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Taylor & Francis The World of DC Comics
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Taylor & Francis Pop Art and Popular Music
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Taylor & Francis Visual Culture in the Northern British Archipelago
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Taylor & Francis Arguing Reasoning and Thinking Well
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Taylor & Francis Inc Feminist Interventions in Participatory Media
Book SynopsisFeminist Interventions in Participatory Media is an edited collection that provides strategies, tools and resources for using participatory media to integrate technology and feminist praxis in production and teaching. Table of ContentsIntroduction. We Have the Tools We’ve Been Waiting For: Centering Feminist Media Pedagogies in a Time of Uncertainty; Chapter 1. Intervening in Wikipedia: Feminist Inquiries and Opportunities Chapter 2. Is a Feminist Lens Enough? The challenges of going mobile in an intersectional world; Chapter 3. Feminist perspectives and mobile culture(s): Power and participation in girls’ digital video making communities; Chapter 4. Pop-Up Public: Participatory Design for Civic Storytelling; Chapter 5. Teaching Across Difference through Critical Media Production; Chapter 6. Immediacy, Hypermediacy and the College Campus: Using Augmented Reality for Social Critique; Chapter 7. On feminist collaboration, digital media, and affect
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Taylor & Francis The Handbook of Communication Science and Biology ICA Handbook Series
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Taylor & Francis Migrants Refugees and the Media
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Taylor & Francis The Dynamics of News
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Taylor & Francis Chinese Authoritarianism in the Information Age Internet Media and Public Opinion
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Taylor & Francis Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Economy
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Taylor & Francis Digital Sampling
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Taylor & Francis Transgressing Feminist Theory and Discourse Advancing Conversations across Disciplines
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Taylor & Francis Cultural Legal Studies
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Taylor & Francis Digital Discussions
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Taylor & Francis Discursivity Relationality and Materiality in the Life of the Organisation
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal
Book SynopsisHoward Tumber is Professor in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, UK. He is a founder and co-editor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. He has published widely in the field of the sociology of media and journalism.Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, USA. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication, and he has published widely about news, politics and social change.Table of ContentsIntroductionHoward Tumber and Silvio Waisbord1 Media and ScandalHoward Tumber and Silvio WaisbordPart IKEY CONCEPTS IN Media and SCANDAL STUDIEs2 Scandal and Social TheoryScott Brenton3 Media Coverage of Political Scandals: Effects of Personalization and Potential for Democratic Reforms Marion R. Just and Ann N. Crigler4 Moral Panics Rodney Tiffen5 Scandals and Agenda SettingSharon Meraz6 Mediatization and Political ScandalBingchun Meng 7 Scandal and News ValuesBrian McNair8 Selecting scandal: How Legacy and Social Media Gatekeep the NewsElizabeth Stoycheff9 Scandals and Social Accountability Enrique Peruzzotti10 Media Framing of Political Scandals: Theoretical Framework and Empirical EvidenceJurgen Maier, Carolin Jansen and Christian von Sikorski11 Fake News and ScandalJason Cabañes, C. W. Anderson and Jonathan Corpus OngPART IIPOLITICAL CONTEXT and MEDIA DYNAMICS of SCANDALS12 New Nordic Noir: Political Scandals as Drama and Media HuntsSigurd Allern and Ester Pollack13 Political Scandal and Kompromat: Manufactured Outrage from RussiaSarah Oates14 Right-wing Populism, Media and Political Scandal Juha Herkman and Janne Matikainen15 Corruption Scandals and the Media System Paolo Mancini 16 Social Media and ScandalGina Masullo Chen17 The Shifting Boundaries of Elite and Tabloid Media in Political Sex Scandals Esa Väliverronen and Laura Juntunen18 Talk Scandals: The Power of Mediated Talk Mats Ekström and Bengt Johansson19 Legal Contexts in Reporting Scandal in the United States, the United Kingdom, and RussiaLyombe Eko 20 Unreported Scandals: The Power of Personality and Legal BlusterJudith Townend Part IIIScandals and Journalistic practices21 Scandals and Freedom of InformationDavid Cuillier 22 Transnational Investigative Journalism and ScandalMichael Bromley 23 Media Stings and the Normalization of Scandal in India Kalyani Chadha 24 To Bark or to Bite? Journalism and Entrapment Zohar Kampf 25 From Snowden to Cambridge Analytica: An Overview of Whistleblowing Cases as Scandals Philip Di Salvo26 Data Journalism and the Promise of TransparencySylvain Parasie 27 Caught Between Transparency and Scandals-making: Conceptualising WikiLeaks Benedetta Brevini and Jorge Valdovinos28 Scandal Mining and Socially Mediated Visibility Daniel Trottier Part IVTHEMES AND SETTINGS OF MEDIA SCANDALS29 Surveillance Scandals and the Systemic Crisis of the PublicRisto Kunelius and Adrienne Russell 30 Scandal and CelebrityLinda Steiner 31 Reframing the Gender Gap in American Political Sex Scandals in the #MeToo EraHinda Mandell32 Scandals and Sport David Rowe 33 The Scandalous Power of the Press: Phone Hacking in the UKNatalie Fenton34 #AidToo? The 2018 Humanitarian Scandals in Oxfam GB and Save the ChildrenGlenda Cooper35 Scandals and the Armed ForcesMark Blach-Ørsten and Anker Brink Lund36 Sex Trafficking and ScandalGretchen Soderlund37 Race Scandals as Racial ProjectsMaryann Erigha38 Scandals in ScienceHeather Akin39 Scandals, Media, and ReligionPaul Soukup40 Corporate Scandalization Process: Unpacking the Corporate Scandal W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay41 Corporate Scandals as Denial of Reputation Daniel Vogler and Mark Eisenegger Part VConsequences and Legacies of Media Scandals42 Shame and Scandal: Making the Personal PoliticalJulian Petley 43 Scandal, Media Effects and Political Candidates Clarisse Warren and Dona-Gene Barton 44 Scandals, Media Effects, and Public OpinionFrancis L. F. Lee45 The Political Consequences of Corruption Scandals: Main Findings and ChallengesMacarena Ares, Sofia Breitenstein and Enrique Hernández46 Media Priming Effects and Ethical Ambivalence in CorruptionRosa Berganza and Roberto de Miguel Pascual47 Protecting Public Perception: Responding to Scandal using Benoit’s Image Repair TheoryKenon A. Brown, Qingru Xu and Melanie Formentin48 The Routinization of Media Scandals Maria Grafström and Karolina Windell 49 Scandal and the LawGavin Phillipson50 Why Scandals (Might) Be Good For Democracy Brandon Rottinghaus
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Taylor & Francis Made in Germany Studies in Popular Music Routledge Global Popular Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Made in Germany Studies in Popular Music Routledge Global Popular Music Series
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Taylor & Francis Bangladesh Cinema and National Identity
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Taylor & Francis Film Music in the Sound Era A Research and
Book SynopsisFilm Music in the Sound Era: A Research and Information Guide offers a comprehensive bibliography of scholarship on music in sound film (1927â2017). Thematically organized sections cover historical studies, studies of musicians and filmmakers, genre studies, theory and aesthetics, and other key aspects of film music studies. Broad coverage of works from around the globe, paired with robust indexes and thorough cross-referencing, make this research guide an invaluable tool for all scholars and students investigating the intersection of music and film.This guide is published in two volumes: Volume 1: Histories, Theories, and Genres covers overviews, historical surveys, theory and criticism, studies of film genres, and case studies of individual films. Volume 2: People, Cultures, and Contexts covers individual people, social and cultural studies, studies of musical genre, pedagogy, and the Industry. A complete index is included in each volume.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements I. Film Music Research: Overviews and Resources II. Histories and Other Surveys III. Theory and Criticism IV. Film Genre V. Case Studies of Individual Films Notes on the Indexes Names Index Film Titles Index
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Taylor & Francis Readings in Rhetorical Fieldwork
Book SynopsisReadings in Rhetorical Fieldwork compiles foundational articles highlighting the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism. Presenting a wide variety of approaches, the volume begins with a section establishing the starting points for the development of fieldwork in rhetorical criticism and then examines five topics: Space & Place; Public Memory; Publics and Counterpublics; Advocacy and Activism; and Science, Technology, and Medicine. Within these sections, readers evaluate a full spectrum of methods, from interviews, to oral histories, to participant observation. This volume is invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of rhetorical criticism, rhetorical fieldwork, and qualitative methods looking for a comprehensive overview of the development of rhetorical fieldwork.Trade Review"This collection is sharply curated yet appropriately broad in scope. With consideration of the vernacular, the everyday, and the ephemeral, it directs critical attention to the pervasive and visceral rhetorics that guide publics and discourses yet might otherwise be overlooked. These essays capture the pulse of rhetoric’s turn toward participatory field research and ethnography—perhaps the most significant and widespread disciplinary shift for rhetorical studies in the current time."- Casey R. Schmitt, Gonzaga University, USATable of ContentsStarting Points. Attending to the Vernacular: A Plea for an Ethnographical Rhetoric Hauser. Ethnography, Rhetoric, and Performance Conquergood. Articulating Rhetorical Field Methods: Challenges and Tensions Middleton, Senda-Cook, and Endres. Critical-Rhetorical Ethnography: Rethinking the Place and Process of Rhetoric Hess. Space and Place. Rhetoric and Materiality in the Museum Park at the North Carolina Museum of Art Zagacki and Gallagher. Excerpts from Angels Town: Chero Ways, Gang Life, and the Rhetorics of Everyday Cintron. Performing and Sustaining (Agri)Culture and Place: The Cultivation of Environmental Subjectivity on the Piedmont Farm Tour Spurlock. Public Memory. Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum Dickinson, Ott, and Aoki. Silencing Survivors’ Narratives: Why Are We Again Forgetting the No Gun Ri Story? Choi. Critical Museology, (Post)Colonial Communication, and the Gradual Mastering of Traumatic Pasts at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) Hasian and Wood Publics and Counterpublics. Resisting ‘National Breast Cancer Awareness Month’: The Rhetoric of Counterpublics and Their Cultural Performances Pezzullo. Counter-Public Enclaves and Understanding the Function of Rhetoric in Social Movement Coalition-Building Chávez. Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies Edbauer Advocacy and Activism. The Streets of Laredo: Mercurian Rhetoric and the Obama Campaign Simonson. Activism, Deliberation, and Networked Public Screens Rhetorical Scenes From the Occupy Moment in Lincoln, Nebraska Ewalt, Ohl, and Smith Pfister. Narrative as Vernacular Rhetoric: Understanding Community Among Transients, Tourists and Locals mcclellan Science, Technology, and Medicine. Marbles, Dimples, Rubber Sheets, and Quantum Wells: The Role of Analogy in the Rhetoric of Science Graves. Multiple Ontologies in Pain Management: Toward a Postplural Rhetoric of Science Graham and Herndl. Watershed as Common-Place: Communicating for Conservation at the Watershed Scale Caroline Druschke
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Taylor & Francis New Approaches to Islam in Film
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Taylor & Francis Digital Spirits in Religion and Media
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Taylor & Francis Writing About Screen Media
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge Companion to British Media History Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
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Taylor & Francis Rhetorical Delivery and Digital Technologies
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Taylor & Francis Islam and Gender Major Issues and Debates
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Taylor & Francis Propaganda
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Social Media News and Its Impact
Book SynopsisWith creative designs, this book contains important contributions to our understanding of social media news's effects on political engagement, political knowledge, willingness to engage in self-censorship, and political disaffection. In recent years, social media has emerged as a major source of news and other information. The unique nature of social media and the variety of platforms available to individuals present challenges for those who want to study and understand its psychological impact. Fortunately, many innovative studies on this subject have appeared in publications in the last few years. This edited volume features a collection of recently published studies focusing on the effects of social media news as well as the framing of social issues on these platforms. The authors of these studies used surveys, experiments, and content analysis to explore their research questions. Each chapter provides valuable insights on the growing influence of social media news.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Social Media as a News Source 1. The Role of Engagement in Learning From Active and Incidental News Exposure on Social Media 2. Examining News Engagement on Facebook: Effects of News Content and Social Networks on News Engagement 3. Probing the Mechanisms Through Which Social Media Erodes Political Knowledge: The Role of the News-Finds-Me Perception 4. Social Media News Use and Political Cynicism: Differential Pathways Through “News Finds Me” Perception 5. What’s This? Incidental Exposure to News on Social Media,N ews- Finds- Me Perception, News Efficacy, and News Consumption 6. From #Ferguson to #Ayotzinapa: Analyzing Differences in Domestic and Foreign Protest News Shared on Social Media 7. Fear of Isolation and Perceived Affordances: The Spiral of Silence on Social Networking Sites Regarding Police Discrimination 8. Reluctance to Talk About Politics in Face- to- Face and Facebook Settings: Examining the Impact of Fear of Isolation, Willingness to Self- Censor, and Peer Network Characteristics 9. Social Media and Political Disengagement Among Young Adults: A Moderated Mediation Model of Cynicism, Efficacy, and Social Media Use on Apathy 10. When Social Media Become Hostile Media: An Experimental Examination of News Sharing, Partisanship, and Follower Count
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Emerging Technologies Life at the Edge of the
Book SynopsisEmerging Technologies / Life at the Edge of the Future invites us to think forward from our present moment of planetary, public and everyday crisis, through the prism of emerging technologies.It calls for a new ethical, responsible and equitable path towards possible futures, curated through in-depth engagement with and across experiential, environmental and technological possibilities. It tackles three of the most significant challenges for contemporary society by asking: how emerging technologies are implicated in the sites of everyday lives; what place emerging technologies have in an evolving world in crisis; and how we might better imagine and shape ethical, equitable and responsible futures. The book interweaves three narratives, each of which advances three sets of concerns for our societal futures: Emergence', which addresses futures, trust and hope; Worlds', which addresses data, air and energy; and Technologies', which addresses the future of mobiTrade Review'What will our future look like? We often think of flying cars, holograms, vacations on a geostationary space station, robots preparing and serving our breakfast, kitchens with flashing buttons reminiscent of a spaceship's cockpit...These stereotypical images foreground technologies and hide the humans. This book instead focuses on people andtheir communities to present the key issues that will shape our future. Most importantly, it shows the value of socialsciences in designing new technologies for home, mobility, and work. Sarah Pink underscores the need for a new movement that unites anthropologists and other experts in interdisciplinary teams who dare to step to the edge of the future, look at the horizon, and explain how our stories might unfold on our planet and beyond, and how we might live well with emerging technologies.'Dan Podjed, PhD, Research Fellow and Associate Professor, Institute for Slovenian Ethnology, Slovenia'In this fascinating book, Sarah Pink draws on 20 years of pioneering empirical research and concept-making to examine how ethical, equitable and responsible futures can be produced in a world of rapidly evolving technologies that are designed to serve particular interests. Playful and provocative, Emerging Technologies unsettles how we think about and approach the future, challenging the reader to imagine and create new horizons.'Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute, IrelandTable of Contents1. Emerging Technologies 2. Futures 3. Trust 4. Hope 5. Data 6. Air 7. Energy 8. Home 9. Work 10. Mobilities 11. Life at the Edge
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary American Science Fiction Film
Book SynopsisContemporary American Science Fiction Film explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the first two decades of the new millennium, offering a ground-breaking investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern era.Placing one of the most popular and culturally resonant American film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial, and political context, the book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films. An international team of authors draw on case studies from across the science fiction genre to examine what these films can tell us about the time period, how the films themselves connect to the social and political context, how the fears and anxieties they portray resonate beyond the screen, and how the genre responds to the shifting coordinates of the Hollywood film industry.OfferingTrade Review"Contemporary American Science Fiction Film is an outstanding collection of essays on the power and provocation of those future orientated films that nonetheless conjure up the maelstrom of what it is like to dream and despair in the first two decades of the new millennium. Covering blockbuster, transmedia and independent science fiction film, the collection examines the long and refracted lens of the present through its concern with the geopolitical, the technological, the deadly traumatic, and the precariat economic. It also senses science fiction and the way it troubles selfhood and identity, so the intimate and the personal are woven into the collection’s articulations. With standout chapters on Arrival, Children of Men, Annihilation, and Black Panther, amongst others, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film is a profoundly important text for all time, or for as long as this world has left to live..."Professor Sean Redmond, Deakin University, Australia"McSweeney and Joy’s Contemporary American Science Fiction Film provides a fascinating foray into the strange and exciting allegorical world of science fiction film over the past two decades. The collection covers a key selection of widely popular films, from Black Panther to Blade Runner 2049, from Star Wars to Planet of the Apes. It is also a wide-ranging cultural and political history of the United States in the 21st century, providing deep explorations of the latent meanings and emotional resonances of the films, of their imagery, and of what they reveal about the sociopolitical worlds within which they were dreamt and projected."Jeremiah Morelock, Boston College, USA"Framing science fiction as the “allegorical mode” in 21st century cinema, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film ranges widely across the cultural landscape, tackling the War on Terror, “9/11,” global warming, a politicized media, diversity and inclusion efforts, and other defining moments and movements. The collection matches these haunting components of the cultural imaginary with the latest science fiction cinema in consistently stimulating ways. Voicing that treatment are a number of the genre’s most eloquent and considered commentators, who here demonstrate not just science fiction’s widespread popularity, but the crucial cultural function it serves for us today."J. P. Telotte, Professor Emeritus, Georgia Institute of Technology, USAIncluding case studies of various motion pictures, Contemporary American Science Fiction Film offers a superb investigation of the science fiction genre. McSweeney and Joy (both, Southampton Solent Univ., UK) argue that “science fiction films have often been both a valuable witness to and [an] interrogator of key moments of ideological tension” and that science fiction, working as allegory, possesses the ability to “manifest aspects of the cultural imaginary, which ... become[s] problematic to express explicitly in their political and social climates” (p. 1). Each of the 12 chapters centers on a film and explores how the film reflects its time of creation, works as a cultural artifact linked to historical moments, and expresses larger cultural anxieties. Treating films such as Children of Men (2006) and Interstellar (2014), the essays, all by eminent scholars, decipher the fictional worlds of time loops, alternative histories, clones, and dystopias. Of particular note are Carol Donelan’s examination of the Planet of the Apes reboot franchise; Andrew Schopp's reading of the eco-horror film Annihilation (2018) as hybridization, anxiety, and destruction in American identity; and Paul Petrovic’s interpretation of the dark comedy Sorry to Bother You (2018). Taken together, these essays contribute greatly to film scholarship and make for a solid text for science fiction film courses.--S. B. Skelton, Kansas State University, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction: The Fears and Fantasies of Science Fiction Film: Genre as Cultural ArtefactTerence McSweeney and Stuart Joy 1. A Tale as Old as Time: Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) Christine Muller 2. Through the Lens of 9/11: Reflections of Bush Era Politics and the Post-9/11 Milieu in Minority Report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) Fran Pheasant-Kelly 3. Precarious Lives, Human Rights, and 'the sense of today': The Continuing Resonance and Relevance of Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men (2006) Terence McSweeney 4. Seeing and Touching the Bodies of Others: Evolving the Male Animal toward Secular Moral Enlightenment in the Planet of the Apes Reboot Franchise Carol Donelan 5. Time Travel, Trauma, and the Futility of Revenge in Looper (2012) Stuart Joy 6. Science Fiction Cinema between Arthouse and Blockbuster: From Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014) Steffen Hantke 7. Twenty-first-Century Star Wars: Profiles in (Female) Courage Stacey Peebles 8. Rationality, emotionality, and geopolitics in Arrival (2016): From structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to "quality" status Geoff King 9. 'The World Is Built on A Wall': Deconstructing Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Will Brooker 10. Speculative Anger and Collective Economic Strength in Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You (2018) Paul Petrovic 11. Coping with the Deconstruction of American Identity: Hybridization and Self-destruction in Alex Garland’s Annihilation (2018) Andrew Schopp 12. Wakanda Forever? On Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) Gerry Canavan
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World
Book SynopsisThis volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent, postcolonial world.The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic headings. Networks and Institutions looks at the various ways Western-style theatre became institutionalized in the decolonial world, especially Africa. Cultural Diplomacy focuses on the activities of the Soviet Union in India in the late 1950s and 1960s in the very different arenas of book publishing and the circus. Artists and Agency explores how West African filmmakers (Ousmane Sembène and Abderrahmane Sissako) and European authors (Brecht and Ibsen) were harnessed for different kinds of Cold War strategies. Finally, Cultures of Things investigates how everyday objects such aTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Aesthetic World-Systems: Mythologies of Modernism and Realism Part 1: Networks and Institutions 3. Cold War Mobilities: Eastern European Theatre Going Global 4. Theatre for Influence: American Cultural and Philanthropic Missions in West Africa During the Early Cold War Part 2: Cultural Diplomacy 5. "Propaganda Was Almost Nil"?: Soviet Books and Publishing in India in the 1960s 6. Indo-Soviet Circus Exchanges During the Cold War: State Propaganda or a People’s Art Form? Part 3: Artists and Agency 7. Narratives of Education and Migration: From La Noire de… (1966) to Octobre (1993) 8. Brecht as a Tool for Cultural Development: East German ITI Events for Theatre Artists from the "Third World" 9. "Clean Tablets to Write Upon": Ibsen’s Brand in Riga and Moscow in the 1970s Part 4: Cultures of Things 10. Soviet Books, Geopolitical Imagination and Eclectic Solidarities in India 11. National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Digital Media Law
Book SynopsisDigital Media Law offers a practical guide to the law of media and communication, focusing on digital channels, models, and technologies. It draws together the aspects of media law that are most critical for those engaged in the production and distribution of digital media, from traditional broadcasters and internet-based services to major internet platforms.As an expert scholar and educator in media law, Christopher S. Reed brings considerable experience as an in-house lawyer for a U.S.-based media company with extensive news, sports, and entertainment operations. This blend of practical and scholarly insight delivers a textbook which packs foundational principles and concepts into the context of the digital environment, focusing on how those doctrines are applied in the face of rapidly evolving newsgathering, production, and distribution technologies. Key features include:In the News sections that tie the legal principles to real-world events or Table of Contents1. Defining Digital Media 2. Law and the U.S. Legal System 3. The First Amendment 4. Defamation 5. Privacy and Publicity 6. Newsgathering 7. Reporting on the Government 8. Commercial Speech and Advertising 9. Radio and Television 10. The Internet 11. Intellectual Property: Media as IP User 12. Intellectual Property: Media as Producer 13. Case: Mountain One Media
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Introduction to Screen Narrative
Book SynopsisBringing together the expertise of world-leading screenwriters and scholars, this book offers a comprehensive overview of how screen narratives work. Exploring a variety of mediums including feature films, television, animation, and video games, the volume provides a contextual overview of the form and applies this to the practice of screenwriting. Featuring over 20 contributions, the volume surveys the art of screen narrative, and allows students and screenwriters to draw on crucial insights to further improve their screenwriting craft. Editors Paul Taberham and Catalina Iricinschi have curated a volume that spans a range of disciplines including screenwriting, film theory, philosophy and psychology with experience and expertise in storytelling, modern blockbusters, puzzle films and art cinema. Screenwriters interviewed include: Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Gravity Falls), David Greenberg (Stomping Ground, Used to Love Her), Evan Skolnick and Ioana Uricaru. Ideal forTable of ContentsIntroductionCatalina Iricinschi and Paul Taberham1. Dimensions of NarrativePaul TaberhamPART I: Convention, Deviation, Evolution2. Enjoying Classical Hollywood StorytellingTodd Berliner3. Independent CinemaGeoff King4. Interview: David Greenberg5. Complex Film Narratives: Diegetic Fictionalization in Christopher Nolan’s Fantastical Puzzle Film CycleMiklós KissPART II: Art Cinema6. Realism, Time and Ambiguity: Narration in Art CinemaPaul Taberham7. Interview: Ioana Uricaru8. Pseudo-Narration in Jean-Luc Godard’s Late FilmsAndrás Kovács9. Defining a Lynchian NarrativeNeil McCartneyPART III: Alternative Media10. Television Narrative: Forms, Strategies, and HistoriesSean O’Sullivan and Robyn Warhol11. The Way Toons Tell It: Animation’s Narrative StrategiesChristopher Holliday12. Interview: Josh Weinstein13. Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in GamesDominic Arsenault14. Interview: Evan Skolnick15. Transmedia Storyworlds and Transmedia UniversesJan-Noël ThonPART IV: New Perspectives16. Two Philosophies of the ScreenplayEnrico Terrone17. The Absorbed Viewer’s ActivityEd Tan and Katalin Bálint18. The Cognition of Event Segmentation in Film Narrative: Segmenting, Parsing, and the Ensuing Narrative ComprehensionCatalina Iricinschi
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cultural Democracy Now
Book SynopsisPositioning cultural democracy in a historical context and in a context of adjacent movements such as the creative commons, open source movement, and maker movement, this book goes back to first principles and asks what personhood means in the twenty-first century, what cultural democracy means, why we should want it, and how we can work towards it. In this new book, the author provides a timely untangling of the various historical meanings of the term and explores the various ways in which it has been co-opted, suggesting that it has a strength that we should open up to examination with a view to reinvigorating it. Just as importantly, the book situates cultural democracy within the wider framework of progressive political and social movements, and of the impact of new digital information and communication technologies. To those unfamiliar with the term, it introduces cultural democracy through related concepts such as digital cultural politics, participatory democracy, and Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Autonomous Vehicles1. The Mind and the Body2. Problems with Selfhood 3. Dennett's Solution4. Narratives and Consciousness5. Darwin and Evolution6. Genes and Memes7. Late to the PartyPart II: Cultural Landscapes8. The First Tools - Language and numbers9. The Nature of Tools - Conviviality10. Gamification - Shopping as Theatre11. Selling Ourselves - Quantified Data12. The Price of Fame - Film and Celebrity13. Liking our Selves - Social Media14. Buying the Culture - IP and CreativityPart III: Making a Difference15. Community, Citizenship, and Creativity16. Codifying Culture17. Cultural Democracy - A Definition18. Cultural Democracy and Community19. Cultural Democracy and Economics20. Cultural Democracy and Politics21. ALL Together NowAcknowledgementsContinuing…A Final Word about Language
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Taylor & Francis The Communicative Construction of Reality
Book SynopsisThis volume advocates a shift from the social constructivism found in the work of Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, to a communicative constructivism that acknowledges communication as an embodied form of action in its own right, according to which social actors, in engaging in communicative action, construct a material social reality that guides, delimits, and enables actions. A study of the importance of understanding the role of communication in an age in which digitization and mediatization have extended the reach of communication to a global level and brought about the emergence of the communication society, The Communicative Construction of Reality shows how communication society does not merely replace modern society and its hierarchical institutions, but complements it in a manner that continually results in conflicts leading to the refiguration of society. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology with interests in the sociology of knowledge, communication, anTable of ContentsI Introduction 1. Science and Theory 2. Scientific Language and Discourse 3. Theory II From Social to Communicative Construction 1. Social Action, Intersubjectivity and Communicative Lifeworld* Excursus on Phenomenology 2. From Language to Empirical Communication Research 3. "The Social Construction of Reality" and Its Critiques III. Social Theory: Communicative Action 1. Communicative Action 2. Reciprocity, Relationality and Positionality 3. Body, Sensuality and Affectivity 4. Working, Performance and Performativity 5. Objectivations, Objectifications and Signs 6. Signs and Communication 7. Social Reality, Communicative Lifeworld and Subjectivation IV. Theory of Society (A) Time and Sequentiality 1. Sequences of Communictative Action 2. Genres, Institutions and Communicative Forms 3. Social Structures 4. Discourse 5. Legitimations 6. The Other, Censorship and Social Power (B) Space and Media 1. Space 2. Presence, Situation und Mediation V. Diagnosis: Communication Society 1. From Discursivation to the Communication Society 2. Communicatization 3. Infrastructuring 4. Translocalization 5. Storage, De-Structuration and New Boundaries of Knowledge 6. Double Subjectivation VI. Conclusion: The Refiguration of Modernity 1. Beyond Modernity and Postmodernity 2. Figuration and Refiguration 3. Refigured Modernity
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