ilość książek w kategorii: 15847
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy
ISBN: 9780231111348 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much smaller than it is, leading him to seek out a quick route to the East via the West and thus fortuitously "discovering" America. The fictions that grew up around the cults of the Rosicrucians and...
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by sc...
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133,61 zł |
Digital Interface Handbook
ISBN: 9780240519098 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A digital interface is the technology that allows interconnectivity between multiple pieces of equipment. In other words, hardware devices can communicate with each other and accept audio and video material in a variety of forms. This is a detailed manual for those who need to get to grips with digital audio and video systems. Now that installations in the broadcasting, multimedia and music industries are increasingly all digital, engineers and operators working in these indeustires need to become more familiar with digital interfaces, their benefits and pitfalls. Digital interfaces are the...
A digital interface is the technology that allows interconnectivity between multiple pieces of equipment. In other words, hardware devices can communi...
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289,36 zł |
Radio: The Book: The Book
ISBN: 9780240806969 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As entertaining as it is educational, Radio: The Book is a must-have guide to success for anyone interested in a career in radio. Providing a wealth of information and relating his own personal experiences, veteran radio personality, Program Director and Programming Consultant Steve Warren shares trade secrets and industry know-how that would usually take years to accumulate through experience. An invaluable advantage over your competition, this "cheat-sheet" for the radio programmer includes practical advice regarding: .Radio as a career--from tips on getting started to job...
As entertaining as it is educational, Radio: The Book is a must-have guide to success for anyone interested in a career in radio. Providing a wealth o...
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177,65 zł |
Jump Cut: Hollywood and Counter-Cinema
ISBN: 9780275916756 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of the best articles from the first ten years of "Jump Cut" magazine form a broad and accessible introduction to socialist/feminist analysis of cinema. The articles focus on five important areas of cinema; Hollywood, North American documentary, third world cinema, Feminist theory and practice, and Gay and Lesbian cinema. This book is of interest to film students, teachers, scholars, and also anyone interested in progressive innovative film and film criticism.
This collection of the best articles from the first ten years of "Jump Cut" magazine form a broad and accessible introduction to socialist/feminist... |
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213,64 zł |
Presidential Communication: Description and Analysis
ISBN: 9780275921767 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Presidential Communication" is the first book to combine a study of the presidency with communications. First it builds a base for the rhetorical presidency--what it means and how it works--and why an Approach based on an analysis of presidential rhetoric and persuasion works better than others to uncover the essential nature of the office. The authors also examine the presidency from the major areas of concentration traditionally found in communications scholarship. The theoretical discussion is reinforced with case studies drawn from recent history.
"Presidential Communication" is the first book to combine a study of the presidency with communications. First it builds a base for the rhetorical ... |
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272,88 zł |
Women's Film and Female Experience, 1940-1950
ISBN: 9780275925994 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Film and Female Experience takes a fresh look at a wide range of popular women's films in order to discover what American female consciousness in the 1940s was really about. The author traces the evolution and development of the Hollywood women's film, and describes the social history of American women in the 1940s. She then analyzes dominant narrative patterns within popular women's films of the decade: the maternal drama, the career woman comedy, and the films of suspicion and distrust. Women's Film and Female Experience takes a fresh look at a wide range of popular women's films in order to discover what American female con... |
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272,88 zł |
Persuasive Encounters: Case Studies in Constructive Confrontation
ISBN: 9780275930929 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In today's world of instant communication, we often marvel at the ability of a public figure to handle a hostile audience. "Persuasive Encounters" studies successful persuasion against tough odds. Through the analyzation of specific historical and rhetorical evidence, the events presented here illustrate and sometimes challenge the viability of current abstract models. Detailed studies of encounters involving such diverse figures as Edward R. Murrow, Edward Kennedy, Thomas Szasz, and Ed Koch form the basis of the work. Shorter analyses focus on the sometimes controversial actions of social... In today's world of instant communication, we often marvel at the ability of a public figure to handle a hostile audience. "Persuasive Encounters" ... |
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272,88 zł |
Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing
ISBN: 9780275933784 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and the nature of their craft. Organized to provide historical continuity and to trace professional collaborations among the subjects, Selected Takes features editors whose credits include such diverse films as Ben Hur, The French Connection, The Godfather, and E.T. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the artist, background information, a filmography of feature-length works, and personal... Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and t... |
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569,09 zł |
Selected Takes: Film Editors on Editing
ISBN: 9780275933951 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and the nature of their craft. Organized to provide historical continuity and to trace professional collaborations among the subjects, Selected Takes features editors whose credits include such diverse films as Ben Hur, The French Connection, The Godfather, and E.T. Each chapter includes a brief introduction to the artist, background information, a filmography of feature-length works, and personal... Interviews with 21 prominent feature film editors highlight this long-overdue look at the role of film editors, the importance of their work, and t... |
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272,88 zł |
The Political Pundits
ISBN: 9780275935450 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Political Pundits surveys in detail the small, elite group of persons who comment on and analyze politics in newspapers and newsmagazines, on radio and television, through lectures, books, and all other forms of political media. Dan Nimmo and James E. Combs discuss the key political role pundits play, their methods and strategies, and the potential danger they present to American political life. Our democracy is being transformed into a punditocracy, which replaces serious citizen debate with discussion guided by show business values. Punditry, Nimmo and Combs argue, produces... The Political Pundits surveys in detail the small, elite group of persons who comment on and analyze politics in newspapers and newsmagazine... |
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213,64 zł |
Tales of Terror: Television News and the Construction of the Terrorist Threat
ISBN: 9780275939816 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Conventional research suggests that news coverage of terrorism is a tool of the terrorist to gain public support and recognition. Based on an analysis of more than 200 evening newscasts aired during the first six years of the Reagan administration, Tales of Terror offers a detailed account of the ways in which news media escalate public panic about terrorism and encourage support for specific U.S. policy objectives, rather than build sympathy for terrorists. Bethami Dobkin explores similarities between news media and government portrayals of terrorism, combining textual criticism with an... Conventional research suggests that news coverage of terrorism is a tool of the terrorist to gain public support and recognition. Based on an analy... |
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450,61 zł |
The Inaugural Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents
ISBN: 9780275940393 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugrual Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their addresses to empower themselves in office. The volume's construct holds that the president delivers persuasive speeches to move the Congress and the people, and to move the people to move the Congress if it is intransigent. Even on Inauguration Day, a largely ceremonial occasion, the president seeks acquiescence and action from Congress and the people in his first rhetorical deed as the nation's chief executive officer. Since scholars agree that the... The essays in Halford Ryan's The Inaugrual Addresses of Twentieth-Century American Presidents explore how presidents have used their address... |
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569,09 zł |
Soviet Media in Transition: Structural and Economic Alternatives
ISBN: 9780275941475 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study, written by a Russian expert on the media, analyzes the unique role of the mass media--television and the press--in the social, political, and economic changes that began in the Soviet Union in 1985 under the name of perestroika and culminated recently in the country's dissolution. In addition, the work examines the restructuring of the media, from mouthpiece of the Communist Party to independent commentator. By viewing the struggle for control of the media as reflective of the country's political turmoil, the author provides a fascinating insight into the ways and means of... This study, written by a Russian expert on the media, analyzes the unique role of the mass media--television and the press--in the social, politica... |
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450,61 zł |
Teaching Mass Communication: A Guide to Better Instruction
ISBN: 9780275941567 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique volume brings together original essays by well-known mass communication experts--master teachers--who provide practical information on teaching the communication and journalism courses in which they specialize. The authors make recommendations for practical/applied, theoretical, and advanced courses, representing every area of the mass communications curriculum. Its contributors include eminent specialists such as Maurine H. Beasley, who offers advice to teachers of media history; Dan Nimmo (political communication); Roy L. Moore (media law); Jay Black (media ethics); and John... This unique volume brings together original essays by well-known mass communication experts--master teachers--who provide practical information on ... |
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569,09 zł |
The Modern Presidency and Crisis Rhetoric
ISBN: 9780275941765 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines how presidents from Truman to Bush rhetorically approached and managed political, military, judicial, legislative, and economic crises during their presidencies. Editor Amos Kiewe assembles new essays by communications scholars who look at rhetoric initiated during national crises, and account for various rhetorical developments affected by crises, changes in presidential rhetoric, and rhetorical and situational crisis constraints. Their studies suggest similarities in rhetoric in different types of crises, and yield resources for postulating patterns of crisis rhetoric....
This volume examines how presidents from Truman to Bush rhetorically approached and managed political, military, judicial, legislative, and economic c...
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569,09 zł |
Power and Television in Latin America: The Dominican Case
ISBN: 9780275942755 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines the relationship between the development and functioning of television and concrete political and economic processes in the third world. Antonio Menendez Alarcon focuses on the Dominican Republic, where television was introduced by a dictator (Trujillo) as a form of political power, and where the old dictatorial forms have permeated the newer, supposedly democratic media. The author looks at the relationship between television network organization and control and programming; the industry's long-range effects on culture and development; and the extent to which television...
This volume examines the relationship between the development and functioning of television and concrete political and economic processes in the third...
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569,09 zł |
The Age of Multimedia and Turbonews
ISBN: 9780275943783 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text examines the startling and rapidly changing developments in media technology, especially as they affect journalism and the news media. We now stand at the threshold of a revolution in the news and entertainment media, and those media as we know them today may soon cease to exist. Whereas it had always been a simple matter to distinguish between newspapers, broadcast television, cable television, motion pictures, telephones, and computers, those distinctions are quickly blurring as a new universal media looms on the horizon. Here Jim Willis examines the new multimedia--and the... This text examines the startling and rapidly changing developments in media technology, especially as they affect journalism and the news media. We... |
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213,64 zł |
Soap Operas for Social Change: Toward a Methodology for Entertainment-Education Television
ISBN: 9780275943899 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1975, the Mexican network Televisa broadcast the first entertainment-education soap opera, which was written and produced by Miguel Sabido according to his own theory-based research formula. The soap opera, called Ven Conmigo (Come with Me), promoted a government-sponsored adult literacy program, and its commercial and social success prompted Televisa to produce, broadcast, and research the audience effects of five other Sabido-designed soaps. Development themes treated in these shows included family planning, women's rights, responsible parenthood, and adolescent sexual education. Each... In 1975, the Mexican network Televisa broadcast the first entertainment-education soap opera, which was written and produced by Miguel Sabido accor... |
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309,98 zł |
The White House Speaks: Presidential Leadership as Persuasion
ISBN: 9780275943943 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work treats presidential leadership as persuasive communication. The major theories of presidential leadership found in the literature establish the central role of persuasion, and introduce the interpretive systems approach to political communication as a theoretical framework for the study of presidential leadership as persuasion. Case studies examine recent presidents' use of public persuasion to perform their leadership functions. Particular attention is devoted to coalitional constraints on presidential pardoning rhetoric, presidential leadership through the politics of division,... This work treats presidential leadership as persuasive communication. The major theories of presidential leadership found in the literature establi... |
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569,09 zł |
Mass Media, Modernity, and Development: Arab States of the Gulf
ISBN: 9780275945336 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kazan tests several hypotheses on development communications derived from the ideas of Marx, Toynbee, Lerner, McLuhan, Frey, and Schiller, through three years of research he conducted in Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, and Qatar. He focuses on whether media content, rather than the process of media exposure (i.e., vicarious exposure to different experiences), is the decisive factor in cultivating modernity. Particularly, Kazan examines whether Gulf media, which convey socially and politically restricted traditional content in traditional societies, cultivate... Kazan tests several hypotheses on development communications derived from the ideas of Marx, Toynbee, Lerner, McLuhan, Frey, and Schiller, through ... |
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569,09 zł |