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Trade Review“Animentaries are an excellent subject for pragmatic research projects, and Animated Documentary offers a wealth of ideas to embark upon them.” (Charles Forceville, Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 89, 2015)Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Representational Strategies 2. Digital Realities 3. Animated Interviews 4. The World in Here 5. Animated Memories Afterword Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisOffering unique insights into the writing and production of television drama series such as The Killing and Borgen, produced by DR, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Novrup Redvall explores the creative collaborations in writers' rooms and 'production hotels' through detailed case studies of Denmark's public service production culture.Trade Review'Writing and Producing Television Drama in Denmark is a key text on Scandinavian television and production culture. As such, it is not only recommended to scholars of Scandinavian audio-visual culture, but also to those - including undergraduates as well as more advanced scholars -who are more generally interested in television production and scriptwriting.' - Tobias Hochscherf, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television The book provides a wealth of material to ponder, not only for those interested in Danish television but for anyone curious about the direction of small screen fiction generally.' - Glen Creeber, New Review of Film and Television StudiesTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Television Writing and the Screen Idea System 2. Danish Television Drama: A Crash Course 3. Dogmas for Television Drama: Changing a Production Culture 4. Training Talent for Television: DR and 'The TV term' 5. Writers, Showrunners and Television Auteurs: Ideas of 'One Vision' 6. The Workings of a Writer's Room: Borgen 7. Primetime Public Service Crime: Forbrydelsen / The Killing Conclusions and Cliffhangers Appendix Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital 2. Precariousness: Two Models of Social Liquidation 3. Securitization: Walmart's Empire 4. Play: Coming of Age in the Pokéconomy 5. Creativity: Parables of the Leveraged Imagination 6. Resistance: And its discontents Conclusion Works CitedTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. The Reproduction of Fictitious Capital 2. Precariousness: Two Models of Social Liquidation 3. Securitization: Walmart's Empire 4. Play: Coming of Age in the Pokéconomy 5. Creativity: Parables of the Leveraged Imagination 6. Resistance: And its discontents Conclusion Works Cited

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Book SynopsisCecile Malaspina is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, UK. She is the translator of G. Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, (forthcoming), and, together with Michael Zimmermann, of E. Morin's Methode II (forthcoming).Trade ReviewThis is one of the freshest intellectual works I have read in recent years. If you did not previously recognize the philosophical significance of Claude Shannon, Warren Weaver, and Norbert Wiener, you will after reading this book. Shannon’s paradoxical claim that information and noise are both forms of entropy is revived by Malaspina and developed with ideas drawn from Gilbert Simondon and Nicholas of Cusa. The result is a challenging and compelling experience for the reader, who will want to study this book multiple times. -- Graham Harman, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles, USAThe chapters that form this book are like cuts in a diamond, the precision of which is a thing of beauty. Bringing presuppositions to the fore, little is taken for granted when approaching noise and how to understand it. This is a philosophy of noise that is ultimately freeing and demands to be shared. -- Yve Lomax, Senior Research Tutor in Photography and Fine Art, Royal College of Art, UKThe received view that we now live in information societies obscures a more unsettling premise. For noise is not just intrinsic to information: as Cecile Malaspina contends, noise is rather the very basis of information. Information societies are then noise societies. This startling insight requires the resetting—or rather the upsetting— of basic categories across the board: for communication, sound, physics, biology, social organisation and, as Malaspina argues, of categorization itself. Noise is therefore primary and significant, yet its theorization is a demanding and necessarily transdisciplinary task. Epistemology of Noise attends to that task with rigour and precision. As such, Malaspina has written an establishing text for a new uncontainable field of noise studies. -- Suhail Malik, Reader in Critical Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London, UKThis important study offers a rewarding exploration of its subject, not the least by revealing the deeper philosophical underpinnings of the mathematical and scientific theories of information and noise. The book rightly places them in complex relationships to each other, and against an uncritical opposition between them that has prevented us from understanding the nature of these relationships, and of noise and information themselves, for so long. -- Arkady Plotnitsky, Distinguished Professor of English and Director of Theory and Cultural Studies, Purdue University, USATable of ContentsForeword by Ray Brassier Acknowledgements Note on Text List of Abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Concepts: Information Entropy, Negentropy, Noise I How to Draw the Line between Information and Noise II Entropy as ‘Freedom of Choice’ III Information Entropy and Physical Entropy IV The Idea of ‘Potential Information’ V Physical Concepts of Information and Informational Concepts of Physics VI Information as Process Rather Than Content VII To Think about Information as a Process of Individuation VIII Redundancy and Necessity IX Logic and Freedom of Choice X Noise as Spurious Uncertainty XI Negentropy XII Complexity on the Basis of Noise XIII The Astigmatism of Intuition XIV The Path of Despair Part 2 Empirical Noise I On the Transduction of the Concept of Noise II Accidental Information, Predictable Noise III Ready-Made Information IV Cosmic Background Radiation V Noise in the Gap between Narratives VI Noise in Finance VII Statistics: The Discipline of the Prince VIII The Man without Qualities IX Noise Abatement: The Dawn of Noise X Noise Pollution XI Toxic, Viral, Parasitic Part 3 The ‘Mental State of Noise’ I The Crossroads: Mathematical, Technical, Empirical and Subjective Noise II Internal Chaos, Terror and Confusion III The Vicious Whir of Sensations IV Keat’s Negative Capability V Closure to Noise and the Paradox of the Declining Life VI The Catastophic Reaction to Noise VII Anxiety VIII Order IX Control X The Helmsman Metaphor: Kybernetes XI The Helmsman in Plato’s Alcibiades Dialogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe history of Greek cinema post-1945 is best understood through the stories of its most internationally celebrated and influential directors. Focusing on the works of six major filmmakers active from just after WWII to the present day, with added consideration of many others, this book examines the development of cinema as an art form in the social and political contexts of Greece. Insights on gender in film, minority cinemas, stylistic richness and the representation of historical trauma are afforded by close readings of the work and life of such luminaries as Michael Cacoyannis, Nikos Koundouros, Yannis Dalianidis, Theo Angelopoulos, Antouanetta Angelidi, Yorgos Lanthimos, Athena-Rachel Tsangari and Costas Zapas. Throughout, the book examines how directors visually transmute reality to represent unstable societies, disrupted collective memories and national identity.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION TO THE POST-WAR GREEK CINEMA 1945-2012 CHAPTER ONE The Construction and Deconstruction of Cinematic Realism in Michael Cacoyannis’s Films CHAPTER TWO Nikos Koundouros and the cinema of anarchist realism CHAPTER THREE Yannis Dalianidis and the Cryptonymies of Visuality CHAPTER FOUR An introduction to the Ocular Poetics of Theo Angelopoulos CHAPTER FIVE The Feminine Gaze in Antoinetta Angelidi’s Cinema of Imaginative Cathedrals CHAPTER SIX The No-Wave Greek cinema of Transgression OPTIMISTIC EPILOGUE

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Book SynopsisJukka Kortti is Adjunct Professor at the University of Helsinki and Aalto University, Finland. He is a social and media historian specializing in the history of television, advertising, journalism and intellectual history.Trade ReviewKortti’s aim to provide a historical perspective for the history of media is ambitious and far reaching. This is a useful textbook for those exploring the evolution of our modern digital media culture. * Toni Weller, De Montfort University, UK *Kortti's Media in History is a wonderful addition to the media history landscape, because it places media history in a global framework that goes far beyond the US/European framework most authors use. * Meredith Guthrie, University of Pittsburgh, USA *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I: THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA 1. From Speech to Print 2.The Birth of New Media 3. Media for the Masses 4. In the Global Village PART II: THEMES 5. Media, Democracy and the Public Sphere 6. Media, Commerce and Globalization 7. Control and Power: Censorship and Propaganda 8. Media and Everyday Life 9. The Cultural History Meanings of Media Conclusion: Media in History.

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Book SynopsisList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References IndexTable of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgements Preface Introduction Attitude: Ways of Feeling Engagement and Graduation: Alignment, Solidarity and the Construed Reader Evaluative Key: Taking a Stance Enacting Appraisal: Text Analysis References Index

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Book SynopsisJOHN E. RICHARDSON is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK. He is co-author of Key Concepts in Journalism Studies and co-editor of Muslims and the News Media.

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Book SynopsisFocusing on the female voice in public contexts, language and gender specialists consider the barriers and opportunities encountered by women in gaining recognition in politics, law, the church, education, business and the media, where people are increasingly judged by their speech and where male and female speech is often evaluated differently.Trade Review'I appreciate the breadth of contexts studied, from media, politics, work settings, religion courtrooms and classrooms. I believe they constitute a solid coverage that potentially make the book a classic, bridging a broad spectrum of evidence that will be very useful both to advanced undergraduate and to graduate students and to researchers...There is no other text that does similar work...very exciting and satisfying.' - Victoria Bergvall, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Michigan Technological University, USATable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Baxter PART 1: THEORISING THE FEMALE VOICE IN PUBLIC CONTEXTS Theorising the Female Voice in Public Contexts; D.Cameron Gaining a Public Voice: An Historical Perspective on American Women's Speech in Public Contexts; J.M.Bean Constructing Gender in Public Arguments: The Female Voice as Emotional Voice; L.Litosseliti PART 2: RESEARCHING THE FEMALE VOICE IN PUBLIC CONTEXTS Gender and Performance Anxiety at Academic Conferences; S.Mills Governed by the Rules?: The Female Voice in Parliamentary Debates; S.Shaw Silence as Morality: Lecturing at a Theology College; A.Julé Gender and the Genre of the Broadcast Political Interview; C.Walsh Trial Discourse and Judicial Decision-making: Constraining the Boundaries of Gendered Identities; S.Ehrlich 'Do we have to agree with her?' How High School Girls Negotiate Leadership in Public Contexts; J.Baxter Positioning the Female Voice within Work and Family; S.Kendall Culture, Voice and the Public Sphere: A Critical Analysis of the Female Voices on Sexuality in Indigenous South African Society; P.Hanong 'They say it's a man's world, but you can't prove it by me': African-American Comediennes' Construction of Voice in the Public Space; D.Troutman Effective Leadership in New Zealand Workplaces: Balancing Gender and Role; M.Marra, S.Schnurr & J.Holmes Index

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Book SynopsisBEN HIGHMORE is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction, Cityscapes and Michel de Certeau, and is alsoeditor of The Everyday Life Reader and The Design Culture Reader.

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Book SynopsisMaría del Pilar Blanco is University Lecturer in Spanish American Literature and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Ghost-Watching American Modernity: Haunting, Landscape, and the Hemispheric Imagination (2012). Esther Peeren is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, queer television, translation theory and the chronotopic dimension of diaspora. Her first book, entitled Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond appeared in 2007 with Stanford University Press and she also co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (2007). Currently, she is developing a project on spectrality in contemporary literature, television and film.Trade ReviewFrom Freud’s and Adorno’s rejection of the occult, to Derrida’s rehabilitation of the spectral turn, this volume presents a compelling argument for a continued interest in the noisy ghosts of our culture. Not content to limit their remit, the editors have chosen brilliant extracts that explore trauma, memory and history, tracing the spectral through literary theory and criticism, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and economics. It is a book which is strong enough to include an auto-critique of its structuring concept, while showing why that concept still remains vital today. An invaluable collection on the uncanny and the ghostly which should haunt its readers for years to come. * Dr. Pamela Thurschwell, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Sussex, UK *In this compelling anthology, editors María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren bring together core texts on the study of ghosts, spectres, and haunting as cultural manifestations ... A dynamic corpus of perspectives that challenges, and delights, with its range and depth -- Kirsten Møllegaard, University of Hawai’i at Hilo, USA * Folklore *The Spectralities Reader is a welcoming invitation to the recent séance with our unfinished past. Its editors prove to be perfect spirit guides, providing steely clarity to a realm that often befuddles and bewitches. -- Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, UKTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Permissions María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Introduction: Conceptualizing Spectralities I. The Spectral Turn María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Spectral Turn / Introduction Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, Spectrographies Colin Davis, État Présent: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, from Introduction: The Spectral Turn Julian Wolfreys, Preface: On Textual Haunting Roger Luckhurst, from The Contemporary London Gothic and the Limits of the “Spectral Turn” II. Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectropolitics: Ghosts of the Global Contemporary / Introduction Avery F. Gordon, from her shape and his hand Achille Mbembe, from Life, Sovereignty, and Terror in the Fiction of Amos Tutuola Arjun Appadurai, Spectral Housing and Urban Cleansing: Notes on Millennial Mumbai Peter Hitchcock, from ( ) of Ghosts III. The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, The Ghost in the Machine: Spectral Media / Introduction Tom Gunning, To Scan a Ghost: The Ontology of Mediated Vision Jeffrey Sconce, from Introduction to Haunted Media Akira Mizuta Lippit, from Modes of Avisuality: Psychoanalysis – X-ray – Cinema David Toop, from Chair creaks, but no one sits there Allen S. Weiss, Preface: Radio Phantasms, Phantasmic Radio IV. Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Spectral Subjectivities: Gender, Sexuality, and Race / Introduction Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, from Ghostwriting Carla Freccero, Queer Spectrality: Haunting the Past Sharon Patricia Holland, from Introduction: Raising the Dead Renée L. Bergland, from Indian Ghosts and American Subjects V. Possessions: Spectral Places María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Possessions: Spectral Places / Introduction Anthony Vidler, Buried Alive Ulrich Baer, To Give Memory a Place: Contemporary Holocaust Photography and the Landscape Tradition David Matless, A Geography of Ghosts: The Spectral Landscapes of Mary Butts Giorgio Agamben, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Living among Specters VI. Haunted Historiographies María del Pilar Blanco and Esther Peeren, Haunted Historiographies / Introduction Judith Richardson, A History of Unrest Jesse Alemán, The Other Country: Mexico, the United States, and the Gothic History of Conquest Alexander Nemerov, Seeing Ghosts: The Turn of the Screw and Art History Index

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Book SynopsisDan O'Shannon is currently co-executive producer for the ABC show Modern Family, previously working on other Emmy nominated shows such as Frasier and Cheers. O'Shannon has also lectured in classes at UCLA, USC, and taught a course on writing at Cleveland State University, where he holds an honorary doctorate.Trade ReviewComedy is an art, but there is comedy to be gained in treating it as a science. What Are You Laughing At? Is a discussion of the genre of many mediums in comedy, trying to define a broad topic which an vary person to person. Attempting to gain a better understanding of the concept of comedy, writer for many hit comedy sitcoms in the past few decades Dan O’Shannon presents an intriguing delve into psychology and sociology behind it all. What Are You Laughing At? Is a fine take on the meaning and purpose of comedy, highly recommended. -- James A. Cox, Editor-In-Chief * The Midwest Book Review - Wisconson Book Watch *As hard as it would be to define "'the meaning of life', defining 'comedy' is harder. And somehow Dan O'Shannon does it in his insightful, comprehensive, and funny new book, What Are You Laughing At?: A Comprehensive Guide to the Comedic Event. I’ve been writing humor for 35 years and I learned stuff! If you’re planning on a career in comedy all you will need is this book and a rubber chicken. -- Ken Levine, Writer/producer MASH and The SimpsonsCreative individuals usually have difficulty explaining how they get their ideas. But O’Shannon’s presentation of how comedy works in excellent and detailed. O’Shannon is certainly an expert at creating comedy, having written and produced television successes like Cheers, Frasier, and Modern Family. He confesses here, however, that in his job he does not use the model he describes here and that he did have scholarly help, which he praises and is thankful for. The result is a sophisticated model of humor that stands up quite well against more scholarly works like Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams Jr.’s Inside Jokes (CH, Jan’12, 49-2983) and John Morreall’s Comic Relief (CH, Sep’10, 48-0062). …This is a book for anyone curious about the nature of humor. Summing up: Highly recommended. All readers. -- P. L. Derks, emeritus, College of William and Mary * Choice *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION OVERVIEWCommon Comedy TheoriesThe Comedic EventDocumenting the Comedic EventPART I: ELEMENTS OF CONTEXT: THE RECEPTION FACTORSCHAPTER 1: THE RECEIVER AND HIS WORLD1-1. A Comedy Frame of Mind1-2. Early Reception Factors1-3. Levels of Social InteractionCHAPTER 2: ELEMENTS OF COMMUNICATION2-1. Modes of Communication2-2. Device and Specific DeviceCHAPTER 3: VEHICLES3-1. Vehicles3-2. Vehicle-based Reception FactorsCHAPTER 4: LEVEL OF CONTROL AND IDENTIFYING THE SOURCE4-1. Level of Control4-2. Identifying The SourcePART II: THE INCONGRUOUS PICTURECHAPTER 5: FUNDAMENTAL COMPONENTS5-1. The Receiver's Brain: Hard-wired for Comedy?5-2. The Triangle5-3. The Core VariablesCHAPTER 6: INCONGRUITY6-1. Incongruity6-2. Estimating Levels of Incongruity6-3. Types of IncongruityCHAPTER 7: COGNITIVE PROCESS7-1. Cognitive Process: Overview7-2. Level One: Straightforward Information7-3. Level Two: Gap-filling7-4: Level Three: RecontextualizationCHAPTER 8: VARIATIONS8-1. Exploring the Four Corners of the Triangle8-2. What are Practical Jokes?CHAPTER 9: COMEDY AND ENTROPY9-1. Sustaining the Laugh9-2. EntropyPART III: ENHANCERS AND INHIBITORSCHAPTER 10: HOW COMEDIC INFORMATION TRIGGERS ENHANCERS AND INHIBITORS10-1. Overview10-2. On-going Social Needs: Superiority, Identification, and Inclusion10-3. Aspects of AwarenessCHAPTER 11: ELEMENTS OF THE JOKE'S COMMUNICATION, STRUCTURE, AND CONTENT11-1. Resuming the Chart: The Joke as a Whole11-2. Elements of Communication and Structure11-3. Elements of ContentSUMMING IT ALL UPThe Completed ChartFinal Thoughts and Acknowledgments

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Book Synopsis The most powerful films have an afterlife. Their sensory appeal and their capacity to elicit involvement in story, character and conflict reaches beyond the screen to subtly reframe the way spectators view ethical issues and agents within the narrative, and in the world outside the cinema. Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience and Narrative Film questions how cinematic narratives relate to and affect ethical life. Extending Martha Nussbaum and Wayne Booth''s work on moral philosophy and literature to consider cinema, Dr. Stadler shows that film spectatorship can be understood as a model for ethical attention that engages the audience in an affective relationship with characters and their values. Building on Vivian Sobchack''s Address of the Eye and Carnal Thoughts, she uses a phenomenological approach to analyse ethical dimensions of film extending beyond narrative content, arguing thatTrade ReviewMention -Chronicle of Higher Education, December 19, 2008First published when the ethical implication of viewer and film was not on the agenda of contemporary film studies, Pulling Focus: Intersubjective Experience, Narrative Film, and Ethics was a courageous exploration of how narrative cinema both presents and solicits an ethical gaze. Now in paperback, Stadler's groundbreaking work can take its proper place at the forefront of a growing body of literature that recognizes that any axiology of cinema entails ethics as well as aesthetics. Moreover, the book's accessible and graceful prose and its convincing phenomenologoical interperetations of a range of well-known films make it an ideal text for the undergraduate and graduate classroom. --Vivian Sobchack, UCLA, School of Theater, Film and Television"The author is interested in the camera as a narrator that guides spectators to judgment and engages their sensory apparatus and capacity for affect in reshaping what might otherwise by abstract and rational judgment....Stadler interprets several films, doing especially well with David Lynch's enigmatic Lost Highway, which unsettles notions of narrative genre, identity, and morality. SUMMING UP: Recommended."- Choice * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1: Ethics in Narrative Form and Content; Chapter 2: A Phenomenological Approach to the Ethics of Film; Chapter 3: Losing the Plot: Narrative Structure and Ethical Identity; Chapter 4: Under the Influence: Vice, Violence and Villainy; Chapter 5: Resistance and Responsiveness: Emotion and Character Engagement; Chapter 6: Imagination: Inner Sight and Silent Voices; Chapter 7: Seeing in the Dark: Cinema, Ethics, and Alternative Engagement.

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Book SynopsisMary Hogarth is Principal Lecturer leading the Features Journalism programme at Southampton Solent University, UK. John Jenkins is a former night editor of the Daily Telegraph. From Fleet Street he established two magazine publishing companies, has edited 22 books, written three biographies and established the magazine Writers' Forum. He has sold articles and stories to more than 300 titles around the world and lectured at several universitiesTrade ReviewWith all the noise about what platforms magazines should inhabit, it's easy to forget what makes a great magazine, how tough it to launch one and how important they are to our culture. This is a book that warns prospective launch editors not just of the months of market research, the long nights, the business nous and the passion you need to successfully launch a magazine, but also the fun and the tingle you get when you know you've got a brilliant idea. * Barbara Rowlands, Director of the Magazine Journalism MA, City University London, UK *How to Launch a Magazine in this Digital Age is going straight onto my students’ core reading list and my bookshelf as soon as it comes off the press. Accessible with supportive, developmental exercises and essential resources, it is illustrated by analyses of trends, colourful first-hand case studies and professional expertise with a helpful digital link to keep the moment flowing. As Future’s Mike Goldsmith says in its pages “the only precedent is that everything changed yesterday and it might change again today”. In such an era of social changes and reactive publishing brands, this is a book whose time has come. * Catherine Darby, Course Leader for the MA in Magazine Journalism, University of Central Lancashire *This book will help students, and all those who wish to critically assess the viability of their new magazine idea and launch it as a sustainable brand and business that can connect with audiences across multiple media platforms. The excellent insights provided by media and publishing industry leaders, editors and creative entrepreneurs are informative and inspiring. * Desmond O’Rourke, Course Director, MA Publishing and Leader of the Magazine Specialism, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, UK *This is an excellent book. The wide range of content is particularly relevant for those wanting to know how to launch an idea on various media platforms. Written in a very readable style, each chapter sets out and explains the key points, well illustrated by case studies, a summary, input by industry gurus and an action plan. There is an associated website set up as an online interactive learning tool. The comprehensive and up to date information from editorial to advertising, production to strategy in both print and digital makes this book a ‘must read’ for students and indeed for anyone working in media. It should become a standard reference work. * Jessany Marsden, Editorial Consultant, External Examiner for Degrees in Journalism, (ex) ipcmedia Editorial Training and Development, UK *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. A gap in the market 2. Developing your magazine 3. Target audiences 4. Publishing strategies: print, digital & online 5. A sustainable business model 6. Branding and editorial concepts 7. Distribution strategies 8. Your team 9. Advertising & other revenue streams 10. Production: Print, digital & online 11. A successful launch 12. Conclusion Contributors Glossary Resources Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWendy N. Wyatt is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of St. Thomas. Her research interests include communication ethics, press criticism and media literacy. She is the author of Critical Conversations: A Theory of Press Criticism (Hampton, 2007). Kristie Bunton is professor and chair of the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of St. Thomas. Her scholarship has been published in such journals as Public Integrity, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Educator and American Journalism.Trade ReviewWhen 'reality tv' covers most of the social domain, it seems strange that we do not have more debates about the ethics of how it does this. Even stranger, when we consider the frequent conflicts between production goals and the needs of those who appear in reality shows. This lively book brings together both critical and more sympathetic assessments in a series of accessibly written essays that open up this important topic to students and general readers alike. --Nick Couldry, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, and author of Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics and Agency in an Uncertain World (Paradigm Books, 2006)The temptation with a book on reality TV is just to slam the genre as an ethical wasteland. Indeed, the authors provide compelling reasons to disapprove of common ethical trespasses in reality TV, including deception, exploitation, and stereotyping. However, they also challenge us to take the good with the bad. Do some shows, at least, have the potential to uplift, educate and inspire? If so, are they the exception or the rule? Are there some shows we can support wholeheartedly, or must we settle for ethical lemons that can be turned into lemonade? This balanced collection is a must-read for anyone seeking an intelligent ethical examination of reality TV in the United States and abroad. -- Sandra L. Borden, Professor of Communication and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Ethics in Society at Western Michigan University, USAReviewed by -- S. Pepper, Northeastern Illinois University * CHOICE *Wyatt and Bunton have taken an important first step in filling a sizable hole in the literature of media ethics with this first systematic, international, and philosophical inspection of a key, if not dark, continent within the television landscape. * Media Ethics Magazine *Table of ContentsForeword: "Serious Questions about a Not-So-Serious Genre". Part I: "The Harms of Reality TV," Wendy Wyatt and Kristie Bunton". Chapter 1: "Deception: I think my favorite reality show is lying to me". Chapter 2: "Privacy breeches: Maybe I should look away". Chapter 3: "Stereotyping: Here come the ditsy pretty girl and the troubled gay guy". Chapter 4: "Exploitation: Use them, abuse them and drop them". Chapter 5: "Excessive commercialization: What can we sell you this week?". Part II: "The Benefits of Reality TV," Wendy Wyatt and Kristie Bunton. Chapter 6: "Community building: Welcome to the neighborhood". Chapter 7: "Inspiration & motivation: If that reality star can do it, so can I". Chapter 8: "Diversification & Democratization: Even regular people can be reality stars". Conclusion: "Is reality TV good for society?" Wendy Wyatt and Kristie Bunton.

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Book SynopsisIn the fourth edition of Provocateur, sociologist Anthony J. Cortese offers an up-to-date, critical analysis of modern advertising. Though we often hear that we live in a period of unprecedented gender and racial equality, both racism and sexism persist in a most telling areathe ads with which we are inundated every day in newspapers and magazines and online. Cortese examines the ideologies surrounding gender and race by delving into the presentation of women, ethnic minorities, children, and anyone who is qualified as other in society. Featuring a fresh selection of nearly 400 advertisements, this edition includes new scholarship from gender, racial, and cultural studies, new chapters on gay and lesbian marketing and aggression and violence in the media, an expanded chapter on race in advertising, and more. This edition is ideal for sociology, communication, and gender and ethnic studies courses as well as for use as go-to reference.Trade ReviewA fascinating examination of an underexplored aspect of advertising and its impact on all of our lives. -- Jean KilbourneCortese’s analysis should motivate readers to pay more careful attention to the multitude of images that daily bombard us through advertising. Cortese teaches readers how to deconstruct and critically respond to the sexism, racism, and heterosexism embedded in many advertisements, making Provocateur as much a call to action as it is a textbook. -- Claire M. Renzetti, professor and chair of sociology and Judi Conway Patton Endowed Chair at the Center for Research on Violence against Women, University of KentuckyCortese continues to offer timely and important insights into how women, members of ethnic and racial minorities, and members of LGBT communities are framed and imaged in advertising. -- Jim Snow, Loyola University MarylandPraise for Previous Editions This volume is an excellent historical and up-to-date analysis of how advertising targets ethnic minorities, gays and lesbians, as well as white heterosexuals. Academic readers will find eclectic scholarship representing feminist theory, sociology of advertising, ethnic studies, dramaturgy, postmodernism, and media literacy. In addition, Cortese provides practical advice on how readers can combat their own cultural conditioning, which may be racist. An outline for evaluating advertising is also included as an appendix. These guides, along with the excellent analysis throughout, make this an outstandingly useful volume. Excellent bibliography and index. Essential. * CHOICE *The author takes a close look behind the scenes of contemporary culture, examining the hidden messages and social meaning of advertising and its use of images of women and minorities. * Business Horizons *A well-researched, thoughtful examination of an aspect of advertising that is seldom discussed and would be an excellent textbook or supplemental reading for advertising, media in society, and women and minorities in media courses. * Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly *Cortese asks some very good questions, and he has a good eye for recent trends. * Ideology and Cultural Production *Table of ContentsPreface to the Fourth Edition 1. Representations, Multiculturalism, and Mass Media 2. Visual Attraction, Body Display, and Advertising 3. Gay and Lesbian Advertising 4. Constructed Bodies, Deconstructing Gender: Sexism in Advertising 5. Aggression and Violence in Mass Media 6. Symbolic Racism in Advertising 7. Ethnic Marketing 8. Speed and Visual Fragments: Toward Postmodern Consciousness Appendix: Advertising Evaluation Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIn a narrative bridging television studies, memoir, and comic, literary nonfiction, Kathleen Collins takes readers alongside her from the 1960s through to the present, reminiscing and commiserating about some of what has transpired over the last five decades in the US, in media culture, and in what constitutes a shared cultural history.

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Book SynopsisRichard Elliott is Senior Lecturer in Music at Newcastle University, UK.Trade ReviewTaking a literary and musical path – Lear and Carroll, literary modernism, translation, sonic art and pop records - Richard Elliott provides a sensible view of the nonsensical. Formed of much wordy noise, copious theory lightly handled, and palpable fondness in the writing, The Sound of Nonsense is a quietly provocative manifesto on nonsense’s behalf. * Dai Griffiths, Senior Lecturer in Music, Oxford Brookes University, UK *Elliott's Sound of Nonsense is a deliciously noisy book, a lively sonic romp that enjoins its readers to be enjoyed aloud. It chants and enchants us through realms of utterance shaped by astonishingly diverse artists including Lewis Carroll and Hugo Ball, James Joyce and Bob Dylan, Velimir Khlebnikov and Jaap Blonk. Their often only just speakable tones and textures of proto-lexical sounds lure us into that zaum wonderland Paul Schmidt calls "beyonsense". Elliott's masterful, thoroughly useful scholarship is offset by his contagious delight in his subject. Echoes of poetry freed from semantic shackles, of scat, beatbox, and doowop, bounce off the page to activate our readership via the "mixing desk of the ear". This invigorating Sound of Nonsense makes sound sense. * Sally Jane Norman, Director of the New Zealand School of Music/Te Koki - Victoria University Wellington, Aotearoa/New Zealand *There’s no sense like nonsense, and here’s a no-nonsense survey of it, from the simply silly to the profoundly pointed—a guide to the art of nonsense across cultural levels, at once scholarly and entertaining, original and enlightening. * Paul Dutton, Writer and Oral Sound Artist, Canada *Richard Elliott’s The Sound of Nonsense is an exhilarating, well-informed, and very well written book. Elliott shows an easy familiarity with sources in many languages, including Russian. His principal theoretical assertion is that nonsense occurs in the moment “when sense-making is forced into code-switching;” he also offers the suggestion that nonsense as such supports sociality. Although the book appears to be principally about popular culture, it works closely with sound poetry and with recent experimental styles in modern vocal performance, revealing how they blend with the “popular” forms. It is a work that is rewarding not only for its ideas, but for its searching analysis of individual songs and unusual word-sound combinations. A satisfying book. * Irving Massey, Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University at Buffalo, USA *A cray and splendiferous example of how sound studies and its necessarily interdisciplinary modes of analysis will lead the way into new intellectual territory. Ranging widely from Lewis Carroll, Hugo Ball, and Gertrude Stein to John Cage, Bob Dylan, and Rahzel, The Sound of Nonsense is much more than a sonic intervention into nonsense scholarship, it is a bridge between music and literature that will open new lines of critical inquiry into the social life of words. Richard Elliott puts the ram in the rama lama ding dong. * J. Griffith Rollefson, author of Flip the Script *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The Sound of Nonsense 2: The Sound of the Page 3: Silly Noises 4: Pop Hearts Nonsense Conclusion Bibliography Discography Videography

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Book SynopsisMarit Grøtta is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway.Trade ReviewGrøtta is as comfortable dissecting four lines of a Baudelaire prose poem as she is discerning broad shifts in critical approaches to media. … The book offers unfailingly interesting micro-histories of the various dispositives under scrutiny, and the debate that emerges is always inclusive and informed. … [T]he contention that Baudelaire’s writings often paraphrased the conventions of new media is defended with an agility and intellectual vigor that prove, in the end, difficult to resist. * Times Literary Supplement *Although Baudelaire in 1859 famously denounced photography as sterile technology aiming to reproduce reality at the expense of artistic beauty, his writing was in fact framed, fashioned, and mediated through the new visual media of the period. In this rich multidisciplinary study, Grøtta argues that Baudelaire’s poetic sensibility can be fully understood only in the context of the media-saturated environment in which it took shape … Drawing on careful analysis of Baudelaire’s prose poems and theories of writers as different as Marx, Freud, Benjamin, and Agamben, Grøtta skillfully brings to light Baudelaire’s complex relationship with the rapidly developing text and image-based media of the 19th century … Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. -- C. B. Kerr, Vassar College * CHOICE *Grøtta offers a thorough examination of the poet’s art as the aesthetics of Paris’s flâneur par excellence. ... A time museum of sorts, this book can be conceived as a stroll through galleries devoted to the new media available in Baudelaire’s society. The role of newspapers, photographs, precinematic devices, toys, and corporeality in Baudelaire’s works is substantiated by remarkable analyses of his Petits Poèmes en Prose. Grøtta skilfully masters the delicate art of lively description. .... All in all, Marit Grøtta’s monograph is a delightful and perfectly documented work that certainly deserves to be read by comparative literature scholars. As an original effort to bridge the gap between too often separated though arguably related disciplines, this book definitely offers new avenues through which to explore the link between literary analysis and visual (or other) mediation. ... [Readers] will surely appreciate the opportunity of going back in time offered by Grotta’s remarkable scholarly work. * Recherche littéraire/Literary Research *[Grøtta] has provided the context—prior and contemporary—to Baudelaire’s writings in a large number of areas: fascinating glimpses of public amusements, optical toys, slang expressions, as well as explanations, market considerations, and interpretations. This wealth of information makes her arguments—clearly restated at chapter’s end—easy to accept. ... What Grøtta does is essential to a deeper understanding of Baudelaire: despite Baudelaire’s aversion to photography, she detects in it a cult of the image and a concept of identity that would only become widespread with the advent of the twentieth century and its use of identity cards. ... Grøtta traces Baudelaire’s debts, and these debts are not to the usual authors and creditors, but to fields, devices, and practices that the poet explicitly disdained: the press, and its use of commonplaces; photography, and its appeal to the masses and their uncritical acceptance of its ‘truth’; toys, and their vulgarity. * Nineteenth-Century French Studies *This assured study looks at the wide aesthetic implications of Baudelaire’s engagement with new and emerging media technologies. With chapters on newspapers, photographs, and pre-cinematic devices such as the kaleidoscope, Marit Grøtta’s book challenges narrow Benjaminian-inflected readings of Baudelaire by offering fresh analyses of familiar prose poems that showcase Baudelaire’s awareness of new ways of experiencing the world … This book is suitable for readers both familiar with and new to Baudelaire. Grøtta’s strength lies in the limpidity of her writing, which clearly condenses Baudelaire’s aesthetic thought in relation to different media forms. * French Studies *Grøtta clearly knows Baudelaire’s personal and literary writings very well and skilfully reads the interactions between media and literature ... Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics will be of particular value for anyone who is interested in Baudelaire as a writer and also, perhaps not that surprisingly, for those interested in Walter Benjamin. * The British Society for Literature and Science *Grøtta’s Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics is a highly topical, trans-disciplinary exploration of Baudelaire’s writings in the wider context of the evolution of text- and image-based media, from newspapers to photography and pre-cinematic technologies, in nineteenth-century France. Innovatively bringing together literary and visual culture studies, and drawing on theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, Grøtta’s discussion sheds new light not only on Baudelaire’s writings, but also on the figure of the flâneur, mediated viewing and mobile perception, among other topics in media and cultural studies. * Kathrin Yacavone, Assistant Professor of French, University of Nottingham, UK *By reading Baudelaire’s relation to various 19th century media, including newspapers, painting, photography, and optical toys such as kaleidoscopes, Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics offers a compelling alternative to Walter Benjamin’s influential account of his poetry and aesthetics and advances our understanding of the emergence of a new media world out of its 19th century beginnings. * Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University, USA *Marit Grøtta’s book brings a renewed view to the prose poetry of Baudelaire by exploring his immersion in the new print and visual media environment of his time. Balancing a literary approach to prose poetry with a conceptualization of media as living environment and technical forms of mediation, Baudelaire's Media Aesthetics sheds new light on the modern “optical unconscious”and develops an original interpretive frame to read Walter Benjamin via Baudelaire, rather than the other way around. With astute links between the works of Marx, Freud, and Benjamin, Grøtta offers a fresh portrait of the flâneur, which she also enriches with her analyses of the divergent views on modern media by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour. * Catherine Nesci, Chair of Comparative Literature, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA, and author of Le Flâneur et les flâneuses (2007) *Baudelaire’s Media Aesthetics invites us to look back at Charles Baudelaire’s writings through the specificity and historicity of new technologies of vision rather than with the naked eye alone. … The book analyses a thought-provoking combination of media…to study similarities between Baudelaire’s encounters with different media and assess how media played a role in shaping his idea of modernity. … The entire book is clearly argued and logically presented. … Grøtta’s book therefore makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Baudelaire, “a lyric poet in the age of new media” (6) as read by Benjamin, but also of Benjamin’s writings on visual technologies as they relate to Baudelaire by way of Agamben’s readings of both Baudelaire and Benjamin. The book’s appeal is indeed that it can make such complex connections among poems and media in an engaging, coherent, and lucid analysis. * French Forum *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Newspapers 3. Photographs 4. Pre-cinematic Devices 5. Corporeality 6. Toys 7. Media Imagery and Modernity Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCeci Moss is a curator, writer and educator based in Los Angeles, USA. She is the founder of Gas, a mobile, autonomous, experimental and networked platform for contemporary art. Her academic research addresses contemporary internet-based art practice and network culture. Her writing has appeared in Rhizome, Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, Artforum, The Wire, CURA, New Media & Society and various art catalogs. Previously, she was Assistant Curator of Visual Arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Senior Editor of the art and technology non-profit arts organization Rhizome, and Special Projects Coordinator at the New Museum. She has held teaching positions at Scripps College, the San Francisco Art Institute and New York University.Trade ReviewMoss gives a proper theoretical framework for understanding this most recent controversial period for internet art, elucidating its very dynamic characteristics, which are simultaneously composing its very nature. * Neural Magazine *Unfold, surf, drift -- in this insightful book, Ceci Moss presents Internet art in an expanded frame, returning to Jean-François Lyotard’s important 1985 exhibition "Les Immate´riaux" in Paris, and continuing on through contemporary artists responding to the Internet. Recommended reading for anyone interested in twenty-first-century aesthetics and culture. * Alexander R. Galloway, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, USA *What does art do in an information-driven culture? Moreover, how does information-driven art enable us to take note of the changes in our culture? This book draws a line under competing theories of the place of art, post-internet, that have been jostling for space since pre-internet days, and reminds us – simply and urgently – that art can and does (or can even choose not to). Ceci Moss has written a clear-eyed conversational treatise that joins philosophies of technology and recent histories of information-driven art and her efforts will help any student or practitioner navigate our fluid media landscape. I've always wanted a book that brought Simondon, Lyotard, Laric, and LOL cats together, and now I've got one. * Sarah Cook, Curator and Professor of Museum Studies, University of Glasgow, UK *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Active Agents 1. No Center, No Object, Just Networks: Expanded Internet Art 2. Milieux, Then and Now 3. Resistance in the Domain of All Inputs, All Outputs: Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput's Les Immateriaux 4. Parsing Attention: Image Circulation and Affect Conclusion: Breaking Presence Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisClint Burnham is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Canada. He is the author of Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (Bloomsbury, 2016).Trade ReviewClint Burnham does not merely apply psychoanalysis to the internet; he demonstrates how the unconscious itself is 'structured like the internet,' how our entanglement in the impenetrable digital web allows us to understand properly the way the unconscious overdetermines our thinking and activities. This is why Burnham’s path-breaking book reaches much deeper than the usual analyses of the social and psychological implications of the internet: it does not just socialize and historicise the internet, it throws a new light on the unconscious itself. * Slavoj Žižek, Senior Researcher in the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and author of Less Than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism *Clint Burnham has produced the definitive psychoanalytic account of digital culture. This is the book that those seeking to understand how the unconscious manifests itself in the digital universe have been waiting for. For too long, psychoanalytic theorists have confined themselves to analyses of film and literature, but now Burnham provides the breakthrough. Far from being an application of psychoanalysis to a foreign realm, the digital provides the privileged ground for encountering the unconscious. As Burnham’s delightful and witty prose indicates, the internet functions as an event with concrete ramifications for the psyches that emerge in its wake. * Todd McGowan, Professor of English, University of Vermont, USA, and author of Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy *Were there ever two formations with less in common than 'the Internet,' a machinic transmission of discrete data, and 'psychoanalysis,' a wild science of messy social relationality? Clint Burnham’s genius is to show how psychoanalysis is indispensable to any robust theory of digital culture, but as well to reveal the cybernetics already at work in psychoanalytic theory from Freud to Žižek. In readings of multiple media, he vividly demonstrates the ongoing necessity of concepts like negation, enjoyment, and disavowal for making sense of aesthetic productions like cinema, social experiences like Facebook, and the cyber mode of production that binds online pleasures to offline battery factories. This is an expansive, fascinating book, offering its readers a dazzling plenty of speculation and critique. * Anna Kornbluh, Associate Professor of English, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, and author of Realizing Capital: Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form (2013) *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Does the Internet Have an Unconscious? 2. Slavoj Žižek as Internet Philosopher 3. Was Facebook an Event? 4. Is the Internet a Thing? 5. The Subject Supposed to LOL 6. Her: Or, There Is No Digital Relation (with Matthew Flisfeder) 7. The Selfie and the Cloud Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMatthew Harle is a writer, archive curator and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Barbican Centre, UK. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, such as Sight & Sound, Screen, CITY and Cineaste, and he is the co-editor of Of Mud and Flame: A Penda's Fen Sourcebook (2018).Trade ReviewOne of the foundational manoeuvres of the critical historian of culture is to turn finished works into unfinished ones. Matthew Harle has a head’s start here, and he capitalises on it brilliantly revealing the unrealised, the unmade and the abandoned as the ghostly DNA of the cultural sphere. * Ben Highmore, Professor of Cultural Studies, University of Sussex, UK *A glorious typology of the abandoned, failed and unfinished. Matthew Harle enthusiastically traces entropic utopias, ill-advised transport schemes, unraveled cinematic collaborations and unrealised literary projects in a compelling account of the enemies of promise that haunt fallible archives. It is a book that celebrates creative failure and thoughtfully explores the material spaces of incompletion. In a tour de force of intertextuality, it juxtaposes the infinite potential of the unfinished against the mundane inadequacies of the archive. Full of poignant foreclosures, this is a subtle, funny and excitingly original glimpse into the realms of arrested achievement. * Barry Curtis, Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies, Royal College of Art, UK *Most literary historians discuss abandoned art in doleful, pitying terms. Not Matthew Harle: he sees 'failure' as fertile. In this delightful and whip-smart cultural travelogue, he drifts across the 20th century and the institutions that (sometimes bathetically) try to archive it, offering a series of fascinating meditations on utopian colonies in Los Angeles, postwar British urban planning, Harold Pinter's efforts to bring Proust to the big screen. These projects, in their different ways unfinished and incomplete, emerge as zones of intellectual possibility, conceptual play, infinite and eccentric potential. * Sukhdev Sandhu, Associate Professor of English Literature and Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1. On the Shelf: An Introduction to Abandoned Work 2. The Writing and Rewriting of Place: The Story of Llano del Rio 3. Town Fictions: Planning the Future in Postwar London 4. A Shattering Achievement: Piecing Together Pinter’s Proust 5. The Frugal Charade: Ideas for Books in Literary Archives 6. Remains to Be Seen: Afterword Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPhilip Hammond is Professor of Media and Communications at London South Bank University, UK. His previous publications include Media, War and Postmodernity (2007) and Screens of Terror (2011). Holger Pötzsch is Associate Professor in Media and Documentation Studies at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. He publishes widely in such journals as Games & Culture, Game Studies, and New Media and Society.Trade ReviewThe volume is separated into three interrelated thematic sections: 'Militarism and the Gaming Subject' addresses players’ situatedness within military-themed games; 'Playing War, History, and Memory' looks at the role of games in influencing military history and cultural memory; and 'Wargames/Peacegames' focuses on how conceptual frameworks are embedded in military-themed games. Though the volume addresses both analog and digital games, it focuses on events in Europe and European games. This is a boon not a limitation in that it adds depth, richness, and specificity to the study of both games and the cultural/historical perspectives addressed. The game This War of Mine, which is based on the living conditions and atrocities civilians endured during the Siege of Sarajevo, is treated in more than one essay … Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals. * CHOICE *The impressive range of perspectives in this collection bring new insight and nuance to the expanding field of war and games. * Debra Ramsay, Lecturer in Film, University of Exeter, UK *Beginning with the predominant tension, and indeed contradiction, between war and games, Hammond and Pötzsch have put together a remarkable collection of essays which at turns surprises, challenges and even provokes the reader into engaging with a core theme running through historical and military themed video games. Namely, how can games (a theoretically ludic and playful medium) deal with war (a vicious and destructive phenomenon which is anything but playful)? The answers to this core question vary from one contributor to another. Some offer approaches from the perspectives of historical enquiry and critical theory. Others are involved in questions of player identification, empathy and collective or public memory. Still others use reception methods like participant observation and empirical fieldwork to understand what players take away from this fundamentally interactive medium of games. What all of the responses in this carefully and cleverly edited collection do offer, however, is a sustained and thoughtful meditation on the centrality of conflict to ludology, ludology to conflict, and the effects of wargaming on players, games, society and the industry. An excellent compendium for an era dominated by war and mediated simulacra of warfare, War Games has brought together some of the cutting-edge scholars working in the emerging discipline of historical gaming to produce a meaningful and important discussion of how war and games are critically and culturally enmeshed in twenty-first-century society. * Dr. Andrew B.R. Elliott, Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies, University of Lincoln, UK *Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Studying War and Games Philip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK) and Holger Pötzsch (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) I: Militarism and the Gaming Subject 1. Reality Check: Videogames as Propaganda for Inauthentic War Philip Hammond (London South Bank University, UK) 2. Playing in the End Times: Wargames, Resilience and the Art of Failure Kevin McSorley (University of Portsmouth, UK) 3. The Political Economy of Wargames: The Production of History and Memory in Military Video Games Emil Lundedal Hammar (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) and Jamie Woodcock (University of Oxford, UK) 4. Understanding War Game Experiences: Applying Multiple Player Perspectives to Game Analysis Kristine Jørgensen (University of Bergen, Norway) II: Playing War, History, and Memory 5. Playing the Historical Fantastic: Zombies, Mecha-Nazis and Making Meaning about the Past Through Metaphor Adam Chapman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) 6. Machine(s) of Narrative Security: Mnemonic Hegemony and Polish Games about Violent Conflicts Piotr Sterczewski (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland) 7. National Memories and the First World War: The Many Sides of Battlefield 1 Chris Kempshall (the Imperial War Museum, UK) 8. Let’s Play War: Cultural Memory, Celebrities and Appropriations of the Past Stephanie de Smale (Utrecht University, the Netherlands) III: Wargames/Peacegames 9. The Wargame Legacy: How Wargames Shaped the Roleplaying Experience from Tabletop to Digital Games Dimitra Nikolaidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) 10. Critical War Game Development: Lessons Learned from Attentat 1942 Vít Šisler (Charles University, Czech Republic) 11. Simulating War Dynamics: A Case Study of the Game-based Learning Exercise Mission Z: One Last Chance Joakim Arnøy (Narvik War and Peace Centre, Norway) 12. Positioning Players as Political Subjects: Forms of Estrangement and the Presentation of War in This War of Mine and Spec Ops: The Line Holger Pötzsch (UiT – The Arctic University of Norway) Afterword: War/Game Matthew Thomas Payne (University of Notre Dame, USA) Index

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