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The Bride Factory: Mass Media Portrayals of Women and Weddings
ISBN: 9781433117459 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal weddings, The Bride Factory critically examines various bridal media outlets, artifacts, and the messages they convey about women today. The book departs from conventional wisdom and other treatments of the bridal industry as a scholarly topic by revealing how media portray women in modern American society, and how these portrayals reflect feminism and femininity and illustrate the hegemony created by these media. The book discusses the portrayal of women as...
In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal weddings, The Bri...
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218,62 |
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Seeing the Bigger Picture; American and International Politics in Film and Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781433111327 / Angielski / Twarda / 367 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its second edition, Seeing the Bigger Picture examines the ways movies and popular culture can foster a deeper awareness of the political dilemmas and debates shaping our world.
Reviewing commercial films and documentaries, the text illustrates the myriad ways that film and popular culture shape our understanding of capitalism and democracy, war and terrorism, civil rights and social justice, campaigns and elections and the presidency. This updated edition includes new chapters on media, human rights and the environment. In the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq,... Now in its second edition, Seeing the Bigger Picture examines the ways movies and popular culture can foster a deeper awareness of the politica...
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776,08 |
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George Gerbner: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433117015 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the world s most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and research. His critical approach to mass communication changed the way we think about media industries, the messages and images they produce, and their social and cultural impacts.
Gerbner is most widely known for his decades of work on television violence, but his research and writing focused on many other vital aspects of the symbolic cultural environment. This book provides a broad-based introduction to Gerbner s theories of mass... One of the world s most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and res...
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696,70 |
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The Bride Factory; Mass Media Portrayals of Women and Weddings
ISBN: 9781433117466 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal weddings, The Bride Factory critically examines various bridal media outlets, artifacts, and the messages they convey about women today. The book departs from conventional wisdom and other treatments of the bridal industry as a scholarly topic by revealing how media portray women in modern American society, and how these portrayals reflect feminism and femininity and illustrate the hegemony created by these media. The book discusses the portrayal of women as...
In response to the growing scope and popularity of wedding-related offerings and the media attention given to celebrity and royal weddings, The Bri...
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802,96 |
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George Gerbner: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory
ISBN: 9781433109874 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the world s most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and research. His critical approach to mass communication changed the way we think about media industries, the messages and images they produce, and their social and cultural impacts.
Gerbner is most widely known for his decades of work on television violence, but his research and writing focused on many other vital aspects of the symbolic cultural environment. This book provides a broad-based introduction to Gerbner s theories of mass... One of the world s most influential and prolific media scholars, George Gerbner played a major role in the development of communication theory and res...
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198,59 |
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«We, the Media»: Pedagogic Intrusions Into U.S. Mainstream Film and Television News Broadcasting Rhetorics
ISBN: 9783631518526 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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621,37 |
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Just a Mo : My Story
ISBN: 9780753541401 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. This is a book that will shock, humble and inspire. When your everyday life is filled with violence, drugs and strife, you can't lose your head, you've just got to get on with it. Growing up in south-east London in the 1950s, Maureen 'Mo' Oldman--a.k.a. Laila Morse--was a million miles away from the celebrity world she would later inhabit as the queen of EastEnders. Life was hard--too hard to worry about what the future had to hold. Pregnant at 17, Laila soon had her hands full of troubles,...
The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time. This is a book that will shock, humble and inspire. W...
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87,59 |
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Science, Race Relations and Resistance: Britain, 1870-1914
ISBN: 9780719033575 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study of racial discourse from 1870 to 1914 argues that race, then as now, was a contested territory within the metropolitan culture.
An account of the British Empire's greatest failure and its most disturbing legacy. Using a wide range of published and archival sources, this study o...
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438,22 |
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Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism
ISBN: 9781433120930 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalism is in crisis. The rise of the internet through social media and citizen journalism and the financial crisis of 2008 have taken their toll. Thousands of reporters and editors have been laid off; nightly news on the major networks is losing close to one million viewers a year; newspapers have seen declining ad revenues and circulation figures cut in half; and the old business model for newspapers based on advertising and subscriptions appears to be collapsing.
Filling the void is commentary, punditry, and even bigotry. It may have an audience, but it s not journalism in the... Journalism is in crisis. The rise of the internet through social media and citizen journalism and the financial crisis of 2008 have taken their toll. ...
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205,43 |
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Media Smackdown: Deconstructing the News and the Future of Journalism
ISBN: 9781433120947 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Journalism is in crisis. The rise of the internet through social media and citizen journalism and the financial crisis of 2008 have taken their toll. Thousands of reporters and editors have been laid off; nightly news on the major networks is losing close to one million viewers a year; newspapers have seen declining ad revenues and circulation figures cut in half; and the old business model for newspapers based on advertising and subscriptions appears to be collapsing.
Filling the void is commentary, punditry, and even bigotry. It may have an audience, but it s not journalism in the... Journalism is in crisis. The rise of the internet through social media and citizen journalism and the financial crisis of 2008 have taken their toll. ...
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736,51 |
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Oranges in the Big Apple
ISBN: 9781479796380 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,67 |
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Oranges in the Big Apple
ISBN: 9781479796397 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Jock Mahoney: The Life and Films of a Hollywood Stuntman
ISBN: 9780786476893 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first biography of a Hollywood legend. Iowa-born Jock Mahoney was an elite athlete and U.S. Marines fighter pilot prior to falling into a film career. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest stuntmen in movie history, having taken leaps and bounds for Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Randolph Scott, and Gregory Peck. Mahoney was one of the first stuntmen to successfully move into acting as the popular star of the 1950s television westerns Range Rider and Yancy Derringer and twice played Tarzan on the big screen, presenting a memorable portrayal of an educated, articulate, and...
This is the first biography of a Hollywood legend. Iowa-born Jock Mahoney was an elite athlete and U.S. Marines fighter pilot prior to falling into a ...
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167,87 |
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Foreign News on Television: Where in the World Is the Global Village?
ISBN: 9781433116902 / Angielski / Twarda / 391 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news from a number of different countries. It examines what viewers of television news think about foreign news, their interest in it, and what sense they make of it. The book also assesses what the gatekeepers of foreign news journalists, producers, and editors think about what they produce, and about their viewers.
This book shows that while globalization is a dominant force in society, and though news can be instantaneously broadcast... Spanning several years of research, this book compares and contrasts how public and commercial TV stations present foreign, domestic, and hybrid news ...
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895,79 |
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Voice and the Actor
ISBN: 9780020415558 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Speaking is part of a whole: an expression of inner life." Cicely Berry has based her work on the conviction that while all is present in nature our natural instincts have been crippled from birth by many processes--by the conditioning, in fact, of a warped society. So an actor needs precise exercise and clear understanding to liberate his hidden possibilities and to learn the hard task of being true to the 'instinct of the moment'. As her book points out with remarkable persuasiveness 'technique' as such is a myth, for there is no such thing as a correct voice. There is no right way--there...
"Speaking is part of a whole: an expression of inner life." Cicely Berry has based her work on the conviction that while all is present in nature our ...
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57,80 |
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Hard Knocks & Soft Spots
ISBN: 9780091948436 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller. As a bare-knuckle boxer he won countless brutal fights, but the real battles he faced were outside the ring. In this deeply honest autobiography, he tells his rich and colourful story with the warmth and humour he is famed for.
Paddy Doherty loves his life as an Irish traveller. As a bare-knuckle boxer he won countless brutal fights, but the real battles he faced were outside...
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65,37 |
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Playing for Real: Actors on Playing Real People
ISBN: 9780230230422 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarchs or political leaders? Is it possible to embody a genius like Mozart or Darwin? With a multiple award-winning line-up, including Sir Ian McKellen on playing himself in Ricky Gervais's Extras.
This is the first book to explore how actors play real people. How do you capture Hitler, Mugabe, or a serial killer? How do you portray living monarc...
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141,98 |
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Car Fever: The car bore's essential companion
ISBN: 9780340994559 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When I'm in power there are going to be some changes around here, I can tell you. May's Britain is going to be a better place to live.
The Grand Tour's James May is back with his hilarious and controversial opinions on . . . just about everything. As well as writing about his first love, cars, James has a go at political correctness, the endless rules and regulations of daily life, the internal combustion engine and traffic wardens. He discusses gastropubs, Jeremy Clarkson and other trials of modern life. His highly entertaining observations from behind... When I'm in power there are going to be some changes around here, I can tell you. May's Britain is going to be a better place to live. |
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55,31 |
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Gender, Violence and Popular Culture : Telling Stories
ISBN: 9780415525916 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, media and cultural studies and gender studies, it focuses in particular on a number of popular TV shows including Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Generation Kill, The Corner and The West Wing. The book makes a unique theoretical contribution to the 'narrative turn' in International Relations by illustrating the ways in which popular culture and global politics are intertwined and how we make sense of our worlds through these two frames....
This book examines the intersection of gender and violence in popular culture. Drawing on the latest thinking in critical international relations, med...
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244,84 |
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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders
ISBN: 9780415965453 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to revise the place of the global in television studies. This collection of essays explores the diversity of global programming, and asks how to theorize global formats and thus re-shape our understanding of television as an economic system, a socio-political institution, and a popular practice.
Aims to revise the place of the global in television studies. This collection of essays explores the diversity of global programming, and asks how to ...
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269,33 |