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Book SynopsisMaking Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism's third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications - including BUST, Bitch, HUES, Venus Zine, and Rockrgrl - that began as zines in the 1990s. By tracking their successes and failures, this book provides insight into the politics of feminism's recent past.Making Feminist Media brings together interviews with magazine editors, research from zine archives, and analysis of the advertising, articles, editorials, and letters to the editor found in third-wave feminist magazines. It situates these publications within the long history of feminist publishing in the United States and Canada and argues that third-wave feminist magazines share important continuities and breaks with their historical forerunners. These publishing lineages challenge the still-dominant - and hotly contested - wave metaphor categorization of feminist culture. The stories, struggles, and strategies of these magazines not only represent contemporary feminism, they create and shape feminist cultures. The publications provide a feminist counter-public sphere in which the competing interests of editors, writers, readers, and advertisers can interact. Making Feminist Media argues that reading feminist magazines is far more than the consumption of information or entertainment: it is a profoundly intimate and political activity that shapes how readers understand themselves and each other as feminist thinkers.Trade Review"In her accessible and entertaining Making Feminist Media, Elizabeth Groeneveld brings a nuanced historicizing eye to print magazines in the 90s and 00s. By connecting contemporary zines and magazines to the publishing practices, constraints, and market conditions of the late 19th and mid-20th centuries, Groeneveld illuminates historical continuities that are too often ignored. And with her close readings, she demonstrates that feminist print media--like feminism itself--is always more complicated than as described by others." -- Lisa Jervis, founding editor and publisher of Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop CultureTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Making Feminist Media: Third-Wave Magazines on the Cusp of the Digital Age PART ONE: HISTORICIZING THIRD-WAVE MAGAZINES 1. ""Someone Else Actually Cares as Much as Me"": Sassy Magazine, Grrrl Zine Culture, and Feminist Magazines2. ""Serious and Material Business"": Third-Wave Magazines and the Marketplace in Historical Perspective PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF THIRD-WAVE MAGAZINES 3. HUES Magazine, the Politics of Alliance, and Critical Multiculturalism4. ""Be a Feminist or Just Dress Like One"": BUST, Fashion and Lifestyle Feminism5. ""Join the Knitting Revolution"": Representations of Crafting in Feminist Magazines6. Dildo Debacle: Advertising Feminist Sexualities in Bitch Magazine ConclusionAppendix: Publication Histories of Third-Wave MagazinesNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Twilight saga, a series of five films adapted from Stephanie Meyer's four vampire novels, has been a sensation, both at the box office and through the attention it has won from its predominantly teenaged fans. This series has also been the subject of criticism and sometimes derision - often from critics and on occasion even from fans. However, it also offers rich opportunities for analytic and critical attention, which the contributors to Screening Twilight demonstrate with energy and style. Through examining Twilight, the book unpacks how this popular group of films work as cinematic texts, what they have to say about cinema and culture today, and how fans may seek to re-read or subvert these messages. The chapters addressTwilight in the context of the vampire and myth, in terms of genre and reception, identity, gender and sexuality, and through re-viewing the series fandom. Screening Twilight is also a revelation of how a popular cinematic phenomenon like Twilight rewards close attention from contemporary critical scholars of cinema and culture.Trade Review'Harman and Clayton have gathered together a dynamic mix of writers who tackle the series in all its complexities [ - ] This book is a must-read.' Stacey Abbott, Reader in Film and Television Studies, University of Roehampton 'Screening Twilight [ - ] examines not only the texts but also how fans and critics have responded to them and it opens up a lively discussion of the cultural significance of this new twist in the vampire tale. In short, this is a terrific book.' Milly Williams, Senior Lecturer in Film and TV Studies, Brunel UniversityTable of Contents1. Mute Monsters and Vocal [Fan] Critics: Genre and Reception Guilty Pleasures: Twilight, snark and ironic fandom Francesca Haig 'Cue the Shrieking Virgins'?: The Critical Reception of the Twilight Saga Mark Jankovich The Twilight Saga: Genre and Reception Nia Edwards-Behi 2. Werewolves, Lions and Lambs: Creating and Subverting the Myth Why Twilight Sucks And Edward Doesn’t: Contemporary Vampires and the Sentimental Tradition Judith Kohlenberger The Lore of the Wild Dr Caroline Ruddell Northwest Small Town Gothic: Location and Space in the Twilight Films Dr Ian Conrich 3. Romancing the Tomb: Gender and Sexuality My distaste for Forks’: Twilight, oral gratification and self-denial Ruth O’Donnell Of Masochistic Lions and Stupid Lambs: The Ambiguous Nature of Sexuality and Sexual Awakening in Twilight Marion Rana 'Venus in Fangs': Negotiating Masochism in Twilight Mark Adams 4. The Politics of Pallor: Post-colonialism and Racial Whiteness The Cullens: The Mimicry of the Post-Colonial Vampire Simon Bacon Racial Whiteness and Twilight Ewan Kirkland 5. Slash and Burn: Deviating Fandom and Re-writing the Text Twilight’s Queer Communities: Family and Fandom R. Justin Hunt, : Projected Interactivity and All Human Twilight Fanfic Brigid Cherry Normal Female Interest in Vampires and Werewolves Bonking: Slash and the Reconstruction of Meaning Bethan Jones Index

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Book SynopsisLike many other cultural commodities, films and TV shows tend to work in such a way as to obscure the conditions under which they are produced, a process that has been reinforced by dominant trends in the practice of Film and Television Studies. This collection places the workplace experiences of industry workers at centre stage. It looks at film and television production in a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural contexts. The book provides detailed analyses of specific systems of production and their role in shaping the experience of work, whilst also engaging with the key theoretical and methodological questions involved in film and television production. Drawing together the work of historians, film scholars, and anthropologists, it looks at film and television production not only in Hollywood and Western Europe but also in less familiar settings such as the Soviet Union, India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Chronologically wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and international in scope, it is a unique introduction, critical for all students of the film industries and film production.Trade ReviewWe live in a world where work is often about relations between people and place, and about creating an identity. More than that, hidden behind the scenes of the structures within which workers operate are real-life stories that offer unique insights into what the way we work says about our society. That is why I am fascinated by this important book...This book offers a valuable contribution to our reflections on social justice issues and change in work for readers in media and film studies, cinema history, and work and labour studies. One of the many strengths of the text is that it offers revealing and often surprising snapshots of the kinds of politics, restrictions, constraints and pressures under which various workers have had to operate, and that they must delicately navigate...Overall, the collection encourages the reader to reflect on the kind of world in which professionals in creative industries have worked, and invigorates questions about the kind of world in which we might want to work and live. -- Sheree K. Gregory, Swinburne Institute for Social Research * Media International Australia *There is an absence of work in the literature [on film and television] as a whole that would give voice to the crafts and technical trades whose arcane job titles (focus puller, matte painter or dolly grip) cinema goers glimpse fleetingly as the credits roll. The importance of this text is that it makes a contribution towards filling this gap . . . This is a welcome contribution to the literature on work in film and television production, indeed on work in the creative industries more broadly, offering a grounded and empirically informed insight into production cultures that have been ignored, or arguably worse, hyped as glamorous. -- Keith Randle, University of Hertfordshire, UK * Work, Employment & Society *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Andrew Dawson and Sean Holmes, "Working in Film and Television" PART ONE: SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION 1. Andrew Dawson, "Labouring in Hollywood's Motion Picture Industry and the Promise of 'Flexible Specialisation'" 2. Dorota Ostrowska, "Alternative Models of Film Production: Film Units in Poland after World War II." 3. Olof Hedling, "New Creative Cities in Scandinavia?" PART TWO: MANOEUVRABLE SPACES 4. Sean Holmes, "No Room for Manoeuvre: Star Images and the Regulations of Actors' Labour in Silent-Era Hollywood." 5. Richard Paterson, "Freelance Life in UK Television" 6. Ikechukwu Obiaya, "Behind the Scenes: The Hidden Face of Nollywood." PART THREE: PATRONAGE AND CLIENTISM 7. Katrien Pype, "Fathers, Patrons and Clients: Social and Economic Aspects in the Production of Television Drama in Post-Mobutu Kinshasa." 8. Alison Smith, "Les Chefs-Operatrices: Women Behind the Camera in France." PART FOUR: CREATIVE AGENCY 9. Linda Marchant, "Cornel Lucas: Stills Photography and Production Culture in 1950s British Film." 10. Clare Wilkinson-Weber, "Making Faces: Competition and Change in the Production of Bollywood Film Star Looks." CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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Book SynopsisGilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a comprehensive introduction to the work of the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. In particular it examines Simondon's original informational ontology, as developed from a synthesis of Cybernetics, thermodynamics and French epistemology, The book goes on to delineate the role this ontology plays in developing an original account of individuation in the physical, biological and psycho-social regimes. This is done, in part, through reading Simondon with and against other figures in these fields such as Merleau-Ponty and Stuart Kauffman. Additionally, Mills explores Simondon's contribution to epistemology and invention, including an analysis of his important theories of the image-cycle and transindividuality. He also examines Simondon's influence on several contemporary thinkers, including Bernard Stiegler and Bruno Latour, before exploring the relevance of Simondon's work for theorising contemporary media technology.Trade ReviewThe object of this remarkable book is as clear as it is relevant —to provide the English-speaking readership with a complete and objective presentation of Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation and technology. Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media is a truly innovative study, which shows how to rethink the concept of information in an increasingly complex socio-technological system. -- Vincent K. Bontems, Director of the Atelier SimondonSimon Mills’s book is a timely and valuable introduction to Gilbert Simondon’s theory of information and individuation. Despite the fact that Simondon’s philosophy is steadily gaining more attention and recognition worldwide, English translations have been slow in coming; this book thus fills a gap in the Anglophone scholarship and will surely be a helpful English resource for those interested in understanding Simondonian concepts and the significance of Simondon’s thought for Continental Philosophy and Media Studies. -- Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Associate Professor of Poitical Science, Western UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements / Introduction / 1. Precursor to a Theory of Individuation / 2. Physical Individuation: Transduction and Information / 3. Vital Individuation / 4. Psychic and Collective Individuation / 5. Philosophy of Technology / 6. Culture & Technology / 7. Simondon, Latour & Stiegler / 8. Towards a Philosophy of Media / 9. Situating Simondon / Bibliography / Index

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Book SynopsisIn the current day and age, objective facts have less influence on opinions and decisions than personal emotions and beliefs. Many individuals rely on their social networks to gather information thanks to social media's ability to share information rapidly and over a much greater geographic range. However, this creates an overall false balance as people tend to seek out information that is compatible with their existing views and values. They deliberately seek out "facts" and data that specifically support their conclusions and classify any information that contradicts their beliefs as "false news."Navigating Fake News, Alternative Facts, and Misinformation in a Post-Truth World is a collection of innovative research on human and automated methods to deter the spread of misinformation online, such as legal or policy changes, information literacy workshops, and algorithms that can detect fake news dissemination patterns in social media. While highlighting topics including source credibility, share culture, and media literacy, this book is ideally designed for social media managers, technology and software developers, IT specialists, educators, columnists, writers, editors, journalists, broadcasters, newscasters, researchers, policymakers, and students.

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Book SynopsisWhile much attention has been paid to the making of Paris in the work of writers and artists, little is known about the city as defined and created by the fashion media. Filling this gap in studies of the French capital, this original and illuminating book focuses on how the French fashion press - with its rich conjunction of words and images - has been able to construct Paris as a leading world fashion city.Based in an original analysis of fashion writing and images in contemporary French fashion magazines and newspapers, the book shows how the fashion media have been central to the consecration of the city of Paris on the fashion map, as well as its celebration in the collective imaginary. Agnes Rocamora explores, for example, the figures of 'la Parisienne' and 'la passante' (the female passer by), and the presence of the Eiffel tower in fashion visuals. She gives attention to the continuum between the French journalistic discourse and that of cultural forms such as films, paintings and literature, thus revealing the persistence across texts and time of visions of Paris and shedding light on the production and reproduction of the Paris myth.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I Chapter 1: Paris, France Chapter 2: Paris, Fashion City Chapter 3: Fashion Discourse Part II Chapter 4: Paris, 'Capital de la Mode' Chapter 5: 'La Parisienne' in 'Vogue' Chapter 6: 'Passante de Mode' Chapter 7: The Eiffel Tower in Fashion Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label. The editors and distinguished group of contributors offer a range of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. They refine and redefine key concepts in film studies, including identification and identity, narrative and realism, allegory and the national project, auteurism and the popular, art and genre. They re-evaluate how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical, cultural and political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in the age of the moving image, and explore the interconnectedness of films produced worldwide, as well as the links between cinema and other visual cultural forms. The contributors include: John Caughie, Felicia Chan, Tiago de Luca, Rajinder Dudrah, Song Hwee Lim, Laura Mulvey, Lucia Nagib, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Chris Perriam, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith, and Ismail Xavier.Trade Review'This excellent collection reenergizes the study of world cinemas with its rigorous commitment to rethinking established theoretical concerns and ideas. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in what the state of film theory is today.' - Professor Tim Bergfelder, University of Southampton; 'Theorizing World Cinema develops a polycentric approach to Film Studies that is truly groundbreaking.' - Professor Mette Hjort, Lingnan University, Hong Kong; 'The editors have brought together an impressive list of scholars, whose contributions offer compelling perspectives on film theory today, as it faces the challenges of a post-medium cinema and increasingly focuses on the experience of embodied and situated spectators.' - Professor Thomas Elsaesser, University of AmsterdamTable of ContentsList of Illustrations (to be provided) Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The National Project 1. John Caughie ‘Morvern Callar, Art Cinema and the ‘Monstrous Archive’” 2. Ismail Xavier ‘On Film and Cathedrals: Monumental Art, National Allegories and Cultural Warfare’ 3. Ashish Rajadhyaksha ‘A Theory of Cinema that Can Account for Indian Cinema’ Part II: The Transnational Project 4. Paul Julian Smith ‘Transnational Cinemas: The Cases of Mexico, Argentina and Brazil’ 5. Chris Perriam ‘Eduardo Noriega’s Transnational Projections’ 6. Felicia Chan ‘From world cinema to World Cinema: Wong Kar-wai’s Ashes of Time and Ashes of Time Redux’ Part III: The Diasporic Project 7. Rajinder Dudrah ‘Beyond World Cinema? The Dialectics of Diasporic Cinema’ 8. Song Hwee Lim ‘Speaking in Tongues: Ang Lee, Accented Cinema, Hollywood’ Part 4: The Realist Project 9. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith ‘From Realism to Neorealism’ 10. Lúcia Nagib ‘Oshima, Corporeal Realism and the Eroticized Apparatus’ 11. Tiago de Luca ‘Realism of the Senses: A Tendency in World Cinema’ 12. Laura Mulvey ‘Rear Projection and the Paradoxes of Hollywood Realism’ Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Some advocates and more than a few critics have misconstrued the political economy of media as a unified field of inquiry. The authors from this volume, by contrast, draw from a more diverse stream of the schools of thought signified by this tradition: Neoclassical Economics, Radical Media Political Economy, Schumpeterian Institutional Political Economy, and the Cultural Industries School. The book as a whole is as alert to developments in our main objects of analysis - media institutions, technologies, markets, uses and society - as it is to changes in the world around us, including current trends in communication and media studies. The contributors show that digital media are disrupting entire media industries, but without erasing the past. Throughout, the impact of the unprecedented wave of media consolidation in the late-1990s and the financial crisis of the past few years loom large. The authors also suggest that there is no 'supra logic' of 'total system integration' that spans the network media, while insisting that one media sector is not the same as the next. Social networking activities often beg, pilfer and borrow 'content' from 'traditional media', but it remains the case that Time Warner, Comcast, the BBC and News Corp. are very different creatures than Apple, Baidu, Facebook or Google. In other words, even in the age of convergence and remix culture, different media continue to display their own distinctive political economies, as the volume's title - The Political Economies of Media - signals.Trade ReviewThe Political Economies of Media is the most thoughtful, original and compelling set of essays on contemporary global media industries that I have ever read. Dwayne Winseck and Dal Yong Jin are to be congratulated for shepherding and contributing to this crucial contribution to media studies. It should be mandatory reading for scholars, studentts and concerned citizens * Robert W. McChesny, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign *Winseck and Jin's excellent collection is one of the most important contributions in years to research and teaching in media industries. * David Hesmondhalgh, University of Leeds *This excellent book analyzes how the forces of digitalization, financialization, globalization, and consolidation affect today's media. In a world full of clarion calls, The Political Economies of Media stands out as essential reading: thoughtful interpretations in a well-organized volume, timely and useful information, a wide coverage of industries and countries, a highlighting of the diversity within political economy, and a willingness to question conventional wisdom when warranted by the data. * Eli Noam, Columbia Business School and Columbia Insitute for Tele-Information *Political Economies of the Media: The Transformation of the Global Media is probably one of the most inspiring books in political economy I have read in recent years. A wide variety of topical issues is debated and statements are underpinned by an impressive amount of empirical data... This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the structural mechanisms underlying power and control in the media and information industries. -- Tom Evens, Ghent University * Journal of Digital Television *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Introductory Essay 1 The Political Economies of Media and the Transformation of the Global Media Industries: An Introductory Essay 3 Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University Part Two: From the Singular to the Plural-Theorizing the Digital and Networked Media Industries in the Twenty-First Century Principal ongoing mutations of Cultural and Informational Industries Bernand Miège, Carleton University Media Ownership, Oligarchies, and Globalization: Media Concentration in South America Guillermo Mastrini and Martín Becerra, University of Buenos Aires Media as Creative Industries: Conglomeration and Globalization as Accumulation Strategies in an Age of Digital Media Terry Flew, Queensland University of Technology The Structure and Dynamics of Communications Business Networks in an Era of Convergence: Mapping the Global Networks of the Information Business Amelia Arsenault, Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania Part Three The Conquest of Capital or Creative Gales of Destruction? Hard Jobs in Hollywood: How Concentration in Distribution Affects the Production Side of the Media Entertainment Industry 123 Susan Christopherson, Cornell University Financialization and the "Crisis of the Media": The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerates in Canada Dwayne Winseck, Carleton University Deconvergence and Deconsolidation in the Global Media Industries: The Rise and Fall of (Some) Media Conglomerate(s) Dal Yong Jin, Simon Fraser University Navigational Media: The Political Economy of Online Traffic Elizabeth Van Couvering, Leicester University The Contemporary World Wide Web: Social Medium or New Space of Accumulation? Christian Fuchs, Uppsala University Part Four Communication, Conventions, and "Crises" Running on empty?: The Uncertain Financial Futures of Public Service Media in the Contemporary Media Policy Environment Peter A. Thompson, University of Wellington Mediation, Financialization, and the Global Financial Crisis: An Inverted Political Economy Perspective Aeron Davis, University of London The Wizards of Oz: Peering Behind the Curtain on the Relationship Between Central Banks and the Business Media Marc-André Pigeon, Carleton University References Suggested Subject Index Terms

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Book SynopsisThe modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations of our families even in the face of contradictory experiences, so the family sustains a double life. The authors explore the gap between our values, expectations and yearnings, and our experiences of everyday family life. Family ritual, political rhetoric, advertising images and television family sitcoms are all windows onto what we want and expect - our myths of the family. Yet our aspirations for intimacy and self-fulfilment are frustrated by unacknowledged inequalities between men and women, and parents and children. The inequalities have their origins in the division of domestic labour and in labour markets that disregard family responsibilities. The Double Life Of The Family argues that our expectations of family life are more powerful than is usually believed and have enormous influence on both the way governments structure social policy and on the decisions made by ordinary people.

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Book SynopsisDavid Wilson is one of the UK's best-known and most innovative criminologists. This thought-provoking book stems from the author's parallel experiences in the public eye - as a reporter for Sky News and contributor to BBC, ITV and both national and local newspapers and magazines, especially in relation to high profile cases and fast-moving events in the field of crime and punishment. 'Looking for Laura' provides a window through which to appreciate the media pressures that this can create even for a professor in this field and former prison governor with considerable experience of working with offenders who hit the headlines. The book also looks at the way in which crime is packaged and presented for consumption by a news-hungry public. By considering a range of media situations in which the author has been involved, it provides an absorbing context within which to understand the still relatively new field of public criminology. It has a Foreword by the award-winning investigative journalist Donal MacIntyreTrade Review'This significant contribution to criminological studies offers a text where both scholar and common reader can understand the issues regarding crime reporting and society... while the term "public criminology" has recently gained popularity, it can convincingly be argued that Wilson was a public criminologist before it was in vogue': Howard Journal of Criminal Justice. 'Full of observations and insights that reward careful reading, but more than a source of reflection, it is also an attempt to inspire, incite and provoke criminologists into action': Prison Service Journal 'A provocative, readable and interesting text that straddles several areas of criminological theory and specialism, but strikes first and foremost as a stimulating read and a book which makes you think more about public criminology. What it should be and whether and how it should be undertaken. For that reason it should be one of those at the forefront of debate on academic criminology's function and purpose and I hope it enjoys a sufficient readership and acts to re-invigorate and stimulate future debates about the role and function of "public criminology"': Probation Journal 'An excellent addition for those students studying subjects with a focus on cultural criminology. An interesting and engrossing text and an excellent addition for the discipline': Paul Taylor, University of Chester 'An inspiring and intelligent read': Donal MacIntyre (from the Foreword). As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Jeremy Vine Show.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. - Children, the Internet and the Crime Figures 2. - Serial Killer Thrillers 3. - The Chief Constable - The Tale of a Criminal Justice Professional 4. - Celebrity Cons - Bronson, Banged Up and Bad Girls 5. - Serial Killers - Now You See Them, Now You Don't 6. - The Righteous Slaughter of Some Shootings 7. - The Offender Profiler 8. - Explaining OrdinaryA" Murder and Murder Investigations Postscript A Guide to Further Reading and Other References . Index

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