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Hiding in the Light
On Images and Things
Av Dick Hebdige
Häftad, 1988
633 kr
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Dick Hebdige looks at the creation and consumption of objects and images as diverse as fashion and documentary photographs, 1950's streamlined cars, Italian motor scooters, 1980's 'style manuals', Biff cartoons, the Band Aid campaign, Pop Art and promotional music videos. He assesses their broad …
Spectacular Bodies
Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema
Häftad, 1993
633 kr
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While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism.Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as …
'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age
Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
Av Sanja Vico
Inbunden, 2024
2512 kr
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This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices.Drawing upon a detailed case study of Serbian Londoners, this truly interdisciplinary study …
'Doing Nation' in a Digital Age
Banal Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Polymedia Environments
Av Sanja Vico
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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This book introduces a new theory of national identity, arguing that the nation does not only represent an abstract “imagined community” but also represents embodied cultural and discursive practices.Drawing upon a detailed case study of Serbian Londoners, this truly interdisciplinary study …
Museum Time Machine
Putting Cultures on Display
Häftad, 1988
633 kr
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A provocative contribution to the current debate on museums, this collection of essays contains contributions from France, Britain, Australia, the USA and Canada.
Consumption, Identity and Style
Marketing, meanings, and the packaging of pleasure
Häftad, 1990
589 kr
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First Published in 1990. This is a book about the meaning of our lives as consumers. It is about leisure, lifestyle, and markets in today’s consumer culture. In 1986 one measure of people’s use of time in Britain identified television watching as the major activity for both men and women outside …
Timeshift
On Video Culture
Av Sean Cubitt
Häftad, 1991
672 kr
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Focusing on the aesthetics of video, Timeshift tests current semiotic, postmodernist and psychoanalytic approaches in the laboratory of real-life video viewing.
Known World of Broadcast News
International News and the Electronic Media
Av Stanley Baran, Roger Wallis
Häftad, 1990
624 kr
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Radio and television news are expanding everywhere, often at the expense of print media. Developments in global communications, in theory at least, have made the world smaller. An event anywhere can theoretically be reported anywhere else on radio within minutes; on television within hours. But …
Family Television
Cultural Power and Domestic Leisure
Av David Morley
Häftad, 1986
587 kr
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First Published in 2006. In this detailed study of television viewing among families from different cultural backgrounds, Morley develops many of the themes of his earlier work on the nationwide audience. This book extends that work into new territory, examining different ways in which television …
Consumerist Manifesto
Advertising in Postmodern Times
Häftad, 1992
652 kr
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Advertising is no longer on the defensive. It has survived the snobbery of the 50s, the conspiracy theories of the 60s and the semiology of the 70s to be embraced and apotheosised by the 80s.The Consumerist Manifesto is the first book to examine the advertising process from within the agency …
Advertising International
The Privatisation of Public Space
Häftad, 1991
457 kr
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A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last twenty years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying.
Video Playtime
The Gendering of a Leisure Technology
Av Ann Gray
Inbunden, 1992
2512 kr
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The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television.In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these …
Video Playtime
The Gendering of a Leisure Technology
Av Ann Gray
Häftad, 1992
633 kr
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The 1980s saw an explosion in the use of the domestic video cassette recorder (VCR), arguably the most significant new form of home entertainment technology since television.In Video Playtime Ann Gray investigates what women themselves felt about the VCR, both in terms of the ways these …
Cut `n' Mix
Culture, Identity and Caribbean Music
Av Dick Hebdige
Häftad, 1987
622 kr
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First published in 1987. This is a book about the music of the Caribbean - from calypso and ska through to Reggae and Caribbean club culture.
Dynasty Years
Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies
Inbunden, 1995
2512 kr
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The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European television.From the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis' fight in the lilypond or the …
Dynasty Years
Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies
Häftad, 1995
633 kr
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The Dynasty Years documents and analyses in detail 'the Dynasty phenomenon', the hotly debated success of the Hollywood-made 'Rolls Royce of a primetime soap' which heralded a profound transformation of European television.From the operatic camp of Krystle and Alexis' fight in the lilypond or the …
Migrancy, Culture, Identity
Inbunden, 1993
2512 kr
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In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the …
Migrancy, Culture, Identity
Häftad, 1993
691 kr
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In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories. The author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the …
Stuart Hall
Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
Av Kuan-Hsing Chen, David Morley
Inbunden, 1996
2512 kr
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Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's …
Stuart Hall
Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies
Av Kuan-Hsing Chen, David Morley
Häftad, 1996
633 kr
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Stuart Hall's work has been central to the formation and development of cultural studies as an international discipline. Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies is an invaluable collection of writings by and about Stuart Hall. The book provides a representative selection of Hall's …
Spectacular Bodies
Gender, Genre and the Action Cinema
Inbunden, 1993
2512 kr
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While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years, popular action cinema remains neglected within contemporary film criticism.Spectacular Bodies unravels the complexities and pleasures of a genre often dismissed as …
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
Inbunden, 1995
2512 kr
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For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family …
Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
Häftad, 1995
633 kr
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For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family …
To Be Continued...
Soap Operas Around the World
Inbunden, 1994
2512 kr
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To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales …
To Be Continued...
Soap Operas Around the World
Häftad, 1994
633 kr
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To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales …
Transnational Connections
Culture, People, Places
Av Ulf Hannerz
Inbunden, 1996
2512 kr
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This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established …
Transnational Connections
Culture, People, Places
Av Ulf Hannerz
Häftad, 1996
691 kr
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This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national understandings of culture have become insufficient. He explores the implications of boundary-crossings and long-distance cultural flows for established …
Home Territories
Media, Mobility and Identity
Av David Morley
Inbunden, 2000
2512 kr
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Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley …
Home Territories
Media, Mobility and Identity
Av David Morley
Häftad, 2000
633 kr
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Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley …
Times of the Technoculture
From the Information Society to the Virtual Life
Av Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
Inbunden, 1999
2264 kr
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Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.The authors look at …
