"Brother Soldier Back On The Front Line"

by Brother Soldier

<p>Thinking about “Coming to America”, this is the book of social commentary that you will need if you really want to acquaint yourself with life in America.</p><p>Already in America, this is the book of social commentary that allows you to ...

ISBN: 9781311637703

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9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster

by Stubblefield, Thomas

<P>The day the towers fell, indelible images of plummeting rubble, fire, and falling bodies were imprinted in the memories of people around the world. Images that were caught in the media loop after the disaster and coverage of the attack, its ...

ISBN: 9780253015631

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9/11 Culture

by Jeffrey Melnick

<i>9/11 Culture</i> serves as a timely and accessible introduction to the complexities of American culture in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. <ul> <li>Gives balanced examinations of a broad catalogue of artifacts from film, music, photography, ...

ISBN: 9781444358155

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A Companion to Media Authorship

by Jonathan Gray & Derek Johnson

<p><i>A Companion to Media Authorship</i> offers 28 groundbreaking chapters which investigate the practices, attributions, and meanings of authorship. Revitalizing the study within media and cultural studies, this diverse and global collection ...

ISBN: 9781118495254

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A Companion to New Media Dynamics

by John Hartley, Jean Burgess & Axel Bruns

<i>A Companion to New Media Dynamics</i> presents a state-of-the-art collection of multidisciplinary readings that examine the origins, evolution, and cultural underpinnings of the media of the digital age in terms of dynamic change <ul> ...

ISBN: 9781118321638

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A Companion to Sport

by David L. Andrews & Ben Carrington

<i>A Companion to Sport</i> brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture.<br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Positions sport as a crucial subject for ...

ISBN: 9781118325285

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A Force for Good

How the American News Media Have Propelled Positive Change

by Rodger Streitmatter

<span><span>America’s news media are relentlessly criticized as too negative, sensationalistic, profit-oriented, and biased, not to mention unpatriotic and a miserable failure at reflecting the nation’s diversity. Rodger Streitmatter makes clear

ISBN: 9781442245129

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A Geology of Media

by Jussi Parikka

<DIV><P>Media history is millions, even billions, of years old. That is the premise of this pioneering and provocative book, which argues that to adequately understand contemporary media culture we must set out from material realities that ...

ISBN: 9781452944579

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A Grammar of Cinepoiesis

Poetic Cameras of Italian Cinema

by Silvia Carlorosi

<span><span style="font-style:italic;">Cinepoiesis</span><span>, or cinema of poetry, strikes us as a strange combination, a phrase we initially read as an oxymoron. Poetry is often associated with the abstract and the evocative, while cinema ...

ISBN: 9781498509855

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A History of Evil in Popular Culture: What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal About America [2 volumes]

What Hannibal Lecter, Stephen King, and Vampires Reveal about America

by Sharon Packer MD & Jody Pennington

<p>Evil isn't simply an abstract theological or philosophical talking point. In our society, the idea of evil feeds entertainment, manifests in all sorts of media, and is a root concept in our collective psyche. This accessible and appealing ...

ISBN: 9780313397714

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A Press Divided

Newspaper Coverage of the Civil War

by David B. Sachsman

A Press Divided provides new insights regarding the sharp political divisions that existed among the newspapers of the Civil War era. These newspapers were divided between North and South, and also divided within the North and South. These ...

ISBN: 9781412855150

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A Private Sphere

Democracy in a Digital Age

by Zizi A. Papacharissi

<b>Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing?</b> <p>Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public ...

ISBN: 9780745658995

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A Thousand Cuts

The Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies

by Dennis Bartok & Jeff Joseph

<p><i>A Thousand Cuts</i> is a candid exploration of one of America’s strangest and most quickly vanishing subcultures. It is about the death of physical film in the digital era and about a paranoid, secretive, eccentric, and sometimes obsessive

ISBN: 9781496808608

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Abstinence Cinema: Virginity and the Rhetoric of Sexual Purity in Contemporary Film

by Kelly, Casey Ryan

<DIV><I>Abstinence Cinema</I> tracks the surprising sex-negative turn that Hollywood films have taken, associating premarital sex with shame and degradation, while romanticizing traditional nuclear families, courtship rituals, and gender roles. ...

ISBN: 9780813575131

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Activist Media and Biopolitics

Critical Media Interventions in the Age of Biopower

by Theo Hug & Wolfgang Sützl

<p>After tactical media became less important, many media activist projects repositioned themselves: in the context of biopolitics they challenge the hegemony of biopower. This volume contains theoretical and empirical contributions to a ...

ISBN: 9783903122192

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Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture

Advertising's Impact on American Character and Society

by Arthur Asa Berger, San Francisco State University

<span><span>The fifth edition of this approachable text draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising’s effects on American character and culture.<br /><br />Berger explains how ...

ISBN: 9781442241268

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Advertising and Consumer Culture in China

by Hongmei Li

<p> This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Chinese advertising as an industry, a discourse and profession in China’s search for modernity and cultural globalization. It compares and contrasts the advertising practices of Chinese ...

ISBN: 9781509511143

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Advertising and Public Relations Law

by Moore, Roy L.

<P>Addressing a critical need, <EM>Advertising and Public Relations Law</EM> explores the issues and ideas that affect the regulation of advertising and public relations speech. Coverage includes the categorization of different kinds of speech ...

ISBN: 9781136930348

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Aesthetics of Interaction in Digital Art

by Katja Kwastek

<DIV>Since the 1960s, artworks that involve the participation of the spectator have received extensive scholarly attention. Yet interactive artworks using digital media still present a challenge for academic art history. In this book, Katja ...

ISBN: 9780262317221

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Afrofuturism 2.0

The Rise of Astro-Blackness

by Tiffany E. Barber, Nettrice Gaskins, Ricardo Guthrie & others

<span><span>The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a ...

ISBN: 9781498510516

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