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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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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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159,39 |
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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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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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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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TV's Not Dead!
ISBN: 9781909593121 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Just five years ago, television was considered to be in terminal decline, soon to be written off as yet another casualty of the digital revolution. Advertising revenues were tumbling and it was feared that audiences would rapidly decrease. Fast forward to today and television is strong than ever. Not only is it reaching record audiences but the very technologies that were meant to kill it off - the digital onslaught of the internet, wireless broadband, video on demands, social media, TiVo, smartphones and tablets - have only succeeded in fortifying TV's analogue strengths, creating an...
Just five years ago, television was considered to be in terminal decline, soon to be written off as yet another casualty of the digital revolution. Ad...
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Wiped! Doctor Who's Missing Episodes
ISBN: 9781845830809 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Worlds of Farscape: Essays on the Groundbreaking Television Series
ISBN: 9780786467907 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reversing a common science fiction cliche, Farscape follows the adventures of the human astronaut John Crichton after he is shot through a wormhole into another part of the universe. Here Crichton is the only human being, going from being a member of the most intelligent species on our planet to being frequently considered mentally deficient by the beings he encounters in his new environment. John Crichton befriends a group of beings from various species attempting to escape from imprisonment aboard a living spaceship. The series, which broke many of the so-called "rules" of science...
Reversing a common science fiction cliche, Farscape follows the adventures of the human astronaut John Crichton after he is shot through a worm...
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Television Network Daytime and Late-Night Programming, 1959-1989
ISBN: 9780786476190 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When did Queen for a Day air? How long did the soap opera The Edge of Night run? A valuable companion to Television Network Prime-Time Programming, this book is complete.
When did Queen for a Day air? How long did the soap opera The Edge of Night run? A valuable companion to Television Network Prime-Time Programming, th...
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272,84 |
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Race, Gender and Empire in American Detective Fiction
ISBN: 9780786465361 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From its inception, American detective fiction has been adaptable to a multiplicity of artistic, personal, ideological, and political programmes. The wide range of directions in which authors have taken the genre serves to substantiate Raymond Chandler's contention that it is a "fluid" form that cannot be easily pigeonholed.
Moving in roughly chronological fashion, this book highlights detection's malleability by analysing texts by particular groups of authors from specific time periods written in response to other texts. Specifically, it traces some of the roles that gender, race,... From its inception, American detective fiction has been adaptable to a multiplicity of artistic, personal, ideological, and political programmes. The ...
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Trotter Trivia: The Only Fools and Horses Quiz Book
ISBN: 9781478383390 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Think you really know about Only Fools and Horses? Then give this thoroughly entertaining quiz book a try 5 Star Reader Reviews for Trotter Trivia "Brilliant...great trivia for all ages " "Puts a smile on your face" "Thoroughly enjoyed using this trivia book and I was surprised at how much detail it went into " "Loads of fun " Over 30 years since the very first episode was screened, Only Fools and Horses remains Britain's most beloved television sitcom. The trials and tribulations of market trader Derek Trotter and his younger brother Rodney captured the... Think you really know about Only Fools and Horses? Then give this thoroughly entertaining quiz book a try 5 Star Reader Reviews for Trotte... |
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So You Want to be on Reality TV: The Reality of Reality TV?
ISBN: 9781484029947 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the Reality of Reality TV ? What is it like to be selected for TV shows like The Apprentice, Hoarders, or American Pickers? Why are those people who appear on Reality TV shows, almost always, sworn to secrecy by the contracts they sign to be on the show, not to tell the truth about their experiences appearing on the show? Here you will find many important facts about being on a Reality TV show, told by someone who actually appeared on Reality TV, and was even selected to be on more then one Reality TV show, which is very rare. The secrets of what to expect in the contract Release...
What is the Reality of Reality TV ? What is it like to be selected for TV shows like The Apprentice, Hoarders, or American Pickers? Why are those peop...
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96,01 |
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Wired TV: Laboring Over an Interactive Future
ISBN: 9780813564531 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection looks at the post-network television industry's heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling--or wired TV--that took place from 2005 to 2010 as the networks responded to the introduction of broadband into the majority of homes and the proliferation of popular, participatory Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.Contributors address a wide range of issues, from the networks' sporadic efforts to engage fans using transmedia storytelling to the production inefficiencies that continue to dog network television to the impact of multimedia...
This collection looks at the post-network television industry's heady experiments with new forms of interactive storytelling--or wired TV--that to...
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170,72 |