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Analysing Media Texts (+DVD) Marie Gillespie (ed) Open University Press, 2006 $55.00 pb This award-winning book provides an engaging introduction to the analysis of media texts. Students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation. Each chapter provides readings and worked examples, from a wide range of texts, from the classic 1959 film melodrama by Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life, through to contemporary television ads.
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Changing Stations: the story of Australian Commercial Radio Bridget Griffen-Foley UNSW Press, 2009 $44.95 pb Changing Stations is the first full-scale, national history of commercial radio in Australia, from the experiments and schemes of the 1920s through to the eve of the introduction of digital radio in 2009.
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Children & Television: A Global Perspective Dafna Lemish Blackwell, 2006 $52.95 pb This book offers an integrative view on children and television from the accumulated global literature in this field of the last 50 years, drawing on a diverse spectrum of research and combining both the American and European traditions. Children and Television features an international approach, balancing the need to contextualize television in children’s lives in their unique cultural spaces, as well as searching for universal understandings that hold true for children around the world. |
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CineTech: Film, Convergence and New Media Stephen Keane Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 $56.00 pb What does it mean to regard cinema as technology? How do special effects change our experience of contemporary film? Recent digital advances have transformed the films we watch and the ways in which we experience them. "CineTech" explores this exciting convergence between film and new media and provides a comprehensive introduction to the digital practices used in film. Throughout the text, issues and debates are clearly elucidated through a diverse range of up-to-date case studies, including the "Star Wars" prequels and the "Matrix" trilogy. Accessible yet stimulating, this timely text is ideal reading for all students of Film and Media Studies.
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Context Providers: conditions of meaning in media arts Margot Lovejoy et al Intellect Books, 2010 $59.95pb Blurring boundaries between many disciplines, Context Providers supplies a context and a rationale for discussing how technological change has affected the function of art, the role of the artist, and the way artistic productions are disseminated. It also explores how technologically networked environments increase the need for flexible information filters as a framework for establishing meaning. Moreover, Context Providers considers the work of media artists who are directly engaging the scientific community through collaboration and active dialogue. This book will appeal to art historians, theorists and curators, as well as art s administrators and those studying both practice and theory in media arts.
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European Cinemas in the Television Age Ostrowsna & Roberts Edinburgh University Press, 2007 $52.95 pb Radically rethinks European cinema's post-war history from the perspective of television's impact on the culture of cinema's production, distribution, consumption, and reception. In every European country television has transformed the economic, technological, and aesthetic terms of cinema production. Its growing popularity has drastically reshaped cinema's audiences and forced governments to introduce policies to regulate the interaction between cinema and television. Cinematic criticism has been slow to address the impact of television, but this study recognizes its influence and offers a more authentic and richer history of European cinemas.
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Feedback: Television Against Democracy David Joselit MIT Press, 2010 $24.95 pb American television embodies a paradox: it is a privately owned and operated public communications network that most citizens are unable to participate in except as passive specators. Television creates an image of community while preventing the formation of actual social ties because behind its simulated exchange of opinions lies a highly centralised corporate structure that is profoundly antidemocratic. In Feedback, David Joselit describes the privatised public sphere of television and recounts the tactics developed by artists and media activists in the 1960s and 1970s to break open its closed circuit.
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Futuretainment: Yesterday the World Changed, Now it’s Your Turn Mike Walsh Phaidon, 2009 $49.95hb Over recent years seismic changes have taken place in the structure and direction of the media and entertainment industries. Since the launch of the first commercial web browser, to the advent of broadband, digital downloads and on-line virtual worlds, patterns of consumer behaviour have adapted and evolved enormously, embracing new opportunities and having an indelible impact upon the commercial nature of media. Mike Walsh has been at the heart of this consumer revolution from its beginning and has been advising on how to react to it since. Futuretainment offers the sum total of his experiences and commentary, and offers an accessible approach to this complex and evolving subject. The book encompasses the traditional forms of media and entertainment and reveals how the rise of the internet, mobile devices, social networking, audience networks, user- generated content, ubiquitous networks and the 'adaptive web', amongst other advances, has affected them forever.
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The Media & Communications in Australia Stuart Cunningham & Graeme Turner (eds) 3rd ed., Allen & Unwin, 2009 $55.00 pb Traditional
media are under assault from digital technologies. Online advertising is
eroding the financial basis of newspapers and television, demarcations
between different forms of media are fading, and audiences are fragmenting.
We can podcast our favourite radio show, data accompanies television
programs, and we catch up with newspaper stories on our laptops. Yet
mainstream media remain enormously powerful.
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The Metaphysics of Media: towards an end of postmodern cynicism and the construction of a virtuous reality Peter K. Fallon University of Chicago Press, 2010 $43.95 pb Award-winning media critic Peter K. Fallon tackles the complicated question of how a succession of dominant forms of media have supported - and even to some extent created - different conceptions of reality. He starts with the basics: a critical discussion of the very idea of objective reality and the various postmodern responses that have tended to dominate recent philosophical approaches to the subject. From there, he embarks on a survey of the evolution of communication through four major eras: orality; literacy; print; and electricity. Within each era, Fallon argues, the dominant form of media supported particular ways of understanding the world, from the ascendance of reason that followed the development of alphabets to the obliteration of space and time that we associate with electronic communications. Fallon concludes with a hard look at the mass ignorance that prevails today despite (or perhaps because of) the sea of information with which contemporary life is surrounded.
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Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates Adrian Johns University of Chicago Press, 2009 $59.95hb Piracy explores the intellectual property wars from the advent of print culture in the fifteenth century to the reign of the Internet in the twenty-first. Written with a historian’s flair for narrative and sparkling detail, the book swarms throughout with characters of genius, principle, cunning, and outright criminal intent: in the wars over piracy, it is the victims - from Charles Dickens to Bob Dylan - who have always been the best known, but the principal players - the pirates themselves - have long languished in obscurity, and it is their stories especially that Johns brings to life in these vivid pages.
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The Queer Politics of Television Samuel A. Chambers I.B. Tauris, 2009 $42.00 pb The Queer Politics of Television is a radical book, which brings together the fields of political theory and television studies. In one of the first books to do so, Chambers exposes and explores the cultural politics of television by treating television shows - including 'Six Feet Under', 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', 'Desperate Housewives', 'The L Word', and 'Big Love' - as serious, important texts and reading them in detail through the lens of queer theory. Chambers makes the case for the profound significance of 'the cultural politics of television: the way in which the text of a television show itself engages with the politics of its day. He argues for queer theory's essential contribution to any understanding of the political, and initiates a larger project of queer television studies, treading the same path as queer film studies. This book makes an important and fresh contribution to queer theory and to the understanding of television as politics.
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Reinventing Cinema: Movies in the Age of Media Convergence Chuck Tryon Rutgers University Press, 2009 $55.95pb Reinventing Cinema examines film culture at the turn of this century, at the precise moment when digital media are altering our historical relationship with the movies. Spanning multiple disciplines, Chuck Tryon addresses the interaction between production, distribution, and reception of films, television, and other new and emerging media. Through close readings of trade publications, DVD extras, public lectures by new media leaders, movie blogs, and YouTube videos, Tryon navigates the shift to digital cinema and examines how it is altering film and popular culture.
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Restyling Factual TV: Audiences & News, Documentary & Reality Genres Annette Hills Routledge, 2007 $56.00 pb Addressing the wide range of programmes and formats from news, to documentary, to popular factual genres, Annette Hills’ new book examines the ways viewers navigate their way through a busy, noisy and constantly changing factual television environment. Restyling Factual TV addresses the wide range of programmes that fall within the category of 'factuality', from politics, to natural history, to reality entertainment. Based on research with audiences of factual TV, primarily in Sweden and the UK, but with reference to other countries such as the US, this book tackles issues such as legitimacy, ethics and value in contemporary news and current affairs, documentary and reality programming. Drawing on the ethics of truth-telling and notions of quality, this wide-ranging, authoritative book expands the debate on popular factual entertainment.
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TV China: a Reader on New Media Ying Zhu & Chris Berry (eds.) Indiana University Press, 2009 $44.95pb If radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly established itself as the medium of the “marketized” China and in the diaspora. In less than two decades, television has become the dominant medium across the Chinese cultural world. TV China is the first anthology in English on this phenomenon. Covering the People's Republic, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora, these 12 original essays introduce and analyze the Chinese television industry, its programming, the policies shaping it, and its audiences.
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The Uses of Digital Literacy John Hartley Transaction Publishers, 2010 $52.95 pb At the heart of this book lies a reappraisal of humanities research and its use in understanding the conditions of a consumer-led society. This is an open, investigative, critical, scientific task as well as an opportunity to engage with creative enterprise and culture. Now that every user is a publisher, consumption needs to be rethought as action not behaviour, and media consumption as a mode of literacy. Hartley reassesses the historical and global context, commercial and cultural dynamics and the potential of popular productivity through analysis of the use of digital media in various domains, including creative industries, digital storytelling, YouTube, journalism, and mediated fashion.
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The You Tube Reader Pelle Snickars & Patrick Vondereau (eds.) Wallflower Press, 2009 $59.95hb YouTube has come to epitomize the possibilities of digital culture. With more than seventy million unique users a month and approximately eighty million videos online, this brand-name video distribution platform holds the richest repository of popular culture on the Internet. As the fastest growing site in the history of the Web, YouTube promises endless new opportunities for amateur video, political campaigning, entertainment formats, and viral marketing - a clip culture that has seemed to outpace both cinema and television. The YouTube Reader is the first full-length book to explore YouTube as an industry, archive, and cultural form. This remarkable volume brings together renowned film and media scholars to debate the problems and potential of "broadcasting yourself."
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