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Media studies
Media studies
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ISBN-13: 9780691146430 (ISBN-10: 0691146438)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 30 Sep 2010
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. This book traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture.
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ISBN-13: 9780691146447 (ISBN-10: 0691146446)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 30 Sep 2010
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. This book traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture.
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ISBN-13: 9781584234098 (ISBN-10: 1584234091)
Format: Calendar
Publication Date: 07 Sep 2010
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ISBN-13: 9780230216808 (ISBN-10: 0230216803)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 30 Aug 2010
Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book examines what the outdoor advertising industry tells us about the commercial production of urban space, what industry practices reveal about contemporary capitalism, and how ads and billboard structures interface with spaces of the city
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ISBN-13: 9780980655025 (ISBN-10: 0980655021)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 20 Aug 2010
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ISBN-13: 9781845193102 (ISBN-10: 1845193105)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 01 Aug 2010
At a time when media are being increasingly centralised and globally monopolised, it is important to examine the role that marginal and peripheral media play in shaping social, cultural and political interactions. This study of the media in Asia also provides a very useful alternative way of looking at global media.
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ISBN-13: 9780300142044 (ISBN-10: 0300142048)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 31 Jul 2010
Considers the 'little' modernist magazines alongside the 'big' or mass magazines often dismissed as antithetical to modernism's elite culture and insists that scholars must investigate their contents as a whole - from poetry to advertising - to appreciate their full significance.
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ISBN-13: 9780415778121 (ISBN-10: 0415778123)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 30 Jul 2010
Gives students a critical language to discuss 'common sense' phenomena about media. This book acknowledges that students begin introductory film and television courses thinking they already know a great deal about the subject. It provides students with a starting point for discussing their assumptions critically.
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ISBN-13: 9780253354570 (ISBN-10: 0253354579)
Format: Hardback
Publication Date: 29 Jul 2010
Uses South African cinema as a lens through which to view cultural changes resulting from the end of apartheid in 1994. This book examines how media transformed the meaning of race and nation during this period and argues that, as apartheid was disbanded and new racial constructs allowed.
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ISBN-13: 9781878220981 (ISBN-10: 1878220985)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 27 Jul 2010
From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting over the years has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives. This title covers the people, technology, science, and show business that combine to deliver the weather to the public each day.
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