wyszukanych pozycji: 73
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Die Tryin': Videogames, Masculinity, Culture
ISBN: 9781433102424 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Die Tryin traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, and poststructuralist theory to analyze the social imaginary that is produced by and produces a particular form of masculinity: boyhood. The author asserts that digital culture is a culturally and historically situated series of practices, products, and performances, all coalescing to produce a real and imagined masculinity that exists in perpetual adolescence, and is reflective of larger masculine edifices at work in politics and culture. Thus,...
Die Tryin traces the cultural connections between videogames, masculinity, and digital culture. It fuses feminist, psychoanalytic, Marxist, an...
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538,68 zł |
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Global Media Studies
ISBN: 9780745644318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive ?how-to? guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. They look at political economy, global policymaking and governance, and the past and present manifestations of cultural imperialism.
In addition to providing a survey of the field, the book introduces a new form of textual analysis, with a special focus on... Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a com...
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281,82 zł |
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Dishing Dirt in the Digital Age: Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Participatory Media Culture
ISBN: 9781433118074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Beginning in the mid-2000s, celebrity gossip blogs exploded into the media market, challenging the traditional dominance of print tabloids as the primary space of celebrity dish and reconfiguring the audience s role in celebrity culture. This book is a critical and historical examination of the impact of the technological and textual shifts engendered by new media on the use of celebrity gossip as a form of everyday cultural production. Examining six popular American gossip blogs Perez Hilton and Jezebel among them at a peak moment of influence in the mid-2000s, this book explores how the...
Beginning in the mid-2000s, celebrity gossip blogs exploded into the media market, challenging the traditional dominance of print tabloids as the prim...
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738,23 zł |
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Television Studies
ISBN: 9780851708959 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) By addressing the themes of forms of knowledge, audiences, gender and race, this accessible student text outlines the theories and approaches to the study of television. Television texts discussed include "Star Trek," "Kung Fu," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Xena: Warrior Princess," and "Sesame Street."
By addressing the themes of forms of knowledge, audiences, gender and race, this accessible student text outlines the theories and approaches to the s...
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179,29 zł |
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News in Public Memory: An International Study of Media Memories Across Generations
ISBN: 9780820461946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) News in Public Memory brings together a team of international experts to investigate the media-transmitted history of the twentieth century as it exists in the memories and minds of people living in diverse cultures across the globe. This book compares media-related childhood memories across three generations in nine countries. Results reveal that events of the past century are not only historical -facts- but have become substantial elements of a new global collective memory that has been integrated into generational identity worldwide. The global approach of this research encourages...
News in Public Memory brings together a team of international experts to investigate the media-transmitted history of the twentieth century as ...
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167,53 zł |
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Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Second Edition
ISBN: 9781433127199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the political, corporate, and intellectual zombies that rule America embrace death-dealing institutions such as a bloated military, the punishing state, a form of predatory capitalism, and an authoritarian, death-driven set of policies that sanction torture, targeted assassinations, and a permanent...
In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highli...
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132,70 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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751,45 zł |
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Violence
ISBN: 9780367523152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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111,91 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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185,83 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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131,93 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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644,94 zł |
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Global Media Studies
ISBN: 9780745644325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive ?how-to? guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on the best methods and research from around the world. They look at political economy, global policymaking and governance, and the past and present manifestations of cultural imperialism.
In addition to providing a survey of the field, the book introduces a new form of textual analysis, with a special focus on... Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a com...
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128,05 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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179,22 zł |
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Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social Life
ISBN: 9781433104886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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591,81 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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691,72 zł |
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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 (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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152,27 zł |
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Global Capital, Local Culture: Transnational Media Corporations in China
ISBN: 9780820495002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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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205,92 zł |
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Comics and Ideology: Second Printing
ISBN: 9780820452494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Superman s role in romanticizing commercialism; sexual violence in Japanese manga comics; Wonder Woman as Americanized immigrant; reader s reactions to the gay superhero Northstar; Dilbert as a workplace revolutionary; the Punisher s invasion of Vietnam these are a few of the issues that Comics & Ideology addresses. Focusing on the intersection of social power and comic art, essays in this book explore how images and narratives in comic books and comic strips may portray social groups and social issues. As a scholarly examination of a form known as -the funnies- or -funny books, - this...
Superman s role in romanticizing commercialism; sexual violence in Japanese manga comics; Wonder Woman as Americanized immigrant; reader s reactions t...
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132,70 zł |
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Politicotainment: Television's Take on the Real
ISBN: 9780820481142 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Politicotainment focuses on how political life is interpreted, negotiated, and represented by television entertainment, in particular by drama series, late night comedy, and -reality-based- programs. Real political issues are converging in today s television tableau, prompting questions about performance, interactivity, and engagement. The authors in this collection share the notion that entertainment formats are important sources of political culture, and inform political processes. Politicotainment links theories about the relationship between public and private, fact and...
Politicotainment focuses on how political life is interpreted, negotiated, and represented by television entertainment, in particular by drama ...
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205,92 zł |
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Spyscreen: Espionage on Film and TV from the 1930s to the 1960s
ISBN: 9780198159520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and television series, such as James Bond, Gilda, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., and The Avengers, Toby Miller uses a wide range of critical approaches, including textual interpretation, audience studies, and cultural history, to offer new insights into this popular genre.
This is a genre study of English-language spy fiction film and television between the 1930s and 1960s. Taking as his focus many well-known films and t...
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709,57 zł |