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Haunted Media
Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television
Häftad, 2000
272 kr
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In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture’s persistent association of new electronic media-from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers-with paranormal or spiritual phenomena. By offering a historical analysis of the relation between …
Production Culture
Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
Inbunden, 2008
1458 kr
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In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors, …
AIDS TV
Identity, Community, and Alternative Video
Inbunden, 1995
1362 kr
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Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression-an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon-why and how video has become the medium for so …
Seeing Through the Eighties
Television and Reaganism
Av Jane Feuer
Häftad, 1995
343 kr
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The 1980s saw the rise of Ronald Reagan and the New Right in American politics, the popularity of programs such as thirtysomething and Dynasty on network television, and the increasingly widespread use of VCRs, cable TV, and remote control in American living rooms. In Seeing Through the Eighties, …
AIDS TV
Identity, Community, and Alternative Video
Häftad, 1995
396 kr
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Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression-an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon-why and how video has become the medium for so …
Living Color
Race and Television in the United States
Av Sasha Torres
Häftad, 1998
563 kr
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Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. Living Color combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race …
Saturday Morning Censors
Television Regulation Before the V-Chip
Häftad, 1999
563 kr
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Many parents, politicians, and activists agree that there’s too much violence and not enough education on children’s television. Current solutions range from the legislative (the Children’s Television Act of 1990) to the technological (the V-chip). Saturday Morning Censors examines the history of …
Kids' Media Culture
Häftad, 2000
315 kr
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Television shows, comic strips, video games, and other forms of media directed at children are the subject of frequent and rancorous debate. In Kids’ Media Culture some of the most prominent cultural theorists of children’s media join forces with exciting new voices in the field to consider the …
Television, History, and American Culture
Feminist Critical Essays
Av Mary Beth Haralovich, Lauren Rabinovitz
Häftad, 1999
287 kr
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In less than a century, the flickering blue-gray light of the television screen has become a cultural icon. What do the images transmitted by that screen tell us about power, authority, gender stereotypes, and ideology in the United States? Television, History, and American Culture addresses this …
Tabloid Culture
Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television
Av Kevin Glynn
Häftad, 2000
301 kr
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During the latter half of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, television talk shows, infotainment news, and screaming supermarket headlines became ubiquitous in America as the “tabloidization” of the nation’s media took hold. In Tabloid Culture Kevin Glynn draws on diverse theoretical sources and …
Groove Tube
Sixties Television and the Youth Rebellion
Häftad, 2001
385 kr
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Critics often claim that prime-time television seemed immune-or even willfully blind-to the landmark upheavals rocking American society during the 1960s. Groove Tube is Aniko Bodroghkozy’s rebuttal of this claim. Filled with entertaining and enlightening discussions of popular shows of the …
Ambient Television
Visual Culture and Public Space
Häftad, 2001
385 kr
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Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laundromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms; and helping to …
Welcome to the Dreamhouse
Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs
Av Lynn Spigel
Häftad, 2001
436 kr
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In Welcome to the Dreamhouse feminist media studies pioneer Lynn Spigel takes on Barbie collectors, African American media coverage of the early NASA space launches, and television’s changing role in the family home and its links to the broader visual culture of modern art. Exploring postwar U.S. …
Mobile Cultures
New Media in Queer Asia
Av Chris Berry, Fran Martin m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
385 kr
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Mobile Cultures provides much-needed, empirically grounded studies of the connections between new media technologies, the globalization of sexual cultures, and the rise of queer Asia. The availability and use of new media-fax machines, mobile phones, the Internet, electronic message boards, pagers, …
Watching Jim Crow
The Struggles Over Mississippi TV, 1955–1969
Häftad, 2004
301 kr
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In the early 1960s, whenever the Today Show discussed integration, wlbt-tv, the nbc affiliate in Jackson, Mississippi, cut away to local news after announcing that the Today Show content was “network news . . . represent[ing] the views of the northern press.” This was only one part of a larger …
Television After TV
Essays on a Medium in Transition
Inbunden, 2004
1462 kr
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In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. three-network system, the rise of multi-channel cable and global satellite delivery, changes in regulation policies and ownership rules, technological innovations in screen design, and the development …
Television After TV
Essays on a Medium in Transition
Häftad, 2004
441 kr
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In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. three-network system, the rise of multi-channel cable and global satellite delivery, changes in regulation policies and ownership rules, technological innovations in screen design, and the development …
Cultures in Orbit
Satellites and the Televisual
Av Lisa Parks
Inbunden, 2005
1248 kr
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In 1957 Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmission, direct broadcasting, remote sensing, and …
Cultures in Orbit
Satellites and the Televisual
Av Lisa Parks
Häftad, 2005
555 kr
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In 1957 Sputnik, the world’s first man-made satellite, dazzled people as it zipped around the planet. By the beginning of the twenty-first century, more than eight thousand satellites orbited the Earth, and satellite practices such as live transmission, direct broadcasting, remote sensing, and …
Tuning Out Blackness
Race and Nation in the History of Puerto Rican Television
Häftad, 2005
385 kr
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Tuning Out Blackness fills a glaring omission in U.S. and Latin American television studies by looking at the history of Puerto Rican television. In exploring the political and cultural dynamics that have shaped racial representations in Puerto Rico’s commercial media from the late 1940s to the …
Wallowing in Sex
The New Sexual Culture of 1970s American Television
Av Elana Levine
Häftad, 2007
408 kr
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Passengers disco dancing in The Love Boat’s Acapulco Lounge. A young girl walking by a marquee advertising Deep Throat in the made-for-TV movie Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway. A frustrated housewife borrowing Orgasm and You from her local library in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman. Commercial …
Kids Rule!
Nickelodeon and Consumer Citizenship
Häftad, 2007
408 kr
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In Kids Rule! Sarah Banet-Weiser examines the cable network Nickelodeon in order to rethink the relationship between children, media, citizenship, and consumerism. Nickelodeon is arguably the most commercially successful cable network ever. Broadcasting original programs such as Dora the Explorer, …
Interrogating Postfeminism
Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture
Häftad, 2007
441 kr
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This timely collection brings feminist critique to bear on contemporary postfeminist mass media culture, analyzing phenomena ranging from action films featuring violent heroines to the “girling” of aging women in productions such as the movie Something’s Gotta Give and the British television series …
Production Culture
Industrial Reflexivity and Critical Practice in Film and Television
Häftad, 2008
441 kr
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In Production Culture, John Thornton Caldwell investigates the cultural practices and belief systems of Los Angeles–based film and video production workers: not only those in prestigious positions such as producers and directors but also many “below-the-line” laborers, including gaffers, editors, …
Makeover TV
Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity
Häftad, 2009
385 kr
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In 2004, roughly 25 makeover-themed reality shows aired on U.S. television. By 2009, there were more than 250, from What Not to Wear and The Biggest Loser to Dog Whisperer and Pimp My Ride. In Makeover TV, Brenda R. Weber argues that whether depicting transformations of bodies, trucks, finances, …
Television As Digital Media
Av James Bennett, Niki Strange
Inbunden, 2011
1406 kr
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In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, …
Television As Digital Media
Av James Bennett, Niki Strange
Häftad, 2011
441 kr
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In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, …
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount
Popular Music on Early Television
Häftad, 2012
353 kr
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Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade …
Recycled Stars
Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video
Inbunden, 2015
1671 kr
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The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of …
Recycled Stars
Female Film Stardom in the Age of Television and Video
Häftad, 2015
408 kr
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The popularity of television in postwar suburban America had a devastating effect on the traditional Hollywood studio system. Yet many aging Hollywood stars used television to revive their fading careers. In Recycled Stars, Mary R. Desjardins examines the recirculation, ownership, and control of …
