wyszukanych pozycji: 74
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age; Global Industries and New Audiences
ISBN: 9781433108235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining them will further our understanding of the role of global media content in the digital age. Moreover, as these programs continue to be exported and transformed at regional levels, and through digitalization, it is more important than ever to analyze where the genre has been, where it is now, and where it is going.
This collection brings together original scholarship from an international and trans-disciplinary perspective. Chapters address timely... Soap operas and telenovelas are watched by millions of people around the world every day. As cultural, social, and economic phenomena, examining them ...
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762,02 |
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American Masculinity Under Clinton: Popular Media and the Nineties «Crisis of Masculinity»
ISBN: 9780820468068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Whereas many of the men of Reagan s 80s seemed stereotypically hypermasculine, a host of 90s images suggest a new phase of more sensitive manhood. In the Clinton era, both academic and popular writers suggested that a -crisis of masculinity- had taken root one that had men questioning traditional male ideas and seeking new identities. This book explores the conflicted ways in which this seemingly new climate of masculinity was negotiated. From Bill Clinton to The Promise Keepers and Titanic to Friends, a host of 90s heroes put this rhetoric of crisis to work to win elections,...
Whereas many of the men of Reagan s 80s seemed stereotypically hypermasculine, a host of 90s images suggest a new phase of more sensitive manhood. In ...
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188,44 |
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The Internet Playground: Children's Access, Entertainment, and Mis-Education
ISBN: 9780820471242 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 121 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Based on four years of experience teaching computers to 8-12 year olds, media scholar Ellen Seiter offers parents and educators practical advice on what children need to know about the Internet and when they need to know it. The Internet Playground argues that, contrary to the promises of technology boosters, teaching with computers is very difficult. Seiter points out that the Internet today resembles a mall more than it does a library. While children love to play online games, join fan communities, and use online chat and instant messaging, the Internet is also an appallingly...
Based on four years of experience teaching computers to 8-12 year olds, media scholar Ellen Seiter offers parents and educators practical advice on wh...
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133,79 |
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Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media Corporations in China
ISBN: 9780820495019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book examines the way transnational media companies have entered the Chinese entertainment market. Based on the author s ethnographic work and over 100 interviews with senior executives in global media corporations, including Warner Bros. Pictures, Viacom s MTV Channel, and Nickelodeon and News Corporation s Channel V, the book analyzes the concrete globalization/localization strategies of these corporations and how they cope with the various political and economic constraints of working in China."
This book examines the way transnational media companies have entered the Chinese entertainment market. Based on the author s ethnographic work and ov...
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654,00 |
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Smart Living; Lifestyle Media and Popular Expertise
ISBN: 9780820486772 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle gurus are increasingly intruding on everyday life, directing ordinary people to see themselves as -projects- that can be -made over- through embracing an ethos of relentless self-improvement. Smart Living argues that they represent a new form of popular expertise sweeping the world. Written in a lively and accessible manner, the book examines this cult of expertise across a range of media and cultural sites and offers the reader a range of...
What do the Fab Five from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, the Supernanny and celebrity chef Jamie Oliver all have in common? Lifestyle g...
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181,74 |
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Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture
ISBN: 9781433108662 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This edited volume seeks to redress the lack of scholarly work that takes promotion seriously as a form of social, cultural, political, and economic exchange. It unpacks the vernacular, the institutional structures, and the practices and performances that make up promotional culture in everyday life, offering diverse critical perspectives on how, as citizens, consumers, and users, we absorb, navigate, confront, and resist its influence. Contributions from both renowned scholars and emerging intellectuals make this book a timely and valuable contribution to the fields of media and...
This edited volume seeks to redress the lack of scholarly work that takes promotion seriously as a form of social, cultural, political, and economic e...
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701,44 |
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The Real Thing: Doing Philosophy with Media
ISBN: 9780820455556 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Television has been demonized as the cause of the moral decay of our society. Its content is derided as vapid. However, what we watch on television is often philosophically complex. This book examines news, cartoons such as South Park, advertisements, and soap operas and identifies complex moral dilemmas and arguments in them. It argues that we should apply analytical and philosophical skills directly to what we watch and shows how it can be done. In the final chapter, the way in which the news has been overtaken by the private lives of public figures is traced to a breakdown of the...
Television has been demonized as the cause of the moral decay of our society. Its content is derided as vapid. However, what we watch on television is...
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154,41 |
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Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life
ISBN: 9781433100765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life brings together a group of esteemed international scholars to focus on the important, complex, and mutually reinforcing relationships between sport, beer, and gender in fashioning promotional strategies and shaping global cultures of consumption. Collectively, the book examines a well-known social constellation that has received little specific scholarly attention although it sits at the axis of many lines of expanding inquiry in sport studies, media studies, gender studies, cultural studies, consumer studies,...
Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life brings together a group of esteemed international scholars to focus o...
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208,80 |
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Cultural Citizenship: Cosmopolitanism, Consumerism, and Television in a Neoliberal Age
ISBN: 9781592135608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and dazzling book, Toby Miller dares to answer this question with the depth of thought it deserves. Fast-moving and far-ranging, "Cultural Citizenship" blends fact, theory, observation, and speculation in a way that continually startles and engages the reader. Although he is unabashedly liberal in his politics, Miller is anything but narrow minded. He looks at media coverage of September 11th and the Iraq invasion as well as "infotainment" - such as...
What does it mean to be a "citizen" today, in an age of unbridled consumerism, terrorism, militarism, and multinationalism? In this passionate and daz...
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321,59 |
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The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781138214767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. "The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture" provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship. Specifically, this Companion includes:
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, soci... |
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311,65 |
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Greenwashing Culture
ISBN: 9781138962705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Greenwashing Culture examines culture's complicity with our environmental crisis. It reveals both the social license it often gives gas and petroleum industries to operate and the ecological impact of cultural production itself. Firstly, the book outlines the basic theoretical concepts and material histories of greenwashing and culture. This introduction includes startling statistics which indicate the true extent of environmental damage film-making, print media and other forms of cultural production can inflict. This is juxtaposed with the culture of celebrity eco-activism... Greenwashing Culture examines culture's complicity with our environmental crisis. It reveals both the social license it often gives gas an... |
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766,88 |
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The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture
ISBN: 9780415641470 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociology, history, American studies, anthropology, literature, journalism, folklore, economics, and media and cultural studies. The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture provides an authoritative, up-to-date, intellectually broad, internationally-aware, and conceptually agile guide to the most important aspects of popular culture scholarship. Specifically, this Companion includes: * interdisciplinary models and approaches for analyzing popular...
Research on popular culture is a dynamic, fast-growing domain. In scholarly terms, it cuts across many areas, including communication studies, sociolo...
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1261,64 |
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Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics
ISBN: 9780820463339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In 1977 a single film called Star Wars exploded on the consciousness of the world. Since then the franchise, created by George Lucas, has become a global entertainment corporation. The merchandise of the original trilogy was largely confined to toys and games, but those games have since become computerized, the toys more sophisticated, and Star Wars has moved into the multi-media environment of the twenty-first century in ways unimaginable in the long-ago world of 1977. Computer games and web sites, novels, animated television shows, as well as a new trilogy of films, have all...
In 1977 a single film called Star Wars exploded on the consciousness of the world. Since then the franchise, created by George Lucas, has becom...
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188,44 |
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Comp Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780631217886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Experts from five continents provide a thorough exploration of cultural studies, looking at different ideas, places and problems addressed by the field.
Experts from five continents provide a thorough exploration of cultural studies, looking at different ideas, places and problems addressed by the fiel...
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895,51 |
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The Other Guy: Media Masculinity Within the Margins
ISBN: 9781433122453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Suffering from -manopause- and -Low T-, underemployed and unwilling to grow up, -the other guy- has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change with the times, but is often unable (or unwilling) to understand the new landscape. Avoiding rhetorics of victimization, Derek A. Burrill charts and analyzes the other guy in order to understand how men see themselves, in media and in culture at large."
Suffering from -manopause- and -Low T-, underemployed and unwilling to grow up, -the other guy- has emerged as an important figure in modern media mas...
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228,14 |
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A Covid Charter, a Better World
ISBN: 9781978827455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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84,06 |
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Sex, Drugs & Rock 'n' Roll: The Evolution of an American Youth Culture
ISBN: 9781433128875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Sex, Drugs, & Rock n Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after World War II, crystalizing between 1955 and 1970. During this era, the concept of the American teenager first came into being, significantly altering the relationship between young people and adults.
As the entertainment industries came to realize that a youth market existed, providers of music and movies began to create products specifically for them. While Big Beat music and exploitation films may have initially been targeted for a... Sex, Drugs, & Rock n Roll analyzes the cultural, political, and social revolution that took place in the U.S. (and in time the world) after Wor...
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962,83 |
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Finding the Force of the Star Wars Franchise: Fans, Merchandise, and Critics
ISBN: 9780820488080 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In 1977 a single film called Star Wars exploded on the consciousness of the world. Since then the franchise, created by George Lucas, has become a global entertainment corporation. The merchandise of the original trilogy was largely confined to toys and games, but those games have since become computerized, the toys more sophisticated, and Star Wars has moved into the multi-media environment of the twenty-first century in ways unimaginable in the long-ago world of 1977. Computer games and web sites, novels, animated television shows, as well as a new trilogy of films, have all...
In 1977 a single film called Star Wars exploded on the consciousness of the world. Since then the franchise, created by George Lucas, has becom...
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519,18 |
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The Well-Tempered Self: Citizenship, Culture, and the Postmodern Subject
ISBN: 9780801846045 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic concerns will be both accessible and useful to readers asking--as contemporary readers indomitably do--what these debates in cultural theory have to do with the conduct of theirsocial lives."--Meaghan Morris, author of "The Pirate's Fianc?e: Feminism, Reading, Postmodernism." "Miller's work is extremely engaging, original, and successful in producing a set of innovative analyses of the formation of cultural subjects."--Douglas Kellner, University... "This is a major work on the connection of theoretical to political practice under postmodernity. At once rigorous and readable, its academic conce... |
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162,08 |
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Why Journalism? A Polemic
ISBN: 9781032701622 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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187,96 |