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On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
ISBN: 9780802085481 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Files and Canadian series like Da Vinci's Inquest have boosted the city's profile as a centre for international and domestic productions. Serra Tinic's On Location is the first empirical analysis of regional Canadian television producers in the context of developing global media markets. Tinic observes that global television production in Vancouver has been a contradictory process that has, on one level, led to the... Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Fil... |
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159,98 |
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On Location: Canada's Television Industry in a Global Market
ISBN: 9780802087379 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Files and Canadian series like Da Vinci's Inquest have boosted the city's profile as a centre for international and domestic productions. Serra Tinic's On Location is the first empirical analysis of regional Canadian television producers in the context of developing global media markets. Tinic observes that global television production in Vancouver has been a contradictory process that has, on one level, led to the... Film and television production are important components of the Canadian economy. In Vancouver, popular American television series like The X-Fil... |
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290,87 |
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Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television′s Effects
ISBN: 9780803940772 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Substantially updated, this revised edition of Why Viewers Watch presents recent research, overlooked past studies and fresh survey data to offer an alternative perspective on the role of television and how it serves its viewers psychologically. Fowles argues that television is a 'grandly therapeutic force' - a tension-reliever of great benefit to viewers. He also examines the phenomenon of media snobbery - anti-television attitudes proliferated by those who want to feel superior to others by denigrating television viewing.
Substantially updated, this revised edition of Why Viewers Watch presents recent research, overlooked past studies and fresh survey data to offer an a...
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407,22 |
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Ordinary Television: Analyzing Popular TV
ISBN: 9780803975705 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most cultural analysis focuses on the spectacular and the unusual. Frances Bonner has done us a great service by insisting on - and demonstrating - the importance of everyday TV. Ordinary Television breaks genuinely new ground' - Toby Miller, New York University
In this book, Frances Bonner provides a distinctive angle on a key area of research and teaching across media and cultural studies - the content of television and the relations between television genres and audiences. Hitherto most books on television have focused on drama, or news... Most cultural analysis focuses on the spectacular and the unusual. Frances Bonner has done us a great service by insisting on - and demonstrating - th...
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756,26 |
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Ordinary Television: Analyzing Popular TV
ISBN: 9780803975712 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most cultural analysis focuses on the spectacular and the unusual. Frances Bonner has done us a great service by insisting on - and demonstrating - the importance of everyday TV. Ordinary Television breaks genuinely new ground' - Toby Miller, New York University
In this book, Frances Bonner provides a distinctive angle on a key area of research and teaching across media and cultural studies - the content of television and the relations between television genres and audiences. Hitherto most books on television have focused on drama, or news... Most cultural analysis focuses on the spectacular and the unusual. Frances Bonner has done us a great service by insisting on - and demonstrating - th...
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295,72 |
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Creating Television: Conversations With the People Behind 50 Years of American TV
ISBN: 9780805810776 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creating Television brings television and its creators to life, presenting fascinating in-depth interviews with the creators of American TV. Having interviewed more than 100 television professionals over the course of his 15 years of research, Professor Robert Kubey presents here the 40 conversations that provide the most illuminating insights about the industry and the people working in it. These interviews bring television's creators to life, revealing their backgrounds, work, and thoughts about the audience and the television programs they create. Each interview tells a compelling...
Creating Television brings television and its creators to life, presenting fascinating in-depth interviews with the creators of American TV. Ha...
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276,28 |
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Television Aesthetics: Perceptual, Cognitive and Compositional Bases
ISBN: 9780805812213 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aesthetic principles of television images presented are drawn from converging research in academic disciplines such as psychology, neurophysiology, and the fine arts. This study seeks to construct and strengthen the foundations of the theory of television aesthetics.
The aesthetic principles of television images presented are drawn from converging research in academic disciplines such as psychology, neurophysiology...
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702,94 |
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Television Talk Shows: Discourse, Performance, Spectacle
ISBN: 9780805837469 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "talk show" has become a ubiquitous feature of American and European television. The various examples have been frequently discussed by academic commentators, as well as journalists in an attempt to place them in a cultural setting. Ultimately, the conclusion is reached by both academics and non-academics that talk shows matter because they are a focus for considerable public debate and are crucial to the landscape of popular television.
All the variations of talk shows, from chat shows to celebrity interviews, have key elements in common: They all feature groups of guests, not... The "talk show" has become a ubiquitous feature of American and European television. The various examples have been frequently discussed by academic c...
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702,94 |
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Channels of Discourse, Reassembled: Television and Contemporary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807843741 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist criticism, and British cultural studies.
The second edition features a new introduction by Robert Allen that includes a discussion of the political economy of commercial television. Two new essays have been added--one an assessment of postmodernism and... Since its original publication in 1987, Channels of Discourse has provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial television, drawi...
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184,22 |
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Abandoned in the Wasteland: Children, Television, & the First Amendment
ISBN: 9780809015894 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association Two well-known experts-Newton N. Minow is a former chairperson of the FCC-suggest bold new ways to think about television and its influence on American life and, most urgently, on American children. The authors argue that to defend an unrestricted freedom to broadcast by invoking the First Ammendent is an improper use of constitutional principle. They remind us that broadcasters are required by law to serve the public interest, and that the Supreme Court and Congress have affirmed that service to children is a... Winner of the Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association Two well-known experts-Newton N. Minow is a former chairperson of ... |
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79,82 |
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Film and Television After 9/11
ISBN: 9780809325566 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Film and Television After 9/11," editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and distribution of Hollywood and foreign films after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and examine how moviemaking has changed to reflect the new world climate.While some contemporary films offer escapism, much of mainstream American cinema since 9/11 is centered on the desire for a just war in which military reprisals and escalation of warfare appear to be both inevitable and justified. Films of 2002 such as "Black Hawk Down,"...
In "Film and Television After 9/11," editor Wheeler Winston Dixon and eleven other distinguished film scholars discuss the production, reception, and ...
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150,29 |
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Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time
ISBN: 9780810122376 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as the War on Poverty, the Vietnam War and the protests against it, urban ghetto disorders, the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, and Watergate. He was interested in the values, professional standards, and the external pressures that shaped journalists' judgments....
For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who c...
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96,90 |
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Race in Space: The Representation of Ethnicity in 'Star Trek' and 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
ISBN: 9780810833227 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on autobiographical, biographical, historical, and rare archival materials, author Micheal Pounds explores the relationship between "Star Trek" and ethnic equality, one of America's most enduring social issues. Using two television series formed around a common vision and produced by the same studio and executive producer (Gene Roddenberry), Race in Space determines the extent to which social attitudes, values, and beliefs about ethnicity have changed during the more than twenty years that separate them. The book begins by examining the history of American television, both as a...
Drawing on autobiographical, biographical, historical, and rare archival materials, author Micheal Pounds explores the relationship between "Star Trek...
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349,04 |
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James Agee, Omnibus, and Mr. Lincoln: The Culture of Liberalism and the Challenge of Television 1952-1953
ISBN: 9780810851757 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1952 CBS, in conjunction with the Ford Foundation, launched Omnibus, a remarkable experiment in television. The objective was to raise the programming standards of an emerging medium that figured to profoundly influence American life. The centerpiece of Omnibus during its inaugural season was "Mr. Lincoln," a series of five films about the early life of our foremost political icon. James Agee, the distinguished American author, was the principal creator of "Mr. Lincoln." At the time, his scripts were hailed as 'the most beautiful writing ever done for television," and even today Agee's...
In 1952 CBS, in conjunction with the Ford Foundation, launched Omnibus, a remarkable experiment in television. The objective was to raise the programm...
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276,33 |
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Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture
ISBN: 9780812215601 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of Media and the American Mind "A cooly sophisticated analysis . . . of American televsion."--American Studies International In Demographic Vistas, David Marc shows how we can take television seriously within the humanist tradition while enjoying it on its own terms. To deal with the barrage of messages from television's chaotic history, Marc adapts tools of theatrical and literary criticism to focus on key personalities and genres in ways that reward serious students...
"Quite simply, a tour de force--a wonderful synthesis of history and criticism."--Daniel Czitrom, author of Media and the American Mind "A cool...
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116,30 |
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The Philosophy of TV Noir
ISBN: 9780813124490 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many emigre filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizing crime, alienation, and moral ambiguity. In The Philosophy of TV Noir, Steven M. Sanders and Aeon J. Skoble argue that the legacy of film noir classics such as The Maltese Falcon, Kiss Me Deadly, and The Big Sleep is also found in episodic television from the mid-1950s to the present. In this first-of-its-kind collection, contributors from philosophy, film studies, and literature raise fundamental questions about... Film noir reflects the fatalistic themes and visual style of hard-boiled novelists and many emigre filmmakers in 1940s and 1950s America, emphasizi... |
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130,89 |
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The Religions of Star Trek
ISBN: 9780813341156 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is there a God? What evil lurks beyond the stars? Can science save one s soul? Profound questions like these have consumed human thought over the ages; they also inspired the original creators of the "Star Trek" canon of TV series and films. "Religions of Star Trek" tackles these challenging questions head-on in a remarkable look at one of sci-fi s great success stories.Analyzing more than three decades of screen adventure, the authors depict a "Star Trek" transformed, corresponding to the resurgence of religion in American public discourse. The authors identify the many religious characters...
Is there a God? What evil lurks beyond the stars? Can science save one s soul? Profound questions like these have consumed human thought over the ages...
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86,70 |
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If It Bleeds, It Leads : An Anatomy Of Television News
ISBN: 9780813398198 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You've been watching television news forever. You're intimately familiar with the friendly faces and soothing voices that nightly tell you what's wrong with the world. You think you know everything there is to know about them. You're wrong.If It Bleeds, It Leads takes us minute-by-minute through two-and-one-half real hours of syndicated, local, and network information programming to uncover the truth behind what passes as news. Why is the only real difference between Jerry Springer and Dan Rather that Dan's guests usually don't need medical attention? How did a load of baking powder...
You've been watching television news forever. You're intimately familiar with the friendly faces and soothing voices that nightly tell you what's wron...
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130,84 |
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Shaded Lives: African-American Women and Television
ISBN: 9780813531052 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its invention, television has been one of the biggest influences on American culture. Through this medium, multiple visions and disparate voices have attempted to stake a place in viewer consumption. Yet even as this programming supposedly reflects characteristics of the general American populace, television-generated images are manipulated and contradictory, predicated by the various economic, political and cultural forces place upon it.
Since its invention, television has been one of the biggest influences on American culture. Through this medium, multiple visions and disparate voices...
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150,29 |
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Digital Television: DTV and the Consumer
ISBN: 9780813809274 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a summary of what consumers are saying regarding their digital television experience and what this data suggests for the future development of digital television business models. This book provides media students, scholars, and professionals a perspective of the social and cultural presence of this emerging technological phenomenon.
Presents a summary of what consumers are saying regarding their digital television experience and what this data suggests for the future development o...
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325,32 |
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