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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOwens's Desire after Dark makes clear and important contributions to existing literature on queer theory, media studies, and the horror genre. His insightful, focused study will interest both fans of the TV programs and films examined and scholars in various disciplines who will appreciate how adeptly Owens incorporates well-balanced discussions of culture, industry, genre, reception, and representation in compelling reads of the media re-viewed. -- Richard Wolff * The Journal of Religion, Film, and Media *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Blood, Sulfur, Sex, Magick1. Aquarian Alternatives: Mid-century Media and the Quest for Occultly Queer Histories2. Le sexe qui parle du surnaturel: Supernatural Sexualities and Satanic Subcultures in the 1970s3. The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age(s) of HIV/AIDS4. Now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magick, ours is the power: Casting as Coming Out in Millennial Media5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me: The Ambivalent Queer of Occult Cable TVEpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewOwens's Desire after Dark makes clear and important contributions to existing literature on queer theory, media studies, and the horror genre. His insightful, focused study will interest both fans of the TV programs and films examined and scholars in various disciplines who will appreciate how adeptly Owens incorporates well-balanced discussions of culture, industry, genre, reception, and representation in compelling reads of the media re-viewed. -- Richard Wolff * The Journal of Religion, Film, and Media *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Blood, Sulfur, Sex, Magick1. Aquarian Alternatives: Mid-century Media and the Quest for Occultly Queer Histories2. Le sexe qui parle du surnaturel: Supernatural Sexualities and Satanic Subcultures in the 1970s3. The Blood is the Life/Death: Queer Contagion and Viral Vampirism in the Age(s) of HIV/AIDS4. Now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magick, ours is the power: Casting as Coming Out in Millennial Media5. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me: The Ambivalent Queer of Occult Cable TVEpilogueIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnderson and Milliken's book is no less than a groundbreaking study. Its exclusive focus on popular documentaries digs an alternative route next to the lane of popular fiction. -- Ohad Landesman, Tel Aviv UniversityMilliken and Anderson's excellent volume on "popular" documentary is both a long time coming and absolutely rooted in this moment in the history of documentary media. The volume fills an almost shocking gap in scholarly writing on popular documentary—especially given the value documentary studies places on its connection with the political—and it does so as the stakes of shared knowledge of the world have never been higher. Together, the chapters in this volume compellingly explore a range of documentary media forms while always interrogating what the "popular" actually entails. -- Josh Malitsky, author of A Companion to Documentary Film HistoryMore and more often I encounter first-year students who arrive at college and tell me right away that they love documentaries—thanks, I believe, to the rising popularity of the form on streaming sites like Netflix. . . . They and many, many viewers are consuming just the kinds of popular documentary texts that this collection addresses. -- Jennifer Malkowski, author of Dying in Full Detail: Morality and Digital DocumentaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Popular Documentary Today1. Pop Docs: The Work of Popular Documentary in the Age of Alternate Facts, by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson2. Reclaiming the Popular for Public Interest Documentary, by Ezra WintonPart II: Documentary Ecologies3. Public Television's Role in the U.S. Documentary Ecology, by Patricia Aufderheide4. On (Not) Falling from the Sky: Fly-Over Global Documentary as Capitalist Body Genre, by Zoë Druick5. Accelerating Deceleration: Slow Violence and Time-Lapse Cinematography, by Devon CouttsPart III: Short Forms and Web Practices6. From Elegy to Kitsch: Spectacles of Epistephelia in Food, Inc. and Early Food Documentaries, by Sabiha Ahmad Khan7. Errol Morris, The New York Times, Docmedia, and Op-Docs as Pop Docs, by Anthony Kinik8. Popular Music & Short Form Nonfiction: Is the Web a Forum for Documentary Innovation?, by Michael Brendan BakerPart IV: Auteurs, Politics and Popularity9. From the Essay Film to the Video Essay: Between the Critical and the Popular, by Allison de Fren10. Errol Morris and the Ends of Irony, by Jonathan Kahana11. Vérite: Lauren Greenfield and the Challenge of Feminist Documentary, by Shilyh WarrenPart V: Documentary Genres12. Citizenfour and the Anti-Representational Turn: Aesthetics of Failure in the Information Age, by S. Topiary Landberg13. Of Kids and Sharks: Victims, Heroes and the Politics of Melodrama in Popular Documentary, by Christie Milliken14. Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary's Recovery Mode, by Landon PalmerPart VI: Engaging Audiences15. Assembling Nanking: Archival Filmmaking in the Popular Historical Documentary, by Dylan Nelson16. Virality is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity and Violence, by Alexandra Juhasz17. Populism, Participation and Perpetual Incompletion: Performing an Urban History Commons, by Rick Prelinger18. The Armchair Juror: Audience Engagement in True Crime Documentaries, by George S. Larke-Walsh19. New (Old) Ontologies of Documentary, by Steve F. AndersonIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnderson and Milliken's book is no less than a groundbreaking study. Its exclusive focus on popular documentaries digs an alternative route next to the lane of popular fiction. -- Ohad Landesman, Tel Aviv UniversityMilliken and Anderson's excellent volume on "popular" documentary is both a long time coming and absolutely rooted in this moment in the history of documentary media. The volume fills an almost shocking gap in scholarly writing on popular documentary—especially given the value documentary studies places on its connection with the political—and it does so as the stakes of shared knowledge of the world have never been higher. Together, the chapters in this volume compellingly explore a range of documentary media forms while always interrogating what the "popular" actually entails. -- Josh Malitsky, author of A Companion to Documentary Film HistoryMore and more often I encounter first-year students who arrive at college and tell me right away that they love documentaries—thanks, I believe, to the rising popularity of the form on streaming sites like Netflix. . . . They and many, many viewers are consuming just the kinds of popular documentary texts that this collection addresses. -- Jennifer Malkowski, author of Dying in Full Detail: Morality and Digital DocumentaryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPart I: Popular Documentary Today1. Pop Docs: The Work of Popular Documentary in the Age of Alternate Facts, by Christie Milliken and Steve F. Anderson2. Reclaiming the Popular for Public Interest Documentary, by Ezra WintonPart II: Documentary Ecologies3. Public Television's Role in the U.S. Documentary Ecology, by Patricia Aufderheide4. On (Not) Falling from the Sky: Fly-Over Global Documentary as Capitalist Body Genre, by Zoë Druick5. Accelerating Deceleration: Slow Violence and Time-Lapse Cinematography, by Devon CouttsPart III: Short Forms and Web Practices6. From Elegy to Kitsch: Spectacles of Epistephelia in Food, Inc. and Early Food Documentaries, by Sabiha Ahmad Khan7. Errol Morris, The New York Times, Docmedia, and Op-Docs as Pop Docs, by Anthony Kinik8. Popular Music & Short Form Nonfiction: Is the Web a Forum for Documentary Innovation?, by Michael Brendan BakerPart IV: Auteurs, Politics and Popularity9. From the Essay Film to the Video Essay: Between the Critical and the Popular, by Allison de Fren10. Errol Morris and the Ends of Irony, by Jonathan Kahana11. Vérite: Lauren Greenfield and the Challenge of Feminist Documentary, by Shilyh WarrenPart V: Documentary Genres12. Citizenfour and the Anti-Representational Turn: Aesthetics of Failure in the Information Age, by S. Topiary Landberg13. Of Kids and Sharks: Victims, Heroes and the Politics of Melodrama in Popular Documentary, by Christie Milliken14. Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary's Recovery Mode, by Landon PalmerPart VI: Engaging Audiences15. Assembling Nanking: Archival Filmmaking in the Popular Historical Documentary, by Dylan Nelson16. Virality is Virility: Viral Media, Popularity and Violence, by Alexandra Juhasz17. Populism, Participation and Perpetual Incompletion: Performing an Urban History Commons, by Rick Prelinger18. The Armchair Juror: Audience Engagement in True Crime Documentaries, by George S. Larke-Walsh19. New (Old) Ontologies of Documentary, by Steve F. AndersonIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis notion of instrumentalizing images [in Radical Documentary and Global Crises] is highly original, as it situates the question of documentary at the fulcrum of conflict, people, place, and justice, rather than simply on the level of artistic complexity. -- Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of Documentary Across PlatformsTechnicist hype aside, there is a new agenda emerging in documentary film studies and it is grounded in digital's most significant affordance—its accessibility. And nowhere does this development more profoundly resonate than on the radical non-fiction film tradition. Radical Documentary and Global Crises connects a number of current carefully distinguished deployments of documentary media in the service of social activism with a century of engagé filmmaking going back to Vertov, Shub, and Ivens, through the Leagues and Collectives to WITNESS and this global sample of 'militant evidence.' Ryan Watson is to be thanked for providing so clear a signpost to this crucial agenda item. -- Brian Winston, University of LincolnRyan Watson's book is a compelling study of documentary filmmaking from below. Historically informed and theoretically sophisticated, his analysis connects exciting new initiatives from around the world with a long history of radical filmmaking to arrive at a surprisingly hopeful assessment of the role of radical documentary filmmaking in the future. -- Nadia Yaqub, author of Palestinian Cinema in the Days of RevolutionRadical Documentary and Global Crisis feels both like a much-needed acknowledgment of the significant work so many activist filmmakers have put forth in the modern age and at the same time, a call for more activist, "radical" filmmaking in the coming years as generations will continue to have more and more access to potentially liberating force of documentary film. -- Michael T. Barry Jr. * Activist History Review *Addressing ongoing contradictions of the digital age, Radical Documentary and Global Crises explores the productive mobilization of an often-overwhelming proliferation of digital evidence; how traumatic imagery can generate political fervor rather than anaesthetize affect; and how to mobilize against a rash of human rights abuses that cannot be readily – or equitably – perceived globally. And like any good radical documentary, Watson's book lights a fire in the belly of its reader. Radical Documentary and Global Crises will be of interest to scholars of documentary film, activist media, nontheatrical media, new media, and global media cultures, as well as journalists, lawyers, policy-makers, and anyone concerned with the political potential of cellphone cameras. -- Madison Brown * Studies in Documentary Film *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Radical Documentary, Global Crises, and Militant Evidence1. Digital Active Witnesses and the Limits of Visible Evidence2. Prisons, Palestine, and Interactive Documentary3. Amateur Counter-Archives in Iraq4. Syria and AbounaddaraConclusion: Militant Evidence and the Future of Radical DocumentaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis notion of instrumentalizing images [in Radical Documentary and Global Crises] is highly original, as it situates the question of documentary at the fulcrum of conflict, people, place, and justice, rather than simply on the level of artistic complexity. -- Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of Documentary Across PlatformsTechnicist hype aside, there is a new agenda emerging in documentary film studies and it is grounded in digital's most significant affordance—its accessibility. And nowhere does this development more profoundly resonate than on the radical non-fiction film tradition. Radical Documentary and Global Crises connects a number of current carefully distinguished deployments of documentary media in the service of social activism with a century of engagé filmmaking going back to Vertov, Shub, and Ivens, through the Leagues and Collectives to WITNESS and this global sample of 'militant evidence.' Ryan Watson is to be thanked for providing so clear a signpost to this crucial agenda item. -- Brian Winston, University of LincolnRyan Watson's book is a compelling study of documentary filmmaking from below. Historically informed and theoretically sophisticated, his analysis connects exciting new initiatives from around the world with a long history of radical filmmaking to arrive at a surprisingly hopeful assessment of the role of radical documentary filmmaking in the future. -- Nadia Yaqub, author of Palestinian Cinema in the Days of RevolutionRadical Documentary and Global Crisis feels both like a much-needed acknowledgment of the significant work so many activist filmmakers have put forth in the modern age and at the same time, a call for more activist, "radical" filmmaking in the coming years as generations will continue to have more and more access to potentially liberating force of documentary film. -- Michael T. Barry Jr. * Activist History Review *Addressing ongoing contradictions of the digital age, Radical Documentary and Global Crises explores the productive mobilization of an often-overwhelming proliferation of digital evidence; how traumatic imagery can generate political fervor rather than anaesthetize affect; and how to mobilize against a rash of human rights abuses that cannot be readily – or equitably – perceived globally. And like any good radical documentary, Watson's book lights a fire in the belly of its reader. Radical Documentary and Global Crises will be of interest to scholars of documentary film, activist media, nontheatrical media, new media, and global media cultures, as well as journalists, lawyers, policy-makers, and anyone concerned with the political potential of cellphone cameras. -- Madison Brown * Studies in Documentary Film *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Radical Documentary, Global Crises, and Militant Evidence1. Digital Active Witnesses and the Limits of Visible Evidence2. Prisons, Palestine, and Interactive Documentary3. Amateur Counter-Archives in Iraq4. Syria and AbounaddaraConclusion: Militant Evidence and the Future of Radical DocumentaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value. In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradiTrade ReviewShedding light on the profound phenomenon of digital evangelicalism, this book sparkles with illuminating insights on the contemporary tensions and paradoxes of religious authority, as well as the vital role of new media for religious organizing in a datafied world. The Digital Evangelicals assembles a range of multimodal data across platforms to help us think more deeply about the communicative constitution of religious authority, authenticity and community. -- Pauline Hope Cheong, co-editor of Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and FuturesThe Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Cooper's attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. -- Michael J. Altman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of AlabamaThe Digital Evangelicals is an ambitious, impressive, unprecedented work. Part cultural history, part critical textual analysis, part ethnography, it is more than the sum of these parts. Cooper's book demands a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to analyze evangelicalism as a hybrid online-offline cultural form. -- James Bielo, author of Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for AuthenticityThe Digital Evangelicals is an impressive text. In addition to detailing how today's emerging evangelicals engage new media, Cooper also provides a framework for rethinking what, exactly, this thing called 'evangelicalism' even is. Through richly detailed ethnographies of Twitter debates, Instagram rituals, and Zoom church services, the book charts how communities constitute evangelicalism through media—and how social media might play a role in evangelicalism's undoing. The book is impressive both for its breadth of its analysis and the depth of its theoretical critique. -- Christopher Cantwell, co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of ReligionTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Media and Message1. Media Sincerity and Promiscuity: Origins2. Evangelical Media Ecologies from Print to the Internet3. Evangelical Theories of the DigitalPart II: Authenticity Construction across New Media: Case Studies4. #FareWellRobBell: Heresy Discourse and the Horizontalization of Authority5. Feminist Publics and the Progressive Evangelical Blogosphere6. Instagram, Authenticity, AffectPart III: Local Technologies in a Global World7. Emerging Midwestern Evangelicals and Digital Media8. Media Ambivalence in Emerging EvangelicalismConclusion: Zoom Church, Cancel Culture, and the Exportation of Evangelical MediaAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisConsiders anti-fascist films of the immediate post-war period, which depict the re-integration of former soldiers into society and the crisis of masculinity that accompanied the aftermath of the war. This work argues that the cinematic productions of East Germany offer a corrective to misperceptions about German responses to the legacy of the war.Trade Review[F]or advanced scholars in the fields of film history and cultural theory Pinkert's study opens up a range of new and important perspectives. 27. 4 2009 * German History *Film and Memory in East Germany is an important addition to the literature in this rapidly growing area of investigation for a number of reasons. . . . This is an excellent study and will be required reading for all students and scholars of this period in German film history.Spring 2010 * Slavic Review *. . . These accounts give rise to new psychoanalytical approaches to the study of post-WW II German cultural identity and East German film. The book concludes with a critical reexamination of altered patterns of loss after the collapse of communism. A good resource for those interested in film (East German in particular) and trauma studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, researchers, faculty, and professionals. —ChoiceMay 2009 -- B.Tautz * Bowdoin College *These accounts give rise to new psychoanalytical approaches to the study of post-WW II German cultural identity and East German film. . . . A good resource for those interested in film (East German in particular) and trauma studies.May 2009 * Choice *Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Cinematic Specters of History as MemoryPart 1. Vanishing Returnees: War Trauma, Antifascism, and the Crisis of Masculinity (1940s)1. Flashbacks and Psyche—The Murderers Are among Us2. Grieving Dead Soldiers—Somewhere in Berlin3. Psychotic Breaks and Conjugal Rubble—Wozzeck4. Suicidal Males and Reconstruction—Our Daily BreadPart 2. Fantasmatic Fullness: Strained Female Subjectivity and Socialist Dreams (1950s)5. Silent Mothers: Air War as Intimate Memory—Rotation6. Stalin's Daughters on the Verge—The Story of a Young Couple and Destinies of Women7. Missing Smile: Psychic Paralysis and Production—Sun SeekersPart 3. Germany, Year Zero: Recasting the Past in the Present (1960s)8. Postmelancholic Memory Projections—I Was Nineteen9. Modern Loss and Mourning Plays—Born in '45Epilogue: Vacant History, Empty Screens—Postcommunist Films of the 1990sFilmographyNotesWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines the history of Italian celebrity culture and ponders the changing qualities of stardom. This book examines the phenomenon of the diva in the European cinema, the invention of new stars in the sound cinema, and the postwar impact on stardom through the introduction of changing forms of narration in popular genres.Trade ReviewWriting on the nexus of aesthetics and politics, Landy (Univ. of Pittsburgh) prefers the filmic text over extra-filmic elements. She describes how in the Italian silent cinema, the "diva" and "divo" bridged tradition and modernity; how, in 1930s sound films, the star fired popular culture fascination but was de-idealized; and how Mussolini used cinema to project his virile image. Then, writes the author, as neorealism reworked old genres it remade old stars and reconceived the male and female body. Anna Magnani typified the resurgence of stardom. In the popular genres in the 1950s, stars embodied the quest for national identity in the changing social milieu. In discussing the 1960s, Landy looks at the social concern of comedies and how international stars (e.g., Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti) showed commonsense surviving in a threatening climate. Landy also discusses television, co-productions, the spaghetti western, horror films, and the emerging stardom of the director (Federico Fellini, Lena Wertmüller, Roberto Benigni, Dario Argento). A postscript proffers Italian President Silvio Berlusconi as televisual star, a wishful reflection of power and affluence. This comprehensive study of Italian stardom is closely argued, clearly written, and rich in detail and insight. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. -- ChoiceM. Yacowar, emeritus, University of Calgary, December 2008"Marcia Landy has produced a wonderful and in many ways path-breaking examination of the history of Italian stardom from silent film to the present.... The book is rich in stimulating observations and thought-provoking propositions. As with other works by Professor Landy it is the fruit of an ideal blend of theoretical insights and historically grounded film analysis." —Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York UniversityTable of ContentsContents<\>AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Eloquent Bodies: The Cinema of Divismo2. The Stars Talk3. Stars amidst the Ruins: The Old and the New4. Popular Genres and Stars5. Starring Directors and Directing Stars: The Cinematic Landscape and Its Changing BodiesEpilogue: An End to Stardom?A PostscriptNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe cultural politics of censorship, from colonial paintings to onscreen kisses and nuclear secretsTrade Review"[T]his insightful volume on a neglected topic shows that means and modes of censorship have kept pace with the mediums of communication, on grounds not dissimilar to the justification offered during the Raj." —Contemporary South Asia"Censorship in South Asia traces the genealogy of censorship through time to reveal its ever-contested presence in Indian cinema and beyond." —Maria Khan, Feminist Review"This is an exciting and innovative volume that will become the standard reference in the field for some time to come." —Thomas Blom Hansen, author of The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India"The contributors to this volume investigate a wide range of cultural regulation, from cinema to painting, blasphemy to official secrecy and even advertising to nuclear culture. The essays enlighten readers and provide better understanding of the concept of censorship." —South Asia Research"[The] compelling volume Censorship in South Asia steps away from the media spectacle and, with great insight and precision, places such contemporary cases of public agitation and regulation in their regional and historical context. To do so, the editors... expand the idea of censorship beyond juridical repression exercised in the quiet of the state's backrooms and instead place it within a larger domain of ‘cultural regulation’." —South AsiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Between Sedition and Seduction: Thinking Censorship in South AsiaWilliam Mazzarella and Raminder Kaur2. Iatrogenic Religion and PoliticsChristopher Pinney3. Making Sense of the Cinema in Late Colonial IndiaWilliam Mazzarella4. The Limits of Decency and the Decency of Limits: Censorship and the Bombay Film IndustryTejaswini Ganti5. Anxiety, Failure, and Censorship in Indian AdvertisingAngad Chowdhry6. Nuclear RevelationsRaminder Kaur7. Specters of Macaulay: Blasphemy, the Indian Penal Code, and Pakistan's Postcolonial PredicamentAsad Ali Ahmed8. After the Massacre: Secrecy, Disbelief, and the Public Sphere in NepalGenevieve LakierList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisUsing high concept as a framework for the analysis of the 2003 coverage of the Iraq War - paying close attention to how Fox News and CNN packaged and promoted the US invasion of Iraq - this book offers a fresh paradigm for understanding how television news reporting shapes our perceptions of events.Trade ReviewThe author's thorough documentation and careful analysis will be most appreciated by students of journalism or communications, as an understanding of communications theory is helpful, but readers seriously following current events may be interested as well. * Library Journal *. . . a thoughtful commentary and critique of the state of the cable news component of early-21st-century journalism. . . . Highly recommended.May 2010 * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Spectacle of Televised War1. High Concept, Media Conglomeration, and Commercial News2. The High-Concept War Narrative3. Intertextuality, Genres, and Stars4. War Characters5. The Look and Sound of High-Concept War Coverage6. The Marketing of the 2003 Invasion of IraqConclusion: The Narrative Exits Screen Right, the Coverage Fizzles, and News is What, Exactly?Appendix AAppendix BAppendix CWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisTabloids hotly debated in South AfricaTrade ReviewWasserman's engagement with tabloid journalism in South Africa is comprehensive and critical, at all times attentive to detail and provides sound research and well-rounded critical inquiary into the recent rise of tabloids within the post-apartheid media sphere. Anyone who reads this book will be compelled to take South African tabloids seriously, and will be urged to consider the important socio-semiotic work they carry out for their vast numbers of readers today. * Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies *This is a thoughtful, refreshing and timely contribution to the South African and international media literature. It attempts to grasp tabloid journalism in all its dimensions: in its blatant commercialism, its social justice implications, its unpalatable eccentricity and sensationalism, its challenge to hierarchies of taste and cultural capital, and its role vis-à-vis the national journalistic field on the one hand and broader society on the other. * Journal of Modern African Studies *Wasserman's sound research and keen analysis make this book valuable as a sociological source on race and ethnicity in South Africa, as well as a resource on communication and journalism. . . . An excellent study that is easy to read and understand. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *In all, Wasserman makes a convincing case that South African tabloids should not be dismissed as 'trash journalism' but, in the socio-historical context, should be read politically and viewed as part of the local-regional-global dynamic. 32(2) * Australian Journalism Review *As a whole, Tabloid Journalism in South Africa is a must read for media historians, journalists, and perhpas just about anyone who is interested in ongoing questions about a post-apartheid South Africa. Wasserman's work deserves great respect for encouraging a localized standpoint of tabloids in South Africa. Perhaps most importantly, Herman Wasserman's work shows that tabloid newspaper readers like Rapabi Boithatelo illuminate the failure of the post-apartheid government and mainstream media in South Africa to address the needs of all citizens. * JHistory *The book makes easy reading . . . [and is] interesting for its novel approach . . . to the examination of tabloid journalism in South Africa.Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2011 * Newspaper Research Journal *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Shock! Horror! Scandal! The Tabloid Controversy and Journalism Studies in Post-Apartheid South Africa2. Attack of the Killer Newspapers! Tabloids Arrive in South Africa3. Black and White and Read All Over: Tabloids and the Glocalization of Popular Media4. Not Really Newspapers: Tabloids and the South African Journalistic Paradigm5. The Revolution Will Be Printed: Tabloids, Citizenship, and Democratic Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa6. Truth or Trash? Understanding Tabloid Journalism and Lived Experience7. Often They Cry with the People: The Professional Identities of Tabloid Journalists8. Conclusion: Telling StoriesNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDiscusses the role the media play in cultivating, shaping, and directing the collective emotional response toward crimeTrade ReviewPetersen grounds her study in a wide array of literature about topics including the ethics of mediating suffering, masculinity, gender, class, melodrama, liberalism, the public sphere, imagined communities, reason, and emotion. . . . Graduate students interested in cultural studies, gender and queer studies, and/or advocacy may find Petersen's book useful. * JHISTORY H-Net *Petersen makes use of an intriguing thesis and presents an insightful source for journalism and broadcasting students. July 2011 * Library Journal *Petersen offers an impressive reading of media discourses illustrating the value of public feelings and how they can become animating forces in the production of civic action. * Great Plains Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Media, Emotion, and the Public Sphere1. Mourning Matthew Shepard: Grief, Shame, and the Public Sphere2. "Hate is Not a Laramie Value": Translating Feelings into Law3. The Murder of James Byrd Jr.: The Political Pedagogy of Melodrama4. The Visibility of Suffering, Injustice, and the LawConclusion: Feeling in the Public SphereAppendix: Text and Interview SelectionBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays debates how written printed, visual, and performed works produced meaning and a multimedia culture in America before 1900.Trade Review"This volume brings together some of the most exciting work in print culture and 'old new media' studies (relating to early America) that is being done today. The collection will have an avid scholarly audience as the interdisciplinary fields of book history and of media, literacy, and performance studies, and their subfields, continue to thrive." —Patricia Crain, New York University“This rich study redefines text, memoir, narrative, performance, and performance spheres in ways that will enhance our understanding of how American culture developed before the turn of the twentieth century. Choosing `moments of eloquence' or intriguing `cultural artifacts,' Cultural Narratives encompasses an extraordinary range of topics, including cross-cultural exchanges of music, poetry, oral narrative, and theatrical traditions. It delves into codes of civility, poetic performance, visual and verbal literacy, considering issues of race, class, and gender, and how they intersected with the ‘texts’ so many Americans used in shaping their own identities.” —Heather S. Nathans, University of Maryland“This collection contains important contributions to our understanding of a wide range of media in America before 1900. The volumes published in A History of the Book in America have already begun to give an impressive sense of the major contribution of the history of the book to our understanding of American culture, but Cultural Narratives goes beyond the brief of those volumes both in emphasizing other media than the book and in stressing the interrelations between those media. This volume is important not only to scholars working in American Studies but also to anyone interested in the impact of ‘textual media’ in the making of culture and history.” —Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania“Gustafson and Sloat show how memories ‘have enough cultural currency to be a historical category.’ Textual information is well cited and documented, and the titles of the chapters are intriguing. Useful to specialists in American studies, English, or history.” —Choice"The seventeen essays in this collection are relatively brief; most of them serve as provocations for new approaches, distillations of the authors' larger projects, or meditations on method. Those that attend especially to women offer vivid snapshots of the possibilities and perils of literacy and writing in a colonial through antebellum context. . . . What is clear from this collection is that . . .[i]n the context of textuality and performance in early America, many forms of publication, including print, opened up alternative modes for the production of meaning—meaning that we continue to discover." —Legacy“Resisting the tendency to hyper-specialize that one often sees manifested in contemporary edited collections, the book is appealingly ‘loose’ in its structure . . . an excellent example of the scholarship that can emerge when some of the newest and most original thought is applied to the oldest of American texts.” —Years Work in English Studies“This collection—with contributions to Native American studies, musicology, race and culture, and the examination of precise sites of literacy—provides a map of the interactions between the emerging media that constituted early and nineteenth-century American culture. It also marks a significant broadening of the modes of enquiry and material considerations of book history.” —SHARP News

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Book SynopsisFrom 1910 to the end of World War I, American society witnessed a tremendous outpouring of books, pamphlets, and especially newspapers espousing virulently anti-Catholic themes and calling on readers to recognize the danger of Catholicism to the American republic. By 1915 the most popular anti-Catholic newspaper, The Menace, boasted over 1.6 million weekly readers. Justin Nordstrom''s Danger on the Doorstep examines for the first time the rise and abrupt decline of anti-Catholic literature during the Progressive Era, as well as the issues and motivations that informed anti-Catholic writers and their Romanist opponents.Nordstrom explores the connection between anti-Catholicism and nationalism from 19101919. He argues that the anti-Catholic literature that occupied such a prominent place in the cultural landscape derived its popularity by infusing long-standing anti-Catholic traditions with the emerging themes of progressivism, masculinity, and nationalism. NordstTrade Review“ . . . this study is a valuable addition to the recent raft of insightful monographs . . . on American Catholics in the Progressive Era. The degree to which the author, emulating historians such as Jay Dolan and John McGreevey, has integrated his topic into the sociopolitical context of the period is noteworthy . . . this volume deserves a readership in university courses and among scholars in the humanities and social sciences.” —The Journal of American History“While retaining a sharp analytical focus on the 1910s, Nordstrom connects the anti-Catholicism of that decade with earlier outbreaks (antebellum era, 1980s) and later ones (1920s, 1950s). He firmly establishes the surprising extent and popularity of nativism of the decade. He strongly connects it to many disparate strands of scholarship and convincingly explains its 'hiatus' after World War I. Finally, Nordstrom acutely analyzes the Catholic counter-attack. An impressive monograph.” —The Catholic Historical Review“Nordstrom's study provides a window for understanding an important, long-lived spiritual/militaristic metaphor through its manifestation in a specific context . . . it seeks to explore the macrocosm through a microcosm and to provide a building block for further studies. The book is thought-provoking and diligently researched in primary sources.” —Indiana Magazine of History“Nordstrom makes a convincing case for his conclusions and does an excellent job of bringing an interesting and previously not well-known period of anti-Catholicism in American history into focus. He also does a good job of connecting his analysis to the larger themes of Progressive-Era culture – muckraking, reform, and national idealism.” —American Catholic Studies"Justin Nordstrom's study of ten American anti-Catholic periodicals published between the years 910 and 1919 tracks both unexpected and familiar cultural currents. . . . In Nordstrom's analysis, the orientation of these publications was unique in the long history of American anti-Catholicism.” —The New England Quarterly“In this first major exploration of anti-Catholic print culture in the 1910s, Nordstrom argues that such anti-Catholicism became prominent by its 'critical overlap' with discourses of progressivism, masculinity and nationalism, but later in the decade took backstage to international wartime priorities. Progressive Era anti-Catholicism was distinctive, Nordstrom argues, because it insisted that Roman Catholicism was insufficiently liberal and therefore posed a threat to the nation's political fabric . . . Recommended.” —Choice“. . . [A] comprehensive and vivid glimpse into the unsettling proclivities of those white, non-Catholic Americans known as nativists, with particular focus on those among their rank who explicated their opposition to Roman Catholicism in the print media. Also included in this fine text are illustrations and cartoons, descriptive of nativist print culture.” —Catholic Worker“Danger on the Doorstep is a valuable addition to scholarship about the relationship between print and social movements. Its emphasis on anti-Catholicism makes it especially valuable, given how big the movement was and how little scholarship there is on the subject. Readers will especially appreciate the appendix of anti-Catholic cartoons, which powerfully underscores what was at stake in this struggle over citizenship in Progressive Era America.” —The Historian“It is a contribution to the history of the Progressive Era and is necessary reading for anyone interested in that period. More largely, it is a contribution to the history of anti-Catholicism and anticlericalism, not just in the United States but globally, a topic rich with promise to illuminate important aspects of social, political, cultural, and sexual (dis)order. It is also a field that calls now for a “transnational history” – a history, given current historiographical trends and the state of scholarship on anti-Catholicism at the level of the nation-state whose time has come.” — Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era“Danger on the Doorstep is a balanced, carefully researched study of one important episode in the history of American anti-Catholicism . . . Nordstrom does a fine job of placing his story in the context of Progressivism and of the rapid expansion of print journalism in the early twentieth century.” —Catholic Library World

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Book SynopsisExamines how journalists have portrayed electoral participation in the United States. The authors analyze depictions of voters in print news coverage over the course of eighteen presidential elections (1948-2016), describe people's reactions to those depictions, and share insights from their interviews with more than fifty elite journalists.Trade Review“Why are reporters constantly tempted to predict—or even to declare—election results before people even vote? In this fascinating book, Jarvis and Han identify a growing attitude of dismissiveness that echoes academic research on easily manipulated citizens and reinforces the public’s cynicism about democracy. They show that this condescension has serious consequences. The authors’ analytical rigor is matched by their respect and concern for everyday people: a rare and worthy combination.”—Peter Levine,author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America“Jarvis and Han report that American journalists over six decades have inadvertently put campaign strategists in the driver’s seat and rendered voters as mere passengers. Moreover, campaign journalists were surprised that their concern for debunking strategists had undermined their attention to voters as active participants. Citizens disliked stories treating them as spectators and preferred stories treating then as empowered participants. This book offers important insights and a pathway toward improved campaign journalism and voting.”—Craig Allen Smith,author of Presidential Campaign Communication: The Quest for the White House“Votes that Count and Voters Who Don’t offers a rich understanding of how the language of news reports on presidential elections often impacts voter participation and turnout negatively. The centerpiece of this analysis is a nuanced content analysis of the trends in the appearance of three key words--vote, voter, and voting--in news reports across a sixty-eight-year period. Supplemented by experimental data and interviews with journalists, these results identify ways that news reports can enhance participation in elections.”—Maxwell McCombs,author of Setting the Agenda: The Mass Media and Public Opinion“Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t will be invaluable reading for scholars, journalists, and citizens who care about elections—not just about who wins them, or the microscopic analysis of voting behavior, but about the fundamental exercise of power that elections represent. Jarvis and Han show us how it matters when journalists portray voters as those who are acted upon rather than as empowered democratic actors.”—Regina G. Lawrence,Executive Director, George S. Turnbull Portland Center and Agora Journalism Center, University of Oregon“Provocative just in its title alone, Sharon E. Jarvis and Soo-Hye Han’s Votes That Count and Voters Who Don’t: How Journalists Sideline Electoral Participation (Without Even Knowing It) is more insightful than the usual complaints about American politics devolving into a horse race in an echo chamber.”—Scott McLemee Inside Higher Ed“Perhaps the book’s triumph is that it makes it more difficult to look at members of the media as elite, but simply as contrite in the face of their apparent role in an election process that appears to have left the voter behind.”—Raymond McCaffrey Presidential Studies QuarterlyTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Journalists and Voters1 Portraying the Voter2 Discounting the Voter3 Positioning the Voter4 Influencing the Voter5 Struggling with the Voter6. Spinning for the VoterAppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisA multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring current scholarship on the history of human identification. Examines how techniques of identification are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation. Trade Review“While there is now a growing literature on identification, there is no volume, as far as I know, so firmly rooted in literary studies, as compared to historical approaches. The Art of Identification makes a significant, original, and novel contribution to the literature.”—Simon Cole,author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification“In a world increasingly dominated by technological forms of human surveillance, identification, and profiling, it is ever more important to examine how such processes affect how we feel and understand ourselves and others. The exciting essays in The Art of Identification are a signal contribution to this task. The collection will fascinate humanities scholars, scientists, and AI ethicists alike.”—Edward Higgs,author of Identifying the English: A History of Personal Identification 1500 to the PresentTable of ContentsIntroductionRex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James PardonPart 1: Genres of Identification1. Charming Faces and the Problem of IdentificationMatt Houlbrook2. Identity NoirJames Pardon3. “The Ghosts of Individual Peculiarities”: Murder and Interpretation in DickensAndrew Mangham4. “A Puzzle of Character”: Francis Iles and Narratives of Criminality in the 1930sVictoria StewartPart 2: The Body Captured5. The Art of Identification: The Skeleton and Human IdentityRebecca Gowland and Tim Thompson6. Becoming More Biological: Ruth Ozeki and the Postgenomic Ethnoracial NovelPatricia E. Chu7. Identification Made Visible: Photographic Evidence and Russell WilliamsJonathan FinnPart 3: Surveillant Technologies8. The Face in the Biometric PassportLiv Hausken9. The Bourne IdentificationRex Ferguson10. Identification and the “Intelligent City”Dorothy Butchard11. Jennifer Egan and the DatabaseRob LedererContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe story of a newspaperman and his satirical publication.Trade ReviewCharles Carver here tells a tragic story that makes you swell at the majesty of man's mind and shrink at his rotten vanity. * Houston Post *[Carver] ... tells, tersely and fairly, the story of the brilliant and rambunctious William Cowper Brann, the hot-eyed itinerant newspaperman who settled down in Waco, Texas, in the 1890's and made a spectacular frontal assault upon what he conceived to be the idiocies and hypocrisies of his time ... * New York Herald Tribune Books *Table of Contents Introduction Prologue 1. The “Romish Conspiracy” 2. Carlyle and the Courthouse Run 3. “The Athens of Texas” 4. Attack—and Sell 5. The Crime 6. The Defense 7. The Course of Justice 8. Pot Pourri 9. “Sexual Purity and Gunpowder” 10. The Abduction 11. The Whipping 12. “Ropes, Revolvers, and Religion” 13. “Six-Shooter Depot” 14. “Go Cork Yourselves” 15. “Come along, Mr. Brann!” Epilogue Source Material Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A richly-layered overview of the journalistic landscape in Malaysia and Indonesia." -- Peter Gordon * Asian Review of Books *"Steele’s study is well situated within the literature on Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. It provides an important corrective not only to simplistic assumptions that Islam cannot allow for free expression, balance, or critique but also to superficial understandings of how religious values shape people’s public activities." * Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia *"Steele’s book presents a landmark work, setting the stage for more nuanced engagements with contemporary Muslim practices of journalism in a world of contested religious ideals, social values, and political projects." * Journal of Islamic Studies *"Janet Steele’s book really is an eye-opener for anybody interested in comparative perspectives on journalism ethics. She skillfully deconstructs any possible assumption that ethical reflections in modern media organization is a privilege of the West." * Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly *"Janet Steele’s new book on Islam and journalism in Southeast Asia is a refreshing tour de force of qualitative research, grounded in years of in-depth interviews and participant observation at five influential print publications. . . . this is an extremely important book that sets new standards for qualitative research on the internal workings of newsrooms, and the world views that prevail there." * Journal of Press Politics *

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Unruly Figures provides a provocative and theoretically rich account of the uneven terrain of contemporary sexual politics." * Gender & Society *"Social commitment and intellectual vigour make this journey adventurous, and the author transmits its spirit through her evocative, lyrical writing." * Review of Development and Change *"This is an elegantly written book that makes a persuasive case for what Mokkil frames as a queer reading practice of dissident sexuality that works to keep such tensions open." * Journal of Asian Studies *

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Book SynopsisExamines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. This book sets out to unravel a paradox surrounding modern Chinese poetry.Trade Review"[An] outstanding monograph….this book is not ‘just’ about poetry, and lives up to the expectations raised by its focus on the online world, and wider issues at the confluence of culture, economy, media, and politics in the conjuncture of twenty-first-century China." -- Maghiel van Crevel * Asiascape *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Poetry on the Web 2. Poetry in Print 3. Poetry on the Stage 4. Poetry in the News Conclusion Appendix | Poetry Survey Questions Glossary of Chinese Terms Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn illuminating study of the complex relationship between children and media in the digital ageTrade Review“Patti Valkenburg is a prominent scholar of media and children and one of the most prolific scholars of communication globally. Jessica Taylor Piotrowski is a rising star in our field and one of the leading scholars of the upcoming generation. Together, these two are a powerhouse.”—Dafna Lemish, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey -- Dafna Lemish“Screen media are among the most pervasive influences in the lives of infants, children, and adolescents. A cutting-edge and forward-thinking book of this sort is greatly needed.”—Heather Kirkorian, University of Wisconsin-Madison -- Heather Kirkorian“This carefully researched and deeply insightful book offers new perspectives on the role of media in the lives of children and adolescents.”—Amy B. Jordan, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania -- Amy B. Jordan“This essential book combines history with analysis to offer a roadmap on children and media research. It provides a launch pad for scholars and an accessible read to all.”—David Kleeman, Dubit Limited -- David Kleeman“Ambitious and comprehensive, this excellent book offers a compelling and readable overview of the relationship between young people and the media, informed by diverse theoretical perspectives and a wealth of empirical research. Professors Valkenburg and Piotrowski admirably cover the full spectrum of age groups and a broad range of key issues that are of primary concern to parents, educators, practitioners and indeed, young people themselves.”—Sun Sun Lim, Singapore University of Technology and Design -- Sun Sun Lim

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Book SynopsisAn accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of deathTrade Review“A compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality.”—Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post“This vital, colorful ethnography shows that tech’s perverse ingenuity does not stop even at death. But tech thereby gets death wrong, mistaking as glitch the very condition of human flourishing.”—John Durham Peters, Yale University“Death Glitch brilliantly reveals how death disrupts Silicon Valley’s best-laid plans: from early efforts to delete pages of dead Facebook users to startups for digital estate planning that die before their clients. An insightful and original take on the limits of techno-solutionism.”—Wendy Chun, author of Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media

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Book SynopsisYour voice as biometric data, and how marketers are using it to manipulate youTrade Review“[Dr. Turow ] is encouraging policymakers and the public to do something I wish we did more often: Be careful and considerate about how we use a powerful technology before it might be used for consequential decisions.”—Shira Ovide, New York Times“If you think your voice belongs to you, think again. Joseph Turow performs a critical public service, exposing in all its slimy detail this latest frontier of exploitation, where our voices are plundered for analysis, prediction, behavioral manipulation, and profit.”—Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism“A ground-breaking exploration of the new frontier of surveillance—the voice. With clarity and nuance, Joseph Turow reveals the stakes for democracies and liberty.”—Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace“In this forward-thinking and original book, Joseph Turow explores how our voices are the next frontier for technology companies and marketers, connecting the dots in a way that no one else yet has.”—Mara Einstein, author of Black Ops Advertising: Native Ads, Content Marketing and the Covert World of the Digital Sell“In this well-researched call to action, Joseph Turow explains why we need to protect the human voice to shield our thoughts and emotions.”—Chris Jay Hoofnagle, University of California, Berkeley“The Voice Catchers is compelling, thoroughly researched, and filled with jaw-dropping revelations. It gives readers a fascinating peek under the hood of the companies exploiting our voices, as well as reasons to hold them accountable.”—Woodrow Hartzog, Northeastern University

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Book SynopsisRepublic of Spin illuminates the power of image crafting and its limits—its capacity not only to mislead but also to lead.Trade Review"From Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, David Greenberg has written a brilliant, fast-moving narrative history of the leaders who have defined the modern American presidency." -- Bob Woodward - The Washington Post

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Book SynopsisOur favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voicessuch as what accent or dialect to useoffer rich data for sociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variation as well as general readers interested in media, Vox Popular is an engaging tour through the major issues of sociolinguistic study as heard in the voices from mass media. Provides readers with a unified and accessible picture of the interrelationships between language variation and the mass media Presents detailed original analyses of multiple audiovisual media sources Includes a broad methods chapter covering quantitative and qualitative methods in a style not available in any other textbook All theoretical terms are accessibly explained, with engaging examples, making it suitable for non-academics as well as undergraduate students IncorporaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on the Linguistic Conventions Used in Vox Popular x Keywords Found in Each Chapter xiv 1 Language in a Mediated World 1 Mad Men in a Modern Family World 1 Why Does a Linguist Care about Mad Men or Modern Family? 3 Narrative Media as a Site for Linguistic Exploration 12 Language Variation in the Narrative Media 20 2 Exploring Language and Language Variation 25 Introduction 25 Languages and Dialects 27 The Components of a Grammar 32 All the Systems Work as a System 34 Systems of Variation 40 Language Change 47 3 Studying Language Variation in the Media 55 Introduction 55 Formulating a Research Question 56 Turning Narrative Media into Data 57 Analytic Orientation 58 Transcribing Your Data 61 Coding Your Data 66 Constructing a Corpus 69 Quantitative Methods 70 Qualitative Methods 75 Triangulating Your Evidence with Different Analytic Approaches 82 4 Dimensions of Variation 85 Introduction 85 Non-Linguistic/Linguistic 90 Spoken/Written 93 Non-Standard/Standard 97 Informal/Formal 101 Unplanned/Planned 104 Local/Global 107 Private/Public 110 Putting It All Together 114 5 Making Language Variation Meaningful 119 Introduction 119 Meaning 120 Indexical Meaning 124 Ideology 130 Ideology about Language 133 Ideology, Indexicality, and Power 138 6 Language Variation and Characterization 154 Introduction 154 Characterization and Language 156 Realness and Authenticity 160 Identity and Identification 163 Relational Identity 164 Norms and Types 168 Social Personae 172 Indexical Authenticity 176 7 Language as Narrative Action 183 Introduction 183 Performance and Speech Acts 185 Language as a Plot Device 193 Switching as Action 196 Taboo Language as Action 205 8 Connecting to the Audience 221 Introduction 221 Audiences 222 Audience Design 226 Setting Expectations for Viewers 230 Enregisterment 236 Stylization 242 Interacting with Audiovisual Media 246 The End 253 Index 258

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Book SynopsisOur favorite movies and TV shows feature indelible characters who tell us about themselves not just in what they say but in how they say it. The creative decisions behind these voicessuch as what accent or dialect to useoffer rich data for sociolinguistic study. Ideal for students of language variation as well as general readers interested in media, Vox Popular is an engaging tour through the major issues of sociolinguistic study as heard in the voices from mass media. Provides readers with a unified and accessible picture of the interrelationships between language variation and the mass media Presents detailed original analyses of multiple audiovisual media sources Includes a broad methods chapter covering quantitative and qualitative methods in a style not available in any other textbook All theoretical terms are accessibly explained, with engaging examples, making it suitable for non-academics as well as undergraduate students IncorporaTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii A Note on the Linguistic Conventions Used in Vox Popular x Keywords Found in Each Chapter xiv 1 Language in a Mediated World 1 Mad Men in a Modern Family World 1 Why Does a Linguist Care about Mad Men or Modern Family? 3 Narrative Media as a Site for Linguistic Exploration 12 Language Variation in the Narrative Media 20 2 Exploring Language and Language Variation 25 Introduction 25 Languages and Dialects 27 The Components of a Grammar 32 All the Systems Work as a System 34 Systems of Variation 40 Language Change 47 3 Studying Language Variation in the Media 55 Introduction 55 Formulating a Research Question 56 Turning Narrative Media into Data 57 Analytic Orientation 58 Transcribing Your Data 61 Coding Your Data 66 Constructing a Corpus 69 Quantitative Methods 70 Qualitative Methods 75 Triangulating Your Evidence with Different Analytic Approaches 82 4 Dimensions of Variation 85 Introduction 85 Non-Linguistic/Linguistic 90 Spoken/Written 93 Non-Standard/Standard 97 Informal/Formal 101 Unplanned/Planned 104 Local/Global 107 Private/Public 110 Putting It All Together 114 5 Making Language Variation Meaningful 119 Introduction 119 Meaning 120 Indexical Meaning 124 Ideology 130 Ideology about Language 133 Ideology, Indexicality, and Power 138 6 Language Variation and Characterization 154 Introduction 154 Characterization and Language 156 Realness and Authenticity 160 Identity and Identification 163 Relational Identity 164 Norms and Types 168 Social Personae 172 Indexical Authenticity 176 7 Language as Narrative Action 183 Introduction 183 Performance and Speech Acts 185 Language as a Plot Device 193 Switching as Action 196 Taboo Language as Action 205 8 Connecting to the Audience 221 Introduction 221 Audiences 222 Audience Design 226 Setting Expectations for Viewers 230 Enregisterment 236 Stylization 242 Interacting with Audiovisual Media 246 The End 253 Index 258

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Book SynopsisWith the latest insights from the world of communication studies into the nature of corporate reputation, this new addition to Wiley-Blackwell s series of handbooks on communication and media reflects the growing visibility of large businesses ethical profiles, and tracks the benefits that positive public attitudes can bring.Table of ContentsAbout the Editor ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgments xxvi 1 Corporate Reputation and the Multi-Disciplinary Field of Communication 1 Craig E. Carroll Section 1 Communication Disciplines of Reputation 11 2 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Public Opinion 13 Cees B.M. van Riel 3 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Interpersonal Communication 20 Sherry J. Holladay 4 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Organizational Communication 30 Robyn Remke 5 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Advertising 40 Nora J. Rifon, Karen Smreker, and Sookyong Kim 6 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Corporate Communication 53 Peggy Simcic Brønn 7 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Public Relations 62 Judy Motion, Sally Davenport, Shirley Leitch, and Liz Merlot 8 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Management Communication 72 James S. O’Rourke 9 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Communication Management 81 Anne Gregory 10 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Integrated Marketing Communications 94 Clarke L. Caywood 11 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Marketing Communication 104 Richard J. Varey 12 Corporate Reputation and the Disciplines of Journalism and Mass Communication 121 Craig E. Carroll 13 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Visual Communication 130 Susan Westcott Alessandri 14 Corporate Reputation and the Discipline of Corporate Communication Law 141 Karla K. Gower Section 2 Theoretical Perspectives 151 15 Agenda-Building and Agenda-Setting Theory: Which Companies We Think About and How We Think About Them 153 Matthew W. Ragas 16 Complexity Theory and the Dynamics of Reputation 166 Priscilla Murphy and Dawn R. Gilpin 17 Communicatively Constituted Reputation and Reputation Management 183 Stefania Romenti and Laura Illia 18 A Strategic Management Approach to Reputation, Relationships, and Publics: The Research Heritage of the Excellence Theory 197 Jeong-Nam Kim, Chun-ju Flora Hung-Baesecke, Sung-Un Yang, and James E. Grunig 19 Image Repair Theory and Corporate Reputation 213 William L. Benoit 20 The Institutionalization of Corporate Reputation 222 John C. Lammers and Kristen Guth 21 Experiencing the Reputational Synergy of Success and Failure through Organizational Learning 235 Timothy L. Sellnow, Shari R. Veil, and Kathryn Anthony 22 Relating Rhetoric and Reputation 249 Øyvind Ihlen 23 Situational Theory of Crisis: Situational Crisis Communication Theory and Corporate Reputation 262 W. Timothy Coombs 24 Corporate Reputation and the Theory of Social Capital 279 Vilma Luoma-aho Section 3 Attributes of Reputation 291 25 Corporate Attributes and Associations 293 Sabine Einwiller 26 What They Say and What They Do: Executives Affect Organizational Reputation through Effective Communication 306 Juan Meng and Bruce K. Berger 27 Corporate Reputation and Workplace Environment 318 Hua Jiang 28 Corporate Reputation and the Practice of Corporate Governance 334 Justin E. Pettigrew and Bryan H. Reber 29 Synthesizing Relationship Dynamics: An Analysis of Products and Services as Components of Corporate Reputation 347 Pan Ji and Paul S. Lieber 30 Corporate Social Responsibility, Reputation, and Moral Communication: A Constructivist View 362 Friederike Schultz 31 Reputation or Financial Performance: Which Comes First? 376 Alexander V. Laskin 32 Who’s in Charge and What’s the Solution? Reputation as a Matter of Issue Debate and Risk Management 388 Robert L. Heath 33 Form Following Function: Message Design for Managing Corporate Reputations 404 Peter M. Smudde and Jeffrey L. Courtright Section 4 Contexts of Reputation 419 34 Contrabrand: Activism and the Leveraging of Corporate Reputation 421 Jarol B. Manheim and Alex D. Holt 35 Identity, Perceived Authenticity, and Reputation: A Dynamic Association in Strategic Communications 435 Juan-Carlos Molleda and Rajul Jain 36 Corporate Branding and Corporate Reputation 446 Esben Karmark 37 Corporate Reputation and Corporate Speech 459 Robert Kerr 38 Corporate Reputation Management and Issues of Diversity 471 Damion Waymer and Sarah VanSlette 39 Corporate Reputation in Emerging Markets: A Culture-Centered Review and Critique 484 Rahul Mitra, Robert J. Green, and Mohan J. Dutta 40 The Power of Social Media and Its Influence on Corporate Reputation 497 Tina McCorkindale and Marcia W. DiStaso 41 The Reputation of Corporate Reputation: Fads, Fashions, and the Mainstreaming of Corporate Reputation Research and Practice 513 Magda Pieczka and Theodore E. Zorn 42 Reputation and Legitimacy: Accreditation and Rankings to Assess Organizations 530 Jennifer L. Bartlett, Josef Pallas, and Magnus Frostenson 43 Hidden Organizations and Reputation 545 Craig R. Scott Section 5 Communication Research and Evaluation 559 44 Corporate Reputation Measurement and Evaluation 561 Don W. Stacks, Melissa D. Dodd, and Linjuan Rita Men 45 Corporate Reputation and Return on Investment (ROI): Measuring the Bottom-Line Impact of Reputation 574 Yungwook Kim and Jungeun Yang 46 The Future of Communication Research in Corporate Reputation Studies 590 Craig E. Carroll Author Index 597 Subject Index 603

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Book SynopsisThis collection of thirteen essays and supporting primary documents explores how films have changed and been changed by American society. Each chapter covers a distinct period and contains an introduction, essay, discussion questions, primary documents, and suggestions for further reading and film screenings.Table of ContentsPreface ix Preface to the First Edition x Source Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Why Movies Matter 1 1 Going to the Movies: Early Audiences 14 Introduction to Article 14 “The Celluloid Stage: Nickelodeon Audiences” by Richard Butsch 15 Documents 32 Introduction to Documents 32 “The Nickel Madness” by Barton W. Carrie 32 Report of Censorship of Motion Pictures and of Investigation of Motion Picture Theatres of Cleveland 38 by Robert O. Bartholomew “House Fly Panics Pittsburgh Movie Audience” 40 Readings and Screenings 41 2 Heroes and Heroines of Their Own Entertainment: Progressive-Era Cinema 43 Introduction to Article 43 “Front Page Movies” by Kay Sloan 44 Documents 58 Introduction to Documents 58 “The Social Uses of the Moving Picture” by W. Stephen Bush 59 “Los Angeles Socialist Movie Theater” 62 Readings and Screenings 64 3 The Rise of Hollywood: Movies, Ideology, and Audiences in the Roaring Twenties 66 Introduction to Article 66 “Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s” by Steven J. Ross 67 Documents 91 Introduction to Documents 91 “The Deluxe Picture Palace” by Lloyd Lewis 92 “Petting at the Movies” by E. J. Mitchell 94 “The Actor’s Part” by Milton Sills 95 Readings and Screenings 98 4 Who Controls What We See? Censorship and the Attack on Hollywood “Immorality” 100 Introduction to Article 100 “Hollywood Censored: The Production Code Administration and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930–1940” by Gregory D. Black 101 Documents 123 Introduction to Documents 123 Quotes from Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures edited by Lamar T. Beman 123 Readings and Screenings 129 5 Confronting the Great Depression: Renewing Democracy in Hard Times 130 Introduction to Article 130 “The Recreation of America: Hybrid Moviemakers and the Multicultural Republic” by Lary May 131 Documents 160 Introduction to Documents 160 Responses to Edward G. Robinson’s “Declaration of Democratic Independence” 161 Readings and Screenings 163 6 Alternatives Cinemas: Movies on the Margins 165 Introduction to Article 165 “Others’ Movies” by Thomas Cripps 166 Documents 185 Introduction to Documents 185 “The Negro and the Photo-Play” by Oscar Micheaux 185 “‘The Symbol of the Unconquered,’ New Play” 187 “Some New American Documentaries: In Defense of Liberty” by John H. Winge 188 Readings and Screenings 191 7 Seeing Red: Cold War Hollywood 193 Introduction to Article 193 “Hollywood and the Cold War” by John Belton 194 Documents 214 Introduction to Documents 214 FBI Report, “Communist Political Influence and Activities in the Motion Picture Business in Hollywood, California” 215 “The Waldorf Statement,” Issued by the Association of Motion Picture Producers 219 Readings and Screenings 220 8 Eisenhower’s America: Prosperity and Problems in the 1950s 222 Introduction to Article 222 “The Fifties” by Leonard Quart and Albert Auster 223 Documents 242 Introduction to Documents 242 “Teen Idol: Hedda Hopper Interviews James Dean” 243 Reviews of Rebel Without a Cause 246 Readings and Screenings 249 9 Race, Violence, and Film: From the Blaxploitation Era of the 1960s to the “Hood-Homeboy” Movies of the 1990s 252 Introduction to Article 252 “Black Violence as Cinema: From Cheap Thrills to Historical Agonies” by Ed Guerrero 253 Documents 269 Introduction to Documents 269 Variety Reports Reactions to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? 269 “Blaxploitation Movies: Cheap Thrills That Degrade Blacks” by Alvin F. Poussaint 271 Readings and Screenings 274 10 Vietnam and the Crisis of American Power: Movies, War, and Militarism 277 Introduction to Article 277 “Vietnam and the New Militarism” by Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner 278 Documents 300 Introduction to Documents 300 Correspondence Regarding the Making of The Green Berets 300 “Platoon Marks ‘End of a Cycle’ for Oliver Stone” by Sean Mitchell 302 “Reunion: Men of a Real Platoon” by Jay Sharbutt 306 Readings and Screenings 308 11 Reagan’s America: The Backlash Against Women and Men 310 Introduction to Article 310 “Fatal and Fetal Visions: The Backlash in the Movies” by Susan Faludi 311 Documents 333 Introduction to Documents 333 Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 334 “A Backlash Manifesto” by Phyllis Schlafly 334 “A New Stereotype: The Crazy Career Woman” by Richard Cohen 338 Readings and Screenings 339 12 American Film in the Age of Terror: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 342 Introduction to Article 342 “Limited Engagement: The Iraq War on Film” by Susan L. Carruthers 343 Documents 358 Introduction to Documents 358 “Why Iraq War Films Fail” by Tom Streithorst 359 “Total Receipts and Production Costs for Films About Afghanistan and Iraq” by John Markert 362 Readings and Screenings 363 13 Hollywood Goes Global: The Internationalization of American Cinema 365 Introduction to Article 365 “Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care” by Tyler Cowen 366 Documents 382 Introduction to Documents 382 Testimony Before Congressional Hearings on Television Broadcasting and the European Community 383 “Global Box Office Climb Continues in 2011” 385 Readings and Screenings 386 Index 389

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