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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2023 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Prize for Edited Volume Image by image and hashtag by hashtag, Instagram has redefined the ways we relate to food. Emily J. H. Contois and Zenia Kish edit contributions that explore the massively popular social media platform as a space for self-identification, influence, transformation, and resistance. Artists and journalists join a wide range of scholars to look at food's connection to Instagram from vantage points as diverse as Hong Kong's camera-centric foodie culture, the platform's long history with feminist eateries, and the photography of Australia's livestock producers. What emerges is a portrait of an arena where people do more than build identities and influence. Users negotiate cultural, social, and economic practices in a place that, for all its democratic potential, reinforces entrenched dynamics of power. Interdisciplinary in approach and transnational in scope, Food Instagram offers general readers aTrade Review"Media and food studies scholars, Emily Contois and Zenia Kish and their co-authors, have produced an in-depth, analytical, and highly interdisciplinary book that includes writers from the fields of various 'studies' (food, media, American) as well as history, science and technology, sociology, anthropology, and political science." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews"Contois and Kish have prepared a veritable smorgasbord of perspectives on the all-pervasive and all-important nature of food on visual social media in this deliciously engrossing collection. From aperitifs to aesthetics, and placemaking to politics, this book has something for every reader."--Tama Leaver, coauthor of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures"Instagram has become much more than a fun medium for selfies, food porn, and branding. This volume shows how the digital app and the kind of food representations it supports contribute to building identities and negotiating social and economic relationships."--Fabio Parasecoli, author of Bite Me: Food in Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction. From Seed to Feed: How Food Instagram Changed What and Why We Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1ZENIA KISH AND EMILY J. H. CONTOISPART I. IDENTITY1. @hotdudesandhummus and the Cultural Politics of Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33MICHAEL Z. NEWMAN2. Starving Beauties? Instabae, Diet Food, and Japanese Girl Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47TSUGUMI (MIMI) OKABE3. #Foodporn: An Anatomy of the Meal Gaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65GABY DAVID AND LAURENCE ALLARD4. The South in Your Mouth? Gourmet Biscuit Restaurants, Authenticity, and the Construction of a New Southern Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81DEBORAH A. HARRIS AND RACHEL PHILLIPS5. Uncle Green Must Be Coming to Dinner: The Joyful Hospitality of Black Women on Instagram during the COVID-19 Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94ROBIN CALDWELL6. Creative Consumption: Art about Eating on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101DAWN WOOLLEY AND ZARA WORTHPART II. INFLUENCE7. Picturing Digital Tastes: #unicornlatte, Social Photography, and Instagram Food Marketing . . . . . . . . .115EMILY TRUMAN8. Camera Eats First: The Role of Influencers in Hong Kong’s Foodie Instagram Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132YUE-CHIU BONNI LEUNG AND YI-CHIEH JESSICA LIN9. Repackaging Leftovers: Health, Food, and Diet Messages in Influencer Instagram Posts . . . . . . . . . . .148TARA J. SCHUWERK AND SARAH E. CRAMER10. Meet Your Meat! How Australian Livestock Producers Use Instagram to Promote “Happy Meat” . . . . . . . . .163EMILY BUDDLE11. FreakShakes and Mama Noi: Cases of Transforming Food Industry Influence on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177KATHERINE KIRKWOOD12. My Life and Labor as an Instagram Influencer Turned Instagram Scholar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191KC HYSMITHPART III. NEGOTIATION13. Transgressive Food Practices on Instagram: The Case of Guldkroen in Copenhagen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205JONATAN LEER AND STINNE GUNDER STRØM KROGAGER14. Posing with “the People”: The Far Right and Food Populism on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221SARA GARCIA SANTAMARIA15. Farming, Unedited: Failure, Humor, and Fortitude in Instagram’s Agricultural Underground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241JOCELINE ANDERSEN16. The Surprisingly Long History of Feminist Eateries on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260ALEX KETCHUM17. How to Think with Your Body: Teaching Critical Eating Literacy through Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274SARAH E. TRACYAfterword: Food Instagram’s Next Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283EMILY J. H. CONTOIS AND ZENIA KISHContributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A timely and compelling “biography” of the Espionage Act, vividly told through the harrowing stories of whistleblowers, government employees, policy consultants and journalists, from prominent socialist Eugene Debs to whistleblower Edward Snowden. " --Los Angeles Review of Books"Engelman and Shenkman’s compelling history should inform deliberations about the roles of secrecy and publicity in our digital world for some time to come." --American Journalism"An impressive piece of both legal and journalistic history." --Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press"Carey Shenkman and Ralph Engelman's study of the history, law, and implications of these recent abuses of the Espionage Act is needed urgently, if we are to remain truly a democratic republic."--Daniel Ellsberg"This book could not be more timely. . . . This comprehensive look at its history is an enlightening read for students of journalism history, and, in fact, anyone who wants to understand what is at stake for journalists." --National Journal of Communication“A wonderful, detailed history of developments around the Espionage Act and the attempt by government to control expression within a democratic society. Of interest to anyone who is interested in government’s attempt to control information.”--David S. Allen, author of Democracy, Inc.: The Press Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Focusing on the agency of a single institution, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Feller takes us beyond simple assumptions about representation and ideology to show us in finely grained detail how exactly Mormon theology, cosmological vision, community, bureaucratic authority, and public image work together--and sometimes, against one another--in an ongoing history of innovation, strategic management, struggle, and imagination. At each step, Eternity in the Ether sheds light on a remarkable terrain of creative energies, practical demands, and political possibilities, inviting us to see Mormonism in new ways, and by extension, to revisit many assumptions about how media work in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between religion and media.”--Jeremy Stolow, author of Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between"Gavin Feller's Eternity in the Ether: A Mormon Media History is an interesting book that brings together various academic disciplines and fields together -- weaving communication studies, religion, and history into one manuscript." --Association of Mormon LettersTable of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Sacred Cities, Stubborn People Voices in the West God Is Wireless Ethical Dilemmas and Technical Obstacles: Navigating Early Television Distance and Discipline: Television, Home, and Family Boundaries and Borders: Zion Online Community Here, Community Hereafter Conclusion: Control and Compromise NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisOnce seen as a harbinger of a new enlightened capitalism, Google has become a model of robber baron rapaciousness thanks to its ruthless monetizing of private data, obsession with monopoly, and pervasive systems of labor discrimination and exploitation. Using the company as a jumping-off point, ShinJoung Yeo explores the political economy of the search engine industry against the backdrop of the relationship between information and capitalism’s developmental processes. Yeo’s critical analysis draws on in-depth discussions of essential issues like how the search engine evolved into a ubiquitous commercial service, it’s place in a global information business that is restructuring the information industry and our very social lives, who exactly designs and uses search technology, what kinds of workers labor behind the scenes, and the influence of geopolitics. An incisive look at a pervasive presence in our lives, Behind the Search Box places the search engine iTrade Review“The book reminds readers that despite all the various new labels of supposedly new forms of capitalism, we really are still talking about capitalism after all. An important book that promises to make a major contribution to the ever-accumulating research on the new digital monopolies. Yeo’s analysis is original and incisive.”--Victor Pickard, author of Democracy Without Journalism? Confronting the Misinformation SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Searching for Profits Situating Search Laboring Behind the Search Digital Welfare Capitalism Market Dynamics and Geopolitics Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Susca has written a valuable guide to this world of greed, unbound by any sense of mission beyond lining the pockets of wealthy investors. As we move into the post-newspaper era, it would serve all of us who care about local news and its role in fostering civic life to look back at what happened, and what is happening still." --Arts Fuse“Hedged shines a light on one of the most underdiscussed and underappreciated parts of the collapse of local news--the role of hedge funds and private equity firms. It’s an important book for anyone who wants to truly understand the decline of local journalism or who wants to craft solutions.”--Steven Waldman, President and cofounder of Report for AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What Crisis The Private Investment Era Democracy for Sum Profit Harvesting Mergers and Acquisitions The Debt Layoffs Neglected Audiences Conclusion: Ending the Era Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow fan passion and technology merged into a new subculture Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. Eleanor Patterson’s fascinating cultural history explores the distribution of radio and TV tapes from the 1960s through the 1980s. Looking at bootlegging against the backdrop of mass media’s formative years, Patterson delves into some of the major subcultures of the era. Old-time radio aficionados felt the impact of inexpensive audio recording equipment and the controversies surrounding programs like Amos ‘n’ Andy. Bootlegging communities devoted to buddy cop TV shows like Starsky and Hutch allowed women to articulate female pleasure and sexuality while Star Trek videos in Australia inspired a grassroots subculture built around community viewings of episoTrade Review“A highly valuable contribution to media and cultural history. Patterson goes in-depth about important and eclectic bootlegging practices, and in particular highlights how people have utilized these technologies and systems to generate their own cultures around the objects of their fandom and interests.”--Derek Kompare, coeditor of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment IndustriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Hacking Broadcast History Homemade Entertainment: The Prehistory of Bootlegging Radio Hello Again: The Old-time Radio Informal Economy Freeze Framing Queerness: Tape Trading in Buddy Cop Fan Cultures We Had to Do It the Hard Way: Bootlegging Star Trek in Australia Enough of that Garbage: Wrestling Observer and the Intelligent Wrestling Fan Community Conclusion Bootlegging After the Airwaves Notes Index

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Book SynopsisOffers a unique glimpse inside the industry and reveals how executives and content creators are remaking their roles, their audiences, and their products at this critical historic juncture.Trade Review"A timely, well-researched account of recent shifts in the women's magazine industry and the impact of these changes on publishers and consumers. Duffy's book offers an engaging analysis of the ways in which magazine producers have been compelled to engage with new media platforms in the quest to maintain profitability."--Anna Gough-Yates, author of Understanding Women's Magazines: Publishing, Markets and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain"A remarkable case study of an industry in flux, Duffy's well-researched book would be an asset to any course on magazine media in general and on women's magazines in particular."--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"Remake, Remodel offers a compelling look at the ways in which a shifting media landscape is provoking structural changes in labor organization, content development, and professional identity within the women's magazine industry."--Journal of American Culture "Remake, Remodel is not intended as a harsh attack on new media's participatory culture, but it aims (and succeeds) in presenting "a more nuanced view" of the magazine industry. . . . An excellent resource for both scholars and teachers."--Journal of Magazine & New Media Research"A cutting-edge study at the forefront of new conceptualizations and practices in the magazine industry. Duffy insightfully charts the dilemmas and complexities the magazine faces as it strives to define itself in the face of changes in technology and political economy in media and advertising."--Matthew P. McAllister, coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture"Brooke Erin Duffy offers a timely, well-researched account of recent shifts in the women's magazine industry and the impact of these changes on publishers and consumers. Her book offers an engaging analysis of the ways in which magazine producers have been compelled to engage with new media platforms in the quest to maintain profitability."--Anna Gough-Yates, author of Understanding Women's Magazines: Publishing, Markets, and Readerships in Late-Twentieth Century Britain

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Book SynopsisHighlights the importance of historical myth in popular culture, religion, and politics and situates this nearly century-old debate in American cultural history.Trade ReviewA Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2014. "A political and cultural history of creationism from the Scopes trial in 1925 to the Creation Museum of today, Intelligently Designed is a smart and important book that will be read widely by those interested in politics, religion, education, and media.--John P. Ferré, coauthor of Good News: Social Ethics and the Press"Caudill shows just how, with a grassroots focus on getting intelligent design taught in public schools and with media savvy, the creationists have successfully turned their pseudo-scientific beliefs into an influential political movement."--Library Journal"Edward Caudill's Intelligently Designed: How Creationists Built the Campaign against Evolution tackles the central paradox of the now venerable conflict between science and conservative Protestantism in the United States. . . . Caudill partly attributes the political and cultural success of creationism to its media savvy and tenacity."--The Journal of Southern History“Meticulously documents the key transitions/actions that allowed anti-evolutionism to move from fundamentalist backwaters to mainstream media attention. . . . Caudill provides a well-documented history, from Scopes to Dover. . . . This is an excellent primer for anyone new to the discussion and also an excellent historical analysis for scholars in the area. Highly recommended.”--Choice"The book ably explains how such a scientifically implausible movement as anti-evolutionism gained traction in such a technologically and scientifically advanced society."--American Journalism"An engagingly written overview of nearly a century of contestation."--Reports of the National Center for Science Education

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Book SynopsisExplores the crucial role of network television in reconfiguring new attitudes in race relations during the civil rights movement. This book examines the high-profile and controversial television series of the era to feature African American actors - East Side/West Side, Julia, and Good Times.Trade Review "Acute insight into the complex interaction between social change and television programming during the 1960s."--American Journalism"Equal Time goes beyond news coverage and explores the portrayal of black and white characters in television dramas and comedies. . . . A readable and enjoyable book."--The Ottawa Citizen"Thoughtful, provocative, and well-researched. . . . This is an important book."--Journalism History"A thoroughly researched analysis of the intersection between race, social change, and network television in the 1960s. Bodroghkozy shows in vivid detail how television served as a powerful tool of moral persuasion that played a key role in turning the tide toward the passage of historic civil rights legislation."--S. Craig Watkins, author of The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future "Bodroghkozy's well-written, smart, and nuanced analysis makes us think about the relationship between the media and the Civil Rights Movement in fresh and interesting ways." --Susan J. Douglas, author of The Rise of Enlightened Sexism: How Pop Culture Took Us from Girl Power to Girls Gone Wild "A valuable addition to the maturing scholarship on connections between the African American freedom struggle and the media. A compelling and thoughtful book of equal interest to students of the media and the freedom struggle."--The Journal of Southern History

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Book SynopsisWhat narrative of white femininity transformed Diana into a simultaneous signifier of a national and global popular? What ideologies did the narrative tap into to transform her into an idealized woman of the millennium? This book deals with these questions.Trade Review"Shome presents critical arguments that challenge the seemingly innocuous tenants of celebrity culture by examining the strategies adopted by privileged upper-class white women to rejuvenate their identities, largely by extracting culture, resources and people from the developing world, and consequently are implicated in the production of neo-colonial conditions."--Celebrity Studies "The clarity of her writing and her engaging media examples would make this an excellent text for students and seasoned scholars alike. Packaging analytical rigor alongside an exciting array of examples, Diana and Beyond is as compelling as it is insightful."--European Journal of Cultural Studies "Raka Shome's Diana and Beyond: White Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture will take the field far in understanding how to cultivate a transnational attentiveness. The dazzling Diana and Beyond follows Lady Di as she twists and turns, appears stable, transforms, and the moves again across various global and national registers. Shome deftly demonstrates how to study something as seemingly stable as national identity without stabilizing or circumscribing its constituents."--Quarterly Journal of SpeechTable of ContentsCoverTitleContentsAcknowledgments1. White Femininity in the Nation, the Nation in White Femininity2. Racialized Maternalisms: White Motherhood and National Modernity3. Fashioning the Nation: The Citizenly Body, Multiculturalism, and Transnational Designs4. "Global Motherhood": The Transnational Intimacies of White Femininity5. White Femininity and Transnational Masculinit(ies): Design and the "Muslim Man"6. Cosmopolitan Healing: The Spiritual Fix of White FemininityAfterwordNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisBegins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s, and how aspects of the movement - network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent - became essential parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations.Trade Review"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. . . . I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume. . . . The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident."--Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games"Combining the passion of an activist and the reasoned arguments of a scholar, Wolfson wonderfully details the emergence of the Cyber Left. In Digital Rebellion he not only celebrates its political potential but also, and more importantly, provides a lucid critique of the forms it has taken thus far."--Michael Hardt, co-author of Declaration and Empire"A major contribution. . . . Eminently readable, Digital Rebellion is a mixture of reporting and theory all designed to move beyond the horizontal-vertical duality and achieve a synthesis that draws from the best of both worlds."--Counterpunch"The first book to chart the intellectual and technological history of the Indymedia network and to place that history within the theoretical debate about social movement organization and politics. This is an important chapter in contemporary social movement activism and Todd Wolfson does an excellent job charting the rise of the Independent Media Center and the theoretical implications of this model for left political organizing."--Andy Opel, author of Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDiamond Anniversary Book Award, National Communication Association (NCA), 2016. "Compelling. . . . Academic-activist orientation brings together interdisciplinary scholarly rigor and insightful feminist analysis about sexting while opening the conversation to include educators and policymakers, and of course young women themselves."--New Media & Society"The author’s aim is to propose alternative ways to deal with gender and sexual victimization, to think about youth’s rights for self-expression, and to respect their consent and privacy. Hasinoff also provides practical recommendations for concerned readers, legislators and prosecutors, and teachers and educators. Highly recommended."--Choice"Hasinoff's alternative narrative pushes back against the dominant narrative of sexting as some type of technological, legal, sexual, and moral crisis… She has carefully and skillfully articulated a comprehensive analysis of sexting and has provided a mediating antidote to the media-driven moral panic."--Critical Criminology "In an age of heightened concern over rape culture and sexualization in the media, Amy Adele Hasinoff's (2015) Sexting Panic is one of the most insightful, concise, and necessary works to emerge in recent feminist media studies."--Journal of Communication"In Sexting Panic Hasinoff convincingly argues that academics and the general population alike must begin to complicate normative perceptions of teens sexting and sexuality… Sexting Panic is engaging and thought-provoking, and it puts forth a reconceptualization of the relationship between technology and sexuality that is unique, timely, and necessary." --Feminist Media Studies"This is a well-written and approachable book, offering an engaging and nuanced understanding of the complexities of a usually misconstrued cultural practice."--Information, Communication, and Society"Hasinoff boldly challenges us to question the assumption that sexting is the outgrowth of a lack of self-esteem or the result of gendered naivete. . . . A strong and vital contribution to feminist media studies."--Journal of Popular Culture"Sexting Panic is a very interesting book and Hasinoff does well in presenting research on a complex issue in a way that is approachable and straightforward to readers."--Criminal Justice Review "Hasinoff does an admirable job at providing an alternative perspective based on agency and consent."--Sexualities "In this excellent and provocative book, Hasinoff dissects the moral panic around texting and offers some very sensible ways forward for how best to deal with the human harms associated with it."--European Journal of Communication "Besides contributing to the literature on feminist media studies, youth media participation and production, and digital communication policy, Sexting Panic also illuminates the necessity for media literacy initiatives that recognize teens' power and agency as mobile media users. The book presents compelling arguments for media education that emphasizes respect for privacy and consensual interaction."--Mobile Media & Communication "Sexting has brought together two things that adults fear most--teens' sexuality and technology. Sexting Panic is a fantastic antidote to the media-driven moral panic. . . . Hasinoff's thoughtful book offers a framework for rethinking sexual media production and the politics of consent. This is a critical intervention to a fraught topic."--danah boyd, author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens "The most comprehensive analysis of sexting so far. Amy Hasinoff gives us nuanced insights into young people's practices of sexting with a much-needed emphasis on consent and agency. This book challenges the orthodox anxieties about technology and female sexuality, while provoking us to rethink ideas of media production and information."--Kate Crawford, author of Adult Themes: Rewriting the Rules of Adulthood "Talk about sexting has become a key site for making sense of young people's relationships with sex and technology, but it is often hampered by common-sense and frequently sexist views of girls. This book, which is clear, compassionate, and practical, argues that in order to move forward in our understanding of sexting we need to see it as an act of media production and to refocus adults' concerns about girls onto girls' rights to privacy and to a culture of consent. Amy Hasinoff's book is a major contribution to debates about sexting, sexualization, and contemporary sexual and media cultures."--Feona Attwood, editor of Mainstreaming Sex: The Sexualization of Western Culture "Hasinoff has written a bold and provocative book that complicates prevailing assumptions that sexting is an inherently damaging practice for young women. Deftly integrating scholarship regarding adolescent female sexuality and digital media practices, Hasinoff challenges the reader to move beyond a simplistic understanding of female victimhood to embrace a more robust understanding of sexting as a potential expression of authentic desire and agency."--J. Shoshanna Ehrlich, author of Who Decides? The Abortion Rights of Teens "Moving away from the dominance of media, legal, and educational focuses upon sexting, Hasinoff . . . covers a lot of necessary ground and brings a complex reading to sexting that the topic deserves."--Larissa Hjorth, author of Mobile Media in the Asia-Pacific: Gender and the Art of Being Mobile

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An enlightening consideration of the ways women consume media."--Bust "Taken as a whole, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn reads as a roundtable discussion on new roads ahead for feminist media and cultural studies more deeply concerned with issues of gender, race, and sexuality than ever."--The Velvet Light Trap"Cupcakes shows that the seemingly most traditional forms of popular culture, the sites that appear to simply reify normative femininity, are actually locations for complex and agentic negotiations of gendered, raced, and classed expectations in the often contradictory field of popular culture."--Signs "Through its manifold critiques of digital media, cultural products, and gendered spaces, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn has the potential to reinvigorate contemporary scholarship in feminist media studies and bring "feminized cultures" back into focus."--Feminist Media Studies"A fascinating time capsule of the activities and perceptions of women in the early 21st century in an environment that nurtures and celebrates phenomena such as E. L. James's Fifty Shades of Grey, celebrity gossip blogs, and the Kardashians. Recommended."--Choice"By foregrounding the complexity of gender in a postfeminist culture increasingly opposed to gender-specific analysis, Levine reminds us that these projects of feminist media analysis are as important in the 21st century as they were during the early days of feminist studies. . . . Levine's collection provides a fresh, updated look at feminized pop culture."--Feminist Collections"Levine has assembled a comprehensive set of smart, accessible, and interesting essays that truly capture 'feminized' popular culture in the early twenty-first century United States. This will be the definitive volume on 'post-feminist' popular cultural productions for some time to come."--Rebecca Wanzo, author of The Suffering Will Not Be Televised: African American Women and Sentimental Political Storytelling"Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn offers a concise, engaged, and fascinating set of analyses on things feminine, female, and feminist in the context of popular media culture. The book is headed by a truly insightful introductory essay from Elana Levine and filled with consistently provocative and unique essays that artfully make the case for the many ways in which gender is central to the production, reception, and content of media. If you've ever wondered how new media forms like Twitter and Facebook have bigger implications for gender relations, this book is for you."--Brenda R. Weber, author of Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity "In a provocative return to a topic dominant in early feminist media and cultural studies, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn helps us to understand better the pleasures and politics of feminine popular culture at a time when its creators and consumers are negotiating both feminist and postfeminist sensibilities.--Mary Celeste Kearney, editor of The Gender and Media Reader

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"New Korean Wave is an invaluable resources for students and faculty studying international media, culture, and communication." --Journal of Film and Video"In recent years, the Korean wave, Hallyu, has emerged as a major Asian presence on the media globe but its political economy has largely been ignored. Dal Yong Jin's excellent study fills this gap in international scholarship: highly recommended."--Daya Thussu, University of Westminster, London"In a concise and illuminating book that unpacks the evolution of the Korean Wave, Jin deftly highlights the key factors that have fueled the rise of South Korea as a major player in the global market place for popular culture."--Hyung-Gu Lynn, University of British Columbia"Highly recommended overview of the present Korean culture industry, especially regarding the influence of government support on home-grown entertainment industries."--The Learned Fangirl"A fascinating story of how Korean cultural industry grew from being a relatively overlooked sector to becoming a global success story, analyzing the social and technological mechanism that enabled this sector's growth and its relations with the state. This book is an outstanding contribution to the scholarship on the New Korean Wave."--Nissim Otmazgin, author of Regionalizing Culture: The Political Economy of Japanese Popular Culture in Asia"Much has been written in recent years about the Korean Wave, or Hallyu. But what has often been missing is the capacity to situate this wave in the wider context of political economy, cultural policy, and global media flows. Dal Yong Jin's book marks an admirable survey of the phenomenon from this critical institutional perspective, and will become the defining text for understanding the political economy of the New Korean Wave."--Terry Flew, author of Global Creative Industries

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Book SynopsisIn Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today''s Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization''s inroads and the recent resurgence of political Islam. Her analysis foregrounds how these and other forces become intertwined, and she uses Turkey''s media to unpack the ever-more-complex relationships. Yesil confronts essential questions regarding: the role of the state and military in building the structures that shaped Turkey''s media system; media adaptations to ever-shifting contours of political and economic power; how the far-flung economic interests of media conglomerates leave them vulnerable to state pressure; and the ways Turkey''s politicized judiciary criminalizes certain speech. Drawing on local knowledge and a wealth of Turkish sources, Yesil provides an engrossing look at the fault lines carved by authoriTrade Review"The rise of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey since the early 2000s and its overseeing of a growing economy and a forceful foreign policy have been one of the key forces shaping the Middle East in a turbulent decade bookended by the September 11 attacks and the Arab Uprisings. In Media in New Turkey , Yesil explores and explains the growth of Turkish media, its travails with the government, and its forays in the Middle East and Central Asia. Deftly eschewing media determinism, Yesil approaches Turkish media as a site of struggle between various strands of democratic and authoritarian politics, Islamism and neoliberalism. Both in its approach to the topic and in the important insights it provides, this book will be an original and lasting contribution to the literature on media, culture, and politics within and beyond the Middle East."--Marwan Kraidy, author of Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life"A very timely and enlightening book… Yesil uses considerable informal interview content as well as reference to abundant published sources to provide an excellent review of the processes that have undermined the rule of law in turkey, whether through state terrorism or political-economic collusion and corruption… Highly recommended."—Choice "From a historical point of view, the book successfully underlines the centralized authoritarian character of the state. . . . It serves as an essential guide for scholars and students investigating recent concerns and/or the rooted tensions in the media-politics-culture triangle."--International Journal of Communication"It is a real treat to read a work on the Middle Eastern media that shows the sociological sophistication employed by Bilge Yesil. This book is packed with stimulating ideas on Turkish media, state, and society that cut through the familiar mind-numbing clichés. Not only categories that have served Middle East experts for so long, but also the myth of Turkish Model dissolves under her scrutiny. This is a timely book and a must-read for students of international communications and any students interested in the contemporary Middle East."--Gholam Khiabany, author of Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity"Bilge Yesil's book is a fantastic introduction for those wanting to develop an understanding of the complex relationship between politics, economics, and the media in contemporary Turkey." --H-Net Reviews"A very well-researched book. Everyone interested in contemporary Turkey’s grim media landscape should read it."--Hurriyet Daily News

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Anyone who has used a smartphone, tablet, laptop computer, e-reader, video game console, or smart speaker would do well to read Goodbye iSlave. In tight effective prose, Qiu presents a gripping portrait of the lives of Foxconn workers and this description is made more confrontational by the uncompromising language Qiu deploys."--boundary 2 "Qiu's grim and eloquent book traces parallels between the digital economy and Atlantic slavery--from Congo mines to Foxconn sweatshops to iPhone users' labor. Full of insights, Goodbye iSlave also offers hope, in new forms of social struggle."--Raewyn Connell, author of Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science "Networking China is highly recommended for researchers or students in the area of media and communications, economics, political sciences and Chinese studies, as well as practitioners and policy-makers in communication sectors." --Information, Communication & Society"Outstanding and well-researched. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice"Readers from media and information studies, sociology, history and many other social sciences disciplines will find Goodbye iSlave illuminating." --The China Quarterly"Qiu's book brings attention to the hidden and deeply exploitative conditions of digital labor that make possible our world of new media and technologies." --PoLAR"This remarkable dissection of twenty-first century global iSlavery, rooted in Qiu's on-the-ground and comparative historical research, gives a high-voltage jolt to complacent iCitizens--and examples of what to do next."--John D.H. Downing, editor of the Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"What does the NFL have to do with the rise of Donald Trump? Thomas Oates' expansive and readable book provides a riveting and often surprising answer to this question. This vital account of the racist and masculinist populism that is enabled--and occasionally constrained--through the culture of professional football is a must read for scholars and fans alike."--Samantha King, author of Pink Ribbons, Inc: Breast Cancer and the Politics of Philanthropy "Oates offers clear arguments regarding ideologies of masculinity, race, gender, and sexuality; all chapters work with and build on each other leading to a coherent, all-encompassing argument. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Engaging, thoughtful, and timely, Football and Manliness moves the conversation beyond the gridiron to spotlight the ways that football shapes our collective understanding of masculinity and its implications within the broader social and economic arenas."--David J. Leonard, author of After Artest: The NBA and the Assault on Blackness "Oates compellingly demonstrates the worthiness of the NFL as an urgent and productive site of scholarly inquiry within cultural studies."--Lateral "Readers interested in feminist scholarship, sociology of sport, twenty-first-century masculinity, the black athlete, and popular culture will find this theoretical framework and authoritative analysis valuable."--Journal of Sport History

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBook of the Year, Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA), 2018 "There is hardly a topic that is more important and yet underresearched than the ways in which media. . . have (mis)represented environmental issues in recent decades. Patrick Murphy has the right credentials, reputation, and ability for the challenge. Given the importance of the topic, this books merits inclusion on the adoption lists of a wide spread of media, environmental, and discourse studies courses (among others) at undergraduate and graduate levels."--Mass Communication and Society"How is it that in less than four years Discovery replaced Ten Ways to Save the Planet with programming encouraging meat consumption, while The Walking Dead now provides post-apocalyptic survival techniques to a global audience? Murphy provides essential scholarship of environmental discourses within the politics and economies of transnational media."--Libby Lester, author of Media and Environment: Conflict, Politics and the News"This book is addressing a universal crisis that right now, as we speak, is rapidly mainstreaming. It is a text that will be recognized as a critically important, highly innovative, and possibly paradigm-changing contribution to our understanding of how mediated discourses work to destroy our planet."--Oliver Boyd-Barrett, author of Communications Media, Globalization, and Empire "Murphy skillfully unpacks the links among the institutions, ideology, and messages of global media systems and our imaginaries of the environment. The result is a scathing critique of the absorptive capacity of a market-driven, 'Promethean' discourse that elides social agency in response to our global ecological tensions."--Robert Cox, coeditor of The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication"The book's approach produces an interesting and unique contribution that should be required reading for scholars and students." --European Journal of Communication

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Book SynopsisCritics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance—arguing that African American newspapers fostered black sexual expression, agency, and identity. Gallon discusses how journalists and editors created black sexual publics that offered everyday African Americans opportunities to discuss sexual topics that exposed class and gender tensions. While black churches and black schools often encouraged sexual restraint, the black press printed stories that complicated notions about respectability. Sensational coverage also expanded African American women's sexual consciousness and demonstrated the tenuous position of female impersonators, black gay men, and black lesbians in early twentieth African American urban communities. Informative and empowering, Pleasure in the News redefines the significance of the black press in ATrade Review"Gallon succeeds in outlining the mutual liberalization of the Black press and Black urban communities in the interwar period. She conveys the dynamism of an era when newspapers thrust race leaders and new migrants into public reconsideration of how Blackness could be embodied in the twentieth century." --Journal of American History"The institution of Black Press, as Pleasure in the News outlines, contained a diversity of approaches to sexuality, in such papers as the Baltimore Afro-American, Chicago Defender, Pittsburgh Courier, New York Amsterdam News, and Philadelphia Tribune. It is remarkable that Gallon is able to weave these newspapers together so skillfully and the archival research involved in this study is impressive. . . . In centering sexuality and pleasure, Gallon thoughtfully highlights ambivalences that the Black Press and its readership grappled with and the always important question of how much a newspaper's content is shaped by its reader' perceived desires." --American Periodical”Blending unprecedented research into the African American press, and the journalists and editors who put the papers out, with a careful synthesis of the existing scholarship, Pleasure in the News shows how opinions about sex behavior impacted reading publics over several decades of profound change in the black experience. Kim Gallon's systematic analysis of an almost endless news cycle of marital infidelities, scandalous divorces, celebrity drag queens, and low-down queers of all kinds, provides a fresh angle on what are now classic questions in the field. How did respectability impact performativity, how did opinion makers command and defer to sexual consumers, and what did all of this mean for the experience of black desire within the marginal spaces of the modern metropolis?”—Kevin Mumford, author of Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS Crisis

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Book SynopsisContemporary journalism faces a crisis of trust that threatens the institution and may imperil democracy itself. Critics and experts see a renewed commitment to local journalism as one solution. But a lasting restoration of public trust requires a different kind of local journalism than is often imagined, one that engages with and shares power among all sectors of a community.Andrea Wenzel models new practices of community-centered journalism that build trust across boundaries of politics, race, and class, and prioritize solutions while engaging the full range of local stakeholders. Informed by case studies from rural, suburban, and urban settings, Wenzel''s blueprint reshapes journalism norms and creates vigorous storytelling networks between all parts of a community. Envisioning a portable, rather than scalable, process, Wenzel proposes a community-centered journalism that, once implemented, will strengthen lines of local communication, reinvigorate civic participation, and fTrade Review"Recommended." --Choice"Rooted in an impressive range of on-the-ground research . . . Wenzel has made an important contribution." --The Arts Fuse"Andrea Wenzel is that rarest of beings, a thorough and skilled academic and an accomplished journalist. This book is a must read for anyone wanting to fully understand the crisis of trust in journalism, how it grows from deep, ingrained roots and flourishes through lack of attention and engagement. Wenzel’s examination of how journalism can better serve communities charts a clear empirical path for the field, but it also tells a compelling story about media, representation and social cohesion at a critical time."--Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism School​"This book is an important contribution to academic scholarship but also to the journalism industry and to foundations that support ongoing projects to rebuild trust. It provides much needed documentation at a pivotal and pivoting time, as journalism undertakes new practices in an attempt to survive."--Sue Robinson, author of Networked News, Racial Divides: How Power and Privilege Shape Public Discourse in Progressive CommunitiesTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The case for shared community storiesChapter 1. Shifting stories with solutions journalismChapter 2. Connecting journalists and community membersChapter 3. Developing an intervention: Building a public sphere in polarized placesChapter 4. The process is portable: Toward a community-driven interventionChapter 5. A new kind of journalist? Competencies for community-centered journalismConclusion: To repair, or to burn it down?Appendix: Methods for a Process ModelNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisPortrayed in Western discourse as tribal and traditional, Afghans have in fact intensely debated women's rights, democracy, modernity, and Islam as part of their nation building in the post-9/11 era. Wazhmah Osman places television at the heart of these public and politically charged clashes while revealing how the medium also provides war-weary Afghans with a semblance of open discussion and healing. After four decades of gender and sectarian violence, she argues, the internationally funded media sector has the potential to bring about justice, national integration, and peace. Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of many Afghan media producers and people. Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the role of international interventions. Osman analyzes the impact of transnational media and foreign funding while keeping the focus on local cultural contestationsTrade ReviewICA ACJS Outstanding Book Award, 2021— ICA ACJS Outstanding Book AwardTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Legitimizing Modernity: Indigenous Modernities, Foreign Incursions, and Their Backlashes Chapter 2. Imperialism, Globalization, and Development: Overlaps and Disjunctures Chapter 3. Afghan Television Production: A Distinctive Political Economy Chapter 4. Producers and Production: The Development Gaze and the Imperial Gaze Chapter 5. Reaching Vulnerable and Dangerous Populations: Women and the Pashtuns Chapter 6. Reception and Audiences: The Demands and Desires of Afghan People Conclusion: The Future of Media, the Future of Afghanistan Appendix A: Ethnic Groups Table Appendix B: Media Funding Sources and Recipients Table Appendix C: TV Stations and Affiliations Table Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the early era of cinema, moviegoers turned to women editors and writers for the latest on everyone's favorite stars, films, and filmmakers. Richard Abel returns these women to film history with an anthology of reviews, articles, and other works. Drawn from newspapers of the time, the selections show how columnists like Kitty Kelly, Mae Tinee, Louella Parsons, and Genevieve Harris wrote directly to female readers. They also profiled women working in jobs like scenario writer and film editor and noted the industry's willingness to hire women. Sharp wit and frank opinions entertained and informed a wide readership hungry for news about the movies but also about women on both sides of the camera. Abel supplements the texts with hard-to-find biographical information and provides context on the newspapers and silent-era movie industry as well as on the professionals and films highlighted by these writers. An invaluable collection of rare archival sources, Movie Mavens reveals women's Trade Review"Juxtaposing biographical information found through archival research with samples of film criticism transcribed from local papers, Abel throws a much-needed light on the female columnists who originally mediated the pictures for a mass audience increasingly defined by young women and girls." --Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film"With a scholar's knack for detail, Abel provides context for this crucial period of cinema history. An illuminating combination of scholarship and nostalgia." --Library Journal"A revelation! From snarky hard-talking dames to tartly respectable scholars, Movie Mavens recovers the diverse and compelling voices of the legions of newspaperwomen who wrote about movies during the tumultuous 1910s and early 1920s. An invaluable resource from a model film historian."--Laura Horak, author of Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Media and food studies scholars, Emily Contois and Zenia Kish and their co-authors, have produced an in-depth, analytical, and highly interdisciplinary book that includes writers from the fields of various 'studies' (food, media, American) as well as history, science and technology, sociology, anthropology, and political science." --Journal of Folklore Research Reviews"Contois and Kish have prepared a veritable smorgasbord of perspectives on the all-pervasive and all-important nature of food on visual social media in this deliciously engrossing collection. From aperitifs to aesthetics, and placemaking to politics, this book has something for every reader."--Tama Leaver, coauthor of Instagram: Visual Social Media Cultures"Instagram has become much more than a fun medium for selfies, food porn, and branding. This volume shows how the digital app and the kind of food representations it supports contribute to building identities and negotiating social and economic relationships."--Fabio Parasecoli, author of Bite Me: Food in Popular CultureTable of ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction. From Seed to Feed: How Food Instagram Changed What and Why We Eat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1ZENIA KISH AND EMILY J. H. CONTOISPART I. IDENTITY1. @hotdudesandhummus and the Cultural Politics of Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33MICHAEL Z. NEWMAN2. Starving Beauties? Instabae, Diet Food, and Japanese Girl Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47TSUGUMI (MIMI) OKABE3. #Foodporn: An Anatomy of the Meal Gaze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65GABY DAVID AND LAURENCE ALLARD4. The South in Your Mouth? Gourmet Biscuit Restaurants, Authenticity, and the Construction of a New Southern Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81DEBORAH A. HARRIS AND RACHEL PHILLIPS5. Uncle Green Must Be Coming to Dinner: The Joyful Hospitality of Black Women on Instagram during the COVID-19 Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .94ROBIN CALDWELL6. Creative Consumption: Art about Eating on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101DAWN WOOLLEY AND ZARA WORTHPART II. INFLUENCE7. Picturing Digital Tastes: #unicornlatte, Social Photography, and Instagram Food Marketing . . . . . . . . .115EMILY TRUMAN8. Camera Eats First: The Role of Influencers in Hong Kong’s Foodie Instagram Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132YUE-CHIU BONNI LEUNG AND YI-CHIEH JESSICA LIN9. Repackaging Leftovers: Health, Food, and Diet Messages in Influencer Instagram Posts . . . . . . . . . . .148TARA J. SCHUWERK AND SARAH E. CRAMER10. Meet Your Meat! How Australian Livestock Producers Use Instagram to Promote “Happy Meat” . . . . . . . . .163EMILY BUDDLE11. FreakShakes and Mama Noi: Cases of Transforming Food Industry Influence on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .177KATHERINE KIRKWOOD12. My Life and Labor as an Instagram Influencer Turned Instagram Scholar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191KC HYSMITHPART III. NEGOTIATION13. Transgressive Food Practices on Instagram: The Case of Guldkroen in Copenhagen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .205JONATAN LEER AND STINNE GUNDER STRØM KROGAGER14. Posing with “the People”: The Far Right and Food Populism on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221SARA GARCIA SANTAMARIA15. Farming, Unedited: Failure, Humor, and Fortitude in Instagram’s Agricultural Underground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .241JOCELINE ANDERSEN16. The Surprisingly Long History of Feminist Eateries on Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260ALEX KETCHUM17. How to Think with Your Body: Teaching Critical Eating Literacy through Instagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274SARAH E. TRACYAfterword: Food Instagram’s Next Course . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .283EMILY J. H. CONTOIS AND ZENIA KISHContributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .287Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293

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Book SynopsisMass media and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints evolved alongside each other, and communications technology became a fundamental part of the Church's institutions and communities. Gavin Feller investigates the impact of radio, television, and the internet on Mormonism and what it tells us about new media's integration into American life. The Church wrestled with the promise of new media to help implement its vision of Zion. But it also had to contend with threat that media posed to the family and other important facets of the Latter-day Saint faith. Inevitably, media technologies forced the leadership and lay alike to reconsider organizational values and ethical commitments. As Feller shows, the conflicts they faced illuminate the fundamental forces of control and compromise that enmesh an emerging medium in American social and cultural life. Intriguing and original, Eternity in the Ether blends communications history with a religious perspective to examine the crossroadTrade Review“Focusing on the agency of a single institution, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Feller takes us beyond simple assumptions about representation and ideology to show us in finely grained detail how exactly Mormon theology, cosmological vision, community, bureaucratic authority, and public image work together--and sometimes, against one another--in an ongoing history of innovation, strategic management, struggle, and imagination. At each step, Eternity in the Ether sheds light on a remarkable terrain of creative energies, practical demands, and political possibilities, inviting us to see Mormonism in new ways, and by extension, to revisit many assumptions about how media work in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between religion and media.”--Jeremy Stolow, author of Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between"Gavin Feller's Eternity in the Ether: A Mormon Media History is an interesting book that brings together various academic disciplines and fields together -- weaving communication studies, religion, and history into one manuscript." --Association of Mormon LettersTable of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Sacred Cities, Stubborn People Voices in the West God Is Wireless Ethical Dilemmas and Technical Obstacles: Navigating Early Television Distance and Discipline: Television, Home, and Family Boundaries and Borders: Zion Online Community Here, Community Hereafter Conclusion: Control and Compromise NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisFinalist for theAEJMC Tankard Book Award Between 1925 and 1951, Kent Cooper transformed the Associated Press, making it the world’s dominant news agency while changing the kind of journalism that millions of readers in the United States and other countries relied on. Gene Allen’s biography is a globe-spanning account of how Cooper led and reshaped the most important institution in American--and eventually international--journalism in the mid-twentieth century. Allen critically assesses the many new approaches and causes that Cooper championed: introducing celebrity news and colorful features to a service previously known for stodgy reliability, pushing through disruptive technological innovations like the instantaneous transmission of news photos, and leading a crusade to bring American-style press freedom--inseparable from private ownership, in Cooper’s view--to every counTrade Review"Highlighting historical facts and perspectives, showcasing a who's who in the news industry, Mr. Associated Press easily serves as required reading for journalism students. Bridging gaps of knowledge from one decade to the next, it offers insights into how an upstart news route expanded to cover the world, and why journalism -- rightly or wrongly -- has become nearly synonymous with 'the media'." --Project Censored“Allen uses the figure of Kent Cooper to narrate a compelling and important story of American news from the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. An incredibly valuable book for scholars of communications, media, journalism, history, and American foreign relations.”--Heidi Tworek, author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945Table of ContentsAcknowledgments “Fitting himself for the newspaper profession” Apprenticeship and Ascent Celebrity News and Competition: Transforming the Domestic News Service The Opposition International Ambitions The Japanese Gambit New Media Politics, External and Otherwise The Shadow of War The Government Suit The Crusade The Voice of America Mr. Associated Press Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“What happens in the backend, behind our screens, in the sociotechnical systems that constitute our media space? Parks, Velkova, and De Ridder have collected an impressive bouquet of enlightening articles, offering a wide scope of critical perspectives on what happens in the invisible parts of the internet, including its infrastructure. Reading through this collection, you start seeing the bigger picture of a media landscape in transformation and how this connects to global societal transformations. A true mind opener.”--José van Dijck, author of The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social MediaTable of ContentsIntroduction Lisa Parks, Julia Velkova, and Sander De Ridder Part I: Sensing, Automating, Mediating 1 Atmospheric Mediation: From Smart Dust to Customizable Governance Mark Andrejevic, and Zala Volcic 2 The Other Side of the Smart Phone: MEMS Sensors and the Tiny Matter of Mediation Lisa Parks 3 EugenicTech: Three Perspectives On the (B)anality of AI Jonathan Cohn 4 Coding and Encoding Streamed Media: The Cultural Infrastructure of the Netflix Recommender System Fatima Gaw 5 Engaging Opacity: Spotify and the Poesis of Algorithmic Backends Tim Markham Part II: Datafying, Serving, Distributing 6 The Social Mapping of Hyperscale Data Center Regions: Placemaking, Infrastructuring, Curating Vicki Mayer and Julia Velkova 7 Cross-sectoral Relations in VoD Markets: Frontend, Backend, and Deepend in India Vibodh Parthasarathi, Philippe Bouquillion, and Christine Ithurbide 8 Serving Machines and Heterotopias: Data Entry Work in Prisons and Refugee Camps in the US and Uganda Anne Kaun, Alexis Logsdon, Philipp Seuferling and Fredrik Stiernstedt 9 Mythical Media Backends: Human-Machine Communication’s Cruel Promises Sander De Ridder 10 The Black Living Data Booklet Faithe Day Part III: Subjecting, Humanizing, Repairing 11 Sonorous Surfaces, Biased Backends: The Gendered Voices of AI Assistants as Existential Media Amanda Lagerkvist, Jacek Smolicki, and Matilda Tudor 12 On Meaning and Exploitation: Everyday AI and Productivity Tracking in Denmark Stine Lomborg 13 The Backend Work of Data Subjects: Ordinary Challenges of Living with Data in India and the US Ranjit Singh 14 Repairing Algorithms, Rebuilding Data Paths: Digital Infrastructures, Public Service Media, and Material Solidarity in Europe Kaarina Nikunen Afterword Rahul Mukherjee Contributor Bios Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Susca has written a valuable guide to this world of greed, unbound by any sense of mission beyond lining the pockets of wealthy investors. As we move into the post-newspaper era, it would serve all of us who care about local news and its role in fostering civic life to look back at what happened, and what is happening still." --Arts Fuse“Hedged shines a light on one of the most underdiscussed and underappreciated parts of the collapse of local news--the role of hedge funds and private equity firms. It’s an important book for anyone who wants to truly understand the decline of local journalism or who wants to craft solutions.”--Steven Waldman, President and cofounder of Report for AmericaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: What Crisis The Private Investment Era Democracy for Sum Profit Harvesting Mergers and Acquisitions The Debt Layoffs Neglected Audiences Conclusion: Ending the Era Notes Index

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Book SynopsisHow fan passion and technology merged into a new subculture Long before internet archives and the anytime, anywhere convenience of streaming, people collected, traded, and shared radio and television content via informal networks that crisscrossed transnational boundaries. Eleanor Patterson’s fascinating cultural history explores the distribution of radio and TV tapes from the 1960s through the 1980s. Looking at bootlegging against the backdrop of mass media’s formative years, Patterson delves into some of the major subcultures of the era. Old-time radio aficionados felt the impact of inexpensive audio recording equipment and the controversies surrounding programs like Amos ‘n’ Andy. Bootlegging communities devoted to buddy cop TV shows like Starsky and Hutch allowed women to articulate female pleasure and sexuality while Star Trek videos in Australia inspired a grassroots subculture built around community viewings of episoTrade Review“A highly valuable contribution to media and cultural history. Patterson goes in-depth about important and eclectic bootlegging practices, and in particular highlights how people have utilized these technologies and systems to generate their own cultures around the objects of their fandom and interests.”--Derek Kompare, coeditor of Making Media Work: Cultures of Management in the Entertainment IndustriesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Hacking Broadcast History Homemade Entertainment: The Prehistory of Bootlegging Radio Hello Again: The Old-time Radio Informal Economy Freeze Framing Queerness: Tape Trading in Buddy Cop Fan Cultures We Had to Do It the Hard Way: Bootlegging Star Trek in Australia Enough of that Garbage: Wrestling Observer and the Intelligent Wrestling Fan Community Conclusion Bootlegging After the Airwaves Notes Index

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Book SynopsisExpands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists.Trade ReviewThis book is a valuable source of information for Africanists interested in the role played by women in the continuity of tradition in African culture. . . . Recommended. * Choice * Women's Songs from West Africa, is a valuable resource for scholars interested in West African music, and represents a remarkable achievement. * Ethnomusicology Review *Table of ContentsIntroductionWomen's Songs and Singing in West Africa: New PerspectivesThomas A. Hale and Aissata G. Sidikou1. Wolof Women Break the Taboo of Sex through Songs Marame Gueye2. Jola Kanyalen Songs from the Casamance, Sengeal: From 'Tradition' to Globalization Kirsten Langeveld3. Azna Deities in the Songs of Taguimba Bouzou: A Window on the Visible and Invisible Boubé Namaïwa4. Initiation and Funeral Songs from the Guro of Côte d'IvoireAriane Deluz5. Praises Performances by Jalimusolu in The Gambia Marloes Janson6. Music about Feminine Modernity in the Sahara Aline Tauzin 7. Songs by Wolof Women Luciana Penna-Diaw 8. A Heroic Performance by Siramori Diabate of MaliBrahima Camara and Jan Jansen9. Women's Tattooing Songs from Kajoor, SenegalGeorge Joseph10. Drummed Poems by Songhay-Zarma Women of NigerFatima Mounkaïla11. Space, Language, and Identity in the Palm TreeAissata G. Sidikou12. Bambara Women's Songs in Southern MaliBah Diakité 13. Patriarchy in Songs and Poetry by Zarma WomenAissata Niandou14. Muslim Hausa Women's SongsBeverly B. Mack 15. Lamentation and Politics in the Sahelian SongThomas A. Hale16. Transformations in Tuareg Tende Singing: Women's Voices and Local FeminismsSusan J. Rasmussen17. Income Strategies of a Jelimuso in Mali and FranceNienke MuurlingIndexList of Contributors

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Book SynopsisDuring the 1968 Prague Spring and the Soviet-led invasion and occupation that followed, Czechoslovakia's Army Film studio was responsible for some of the most politically subversive and aesthetically innovative films of the period. This book examines the institutional and governmental roots of postwar Czechoslovak cinema.Trade ReviewA fine work of scholarship. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Much like the subversive moving images she chronicles in Army Film and the Avant Garde, her work itself upends and complicates received wisdom what we think we know about government-sponsored film and Eastern European cinema—rescuing the untold story of Army Films from the dustbin of history and deftly rewriting film scholarship in the process. Summer 2015 * Film Quarterly *[A] well-researched, analytically perceptive, and engagingly written book. * Slavic Review *Table of ContentsAknowledgementsNote on TranslationIntroduction1. A Deep and Fruitful Tradition: Jiří Jeníček, The Film Group, and Cinema Culture of the 1930s2. All of Film is an Experiment: Postwar Documentary, Postwar Reconstruction3. The Crooked Mirror: Pedagogy and Art in Army Instructional Films4. Every Young Man: Reinventing Army Film5. A Military Avant Garde: Documentary and the Prague SpringCodaAppendix: Companion DVD ContentsFilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster is an extraordinarily brilliant academic book which has explored the 'absence of image' not only in the US media but also how it shaped the arts and culture in the post-9/11. 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster will change how we think about disasters and tragedies. The book is a must-read for both students and practitioners of media studies. * Repository *Thomas Stubblefield has written a concise, engaging, and thought-provoking work that asks the reader to reassess their knowledge and relationship to that moment and the resulting milieu of post 9/11 life in America. * ARLIS/NA Reviews *Recommended. * Choice *This is a must-read for those interested in visual imagery; indeed, parts of 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster expand our thinking in promising ways. Scholars in the area of visual culture and visual rhetoric will find Stubblefield's book particularly useful in broadening the discussion of what is not present in media images and what they tell us about what is present. * NEPCA *The book's emphasis on the erased and the invisible—and the intrinsic role these play in shaping collective memory and political ideologies—provides an important contribution to memory and visual culture studies, as well as to a broader analysis of 9/11, how that event has been written into history, and continues to be deployed as an operating force. * Journal of American History *9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster . . . adds a fresh and insightful view on how 9/11 is perceived in American society—the day that 'refuses to enter history,' the tragedy that 'has, ineffect, not yet passed' (188). The book is a captivating account that can be recommended to those interested in US cultural studies,visual analysis, as well aslm, photography, and graphic novels to comprehend how they help their audience realize the tragedy of 9/11from different perspectives. * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spectacle and Its Other1. From Latent to Live: Disaster Photography after the Digital Turn2. Origins of Affect: The Falling Body and Other Symptoms of Cinema3. Remembering-Images: Empty Cities, Machinic Vision, and the Post-9/11 Imaginary4. Lights, Camera, Iconoclasm: How Do Monuments Die and Live to Tell about It?5. The Failure of the Failure of Images: The Crisis of the Unrepresentable from the Graphic Novel to the 9/11 MemorialConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster is an extraordinarily brilliant academic book which has explored the 'absence of image' not only in the US media but also how it shaped the arts and culture in the post-9/11. 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster will change how we think about disasters and tragedies. The book is a must-read for both students and practitioners of media studies. * Repository *Thomas Stubblefield has written a concise, engaging, and thought-provoking work that asks the reader to reassess their knowledge and relationship to that moment and the resulting milieu of post 9/11 life in America. * ARLIS/NA Reviews *Recommended. * Choice *This is a must-read for those interested in visual imagery; indeed, parts of 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster expand our thinking in promising ways. Scholars in the area of visual culture and visual rhetoric will find Stubblefield's book particularly useful in broadening the discussion of what is not present in media images and what they tell us about what is present. * NEPCA *The book's emphasis on the erased and the invisible—and the intrinsic role these play in shaping collective memory and political ideologies—provides an important contribution to memory and visual culture studies, as well as to a broader analysis of 9/11, how that event has been written into history, and continues to be deployed as an operating force. * Journal of American History *9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster . . . adds a fresh and insightful view on how 9/11 is perceived in American society—the day that 'refuses to enter history,' the tragedy that 'has, ineffect, not yet passed' (188). The book is a captivating account that can be recommended to those interested in US cultural studies,visual analysis, as well aslm, photography, and graphic novels to comprehend how they help their audience realize the tragedy of 9/11from different perspectives. * Journal of Popular Culture *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Spectacle and Its Other1. From Latent to Live: Disaster Photography after the Digital Turn2. Origins of Affect: The Falling Body and Other Symptoms of Cinema3. Remembering-Images: Empty Cities, Machinic Vision, and the Post-9/11 Imaginary4. Lights, Camera, Iconoclasm: How Do Monuments Die and Live to Tell about It?5. The Failure of the Failure of Images: The Crisis of the Unrepresentable from the Graphic Novel to the 9/11 MemorialConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThere is no doubt that this is a pioneering book, one that raises important questions about the transnational and transmedial dimensions of an emergent, corporate culture of stardom and models an entirely new approach to the study of African movies and media. * African Studies Review *Nollywood Stars is a revelation. It will introduce readers to one of the most significant global centers of film production, Nigeria, and to a film culture that is significantly different from that of Hollywood . . . This is an important work. Essential. * Choice *Noah Tsika's Nollywood Stars is a pioneering book that makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on African screen media and the critical emergent field of Nollywood studies. * Velvet Light Trap *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsA Note on Orthography and TaxonomyIntroduction: Global Stars in Nigeria's Postindependence Firmament: From Ossie Davis to Doctor Bello1. From Yorùbá to YouTube: Studying Nollywood's Star System2. Glittering Video: Format, Fashion, and the Materiality of Nollywood Stardom3. A Mobile Glow: Nollywood Stardom and Corporate Globalism4. When Stars Collide: Lady Gaga and the Pirating of a Globalized Persona5. Nollywood's Progeny: Stardom and the Politics of Youth Empowerment6. Professionalizing Childhood: Nollywood and the New Youth TransnationalismAfterword: Honoring Nollywood StarsFilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn this comprehensive study of Nollywood stardom around the world, Noah A. Tsika explores how the industry's top on-screen talents have helped Nollywood to expand beyond West Africa and into the diaspora to become one of the globe's most prolific and diverse media producers. Carrying VHS tapes and DVDs onto airplanes and publicizing new methods of film distribution, the stars are active agents in the global circulation of Nollywood film. From Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde's cameo role on VH1's popular seriesHit the Floorto Oge Okoye's startling impersonation of Lady Gaga, this book follows Nollywood stars from Lagos to London, Ouagadougou, Cannes, Paris, Porto-Novo, Sekondi-Takoradi, Dakar, Accra, Atlanta, Houston, New York, and Los Angeles. Tsika tracks their efforts to integrate into various entertainment cultures, but never to the point of effacing their African roots.Trade ReviewThere is no doubt that this is a pioneering book, one that raises important questions about the transnational and transmedial dimensions of an emergent, corporate culture of stardom and models an entirely new approach to the study of African movies and media. * African Studies Review *Nollywood Stars is a revelation. It will introduce readers to one of the most significant global centers of film production, Nigeria, and to a film culture that is significantly different from that of Hollywood . . . This is an important work. Essential. * Choice *Noah Tsika's Nollywood Stars is a pioneering book that makes a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship on African screen media and the critical emergent field of Nollywood studies. * Velvet Light Trap *Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsA Note on Orthography and TaxonomyIntroduction: Global Stars in Nigeria's Postindependence Firmament: From Ossie Davis to Doctor Bello1. From Yorùbá to YouTube: Studying Nollywood's Star System2. Glittering Video: Format, Fashion, and the Materiality of Nollywood Stardom3. A Mobile Glow: Nollywood Stardom and Corporate Globalism4. When Stars Collide: Lady Gaga and the Pirating of a Globalized Persona5. Nollywood's Progeny: Stardom and the Politics of Youth Empowerment6. Professionalizing Childhood: Nollywood and the New Youth TransnationalismAfterword: Honoring Nollywood StarsFilmographyNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfrican Appropriations is a highly engaging, rigorous, and creative work, and among the most provocative and compelling books I have read in years. It is extremely suitable for undergraduate or graduate instruction, and highly recommended. * H-Africa *The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Overall, African Appropriations is an engaging, readable, creative, and well-researched piece of scholarship. * H-Material-Culture *African Appropriations is rich compendium of useful commentary on cultural and media forms that otherwise have received scattered treatment. It will certainly be a valuable resource for scholars and an accessible and interesting text for classrooms. * African Studies Review *Not only does [Krings] straddle different societies . . . he also ranges across a host of differing cultural forms: spirit possession, music, graphic novels, film, posters, 419 letters, photo novels, and stickers, among others. The result is, and this should be stressed, a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Major Wicked: Embodying Cultural Difference2. Lance Spearman: An African James Bond3. Black Titanic: Pirating the White Star Liner4. Vice and Videos: Kanywood under Duress5. Dar 2 Lagos: Nollywood in Tanzania6. Branding bin Laden: The Global "War on Terror" on a Local Stage7. Master and Mugu: Orientalist Mimicry and Cybercrime8. "Crazy White Men": Un/doing Difference in African Popular MusicCoda: Mimesis and Media in AfricaNotesReferencesFilmsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAfrican Appropriations is a highly engaging, rigorous, and creative work, and among the most provocative and compelling books I have read in years. It is extremely suitable for undergraduate or graduate instruction, and highly recommended. * H-Africa *The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Overall, African Appropriations is an engaging, readable, creative, and well-researched piece of scholarship. * H-Material-Culture *African Appropriations is rich compendium of useful commentary on cultural and media forms that otherwise have received scattered treatment. It will certainly be a valuable resource for scholars and an accessible and interesting text for classrooms. * African Studies Review *Not only does [Krings] straddle different societies . . . he also ranges across a host of differing cultural forms: spirit possession, music, graphic novels, film, posters, 419 letters, photo novels, and stickers, among others. The result is, and this should be stressed, a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies. * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Major Wicked: Embodying Cultural Difference2. Lance Spearman: An African James Bond3. Black Titanic: Pirating the White Star Liner4. Vice and Videos: Kanywood under Duress5. Dar 2 Lagos: Nollywood in Tanzania6. Branding bin Laden: The Global "War on Terror" on a Local Stage7. Master and Mugu: Orientalist Mimicry and Cybercrime8. "Crazy White Men": Un/doing Difference in African Popular MusicCoda: Mimesis and Media in AfricaNotesReferencesFilmsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTen Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the general advancement of MENA studies in American institutions of higher education, encouraging students and the general public to learn about the Arab world from diverse perspectives. * Journal of North African Studies *Gugler has done an admirable job taking the reader on a complex but passionate journey through the work of ten Arab fi lmmakers. * Black Camera *Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking. . . . Essential. * Choice *Ten Arab Filmmakers represents a timely and important resource for educators, scholars, and students. * Studies in Eastern European Cinema *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Social Critique Josef Gugler1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) Christa Salamandra2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty (Lebanon) Dalia Said Mostafa3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) Tim Kennedy4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) Refqa Abu-Remaileh5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and Other (Egypt) Viola Shafik6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt) Viola Shafik7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and European Film Markets (Egypt) Benjamin Geer8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anti-colonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation (Algeria) Guy Austin9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique and the Limits of Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema (Algeria) Will Higbee10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco) Jonathan SmolinFilm IndexName Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewTen Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the general advancement of MENA studies in American institutions of higher education, encouraging students and the general public to learn about the Arab world from diverse perspectives. * Journal of North African Studies *Gugler has done an admirable job taking the reader on a complex but passionate journey through the work of ten Arab fi lmmakers. * Black Camera *Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking. . . . Essential. * Choice *Ten Arab Filmmakers represents a timely and important resource for educators, scholars, and students. * Studies in Eastern European Cinema *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Social Critique Josef Gugler1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) Christa Salamandra2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty (Lebanon) Dalia Said Mostafa3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) Tim Kennedy4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) Refqa Abu-Remaileh5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and Other (Egypt) Viola Shafik6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt) Viola Shafik7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and European Film Markets (Egypt) Benjamin Geer8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anti-colonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation (Algeria) Guy Austin9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique and the Limits of Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema (Algeria) Will Higbee10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco) Jonathan SmolinFilm IndexName Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewShenker's book is a major addition to the scholarly literature on video testimony. His in-depth knowledge of the archival collections he examines enables him to provide a nuanced demonstration of the ways in which institutional imperatives regarding testimony act to shape the kinds of testimonies that are produced. * American Historical Review *[Shenker's] work contributes substantially to testimony studies, and, one hopes, will spark new debates. * Holocaust and Genocide Studies *Shenker's book is an invaluable resource for anyone working with the vast institutional repositories that will assume even greater importance as we shift to the post-survivor era. . . . Archivists and scholars alike would do well to read his careful analysis of the framing of testimony. * Journal of Jewish Identities *Table of ContentsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. Testimonies from the Grassroots: The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies2. The Centralization of Holocaust Testimony: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum3. The Cinematic Origins and the Digital Future of the USC Shoah Foundation4. Telling and Retelling Holocaust TestimoniesConclusion: Documenting Testimonies of Genocide through the Lens of the HolocaustNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It will likely be the indispensable touchstone for any future work in these areas with respect to Australian cultural studies." -Robert T. Tally, Texas State University "Definitely original in its approach, since it combines a conceptual approach with a more applied one. The book is a serious contribution to the field of mapping spatial narratives and to a better understanding of the production and spatial structure of fictional places." -Sebastien Caquard, Concordia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: Geocriticism's Disciplinary BoundariesAcknowledgments1. Remediating Space: Adaptation and Narrative Geography2. Cultural Topography and Mythic Space: Australia's North as Gothic Space3. Spatial History: Mapping Narrative Perceptions of Place over Time4. Mobility and Travel Narratives: Geovisualizing the Cultural Politics of Belonging to the Land5. Terra Incognita: Mapping the Uncertain and the UnknownBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis[From AQ] Faked in China traces the journeys of myriad counterfeit artifacts to critically examine the cultural impact of globalization on China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.Trade Review"[T]he undeniable strength of Yang's vision [is] throughout her book, she toggles between the global and national, state and citizen, corporate and private, refusing to reduce these relationships to simplistic binaries. Committedto a critical interrogation of familiar narratives about globalization, Yang takes her readers on a detailed journey through interdependent and multi-layered transnational spaces." * Communication and the Public *Fan Yang has written a thoughtful and accessible study of the counterfeit culture of China, specifically probing intellectual property rights (IPR) in terms of regime, culture, and power. * Pacific Affairs *[A] timely work to address key concerns regarding China's engagement with globalisation through the lens of intellectual property rights (IPR), which is commonly known as an economic and legal regime but revisited as a cultural one in the book. * Critical Arts *Scholars interested in the workings of globalization and cultural imperialism will find a great deal of value in Yang's thoughtful and detailed account. * Communication and the Public *An intricate picture of the cultural politics and transnational power struggles in World Trade Organization-era China. * Global Media and Communication *Fan Yang has written an unusual book. Faked in China succeeds in doing something that is very difficult: it shifts the terms of the debate by offering a new perspective on IPR. . . will certainly stimulate much discussion about the future of both IPR and the project of reimagining the Chinese nation. * The China Journal *Faked in China is an outstanding and highly original work. I am sure it will become required reading in cultural studies disciplines as well as in media and communcations studies. * The China Quarterly *The author succeeds in the central effort of using real-life examples to demonstrate that counterfeiting in today's China has a cultural meaning and impact beyond its purely economic and productive facets. * Asian Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Frequently Used Translations and TransliterationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. "From Made in China to Created in China": Nation Branding and the Global-National Imaginary2. From Bandit Cell Phones to Branding the Nation: Three Moments of Shanzhai3. Crazy Stone, National Cinema, and Counterfeit (Film) Culture4. Landmark, Trademark, and Intellectual Property at Beijing's Silk Street MarketConclusion: Cultural Imperialism and the "Chinese Dream"Appendix 1. Crazy Stone SynopsisAppendix 2. The Opening (Copied) Sequence in Crazy StoneAppendix 3. Silk Alley SynopsisNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis[From AQ] Faked in China traces the journeys of myriad counterfeit artifacts to critically examine the cultural impact of globalization on China following its accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001.Trade Review"[T]he undeniable strength of Yang's vision [is] throughout her book, she toggles between the global and national, state and citizen, corporate and private, refusing to reduce these relationships to simplistic binaries. Committedto a critical interrogation of familiar narratives about globalization, Yang takes her readers on a detailed journey through interdependent and multi-layered transnational spaces." * Communication and the Public *Fan Yang has written a thoughtful and accessible study of the counterfeit culture of China, specifically probing intellectual property rights (IPR) in terms of regime, culture, and power. * Pacific Affairs *[A] timely work to address key concerns regarding China's engagement with globalisation through the lens of intellectual property rights (IPR), which is commonly known as an economic and legal regime but revisited as a cultural one in the book. * Critical Arts *Scholars interested in the workings of globalization and cultural imperialism will find a great deal of value in Yang's thoughtful and detailed account. * Communication and the Public *An intricate picture of the cultural politics and transnational power struggles in World Trade Organization-era China. * Global Media and Communication *Fan Yang has written an unusual book. Faked in China succeeds in doing something that is very difficult: it shifts the terms of the debate by offering a new perspective on IPR. . . will certainly stimulate much discussion about the future of both IPR and the project of reimagining the Chinese nation. * The China Journal *Faked in China is an outstanding and highly original work. I am sure it will become required reading in cultural studies disciplines as well as in media and communcations studies. * The China Quarterly *The author succeeds in the central effort of using real-life examples to demonstrate that counterfeiting in today's China has a cultural meaning and impact beyond its purely economic and productive facets. * Asian Affairs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of Frequently Used Translations and TransliterationsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. "From Made in China to Created in China": Nation Branding and the Global-National Imaginary2. From Bandit Cell Phones to Branding the Nation: Three Moments of Shanzhai3. Crazy Stone, National Cinema, and Counterfeit (Film) Culture4. Landmark, Trademark, and Intellectual Property at Beijing's Silk Street MarketConclusion: Cultural Imperialism and the "Chinese Dream"Appendix 1. Crazy Stone SynopsisAppendix 2. The Opening (Copied) Sequence in Crazy StoneAppendix 3. Silk Alley SynopsisNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMartin's work is a successful and nuanced account of the historical contingencies that contributed to the resilience of Syrian authoritarianism. * American Historical Review *Syria's Democratic Years is a gem that deserves an audience beyond historians of 20th century Syria. The writing is lucid, at times elegant. The study of middlebrow media is enriched by interviews in Damascus, memoirs, archives, court records, and United States diplomatic records. Martin shows a deft touch for using cultural theory and comparative history to lend the book intellectual depth and relevance beyond the case at hand. * The Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Virtuous Citizen and the Postcolonial State1. Syria during the Democratic Years2. The Citizen and the Law3. Social Justice and the Patriarchal Citizen4. Punishing the Enemies of Arabism5. Making the Martial Citizen 6. The Magic of Modern Pharmaceuticals 7. Sex and the Conjugal Citizen Conclusion Citizens on the Tenth Day

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMartin's work is a successful and nuanced account of the historical contingencies that contributed to the resilience of Syrian authoritarianism. * American Historical Review *Syria's Democratic Years is a gem that deserves an audience beyond historians of 20th century Syria. The writing is lucid, at times elegant. The study of middlebrow media is enriched by interviews in Damascus, memoirs, archives, court records, and United States diplomatic records. Martin shows a deft touch for using cultural theory and comparative history to lend the book intellectual depth and relevance beyond the case at hand. * The Middle East Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Virtuous Citizen and the Postcolonial State1. Syria during the Democratic Years2. The Citizen and the Law3. Social Justice and the Patriarchal Citizen4. Punishing the Enemies of Arabism5. Making the Martial Citizen 6. The Magic of Modern Pharmaceuticals 7. Sex and the Conjugal Citizen Conclusion Citizens on the Tenth Day

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chris Robé and Stephen Charbonneau's edited collection InsUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader proposes that 'visibility is clearly not enough' when it comes to media activism. Their attention to media studies' emphasis on technologies over practices helps focus media activism on an actual practice of activism rather than a detached understanding of activist media as cultural artifact. As they argue, media production, distribution, and exhibition "often serve as a means to activism rather than an ends." In an era of hactivism and slacktivism, this volume makes a powerful reminder of the purpose of media activism and its urgency today, particularly as democracy is threatened in places like India and the United States."—Dale Hudson, author of Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places"The 'personal is political' has become so trite, it is co-opted by the right. InsUrgent Media from the Front traces the ethos of intersectional and indigenous politics historically and transnationally through the personal experiences of activists fighting to represent their struggles. It is urgent to understand the through lines of these alternative, activist and community media if we want to prevent social movements from becoming just another meme."—Vicki Mayer, author of Almost Hollywood, Nearly New Orleans: The Lure of the Local Film EconomyTable of ContentsForeword. "Then and Now: A Comparative POV on Activist Media" by John D.H. DowningIntroduction. "Insurgent Projections" by Chris Robé and Stephen CharbonneauI. US Radical Histories1. Tanya Goldman / Men and Dust, Labor Advocacy, and Alternative Film Distribution, 1939-19422. Angela Aguayo / Subjugated Histories as Affective Resistance: U.S. Abortion Documentaries, Middle-Class Resistance, and Botched Political Subjectivity3. Alexandra Juhasz and Sam Feder / Setting the Terms of Our Own Visibility: A Conversation between Sam Feder and Alexandra Juhasz on Trans Activist Media in the United States4. Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore Kerr / Seeing What the Patrimony Didn't Save, Alternative Stewardship of the Activist Media Archive: A Conversation between Alexandra Juhasz and Theodore KerrII. Indigenous Resistances and Indigenous Issues in Canada, US, and Australia5. Lisa Gye, Daniel Marcus, Oliver Vodeb, Kristy-Lee Horswood and Sam Burch / Coming to the Fire: Collaboration across Cultures in Media Activism6. Ezra Winton / The Program(ming) is Political: Documentary, Festivals and the Politics of Programming7. Dorothy Kidd / Mobilizing with Video in the Extractive Zone8. Kristi Kouchakji and Jason W. Buel / Analog No More: Idle No More as Digital Nation9. Ezra Winton / Letting it Seep In: Ojibwe Filmmaking Duo Adam and Zack Khalil Discuss Political Filmmaking as Covert OpsIII. Community Media in the Americas and Asia10. Ruth Goldman / Media Activism through Community: A Case Study of Squeaky Wheel/Buffalo Media Resources11. Chun Chun Ting / Community Organizing and Media Activism: The Case of v-artivist in Hong Kong*12. Kara Andrade / WhatsApp Messaging and Murder in Mexico13. Ben Lenzner / Film, Video, and Digital Media Activism Collection: Regional Video Activism in India—Video Volunteers, Community & EmpowermentList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the book's most notable contributions to the field is its emphasis on the portrayal of sexuality in films by women artists, many of whom have been discussed in this arena but not in this kind of depth and with this level of insight."—Michele Schreiber, author of Indie Reframed and American Postfeminist Cinema"This is one of the best and the most engrossing book I've read in my field in quite some time."—Carol Siegel, author of Sex Radical Cinema, Goth's Dark Empire, and New Millennial Sexstyles"Provocauteurs and Provocations delivers incredibly nuanced and deeply contextualized readings of a wide range of sexually provocative media texts. Reflecting the best work being done at the intersection of film/media studies and feminist/LGBTQ scholarship, it will be invaluable for helping us think through the ethical implications of screen media's current engagement with the pleasures and politics of sex."—Ron Becker, author of Gay TV and Straight AmericaTable of ContentsPrologue: Tangled Up in BluePart I: Provocations1. Selling Sex: Scandalous Marketing Campaigns and the Millennial Watercooler Movie2. Full-Frontal Provocation: Male Nudity as Non-Phallic MasculinityPart II: Provocauteurs3. Art Porn Provocauteurs: Feminist Critique through Corporeality in the Work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham4. Inbetweener (In)Appropriations: "Bad Queer" Provocauteurs Lisa Cholodenko and Desiree AkhavanEpilogue: Still Taboo? Provocative Acts, Vulnerable ViewingBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of the book's most notable contributions to the field is its emphasis on the portrayal of sexuality in films by women artists, many of whom have been discussed in this arena but not in this kind of depth and with this level of insight."—Michele Schreiber, author of Indie Reframed and American Postfeminist Cinema"This is one of the best and the most engrossing book I've read in my field in quite some time."—Carol Siegel, author of Sex Radical Cinema, Goth's Dark Empire, and New Millennial Sexstyles"Provocauteurs and Provocations delivers incredibly nuanced and deeply contextualized readings of a wide range of sexually provocative media texts. Reflecting the best work being done at the intersection of film/media studies and feminist/LGBTQ scholarship, it will be invaluable for helping us think through the ethical implications of screen media's current engagement with the pleasures and politics of sex."—Ron Becker, author of Gay TV and Straight AmericaTable of ContentsPrologue: Tangled Up in BluePart I: Provocations1. Selling Sex: Scandalous Marketing Campaigns and the Millennial Watercooler Movie2. Full-Frontal Provocation: Male Nudity as Non-Phallic MasculinityPart II: Provocauteurs3. Art Porn Provocauteurs: Feminist Critique through Corporeality in the Work of Catherine Breillat and Lena Dunham4. Inbetweener (In)Appropriations: "Bad Queer" Provocauteurs Lisa Cholodenko and Desiree AkhavanEpilogue: Still Taboo? Provocative Acts, Vulnerable ViewingBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

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