Media Studies

The Political Communication Reader gathers together key writings in a unique one-volume resource. The selected texts are grouped into thematic sections, each introduced by the editors, covering such areas as:the exercise of power, media and democracythe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385348430Author Jessica AbelFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty's pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore's anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov's artful Soviet propaganda piece Man with a Movie Camera to Luc...

For ten years, Tory Britain has burned. From Brixton '81 to Oxford, Cardiff, and Tyneside '91 the unforgivable have risen and seized back their streets. With a petrol bomb in one hand a biro in the other, Class War was there. And Class War is...

Volumes 1 and 2 of Stuart Hall's Essential Essays are available as a set From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s,...

In Mixing with Impact: Learning to Make Musical Choices, Wessel Oltheten discusses the creative and technical concepts behind making a mix. Whether you're a dance producer in your home studio, a live mixer in a club, or an engineer in a big studio, the...

This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in...

Why didn't Peter Parker stop the burglar who killed Uncle Ben?Are Spider-Man's foes inherently evil, or are they victims of circumstances beyond their control?What do the many web-slinging superheroes across the Spider-Verse tell us about the choices we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing 2005 (Australia).Book InformationISBN 9781741140156Author Hazel SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This book critically examines the complex interactions between media and crime. Written with an engaging and authoritative voice, it guides you through all the key issues, ranging from news reporting of crime, media constructions of children and...

When Patrick Buchanan took the stage at the Republican National Convention in 1992 and proclaimed, "There is a religious war going on for the soul of our country," his audience knew what he was talking about: the culture wars, which had raged throughout...

The second edition of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Processes provides a state-of-the-art overview of the field of discourse processes, highlighting the subject's interdisciplinary foundations and bringing together established and emergent scholars...

Everyone knows music is big business, but do you really understand how ideas and inspiration become songs, products, downloads, concerts and careers? This textbook guides students to a full understanding of the processes that drive the music industries...

During the summer of 2018, numerous members of the Labour Party were accused of anti-Semitic behaviour by their detractors. The controversy reached fever pitch amid claims that the Labour Party had become 'institutionally racist' under the leadership of...

The Rise of Victimhood Culture offers a framework for understanding recent moral conflicts at U.S. universities, which have bled into society at large. These are not the familiar clashes between liberals and conservatives or the religious and the...

From Tolkien to Star Trek and from Game of Thrones to The Walking Dead, imaginary worlds in fantastic genres offer us complex and immersive environments beyond capitalism. This book examines the ways in which these popular storyworlds offer valuable...

What happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of a celebrity or a politician and they will generate a convincing video in which that person appears to say and do things they have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644213636Author Barbara McQuadeFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262542845Author Blake AtwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

'A celebration of human idiosyncrasy and of our talent for building shared meaning and solidarity out of the strangest material' - TLSFans takes the reader on a journey through a constellation of fandoms, and along the way demonstrates some fundamental...

This comprehensive book on audio power amplifier design will appeal to members of the professional audio engineering community as well as the student and enthusiast. Designing Audio Power Amplifiers begins with power amplifier design basics that a novice...

This book is timely, being produced in a timespan where the first generation of Windrush era arrivals are now in their late 70s and older, a generation which are sadly decreasing. This is an engaging and accessible read, using the house as the framework...

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of...

Learning to Look at Sculpture is an accessible guide to the study and understanding of three dimensional art. Sculpture is all around us: in public parks, squares, gardens and railway stations, as part of the architecture of buildings, or when used in...

This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive identity play. Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner focus especially on the...

Why are newspapers and television programmes filled with stories about crime and criminals? Is their portrayal of crime accurate? How do the media transform our attitudes to crime? Is fear of crime, for example, really created by the media? The...

"When women get together and talk about men, the news is almost always bad news," writes bell hooks. "If the topic gets specific and the focus is on black men, the news is even worse."In this powerful new book, bell hooks arrests our attention from the...

'Comprehensive . . . a definitive history' The Times 'Battle For The Bird is an absolute triumph of reporting and storytelling.' Ashlee Vance, bestselling author of Elon Musk 'If you want to understand how one of the most powerful social networks in...

'Business-as-usual' has been transformed across the music industries in the post-CD age. Against widespread hype about the purported decline of the major music labels, this book provides a critique of the ways these companies have successfully adapted to...

This fully revised edition of the History of Art: A Student's Handbook introduces students to the kinds of practices, challenges, questions and writings they will encounter in studying the history of art. Marcia Pointon conveys the excitement of Art...

Packaging Politics 2nd Edition examines the various ways in which politicians, spin doctors and special advisers, in political parties, in central and local government and in Parliament have become increasingly enthusiastic and effective in using mass...

Just about any social need is now met with an opportunity to "connect" through digital means. But this convenience is not free-it is purchased with vast amounts of personal data transferred through shadowy backchannels to corporations using it to...

The Robber with the Witch's Head presents almost fifty new stories about demons and clever maidens and princes. Bursting with life, this is a storyteller's dream, full of adventure and magic, translated by Jack Zipes.About the AuthorLaura Gonzenbach was...

If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine respectable journalism, foster doubts about science, and engage in...

Hateful thoughts and words can lead to harmful actions like the March 2019 terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. In free, open and democratic societies, governments cannot justifiably regulate what citizens think, feel, believe or...

The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe depends on who you know"Empowering and thoroughly researched, this book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to one of the greatest threats to democracy."-Kirkus...

'Farber [is] a lucid and courageous witness to the power-play behind the first "scamdemic," . . . [Her] work is journalism at its best-solid, lucid, and humane, attacking wrongs that few dare touch, and thereby helping right them.' -Mark Crispin...

Not only does visibility matter to politics, but it is increasingly becoming an intrinsic constituent element and a crucial asset to it. Accordingly, the challenge to the social science becomes that of understanding how the new institutional, urban...

What do we see when we watch reality television? In True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us, the sociologist and TV lover Danielle J. Lindemann takes a long, hard look in the "funhouse mirror" of this genre, from countless rose ceremonies on The...

SECOND UPDATED EDITION, WITH THREE ALL-NEW CHAPTERS The first edition of Making is Connecting struck a chord with crafters, YouTubers, makers, music producers, artists and coders alike. David Gauntlett argues that through making things, people engage...