Category: Media Studies

By Katherine Orrison

ISBN-10: 1461734819

ISBN-13: 9781461734819

From inspiration degree via construction in Egypt to unencumber of the movie: Katherine Orrison rigorously recreates the behind-the-scenes tale of Cecil B. DeMille's loved epic.

By Michael S. Sweeney

ISBN-10: 0810122995

ISBN-13: 9780810122994

ISBN-10: 0810162261

ISBN-13: 9780810162266

By David Bollier

ISBN-10: 1595583963

ISBN-13: 9781595583963

A attractive narrative historical past of the emergence of digital "free culture," from open-source software program and artistic Commons licenses to remixes and internet 2.0—in the culture of Lawrence Lessig's Free Culture.
A international geared up round centralized keep watch over, strict highbrow estate rights, and hierarchies of credentialed specialists is lower than siege. A extensively various order of society in response to open entry, decentralized creativity, collaborative intelligence, and inexpensive and simple sharing is ascendant. —from Viral Spiral

From unfastened and open-source software program, inventive Commons licenses, Wikipedia, remix tune and video mashups, peer construction, open technological know-how, open schooling, and open company, the realm of electronic media has spawned a brand new "sharing economy" that more and more competes with entrenched media giants.

Reporting from the center of this "free culture" stream, journalist and activist David Bollier offers the 1st complete background of the test via an international brigade of techies, attorneys, artists, musicians, scientists, businesspeople, innovators, and geeks of all stripes to create a electronic republic devoted to freedom and innovation. Viral Spiral—the time period Bollier cash to explain the almost-magical strategy through which net clients can come jointly to construct on-line commons and tools—brilliantly interweaves the disparate strands of this eclectic stream. the tale describes significant technological advancements and pivotal criminal struggles, in addition to interesting profiles of hacker Richard Stallman, copyright student Lawrence Lessig, and different colourful figures.

A milestone in reporting on the web by way of one among our prime media critics, Viral Spiral is for someone trying to take the whole degree of the recent electronic era.

By Mary Talbot

ISBN-10: 0748623477

ISBN-13: 9780748623471

This vigorous and obtainable examine of media and discourse combines theoretical mirrored image with empirical engagement, and brings jointly insights from more than a few disciplines. inside of media and cultural experiences, the learn of media texts is ruled by means of an particular specialise in illustration. This booklet provides lengthy late consciousness to social interaction.

The booklet is split into sections. the 1st outlines key theoretical concerns and ideas, together with informalisation, style hybridisation, positioning, dialogism and discourse. the second one is a sustained interrogation of social interplay in and round media. Re-examining problems with illustration and interplay, it seriously assesses paintings at the para-social and broadcast sociability, then explores unique websites of interplay: construction groups, viewers groups and 'interactivity' with audiences.

Key features

The booklet is wealthy with attention-grabbing examples related to British and US media, together with radio, tv, magazines and newspapers and their net spin-offs.

It brings jointly insights from dialog research, severe discourse research, cultural stories and media anthropology.

It is vital studying for complicated undergraduates and postgraduates doing media reviews, conversation and cultural experiences and journalism studies.

By Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple

ISBN-10: 1441120904

ISBN-13: 9781441120908

By A. Gabriele

ISBN-10: 0230101275

ISBN-13: 9780230101272

ISBN-10: 1349378968

ISBN-13: 9781349378968

Studying pop culture in Victorian Print: Belgravia and Sensationalism is a finished research of the entire run of the per 30 days periodical Belgravia less than the course of Mary Elizabeth Braddon. It strains the fabric background of the journal, its creation and worldwide distribution whereas whilst putting its background and content material within the context of Victorian pop culture and Victorian discursive formations. one of the questions examining pop culture in Victorian Print investigates are the prestige of authors available to buy, the cutting edge position Belgravia holds within the historical past of print tradition, the rhetoric of sensationalism in fiction, journalism and pre-cinema, the illustration of exchange with India, and using city house as a branding process. It makes the declare that the periodical is the feeling novel of the 1860s.

By Helen Hanson, Catherine O'Rawe

ISBN-10: 0230282016

ISBN-13: 9780230282018

ISBN-10: 1349301442

ISBN-13: 9781349301447

Those essays hint the femme fatale throughout literature, visible tradition and cinema, exploring the ways that deadly femininity has been imagined in several cultural contexts and historic epochs, and relocating from legendary girls reminiscent of Eve, Medusa and the Sirens through historic figures resembling Mata Hari to deadly ladies in modern cinema.

By Michael Keane

ISBN-10: 0745661017

ISBN-13: 9780745661018

Inventive industries in China presents a clean account of China’s rising advertisement cultural quarter. the writer indicates how advancements in chinese language paintings, layout and media industries are mirrored in coverage, in marketplace task, and grassroots participation.

Never has the allure of being a media manufacturer, an artist, or a dressmaker in China been so engaging. nationwide and neighborhood governments supply monetary incentives; intake of cultural items and providers have elevated; artistic staff from Europe, North the USA and Asia are relocating to chinese language towns; tradition is more and more situated as a pillar industry.

But what does this suggest for our realizing of chinese language society? Can tradition be industrialised following the reasonably cheap version of China’s production economic climate. Is the nationwide govt rather devoted to social liberalisation?

This attractive booklet is a precious source for college students and students drawn to social swap in China. It attracts on best chinese language scholarship including insights from international media reviews, monetary geography and cultural studies.

Review
"It is uncommon for a latest pupil to really catch a box; there are such a lot of working within the related path. yet Keane is the guy who spotted, formed and now writes with large authority at the inventive industries in China. this can be a major and scholarly addition to the project."
Stephanie Donald, college of recent South Wales

"In this pioneering e-book, Michael Keane presents a extensive advent to the chinese language discourse of media, arts and layout industries. utilizing immense fieldwork commentary, Keane deals detailed insights into the advance of thoughts of innovation and their dating with highbrow estate, tradition, trade and politics in China."
Anthony Fung, chinese language college of Hong Kong

"Michael Keane pioneered the examine of artistic industries in China. This booklet opens up entry to basic yet hitherto unexplored parts of a tender whose upward thrust used to be heavily entwined with foreign lobbying, a burgeoning layout tradition, and fluctuating coverage directives. no one can get to the bottom of these multi-faceted debates and discourses extra deftly than Keane. this can be a needs to learn for anyone attracted to the way forward for innovation in China."
Jing Wang, New Media motion Lab, MIT

About the Author
Michael Keane is Professor within the inventive Industries school at Queensland collage of know-how. he's the writer of China’s New artistic Clusters: Governanance Human Capital and funding (2011) , and Created in China: the nice New step forward (2007).

By David Gauntlett

ISBN-10: 0203360796

ISBN-13: 9780203360798

ISBN-10: 0203377559

ISBN-13: 9780203377550

ISBN-10: 0203930010

ISBN-13: 9780203930014

ISBN-10: 0415189594

ISBN-13: 9780415189590

ISBN-10: 0415189608

ISBN-13: 9780415189606

ISBN-10: 0415396603

ISBN-13: 9780415396608

This obtainable creation to the connection among media and gender attracts on queer conception, in addition to examples from movie, tv, and men's and women's magazines.

By Mark Anthony Neal

ISBN-10: 1135204624

ISBN-13: 9781135204624

Publish yr note: First released in 1999
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What the tune Said is a booklet approximately groups lower than siege, but in addition groups engaged in quite a few types of resistance, institution-building and daily pleasures. starting with the Be-Bop period, Mark Anthony Neal reads the tale of "black communities" during the black culture in renowned track.

Exploring the extensive variety of black cultural event and expression, Neal locates a background that demanding situations the view that hip-hop used to be the 1st black cultural circulate to "speak fact to power".