have attracted scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, too often this analysis has reduced the work of journalists to text-characteristics alone. In contrast, this collection is united by the principle that journalistic discourse is always socially situated and the result of a series of processes â produced by journalists in accordance with particular production techniques and in specific institutional settings â and as such, analysis requires more than the methods offered by linguists.The contributors to this book draw on a range of the most prominent theoretical and methodological approaches to media discourse â including Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse AnalysTable of Contents1. Language and Journalism: An expanding research agenda John E. Richardson 2. Media(ted) Discourse and Society: Rethinking the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis Anabela Carvalho 3. "Upscale" News Audiences and the Transformation of Labour News Christopher R. Martin 4. Language Development, Knowledge and Use Among Journalists of European Minority Language Media Inaki Zabaleta, Nicolas Xamardo, Arantza Gutierrez, Santi Urrutia, and Itxaso Fernandez 5. "Objectivity" and "Hard News" Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism Elizabeth A. Thomson, Peter R. R. White, and Philip Kitley 6. Unnamed Sources as Rhetorical Constructs in News Agency Reports Maija Stenvall 7. Branding Newspapers: Visual texts as social practice David Machin and Sarah Niblock 8. The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview: A typology Martin Montgomery 9. The BBC’s Discursive Strategy and Practices vis-a-vis the Palestinian Conflict Leon Barkho

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Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Phyllis Diller: The Clown as Standup Comedian 3. Lily Tomlin: Breaking with Tradition 4. Roseanne: Fighting for Women's Comic Voice 5. New Directions for Women's Comedy: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner 6. Conclusion: Feminist Humor and Change

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Book SynopsisAn investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together childrenâs literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that childrenâs fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular about humanityâs relationship to animals and the natural world. In complicating questions of human identity, ecology, gender, and technology, Jaques engages with a multifaceted posthumanism to understand how philosophy can emerge from children's fantasy, disclosing how such fantasy can build upon earlier traditions to represent complex issues of humanness to younger audiences. Interrogating the place of the human through the non-human (whether animal or mechanical) leads this book to have interpretations that radically depart from the critical tradition, which, in its concerns with the socialization and representation of the child, has ignored larger epistemologies of humanness. The book coTrade Review"Jaques uncovers the posthuman nature of characters and types that we recognize from children’s literature: talking animals and plants, and the uncanny half-life of toys and robots are discussed through the lens of philosophers like Donna Haraway and Jacques Derrida... Jaques’s study successfully makes some interesting connections and convincingly argues for children’s literature, a place where non-traditional subjectivities are often explored, as an exciting arena for posthumanist studies."- Forum for Modern Language Studies"Children’s Literature and the Posthuman is an expansive, intelligent and frequently quite delightful trek through the history of children’s literature in order to uncover the myriad ways in which children’s books have imaginatively sought to engage with philosophical debates about what it means to be human. Unlike other critical applications of posthumanism to children’s literature, which have tended to concentrate on the impact of technology on human subjectivity and have thus focused primarily on the genre of science-fiction (a category into which my own recently published monograph, Technology and Identity in Young Adult Fiction: The Posthuman Subject, which was published in 2014, falls), Jaques’ monograph offers its readers a much broader and more exploratory argument about the origins of posthumanism in children’s books and films."- Victoria Flanagan, Macquarie UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Child, the Book and the Posthuman Ethic Part I: Animal 1. Creature 2. Pet Part II: Environment 3. Tree 4. Water Part III: Cyborg 5. Robot 6. Toy Conclusion: A Question: Who are you?

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Book SynopsisBeyond Bollywood is the first comprehensive look at the emergence, development, and significance of contemporary South Asian diasporic cinema. From a feminist and queer perspective, Jigna Desai explores the hybrid cinema of the Brown Atlantic through a close look at films in English from and about South Asian diasporas in the United States, Canada, and Britain, including such popular films as My Beautiful Laundrette, Fire, Monsoon Wedding, and Bend it Like Beckham.Table of ContentsPreface: Brown Skin and Silver Screens 1: South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Cultural Studies 2: Between Hollywood and Bollywood 3: Home on the Range: Diaspora and Postcoloniality in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala 4: Reel a State: Reimagining Diaspora, Homeland, and Nation-state in Srinivas Krishna's Masala 5: Homesickness and Motion Sickness: Embodied Migratory Subjectives in Gurinder Chadha's Bhaji on the Beach 6: Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta's Fire 7: Sex in the Global City: The Sexual and Gender Politics of the New Urban, Transnational, and Cosmopolitan Indian Cinema in English 8: Conclusion: Migrant Brides, Feminist Films, and Transnational Desires Endnotes Bibliography Filmography

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Book SynopsisMedia do not reflect: media refract. In the United States, established and enduring prisms of prejudice about the projected Middle East are mediated through popular culture, broadcast news, government mission statements and official maps.This mediationserves to assert political boundaries and construct the United States as heroic against a villainous or victimized Middle East.These problematic maps and narratives are persistent over time and prevalent across genre, with clear consequences evidenced by the rise indiscriminatory sentiments in the US population and experiences of harm in US Arab and Muslim communities. Exploring a wide range of media, Karin Gwinn Wilkins illuminates the shape and scope of these narratives and explores ways tocounter these prisms of prejudice through informed and engaged strategic intervention in critical communication literacy.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Prisms of Prejudice 2 Mapping the Middle East 3 Narrating the Middle East 4 Mediating the Middle East 5 Visioning from the US Prism Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisFrom hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer-generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos explains the present and future of a world in which algorithms have changed how the news is created, disseminated, and received, and he shows why journalists—and their values—are at little risk of being replaced.Trade ReviewMoves us forward and spells out with absolute clarity just why algorithms are rewriting the media, and where the wins and the potential losses are. -- Sharon Wheeler * Times Higher Education *It deserves praise for shedding light on such an important subject…At a time of general anxiety about the future of media, Diakopoulos’ can-do attitude is a refreshing antidote. -- Andrew Lynch * Business Post *Diakopoulos provides deep discussion of the theory and practice of journalism automation, grounded in significant research and interviews with leading practitioners. The result is a trailblazing book full of information that has not appeared anywhere else. -- Jonathan Stray, Columbia Journalism SchoolAlgorithms are changing the ways stories are discovered, told, and distributed—for good and for ill. Automating the News expertly explains how the combination of computation and journalism is evolving, with insights of great interest to reporters, researchers, and readers. -- James T. Hamilton, Stanford UniversityThis book provides a comprehensive, evidence-based, and cautiously optimistic analysis of how automation is changing journalism—and how journalism in turn needs to change to make better use of automation. Diakopoulos documents how technology is increasingly supplementing—not replacing—human work in newsrooms, discusses the potential and very real limitation of new tools, and identifies ways in which reporting can evolve to better hold algorithms and those behind them accountable. An important and actionable analysis. -- Rasmus Kleis Nielsen, Reuters Institute, University of Oxford

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is an outstanding book, the product of careful thinking, of remarkable and painstaking gathering of data on investigative reporting—past and present—that no one in academia or in journalism has ever undertaken before. It is a moving, evidence-based affirmation of the value of journalism to democracy. -- Michael Schudson, Columbia UniversityIn riveting detail, Hamilton meticulously examines the storied history of investigative journalism in America, chronicles its current malaise, and makes a convincing case that pouring resources into gumshoe reporting makes economic sense for sclerotic news organizations. Why? Because readers hunger for more of it and are willing to pay to read it. -- Walter V. Robinson, Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative journalist and Editor-at-Large at the Boston GlobeProvides an extraordinarily precise and painstaking examination of the state of investigative journalism in the United States. Using a wide array of statistical measures and a case study of Pat Stith, a Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter for The News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, Hamilton demonstrates that investigative reporting (involving original work about important issues that someone wants to keep secret) costing thousands of dollars can produce millions of dollars in benefits to society. And Hamilton issues an urgent warning that this essential public service is underprovided in the market. His book should command the attention of every citizen who is concerned about the implications for our democracy when sunlight, which is the best disinfectant against corruption and incompetence, is obscured and blocked. -- Glenn C. Altschuler * Huffington Post *A highly original look at exactly what the subtitle promises…Has this topic ever been more important than this year? -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *Bracing. -- Rick Edmonds * Poynter *By bringing the economist’s eye to the business of investigative journalism, Hamilton sharpens our appreciation of the craft as he explores its history, the motivations publishers have to fund the work, and the cash benefits investigations pay out. -- Jack Shafer * Reason *Hamilton provides what is likely the most comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the economics of investigative journalism yet conducted…Democracy’s Detectives is essential reading for anyone interested in the economics of news, and it is a master class in methodological creativity and ingenuity in conducting social science research. -- Philip M. Napoli * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *[A] terrific new book. -- Sam Lebovic * Los Angeles Review of Books *Hamilton’s book presents a thoughtful and detailed case for the indispensability of investigative journalism—and just at the time when we needed it. Now more than ever, reporters can play an essential role as society’s watchdogs, working to expose corruption, greed, and injustice of the years to come. For this reason, Democracy’s Detectives should be taken as both a call to arms and a bracing reminder, for readers and journalists alike, of the importance of the profession. -- Anya Schiffrin * The Nation *

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