Listener Supported: The Culture and History of Public Radio
ISBN: 9780313361807 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public radio stands as a valued national institution, one whose fans and listeners actively support it with their time and their money. In this new history of this important aspect of American culture, author Jack W. Mitchell looks at the dreams that inspired those who created it, the all-too- human realities that grew out of those dreams, and the criticism they incurred from both sides of the political spectrum. As National Public Radio's very first employee, and the first producer of its legendary All Things Considered, Mitchell tells the story of public radio from the point of view of... Public radio stands as a valued national institution, one whose fans and listeners actively support it with their time and their money. In this new... |
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211,07 zł |
Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media
ISBN: 9780520254947 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radio, and sound film. Writing in a clear and lively style, Jacob Smith looks at these media technologies and industries through the lens of performance, bringing to light a fascinating nexus of performer, technology, and audience. Combining theories of film sound, cultural histories of sound technologies and industries, and theories of performance, Smith convincingly connects disparate and largely neglected performance niches to explore the...
This entertaining and innovative book focuses on vocal performance styles that developed in tandem with the sound technologies of the phonograph, radi...
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210,78 zł |
We Keep America on Top of the World: Television Journalism and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780415091428 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential and controversial conponent - television news. Daniel Hallin's discussion encompasses the central and most controversial issues in the study of journalism: the wars in Vietnam and Central America; US-Soviet summits; the origin of the ten-second soundbite; the differences between print and television journalism; and the tension between professionalism and populism.
We Keep America on Top of the World offers a distinctive approach to... We Keep America on Top of the World is a lucid exploration of contemporary American journalism, with particular emphasis on its influential a...
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680,04 zł |
Film and Television Collections in Europe - The Map-TV Guide
ISBN: 9781857130157 / Angielski / Twarda / 676 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The MAP-TV Guide to film and television collections in Europe provides detailed information on almost 2,000 sources and archives of film and television in over forty European countries. This authoritative volume includes: the title listing of each collection both in English and the local language; research information; a subject and keyword index; an introduction to the collections in each country. This work will be of importance to all film researchers, production companies, film makers, archivists and reference librarians.
The MAP-TV Guide to film and television collections in Europe provides detailed information on almost 2,000 sources and archives of film and ...
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287,08 zł |
Underwriting 101: Selling College Radio
ISBN: 9780805848113 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers practical, hands-on guidance to selling radio advertising. Developed for use in broadcasting sales courses and at campus radio stations, it offers skill development for all involved in media sales.
This volume offers practical, hands-on guidance to selling radio advertising. Developed for use in broadcasting sales courses and at campus radio stat...
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186,33 zł |
Popular Culture in Indonesia: Fluid Identities in Post-Authoritarian Politics
ISBN: 9780415461122 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full account of the key trends since the collapse of the authoritarian Suharto regime (1998), a time of great change in Indonesian society more generally. It explains how one of the most significant results of the deepening industrialization in Southeast Asia since the 1980s has been the expansion of consumption and new forms of media, and that Indonesia is a prime example of this development. It goes on to show that although the Asian economic crisis in... This book examines popular culture in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, and the third largest democracy. It provides a full accou... |
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730,42 zł |
Red, White, and Spooked: The Supernatural in American Culture
ISBN: 9780313357749 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America has always attempted to define itself through a network of invented myths and national narratives. Historically, this national mythmaking has focused on the building of the nation itself as a sort of grand adventure, as in the notion of manifest destiny, or the taming of the western frontier. This project has also naturally led to a focus on individual heroes, often playing the role of savior and redeemer in ways with clear religious resonances: Christ and Shane and Superman, for instance, all share key characteristics. At the same time, these superheroes have often been... America has always attempted to define itself through a network of invented myths and national narratives. Historically, this national mythmaking h... |
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386,59 zł |
The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts
ISBN: 9780143115564 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestselling biography of an American comedy legend After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its creative peak until a string of professional disappointments chased him back to drugs and alcohol. He fought hard against them, but it was a fight he would lose in December 1997. Farley's fans immediately drew parallels between his death and that of his idol, John Belushi. Without looking deeper, however, many failed to see that Farley was much more than just another Hollywood drug overdose. In this officially authorized oral history, Farley's...
The New York Times bestselling biography of an American comedy legend After three years of sobriety, Chris Farley's life was at its ...
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79,40 zł |
We Will Be Citizens: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre
ISBN: 9780786434183 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A dozen essays -- by a range of established scholars and performing artists on issues in post-1969 American gay and lesbian theatre and drama -- cover playwrights, millennial dramatists, and actors while exploring the history of gay-themed theatre and drama, the breadth of stage roles, and the dramatic representation of homosexual characters.
A dozen essays -- by a range of established scholars and performing artists on issues in post-1969 American gay and lesbian theatre and drama -- cover...
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240,03 zł |
I Have a Lady in the Balcony: Memoirs of a Broadcaster in Radio and Television
ISBN: 9780786443185 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From George Ansbro's role as an NBC page in 1931 to his career as a network announcer, this title intends to recall an era that includes a who's who of early radio and Hollywood stars, and a transition from what was known as the Blue Network and its beginnings at Rockefeller Center to the massive radio and television organization known as ABC.
From George Ansbro's role as an NBC page in 1931 to his career as a network announcer, this title intends to recall an era that includes a who's who o...
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240,03 zł |
Children and Television: A Challenge for Education
ISBN: 9780275923556 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-1970s a shift in perspective has occurred on the relationship between TV and young viewers. Researchers, parents, teachers, policymakers, and consumer advocate groups have shown increased criticism of televisions's role as social educator, babysitter, agent for mass consumer socialization, and perpetrator of questionable social values, morals, and mythical human behaviors. Educators intersted in understanding the complex and wide-ranging contrversies about the influence of television on children will find much in this edited collection to clarify their understanding of the... Since the mid-1970s a shift in perspective has occurred on the relationship between TV and young viewers. Researchers, parents, teachers, policymak... |
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562,11 zł |
Television Access and Political Power: The Networks, the Presidency, and the Loyal Opposition
ISBN: 9780275934385 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume chronicles the 60-year history of presidential and opposition access to network television. The system has brought unprecedented exposure to twentieth century presidents but has discriminated consistently against the opposition in Congress. Networks instead have placed themselves in the role of loyal opposition, operating as the President's counterpoint. In decline, hurt by defecting audiences and advertisers, the network system is now struggling to survive into the next century. The author envisions a new order which will have a profound effect on both political communication... This volume chronicles the 60-year history of presidential and opposition access to network television. The system has brought unprecedented exposu... |
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562,11 zł |
International Handbook of Broadcasting Systems
ISBN: 9780313243486 / Angielski / Twarda / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work treats an important segment of international communications, a rapidly growing area of scholarly and practical interest. Rosen has brought together survey essays on the major forces in world broadcasting. The contributors are either communication scholars witnessing the industry from within the country of which they write, or are students of international communication in American universities. Each essay covers the history of radio and television, government regulation policies and issues, economic structure of the industry, broadcast reform and alternative structures, new... This work treats an important segment of international communications, a rapidly growing area of scholarly and practical interest. Rosen has brough... |
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491,90 zł |
Role Portrayal and Stereotyping on Television: An Annotated Bibliography of Studies Relating to Women, Minorities, Aging, Sexual Behavior, Health, and
ISBN: 9780313248559 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
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415,84 zł |
Clockworks: A Multimedia Bibliography of Works Useful for the Study of the Human/Machine Interface in SF
ISBN: 9780313273056 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an annotated list of works related to the interaction of humans and machines in SF, a field which includes science fiction, some fantasy and horror, and related types of speculative works. Though the book focuses on works produced in English between 1895 and 1990, foreign language material and works produced before 1895 and after 1990 are included as well. The reference contains works in a range of media, with entries grouped in chapters on literature, literary criticism, drama and dramatic criticism, graphic and plastic arts, music, and background. Each entry includes... This volume provides an annotated list of works related to the interaction of humans and machines in SF, a field which includes science fiction, so... |
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491,90 zł |
Public Television: Panacea, Pork Barrel, or Public Trust?
ISBN: 9780313279645 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have severely restricted the strategic behavior and programming of public TV. This hard-hitting story fills a real void in the literature on the subject and should be required reading for station managers, broadcasters, students and professionals in communications, and public policymakers. The ancillary text with its analysis of organizations theory and models is intended also for undergraduate and graduate students in mass media and communications,... This history of public television over the last twenty years shows how powerful political actors and the budget process in the United States have s... |
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386,59 zł |
Am Stereo and the FCC: Case Study of a Marketplace Shibboleth
ISBN: 9780893919665 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on firsthand interviews with directly involved sources, as well as on original research, this volume is a commentary on the personalities and the politics of a federal regulatory agency during a period of philosophical upheaval. This book carefully and authoritatively analyzes issues concerning the FCC's decision, filling a gap in the literature on deregulation's effect on federal regulatory policymaking. It will be of interest to policy analysts and government leaders inside and outside of communications. Based on firsthand interviews with directly involved sources, as well as on original research, this volume is a commentary on the personalities and... |
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562,11 zł |
Teaching Literary Theory Using Film Adaptations
ISBN: 9780786439331 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at ways to use film to introduce complex literary theories to students, linking works of literature with film adaptations. It includes psychoanalytic, cultural and thematic criticism, offering a survey of the image patterns into which film adaptation theories can be grouped and how these relate to literary theory.
This book looks at ways to use film to introduce complex literary theories to students, linking works of literature with film adaptations. It includes...
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240,03 zł |
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
ISBN: 9781414435008 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television' is a biographical reference which provides students, educators, researchers, librarians and general readers with information on a wide range of entertainment figures.
'Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television' is a biographical reference which provides students, educators, researchers, librarians and general reader...
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1210,50 zł |
Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television
ISBN: 9781414434681 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1210,50 zł |