Film and Television after DVDs argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television, critically examining the implications of DVD technology for key concerns within the fields of television, film and new media studies.
Film and Television after DVDs argues that DVD technology is part of a shift that heralds a new age for film and television, critical...
Although acknowledged as part of a rise in celebrity culture, television's specific forms of stardom have until now remained largely under-theorised. This book examines how television personalities function as commodities & function ideologically, thus relating them to issues of class, national identity, sexuality, gender & social history.
Although acknowledged as part of a rise in celebrity culture, television's specific forms of stardom have until now remained largely under-theorised. ...
Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular performers in television and celebrity culture. It is an original, indispensable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, television and celebrity studies, as well as those interested in digital culture more widely.
Television Personalities offers an exciting, engaging approach to studying and understanding the most prominent and popular ...
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, and audience practices, the contributors develop a new critical paradigm for thinking about television, and the future of television studies, in the digital era. The collection brings together established and emerging scholars, producing an intergenerational dialogue that will be useful for...
In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media st...
Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantage. James Bennett examines the history and array of laws, regulations, subsidies and programs that benefit the two major parties and discourage even the possibility of a serious challenge to the Democrat-Republican duopoly. The American Founders, as it has been generally forgotten, distrusted political parties. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution are parties mentioned, much less given legal protection or privilege. This provocative book traces how...
Not Invited to the Party demonstrates how the dominant political parties--the Democrats and Republicans--have co-opted the system to their advantag...
Making Film and Television Histories approaches film and television texts as primary historical media with the potential to bring historical topics alive through their interplay between past and present. It is a major text, the first to situate in a clear historical context selected New Zealand and Australian films and television programs ranging from highly successful films such as Gallipoli, The Piano, Australia, Once Were Warriors, and Heavenly Creatures to less well-known texts that form the basis for intriguing examinations of history, representation, and...
Making Film and Television Histories approaches film and television texts as primary historical media with the potential to bring historical ...
A year-by-year outline of the history of Poughkeepsie, NY from colonial times through the present day. This outline presents the high points of an illustrious history of the "Queen City of the Hudson."
A year-by-year outline of the history of Poughkeepsie, NY from colonial times through the present day. This outline presents the high points of an ill...
