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 social commentary to the scientific approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the Walkman and World Music.
In Migrancy, Culture, Identity, Iain Chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and...
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 obvious' in both its pleasure and its politics, arguing that these controversial films should be analysed and understood within a cinematic as well as a political context. Yvonne Tasker argues that today's action cinema not only responds to the shifts in gendered,...
While films such as Rambo, Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct have operated as major points of cultural reference in recent years,...
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 notions of "the local," "community," "nation" and "modernity" Hannerz not only engages with theoretical debates about culture and globalization but raises issues of how we think and live today. His account of the experience of global culture encompasses a shouting match in a New York street about...
This work provides an account of culture in an age of globalization. Ulf Hannerz argues that, in an ever-more interconnected world, national unders...
This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more and more surprising locations, screens of various kinds appear within the sightlines of passers-by in contemporary cities. Outdoor advertisers target audiences which are increasingly mobile, public art uses screens to interrogate urban change, while postmodern architecture finds electronic imagery a suitable tool of expression.
Traditionally, urban sociology research has assumed that people seek to filter urban stimuli, but recent accounts of public...
This book is an interdisciplinary empirical investigation of how people interact with public screens in their daily lives. In more and more surpris...
The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. 'Media Events' gives readers an understanding of the major debates in this high-profile area of media and cultural research.
The 'eventization' of the media is increasingly important for the marketing and appreciation of popular media texts. 'Media Events' gives readers an u...
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world-the media event. The authors challenge the construct, extend its usefulness, expand its theoretical basis and application, and examine media events in a far larger and richer context than ever before. Students of global media today are well served by this superb collection of essays."
David Morgan, Duke University, USA
"A welcome and worthy successor to Dayan and Katz's path-breaking study that expands and enriches the discourse on...
"This volume assembles an estimable range of critical analyses of one of the most important mediated artifacts of the modern world-the media event....
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 in isolation from its socio-cultural and political context; there is always something important at stake when the forms and functions of television are on the agenda. The digitisation of television concerns the production, contents, distribution and reception of the medium, but also its position in the overall, largely digitised media system and public sphere where the internet plays a...
For over half a century, television has been the most central medium in Western democracies - the political, social and cultural centrepiece of the...
Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of satellite, cable, digital television, and new media, such as the internet and mobile phone. This is the first book to offer a sustained critical analysis of this new cultural development. Focusing on the US and UK television industries, Branding Television examines the industrial, regulatory and technological changes since the 1980s that have led to the adoption of branding as broadcasters have attempted to manage the behaviour of viewers and the...
Branding Television examines why and how the UK and US television industries have turned towards branding as a strategy in response to the rise of sat...
It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption-especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, "piracy," and (not least) policy issues regarding these practices. Andersson Schwartz critically engages with the justificatory discourses of the actual file-sharers, taking Sweden as a geographic focus. By focusing on the example of Sweden-home to both The Pirate Bay and Spotify-he provides a unique insight into a mentality...
It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption-especially among young people. This book provides...
This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and transformation by digital technology.
Through ten especially commissioned essays, by some of the leading scholars in the field of contemporary photography studies, a range of key topics are discussed including: the meaning of software in the production of photograph; the nature of networked photographs; the screen as the site of photographic display; the simulation of photography in the videogame; photography, ubiquitous computing and...
This new edition of The Photographic Image in Digital Culture explores the condition of photography after some 20 years of remediation and t...
