Media studies Books
The University of Chicago Press Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness
Book SynopsisFew virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. But what does openness mean, and what would a political theory of openness look like? The author uses Wikipedia, the most prominent product of open organization, to analyze the theory and politics of openness in practice - and to break its spell.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Darwin and the General Reader
Book SynopsisDrawing on his investigation of over one hundred mid-Victorian British newspapers and periodicals, Alvar Ellegard describes and analyzes the impact of Darwin's theory of evolution during the first dozen years after the publication of the Origin of Species. Although Darwin's book caused an immediate stir in literary and scientific periodicals, the popular press largely ignored it. Only after the work's implications for theology and the nature of man became evident did general publications feel compelled to react; each social group responded according to his own political and religious prejudices. Ellegard charts the impact of this revolution in science, maintaining that although the idea of evolution was generally accepted, Darwin's primary contribution, the theory of natural selection, was either ignored or rejected among the public.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The Black Image in the White Mind Media and Race
Book SynopsisLiving in a segregated society, white Americans learn about African Americans through the images the media show them. This text offers a comprehensive look at the intricate racial patterns in the mass media and how they shape the ambivalent attitudes of whites toward blacks.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press From Voice to Influence Understanding
Book SynopsisDoes the ease with which one can now participate in online petitions or conversations about current events seduce some away from civic activities into slacktivism? Drawing on a diverse body of theory, from Hannah Arendt to Anthony Appiah, this book offers a range of visions for a political ethics to guide citizens in a digitally connected world.Trade Review"For anyone who thinks that the Internet has created a whole new order, From Voice to Influence ought to be essential reading. This is a very important and valuable book, rich with fascinating case studies and pertinent data." (Peter Levine, Tufts University)
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press From Voice to Influence Understanding Citizenship
Book SynopsisDoes the ease with which one can now participate in online petitions or conversations about current events seduce some away from civic activities into "slacktivism?" Drawing on a diverse body of theory, from Hannah Arendt to Anthony Appiah, this book offers a range of visions for a political ethics to guide citizens in a digitally connected world.Trade Review"For anyone who thinks that the Internet has created a whole new order, From Voice to Influence ought to be essential reading. This is a very important and valuable book, rich with fascinating case studies and pertinent data." (Peter Levine, Tufts University)
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press What is Happening to News The Information
Book SynopsisAcross America, newspapers that have defined their cities for over a century are rapidly failing, their circulations plummeting even as opinion-soaked Web outlets thrive. This book explores the crucial question of how journalism lost its way - and what is responsible for the ragged retreat from its great traditions.Trade Review"This is one of the most interesting, innovative, and important new books on journalism in ten years, and it could not come at a better time for practicing journalists, the new cadre of citizen journalists in development, and the public affairs community as a whole. It will not only serve as a guide to journalists as the author intends, but also as an important guide for the general public, now faced with the need to sort through the messages that bombard them every day." -Bill Kovach, founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists"
£22.00
The University of Chicago Press Processing Politics Learning from Television in
Book SynopsisIntegrating a broad range of research on how people learn, this text shows that televised presentations - at their best - actually excel at transmitting information and facilitating learning. The author critiques political offerings in terms of their compatibility with our learning capabilities.
£27.00
The University of Chicago Press Distorting the Law
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The University of Chicago Press Network Aesthetics
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The University of Chicago Press News That Matters Television and American
Book SynopsisBacked by careful analysis of public opinion surveys, the authors show how, despite changing American politics, those issues that receive extended coverage in the national news become more important to viewers, while those that are ignored lose credibility.Trade Review"Because of its methodological integrity and richness, News That Matters is likely to be regarded as an impressive, possibly groundbreaking work." - New York Times Book Review "News That Matters does matter, because it demonstrates conclusively that television newscasts powerfully affect opinion.... All that follows, whether it supports, modifies, or challenges their conclusions, will have to begin here." - Public Interest"
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Image Makers Advertising Public Relations and
Book SynopsisThis analysis of advocacy - from commercials to public service ads to government propaganda - and its roots in advertising and public relations, uses the story of two organizations, the Committee on Public Information and the Advertising Council to clarify the quandaries it generates.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Power to the People
Book SynopsisThough we think of the 1960s and the early '70s as a time of radical social, cultural, and political upheaval, we tend to picture the action as happening on campuses and in the streets. Yet the rise of the underground newspaper was equally daring and original. This title pays homage in its design to the radical press.Trade Review"Before there was the Internet and desktop publishing, there was the under-ground press-a rich, irreverent source of information, opinion, and outrageousness that is all too difficult to access today. With Power to the People, Geoff Kaplan has brought together a rowdy and stimulating collection of design from the 1960s and '70s that will be an inspiration and an indispensable resource to anyone who wants to speak out in the twenty-first century." -David Joselit, Yale University"
£999.99
The University of Chicago Press Buying and Believing Sri Lankan Advertising and
Book SynopsisDrawing upon fieldwork conducted over 30 years, the author to this text examines the Sri Lankan advertising industry to show how executives draw on their skills as folk ethnographers to Sri Lankanize commodities and practices to make them locally desirable, essentially creating new culture.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Starring Mandela and Cosby
Book SynopsisDuring the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa - among both blacks and whites - was The Cosby Show. Combining South Africa's political history and a social history of television, this title challenges conventional understandings of globalization.Trade Review"This is a wonderfully fluid, fluent, and extraordinarily well-written analysis. Krabill has immersed himself in his story and he provides a theoretically refreshing way of telling it. He senses the contextual experiential nuance and the local-global texture of events as they unfolded, and by locating his narrative within the analytical nexus between Mandela and Cosby, the United States and South Africa, he appeals to readers across disciplines." - Keyan Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Starring Mandela and Cosby
Book SynopsisDuring the worst years of apartheid, the most popular show on television in South Africa - among both blacks and whites - was "The Cosby Show". Combining South Africa's political history and a social history of television, this title challenges conventional understandings of globalization.Trade Review"This is a wonderfully fluid, fluent, and extraordinarily well-written analysis. Krabill has immersed himself in his story and he provides a theoretically refreshing way of telling it. He senses the contextual experiential nuance and the local-global texture of events as they unfolded, and by locating his narrative within the analytical nexus between Mandela and Cosby, the United States and South Africa, he appeals to readers across disciplines." - Keyan Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal"
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press A Free Responsible Press A General Report on
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Nightmares in the Dream Sanctuary
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£31.00
The University of Chicago Press The Elephants Teach Creative Writing Since 1880
Book SynopsisAn examination of crucial texts of 18th-century American literature, this book argues that the United States was self-consciously enacted through the spoken word. Balancing the strong emphasis on the importance of print culture, it uncovers the complex process of articulating a new nation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Logocracy in America 2: "The Affairs of the Revolution Occasion'd the Interruption": Self, Language, and Nation in Franklin's Autobiography 3: "The Very Act of Utterance": Law, Language, and Legitimation in Brown's Wieland 4: "Tongues of People Altercating With One Another": Language, Text and Society in Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry 5: Coda: The Voice of Patrick Henry Index
£24.00
University of Chicago Press Screening Out the Past The Birth of Mass Culture
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press The Art of Return
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£39.90
The University of Chicago Press Selling Fear
Book SynopsisDrawing on the analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - this title presents a case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness.Trade Review"Destined to be the source for media coverage and polling trends during the Bush-Iraq era." (Lance Bennett, University of Washington)"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Selling Fear
Book SynopsisDrawing on the analysis of counterterrorism in the years after 9/11 - including the issuance of terror alerts and the decision to invade Iraq - this title presents a case that the Bush administration hyped fear, while obscuring civil liberties abuses and concrete issues of preparedness.Trade Review"Destined to be the source for media coverage and polling trends during the Bush-Iraq era." (Lance Bennett, University of Washington)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Common Knowledge News and the Construction of
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£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Guerrilla Marketing Counterinsurgency and
Book SynopsisBrand warfare is real. Guerrilla Marketing details the Colombian government's efforts to transform Marxist guerrilla fighters in the FARC into consumer citizens. Alexander L. Fattal shows how the market has become one of the principal grounds on which counterinsurgency warfare is waged and postconflict futures are imagined in Colombia. This layered case study illuminates a larger phenomenon: the convergence of marketing and militarism in the twenty-first century. Taking a global view of information warfare, Guerrilla Marketing combines archival research andextensive fieldwork not just with the Colombian Ministry of Defense and former rebel communities, but also with political exiles in Sweden and peace negotiators in Havana. Throughout, Fattal deftly intertwines insights into the modern surveillance state, peace and conflict studies, and humanitarian interventions, on one hand, with critical engagements with marketing, consumer culture, and late capitalism on the other. The result is a powerful analysis of the intersection of conflict and consumerism in a world where governance is increasingly structured by brand ideology and wars sold as humanitarian interventions. Full of rich, unforgettable ethnographic stories, Guerrilla Marketing is a stunning and troubling analysis of the mediation of global conflict.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Film Music Memory Cinema and Modernity
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The University of Chicago Press Film Music Memory
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The University of Chicago Press City of Newsmen Public Lies and Professional
Book SynopsisTrade Review"City of Newsmen is a corrective to the tendency . . . to reduce everything in the pre-Vietnam period to an obsession with Communism and a blind faith in American exceptionalism. It wasn't that simple. McGarr is doing what historians should do. She is clarifying the backstory." -- Louis Menand * New Yorker *"Although a common critique of today’s media is that journalists and the 'deep state' are too enmeshed, McGarr demonstrates that such coziness is nothing new. During the Cold War, a shared sense of responsibility existed not just to inform the public but to protect them." * New York Times *“McGarr creates a riveting account—and an original analysis—of Washington’s midcentury foreign policy press corps, deftly incorporating analyses of gender, race, and religion. She also excavates a wealth of archival sources to document the social bonds within this homogeneous network, the ways that newsmen’s echo chamber influenced American foreign policy, and the tensions between journalists and state officials over government secrecy. McGarr’s skillful portrayals of historical personalities, placed within rich historical contexts, provides a compelling narrative.” * Estelle B. Freedman, author of Redefining Rape: Sexual Violence in the Era of Suffrage and Segregation *“For a very long time, Washington journalists have been congratulating themselves on how much more independent and tough-minded they are than their mid-twentieth-century predecessors. With City of Newsmen, McGarr has given us a vivid, deeply researched account that presents the elite political press corps back then in a much more favorable light, as a highly professional group whose members were also highly constrained by the blindnesses that were pervasive in that time, place, and culture. Are Washington reporters really so different today?” * Nicholas Lemann, staff writer for The New Yorker *“With crisp, fluent prose and an eye for telling detail and quotations, McGarr tells an engrossing story of the Washington press during a critical time in world affairs. She sets up her tale with vivid portraits of the early capital, the evolution of the gentlemen’s club of foreign correspondents, and their close but contentious relations with US officials through the early Cold War. McGarr’s archival work has netted a wealth of revealing vignettes and quotations, smoothly woven together in her crisp writing.” * Robert Weisbrot, coauthor of The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change during the 1960s *“A must-read book for anyone interested in the role of journalism in US history, especially those who think they know the whole story—McGarr shows it ain’t so. For Washington-based journalists covering US diplomacy and foreign policy, objectivity was secondary to advancing internationalist values. McGarr brilliantly makes this case and makes it stick with deep archival research, reconstructing the social life and intellectual outlook of Washington reporters in the 1950s.” * Michael Schudson, author of The Rise of the Right to Know: Politics and the Culture of Transparency, 1945-1975 *"Throughout the America of the twenty-first century there is a strong sense that the media is biased and purely spreading propaganda in support of one of the two major political parties. . . . Some look to the 'good old days' of allegedly honest and patriotic news of the World War II and Cold War eras. However, students of the history of journalism are well aware that the US press has never been unbiased. As University of Wisconsin historian Kathryn J. McGarr argues. . . the Washington, DC press underwent a radical transformation during the twentieth century from being a 'clubby' and relatively unified group that maintained good relations with the federal government to having an adversarial relationship with the government, especially the presidency, beginning (surprisingly) with the Kennedy Era." * VoegelinView *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Challenging the Memories 1 1 Building a City of Gentlemen 2 The Newsmen’s Wartime Networks 3 Responsible Reporters and the Exclusive Information Economy 4 The Gentlemen of the Postwar Press 5 Battling the “Residue of Isolation” 6 Covering Imperialism in the Postwar World 7 The Breakdown Begins Conclusion: Disruption and Continuity Acknowledgments Notes Archival Collections Bibliography Index
£22.80
The University of Chicago Press The Philosophical Hitchcock Vertigo and the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Pippin has given us a rich and nuanced analysis of Hitchcock's sophisticated and subtle depiction of the struggle for mutual understanding and the perils of unknowingness in Vertigo. And it is no small achievement to say something fresh and compelling about a film as widely discussed and celebrated as this one." --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews "Pippin's reading of considerable finesse is in the tradition of moral philosophic writing... Pippin uses Vertigo particularly to explore the state of 'unknowingness' in romantic relationships One of the many compelling ideas he explores is that any romantic relationship between two people actually involves at least six 'people' in terms of how the two are perceived by themselves and their others--as they are, as they see themselves, as they see each other... Pippin's reading makes nearly every nuance of Hitchcock's richest work clear, thought-provoking and rewarding."--Nick James "Sight & Sound " "Robert Pippin has written a magnificent work on Hitchcock's Vertigo. The richness of insights and attention to detail is carefully balanced with an overall coherence of purpose and constant deepening of what Pippin calls the point of the film. The result is an impressive unity of interpretation: a sustained attention to an individual film that is wholly interpenetrated with reflection on the problem of mutual interpretability in the modern world." --Eli Friedlander, Tel Aviv University "No film has been more written about than Vertigo, and it so often brings out the best in the critics who enter Hitchcock's labyrinth. Robert Pippin's best is of an extremely high order, as his previous studies of the American western and film noir richly demonstrate. Pippin is fully conversant with the abundant commentary on the film, and adeptly incorporates it into his own scene-by-scene reading. But he also manages the large feat of making Vertigo feel new again within his persuasive context for what he terms the 'philosophical Hitchcock.' Building on Stanley Cavell's theme of the 'unknown woman' in melodrama, Pippin introduces the kindred concept of unknowingness as a disconcerting constant in human relationships. He convincingly argues that the anxieties swirling within our inescapable uncertainty about others is a preoccupation of Hitchcock that works its way into every segment of the Vertigo narrative."--George Toles, University of Manitoba "The illumination that Pippin's careful and systematic account casts on this complicated, convoluted movie will remind readers of the virtues of close reading. A seminal and unusual contribution to the literature on Vertigo specifically, on Hitchcock more broadly, and on film in general."--George Wilson, University of Southern California "[Pippin] proposes an interpretation that shows how the film can be said to bear on a philosophical problem. That problem, in Pippin's words, is concerned with 'commonsense views about what it is to understand another person or be understood by him or her, and about how we present ourselves to others in our public personae'. In service of this aim, he offers an impressively close scrutiny of the film, which also considers its formal and technical properties (a continuing weakness of some film scholarship is its refusal to see films as anything more than text), and demonstrates just how far he has engaged in the voluminous secondary literature surrounding both Hitchcock and Vertigo.... for those who are interested in the film it will offer much insight." --Times Higher Education "The Philosophical Hitchcock makes a wide range of philosophical thinking accessible to a wide audience. Readers of it can pick up a thing or two about Hegel and Heidegger, Sartre and Stanley Cavell, all without having to learn a whole new language or master a bunch of jargon in the process."--Riot Material "This is a text for experts in the philosophy of film with a subexpertise in Hitchcock and an interest in and willingness to go the distance on Vertigo in particular. It is an excellent book: thoughtful, finely observed, provocatively argued, and well written. But without a deep familiarity with Vertigo (i.e., recent, contemporaneous, and multiple viewings), much of what Pippin does in The Philosophical Hitchcock will be impossible to keep track of, much less evaluate. The "Prologue," "Introduction," and "Concluding Remarks" will interest anyone working in philosophy and film and more generally on philosophy and fiction (and some other areas of aesthetics); the 18 sharp (and brief) chapters on the film itself can serve as a model of how to think about and talk about what is going on philosophically in a movie. Pippin's account is suitably complex--avoiding the lure of narrative reductiveness--intertwining the visual, the unspoken, the use of camera angles, and many telescoped emotions with many philosophical themes. They may not all be on the surface, of course, but come on, this is Hitchcock!"--Choice
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Speaking of Abortion Television and Authority in
Book SynopsisA study of how women's views of television and the media relate to their personal stance on abortion. Over four years, the authors watched television with women, visiting city houses, suburban subdivisions, modern condominiums, and public housing projects. Here are the results of that research.
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Picturing Culture Explorations of Film and
Book SynopsisThis text explores the relationship between film and anthropology. It analyzes key filmmakers, the idea of research film, Eric Michaels and indigenous media, the ethics of representation, ethnography and anthropological knowledge.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press A Violent Peace
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Historians usually remember the League of Nations—if at all—for its failure to prevent World War II. Historian Biltoft has a different, far more interesting story to tell. She examines the League as a creator of the news—even 'truth'—and a restless promotor of liberalism in the increasing illiberal interwar world. In this short but illuminating work, Biltoft argues that the League attempted to 'rebrand the world' to encourage discussion rather than war, provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, and ultimately create a new, healthier—and less violent—international order. . . . For an age still plagued by 'fake news' from Moscow to Florida, this book is required reading. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"This book is short, but its length belies the complexity and range of its ambition. A Violent Peace tackles the technological and cultural ruptures of the interwar era in truly original fashion, making a valuable addition to the growing literature assessing the League in its own right as an experiment in international order." * International Affairs *"Carolyn Biltoft's A Violent Peace provides a useful, timely, and poetic overview of interwar preoccupations with truth and reality, and of their consequences for people's lives then and now. . . . This book offers a compelling picture of the period and the issues under examination and will inspire others to pursue the vital avenues of historical inquiry it undertook. . . . Truly, any reader interested in such debates would find this book useful and likely be impressed by its erudition, clarity, and flair." * Canadian Journal of History *“With bold originality and a keen eye for the telling detail, Biltoft recasts the history of the League of Nations, dedicated to elevating the word over the sword, as a quest for symbolic capital in the chaotic interwar world. Focusing on questions of language, money, and the control of information flows, she shows how the challenges faced by the League continue to bedevil us today.” * Martin Jay, University of California, Berkeley *“Fascinating and utterly original, A Violent Peace is an impressive study of superior scholarship. Biltoft offers a fresh perspective on this topic by shifting the lens from an investigation into the geopolitical coordinates of the League of Nations to the more ephemeral but equally important role of media and communication strategies that underlay the project. Accessible to both specialists and generalists, this exciting book will find a wide cross-section of readers in history, critical theory, government, and beyond.” * Ethan Kleinberg, Wesleyan University *Table of ContentsPreface: Truth, Lies, and Violence, Then and Now 1. As Seen at the League of Nations: Global Media, Competing Truths, and the Allure of Fascism 2. Rebranding the World (Picture) 3. On True and False Tongues 4. Fabricating Currencies: Paper, Gold, and Other Facsimiles 5. Fiat Lux? False News and Hidden Flesh 6. The Word and the Sword Revisited Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£78.85
The University of Chicago Press Make Room for TV Television and the Family Ideal
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press The News Event Popular Sovereignty in the Age of
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is the first major ethnographic study of the way in which the mobilization of a public is now carried out in India primarily through the new digitally powered mass media. From populist politics, court judgments, sensational crime and corruption to police brutality, Cody examines with brilliant clarity and theoretical sophistication the coming together of publics as well as counterpublics in Tamil Nadu.” * Partha Chatterjee, professor emeritus, Columbia University *“In this fascinating study, Cody shows how popular sovereignty is shaped within the media-saturated environment of Tamil Nadu politics, making sovereign power vulnerable to popular politics generated by the fact of the ‘news event’ and its circulation. His unraveling of the boundaries between online and offline communicative acts, the virtual and the actual, or the old media and new media, is accomplished with great sensitivity and attention to the empirical, which provides the grounds for the conceptual to emerge. A splendid achievement.” * Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University *Table of ContentsIntroduction: In the Event of News Chapter One Populist Publics Chapter Two Defamation Machine Chapter Three Law at Large Chapter Four Celebrity Outlaws Chapter Five Short Circuits Epilogue: Environmental Engineering Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Through the Grapevine
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£26.00
The University of Chicago Press Covering the Body The Kennedy Assassination the
Book SynopsisImages of the assassination of John F. Kennedy are burned deeply into the memories of millions who watched the events of November 1963 unfold live on television. Never before had America seen an event of this magnitude as it happened. But what is it we remember? How did the near chaos of the shooting and its aftermath get transformed into a seamless story of epic proportions? In this book, Barbie Zelizer explores the way we learned about and came to make sense of the killing of the president. Covering the Body (the title refers to the charge given journalists to follow a president) is a powerful reassessment of the media's role in shaping our collective memory of the assassinationat the same time as it used the assassination coverage to legitimize its own role as official interpreter of American reality. Of the more than fifty reporters covering Kennedy in Dallas, no one actually saw the assassination. And faced with a monumentally important story that was continuously breaking, most j
£24.00
McGill-Queen's University Press New Media and Revolution
Book SynopsisInvestigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, this book shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. It interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria's social mobilisation but as a shift from hidden practices of digital dissent to tangible mass protests.Trade Review"Some observers attribute the origins of the Arab Spring revolutions to social media, especially to YouTube (two million uploads during the Syrian conflict's first two years). Brownlee (Univ. of Exeter) demonstrates, however, that the transition from online "revolution" to a real-life people's revolution in Syria resulted from a lengthy process that involved increased access, new professional standards, and privatization under Bashar al-Assad, together transforming the heavily censored "kingdom of silence." Recommended. All readers." Choice"Brownlee's book is a welcome contribution to the scholarship on Syria, Arab media, authoritarianism, and the public sphere in the Middle East. The book approaches the subject of Syrian media -- a subject that deserves greater academic attention -- from a fresh, instructive angle." The Middle East Journal
£27.90
John Wiley & Sons Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines the particularities of contemporary Canadian cinema, tracing its eclectic energies across local and global forms and presenting case studies of films, filmmakers, film contexts, and key developments since 2000.Trade Review“Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium convenes a diverse symposium of critical interventions on the last twenty years. A renewal of critical activity is exactly what we need right now, and that’s what this terrific collection gives us.” Jerry White, University of Saskatchewan and editor of The Cinema of Canada“This rigorous academic anthology is broadly fuelled by the idea that Canadian cinema post-2000 - or at least that with a strong sense of national identity - didn't capitalise on the '80s/'90s international breakthroughs of directors like Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg. The how and why of the situation are explored alongside case studies of hotshot auteurs (Sarah Polley, Xavier Dolan, Denis Villeneuve). There are also compelling essays on the rise of Indigenous directors, festival funding, Canadian horror and a 'new wave' of Quebec cinema.” Total Film
£105.40
John Wiley & Sons Sacred Cyberspaces Catholicism New Media and the
Book SynopsisEvery contemporary institution has had to confront the ever-evolving technologies of the digital age. Focusing on the Catholic Church, Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how old conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations unfold on the internet, shedding light on the future of religious life in the new millennium.Trade Review“Sacred Cyberspaces undeniably enriches our comprehension of the Catholic world and technology's role in the religious sphere.” H-Sci Med Tech
£91.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Sacred Cyberspaces
Book SynopsisEvery contemporary institution has had to confront the ever-evolving technologies of the digital age. Focusing on the Catholic Church, Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how old conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations unfold on the internet, shedding light on the future of religious life in the new millennium.Trade Review“Sacred Cyberspaces undeniably enriches our comprehension of the Catholic world and technology's role in the religious sphere.” H-Sci Med Tech
£25.19
McGill-Queen's University Press The Communion of the Book
Book SynopsisIt was neither the civilization of Renaissance Italy nor the printing press that created the modern world. Instead, it was reading. Through historical analysis and readings of Petrarch, Bruni, Valla, Reuchlin, Erasmus, Foxe and Milton, The Communion of the Book explores how literacy produced modern values, and how digital media threaten those values.Trade Review“Informed by an immense range of reading, Williams’s work spans periods, countries, and disciplinary fields. His analysis is sharp, incisive, and refreshingly prone to moving in unexpected directions. The prose is assured and elegant, erudite without being pedantic, and enjoyably rewarding for the reader.” Andrea Walkden, University of Toronto and author of Private Lives Made Public: The Invention of Biography in Early Modern England“I can’t think of anything to compare this book to: it has so much original to say. The Communion of the Book illuminates Milton as a reader and a writer and the influence of humanism in seventeenth-century England. Williams’s research is a monumental synthesis of scholarship in a wide variety of fields, assembled in an original narrative that provides fresh insights.” Sabrina Alcorn Baron, University of Maryland and co-editor of The Politics of Information in Early Modern Europe"Williams's book should be read, and read carefully, not only by classicists and medieval and Renaissance scholars but also by all who care about modern culture and the present post-reading, postmodern predicament. Essential." Choice“[A]mbitous and expansive ... Williams's story is a reconsideration of the relation between Renaissance humanism and the Reformation. In his telling, the reading practices developed by humanist intellectuals had profound effects on religious reform, sparking a transition from a sacerdotal religious culture to a literate one – from sacramental to textual forms of participation... The central argument of The Communion of the Book is, indeed, well worth the journey.” Modern Philology
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium
Book SynopsisOver the past two decades Canadian filmmaking has undergone a dramatic transformation. Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium examines the particularities of contemporary Canadian cinema, tracing its eclectic energies across local and global forms and presenting case studies of films, filmmakers, film contexts, and key developments since 2000.Trade Review“Canadian Cinema in the New Millennium convenes a diverse symposium of critical interventions on the last twenty years. A renewal of critical activity is exactly what we need right now, and that’s what this terrific collection gives us.” Jerry White, University of Saskatchewan and editor of The Cinema of Canada“This rigorous academic anthology is broadly fuelled by the idea that Canadian cinema post-2000 - or at least that with a strong sense of national identity - didn't capitalise on the '80s/'90s international breakthroughs of directors like Atom Egoyan and David Cronenberg. The how and why of the situation are explored alongside case studies of hotshot auteurs (Sarah Polley, Xavier Dolan, Denis Villeneuve). There are also compelling essays on the rise of Indigenous directors, festival funding, Canadian horror and a 'new wave' of Quebec cinema.” Total Film
£31.50
John Wiley & Sons The Handbook of Ethnic Media in Canada
Book SynopsisEthnic minority groups in Canada have set up their own communication infrastructure that has evolved from the analogue to digital age, and continues to remain relevant across generations. This volume asks how ethnic media have changed, how they continue to be relevant, and what that means for multicultural Canada.
£31.50
Columbia University Press Sensationalism the NY Press Columbia History of
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Columbia University Press The Dream of a New Social Order
Book SynopsisThis study explores how magazines became the first mass medium in the USA and how they expressed a new American culture built on dreams of a better future. The author argues that the birth of the popular magazine at the turn of the 20th century laid the foundations of the modern consumer culture.
£52.70
Columbia University Press Muffled Echoes Oliver North The Politics of
Book SynopsisThis text looks at opinion polls, the news media, special interest groups, and interviews with congressional members, using the Iran-Contra hearing as a case study. It explores the construction, interpretation and uses of public opinion and questions the media's role in forming public policy.
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Companion to American History on
Book SynopsisExamines how filmmakers have presented important events, topics, eras, and figures in the American past, often comparing the film versions of events with the interpretations of the historians. This book features cross-references, a filmography (of discussed and relevant films), notes, and a bibliography of selected historical works.Trade ReviewThis handy collection of 79 essays... should be most helpful as a reference guide for newcomers to film studies, but advanced scholars will also benefit from the historical analyses and interpretations of film texts. Highly recommended. Choice Rollins's reference allows readers to appreciate films in context, enhancing the experience. Film buffs will find the mix of history and cinematic analysis captivating, while historians will be intrigued by the book's analysis of popular culture.Publishers Weekly Publishers Weekly This work flows well and would make a wonderful addition to any YA collection. It would benefit students interested in film production, history, or political science...it's just plain fun to thumb through. -- John Keifman School Library Journal It provides a solid introduction to many of the major themes of American history on film, and students will undoubtedly find it a very useful source. -- Michael Paris Screening the Past This is an excellent print source. This Columbia Companion that Rollins has crafted is highly recommended. -- Jim Agee American Reference Books Annual Rollins' book truly deserves to be called a standard work... Not only is The Columbia Companion to American History on Film a must-read for students and scholars of film studies but also in other fields like history, English, or American studies. Literatur in Wissencraft und Unterricht The Columbia Companion to American History on Film is yet another impressive volume on film and history edited by Peter C. Rollins. -- Leen Engelen Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television [Rollins] is to be praised for his splendid accomplishment, and each reader of the essays will congratulate himself or herself for having found the collection.Journal of American Culture -- Ray B. Browne Journal of American Culture Offers a wealth of significant material that is extremely informative and entertaining for film scholars, teachers, and film buffs alike. -- Carol E. Mitchell Journal of Popular Culture The useful background information will greatly enhance one's view of historical movies. -- Paul Milner FGS ForumTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction I. Eras The Puritan Era and the Puritan Mind The 1890s The 1920s The 1930s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s II. Wars and Other Major Events The American Revolution The Civil War and Reconstruction The Cold War The Korean War The Mexican-American War and the Spanish-American War The Vietnam War Westward Expansion and the Indian Wars World War I World War II: Documentaries World War II: Feature Films III. Notable People The Antebellum Frontier Hero Christopher Columbus The Founding Fathers Indian Leaders The Kennedys Abraham Lincoln Richard Nixon Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Harry S. Truman George Washington IV. Groups African Americans After World War II Arab Americans Asian Americans Catholic Americans Children and Teenages in the Twentieth Century Irish Americans Italian Americans Jewish Americans Mexican Americans Native Americans Radicals and Radicalism Robber Barons, Media Moguls, and Power Elites Women from the Colonial Era to 1900 Women in the Twentieth Century V. Institutions and Movements Baseball City and State Government Civil Rights Congress The Family Football Journalism and the Media The Labor Movement and the Working Class Militias and Extremist Political Movements The Political Machine The Presidency After World War II Private Schools Public High Schools VI. Places The Midwest The "New" West and the New Western New York City The Sea The Small Town The South Space Suburbia Texas and the Southwest The Trans-Appalachian West VII. Themes and Topics Crime and the Mafia Drugs, Tobacco, and Alcohol Elections and Party Politics Feminism and Feminist Films Railroads Sexuality Slavery VIII. Myths and Heroes The American Adam The American Fighting Man Democracy and Equality The Frontier and the West Hollywood's Detective The Machine in the Garden Success and the Self-Made Man List of Contributors Index
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Columbia University Press The Columbia Companion to American History on Film
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Columbia University Press Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media
Book SynopsisFocusing on the crossover between the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans.Trade ReviewIt is diffucult to imagine that Hoover and Clark's collection will not work to inspire and encourage further research...The book should have considerable value to students of this field. -- Gustav Niebuhr Journal of the American Academy of ReligionTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age, by Stewart M. Hoover 1. Overview: The "Protestantization" of research into Media, Religion, and Culture, by Lynn Schofield Clark Part 1. Mediation in Popular Religious Practice 2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture, by David Morgan 3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture, by Erika Doss Part 2. The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere 4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals In Los Angeles, by J. Shawn Landres 5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920, by Diane Winston 6. "Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in theChristian Century Magazine, 1946-1960, by Michele Rosenthal Part 3. Religion Made Public Through the Media 7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism, by John Schmalzbauer 8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press, by Mark G. Borchert Part 4. Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual 9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion, by Carolyn Marvin 10. Ritual and the Media, by Ronald L. Grimes Part 5. Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts 11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age, by Bruce B. Lawrence 12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning, by Jan Fernback 13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media, by David Nash Part 6. Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts 14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception, by Alf Linderman 15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881-1939, by Michael Berkowitz 16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism, by Knut Lundby 17. "Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications, by Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson Contributors Index
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