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Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea: Journeys of Hope

by Youna Kim

Fusing audience research and ethnography, the book presents a compelling account of women's changing lives and identities in relation to the impact of the most popular media culture in everyday life: television....


Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence

by Colin Davis

This book re-assesses director Jean Renoir's work between his departure from France in 1940 and his death in 1979, and contributes to the debate over how the medium of film registers the impact of trauma.

The...


Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality

by Wanning Sun & Jenny Chio

Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the 'national' scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China's media has played...


Media and Democratic Transition in South Korea

by Ki-Sung Kwak

Since South Korea achieved partial democracy in 1987, the country has moved away from authoritarian political control. However, after two decades of democratic transition, South Korea still does not have a strong...


Relocating Television: Television in the Digital Context

by Jostein Gripsrud

For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies - the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the public sphere. Television has therefore rarely been studied...


One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: And Other Essays on Greek Love

by David M M Halperin

Halperin's subject is the erotics of male culture in ancient Greece. Arguing that the modern concept of "homosexuality" is an inadequate tool for the interpretation of these features of sexual life in antiquity,...


The Presidential Debates: Fifty Years of High Risk TV

by Alan Schroeder

Alan Schroeder's popular history now covers the 2000 Bush-Gore and 2004 Bush-Kerry debates, including innovations in format and press coverage, and adds new research on televised debates since 1960. Schroeder...


Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics

by Ronald V. Bettig & Jeanne Lynn Hall

Big Media, Big Money is a lively and scathing critique of the contemporary communications industry. With three new chapters on the film industry, the music industry, and “ad creep,” the second edition takes...


Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale

by Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca & Gail W. Pieper

Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited by Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, and Gail W. Pieper, is a collection of essays which examine narratives created on the advertising page,...


Media Practices and Protest Politics: How Precarious Workers Mobilise

by Alice Mattoni

Media Practices and Protest Politics offers important insights for understanding mechanisms and patterns of visibility in struggles for recognition and redistribution in post-democratic societies and provides...


Talking Back to Facebook: The Common Sense Guide to Raising Kids in the Digital Age

by James P. Steyer

Now, more than ever, parents need help in navigating their kids’ online, media-saturated lives. Jim Steyer, founder and CEO of Common Sense Media, the nation’s leading kidsand- media organization, and the...


She

by Saul Williams

Hailed as "a dreadlocked dervish of words...the Bob Marley of American poets" (Esquire), Saul Williams is a gifted young poet who is opening up this literary art form to a new generation of readers. Like his...


Communication Realities in a "Post-Racial" Society: What the U.S. Public Really Thinks of President Barack Obama

by Mark P. Orbe

Drawing from a large national qualitative data set generated by 333 diverse participants from 12 different states across 6 U.S. regions, Mark P. Orbe offers a comprehensive look into public perceptions of Barack...


Science Fiction

by Mark Dr Mark Bould

Science Fiction explores the genre from 1895 to the present day, drawing on examples from over forty countries. It raises questions about the relationship between science fiction, science and technology, and...


Contemporary Black American Cinema: Race, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies

by Mia Mask

Contemporary Black American Cinema offers a fresh collection of essays on African American film, media, and visual culture in the era of global multiculturalism. Integrating theory, history, and criticism, the...


The Associated Press Guide To Punctuation

by Rene J. J. Cappon

From the editors at the world-renowned Associated Press, a guide to the proper use of punctuation--from the apostrophe to the semicolon


Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture

by Stewart M. M. Hoover & Lynn Schofield Schofield Clark

Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture—in the realm of the so-called secular.

Focusing on...


Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace

by Philip M. M. Napoli

Focusing on the electronic media -- television, radio, and the Internet -- Audience Economics bridges a substantial gap in the literature by providing an integrated framework for understanding the various businesses...


Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation

by Scott Warren Fitzgerald

Corporations and Cultural Industries: Time Warner, Bertelsmann, and News Corporation, by Scott Warren Fitzgerald, fills an important neglected area in communication and media studies through its sustained, theoretically-grounded,...


Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy

by Samantha Nogueira Joyce

Samantha Nogueira Joyce's Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy traces the representations of Afro-Brazilians on television, culminating with the telenovela Duas Caras (2007-2008), and reveals...