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The Adoring Audience : Fan Culture and Popular Media
ISBN: 9780415078207 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What distinguishes fans from general audiences? Who is most likely to become a fan? What lies behind the stigma of fandom? This collection of essays explores the complex relationship between fans, stars and the media industry. The contributors (a fan writer, a team of popular journalists as well as eminent academics and researchers) argue that fandom is a coherent and important subject for critical inquiry. The book breaks traditional stereotypes of fandom and reveals how fans actively influence and produce popular culture.
What distinguishes fans from general audiences? Who is most likely to become a fan? What lies behind the stigma of fandom? This collection of essays e...
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759,15 |
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The Adoring Audience : Fan Culture and Popular Media
ISBN: 9780415078214 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With stories of hysterical teenagers and obsessive fans killing for their heroes, fans and fandom get a bad press. "The Adoring Audience" looks deeper into fan culture, particularly as it relates to identity,
With stories of hysterical teenagers and obsessive fans killing for their heroes, fans and fandom get a bad press. "The Adoring Audience" looks deeper...
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200,76 |
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Cultural Revolution?
ISBN: 9780415078245 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are the cultural upheavals of the 1960s just a media myth? The summer of love, with its ambience of marijuana and sitar music, the glitterati of swinging London, and student protesters battling with the police evoke a period of material prosperity, cultural innovation and youthful rebellion. But how significant were the radical aspirations and utopian ideals of the sixties? And what is the legacy of the social, political and cultural transformations which characterized the decade? In an interdisciplinary collection of specially commissioned essays, the contributors to Cultural Revolution...
Are the cultural upheavals of the 1960s just a media myth? The summer of love, with its ambience of marijuana and sitar music, the glitterati of swing...
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710,17 |
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Getting the Message : News, Truth, and Power
ISBN: 9780415079839 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an introduction to recent work by the Group.
The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an introducti...
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759,15 |
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Getting the Message : News, Truth, and Power
ISBN: 9780415079846 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an ideal introduction to recent work by the Group.
Contributors discuss themes such as the relationship between the media and public opinion, the emergence of TV news formats and styles, and the relations between theory and method in media research. Recent work undertaken by the Group on the media's role in reporting on AIDS, Vietnam, Northern Ireland and the Gulf War is also represented. In its fresh approach to the relationship between... The work of the Glasgow Media Group has long established their place at the forefront of Media Studies, and Getting the Message provides an i...
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200,76 |
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Social Scientists Meet the Media
ISBN: 9780415081900 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Part chronicle, part analysis and part advice manual, Social Scientists Meets the Media combines the thoughts of academics and media people to produce a vivid and valuable series of accounts that will prove of service to all academics seeking a wider audience but wary of the terra incognita they face in finding one" Ellis Cashmore, Staffordshire University
Social Scientists know they are in a dilemma: their work may fall prey to sensationalism, but at the same time they don't want to be overlooked. Social Scientists Meet the Media collects the experiences of academics who have... "Part chronicle, part analysis and part advice manual, Social Scientists Meets the Media combines the thoughts of academics and media people to produc...
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710,17 |
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International Media Research: A Critical Survey
ISBN: 9780415090353 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International Media Research offers a rigorous and critical review of key approaches and concerns that have recently defined the field of media research. In this clearly argued collection of essays, the contributors analyze and reflect upon dominant themes and debates that have made media research an increasingly important element of cultural theory. The volume begins with a critical evaluation of the work of the leading media scholar, Elihu Katz, and continues with an exploration of the relationship between media studies and adjacent disciplines: cultural studies and gender and...
International Media Research offers a rigorous and critical review of key approaches and concerns that have recently defined the field of med...
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783,64 |
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Media Effects and Beyond: Culture, Socialization and Lifestyles
ISBN: 9780415091411 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an international research programme into the use and effects of television, video and music. Seeing the viewer not simply as passive object but as a very active subject, the contributors engage with every aspect of children's, adolescents' and families' use of the media - its character, causes and consequences. Topics explored include media and social mobility; family commumication, and consumer lifestyles.
Confronting the two... Addressing a multitude of questions and issues surrounding how we use the media, Media Effects and Beyond represents the results of an intern...
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161,57 |
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Politics and the Mass Media in Britain
ISBN: 9780415094689 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fully-updated new edition of Politics and the Mass Media provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of mass communications in politics at all levels, from election campaigns, news reports and lobbying groups to the media activities of pressure groups.
The relationship between politics, politicians and the media is a matter of increasingly contentious debate, as politicians' awareness of the importance of the media becomes more sophisticated amidst rapidly-advancing media technology and control. Providing a review of the nature and content of political communications... This fully-updated new edition of Politics and the Mass Media provides a comprehensive introduction to the role of mass communications in pol...
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190,96 |
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Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
ISBN: 9780415096744 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change examines how TV and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions within the 'South Asian' diaspora, and how they are also catalysing cultural change in this local...
For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the larg...
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710,17 |
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Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change
ISBN: 9780415096751 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the largest population of 'South Asians' outside the Indian sub-continent - the VCR furnishes Hindi films, 'sacred soaps' such as the Mahabharata, and family videos of rites of passage, as well as mainstream American films. Television, Ethnicity and Cultural Change examines how TV and video are being used to recreate cultural traditions within the 'South Asian' diaspora, and how they are also catalysing cultural change in this local...
For 'ethnic minorities' in Britain, broadcast TV provides powerful representations of national and 'western' culture. In Southall - which has the larg...
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190,96 |
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Fear of the Dark: 'Race', Gender and Sexuality in the Cinema
ISBN: 9780415097093 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studies of the portrayal of black people in film have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of the depictions of black people and the extent to which they rely on stereotypes. By closely examining films such as Sapphire (1959), Leo the Last (1969), Black Joy (1977), Playing Away (1986) and Mona Lisa (1987) and situating them in their historical and social context, Fear of the Dark develops a particualar critical perspective on the film portrayal of black female sexuality and questions the extent to which black film makers have challenged stereotypes.
Studies of the portrayal of black people in film have tended to be studies for the ideological correctness of the depictions of black people and the e...
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710,17 |
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Media Education Across Europe
ISBN: 9780415100175 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Education in and about the media is expanding across Europe and, like the industries it studies, is changing rapidly. The future of media education is a matter of live concern in all European countries, as educators and practitioners throughout the continent come together to learn from each other and to plan for the changes to come.
Media Education Across Europe identifies the exciting developments now taking place within and across the boundaries of European nation-states. Essays from eight countries - the U.K., France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Sweden and the Netherlands... Education in and about the media is expanding across Europe and, like the industries it studies, is changing rapidly. The future of media education is...
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190,96 |
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Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
ISBN: 9780415103138 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the attempts film moguls and moviemakers made to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. It illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even the radical films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.
This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the att...
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710,17 |
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Hollywood in Crisis: Cinema and American Society 1929-1939
ISBN: 9780415103145 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the attempts film moguls and moviemakers made to withstand the political turmoil that threatened to engulf America. It illustrates how the studios and their products, from the glamour of MGM stars and escapist musicals to gangster movies and Westerns, even the radical films of the Warner studios, helped foster ideas of social unity and patriotism.
This detailed study of the workings of the American film industry during the 1930s looks at Hollywood as an agent of Roosevelt's New Deal, and the att...
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190,96 |
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Understanding Radio
ISBN: 9780415103152 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. '... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and possibilities of present forms of radio.' Professor Laurie Taylor on the first edition of Understanding Radio Understanding Radio is a fully revised edition of a key radio textbook. Andrew Crisell explores how radio processes genres such as news, drama and comedy in highly distinctive ways, and how the listener's use of the medium has important implications for audience studies. He explains why the sound medium,... '... a highly imaginative and often very entertaining book ... which ... probably says more than any other available text about the limitations and... |
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195,86 |
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To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World
ISBN: 9780415110068 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world.
To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap... To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, au...
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710,17 |
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To Be Continued...: Soap Operas Around the World
ISBN: 9780415110075 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world.
To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap... To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, au...
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190,96 |
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Understanding Journalism: A Guide to Issues
ISBN: 9780415115988 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documenting many areas of debate and dispute between journalists, the media, public organisations and politicians, the author identifies why conflicts will continue. Covering topics from government bias to censorship, official secrets to freedom of information and animal rights to obscenity, this work is a guide to all those involved in journalism and the media.
Documenting many areas of debate and dispute between journalists, the media, public organisations and politicians, the author identifies why conflicts...
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710,17 |
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J. Arthur Rank and the British Film Industry
ISBN: 9780415117111 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist, The Red Shoes, Brief Encounter, Caesar and Cleopatra and Black Narcissus. Never before, and never since, has the industry risen to such heights.
J. Arthur Rank charts every aspect of the robust film culture that Rank helped to create. Having started out with relatively little knowledge of the cinema, Rank's sponsorship was to bring about astounding progress within the industry, and by... Presiding over the "golden era" of the British Film Industry from the mid to late 1940s, J. Arthur Rank financed movies such as Oliver Twist,...
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190,96 |