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Television News and the Elderly: Broadcast Managers' Attitudes Toward Older Adults
ISBN: 9780415837132 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This concise survey investigates the television general managers' and news directors' attitudes towards the elderly in the United States. Originally published in 1997, it raises important issues of ageing in relation to the media with specific focus on the older viewer's status as a viewing audience of the news and how they are presented in the news. This is still useful food for thought for gerontologists, mass communication researchers, social psychologists and media studies researchers.
This concise survey investigates the television general managers' and news directors' attitudes towards the elderly in the United States. Originally p...
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537,65 |
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Violence on Television: An Analysis of Amount, Nature, Location and Origin of Violence in British Programmes
ISBN: 9781138986756 / Angielski / Miękka / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television is often accused of showing too much violence. However, it is rare that anyone stops to ask what this statement means. Violence on Television provides an objective analysis of the violence on television, how much there is and what form it takes.
It presents findings from the largest ever sudy of the depiction of violence on television carried out in Britain, funded by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the Independent Television Commission. As well as presenting a quantitative analysis of the amount of violence on television, this research places great emphasis on... Television is often accused of showing too much violence. However, it is rare that anyone stops to ask what this statement means. Violence on Tele...
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205,23 |
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Opera and Video: Technology and Spectatorship
ISBN: 9783034305426 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address the relationship between opera and audiovisual technology from its origins to today by offering the results of a balanced critical and innovative approach. The reader interested in opera, aesthetics, narrative or transmediality will find concrete approaches devoted to an unexplored diversity of aspects with an impact on the narrative conditions in which we watch opera on screen. The variety of perspectives shows how original methodological approaches...
The contributions in this volume reflect the efforts of musicology to understand a hybrid area with a fascinating evolution. They aim to address the r...
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194,48 |
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age; Global Industries and New Audiences
ISBN: 9781433108235 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s
ISBN: 9781433106026 / Angielski / Twarda / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first in-depth look at the development of the television newscast, the most popular source of news for over forty-five years.
During the 1940s, most journalists ignored or dismissed television, leaving the challenge to a small group of people working above New York City s Grand Central Terminal. Without the pressures of ratings, sponsors, company oversight, or many viewers, the group refused to recreate newspapers, radio, or newsreels on the new medium. They experimented, argued, tested, and eventually settled on a format to exploit television s strengths. This book documents... This is the first in-depth look at the development of the television newscast, the most popular source of news for over forty-five years.
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531,81 |
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Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past
ISBN: 9780820479408 / Angielski / Twarda / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. The book asks, -What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?- Offering five...
Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historical...
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences
ISBN: 9781433108242 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 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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199,05 |
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Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past
ISBN: 9780820479392 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historically and culturally specific theory of neocolonialism in U.S. media culture. Noting how colonialism never officially ended in the United States, Kent A. Ono draws together race, gender, sexuality, and nation to examine neocolonialism in popular media narratives. The book asks, -What are the lingering traces within contemporary culture that provide evidence not only of what colonialism was but also of what it continues to be today?- Offering five...
Contemporary Media Culture and the Remnants of a Colonial Past examines contemporary representations of colonialism, by developing a historical...
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205,92 |
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The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s
ISBN: 9781433121838 / Angielski / Miękka / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first in-depth look at the development of the television newscast, the most popular source of news for over forty-five years.
During the 1940s, most journalists ignored or dismissed television, leaving the challenge to a small group of people working above New York City's Grand Central Terminal. Without the pressures of ratings, sponsors, company oversight, or many viewers, the group refused to recreate newspapers, radio, or newsreels on the new medium. They experimented, argued, tested, and eventually settled on a format to exploit television's strengths. This book documents... This is the first in-depth look at the development of the television newscast, the most popular source of news for over forty-five years.
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225,99 |
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Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Belonging in Indian Music Television
ISBN: 9780820455792 / Angielski / Miękka / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does globalization mean for the television audience? Becoming a Global Audience examines concerns of cultural imperialism in relation to the actual experience of television reception in a postcolonial context. The rise of satellite television in India in the context of economic liberalization in 1991 has been marked by the localization of global music television networks like MTV and Channel V. This book argues, however, that this -Indianization- is no cause for celebration. Using in-depth interviews with Indian music television viewers and theoretical approaches drawn from...
What does globalization mean for the television audience? Becoming a Global Audience examines concerns of cultural imperialism in relation to t...
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Politicotainment: Television's Take on the Real
ISBN: 9780820481142 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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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Thinking Television
ISBN: 9780820486130 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thinking Television tells the story of an innovative media literacy project focused on the creation of media programming that -makes money- and -makes a difference-. Woven around critiques of student-produced concepts for -television that thinks-, this book offers new directions for critical media literacy, popular culture studies and the interdisciplinary concerns of cultural studies."
Thinking Television tells the story of an innovative media literacy project focused on the creation of media programming that -makes money- and...
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Vulture Culture: The Politics and Pedagogy of Daytime Television Talk Shows
ISBN: 9780820450117 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vulture Culture presents a new and complex way of thinking about daytime television talk shows. Vulture culture is the process by which the media scavenge the personal narratives and popular discourses that make up everyday knowledge and commonsense and (re-)present them back to us as spectacle, entertainment, and information. This book explores these nuances through a probing analysis of the vast landscape of daytime television talk shows and their relation to important political, social, and economic problems. Using an approach that takes into account the multiple perspectives of...
Vulture Culture presents a new and complex way of thinking about daytime television talk shows. Vulture culture is the process by which the med...
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Challenging Heterosexism from the «Other» Point of View: Representations of Homosexuality in «Queer as Folk» and «The L Word»
ISBN: 9783034311076 / Angielski / Twarda / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As opposed to many of their more reserved predecessors, modern television serials such as Queer as Folk and The L Word, which concentrate predominantly on queer characters, dare to include numerous highly controversial story lines, feature explicit sex scenes and reflect upon previously tabooed aspects in their depiction of homosexuality.
Challenging Heterosexism from the Other Point of View discusses how these specifically queer shows fulfill a function of challenging institutionalized attitudes of society, such as dichotomous notions of gender, heterosexism... As opposed to many of their more reserved predecessors, modern television serials such as Queer as Folk and The L Word, which concentrat...
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Prime Time Prisons on U.S. TV: Representation of Incarceration
ISBN: 9781433104763 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the current era of rampant incarceration and an ever-expanding prison-industrial complex, this crucial book breaks down the distorted and sensationalistic version of imprisonment found on U.S. television. Examining local and national television news, broadcast network crime dramas, and the cable television prison drama Oz, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the stories and images of incarceration most widely seen by viewers in the U.S. and around the world. The textual analysis is augmented by interviews with individuals who have spent time in U.S. prisons and jails;...
In the current era of rampant incarceration and an ever-expanding prison-industrial complex, this crucial book breaks down the distorted and sensation...
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538,68 |
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The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433107771 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the thirty years since CNN launched the first 24-hour television news service, an ever-growing army of dedicated channels has arrived on the scene. This groundbreaking edited collection is the first to explore the genre of rolling television news channels. Coverage in and of key regions of the world including North and South America, Europe, Australia, China, India, and the Middle East is examined by leading international scholars. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television invites readers to explore the diverse ways in which round-the-clock news channels have reshaped the genre of news...
In the thirty years since CNN launched the first 24-hour television news service, an ever-growing army of dedicated channels has arrived on the scene....
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691,72 |
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TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition: How Journalists Adapt to Technology
ISBN: 9781433108952 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. While TV news anchors boost the power, adulation, and authority of journalism in general, internally, the journalistic community feels that anchors undermine many key journalistic values. This book provides a historical overview of the impact they have had on American journalism, uncovering the changing values, codes of behavior, and boundaries of the journalistic community. In doing so, it reveals that challenges to journalistic standards...
Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. W...
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205,92 |
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Time on TV: Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television
ISBN: 9781433115707 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today s television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fake memories: Paul Booth s analysis reveals the theory and practices that are changing television and online media as we know them. His engaging examination of the mashup of television and social media uncovers a temporal complexity at the heart of our own lives. The characteristically enigmatic television narrative becomes emblematic of a very human interaction with social and digital media. A perfect book for twenty-first century television...
Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today s television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fak...
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751,45 |
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Time on TV; Temporal Displacement and Mashup Television
ISBN: 9781433115691 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today s television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fake memories: Paul Booth s analysis reveals the theory and practices that are changing television and online media as we know them. His engaging examination of the mashup of television and social media uncovers a temporal complexity at the heart of our own lives. The characteristically enigmatic television narrative becomes emblematic of a very human interaction with social and digital media. A perfect book for twenty-first century television...
Time on TV examines the massive aesthetic and structural changes happening across today s television programs. Time travel, flash forwards, fak...
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212,78 |
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The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433107764 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the thirty years since CNN launched the first 24-hour television news service, an ever-growing army of dedicated channels has arrived on the scene. This groundbreaking edited collection is the first to explore the genre of rolling television news channels. Coverage in and of key regions of the world including North and South America, Europe, Australia, China, India, and the Middle East is examined by leading international scholars. The Rise of 24-Hour News Television invites readers to explore the diverse ways in which round-the-clock news channels have reshaped the genre of news...
In the thirty years since CNN launched the first 24-hour television news service, an ever-growing army of dedicated channels has arrived on the scene....
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219,14 |