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Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
ISBN: 9780375726217 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country s libraries including the Library of Congress have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age.
With meticulous detective work and Baker s well-known explanatory power, Double Fold reveals a secret history of microfilm lobbyists, former CIA agents, and warehouses where priceless... The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country s libraries including the Library of Congress hav...
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100,19 |
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Prime Times, Bad Times
ISBN: 9780385261029 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the perspective of the executive suite, Joyce chronicles the turmoil and back-stabbing behind the scenes at "The CBS Evening News" and "The CBS Morning News", takeover bids, and the Draconian budget cutbacks and mass layoffs that sullied the legacy of Edward R. Murrow.
From the perspective of the executive suite, Joyce chronicles the turmoil and back-stabbing behind the scenes at "The CBS Evening News" and "The CBS M...
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96,34 |
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Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over
ISBN: 9780385483735 / Angielski / Miękka / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture comes from, so she enlisted pen pals who offered her a window on adolescence in the Middle East, Europe, and America. Twenty years later Brooks, an award-winning foreign correspondent, embarked on a human treasure hunt to find her pen friends. She found men and women whose lives had been shaped by war and hatred, by fame and notoriety, and by the ravages of mental illness. Intimate, moving, and often humorous, Foreign Correspondence...
As a young girl in a working-class neighborhood of Sydney, Australia, Geraldine Brooks longed to discover the places where history happens and culture...
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77,07 |
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The Craft of Interviewing
ISBN: 9780394724690 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Brady, editor of Writer's Digest and himself an accomplished interviewer, has put together an indispensable guide to the art of questioning. In a lively, down-to-earth manner, "The Craft of Interviewing" covers all aspects of the interview process -- getting the interview, doing research, handling the subject face-to-face, hurdling hazards, getting tough, taking notes (on the sly, if need be), taping, dealing with off-the-record types, concluding the interview, verifying it, and writing it up. Brady has also filled the book with a myriad of anecdotes revealing the experiences of some of...
John Brady, editor of Writer's Digest and himself an accomplished interviewer, has put together an indispensable guide to the art of questioning. In a...
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73,22 |
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Performing Blackness : Enactments of African-American Modernism
ISBN: 9780415009485 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers an interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston establishes the complexity and vitality of the performance ethos as it defines the quest for a distinctively black mode of modernist identity. Beginning with an account of several competing frameworks for understanding African-American performance, the text proceeds to read closely major works in order to locate the crossroads of commonality and difference by which African-American modernism produces an identifiable, if...
This work offers an interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, a...
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747,55 |
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Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism
ISBN: 9780415009492 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers an interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, and criticism, Benston establishes the complexity and vitality of the performance ethos as it defines the quest for a distinctively black mode of modernist identity. Beginning with an account of several competing frameworks for understanding African-American performance, the text proceeds to read closely major works in order to locate the crossroads of commonality and difference by which African-American modernism produces an identifiable, if...
This work offers an interpretation of black cultural expression since the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. Exploring drama, music, poetry, sermons, a...
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221,63 |
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Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction
ISBN: 9780415009775 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies.
The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the methods that have been used in these debates, focussing both on narrative analysis and the communications process. It explores generic conventions, the role of commercial strategies, and the nature of the audience with reference to... Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary...
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747,55 |
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Potboilers: Methods, Concepts and Case Studies in Popular Fiction
ISBN: 9780415009782 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary criticism, sociology, communications, media and cultural studies.
The book introduces and summarizes two decades of debate about mass-produced fictions and their position within popular culture. It assesses the methods that have been used in these debates, focussing both on narrative analysis and the communications process. It explores generic conventions, the role of commercial strategies, and the nature of the audience with reference to... Potboilers looks at the many forms of popular narrative - in print, film and TV. It considers the ways in they have been analysed in literary...
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200,76 |
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Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press
ISBN: 9780415014199 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of hard facts. In this study of both the quality and the popular press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, a product of the social and political world on which it reports. Writing from the perspective of critical linguistics, Fowler examines the crucial role of language in mediating reality. Starting with a general account of news values and the processes of selection and transformation which go to make up the news, Fowler goes on to consider newspaper representations of gender,...
Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of hard facts. In this study of both the quality and the popular press, Roge...
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239,94 |
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The Media Studies Book: A Guide for Teachers
ISBN: 9780415014618 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introducing media criticism as well as teaching about the media in inter-disciplinary and across the curriculum teaching, this is a critical reference on the important curriculum initiatives taking place in media education. The core of the book is a collection of essays on key concepts from media studies, including language, narrative, institution, audience, representation and the production process.
Introducing media criticism as well as teaching about the media in inter-disciplinary and across the curriculum teaching, this is a critical reference...
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186,06 |
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The Politics of Pictures : The Creation of the Public in the Age of the Popular Media
ISBN: 9780415015417 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Politics of Pictures" searches for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and page. John Hartley investigates popular media reality, showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own right. He embarks on a wide-ranging and sometimes bizarre journey of discovery, using an amazing variety of primary texts to explore the way publics have been created, and the political uses of media audiences.
"The Politics of Pictures" is a history of looking, from Aristotle to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to... "The Politics of Pictures" searches for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and page. John Hartle...
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710,17 |
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The Politics of Pictures: The Creation of the Public in the Age of the Popular Media
ISBN: 9780415015424 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking, from Aristotle to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to the meaning of picnics, from Leviathan to synchronized swimming, Dr Johnson to the sexualization of war. John Hartley's wide-ranging and sometimes bizarre journey of discovery looks for the public in the realm of media, where citizens are now literally represented on screen and page. The book investigates popular media reality by showing how pictures and texts are powerful political forces in their own right, using a variety of primary texts to explore the way publics have...
The Politics of Pictures is a history of looking, from Aristotle to TV audiences, from the invention of photography to the meaning of picnics, from Le...
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190,96 |
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Television And Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780415016469 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. His investigation, of great significance to those with a personal or professional interest in media, film and television studies, unravels its emotional and cognitive, spatial, temporal and political... Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, media... |
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Television and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780415016476 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, mediated by the social and cultural worlds which we inhabit. In this fascinating book, Roger Silverstone explores the enigma of television and how it has found its way so profoundly and intimately into the fabric of our everyday lives. His investigation, of great significance to those with a personal or professional interest in media, film and television studies, unravels its emotional and cognitive, spatial, temporal and political... Television is a central dimension in our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances, media... |
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186,06 |
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Television Drama: Agency, Audience and Myth
ISBN: 9780415016490 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of television drama from within a cultural studies perspective, this text explores the active agency of both viewers and media practitioners. The author examines dominant and counter-myths as they circulate in popular culture, discussing soap opera, science fiction, sitcom, cop series and authored drama among its examples. It works within an ethnographic framework, John Tilloch looks at both the production and reception of TV drama. The overall aim of the book is to examine television representation as part of a historically positioned and differentiated social formation in...
An examination of television drama from within a cultural studies perspective, this text explores the active agency of both viewers and media practiti...
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181,17 |
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Film and Politics in America: A Social Tradition
ISBN: 9780415026208 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers from the thirties who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940's. He discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system, itself undergoing change, and to what extent their experience in the political and theatre movements of thirties New York was to be reflected in their later films.
Focusing in particular on Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Jules Dassin, Abraham Polonsky, Nicholas Ray,... In A Social Cinema: Film-making and Politics in America, Brian Neve presents a study of the social and political nature of American film by c...
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190,96 |
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Culture, Society and the Media
ISBN: 9780415027892 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the power of the media and the divisions between the liberal pluralist and the Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media.
Examines the power of the media and the divisions between the liberal pluralist and the Marxist approaches to the analysis of the nature of the media....
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239,94 |
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The Known World of Broadcast News: International News and the Electronic Media
ISBN: 9780415036047 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Radio and television news are expanding everywhere, often at the expense of print media. Developments in global communications, in theory at least, have made the world smaller. An event anywhere can theoretically be reported anywhere else on radio within minutes; on television within hours. But theory and practice are often far apart. Broadcast news has become a global business, almost like the music industry, with its own Top 10 and an inevitable streamlining of taste. A few major organizations control the newsflow.
Radio and television news are expanding everywhere, often at the expense of print media. Developments in global communications, in theory at least, ha...
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190,96 |
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Seeing and Believing: The Influence of Television
ISBN: 9780415036214 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An investigation of the impact and interpretation of television news coverage, based on an experiment conducted by the author. He describes how members of different social groups interpreted the events of a strike according to their own individual backgrounds and social experiences.
An investigation of the impact and interpretation of television news coverage, based on an experiment conducted by the author. He describes how member...
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190,96 |
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Understanding News
ISBN: 9780415039338 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing ...
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186,06 |