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The University of Michigan Press Cheap Talk
Book SynopsisFlips the script on communication disability, positioning the unruly, disabled speaker at the centre of analysis to challenge the belief that more communication is unquestionably good. Joshua St Pierre brings together the dysfluent speaker, the talking head, and the troll to show how speech is made cheap to meet the inhuman needs of capital.Trade Review“St. Pierre has produced a work that is philosophically and theoretically rich while remaining accessible to a wide range of readers. The book’s careful attention to non-normative modes of communication and exchange works to push past the boundaries of liberal humanist understandings of intelligibility and inclusion towards radically new spaces of political belonging.”— Anne McGuire, University of TorontoTable of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction. Stuttering, Trolls, and Talking Heads One. Putting Fluency to Work Two. Controlling Communication Three. Becoming Talking Heads Four. Stuttering Parrhesia Coda. Rehabilitation Bibliography Index
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The University of Michigan Press Negative Nonsensical and NonConformist
Book SynopsisIn the 1960s, Suzuki Seijun met with modest success in directing popular movies about yakuza gangsters and mild exploitation films featuring prostitutes and teenage rebels. In this book, Peter Yacavone argues that Suzuki became an unlikely cinematic rebel and, with hindsight, one of the most important voices in the global cinema of the 1960s.Trade Review“Fans, aficionados and, yes, even scholars will treasure this long-awaited study of the work of one of Japan’s greatest, and most wonderfully eccentric, directors. Yacavone demonstrates the startling originality of Suzuki’s cinema and continuity of his vision—a genuine auteur study that does not ignore other factors, like genre, industry, and social context.”—David Desser, Emeritus University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign“This is an excellent, passionate study that illuminates Suzuki’s work in its broad features as well as its nuances and striking idiosyncrasies. Yacavone develops an analytic template that he terms the ‘Suzuki Difference’ which deals with the manifold ways that Suzuki challenged, subverted, undercut, and blithely disregarded the norms of professional studio filmmaking that bound most other filmmakers in the period.”—Stephen Prince, Virginia TechTable of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction A Note on the Text and Translations Throughout this Book Chapter 1. The Recusant Chapter 2. The Dog (Rajo to kenjū, Ankokugai no bijo, Kagenaki koe, Kaikyō chi ni somete, Kutabare gurentai, Tokyo kishitai, Subete ge kurutteru, Akutarō, Toge wo wataru wakai kaze, Akutarō-den: warui hoshi shita demo) Chapter 3. The Mirror (Yajū no seishun, Tantei Jimusho 2-3: Kutabare akutō-domo, Kemono no nemuri) Chapter 4. The Tattoo (Kanto mushuku, Oretachi no chi ga yurusanai, Hana to doto, Irezumi ichidai) Chapter 5. The Flesh (Nikutai no mon, Shunpuden, Kawachi karumen) Chapter 6. The Break (Tokyo nagaremono, Kenka erejii, Sandanjū no otoko, Mikkō 0-Rain, 13-go taihisen yori sono gosōsha wo nerae) Chapter 7. The Hinge (Koroshi no rakuin, Pisutoru opera) Chapter 8. The Double (Zigeunerweisen, Kagerō-za, Yumeji, Hishū monogatari, Rupan sansei: Babiron no ōgon no densetsu) Bibliography Filmography Appendix: A Complete Filmography of Suzuki Seijun, Director
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The University of Michigan Press Acting the Part
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University of California Press InDifferent Spaces Place and Memory in Visual
Book SynopsisExplores the construction of identities in the psychical space between perception and consciousness, drawing upon psychoanalytic theories to describe the constitution and maintenance of 'self' and 'us' - in imaginary spatial and temporal relations to 'other' and 'them' - through the all-important relay of images.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Geometry and Abjection 2 Perverse Space 3 Newton's Gravity 4 Chance Encounters 5 Seiburealism 6 Paranoiac Space 7 The City in Pieces 8 Barthes's Discretion 9 Brecciated Time Notes Illustrations Index
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University of California Press Sounding New Media
Book SynopsisExamines the role of sound and audio in the development of media theory and practice, including technologies and performance art events, with particular emphasis on sound, embodiment, art, and technological interactions. This book takes an historical approach, focusing on technologies that became available in the mid-twentieth century-electronics.Trade Review"Dyson seamlessly integrates theoretical perspectives with the history of technological developments in this thought-provoking work for scholars and practitioners." Choice "An informative book on the still developing role between new media, consumer, and creator." -- Heather Pinson Notes (Music Library Assoc) "Sophisticated and ... ambitious... Dyson's skillful, erudite excavations of rhetorical and conceptual structures bring many benefits." Filter Magazine "A stimulating read... Dyson engages with an impressive range of perspectives. She contributes valuably to contemporary music scholarship. -- Nina Sun Eidsheim, Mandy-Suzanne Wong Organised SoundTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethereal Transmissions The "Tele" of Ph_n_ 2. Celestial Telegraphies 3. Aural Objects, Recording Devices, and the Proximate Apparatus 4. Death, Silence, and the Tape Recorder 5. Immersion 6. Embodying Technology From Sound Effect to Body Effect 7. Atmospheres Conclusion: Music and Noise Notes References Index
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University of California Press The Googlization of Everything
Book SynopsisExamines the ways we have used and embraced Google - and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. This title exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much-touted Google Book Search.Trade Review"An important book. While a number of excellent histories about the emergence of Google have been published ... few writers have tried to take a comprehensive and critical look at the wider impact on society of Google's vast ambition 'to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.'... Vaidhyanathan's perspective as an East Coast academic outside the group-think of Silicon Valley is a valuable one. He is a clear writer with an engaging voice, and a good guide for this peek behind the wizard's curtain." San Jose Mercury News "This book is in no way an attack on Google but more like a parent asking a child, 'What do you want to do with your life?' then going through all the concerns one by one. Strongly recommended." Library Journal "Siva Vaidhyanathan ... thinks we've become far too dependent on an arrogant, barely regulated company that gathers and stored tons of personal information about us." -- Nick Eaton Seattle Post-Intelligencer "A stimulating and controversial book." Times Higher EducationTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: The Gospel of Google 1. Render unto Caesar: How Google Came to Rule the Web 2. Google’s Ways and Means: Faith in Aptitude and Technology 3. The Googlization of Us: Universal Surveillance and Infrastructural Imperialism 4. The Googlization of the World: Prospects for a Global Public Sphere 5. The Googlization of Knowledge: The Future of Books 6. The Googlization of Memory: Information Overload, Filters, and the Fracturing of Knowledge Conclusion: The Human Knowledge Project Acknowledgments Notes Index
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University of California Press Interpreting the Internet Feminist and Queer
Book SynopsisEvery user knows the importance of the @ symbol in internet communication. This book provides the exploration of how Latin American feminist and queer activists have interpreted the internet to support their counter publics.Trade Review"A grounded and well thought-out book. It is essential reading to anyone new to feminist counterpublics in Latin America, and I suspect to many feminist activists who may want to contextualise the work they do online." Gender & ITTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction. Interpreting the Internet: A Feminist Sociomaterial Approach 1. Conceiving Latin American Feminist Counterpublics 2. The Creation of "a Modern Weaving Machine": Bringing Feminist Counterpublics Online 3. Weaving the "Invisible Web": Counterpublic Organizations Interpret the Internet 4. La Red Informativa de Mujeres de Argentina: Constructing a Counterpublic 5. From Privacy to Lesbian Visibility: Latin American Lesbian Feminist Internet Practices Conclusion. Making the Internet Make Sense Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Slow Fade to Black
Book SynopsisCompleting the detailed two-part history of the RKO film studio, which began with RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born, this second volume charts the studio's fortunes, which peaked during World War II, declined in the postwar period, and finally collapsed in the 1950s. It chronicles the period from 1942 to the company's demise in 1957.Trade Review"Jewell's scholarship is impeccable and his text is plain-spoken and highly readable. Every studio deserves a similar examination; thank goodness the right man tackled this particular task." -- Leonard Maltin
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University of California Press Precarious Creativity
Book SynopsisExamines the seismic changes confronting media workers in an age of globalization and corporate conglomeration. This anthology peeks behind the hype and supposed glamor of screen media industries to reveal the intensifying pressures and challenges confronting actors, editors, electricians, and others.Trade Review“The current volume is overdue, because it not only assumes the rise of the worldwide precariat, but it also scrutinizes vastly different cultural practices, many of which have not received critical attention in any depth…. Readers of this volume will nonetheless encounter stimulating rehearsals of these new modes of creative precarity.” * Labor: Studies in Working-Class History *
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University of California Press Pixar and the Aesthetic Imagination Animation
Book SynopsisDraws upon film theory, animation theory, and philosophy to examine modes of animation storytelling that address aesthetic experience within contexts of technological, environmental, and socio-cultural change.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Aesthetic Storytelling: A Tradition and Theory of Animated Film 2. The Uncanny Integrity of Digital Commodities (Toy Story) 3. From the Technological to the Postmodern Sublime (Monsters, Inc.) 4. The Exceptional Dialectic of the Fantastic and the Mundane (The Incredibles) 5. Disruptive Sensation and the Politics of the New (Ratatouille) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press ABC Sports The Rise and Fall of Network Sports
Book SynopsisABC Sports shaped how the world consumes sport. The American Broadcasting Company's sports division is behind some of network television's most significant practices, celebrated personalities, and iconic moments. It created the weekend anthology Wide World of Sports, transformed professional football into a prime-time spectacle with Monday Night Football, fashioned the Olympics into a mega media event, and even revolutionized TV news. Travis Vogan's cultural and institutional history of ABC Sports examines the development of network sports television in the United States and the aesthetic, cultural, political, and industrial practices that mark it. ABC Sports traces the storied division from its beginnings through the internet age to reveal the changes it endured along with the new sports media environment it spawned.Trade Review"This is a book that has much to commend it and little to criticize. It is built on meticulous research and a strong overall conception of the significance of the subject. For the specialist in history or media it is essential." * New York Journal of Books *"Vogan employs his impressive historical and archival research skills to develop an important cultural analysis of American sports media. Vogan’s research helps fill large holes not only in the area of sports studies but also within the broader field of media studies." * Media Industries Journal *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: ABC Sports and Network Sports Television 1. The “Almost Broadcasting Company” and the Birth of ABC Sports 2. ABC’s Wide World of Sports: “The Seedbed of Modern Sports Television” and the Cold War 3. “Th e Network of the Olympics”: Starring Muhammad Ali and Howard Cosell 4. Monday Night Football, Brian’s Song, and the Roots of the Prime-Time TV Event 5. Th e News from Munich on the “Arledge Broadcasting Company” 6. “What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports Is Going On Here?”: Trash Sports and Scandal 7. “No More Sacred Cows”: The End of ABC Sports’ Golden Age Conclusion: From Wide World of Sports to the Worldwide Leader in Sports Appendix 1: Wide World of Sports Inaugural Season Schedule, 1961 Appendix 2: ABC’s Wide World of Sports Athlete of the Year Appendix 3: Top Fifteen Television Audiences of All Time as of Roots’ Premiere Appendix 4: Top Ten Most-Watched Wide World of Sports Episodes Abbreviations Notes Index
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University of California Press Hollywood Made in China
Book SynopsisChina's entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 ignited a race to capture new global media audiences. This book examines this compelling dynamic, where the distinctions between Hollywood's dream factory and the PRC's Chinese dream of global influence become increasingly blurred.Trade Review"Timely and informative." * H-Diplo *"Hollywood Made in China is a timely contribution to film studies, media studies, and communication studies... impressive, far-reaching." * China Review *“Kokas’ work provides an insightful analysis of Sino-US co-ventures, and exemplifies an important approach to global media industries in general. . . .this is a groundbreaking book with an analysis that helps us understand how the Chinese government’s policy-making and Hollywood’s economic ambitions in the Chinese market complicate Sino-US media collaborations and construct ‘multilayered systems that unite the American and Chinese economies’.” * Asian Journal of Communication *"Hollywood Made in China is an elegant account of Hollywood’s evolving engagements in China’s commercial film environment... an accessible, intriguing study of an unlikely liaison." * Modern Chinese Literature and Culture *"Like High Concept, scholar and industry consultant Justin Wyatt’s landmark 1994 book about Hollywood’s pivot towards packaged promotion - and merchandising-ready properties, Aynne Kokas’s Hollywood Made in China will be the seminal guidebook to understanding media in the era of the world’s pivot to China." - Karen Fang, University of Houston * China Review International *"A concise and lucid analysis." * China Quarterly *"...an informative book with updated real-world cases and textual analysis on Sino-US film co-production. For those less familiar with the topic, this book serves as a great introduction and resource." * Global Media and Communication *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Policy and Superheroes: China and Hollywood in Sino-US Relations 2. Hollywood's China: Mickey Mouse, Kung Fu Panda, and the Rise of Sino-US Brandscapes 3. Soft Power Plays: How Chinese Film Policy Influences Hollywood 4. Whispers in the Gallery: How Industry Forums Build Sino-US Media Collaboration 5. Compradors: How Above-the-Line Workers Brand Sino-US Film Production 6. Farm Labor, Film Labor: How Below-the-Line Workers Shape Sino-US Film Production Conclusion Appendix 1: Examples of Sino-US Film Collaboration by Type Appendix 2: Chinese Character Glossary Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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University of California Press CounterCola A Multinational History of the Global
Book SynopsisCounter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformationsliberal, developmentalist, neoliberalof the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers' rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism's imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits. Trade Review"Drawing on company records, archival materials, and various publications, Ciafone investigates corporate endeavors with an anthropologically influenced understanding of people and practices who resisted Coca-Cola. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Coca-Cola Bottling System and the Logics of the Franchise 2 • Mediating Coca-Colonization: Negotiating National Development and Difference in Coca-Cola’s Postwar Internationalization 3 • “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”: The “Real Thing” and the Revolutions of the 1960s 4 • Indianize or Quit India: Nationalist Challenges to Coca-Cola in Postcolonial India 5 • A Man in Every Bottle: Labor and Neoliberal Violence in Colombian Coca-Cola Bottling 6 • Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola: Commodification, Consumption, and Environmental Challenges in Neoliberal India 7 • CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility and Continued Social Resistance, A Nonconclusion Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press CounterCola A Multinational History of the Global
Book SynopsisCounter-Colacharts the history of one of the world's most influential and widely known corporations, The Coca-Cola Company. Over the past 130 years, the corporation has sought to make its products, brands, and business central to daily life in over 200 countries. Amanda Ciafone uses this example of global capitalism to reveal the pursuit of corporate power within the key economic transformationsliberal, developmentalist, neoliberalof the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Coca-Cola's success has not gone uncontested. People throughout the world have redeployed the corporation, its commodities, and brand images to challenge the injustices of daily life under capitalism. As Ciafone shows, assertions of national economic interests, critiques of cultural homogenization, fights for workers' rights, movements for environmental justice, and debates over public health have obliged the corporation to justify itself in terms of the common good, demonstrating capitalism's imperative to either assimilate critiques or reveal its limits. Trade Review"Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"Drawing on company records, archival materials, and various publications, Ciafone investigates corporate endeavors with an anthropologically influenced understanding of people and practices who resisted Coca-Cola. . . . Highly recommended." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 • The Coca-Cola Bottling System and the Logics of the Franchise 2 • Mediating Coca-Colonization: Negotiating National Development and Difference in Coca-Cola’s Postwar Internationalization 3 • “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke”: The “Real Thing” and the Revolutions of the 1960s 4 • Indianize or Quit India: Nationalist Challenges to Coca-Cola in Postcolonial India 5 • A Man in Every Bottle: Labor and Neoliberal Violence in Colombian Coca-Cola Bottling 6 • Water for Life, Not for Coca-Cola: Commodification, Consumption, and Environmental Challenges in Neoliberal India 7 • CSR: Corporate Social Responsibility and Continued Social Resistance, A Nonconclusion Abbreviations Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Why Hackers Win Power and Disruption in the
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University of California Press The Stuff of Spectatorship Material Cultures of
Book SynopsisFilm and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in, the snacks you ate, the people around you, maybe the beer or joint you consumed to help you unwindall this stuff shaped your experience of media and its influence on you. The material culture around film and television changes how we make sense of their content, not to mention the very concepts of the mediums. Focusing on material cultures of film and television reception, The Stuff of Spectatorshipargues that the things we share space with and consume as we consume television and film influence the meaning we gather from them. This book examines the roles that six different material cultures have played in film and television culture since the 1970sincluding video marketing, branded merchandise, drugs and alcohol, and even gun violenceand shows how objects considered peripheral to film and television culture are in fact central to its past and future.Trade Review "This book is an important and cutting-edge contribution. . . . A provocative, entertaining contribution to context and material culture studies, The Stuff of Spectatorship provides an outstanding rationale to investigate stuff." * Film Quarterly * "These unique analyses leave readers aware that a show's or a film's meaning and interest hinge on a material experience inseparable from the images flashing on the screen." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Material Mediations 1. Collecting and Recollecting: Battlestar Galactica through Video's Varied Technologies of Memory 2. The Commercial Economy of Film History: Or, Looking for Looking for Mr. Goodbar 3. "Let’s Movie": How TCM Made a Lifestyle of Classic Film 4. Spirits of Cinema: Alcohol Service and the Future of Theatrical Exhibition 5. Blunt Spectatorship: Inebriated Poetics in Contemporary US Television 6. Shot in Black and White: The Racialized Reception of US Cinema Violence Conclusion: Expanding the Scene of the Screen Appendix: Documented Incidents of Cinema Violence in the United States through December 31, 2019 Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Stuff of Spectatorship
Book SynopsisFilm and television create worlds, but they are also of a world, a world that is made up of stuff, to which humans attach meaning. Think of the last time you watched a movie: the chair you sat in, the snacks you ate, the people around you, maybe the beer or joint you consumed to help you unwindall this stuff shaped your experience of media and its influence on you. The material culture around film and television changes how we make sense of their content, not to mention the very concepts of the mediums. Focusing on material cultures of film and television reception, The Stuff of Spectatorshipargues that the things we share space with and consume as we consume television and film influence the meaning we gather from them. This book examines the roles that six different material cultures have played in film and television culture since the 1970sincluding video marketing, branded merchandise, drugs and alcohol, and even gun violenceand shows how objects considered peripheral to film and television culture are in fact central to its past and future.Trade Review "This book is an important and cutting-edge contribution. . . . A provocative, entertaining contribution to context and material culture studies, The Stuff of Spectatorship provides an outstanding rationale to investigate stuff." * Film Quarterly * "These unique analyses leave readers aware that a show's or a film's meaning and interest hinge on a material experience inseparable from the images flashing on the screen." * CHOICE *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Material Mediations 1. Collecting and Recollecting: Battlestar Galactica through Video's Varied Technologies of Memory 2. The Commercial Economy of Film History: Or, Looking for Looking for Mr. Goodbar 3. "Let’s Movie": How TCM Made a Lifestyle of Classic Film 4. Spirits of Cinema: Alcohol Service and the Future of Theatrical Exhibition 5. Blunt Spectatorship: Inebriated Poetics in Contemporary US Television 6. Shot in Black and White: The Racialized Reception of US Cinema Violence Conclusion: Expanding the Scene of the Screen Appendix: Documented Incidents of Cinema Violence in the United States through December 31, 2019 Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Their Own Best Creations
Book SynopsisA rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers' contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV: comedy-variety, family sitcom, daytime soap, and suspense anthology. During the 1950s, when the commercial medium of television was still being defined, women writers navigated pressures at work, constructed public personas that reconciled traditional and progressive femininity, and asserted that a woman's point of view was essential to television as an art form. The shows they authored allegorize these professional and personal pressures and articulate a nascent second-wave feminist consciousness. Annie Berke brings to light the long-forgotten and under-studied stories of these women writers and crucially places them in the historical and contemporary record.Trade Review"Berke’s imagination — bolstered by insight, expertise, and scholarship — reveals stunning depths. Authors’ intent may be unknowable, but critical interpretations are their own kind of creative work. Berke’s interpretations are generative and convincing accounts of the way that art and artists can come to reflect each other." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Their Own Best Creations seamlessly bridges the fields of media studies and feminist studies via a rich and lively exploration of the women who scripted the first Golden Age of television." * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Drawing on writers who worked in both film and radio, Berke’s book will pique the interest of radio and television scholars, but her conceptual frameworks and innovative use of texts alongside industrial history make it essential reading for students and scholars of media industries and labor." * Media Industries Journal *"The book is energetic and animated, drawing on rich source materials that come to life. . . . an impressive accomplishment and valuable contribution." * H-Soz-Kult *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Craftsmen and Work Wives The Gendering of Television Writing 2. “A Sea of Male Interests” Your Show of Shows and the Comedy of Female Mischief 3. Gertrude Berg, Peg Lynch, and the “Small Situation” of the Stay-at-Home Showrunner 4. “What Girl Shouldn’t?” The Many Children of Irna Phillips 5. “Knowing All the Plots” Presenting the Woman Story Editor 6. “A Girl’s Gotta Live” The Literate Heroines of the Suspense Anthology Drama Conclusion Better Than It Never Was Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Their Own Best Creations
Book SynopsisA rich account that combines media-industry history and cultural studies, Their Own Best Creations looks at women writers' contributions to some of the most popular genres of postwar TV: comedy-variety, family sitcom, daytime soap, and suspense anthology. During the 1950s, when the commercial medium of television was still being defined, women writers navigated pressures at work, constructed public personas that reconciled traditional and progressive femininity, and asserted that a woman's point of view was essential to television as an art form. The shows they authored allegorize these professional and personal pressures and articulate a nascent second-wave feminist consciousness. Annie Berke brings to light the long-forgotten and under-studied stories of these women writers and crucially places them in the historical and contemporary record.Trade Review"Berke’s imagination — bolstered by insight, expertise, and scholarship — reveals stunning depths. Authors’ intent may be unknowable, but critical interpretations are their own kind of creative work. Berke’s interpretations are generative and convincing accounts of the way that art and artists can come to reflect each other." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Their Own Best Creations seamlessly bridges the fields of media studies and feminist studies via a rich and lively exploration of the women who scripted the first Golden Age of television." * Journal of Cinema and Media Studies *"Drawing on writers who worked in both film and radio, Berke’s book will pique the interest of radio and television scholars, but her conceptual frameworks and innovative use of texts alongside industrial history make it essential reading for students and scholars of media industries and labor." * Media Industries Journal *"The book is energetic and animated, drawing on rich source materials that come to life. . . . an impressive accomplishment and valuable contribution." * H-Soz-Kult *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Craftsmen and Work Wives The Gendering of Television Writing 2. “A Sea of Male Interests” Your Show of Shows and the Comedy of Female Mischief 3. Gertrude Berg, Peg Lynch, and the “Small Situation” of the Stay-at-Home Showrunner 4. “What Girl Shouldn’t?” The Many Children of Irna Phillips 5. “Knowing All the Plots” Presenting the Woman Story Editor 6. “A Girl’s Gotta Live” The Literate Heroines of the Suspense Anthology Drama Conclusion Better Than It Never Was Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Sporting Blackness Race Embodiment and Critical
Book SynopsisSporting Blackness examines issues of race and representation in sports films, exploring what it means to embody, perform, play out, and contest blackness by representations of Black athletes on screen. By presenting new critical terms, Sheppard analyzes not only skin in the game, or how racial representation shapes the genre's imagery, but also skin in the genre, or the formal consequences of blackness on the sport film genre's modes, codes, and conventions. Through a rich interdisciplinary approach, Sheppard argues that representations of Black sporting bodies contain critical muscle memories: embodied, kinesthetic, and cinematic histories that go beyond a film's plot to index, circulate, and reproduce broader narratives about Black sporting and non-sporting experiences in American society.Trade Review"Samantha N. Sheppard addresses the spectacle of blackness in sports as a sustained effort to challenge our amnesiac public discourse by creating a cinematic archive of black movement. . . . Sporting Blackness offers a version of endurance — a capacity for sustaining movement together — that can help us remember, or even affect, how it all plays out." * Los Angeles Review of Books *"Sheppard’s exploration of documentary sports films connects to how audiences view and understand contemporary Black athletes’ public articulations of dissent. Highlighting the real and perceived representations of Blackness expressed through film allows a recognition of the fundamental response to racial bias and antagonism that pervade sports; it also foregrounds the ways these portrayals articulate resistance to racial injustices." * Public Books *"In her fusion of theories of race and blackness with her concept of critical muscle memory, Sheppard offers a new analytical paradigm applicable beyond the genre at the center of her study. . . . Sporting Blackness is packed with joy, resistance, and hope—much-needed attributes in this time." * Film Quarterly *"Sporting Blackness represents a thoughtful, vibrant and absorbing contribution to our understanding of race, sport and media. . . . As we look to make sense of the current racialized and racist world we live in, and facilitate our students to do the same, Sheppard’s outstanding book will no doubt prove to be an instructive and indispensable resource." * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Sporting Blackness, with its incisive close readings and its exciting weave of film-phenomenology, critical race theory and more, is an exemplary work of film studies that must surely influence much work to come." * Visual Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION: SPORTING BLACKNESS AND CRITICAL MUSCLE MEMORY ON SCREEN 1. HISTORICAL CONTESTANTS IN BLACK SPORTS DOCUMENTARIES 2. RACIAL ICONICITY AND THE TRANSMEDIA BLACK ATHLETE 3. BLACK FEMALE INCOMMENSURABILITY AND ATHLETIC GENDERS 4. THE REVOLT OF THE CINEMATIC BLACK ATHLETE CONCLUSTION: THE FITNESS OF SPORTING BLACKNESS Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The Lure of the Image
Book SynopsisThe Lure of the Imageshows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies. Highlighting the shifting intersection of point of view and camera position, Daniel Morgan draws on a range of theoretical arguments and detailed analyses across cinemas to reimagine the relation between spectator and cameraand between camera and film world.With sustained accounts of how the camera moves in films by Fritz Lang, Guru Dutt, Max Ophuls, and Terrence Malick and in contemporary digital technologies,The Lure of the Imageexposes the persistent fantasy that we move with the camera within the world of the film and examines the ways that filmmakers have exploited this fantasy. In so doing, Morgan provides a more flexible account of camera movement, one that enables a fuller understanding of the political and ethical stakes entailed by this key component of cinematic style.Trade Review"Morgan provides an admirably comprehensive and remarkably nuanced exploration of one of the most undeniably fascinating yet strangely neglected aspects of cinema, one that is sure to be the definitive work on the subject for years if not decades to come. . . . The Lure of the Image is exemplary." * Senses of Cinema *
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University of California Press The Lure of the Image
Book SynopsisThe Lure of the Imageshows how a close study of camera movement challenges key assumptions underlying a wide range of debates within cinema and media studies. Highlighting the shifting intersection of point of view and camera position, Daniel Morgan draws on a range of theoretical arguments and detailed analyses across cinemas to reimagine the relation between spectator and cameraand between camera and film world.With sustained accounts of how the camera moves in films by Fritz Lang, Guru Dutt, Max Ophuls, and Terrence Malick and in contemporary digital technologies,The Lure of the Imageexposes the persistent fantasy that we move with the camera within the world of the film and examines the ways that filmmakers have exploited this fantasy. In so doing, Morgan provides a more flexible account of camera movement, one that enables a fuller understanding of the political and ethical stakes entailed by this key component of cinematic style.Trade Review"Morgan provides an admirably comprehensive and remarkably nuanced exploration of one of the most undeniably fascinating yet strangely neglected aspects of cinema, one that is sure to be the definitive work on the subject for years if not decades to come. . . . The Lure of the Image is exemplary." * Senses of Cinema *
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University of California Press Imperial Encore
Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain's imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses.Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980sthe half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutionsthe British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Pressintegrated their worTrade Review"Imperial Encore presents a deeply-researched and engaging narrative that actively enriches a subject that has for too long been pushed to the outside of imperial historiography." * Twentieth Century British History *"Imperial Encore is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the afterlives of empire. . . .In lucid prose and with an eye to compelling detail, Ritter has revealed how Britain’s cultural ambitions and institutional power did not simply survive the upheavals of the decolonization era, but thrived in its wake." * Journal of British Studie *"Ritter’s highly-readable study is particularly strong in drawing out specific moments, experiences and voices. . . .Imperial Encore highlights the integral, and ongoing, role of culture to the imperial project and illustrates why we must continue to interrogate those that control, utilise, and exploit these cultural forms today." * Cultural and Social History *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Note on the Text Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE. Cultural Imperialism during the Late Empire 1. Shakespeare in Africa: The British Council and Drama Export 2. "Bringing Books to Africans": Publishing in Colonial East Africa 3. "This Is London . . .": BBC Broadcasting to Colonial Africa PART TWO. Cultural Imperialism after Empire 4. ". . . Calling Africa": Capturing the Cold War Audience 5. Patrons of Postcolonial Culture: British Publishers and African Writers 6. From Culture to Aid to Paid: Cultural Relations after Empire Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
£27.00
University of California Press Prisms of Prejudice Mediating the Middle East
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments 1 Prisms of Prejudice 2 Mapping the Middle East 3 Narrating the Middle East 4 Mediating the Middle East 5 Visioning from the US Prism Notes References Index
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University of California Press Thats Not Funny
Book SynopsisA 2022Best Comedy Book,VultureA rousing call for liberals and progressives to pay attention to the emergence of right-wing comedy and the political power of humor. Why do conservatives hate comedy? Why is there no right-wing Jon Stewart? These sorts of questions launch a million tweets, a thousand op-eds, and more than a few scholarly analyses. That's Not Funny argues that it is both an intellectual and politically strategic mistake to assume that comedy has a liberal bias. Matt Sienkiewicz and Nick Marx take readersparticularly self-described liberalson a tour of contemporary conservative comedy and the right-wing comedy complex. In That's Not Funny, complex takes on an important double meaning. On the one hand, liberals have developed a social-psychological complexit feels difficult, even dangerous, to acknowledge that their political opposition can produce comedy. At the same time, the right has been slowly building up a comedy-industrial complex, utilizing the humorous, irony-lTrade Review"Provocative. . . . Progressives will want to take notice." * Publishers Weekly *"Astute and accessible. . . . As Sienkiewicz and Marx convincingly argue, comedy’s power can be used to shift the ideological and political needle in any direction depending on who is telling the jokes. We should be paying attention lest we ignore an entire ecosystem working to accumulate not just fans but political power." * New Review of Film and Television Studies *"Sienkiewicz & Marx have produced a very significant book that will shift the view of the relationships between humor, comedy, the media (including especially new media), and the political landscape. Their book is easy to read, devoid of jargon, and very clearly presented." * Humor *"The most fascinating and haunting comedic book of an academic nature in years." * Vulture *"A timely examination of an important contemporary cultural phenomenon…certainly likely to encourage class discussion." * Studies in American Humor *"That’s Not Funny is a fast, informative read and approaches political and cultural questions with curiosity and aplomb. . . .A great introductory text for researchers looking to delve into the alt-right underground, particularly to understand its connections to other demographics and the mainstream itself." * U.S. Studies Online *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Right-Wing Comedy 1. Fox News and Mainstream Right-Wing Comedy 2. Making Comedy Great Again: Paleocomedy 3. Religio-Rational Satire: Owning the Libs One Faulty Syllogism at a Time 4. The Legions of Libertarian Podcasters 5. Trolling the Depths of the Right-Wing Comedy Complex Conclusion: Performing Right and Left Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Police Visibility
Book SynopsisPolice Visibility presents empirically grounded research into how police officers experience and manage the information politics of surveillance and visibility generated by the introduction of body cameras into their daily routines and the increasingly common experience of being recorded by civilian bystanders. Newell elucidates how these activities intersect with privacy, free speech, and access to information law and argues that rather than being emancipatory systems of police oversight, body-worn cameras are an evolution in police image work and state surveillance expansion. Throughout the book, he catalogs how surveillance generates information, the control of which creates and facilitates power and potentially fuels state domination. The antidote, he argues, is robust information law and policy that puts the power to monitor and regulate the police squarely in the hands of citizens. Trade Review"Newell’s informed recommendations move the policy conversation in a productive direction. They serve as an important bulwark against the ‘surveil now, ask questions later’ ethos undergirding much of the body camera policies currently in place." * Jotwell *"An exemplary case of an ethnography of a particularly difficult to reach group." * Surveillance & Society *"Bryce Newell has produced a well-researched study. . . .for those researching and writing on the efficacy and potential pitfalls of police [body-worn cameras]s, Newell’s necessary and impressive work should be your starting point." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note about Prior Publications Introduction 1 Visibility, Surveillance, and the Police 2 Privacy, Speech, and Access to Information 3 Bystander Video and "the Right to Record" 4 Policing as (Monitored) Performance 5 The (Techno-)Regulation of Police Work 6 Public Disclosure as "Direct to YouTube" Alternative Conclusion Methodological Note Appendix A. Tables Appendix B. Figures Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The City Authentic
Book SynopsisOne of Dazed's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023 The first book to explore how our cities gentrify by becoming social media influencersand why it works. Cities, like the people that live in them, are subject to the attention economy. In The City Authentic, author David A. Banks shows how cities are transforming themselves to appeal to modern desires for authentic urban living through the attention-grabbing tactics of social media influencers and reality-TV stars. Blending insightful analysis with pop culture, this engaging study of New York State's Capital Region is an accessible glimpse into the social phenomena that influence contemporary cities. The rising economic fortunes of cities in the Rust Belt, Banks argues, are due in part to the markers of its previous decaywhich translate into signs of urban authenticity on the internet. The City Authentic unpacks the odd connection between digital media and derelict buildings, the consequences of how we think about industry and placeTrade Review"There is a strong Marxist theoretical basis to the arguments presented here. Banks ties the City Authentic processes he identifies to ongoing needs by a capitalist system for uneven development. This book will be of considerable interest to students and scholars working in contemporary urban studies and urban planning. . . . Recommended." * CHOICE *"The City Authentic is a book written by a real and quite likable human, one who is so versed in and concerned about these hard-to-pin-down cultural and economic problems that they are willing to throw every possible writerly approach at them." * New Inquiry *"The City Authentic delves into what exactly ‘authenticity’ means, why we look to it as a source of meaning, and why the 'city authentic' model has made urban inequality even worse. . . . While the subject matter is sometimes complex, this is far from being a dry, academic tome: Banks uses accessible examples to illustrate what he’s talking about, and writes in a witty, engaging style." - Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 * Dazed *"Fortunately, there’s someone able to explain these changes going on not only in my hometown but in similar small cities across the nation." * Commonweal *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part One. Making the City Authentic 1. Cultural Capital Region 2. Upscale Upstate Part Two. Theorizing the City Authentic 3. What Is Authenticity? 4. The Political Economy of Authenticity Part Three. Governing the City Authentic 5. Policies and Tactics 6. What Is to Be Done? Notes Index
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University of California Press InkStained Hollywood
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Ink-Stained Hollywood’s robust backmatter enables the monograph to exist simultaneously as a model of historiographic rigour and a breezy read. . . .the story [it] tells is essential for today’s film historians to know." * Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film *
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University of California Press Networked Feminism How Digital Media Makers
Book SynopsisNetworked Feminismtells the story of how activists have used media to reconfigure what feminist politics and organizing look like in the United States. Drawing on years spent participating in grassroots communities and observing viral campaigns, Rosemary Clark-Parsons argues that feminists engage in a do-it-ourselves feminism characterized by the use of everyday media technologies. Faced with an electoral system and a history of collective organizing that have failed to address complex systems of oppression, do-it-ourselves feminists do not rely on political organizations, institutions, or authorities. Instead, they use digital networks to build movements that reflect their values and meet the challenges of the current moment, all the while juggling the advantages and limitations of their media tools. Through its practitioner-centered approach, this book sheds light on feminist media activists' shared struggles and best practices at a time when collective organizing for social justice has become more important than ever.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Hope for a Feminist Future 2. Networked Feminist Organizing 3. Networked Feminist Visibility 4. Networked Feminist Communities 5. Strength in a Feminist Present Notes References Index
£63.90
University of California Press Networked Feminism
Book SynopsisNetworked Feminismtells the story of how activists have used media to reconfigure what feminist politics and organizing look like in the United States. Drawing on years spent participating in grassroots communities and observing viral campaigns, Rosemary Clark-Parsons argues that feminists engage in a do-it-ourselves feminism characterized by the use of everyday media technologies. Faced with an electoral system and a history of collective organizing that have failed to address complex systems of oppression, do-it-ourselves feminists do not rely on political organizations, institutions, or authorities. Instead, they use digital networks to build movements that reflect their values and meet the challenges of the current moment, all the while juggling the advantages and limitations of their media tools. Through its practitioner-centered approach, this book sheds light on feminist media activists' shared struggles and best practices at a time when collective organizing for social justice has become more important than ever.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments 1. Hope for a Feminist Future 2. Networked Feminist Organizing 3. Networked Feminist Visibility 4. Networked Feminist Communities 5. Strength in a Feminist Present Notes References Index
£22.50
University of California Press Recollecting Lotte Eisner
Book SynopsisRecollecting Lotte Eisner provides the first in-depth examination of the remarkable transnational career of film journalist, archivist, and historian Lotte Eisner (18961983). From her early years as a film critic in interwar Berlin to her escape from prison in occupied France and from her role as chief curator at the Cinémathèque française to that as the mythic collective conscience of New German Cinema, Eisner was a prolific writer and lecturer and a pivotal voice in early film and media studies. Situated at the juncture of feminist media historiography and disciplinary intellectual history, this groundbreaking book is based on extensive multilingual archival research and the excavation of a rich corpus of previously overlooked materials. Introducing samples of Eisner's writing in translation, this volume makes some of the most important contributions of a foundational scholar in the field of film studies accessible for the first time to an English-language readership.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 • Fräulein Doktor Eisner 2 • A Reluctant Bellwether: Dr. L. H. Eisner and Flapper at the Film-Kurier, 1927–1933 3 • “La seule historienne”: Exile, Salvage, and Community at the Cinémathèque Française 4 • “Lacunae Everywhere”: Iterative Historiography and the Midcentury Palimpsests Conclusion: The Woolly Mammoth of the Cinémathèque Appendix: Film-Kurier Bibliography, by the Numbers Notes References Index
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University of California Press Black Networked Resistance
Book SynopsisBlack Networked Resistance? explores the creative range of Black digital users and their responses to varying forms of oppression, utilizing cultural, communicative, political, and technological threads both on and offline. Raven Maragh-Lloyd demonstrates how Black users strategically rearticulate their responses to oppression in ways that highlight Black publics' historically rich traditions and reveal the shifting nature of both dominance and resistance, particularly in the digital age. Through case studies and interviews, Maragh-Lloyd reveals the malleable ways resistance can take shape and the ways Black users artfully demonstrate such modifications of resistance through strategies of survival, reprieve, and community online. Each chapter grounds itself in a resistance strategy, such as Black humor, care, or archiving, to show the ways that Black publics reshape strategies of resistance over time and across media platforms. Linking singular digital resistance movements while arguinTable of ContentsContents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “The Whole World Is Going to See You, Boo”: “Karens,” Black Humor, and Innocence 2. “Do It for the Culture”: Black Digital Historians Reimagining Access 3. Care as Resistance: Black Women Online 4. Cancel Culture and the Limits of Networked Resistance 5. “The Black Delegation”: Black Evergreen Networks and Futures of Resistance Conclusion Notes References Index
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University of California Press Actual Malice
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MP-MEL Melbourne University AntiSocial Media Conventional Militaries in the
Book SynopsisOver the past decade, the gravitational centre of contemporary conflict has shifted from the physical battlefield to the online battlespace. Kevin Foster shows how conventional militaries in the US, Britain, Israel and Australia have responded to this challenge by integrating social media into their systems and operations, and the organisational and cultural impediments they have confronted.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Election Campaigning
Book SynopsisThe advent of new technology and the importation of ''professional communicators'' has transformed the nature of British election campaigning. In this book, Dennis Kavanagh explores this so-called process of ''Americanization'', characterized by the increasing importance of the media in elections and the rise of advertising agencies, pollsters, public relations advisers and speechwriters. He examines how the ''professional communicators'' function within British politics, and assesses the reaction of the politicians themselves to the changing environment of election campaigns.Trade Review"In 1978, with Thatcher's agreement, a contract for media promotion of the Conservative Party's election campaign was awarded to the advertising agency, Saatchi and Saatchi. The contract with this agency was to be renewed over the ensuing years; in 1992, the Saatchi election budget was around u5 million and the account was still being paid off 24 months later by a Conservative Party heavily in debt. Over the past decades, methods of conducting election campaigns have greatly changed. Politicians increasingly rely on the skills of 'professional communicators' - advertisers, pollsters, public relations advisers - to help them fight media-orientated campaigns. There has been a sharp decline in door-to-door canvassing, while public meetings, which used to be widely attended, have been largely abandoned. Membership and activity in political parties is now at a post-war low, while voters have become spectators rather than participants in debate. In this illuminating study, the author examines how and why the changes in electioneering methods have come about. It raises many important but unresolved questions." Labour Research "This is a book that Mr Major and Mr Blair should make sure is thumbed through by their present day publicists and media advisers." Parliamentary BriefTable of ContentsList pf Figures. List of Tables. Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. New Campaign Communications. 2. Context. 3. Political Communications: Conservatives. 4. Political Communications: Labour. 5. Public Opinion Polls. 6. Private Opinion Polls. 7. Uses and Limits of Political Marketing. 8. Mass Media: Press. 9. Mass Media: Television. 10. Americanization. 11. Conclusion. List of Interviewees. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd British General Elections Since 1945
Book SynopsisIn this fully revised and updated edition of British General Elections since 1945 David Butler chronicles the demeanour and result of each post-war election. He also draws on the most recent research to examine how much the way in which elections have been stages and fought has altered, with press conferences, advertising, opinion polls and media events transforming the electoral process. In considering these issues alongside other aspects - the law, the constituencies, the electoral system itself, voter behaviour - Dr Butler provides an invaluable guide to the continuities and change which have characterized British general elections for two generations.Table of Contents1. Continuity and Change. 2. Thirteen General Elections. 3. The Legal Framework. 4. Constituencies, Seats and Votes. 5. Franchise, Turnout and Voting Behaviour. 6. The Timing of Elections and the Party Battle. 7. Changing MPs. 8. The Cost of Elections. 9. The National Campaign. 10. The Media. 11. Advertising and Polls. 12. Local Electioneering. 13. Conclusion.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The British Press and Broadcasting Since 1945
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Colin Seymour-Ure''s history of the press and broadcasting in post-war Britian offers a concise and fully up-to-date overview of the development of the media and its central role in British society.Trade Review"... this is a quite remarkably useful book. Something of a tour de force." Polticial Studies "The whole book is written with authority and detachment ....a model of comprehensiveness, conciseness and clarity." Parliamentary Affairs "... a welcome additional resource for students from a range of subject areas." SociologyTable of ContentsList of Tables. General Editor's Preface. Preface to First Edition. Preface to Second Edition. 1. Snapshot: 1945/1998. 2. Which Media? What History?. 3. Media 1945-1995: the Press. 4. Media 1945-1995: Radio and Television. 5. Media Empires: Concentration, Conglomeration, Internationalization. 6. Content and Audiences. 7. Media, Government and Politics: the Intrusion of Television. 8. Media, Government and Politics: Prime Ministers and Parties. 9. Media Accountability: Government Policymaking. 10. Media Accountability: Markets, Self-Regulation and the Law. 11. Conclusion. Appendix: Provincial Evening Papers. Outline Chronology. Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Media
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Media: A Reader Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non-Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of creative studies of culture and media, this volume heralds the emergence of a new field the anthropology of media and brings its key literature together for the first time.Trade Review"In its bold presentation of an emergent subfield – anthropology of media – this comprehensive collection is a timely resource for students and others interested in cross-cultural research on mass communication. Destined to become a standard text, it explores a wide range of theoretical ideas and spotlights fascinating case studies. Highly recommended!" Harald E. L. Prins, Society for Visual Anthropology (1999–2001) "Provides a unique collection of classic and vanguard, theoretical and substantive studies that demonstrates the centrality of anthropology to contemporary media studies. By a judicious selection of fascinating papers this volume is able to go beyond any single study to reveal the many different ways an anthropology sensitive to political and economic environments can investigate the production, consumption, and consequences of media by creators and users. As such it makes the ideal foundation for teaching a subject that has now clearly come into its own." Daniel Miller, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Timeline of Media Development. Introduction: Kelly Askew and Richard R. Wilk. Part I: Seeing/Hearing is Believing: Technology and Truth:. 1. The Medium is the Message: Marshall McLuhan. 2. The Technology and the Society: Raymond Williams.. 3. Mead and Bateson Debate: On the Use of the Camera in Anthropology: Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. 4. The Ambiguity of the Photograph: John Berger. 5. Save, Save the Lore!: Erika Brady. Part II: Representing Others:. 6. The Gaze of Western Humanism: James C. Faris. 7. The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender: Catherine Lutz and Jane Collins. 8. The Imperial Imaginary: Ella Shohat and Robert Stam. 9. Complicities of Style: Dave MacDougall. Part III: Representing Selves:. 10. Hollywood and the USA: Hortense Powdermaker. 11. Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves: Stephen F. Sprague. 12. Relationships: Daniel Miller and Don Slater. 13. Mediating Culture: Indigenous Media, Ethnographic Film, and the Production of Identity: Faye Ginsburg. Part IV: Active Audiences:. 14. Radio Texture: Between Self and Others: Jo Taachi. 15. The Tongan Tradition of Going to the Movies: Elizabeth Hahn. 16. Rambo's Wife Saves the Day: Subjugating the Gaze and Subverting the Narrative in a Papua New Guinean Swamp: Don Kulick and Margaret Willson. 17. 'It's Destroying a Whole Generation': Television and Moral Discourse in Belize: Rick Wilk. 18. National Texts and Gendered Lives: An Ethnography of Television Viewers in a North Indian City: Purnima Mankekar. Part V: Power, Colonialism, Nationalism:. 19. Image-Based Culture: Advertising and Popular Culture: Sut Jhally. 20. The Global and the Local in International Communications: Annabelle Sreberny-Mohammadi. 21. In Rascally Signs in Sacred Places: The Politics of Culture in Nicaragua: David E Whisnant. 22. The Objects of Soap Opera: Egyptian Television and the Cultural Politics of Modernity: Lila Abu-Lughod. Resource Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Media A Reader Wiley
Book Synopsis* Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time. * Offers critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non--Western cultures. * Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary.Trade Review"In its bold presentation of an emergent subfield – anthropology of media – this comprehensive collection is a timely resource for students and others interested in cross-cultural research on mass communication. Destined to become a standard text, it explores a wide range of theoretical ideas and spotlights fascinating case studies. Highly recommended!" Harald E. L. Prins, Society for Visual Anthropology (1999–2001) "Provides a unique collection of classic and vanguard, theoretical and substantive studies that demonstrates the centrality of anthropology to contemporary media studies. By a judicious selection of fascinating papers this volume is able to go beyond any single study to reveal the many different ways an anthropology sensitive to political and economic environments can investigate the production, consumption, and consequences of media by creators and users. As such it makes the ideal foundation for teaching a subject that has now clearly come into its own." Daniel Miller, University College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgments viii Timeline of Media Development x Introduction 1Kelly Askew Part I Seeing/Hearing is Believing: Technology and Truth 15 Part II Representing Others 73 Part III Representing Selves 157 Part IV Active Audiences 237 Part V Power, Colonialism, Nationalism 323 Resource Bibliography 394 Index 406
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Wiley Early Childhood Television Viewing and Adolescent
Book SynopsisThe medium of television, although a daily part of most modern lives, remains mysterious in the manner it may influence its audience. At the center of this mysery lies the debate of content vs. medium without regard to its content. This monograph presents new research in this debate by following up on a report of 570 adolescents studied as preschoolers and the long-term relationships between preschool television viewing and adolescent achievement, behavior, and attitudes. The results of the report provide stron support for content-based hypotheses then for theories emphasizing television as a medium. In an interesting twist, the results of the report trace a cognitive difference in the patterns of boys and girls and the way television influences them.Table of ContentsAbstract. 1. Introduction. 2. Method Overview. 3. Media Use in Adolescence. 4. Academic Achievement. 5. Creativity. 6. Aggression. 7. Extracurricular Activities. 8. Health Behaviors. 9. Self-Image: Role Model Preference and Body Image. 10. Summary and Conclusions. Commentary: Children and Adolescents in a Changing Media World. Contributors. Statement of Editorial Policy.
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Harvard University Press The Emergence of Cinematic Time
Book SynopsisIn a work that captures and reconfigures the passing moments of art, history, and philosophy, Mary Ann Doane shows how the cinema, representing the singular instant of chance and ephemerality in the face of the increasing rationalization and standardization of the day, participated in the structuring of time and contingency in capitalist modernity.Trade ReviewMary Ann Doane has written an ambitious and highly original work, relating film studies and the understanding of the basic apparatus of cinema to a broad cultural description of temporality in the late modern (late 19th and early 20th centuries) period. This is a new and exciting contribution to intellectual discourse about modernity, time and, especially, cinema. Its original cross-disciplinary argument should attract readers from many fields and at many levels. Theory here takes on history and yields a strong new approach to questions about the role cinema plays in culture. -- Tom Gunning, Professor of Art History and Film Studies, University of ChicagoThe Emergence of Cinematic Time is without question a significant and original contribution to the field of Film Studies. Its primary objective is to advance a scholarly argument about the ‘representability’ of cinematic time in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. More than this, it aims to clarify the status of photography and film in discourses and disciplines concerned with temporality and contingency. And it does so precisely by focusing on fields whose relation to the cinema is not immediately self-evident, such as thermodynamics, physiology, statistics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Mary Ann Doane is without question one of Film Studies’ finest scholars and The Emergence of Cinematic Time does justice to her reputation and to the highest standards of the field. -- Patrice Petro, Professor of Film Studies, University of Wisconsin–MilwaukeeTable of Contents1. The Representability of Time 2. Temporality, Storage, Legibility: Freud, Marey, and the Cinema 3. The Afterimage, the Index, and the Accessibility of the Present 4. Temporal Irreversibility and the Logic of Statistics 5. Dead Time, or the Concept of the Event 6. Zeno's Paradox: The Emergence of Cinematic Time 7. The Instant and the Archive Notes Bibliography Index
£33.11
Harvard University, Asia Center Powers of the Real
Book SynopsisPowers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the age of the mass society in Japan.
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Harvard University, Asia Center Powers of the Real
Book SynopsisPowers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the “age of the mass society” in Japan.
£22.46
Harvard University Press CineMobility
Book SynopsisIn Cine-Mobility, Han Sang Kim argues that the force of propaganda films in Korea were derived primarily from the new mobility afforded by transportation. Kim explores the association between cinematic media and transportation mobility, and its connection with the new culture of mobility, including changes in gender dynamics, that accompanied it.Trade ReviewPerhaps the best academic book produced on the subject of Korean literature, film, and culture over the past twenty years…Han Sang Kim has achieved a feat in the English language that no one outside Korea has yet to match—that of telling a fascinating story about the intimate relationship between Korean socioeconomic phenomena (transportation) and media (screen) throughout the twentieth century. -- Kyung Hyun Kim * Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *Its breath of research is impressive—from Korean, American, and Japanese original sources, the subject of the visual mobility of Korea during the past century is groundbreaking and innovative, and the overall historical narrative is brilliant and unique. I can’t think of another book that takes this approach in understanding Korea during the twentieth century. I read it from the beginning to end in about two or three sittings, and each and every chapter read as if there were more truth to be told about the author’s unorthodox approach at examining the history of Korean development. -- Kyung Hyun Kim, author of Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First CenturyHan Sang Kim’s wonderful new book offers a vivid exploration of South Korea’s twentieth-century experience of modernity, focusing on technologies and representations of mobility within a political-economic framework. Admirably broad in scope, it covers trains, automobiles, and planes as they appear in feature films, documentaries, and TV shows. Kim fluidly combines a transnational perspective with deep dives into national history, and his exceptional knowledge of Korean visual culture enables him to trace continuities and ruptures across the colonial divide. Filled with nuanced textual interpretations, this book expands our understanding of Korean modernity immeasurably. A major contribution to the field of Korean studies. -- Christina Klein, author of Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korea Cinema
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Harvard University Press The Library Beyond the Book
Book SynopsisJeffrey Schnapp and Matthew Battles reflect on what libraries have been in order to speculate about what they will become: hybrid places that intermingle books and ebooks, analog and digital formats, paper and pixels. They combine the cultural history of libraries with innovations at metaLAB, a research group at the forefront of digital humanities.Trade ReviewTranscending the tired debate of print vs. electronic, analog vs. digital, the authors take a long view of library history and attempt to envision possible scenarios for libraries of the future… Schnapp and Battles make an invaluable point: libraries, from the smallest to the largest, have way more stories than they know, and The Library Beyond the Book represents a rare attempt from outside the professional community to help libraries reconceive and better tell these stories. Also, they show that imagining the future of libraries doesn’t have to be a gripe session filled with doom and gloom; it can be exciting, original, and fun. -- Justin Wadland * Los Angeles Review of Books *While iPad-bearing soothsayers banish print books to dustbins, coauthors Schnapp and Battles, both insightful provocateurs from Harvard University, envision dynamic and fluid architectural spaces warehousing paper as well as pixels. In a spirit of refreshing experimentation, they ask: What flexible qualities from the past can accommodate tomorrow’s information consumers and, when combined, produce innovative configurations for a digital world? These structures incorporate basic components used in libraries across centuries, such as bookshelves, card catalogs, librarians, and reference desks. Building upon this framework, the authors imagine six plausible scenarios for serving tomorrow’s diverse information consumers, situating libraries as everything from study shelters to civic institutions functioning as mobile libraries, reading rooms promoting social change, and/or event-driven knowledge centers… Schnapp and Battles offer plausible configurations of both book and library in the age of the Internet of Everything. Their imaginative essays demonstrate the rigorous research and design thinking customary within university settings. -- Jerry P. Miller * Library Journal *Lively, quirky, and irreverent, this provocative book provides a refreshing tonic to stale debates about the death or deathlessness of the book. -- Leah Price, Professor of English, Harvard UniversityJeffrey T. Schnapp and Matthew Battles’ The Library Beyond the Book offers a brilliant reflection on, and a cross-section through, the past, present, and future of the library. If books have never been just books, as they suggest, this publication demonstrates that libraries have never been just libraries. -- Mirko Zardini, Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture
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