Media studies Books
McGill-Queen's University Press Designing Fictions Literature Confronts
Book SynopsisFrom Tono-Bungay to Mad Men - how fiction has treated the omnipresent influence of advertising.Trade Review"An engagingly written, effective, and important book that will appeal not only to those who are interested in literature but also to those interested in advertising and marketing as key features of contemporary capitalist culture." John Xiros Cooper, University of British Columbia "Designing Fictions has a genial style, a learned demeanor, genuine insight, and gracious erudition. The range of reference is pleasantly wide and subtle and Ross's scholarship and methodology are excellent." Allan Hepburn, McGill University
£21.84
University of British Columbia Press Merry Laughter and Angry Curses The Shanghai
Book SynopsisMerry Laughter and Angry Curses investigates the proliferation of late-Qing-era tabloid journalism and the tabloids’ role in subverting the political and intellectual establishment.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Community of Fun2 Officialdom Unmasked3 Imagining the Nation4 Confronting the “New”5 Questioning the Appropriators6 The Market, Populism, and AestheticsConclusionNotesGlossary of Chinese Terms and NamesBibliographyIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Merry Laughter and Angry Curses
Book SynopsisThe end of the Qing dynasty in China saw an unprecedented explosion of print journalism. By the turn of the twentieth century, not only had Chinese-owned newspapers become more influential than anyone could have anticipated, but it was the supposedly frivolous xiaobao, the little or minor papers, that captivated and empowered the public.Merry Laughter and Angry Curses reveals how the late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. As periodical publishing reached a fever pitch, tabloids had free rein to criticize officials, mock the elite, and scandalize readers. Tabloid writers produced a massive amount of anti-establishment literature, whose distinctive humour and satirical style were both potent and popular. This book shows the tabloid community to be both a producer of meanings and a participant in the social and cultural dialogue that would shake the foundations of imperial China and lead to the 1911 Republican Revolution.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Community of Fun2 Officialdom Unmasked3 Imagining the Nation4 Confronting the “New”5 Questioning the Appropriators6 The Market, Populism, and AestheticsConclusionNotesGlossary of Chinese Terms and NamesBibliographyIndex
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press The Struggle for Canadian Copyright
Book SynopsisThe conflicts at the heart of international copyright are explored through the history of Canadian nation-building.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Canada and the International Copyright System3 Imperialism: Canadian Copyright under the Colonial System, 1842-784 United Empire: Canada and the Formation of the Berne Convention, 1839-865 Berne Buster: The Struggle for Canadian Copyright Sovereignty, 1887-19086 The New Imperial Copyright, 1895-19147 Copyright “Sovereignty,” 1914-248 Copyright Internationalism: Canada’s Debut, 1927-369 New Directions, 1936-6710 Crisis in International Copyright, 196711 Re-engagement, 1967-7712 After 197113 ConclusionNotesBibliography and Archival SourcesIndex
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press The Struggle for Canadian Copyright
Book SynopsisThe conflicts at the heart of international copyright are explored through the history of Canadian nation-building.Table of Contents1 Introduction2 Canada and the International Copyright System3 Imperialism: Canadian Copyright under the Colonial System, 1842-784 United Empire: Canada and the Formation of the Berne Convention, 1839-865 Berne Buster: The Struggle for Canadian Copyright Sovereignty, 1887-19086 The New Imperial Copyright, 1895-19147 Copyright “Sovereignty,” 1914-248 Copyright Internationalism: Canada’s Debut, 1927-369 New Directions, 1936-6710 Crisis in International Copyright, 196711 Re-engagement, 1967-7712 After 197113 ConclusionNotesBibliography and Archival SourcesIndex
£26.99
University of British Columbia Press Staging Corruption
Book SynopsisIn late 1995, the drama Heaven Above (Cangtian zaishang) debuted on Chinese TV. Featuring a villainous high-ranking government official, it was the first in a series of wildly popular corruption dramas that riveted the nation. In Staging Corruption, Ruoyun Bai looks at the rise, fall, and reincarnation of these dramas and the ways in which they express the collective dreams and nightmares of China in the market-reform era. She also considers how these dramas as products of the interplay between television stations, production companies, media regulation, and political censorship unveil complicated relationships between power, media, and society. Her book will be essential reading for those following China''s ongoing struggles with the highly volatile issue of political and social nepotism.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Chinese Television Dramas: An Overview2 Corruption Dramas as a Mediated Space: CCTV, Intellectuals, and the Market3 Censorship, Governance Crisis, and Moral Regulation4 Anti-Corruption Melodrama and Competing Discourses5 Cynicism as a Dominant Way of Seeing6 Speaking of the “Desirable” Corrupt Official: A Case StudyConclusionAppendix: Selected Corruption Drama Titles; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£73.80
University of British Columbia Press Staging Corruption Chinese Television and
Book SynopsisA study of the television dramas about government corruption that became hugely popular in the mid-1990s and their reflection of China’s post-Socialist anxieties.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Chinese Television Dramas: An Overview2 Corruption Dramas as a Mediated Space: CCTV, Intellectuals, and the Market3 Censorship, Governance Crisis, and Moral Regulation4 Anti-Corruption Melodrama and Competing Discourses5 Cynicism as a Dominant Way of Seeing6 Speaking of the “Desirable” Corrupt Official: A Case StudyConclusionAppendix: Selected Corruption Drama Titles; Notes; Bibliography; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Mission Invisible
Book SynopsisBy unravelling the discourse and rhetoric of news coverage in Canada at the dawn of the 9/11 era, this book not only uncovers racist representations of Muslim communities but also reveals the discursive processes that rendered this racism invisible.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Mission Visible?RationaleWhy 9/11 and Canada?Why Racism?Why Muslims?Why The Gazette?Overview1 Mission RecognitionThe EventThe MediumThe MomentThe MessageThe MethodThe Procedure2 Mission AmbitionImpact of the MediaJournalists’ Agendas3 Mission DecisionThe Rhetoric of RacismThe Discourse of RacismThe Discourse of Anti-Racism4 Mission OppressionThe Discourses of GriefThe Discourses of Justification for WarThe Discourses of Readying for WarThe Discourses of Orientalism5 Mission PerceptionShock and DisbeliefDenialBlamelessnessAngerPersonal SafetyRevengeRacial ProfilingFear and Moral PanicAcceptanceImpact on Quebecers6 Mission OppositionDescriptive Analysis of Muslims’ VoicesDiscursive Themes of Muslims’ VoicesThe Discourse of the “Good” Muslim7 Mission PositionWritings on Leaders’ VoicesWritings on White Victims’ VoicesWritings on Muslims’ Voices8 Mission EnvisionRepresentations of Leaders’ VoicesRepresentations of White Victims’ VoicesRepresentations of Muslims’ Voices9 Mission CompletionThe Journalistic Process in ContextNewsgathering PracticesThe Effects of the MessagesThe Anti-Terrorism ActRacial Profiling10 Mission ConditionThe Gazette: Success or Failure?White ReadershipMuslim ReadershipJournalistic LeadershipConclusion: Mission Invisible!Why Invisible?Correcting VisionHindsight 20/20Notes; References; Index
£69.70
University of British Columbia Press Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire
Book SynopsisA fascinating look at how humanitarian language was used by the colonial press in New Zealand and on Vancouver Island to justify ongoing settler expansion while allaying fears of Indigenous resistance.Trade Review[T]his book is a useful exploration of race, humanitarianism, settler anxiety, and the imperial press, with a comparative framing that is both evocative and revealing. -- Laura Ishiguro, University of British Columbia * Pacific Historical Review *Settler Anxiety contributes to histories of the British empire, of the interconnections the colonies established within and beyond the empire, and of the role of humanitarianism in shaping colonial policies toward indigenous peoples ... Storey’s history offers an important counterpoint to British imperial histories and to U.S. histories of this period. -- Veta Schlimgen, Gonzaga University * Pacific Northwest Quarterly *Storey has written an important book … anyone seriously interested in settler colonialism and its relationship with Indigenous peoples will find it a well-researched and well-connected study with surprisingly broad implications. -- Cole Harris * The Ormsby Review *Settler Anxiety at the Outposts of Empire is meticulously researched and engagingly written. The colonial intrigues of the mid-nineteenth century are suffused with a freshness that draws readers in, as if they were reading about current events. It is a valuable addition to our understanding of the colonization process in New Zealand and on Vancouver Island. -- Robert Hogg, University of Queensland, Australia * BC Studies *Storey provides a highly nuanced, detailed and thought-provoking exploration of the place of humanitarianism in print culture, in both settler societies, and its relationship to a metropolitan debate about imperial responsibility, in particular in the face of threats of violence. -- Michael Belgrave * Journal of New Zealand Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 A Short History of New Zealand and Vancouver Island2 Violence and Eviction on Vancouver Island3 New Zealand’s Humanitarian Extremes4 Aboriginal Title and the Victoria Press5 The Auckland Press at War6 Colonial Humanitarians?7 The Imperial PressConclusion
£52.20
University of British Columbia Press Who Is Bob34
Book SynopsisResearchers Francis Fortin and Patrice Corriveau investigate the clandestine world of child cyberpornography to understand who produces, exchanges, and consumes pedo-pornographic images.Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The Investigators and the Law2 The Evolution of ICTs and Their Effect on Trafficking3 How Much Is Out There, and Who Are the Victims?4 Are Search Engines Enabling?5 Are Discussion Forums a Classroom for Cyberpedophiles?6 Who Are Cyberpedophiles, and Is There a Link between Viewing and Abuse?ConclusionNotes, References, Index
£22.79
University of British Columbia Press Brand Command
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MN - University of British Columbia Press We Interrupt This Program Indigenous Media
Book SynopsisPowerful and inspiring, We Interrupt This Program brings to light a new facet of Indigenous sovereignty – the use of media tactics to infuse Canadian culture with Indigenous perspectives and to raise political and cultural consciousness in Indigenous communities.Trade Review[We Interrupt this Program] provides an analytical perspective to help readers reflect on what types of new interruptions may be brewing – or to plan the interventions themselves. -- Greg Macdougall * Briarpatch Magazine *...the book chronicles the breadth of media interventions employed by Aboriginal media creators, foregrounding Indigenous worldviews, agency and resilience while challenging colonial myths. It is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand Indigenous cultural expression in Canada in the digital age. -- Brad Clark, Journalism and Broadcast Media Studies at Mount Royal University * Canadin Journal of Native Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1 *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Indigenous Media Tactics1 Media Practices and Subversions: Survivor Testimonials in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission2 IsumaTV’s “Testimony by Isuma”: Online Expressions of Inuit Culture and Assimilation3 Redfacing, Remediation, and Other Indigenous ArtTactics: Challenging Cultural Institutions4 imagineNATIVE as Industry Intervention: Supporting and Growing Indigenous Media Makers5 Reporting News in Indigenous Communities: A Conversation with Journalist Duncan McCue on Respect and RelationalityConclusion: Media Tactics Old and NewNotes; Works Cited; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora
Book SynopsisDiasporic Media beyond the Diaspora moves past the conventional understanding of diasporic media as being for only diasporic communities to evaluate its broader role as media for all members of society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding Media in Multicultural Cities1 Conceptualizing Media in a Multicultural Society2 Multicultural or Intercultural? Policies and Media Practices in a Multicultural Society3 Korean Diasporic Media in Vancouver4 Korean Diasporic Media in Los Angeles5 Locality, Ethnicity, and Emerging Trends6 The Intercultural Media System and Related Policy AreasNotes; References; Index
£55.80
University of British Columbia Press Diasporic Media beyond the Diaspora
Book SynopsisDiasporic Media beyond the Diaspora moves past the conventional understanding of diasporic media as being for only diasporic communities to evaluate its broader role as media for all members of society.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Understanding Media in Multicultural Cities1 Conceptualizing Media in a Multicultural Society2 Multicultural or Intercultural? Policies and Media Practices in a Multicultural Society3 Korean Diasporic Media in Vancouver4 Korean Diasporic Media in Los Angeles5 Locality, Ethnicity, and Emerging Trends6 The Intercultural Media System and Related Policy AreasNotes; References; Index
£23.39
University of British Columbia Press Opening the Government of Canada
Book SynopsisOpening the Government of Canada provides a vivid and compelling account of the central challenge facing governments in the digital age: abandoning their Closed Government traditions to become more open, networked, and collaborative.Trade ReviewAmanda Clarke’s Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures. -- Andrea Rounce * Canadian Journal of Political Science *The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands. -- Alex Marland * The Hill Times *Table of Contents1 Opening Government in the Digital Age2 Canada’s Closed Government3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada4 Stephen Harper’s Open(ish) Government Initiative5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy7 The Future of Digital GovernmentAppendix A: Interview IndexNotes; References; Index
£62.90
University of British Columbia Press Opening the Government of Canada
Book SynopsisOpening the Government of Canada provides a vivid and compelling account of the central challenge facing governments in the digital age: abandoning their “Closed Government” traditions to become more open, networked, and collaborative.Trade ReviewAmanda Clarke’s Opening the Government of Canada provides an exceptional study of how the Canadian government has responded to external and internal pressures to integrate digital into its governing practices and structures. -- Andrea Rounce * Canadian Journal of Political Science *The more I read, the more I learned and the more I enjoyed going on a journey inside the public service as it responded to digital demands. -- Alex Marland * The Hill Times *Table of Contents1 Opening Government in the Digital Age2 Canada’s Closed Government3 #Fail: Adopting Social Media in the Government of Canada4 Stephen Harper’s Open(ish) Government Initiative5 Internal Openings in the Federal Bureaucracy6 The Digital Skills Gap in the Federal Bureaucracy7 The Future of Digital GovernmentAppendix A: Interview IndexNotes; References; Index
£25.19
University of British Columbia Press Transformative Media
Book SynopsisIn an era of social media dominance, Transformative Media reveals the often invisible, transformative media practices of marginalized groups.Trade ReviewThis book is a distinctive blend of critical analysis and participatory empirical research and makes a compelling case for engaged social activism. A must-read for scholars and students in media studies, communications, critical cultural studies, and sociology. -- W. Alvarez, Utica University * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsPreface1 Intersectional Technopolitics2 Global Justice3 Anti-austerity4 Anticolonialism and Antiracism5 2LGBTQ+ 6 Transfeminism 7 FuturesAppendix; References; Index
£62.90
John Wiley & Sons Inc Waiting for the Mountain to Move
Book SynopsisHandy writes with the eloquence of simplicity and his gift tous is an enjoyable, profound, and reliable guide toward meaning anddirection.--Max De Pree, author of Leading without Powerand chairman emeritus, Herman Miller Inc. Charles Handy''s reflections on work and life have earned himlegions of fans throughout the world. His previous books havetogether sold over a million copies. And his Thought for the Dayseries on BBC radio is celebrated throughout the U.K. Now presentand future fans in America can sample what his BBC listeners haveenjoyed for so long. Waiting for the Mountain to Moveincludes the gifted commentator''s best essays, culled from tenyears of radio broadcasts. These succinct writings draw poignantlessons from everyday occurrences and cause us to examine ourlives, our institutions, and our society in a different andrevealing light. NOT FOR SALE OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICATrade Review"Charles Handy is a brave and passionate teacher willing to riskprophecy. He writes with the eloquence of simplicity and his giftto us is an enjoyable, profound and reliable guide toward meaningand direction." --Max De Pree, author and chairman emeritus,Herman Miller Inc "A book from Charles Handy can be compared to a fine wine:beautifully balanced, smooth yet provocative, and a topic ofconversation long after the final sip." --ProfessionalMarketingTable of ContentsBy Way of Introduction. Waiting for the Mountain to Move. Buffalo Bill or Me? Pope Leo X and Kant. On Planting a Walnut Tree. Sticking Points. Idiosyncrasy Credits. Negative Capability. Trust and the Plumber. Last Month We Closed a Factory. Chindogu. Type Two Accountability. Compromise. Seven Intelligences. Home for Christmas. Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal . The God of Small Things. The White Stone. Rat Races and Whirlpools. The Dandelions. The Lure of the Zeros. Fifty Thousand Hours. Marathons Not Horse Races. Cousin Molly and Degas. Organizations for Masochists. Fixed Intangible Assets. Life's Open Questions. 1/2 x 2 x 3. Beyond the Market. The Message of the Chimney. The Family Tree. A Grandmother's Funeral. The Heart of the Matter. Borrowing from the Grandchildren. The Autumn Cull. Where No Phones Ring. Virtual Villages. Blame It On the Greeks. The Pendulum Principle. Go and He Goeth Not. Chinese Contracts. A Tower of Babel. The "They" Syndrome. The Greener Grass. Fish Soup. Group Think. Glooming in the Bath. Subsidiary. The F's and the P's. We Are All Alchemists. A Holy Place. Land Mines and Lottery Tickets. Quality. Who Needs a Whip? Entrepreneurs All. Simple Idolatry. Sign It!. The Choir of Male Convenience. Learning From Misdoing. The Antigone Principle. The Win-Win Contract. Blinded By Stereotypes. The Point of Principle. Three- Faced Justice. The Missing Words. Enterprise for What? Image Enhancement. Jesus Was Lame. Horizontal Fast Tracks. Hi -Touch for Hi-Tech. Picture Framing. Gyroscopes for Morals. Masaccio's Trinity. Degrees for Life. The Compost Theory. SPG. Postscript: The Mystery of the Universe.
£22.39
Cornell University Press The Life Informatic
Book SynopsisNews journalism is in the midst of radical transformation brought about by the spread of digital information and communication technology and the rise of neoliberalism. What does it look like, however, from the inside of a news organization? In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer offers the first anthropological ethnography of contemporary office-based news journalism. The result is a fascinating account of journalists struggling to maintain their expertise and authority, even as they find their principles and skills profoundly challenged by ever more complex and fast-moving streams of information. Boyer conducted his fieldwork inside three news organizations in Germany (a world leader in digital journalism) supplemented by extensive interviews in the United States. His findings challenge popular and scholarly images of journalists as roving truth-seekers, showing instead the extent to which sedentary office-based screenwork (such as gathering and processing information onlineTrade Review"Boyer analyzes the nuances of screen-oriented news-work in truly exemplary fashion; indeedmany journalism studies scholars and budding newsroom ethnographers could learn a great deal from this practicing anthropologist about how to so newsroom fieldwork well... we must take the arguments of The Life Informatic seriously. It certainly stands as a remarkably important piece of ethnographic and anthropological scholarship." —C.W. AndersonCollege of Staten Island (CUNY) * Anthropological Quarterly *Dominic Boyer's thoughtful exploration of news production in Germany is a standout among recent newsroom studies based on ethnography, observation, or participant observation....Boyer writes that he envisioned The Life Informatic as 'short, accessible, and above all teachable,' and it is all those things. Any of the ethnographic chapters could be used in a graduate or advanced undergraduate course without the instructor feeling that he or she needed to assign the entire book. -- Susan Keith * Journalism *In his intriguing new study The Life Informatic: Newsmaking in the Digital Era, anthropologist Dominic Boyer.. brings a rich ethnographic focus on daily labor practices rather than on industry—or organization—scale relationships....[this] deep ethnographic study reveals in sharp detail one aspect of the 'life informatic' when it comes to the competitive environment of global, digital, and often entertainment-focused journalism. -- Greg Downey * Technology and Culture *In The Life Informatic, Dominic Boyer examines the changing news industry by observing journalists at work, in the hope that mapping the flow of information between and within newsrooms will help us understand how news is made in today's post-broadcast era. Boyer is ultimately successful in presenting a contemporary account of the converged newsroom and adding to a body of evidence-based thought about how to build a sustainable industry in the future. -- Scott Bridges * Inside Story *This book offers much that will interest advanced students of journalism and anthropology. * Choice *Table of ContentsPrologueIntroduction: News Journalism Today1. The Craft of Slotting: Screenwork, Attentional Practices, and News Value at an International News Agency2. Click and Spin: Time, Feedback, and Expertise at an Online News Portal3. Countdown: Professionalism, Publicity, and Po liti cal Culture in 24/7 News Radio4. The News Informatic: Five Refl ections on Journalism in the Era of Digital LiberalismEpilogue: Informatic Unconscious: On the Evolution of Digital Reason in AnthropologyNotes Bibliography
£97.20
Cornell University Press Thinking in Time
Book SynopsisIn recent years, we have grown accustomed to philosophical language that is intensely self-conscious and rhetorically thick, often tragic in tone. It is enlivening to read Bergson, who exerts so little rhetorical pressure while exacting such a...Trade ReviewGuerlac presents a Bergson who is both historical and current, a Bergson who emerged during a period of technological upheaval not unlike our own cybernetic moment.... Drawing on Guerlac's formidable expertise in the areas of Continental philosophy, literature, and the history of science, the book is a brilliant and timely introduction to Bergson's thought. -- James Meyer * Artforum *
£19.99
Cornell University Press FrontPage Girls
Book SynopsisThe first study of the role of the newspaperwoman in American literary culture at the turn of the twentieth century, this book recaptures the imaginative exchange between real-life reporters like Nellie Bly and Ida B. Wells and fictional characters...Trade ReviewAmbitious and provocative.... For historians, Lutes's well-written, acutely observed book provides a theoretically sophisticated provocation to further study. -- Patricia A. Schechter * American Historical Review *In the sensational press of a century or more ago, women did not rise by quietly doing their chores. The way to get ahead was to make oneself the story, often by assuming an undercover role and emerging to report the dangers, bodily and otherwise, that one had faced.... Jean Marie Lutes, once a reporter herself, finds scholarly diversion in reconsidering the roles sex and body played in the work of the stunt girls and the sob sisters. She also contemplates such fictional journalists as Henry James's Henrietta Stackpole, who became James's symbol of the evils of the popular press. * Columbia Journalism Review *Lutes puts her academic expertise and knowledge of the newspaper profession—she's a former staff writer for the Miami Herald—to superb use in this fascinating, clearly enunciated examination of the historical and cultural role of the American woman journalist during the decades bridging the 19th and 20th centuries.... Lutes reclaims the female reporter's pioneering and transformative position, first historically (e.g., Nellie Bly's exposing social ills; Ida B. Wells's fight against lynching), then as conjured in fiction by Henry James and such former newspaper women as Willa Cather and Edna Ferber.... Especially in consideration of today's body-conscious media culture—whether in front of, behind, or via hidden camera—Lutes's work is a revelation. * Library Journal *Lutes supports her arguments with... evidence from journalism archives as well as from pamphlets, popular novels, and other ephemera.... Her carefully considered close readings and rhetorical analyses that distinguish this project. Writing in clear, journalistic prose herself, Lutes identifies a particularly female literary tradition among these varied writers.... She focuses on the American fascination with and disdain for the female journalist, and, finally, the attempts of the journalist-turned-author to reconcile the performativity and sentimentality of female authorship with a modernist aesthetic.... Exploring a diverse array of authors across a fifty-year period, Lutes organizes her work around a unifying thesis that makes this book an important contribution to the fields of journalism, history, literary studies, and popular culture. -- Verna Kale * Journal of Popular Culture *This study's major contributions lie in its sharp refocusing of the nexus of journalism and literature in order to illuminate the contributions of women in both fields.... While Front-Page Girls is partly a recovery project, bringing to scholarly attention forgotten literary texts and episodes in media history, it is also a much-needed supplement to the longstanding discussion on the intersections of fiction and journalism. * American Literature *As Jean Marie Lutes uncovers stories of girl stunt reporters, the first African American newswomen, and sob sisters—writers who specialized in wringing tears from the reader—it becomes very clear that it would be hard for a young journalist today to have an experience like these women... thankfully. The history begins with tales of the girl student reporters who would feign madness to report from the inside of a New York City asylum or spend days in cigarette factories following young girls forced to work under sweatshop conditions. * Bust *
£17.99
Cornell University Press Bread and Circuses Theories of Mass Culture as
Book SynopsisLively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from Greek and Roman origins, through Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ortega y Gasset, T. S. Eliot, and the...Trade Review"Bread and Circuses is a joy to read. Brantlinger is learned, witty, and, best of all, inviting of conversation."-Voice Literary Supplement "Bread and Circuses is a valuable analysis of attitudes toward not only mass culture but also theories of social order, utopian (and dystopian) possibilities, and the connections between literature and politics."-Criticism "Brantlinger's substantial insights are worthy of reflection-insights, for example, on the equivocal position of religion vis-a-vis elitism and mass culture or the hitherto insufficiently noted recurrence of classicist nostalgia in essentially nonclassicist ages. The book remains useful and thought-provoking."-American Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Introduction: The Two Classicisms2. The Classical Roots of the Mass Culture Debate3. "The Opium of the People"4. Some Nineteenth-Century Themes: Decadence, Masses, Empire, Gothic Revivals5. Crowd Psychology and Freud's Model of Perpetual Decadence6. Three Versions of Modern Classicism: Ortega, Eliot, Camus7. The Dialectic of Enlightenment8. Television: Spectacularity vs. McLuhanism9. Conclusion: Toward Post-Industrial Society
£15.19
Johns Hopkins University Press Portraying the President The White House and the
Book SynopsisIts thought-provoking conclusions will be of interest political scientists, media specialists, and anyone interested in current affairs.Table of ContentsPrefacePart I. A Critical RelationshipChapter 1. Conflict and CooperationPart II. Reporters and Officials at the White HouseChapter 2. A Continuing RelationshipChapter 3. Milton's Army: The White House RegularsChapter 4. The White House Bubble MachineChapter 5. The Manager of the MessagePart III. Taking Advantage of PositionChapter 6. The SourceChapter 7. The Nature of the BeatChapter 8. Diplomats and NegotiatorsChapter 9. Squeezing More Juice out of the OrangePart IV. Portraying the PresidentChapter 10. Images of the White House in the MediaChapter 11. Triple ExposuresChapter 12. The Refracting LensNotesName IndexSubject Index
£23.85
Hopkins Fulfillment Service On Signs
Book SynopsisSebeok, and others.Trade ReviewBlonsky has grouped numerous original and newly translated works by those who have been highly visible forces in semiotic circles... His book functions as a unified voice proclaiming the power of semiotics to reveal the hidden practices and secrets of modern society. Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsPrefaceFriendsIntroduction. The Agony of SemioticsPart I. Seeing SignsPart II. Understanding the Meaning of SignsPart III. Signs of LifeEndword. Americans on the MoveNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIndex
£27.55
Johns Hopkins University Press Inventing American Broadcasting 18991922 Johns
Book SynopsisDouglas reveals the origins of a corporate media system that today dominates the content and form of American communication.Trade ReviewA superb portrait of the communications revolution that profoundly altered 20th-century life. It will provide fresh insights, and perhaps generate controversy. Washington Post Book World A successful, at times elegant interdisciplinary work. Douglas combines discussions of technology and of business structure, portraits of inventors and amateurs, and analysis of internal navy organization to construct a convincing narrative on the importance of the 'pre-history' of radio. She draws from an impressive range of contemporary newspapers and technical magazines, government and business reports, and personal correspondence. This is a significant contribution to the understanding of American radio. -- Robert B. Horowitz Business History Review Fascinating detail... A far clearer picture than has been previously available. Journal of CommunicationTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Marconi and the America's Cup: The Making of an Inventor-Hero, 18992. Competition over Wireless Technology: The Inventors' Struggles for Technical Distinction, 1899-19033. The Visions and Business Realities of the Inventors, 1899-19054. Wireless Telegraphy in the New navy, 1899-19065. Inventors as Entrepreneurs: Success and Failure in the Wireless Business, 1906-19126. Popular Culture and Populist Technology: The Amateur Operators, 1906-19127. The Titanic Disaster and the First Radio Regulation, 1910-19128. The Rise of Military and Corporate Control, 1912-19199. The Social Construction of American Broadcasting, 1912-1922EpilogueNotesIndex
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press The Amish and the Media Young Center Books in
Book SynopsisWith essays from experts in the fields of film and media studies, poetry, American studies, anthropology, and history, this groundbreaking study shows how the relationship between the Amish and the media provides valuable insights into the perception of minority religion in North American culture.Trade ReviewThis is a finely crafted edited volume that should be easily adapted in undergraduate as well as graduate-level courses. The authors write with a knowledge and sensitivity to the topic that is refreshing and that scholars and students should appreciate. Church History 2009 What I appreciate most is the extent to which this book is able to explain Amish life... while also showing how their technological hesitancy complicates the multifaceted process of media mediation. The Amish and the Media should be of great interest to scholars and generally educated readers drawn to North American religion and the media. -- Willaim D. Romanowski Mennonite Quarterly Review 2009Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Amish and the Culture of MediationPart I: The Old Order Amish as Media ImagesChapter 1. Witnessing the Amish: Plain People on Fancy FilmChapter 2. Reel Amish: The Amish in DocumentariesChapter 3. "Why We Fear the Amish": Whiter-than-White Figures in Contemporary American PoetryChapter 4. Pursuing Paradise: Nonfiction Narratives of Life with the AmishChapter 5. Heritage versus History: Amish Tourism in Two Ohio TownsChapter 6. Hollywood Rumspringa: Amish in the CityPart II: The Old Order Amish as Media Producers and ConsumersChapter 7. Amish Informants: Mediating Humility and PublicityChapter 8. Inscribing Community: The Budget and Die Botschaft in Amish LifeChapter 9. Publish or Perish: Amish Publishing and Old Order IdentityChapter 10. "Wicked Truth": The Amish, the Media, and Telling the TruthConclusion: The Amish, the Media, and the Nickel Mines School ShootingAcknowledgements List of Contributors Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, 2012 Joe A. Callaway Prize in Drama and TheaterFirst Place, Large Not-for-Profit Publisher, Typographic Cover, 2011 Washington Book Publishers Design and Effectiveness AwardsLess than twenty years after asserting global dominance in the Seven Years'' War, Britain suffered a devastating defeat when it lost the American colonies. Daniel O''Quinn explores how the theaters and the newspapers worked in concert to mediate the events of the American war for British audiences and how these convergent media attempted to articulate a post-American future for British imperial society.Building on the methodological innovations of his 2005 publication Staging Governance: Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770-1800, O'Quinn demonstrates how the reconstitution of British imperial subjectivities involved an almost nightly engagement with a rich entertainment culture that necessarily incorporated information circulated in the daily press. Each chapter investigates different moments in the American crisis through the analysis of scenes of social and theatrical performance and through careful readings of works by figures such as Richard Brinsley Sheridan, William Cowper, Hannah More, Arthur Murphy, Hannah Cowley, George Colman, and Georg Friedrich Handel. Through a close engagement with this diverse entertainment archive, O''Quinn traces the hollowing out of elite British masculinity during the 1770s and examines the resulting strategies for reconfiguring ideas of gender, sexuality, and sociability that would stabilize national and imperial relations in the 1780s. Together, O''Quinn''s two books offer a dramatic account of the global shifts in British imperial culture that will be of interest to scholars in theater and performance studies, eighteenth-century studies, Romanticism, and trans-Atlantic studies.Trade ReviewThe result of reading such an intense and lengthy study is a feeling of great satisfaction. -- Elizabeth Fay Wordsworth Circle Deserves a prominent place among recent publications by literary scholars... investigative, interpretative, and integrative. With Daniel O'Quinn, it is also intrepid. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Theatre Research This is an erudite and entertaining book, and a brief review like this one cannot really do justice to the complexity of O'Quinn's analysis or to the sheer number and variety of texts, events, and artifacts that are examined in the course of his discussion.This is a book that will requard and enlighten any patient reader with an interest in cultural studies and the history of the British empire. AMS Press In this remarkably original and detailed study... O'Quinn's authoritative synthesis of theatricality and audience response gives us a deep and refreshing understanding of how a culture constitutes itself through creative expression and thoughtful mediation, and ultimately, how it knows that despite defeat, the show must still go on. -- Leslie Elizabeth Eckel Studies in Romanticism Entertaining Crisis in the Atlantic Imperium is an engaging and erudite study of British reception of the American Revolutionary War through the combined media force of theatre and newspapers during the late eighteenth century... Ultimately, this book presents a satisfying chronological narrative that contributes to greater understanding of how media reception of social performances shaped British subjectivity during and after the American Revolution. -- Daniel Smith Theatre JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Entertainment, Mediation, and the Future of EmpireI. Diversions1. The Agents of Mars and the Temples of Venus: John Burgoyne's Remediated Pleasures2. Out to America: Performance and the Politics of Mediated SpaceII. Regime Change3. To Rise in Greater Splendor: John André's Errant Knights4. "The body" of David Garrick: Richard Brinsley Sheridan, America, and the Ends of TheatreIII. Celebrations5. Which Is the Man? Remediation, Interruption, and the Celebration of Martial Masculinity6. Days and Nights of the Living Dead: HandelmaniaCoda: "In praise of the oak, its advantage and prosperity"NotesIndex
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University of Toronto Press Candid Eyes Essays on Canadian Documentaries
Book SynopsisDocumentaries have dominated Canada's film production and have been crucial to the formation of Canada's cinematic identity. This volume will be an indispensable companion for anyone seriously interested in Canadian film studies.
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University of Toronto Press Candid Eyes
Book SynopsisBeginning in 1922, when Robert Flaherty filmed 'Nanook of the North' in Canada's Arctic, and encouraged by John Grierson and the federal government in 1939 when they created the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), documentaries have dominated Canada's film production and, more than any other form, have been crucial to the formation of Canada's cinematic identity.Surprisingly, there has been very little critical writing on this distinguished body of work. Candid Eyes: Essays on Canadian Documentaries not only addresses this oversight in the scholarly literature, but in doing so, it presents an exceptional collection of essays by some of Canada's best known film scholars. Focusing on works produced in French and English under the NFB umbrella, the fourteen essays discuss and critique such landmark documentaries as 'Lonely Boy' (1962), 'Pour la suite du monde' (1963), and 'Kanehsatake' (1993). Long awaited and much needed, this volume will be an indispensable companion
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University of Nebraska Press Superpower
Book SynopsisSupernatural and superhuman elements have been prominent in American culture from the time of the New England Puritans. Superpower surveys the appearance of supernatural and superhuman elements in American culture, focusing on the American fascination with narratives involving supernatural adventure, superhuman heroes, and conspiracies driven by supernatural evil.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Culture of Longing--The Supernatural in American CultureChapter One: Not Just a Job: The Longing for Adventure in American History and American Culture Voyages of Discovery: American Adventure from Columbus to Jean-Luc Picard The British Invasion: Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter Make It Big in America Cool Magic: The American Postmodern Epic FantasyChapter Two: Heroism in America: The Longing for Heroes in American History and American Culture American Heroes and Antiheroes: Kings of the Wild Frontier Hard-boiled Magic: The Vampire Detective Girls Kick Butt: The Female Action Hero Buffy Keeps It Cool Teenagers from Outer Space: Teen Angst and the Superhero Narrative Our Others, Our Selves: The Mutant SuperheroChapter Three: U.S. vs. Them: American Paranoia and the Longing for Evil in American History and American Culture Rosemary's Baby and the Horror Boom of the 1970s The X-Files and the Postmodern Conspiracy Narrative: Mapping the Apocalypse Apocalyptic Television at the Turn of the Millennium Finding that Special Place: The Strange Enclave Narrative from Twin Peaks to LostConclusion: The Contradictory Compensations of Popular CultureNotesWorks CitedFilms CitedTelevision Series CitedIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Bound to Have Blood
Book SynopsisThe Plains Indian Wars were always front-page news in frontier newspapers, and it was to such local newspapers that the public invariably turned for information about the fighting. Bound to Have Blood takes readers back to the late nineteenth century to show how newspaper reporting influenced attitudes about the conflict between the United States and Native Americans.Trade Review“[Bound to Have Blood] offers a lot of colorful history and some great old photographs.”—Omaha World-Herald"Reilly fleshes out the broad strokes of interaction between natives and settlers in the middle of North America from the 1860s to the 1890s by drawing on the articles and opinions in the local newspapers where the wars were being fought."—Reference & Research Book News"In Bound to Have Blood, Reilly provides a good overview of the press coverage of the Plains Indian Wars and thus helps readers understand how this coverage influenced American reactions to the Indians. . . . Reilly's study provides an excellent account of how the local newspapers covered these events and shows that reactions were not always the same because of differences in local opinions and circumstances."—Carol Sue Humphrey, Historian"Bound to Have Blood should find a place in classrooms where instructors wish to offer their students access to the vitriolic rhetoric of Indian hating that appears in nineteenth- century frontier newspapers and the political jockeying that lay behind it."—Phillip H. Round, SAIL"This is a welcome addition to Indian studies that documents an important feature of the history of the American West."—James W. Parins, American Indian Culture and Research JournalTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Frontier Newspapers1. Great Sioux Uprising: August-December 18622. Sand Creek Massacre: November 18643. Fort Laramie Treaty: 18684. The Little Big Horn Campaign: January-July 18765. The Flight of the Nez Perce: March-October 18776. The Cheyenne Outbreak: September 1878-January 18797. The Standing Bear Trial: April-May 18798. Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee: 1890-18919. Closing the CircleNotes BibliographyIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Storyworlds across Media
Book SynopsisExplores how media, old and new, give birth to various types of storyworlds and provide different ways of experiencing them, inviting readers to join an ongoing theoretical conversation focused on the question: how can narratology achieve media-consciousness?Trade Review"Seminal for transmedia and narratology scholars. . . . A fascinating exploration of new analytical ideas that help explain the power and technique of media collisions now available in modern storytelling."—Kris Baranovic, Big Muddy"Storyworlds across Media offers a diverse and challenging collection of essays. . . . The collection as a whole abundantly proves that a media-conscious narratology is a must if narrative theory wants to keep up with the times."—Image and Narrative“Storyworlds across Media fruitfully explores an important new concept in narrative theory—the storyworld—that is of compelling interest across disciplines, from TV writing and popular culture to digital media design and artificial intelligence.”—Janet H. Murray, author of Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace“Storyworlds across Media offers a great deal of insight into the contemporary cultural use of proliferating opportunities (especially in digital media) for innovation in storytelling.”—Richard Walsh, author of Novel Arguments: Reading Innovative American FictionTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Storyworlds across Media: Introduction Marie-Laure Ryan and Jan-Noël Thon Part I. Mediality and Transmediality 1. Story/Worlds/Media: Tuning the Instruments of a Media-Conscious Narratology Marie-Laure Ryan 2. Emplotting a Storyworld in Drama: Selection, Time, and Construal in the Discourse of Hamlet Patrick Colm Hogan 3. Subjectivity across Media: On Transmedial Strategies of Subjective Representation in Contemporary Feature Films, Graphic Novels, and Computer Games Jan-Noël Thon 4. Fiction across Media: Toward a Transmedial Concept of Fictionality Frank Zipfel 5. Framings of Narrative in Literature and the Pictorial Arts Werner Wolf Part II: Multimodality and Intermediality 6. The Rise of the Multimodal Novel: Generic Change and Its Narratological Implications Wolfgang Hallet 7. On Absent Carrot Sticks: The Level of Abstraction in Video Games Jesper Juul 8. Film + Comics: A Multimodal Romance in the Age of Transmedial Convergence Jared Gardner 9. Tell It Like a Game: Scott Pilgrim and Performative Media Rivalry Jeff Thoss 10. Those Insane Dream Sequences: Experientiality and Distorted Experience in Literature and Video Games Marco Caracciolo Part III: Transmedia Storytelling and Transmedial Worlds 11. Strategies of Storytelling on Transmedia Television Jason Mittell 12. A Taxonomy of Transmedia Storytelling Colin B. Harvey 13. Game of Thrones: Transmedial Worlds, Fandom, and Social Gaming Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca 14. Transmedial Narration and Fan Fiction: The Storyworld of The Vampire Diaries Maria Lindgren Leavenworth 15. The Developing Storyworld of H. P. Lovecraft Van Leavenworth Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
Book SynopsisExamines the intersection of sports, race, and the media in the twentieth century and beyond. Considering how media coverage has evolved over the years, the essays begin with the racially charged reporting of Jack Johnson's reign as heavyweight champion and carry up to the present, covering the media's handling of LeBron James's announcement to leave Cleveland for Miami.Trade Review"Media coverage has expanded greatly since Jack Johnson put on boxing gloves to defend his heavyweight title, and a critical, sharp look at media coverage through the years is a necessary—and welcome—addition to sports literature."—Bob D’Angelo, Tampa Tribune“This is quality scholarship that will be of interest to specialists in history, American studies, African American studies, journalism, English, media studies, sociology, and sports studies, among others.”—Trey Strecker, editor of NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture and assistant professor in the Department of English at Ball State University Table of ContentsList of Tables IntroductionChris Lamb 1. Framing White Hopes: The Press, Social Drama, and the Era of Jack Johnson, 1908–1915Phillip J. Hutchison 2. Jesse Owens, a Black Pearl amidst an Ocean of Fury: A Case Study of Press Coverage of the 1936 Berlin Olympic GamesPamela C. Laucella 3. Multifarious Hero: Joe Louis, American Society, and Race Relations during World Crisis, 1935–1945Dominic J. Capeci Jr. and Martha Wilkerson 4. Outside the Pale: The Exclusion of Blacks from the National Football League, 1934–1946Thomas G. Smith 5. Democracy on the Field: The Black Press Takes On White BaseballChris Lamb and Glen L. Bleske 6. A Nod from Destiny: How Sportswriters for White and African American Newspapers Covered Kenny Washington’s Entry into the National Football LeagueRonald Bishop 7. Jackie Robinson and the American Mind: Journalistic Perceptions of the Reintegration of BaseballWilliam Simons 8. “This Is It!” The Public Relations Campaign Waged by Wendell Smith and Jackie Robinson to Cast Robinson’s First Season as an Unqualified SuccessBrian Carroll 9. Integrating New Year’s Day: The Racial Politics of College Bowl Games in the American SouthCharles H. Martin 10. Main Bout, Inc., Black Economic Power, and Professional Boxing: The Canceled Muhammad Ali–Ernie Terrell FightMichael Ezra 11. A “Race” for Equality: Print Media Coverage of the 1968 Olympic Protest by Tommie Smith and John CarlosJason Peterson 12. Sports Illustrated’s African American Athlete Series as Socially Responsible JournalismReed Smith 13. Rebellion in the Kingdom of Swat: Sportswriters, African American Athletes, and Coverage of Curt Flood’s Lawsuit against Major League BaseballWilliam Gillis 14. Chasing Babe Ruth: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Hank Aaron’s Pursuit of the Career Home Run RecordMaureen Smith 15. Arthur Ashe: An Analysis of Newspaper Journalists’ Coverage of USA Today’s OutingPamela C. Laucella 16. Michael Jordan’s Family Values: Marketing, Meaning, and Post-Reagan AmericaMary G. McDonald 17. Rush Limbaugh, Donovan McNabb, and “a Little Social Concern”: Reflections on the Problems of Whiteness in Contemporary American SportDouglas Hartmann 18. I’m the King of the World: Barry Bonds and the Race for the RecordLisa Doris Alexander 19. Redemption on the Field: Framing, Narrative, and Race in Media Coverage of Michael VickBryan Carr 20. Weighing In on the Coaching Decision: Discussing Sports and Race OnlineJimmy Sanderson 21. The LeBron James Decision in the Age of ObamaJamal L. Ratchford Source AcknowledgmentsContributorsIndex
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University of Nebraska Press Monstrous Nature Environment and Horror on the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Sharply written, fiercely intelligent."—Flick Attack"Syfy Channel, horror film aficionados, and film students will no doubt be enthralled by this volume. The book challenges all readers to consider ecological messages, no matter what the mode of presentation."—Patricia Ann Owens, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society“From cannibals to cockroaches, Robin L. Murray and Joseph K. Heumann fill a major gap in the field with this wide-ranging treatment of horror in ecocinema. Scholarship of this kind contributes tremendously to the expansion of ecocriticism from the study of ‘literature’ per se to the understanding of how environmental themes, such as anthropomorphism and gendered landscapes, occur in visual culture.”—Scott Slovic, coeditor of Numbers and Nerves: Information, Emotion, and Meaning in a World of Data “Compelling. . . . Clear and meticulous. Another tremendous contribution to the field of ecocinema studies.”—Stephen Rust, coeditor of Ecocinema Theory and Practice“[Readers] will find in this new book solid scholarship, broad research in the cinematic references necessary to approach the topics, and insightful analysis and juxtaposition of films . . . all contributing to our understanding of how ‘horror’ is among us now in the very real prospects of violent and sudden climate change.”—Charles J. Stivale, editor of Gilles Deleuze: Key Concepts Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Film, Environment, Horror Part 1: Anthropomorphism and the “Big Bug” Movie 1. The Hellstrom Chronicle and Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo: Anthropomorphizing Nature for Humans 2. “As Beautiful as a Butterfly”? Monstrous Cockroach Nature and the Horror Film Part 2: Human Ecology and the Horror Film 3. The Earth Bites Back: Vampires and the Ecological Roots of Home 4. Through an Eco-lens of Childhood: Roberto Rossellini’s Germany Year Zero and Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone Part 3: Evolution and Monstrous Nature 5. Zombie Evolution: A New World with or without Humans 6. Laughter and the Eco-horror Film: The Troma Solution 7. Parasite Evolution in the Eco-horror Film: When the Host Becomes the Monster Part 4: Gendered Landscapes and Monstrous Bodies 8. Gendering the Cannibal: Bodies and Landscapes in Feminist Cannibal Movies 9. American Mary and Body Modification: Nature and the Art of Change Conclusion: Monstrous Nature and the New Cli-Fi Cinema Filmography Notes Works Cited Index
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University of Nebraska Press Horrible Mothers
Book SynopsisOffers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, including Québec, Ontario, New England, and California.Trade Review"This timely volume invigorates scholarly attention to the role of the mother in culture and advocates for a reading of motherhood and maternity imbued with empowering potential for all women whose value is measured according to social expectations of mothers."—Jocelyn A. Frelier, French Studies"This collection will be of interest to those studying mothers and motherhood in literature of any language as well as scholars of Francophone North America."—D. L. Boudreau, Choice“This multidisciplinary collection of essays from a francophone North American context constitutes an important challenge to normalizing and oppressive discourses of motherhood that fail to take account of the much messier and often ambivalent nature of lived maternal experiences. . . . We are reminded in this collection of the dangers of the cultural idealization of mothers and the ongoing need to deconstruct normative motherhood from a feminist perspective.”—Julie Rodgers, lecturer in French studies and member of the Motherhood Project, Maynooth University (Ireland)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Failing Successfully Loïc Bourdeau 1. The Whore and Her Mother: Exploring Matrophobia in Nelly Arcan’s Putain Pauline Henry-Tierney 2. Horrible Mothers in Mémère’s Kitchen: Queer Identity in New England Franco-America Susan Pinette 3. “I’m Not the Virgin Mary”: Rebellious Motherhood in Grégoire Chabot’s “A Life Lost” Chelsea Ray 4. Permissive Parenting: The Awful American Mother in Nancy Huston’s Lignes de faille Alison Rice 5. Lucie Joubert’s Ironic Rejection of Motherhood in L’envers du landau Natalie Edwards 6. Voicing Shame: From Fiction to Confession in the Work of Marguerite Andersen Lucie Hotte and Ariane Brun del Re 7. The Transgressive Mother in Nancy Huston’s Bad Girl: Classes de littérature Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx 8. Forgiving the Horrible Mother: Children’s Needs and Women’s Desires in Twenty-First-Century Québécois Film Amy J. Ransom 9. Politics and Motherhood in Xavier Dolan’s J’ai tué ma mère and Mommy Loïc Bourdeau Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press We Average Unbeautiful Watchers
Book SynopsisSports fandom determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative entertainments rather than merely competitive displays.Trade Review"Cohan's book will appeal to cultural critics, fans of all stripes, and American Studies scholars as it thoroughly and convincingly examines an understudied and undertheorized perspective of the Sport(s) Media Industrial Complex."—Scott D. Peterson, Sports Literature Association"For a different look at sports fandom, this is a book well worth checking out."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“This is a first-rate contribution to the field of sports studies and an important work for scholars within literary studies. The thoroughness and breadth of this interdisciplinary research is breathtaking. But more impressive still is the deft and precise manner in which Noah Cohan has brought the many and varied concepts and sources to bear to clarify our understanding of his objects of study and of his argument. He manages to be at once engaging, vivid, interesting, and crystal clear. . . . This book is a pioneering and genuinely unique contribution.”—Yago Colás, professor of English at Oberlin College and author of Ball Don’t Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball“Noah Cohan’s We Average Unbeautiful Watchers offers novel ways of thinking about and contextualizing sports fandom as an important, diverse, complex, and artful creative practice. It brings together an eclectic range of source material to broaden understandings of fandom beyond its stereotypical roots in ‘fanaticism’ and association with torso-painted and hollering bros to explain this phenomenon’s contested politics and cultural work.”—Travis Vogan, author of ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television “Noah Cohan deftly demonstrates that, far from mindless entertainment, sports fandom is an enormously complex and significant form of human meaning-making. Analyzing sports fan narratives across a staggering range of media, Cohan draws us into the inner and the social lives of American sports fans, which are by turns disturbing, fascinating, and inspiring.”—Erin C. Tarver, associate professor of philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University and author of The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of IdentityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. So We Fabricate: Baseball and the Unfriendly Confines of History 2. It was My Fate, My Destiny, My End, to Be a Fan: Football, Mental Illness, and the Autobiographical Novel 3. Race in the Basketball Memoir: Fan Identity and the Eros of “a Black Man’s Game” 4. It’s Been a Problem with Me and Women: Failed Masculinities in Depictions of Sports Fans on Film 5. Reimagined Communities: Web-Mediated Fandom and New Narrative Possibilities for Sport Epilogue: Feminist Rewritings of Sports Fan Culture Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Nebraska Press Narrative Complexity
Book SynopsisThe variety in contemporary philosophical and aesthetic thinking as well as in scientific and experimental research on complexity has not yet been fully adopted by narratology. By integrating cutting-edge approaches to complexity, this book takes a step toward establishing the interdisciplinary field of complex narrative studies.Trade Review"[Narrative Complexity] is a volume that feels very well curated by its editors in that it achieves a true multi-disciplinarity: not only by addressing a multitude of narrative media, practices, and technologies but also by fostering a truly diverse set of ways to think about complexity."—Steven Willemsen, Projections"Grishakova . . . and Poulaki . . . bring forward prominent scholars from around the world who offer vision and new theoretical frameworks regarding narrative studies. Contributors investigate narrative complexity from varying interdisciplinary viewpoints, including sense-making via mind-body engagement and social/cultural environments via technology and media. . . . The examinations of narratives in multiple emerging media contexts alone make this a worthy read."—K. L. Majocha, Choice"Perhaps it is obvious that narrative—a communicative act stretching across potentially every aspect of human experience—is a complex process, but the discussion of the variable nature of that complexity as demonstrated in this volume is worth considering at length."—Daniel Peretti, Journal of Folklore Research“Encyclopedic in scope, Narrative Complexity surveys a dazzling variety of genres, media forms, and theories about complexity, including artistic, literary, and scientific examples. Contributions by many eminent narratologists make this an invaluable work and essential reading for anyone interested in how the conjunction of narrative and complexity can be configured and interrogated. Kudos to the editors for introducing and assembling this remarkable collection.”—N. Katherine Hayles, author of Unthought: The Power of the Cognitive Nonconscious“Challenging the distinction between ‘simplicity’ as primary and primordial and ‘complexity’ as secondary and derived from simplicity, these far-ranging studies make the case that human cultures and minds are inherently complex. They are indeterminate and uncertain. This holds particularly true for narrative discourse, which is at the heart of culture and mind. Understanding homo narrans means understanding the human being in the world in its most complex forms. As a consequence, narrative studies have to refine their intellectual instruments—conceptually, empirically, hermeneutically—in the ways impressively explored in this volume.”—Jens Brockmeier, professor of psychology at the American University of Paris “This volume opens a new window on the emergence of narratology within the context of complexity theory. In contrast to its phase of pluralization in the form of diverse models and paradigms, narratology, by turning to complex phenomena such as self-organization, nonlinearity, recursion, and nonhierarchical relations in various media, is exploring new domains where the interactions between embodied cognition and social and cultural embeddedness are redefining the contours of narrative. Narrative Complexity bears witness to the repositioning of the ‘conditions of possibility’ of narratology.”—John Pier, University of Tours and CRAL (CNRS), ParisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Narrative Complexity Marina Grishakova and Maria Poulaki Part 1. Narrative Complexity and Media 1. Narrative as/and Complex System/s Marie-Laure Ryan 2. Caution, Simulation Ahead: Complexity and Digital Narrativity David Ciccoricco and David Large 3. The Wave-Crest: Narrative Complexity and Locative Narrative Emma Whittaker 4. Complexity and the Userly Text Noam Knoller 5. The Complexity of Informative Autobiographies Ulrik Ekman Part 2. Cognition and Narrative Comprehension 6. Sources of Complexity in Narrative Comprehension across Media Joseph P. Magliano, Karyn Higgs, and James Clinton 7. Structural Complexity in Visual Narratives: Theory, Brains, and Cross-Cultural Diversity Neil Cohn 8. Simplicity, Complexity, and Narration in Popular Movies James E. Cutting 9. Heteronomy of Narrative: Language Complexity and Computer Simplicity Hamid R. Ekbia Part 3. Experience, Subjectivity, and Embodied Complexity 10. Narrative Here-Now Mieke Bal 11. Body Forth in Narrative Ellen J. Esrock 12. Between Distancing and Immersion: The Body in Complex Narrative Maria Poulaki 13. Intersubjectivity, Idiosyncrasy, and Narrative Deixis: A Neurocinematic Approach Pia Tikka and Mauri Kaipainen 14. Jazz as Narrative: Narrating Cognitive Processes Involved in Jazz Improvisation Martin E. Rosenberg Part 4. Narrative Complexity and Cultural Evolution 15. The Predictive Mind, Attention, and Cultural Evolution: A New Perspective on Narrative Dynamics Marina Grishakova 16. Necessary Fictions: Supernormal Cues, Complex Cognition, and the Nature of Fictional Narrative James Carney 17. In Hindsight: Complexity, Contingency, and Narrative Mapping José Angel García Landa Contributors Index
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University of Nebraska Press Morta Las Vegas CSI and the Problem of the West
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Morta Las Vegas stands as a vital contribution to the evolving conversation between poststructuralist thought and Western American history in the "post-truth" era."—Alex Trimble Young, Western Historical Quarterly"A work of impressive ambition, written by two of Western literary studies' most influential scholars."—Jeffrey Chisum, Western American Literature“Bold, dangerous, troubling, speculative, and playful, spinning stories from the vortex provided by the CSI episode outward and back—away from the West . . . and then back to the widening sense of what the ‘postregional’ might mean.”—Neil Campbell, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Derby and author of The Rhizomatic West: Representing the West in the Transnational, Global, Media Age Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Morning in Las Vegas 1. The Problem of the Past: The Case of the Stolen Hummer 2. The Problem of Space and Place: The Case of the Dead Convention Model 3. The Problem of Aesthetics: The Case of the Dead Bodybuilder 4. The Problem of the [Uncanny] West: The Case of the Abandoned Dead Boy Conclusion: Nighthawks in Las Vegas “Just Another Day in Paradise”: An Envoi Source Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Gramophone Film Typewriter
Book SynopsisToward the end of the nineteenth century, the hegemony of the printed word was shattered by the arrival of new media technologies that offered novel ways of communicating and storing data. Previously, writing had operated by way of symbolic mediationall data had to pass through the needle''s eye of the written signifierbut phonography, photography, and cinematography stored physical effects of the real in the shape of sound waves and light. The entire question of referentiality had to be recast in light of these new media technologies; in addition, the use of the typewriter changed the perception of writing from that of a unique expression of a literate individual to that of a sequence of naked material signifiers.Part technological history of the emergent new media in the late nineteenth century, part theoretical discussion of the responses to these mediaincluding texts by Rilke, Kafka, and Heidegger, as well as elaborations by Edison, Bell, Turing, and other innovatorsGrTrade Review"Kittler's thesis is timely and intriguing. . . . To read this book is to take a wild ride through philosophy, music, the visual arts, popular culture, engineering, psychoanalysis, the history of science, literature, communication studies, film studies, and more. . . . This book belongs on any reading list in media studies, and should be essential for anyone interested in the intersections of comparative literature, literary theory, and media studies. Gramaphone, Film, and Typewriter is a stunning achievement. . . ."—The Comparalist"Recommended for graduate collections in media studies, especially those including European scholarship."—Choice"Friedrich Kittler proves a welcome exception to the standardized academic format of many of his German colleagues. . . . The excellent translation by Geoffrey-Winthrop Young and Michael Wutz is highly readable (no awkward Germanisms) and is preceded by a thorough and incisive introduction. . . . The present volume is Kittler's most accessible work so far, since it is written for expert and general reader alike."—Johns Hopkins University Press"Kittler's broadband scholarly panoptics afford a sublime techno-discursive vista, and in particular a point of lucid observation on the ongoing relativization of literary production."—American Book ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's introduction; Preface; Introduction; Gramophone; Film; Typewriter; Notes; Bibliography.
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Stanford University Press Bench Press
Book SynopsisBench Press is a first-of-its-kind collection of essays written by legal scholars, sitting judges, and working journalists assessing the state of judicial independence in the United States.Trade Review"Articulate, erudite, focused, thoughtful and thought-provoking, each of the nine essays is expertly written and together form a fascinating body of keen observation and scholarly commentary that make Bench Press an important, timely, and strongly recommended addition." -- Midwest Book Review"This erudite and often provocative book addresses one of the most important challenges to American constitutionalism—the media representations of law and saturation of civic understanding. If we do not get this under control, our long-lived democratic republic will suffer. The authors outline the nature of the threats and a range of adjustments, offering a rich collection of voices from those who are struggling to regain integrity and independence for competing professions: the media and the judiciary." -- Susan S. Silbey * assachusetts Institute of Technology *"Bench Press offers a fascinating variety of perspectives on the politics of the judiciary. The essays, by first-rate judges, journalists, and scholars, take on important topics—judicial elections and appointments, judicial recusals, media coverage of courts—and in many cases break ground, moving far beyond the sound bite coverage these subjects often receive. There's no other book remotely like this one." -- Tom Burke * Wellesley College *"Bench Press is a timely and provocative examination of the complex relationship among the judiciary, the media, politics and the public. In a series of essays by distinguished contributors, the book examines the conflict between the universal desire for an independent judiciary and the need for judicial accountability to ensure that judges apply the law as enacted by legislators rather than decree their personal biases and prejudices. Bench Press is a must-read for anyone interested in the role of an independent judiciary in modern society." -- Jane Marum Roush, Judge * Fairfax County (Virginia) Circuit Court *"Each of them challenging in its own way, the essays treat the contemporary state of the judiciary from a variety of perspectives: judicial 'appearance,' methods of selecting judges, media treatment of the judiciary and its decisions, public conceptions, and others. The authors' approaches and conclusions are diverse, and this book promises to create fruitful discussion in judicial process, public law, and communications courses in which critical thinking is encouraged." -- CHOICETable of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments 000 Introduction: The Two Faces of Judicial Power Keith J. Bybee 1 Part I: Context 000 1. Preserving Public Confidence in the Courts in an Age of Individual Rights and Public Skepticism 000 Charles Gardner Geyh 2. Politicizing the Process: The New Politics of State Judicial Elections 000 G. Alan Tarr Part II: Views From the Bench 000 3. An Essay on Judicial Selection: A Brief History 000 Harold See 4. Judicial Independence: The Courts and the Media 000 James E. Graves, Jr. 5. Politics and the Confirmation Process: Thoughts on the Roberts and Alito Hearings 000 John M. Walker, Jr. 6. Selecting the Judiciary: Who Should Be the Judge? 000 Joanne F. Alper Part III: Views From the Media 000 7. Winners and Losers 000 Mark Obbie 8. The Internet and the Judiciary: We Are All Experts Now 000 Dahlia Lithwick 9. The Distance Between Judges and Journalists 000 Tom Goldstein Afterword: The State of Judicial Independence 000 Anthony Lewis List of Contributors 000 Cited Authorities 000 Bibliography 000 Index 000
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Stanford University Press The Truth of the Technological World
Book SynopsisCollection of essays from throughout the author's career.
£91.80
Stanford University Press Colored Television
Book SynopsisExploring the tremendous influence of women and African American televangelists, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global offers a unique examination of the phenomenal growth of American religious broadcasting beyond the U.S., particularly in the Caribbean.Trade Review"Frederick has identified an important topic in the global flows of black religion through the work of influential television broadcasters. Her book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of religion in the African diaspora, religion and the American media, and Pentecostalism." -- Judith Weisenfeld * Princeton University *"No other work in black religious studies so well documents the history of television media in black Christianity in the U.S. and how it manifests itself and morphs in a global context, in this case, the Caribbean." -- Monica A. Coleman * Claremont School of Theology *"Marla Frederick who teaches African American Studies at Harvard University has quickly emerged as one of the notable ethnographers in the United States. Her latest book Colored Television is a continuation of her excellent scholarship...[This book] offers a fresh and challenging articulation of the character of the global charismatic renewal of Christianity within the framework of cities, the socio-economic situation of poor urban residents, and urban spaces." -- Nimi Wariboko * Pneuma *"Using historical trajectory and precedent, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global anticipates a movement within mediated religious broadcasting.America, the once dominate force behind religion gone global, will not reign forever." -- Madison Tarleton * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction includes a statement on the methodology used to complete this ethnography as well as an outline of individual chapters. It further highlights the three theoretical interventions of this text. These include firstly, the insistence that the web of religious broadcasting cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the aims, motivations and desires of all those involved – producers, consumers and distributors. Secondly, Colored Television takes seriously the discourse of intersectionality, arguing that the issues of race, class and gender explored in this book help explain elements present in the rise of both gospels of prosperity and increasingly important discourses around sexuality. Finally, while not reducing religion solely to market forces, this work argues that the business of broadcasting fundamentally alters religion and the experiences of the faithful. 1"Jamaica, Land We Love" chapter abstractChapter one frames the discussion of religious broadcasting in terms of globalization, neoliberalism and the history of American religious media. Exploring briefly the history of African American religious missions, it argues that religious globalization is not new. However, in the hyper-mediated form of religious broadcasting, new elements of globalization, more resonate with neoliberal market logics, take precedence. In articulating these moves, the chapter outlines the history of American religious broadcasting, explaining the significance of the switch to paid time broadcasting that ultimately catapulted religious broadcasting into the world of religious media competition. 2"Religious Dandyism: Prosperity and Performance in Black Televangelism" chapter abstractGiven the emergence of popular images of televangelists as wealthy, status-driven media personalities who embody the prototypical, rags-to-riches American success story, Chapter Two explores the history of the emergence African Americans as televangelists. The chapter argues that race and American racism played as much a part in the development of these character types as the theologies of Word of Faith or neo-Pentecostal personalities. In many ways the presentation of "Americanness" through the acquisition of the American dream – fine cars, tailored suits, lavish lifestyles – provided an image of racial uplift that was missing from black protest religion. The story of Rev. Frederick Eikenrenkoetter and other leading black televangelists contextualize the ways in which the flamboyant dress style, or "religious dandyism" of ministers was as much about creating a narrative of possibility for colored people as it was about the fashion and egoism of the preacher. 3"Relative Prosperity: Lived Religion in the "Dying Field" chapter abstractChapter three explores how American theologies of prosperity are appropriated by viewers in Jamaica. As neoliberalism exports the utopian ideal of the "free market" to countries around the globe, developing countries are often confined by the realities of their local often underdeveloped and/or exploited (exploitable) markets. Living under challenging economic pressures, local Jamaicans make sense of imported gospels of prosperity by developing more complicated, relative understandings of the nature of prosperity. Those in the viewing audience who receive messages of health and wealth in the face of poverty and affliction often interpret prosperity as relative in terms of time, space and constitution. 4"Female Televangelists and the Gospel of Sexual Redemption" chapter abstractChapter four looks at the phenomenal influence of women televangelists. It argues that women's ascendance in religious broadcasting is often influenced by their personal testimonies of sexual trauma and God's power to redeem and restore their lives. Their "gospels of sexual redemption" recalling experiences of rape, incest, early pregnancy, divorce and sexual promiscuity opens up important, though limited, discursive space for the discussion of sexuality among female religious viewers. The chapter discusses evangelists Paula White and Joyce Meyer, giving particular attention to the influence of Juanita Bynum, an African American woman whose testimony of abuse and sexual promiscuity garnered her tremendous popularity in the US and abroad. 5Redeeming Sexuality chapter abstractChapter five examines how the social and economic conditions in which Jamaican women find themselves often inform their experiences of sexuality. These experiences in turn influence how women relate to the messages of sexual redemption preached by televangelists. The chapter argues that while religious broadcasting offers a conservative approach to the practice of sexuality, confining sexual activity to marriage and offering a masculinist narrative of female submission to male authority, it also offers women an opportunity to redefine their sexual histories and make sense of personal tragedy. For women from traditional religious backgrounds, the personal theodicies of women evangelists who share their stories of abuse, out of wedlock childbirth and sexual promiscuity offer viewers opportunities to recast their own sexual histories in light of redemptive narratives. 6"Distributing the Message: Globalization and the Spread of Black Televangelism" chapter abstractChapter six explores the power of distributors and the meanings of race in the global market. Scholars of religious broadcasting have long discussed the influence of politically and theologically conservative Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the largest religious cable network in the world. This chapter explores the emergence of black owned networks and networks which cater to "urban" African American markets, such as TV One in the United States and Mercy and Truth Ministries and Love TV in Jamaica, which make room for a different kind of religious broadcasting format, presumably informed by different social commitments. It asks how these new outlets for religious broadcasting negotiate the demands of the neoliberal marketplace and attempt to create an alternative vision of the intersection of religion and the market in a post-civil rights, post-apartheid, post-colonialist historical moment. 7"Conclusion: Voices of the Next Generation" chapter abstractThe Conclusion focuses on the increasing influence of the Internet, over and against religious television broadcasting. Here questions are raised as to how the emergence of the Internet, like the shift to paid time broadcasting in the 1960s, might ultimately reshape religious broadcasting. Focused on the success of a ministry in Atlanta, Ga that has grown largely through internet broadcasting, the final chapter wonders whether, given the changes in technology, whether the the contours of what we have come to understand as popular religion will eventually shift to something that moves beyond prosperity messages and self help proclamations? As the democratization of religious media through the internet and social media sites takes full shape, it is likely that popular religious media narratives will be disrupted by people from across the globe and the theological spectrum, not just those savvy and wealthy enough to survive on religious television.
£81.90
Stanford University Press iranelection
Book Synopsis#iranelection considers the role of social media in the 2009 post-election crisis in Iran and, in turn, the effect of the Iranian protests on the development and adoption of various social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.Trade Review"In a highly original book, Negar Mottahedeh offers a fresh perspective on the role of social media in the 2009 protest movement in Iran. Moving beyond clichéd analysis, Mottahedeh offers a nuanced mapping of the ways social media was integrated into the lived experiences of Iranian political life. In tracing the organic development of the Green Movement, the book provides glimpses into the ways Iran's history continues to color political memory and animate social movements." -- Shiva Balaghi * Brown University *"Elegant, passionate, and deeply committed, #iranelection brings a much-needed historical perspective and non-Western viewpoint to the vexed question of the interactions of social media and social change. If you care about the history of the present, you need to read this book." -- Nicholas Mirzoeff * New York University *"Negar Mattahedeh's #iranelection offers a gripping chronicle of human solidarity in the age of social media. Analyzing Iran's 'green wave' in 2009 as at once an online and on-the-ground event, she connects it with earlier media revolutions, from Algeria's radio-fuelled revolution against French colonial rule to the cassettes and phone calls of the 1979 Iranian revolution. In Mottahedeh's inspiring account, the people pick up where the state and official media institutions fail." -- Jonathan Sterne * author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Hashtag chapter abstractThe citizen journalist was born out of the glitchy screens of mainstream reporting. On Twitter, the hashtag #CNNfail represented one of these glitches. When netizens tweeted the hashtag #cnnfail alongside the hashtag #iranelection in the first days of the uprising in Iran in 2009, it was to emphasize CNN's failure to report a collective act of dissent, in favor of corporate bankruptcy news in the US. Iran was jamming foreign satellite broadcasts along the length of the satellite's footprint. State television too was co-opted into covering up the people's uprising and was broadcasting programming that would lull the citizenry. This called for a response by those who were witnessing the unfolding events. From amidst the masses in the boulevards and squares of the Iranian cityscapes Iranians uploaded videos and images to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. This moment marked the birth of the citizen journalist. The hashtag became its slogan. 2Meme chapter abstractIn tracing the campaigns of the Iranian election uprising, this chapter recalls how bodies and social media handles effectively became memes, viral transmitters of sensory experiences and actions that in their simultaneous expression around a long trending hashtag, fundamentally changed the function and purpose of online media platforms as they transformed the spaces they moved through. The Iranian post-election crisis was in many ways a citation of the Iranian revolution and an attempt to reverse its losses. The chapter thus also chronicles the related history of the 1978 Iranian Revolution and traces the technologies and slogans that were used during its course. The chapter argues that the digital Web 2.0 technology in the Iranian election crisis memed the ways that technology was used in the Iranian Revolution, tethered this time, to horizontal networks of many-to-many transmission that awakened the world to the possibilities of collective action online. 3Selfie chapter abstractThe Iranian crisis of 2009 "memed" the content and operations of other uprisings in modern Iranian history: the demonstrations for the nationalization of oil in 1951, the marches against the CIA coup in1953, and the Iranian Revolution of 1978. Focusing on the role of women and the visual representation of women bodies at the forefront of these uprisings, the chapter discusses the gains and losses of the Iranian women's movement following its participations in the Iranian Revolution of 1978. Studying the role of the camera lens and its logics in relation to the representation of women in revolt, the chapter suggests that the solidarities configured by the lens and framing of the digital camera in the context of contemporary networked protests are transmitters of a global solidarity formed on the networks of the web and symptomatic of a melancholic failure to reclaim the fundamental loss of human solidarity under capitalism.
£13.94
Stanford University Press Colored Television
Book SynopsisExploring the tremendous influence of women and African American televangelists, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global offers a unique examination of the phenomenal growth of American religious broadcasting beyond the U.S., particularly in the Caribbean.Trade Review"Frederick has identified an important topic in the global flows of black religion through the work of influential television broadcasters. Her book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of religion in the African diaspora, religion and the American media, and Pentecostalism." -- Judith Weisenfeld * Princeton University *"No other work in black religious studies so well documents the history of television media in black Christianity in the U.S. and how it manifests itself and morphs in a global context, in this case, the Caribbean." -- Monica A. Coleman * Claremont School of Theology *"Marla Frederick who teaches African American Studies at Harvard University has quickly emerged as one of the notable ethnographers in the United States. Her latest book Colored Television is a continuation of her excellent scholarship...[This book] offers a fresh and challenging articulation of the character of the global charismatic renewal of Christianity within the framework of cities, the socio-economic situation of poor urban residents, and urban spaces." -- Nimi Wariboko * Pneuma *"Using historical trajectory and precedent, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global anticipates a movement within mediated religious broadcasting.America, the once dominate force behind religion gone global, will not reign forever." -- Madison Tarleton * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe introduction includes a statement on the methodology used to complete this ethnography as well as an outline of individual chapters. It further highlights the three theoretical interventions of this text. These include firstly, the insistence that the web of religious broadcasting cannot be understood without a full appreciation of the aims, motivations and desires of all those involved – producers, consumers and distributors. Secondly, Colored Television takes seriously the discourse of intersectionality, arguing that the issues of race, class and gender explored in this book help explain elements present in the rise of both gospels of prosperity and increasingly important discourses around sexuality. Finally, while not reducing religion solely to market forces, this work argues that the business of broadcasting fundamentally alters religion and the experiences of the faithful. 1"Jamaica, Land We Love" chapter abstractChapter one frames the discussion of religious broadcasting in terms of globalization, neoliberalism and the history of American religious media. Exploring briefly the history of African American religious missions, it argues that religious globalization is not new. However, in the hyper-mediated form of religious broadcasting, new elements of globalization, more resonate with neoliberal market logics, take precedence. In articulating these moves, the chapter outlines the history of American religious broadcasting, explaining the significance of the switch to paid time broadcasting that ultimately catapulted religious broadcasting into the world of religious media competition. 2"Religious Dandyism: Prosperity and Performance in Black Televangelism" chapter abstractGiven the emergence of popular images of televangelists as wealthy, status-driven media personalities who embody the prototypical, rags-to-riches American success story, Chapter Two explores the history of the emergence African Americans as televangelists. The chapter argues that race and American racism played as much a part in the development of these character types as the theologies of Word of Faith or neo-Pentecostal personalities. In many ways the presentation of "Americanness" through the acquisition of the American dream – fine cars, tailored suits, lavish lifestyles – provided an image of racial uplift that was missing from black protest religion. The story of Rev. Frederick Eikenrenkoetter and other leading black televangelists contextualize the ways in which the flamboyant dress style, or "religious dandyism" of ministers was as much about creating a narrative of possibility for colored people as it was about the fashion and egoism of the preacher. 3"Relative Prosperity: Lived Religion in the "Dying Field" chapter abstractChapter three explores how American theologies of prosperity are appropriated by viewers in Jamaica. As neoliberalism exports the utopian ideal of the "free market" to countries around the globe, developing countries are often confined by the realities of their local often underdeveloped and/or exploited (exploitable) markets. Living under challenging economic pressures, local Jamaicans make sense of imported gospels of prosperity by developing more complicated, relative understandings of the nature of prosperity. Those in the viewing audience who receive messages of health and wealth in the face of poverty and affliction often interpret prosperity as relative in terms of time, space and constitution. 4"Female Televangelists and the Gospel of Sexual Redemption" chapter abstractChapter four looks at the phenomenal influence of women televangelists. It argues that women's ascendance in religious broadcasting is often influenced by their personal testimonies of sexual trauma and God's power to redeem and restore their lives. Their "gospels of sexual redemption" recalling experiences of rape, incest, early pregnancy, divorce and sexual promiscuity opens up important, though limited, discursive space for the discussion of sexuality among female religious viewers. The chapter discusses evangelists Paula White and Joyce Meyer, giving particular attention to the influence of Juanita Bynum, an African American woman whose testimony of abuse and sexual promiscuity garnered her tremendous popularity in the US and abroad. 5Redeeming Sexuality chapter abstractChapter five examines how the social and economic conditions in which Jamaican women find themselves often inform their experiences of sexuality. These experiences in turn influence how women relate to the messages of sexual redemption preached by televangelists. The chapter argues that while religious broadcasting offers a conservative approach to the practice of sexuality, confining sexual activity to marriage and offering a masculinist narrative of female submission to male authority, it also offers women an opportunity to redefine their sexual histories and make sense of personal tragedy. For women from traditional religious backgrounds, the personal theodicies of women evangelists who share their stories of abuse, out of wedlock childbirth and sexual promiscuity offer viewers opportunities to recast their own sexual histories in light of redemptive narratives. 6"Distributing the Message: Globalization and the Spread of Black Televangelism" chapter abstractChapter six explores the power of distributors and the meanings of race in the global market. Scholars of religious broadcasting have long discussed the influence of politically and theologically conservative Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the largest religious cable network in the world. This chapter explores the emergence of black owned networks and networks which cater to "urban" African American markets, such as TV One in the United States and Mercy and Truth Ministries and Love TV in Jamaica, which make room for a different kind of religious broadcasting format, presumably informed by different social commitments. It asks how these new outlets for religious broadcasting negotiate the demands of the neoliberal marketplace and attempt to create an alternative vision of the intersection of religion and the market in a post-civil rights, post-apartheid, post-colonialist historical moment. 7"Conclusion: Voices of the Next Generation" chapter abstractThe Conclusion focuses on the increasing influence of the Internet, over and against religious television broadcasting. Here questions are raised as to how the emergence of the Internet, like the shift to paid time broadcasting in the 1960s, might ultimately reshape religious broadcasting. Focused on the success of a ministry in Atlanta, Ga that has grown largely through internet broadcasting, the final chapter wonders whether, given the changes in technology, whether the the contours of what we have come to understand as popular religion will eventually shift to something that moves beyond prosperity messages and self help proclamations? As the democratization of religious media through the internet and social media sites takes full shape, it is likely that popular religious media narratives will be disrupted by people from across the globe and the theological spectrum, not just those savvy and wealthy enough to survive on religious television.
£19.79
Stanford University Press Narrowcast Poetry and Audio Research
Book SynopsisThrough case studies of how mid-century American poetry used recording technologies to contest models of time being put forward by dominant media and the State, this book explores how New Left poets mobilized recording as a new form of sonic field research even while they were being subject to tape-based surveillance by the CIA and the FBI.Trade Review"Each page of this book contains some new insight, some unlikely connection, some reframing of a familiar problem thought long settled. Narrowcast not only challenges us to reconceive the relationships between poetry, technology, and state surveillance; it ignites new thinking about the intersections of politics and poetics in the 1960s." -- Anthony Reed * Yale University *"Lytle Shaw's examinations of the unexpected interactions between seemingly disparate figures are revealing and suggestive, groundbreaking and completely compelling. His deep forays into particular archives course with centrifugal energy, illuminating wide vistas around them and revealing the far-reaching implications of his fine-grained analyses." -- Drayton Nabers * Brown University *Table of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Third Personism: The FBI's Poetics of Immediacy in the 1960s chapter abstractThis chapter uses the reel-to-reel recordings Allen Ginsberg made on a cross-country trip in 1966 to focalize the contested status of audio research as it was then fought over by the New Left and the U.S. state. Reframing Frank O'Hara's suggestion in "Personism" that greater immediacy with his friends "Allen" (Ginsberg) and "Roi" (LeRoi Jones) might be achieved by calling them, the chapter considers what it means for postwar poetics that such New Left poets were often under state audio surveillance. Bringing poets, literary critics and the state into unexpected proximity, the chapter offers an account of the guiding assumptions and pitfalls associated with the CIA and FBI's often Yale-trained literary critics, demonstrating how all three confront the overwhelming of voice by its noisy sonic environment and how the state's theory of totality might be compared to that of famous literary theorists like Fredric Jameson. 2The Eigner Sanction: Keeping Time from the American Century chapter abstractChapter two explores Larry Eigner's development of a counter-temporality in relation to his dominant reception, the domestic mediascape he daily negotiated, the surrounding cold war defense infrastructure, and the Luce media empire's regulation of Americans' experience of time. Presenting Eigner's reflexive daily neighborhood sound and sight monitoring as a counterpoint to the Cold War surveillance jets that performed the same function over his neighborhood, the chapter shows how the urgent events that course through Eigner's airspace get recast by the poet's horizontal model of time. Eigner's role as an alternate broadcasting system then gets drawn out through an analysis of the ways that the Luce media (referenced by Eigner) took on the roll of organizing national time at the level of the week, month, year and even century. 3Olson's Sonic Walls: Citizenship and Surveillance from the OWI to the Nixon Tapes chapter abstractChapter three positions Charles Olson's education in American studies at Harvard and his work for the OWI in relation to postwar area studies and models of evidence, research and network building demonstrated on his recordings, whose confrontational dynamics and insistence on the real time of research are related to postwar sound and performance art. The chapter then uses Henry Kissinger's Harvard education, including Paul de Man's French tutoring, as a way to study the infrastructure of postwar area studies that underlay Kissinger's later audio surveillance, including his taping of Allen Ginsberg. Comparing Kissinger's understanding of tape to Olson's, the chapter draws out the "avant-garde" nature of Kissinger's audio research in which documentation transcends a hypothesis, a claim that gets tested by considering a 1975 court case in which Hayden White brought suit against the LAPD for planting officer pretending to be students in his class at UCLA. 4"The Strategic Idea of North: Glenn Gould, Sergeant Jones and White Alice" chapter abstractConsidering the sound documentaries of R. Murray Schafer and Glenn Gould, this chapter first places the origins of sound studies within nationalist Canadian conceptions of geography and culture before then outlining the American Cold War technological infrastructure that preceded these musicians' movements into Canadian space, especially the three lines of radar stations erected to monitor Soviet incursions into the North American continent. The chapter then considers the mechanics of this system via a case study of one of its functionaries, sergeant LeRoi Jones, whose practice missions of atomic reprisal aboard a B36 peacemaker were signaled by a hellish siren particularly noted by the sergeant. The chapter concludes by following this siren-sound into the poet and music critic's later work, as Amiri Baraka, fashioning exemplary sounds of Black Nationalism.
£98.60
Louisiana State University Press Political Polling in the Digital Age
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking collection, contributors place developments in public-opinion polling into a broader historical context, examine how to construct accurate meanings from public-opinion surveys, and analyse the future of public-opinion polling.
£18.95
Louisiana State University Press Politics for the Love of Fandom
Book SynopsisExamines what Ashley Hinck calls “fan-based citizenship”: civic action that blends with and arises from participation in fandom and commitment to a fan-object. Hinck argues that fan-based citizenship has created new civic practices wherein popular culture may play a large role in generating social action.
£35.06
Louisiana State University Press Jimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media
Book SynopsisChronicles a change in the negotiation of political image-craft and the role it played in Jimmy Carter's meteoric rise to the presidency. Amber Roessner contends that Carter's underdog victory signaled a transition from an older form of party politics focused on issues and platforms to a newer brand of personality politics driven by image.Trade ReviewJimmy Carter and the Birth of the Marathon Media Campaign brought back a lot of memories, reminded me of events I had forgotten, and informed me of things I never knew. Though I thought I knew most everything about Jimmy Carter, Amber Roessner told a lot about the backstage maneuvering that I did not. What accounts for candidate Jimmy Carter's remarkable success at image-making and President Carter's utter failure to project the right image? That is the key question about Carter and the press, and this impressively researched book answers it definitively. In clear, compelling prose, Roessner explains the transformations in political journalism and campaign tactics that shaped Carter's fortunes. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of campaign coverage.
£32.25
