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The New Media Book

The New Media Book

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What will prove to be the lasting impact of New Media on film and television? What kinds of transformations of moving image media are really already under way? The term...
Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film

Place, Power, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film

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Nowhere has such a fine collection of essays argued so forcefully on the power of film to shape and mediate human experiences of place and environment.-Kenneth E. Foote, The University...
Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition

Television After TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition

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In the last ten years, television has reinvented itself in numerous ways. The demise of the U.S. three network system, the rise of multi-channel cable and global satellite delivery, changes...
Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture

Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture

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Digital culture is often characterized as radically breaking with past technologies, practices, and ideologies rather than as reflecting or incorporating them. Memory Bytes seeks to counter such ahistoricism, arguing for...
Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors

Athena's Daughters: Television's New Women Warriors

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This book is unique in its critical inquiry into the new woman warrior's appropriation of violence and the Western war narrative. Informed by feminist theoretical debates regarding women's new roles,...
Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting

Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting

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Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24-hour news, 24-hour...
The Television Will Be Revolutionized

The Television Will Be Revolutionized

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. After occupying a central space...
How Television Invented New Media

How Television Invented New Media

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Now if I just remembered where I put that original TV play device--the universal remote control . . . Television is a global industry, a medium of representation, an architectural...
Being A Scot

Being A Scot

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Although he is an indubitably international superstar, Sir Sean Connery still knows the city of Edinburgh practically street by street from delivering the morning milk as a schoolboy. His round...
Equinox: Maths

Equinox: Maths

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This volume opens with an examination of the relationship between humans and the universe around them. Each chapter is based on an individual programme from the "Equinox" television series. "Space...
Woody Allen: New Yorker

Woody Allen: New Yorker

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This book is the first detailed study of Woody Allen's life and work, and an original attempt to locate Allen's work in the great tradition of American popular culture. It...
Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context

Cinema and the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context

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This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show...
No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject

No End to Her: Soap Opera and the Female Subject

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In this incisive defense of a much-maligned genre, Nochimson demonstrates how soap opera validates an essentially feminine perspective, and responds to complex issues of women's desire and power. Even though...
True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You

True Blood and Philosophy: We Wanna Think Bad Things with You

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TRUEBLOOD and Philosophy Does God hate fangs? Is Sam still Sam when he turns into a collie? Is coming out of the coffin the same as coming out of the...
Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture

Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture

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Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural catagories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre:...
Television Entertainment

Television Entertainment

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Television entertainment rules supreme, one of the world's most important disseminators of information, ideas, and amusement. More than a parade of little figures in a box, it is deeply embedded...
Narrative Comprehension and Film

Narrative Comprehension and Film

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Narrative is one of the ways we organise and understand the world. It is found everywhere: not only in films and books, but also in everyday conversations and in the...
Television And Everyday Life

Television And Everyday Life

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Television is a central dimension of our everyday lives and yet its meaning and its potency varies according to our individual circumstances. Its power will always be mediated by th...
Adventures in a TV Nation

Adventures in a TV Nation

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Moore has many hysterical things to say about deserving targets of all political persuasions from the anaemic left to the giddy right. Hailed as 'brilliant' and 'subversive' on both sides...
Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer

Like Me: Confessions of a Heartland Country Singer

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Chely Wright, singer, songwriter, country music star, writes in this moving, telling memoir about her life and her career; about growing up in America's heartland, the youngest of three children;...
The Language of New Media

The Language of New Media

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A stimulating, eclectic accountof new media that finds its origins in old media, particularly the cinema. In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new...
TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television

TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television

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While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and '60s...
Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America

Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America

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Between 1948 and 1955, nearly two-thirds of all American families bought a television set-and a revolution in social life and popular culture was launched. In this fascinating book, Lynn Spigel...
Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation

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What precisely, W. J. T. Mitchell asks, are pictures (and theories of pictures) doing now, in the late twentieth century, when the power of the visual is said to be...
Television and American Culture

Television and American Culture

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To understand American popular culture, we need to come to grips with the enormous role that television has played in shaping that culture over the past sixty years. In this...
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show

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What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984 , Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern...
The Tao of Bruce Lee

The Tao of Bruce Lee

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In this companion volume to the critically acclaimed bestseller The Tao of Muhammad Ali, Miller turns to another iconic figure and seminal influence - film star and martial arts legend,...
No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Story

No Way Home: A Cuban Dancer's Story

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The rags-to-riches story of one of the world's greatest dancers, from his difficult childhoodm living in poverty in the backstreets of Cubam to his astronomical rise to international stardom. In...
Inside 60 Minutes

Inside 60 Minutes

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"60 Minutes" is Australia's most successful current affairs programme, watched each week by millions. This insider's story by a producer with more than nine years direct working experience on the...
The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's

The Silent Snowman: Sir George Tallis, the Man Behind the World's

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George Tallis arrived in Melbourne in 1886 as a seventeen-year-old Irish immigrant, and by the mid-1920s was one of the first 'media giants'. The Silent Showman is a biography of...
Doctor Who: The Time Traveller's Almanac

Doctor Who: The Time Traveller's Almanac

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Who are the eminent artists of the 16th, 19th, or 21st centuries? What are the mysteries of Carrionite Science? Where do the Daleks come from? Answers to all of these...
Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown

Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown

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In a career that spans over seven decades, Roger Moore has been at the very heart of the show business scene. Of course, he's an actor and has starred in...
Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone

Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone

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Explore the creation of Guillermo del Toro's early masterpiece through this visually stunning and insightful look at the spine-chilling classic. Released in 2001, Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone announced...
Incredibuilds: Marvel: Groot: Guardians of the Galaxy Deluxe Book and

Incredibuilds: Marvel: Groot: Guardians of the Galaxy Deluxe Book and

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Build and customize a 3D model of Groot and read all about Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy film in this exciting new model set. In the far reaches of the...
IncrediBuilds: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Niffler 3D

IncrediBuilds: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Niffler 3D

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Kids can build their own customizable Niffler with this thrilling booklet and 3D wood model set from IncrediBuilds. This Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them -themed wood model set...
Remembering Audrey

Remembering Audrey

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From the popular LIFE Picture Puzzle series comes a new volume categorized according to level of difficulty with a suggested completion time included for serious puzzlers. LIFE
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Amazing Sticker Adventures

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker Amazing Sticker Adventures

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This fun-filled Star Wars sticker book contains more than 300 colourful stickers, and is packed full of fun facts from the new Star Wars movie, Star Wars- The Rise of...
Spelling It Like It Is

Spelling It Like It Is

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Tori Spelling continues to share her unique and very public life adventures-good and bad-complete with four kids, daredevil husband Dean, a tight circle of friends, invasive cameras, and an infamous...
Paused in Cosmic Reflection: The definitive, fully illustrated story

Paused in Cosmic Reflection: The definitive, fully illustrated story

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A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers. Told in the voices of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons,...
Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

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Based on interviews with Jackie Chan from February 1998, this book features hundreds of never-before-seen photographs from the archives of Inside Kung Fu magazine and Curtis Wong''s private collection.'
The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons

The Pythons' Autobiography By The Pythons

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Over forty years ago, a group of five Englishmen - and one wayward American - rewrote the rules of comedy. MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS, an unheralded, previously unseen half-hour show...
Once Upon A Tyne: The hilarious and heart-warming Sunday Times

Once Upon A Tyne: The hilarious and heart-warming Sunday Times

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THE HILARIOUS AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Ant and Dec hold a special place in the hearts of TV viewers everywhere. This is their epic story, with never-before-seen photography and...
Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust

Indelible Shadows: Film and the Holocaust

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Indelible Shadows investigates some of the profound questions raised by any attempt to create a film based on the Holocaust. How does one make a movie that is both morally...
Australian Film, 1978-92

Australian Film, 1978-92

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From Crocodile Dundee to Strictly Ballroom, from Breaker Morant to Mad Max, Australian film has delighted and moved audiences the world over. Now Australian Film makes available all the essential...
Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Updated Edition: The Complete

Harry Potter Page to Screen: The Updated Edition: The Complete

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Harry Potter Page to Screen: Revised and Expanded now has more pages devoted to the legacy of the Harry Potter films. In addition to the complete history of all eight...
Coven

Coven

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Need your magical crime solved? Call the Witch Coven. Hester, Anadil, and Dot are legendary across the Endless Woods as vigilante detectives and protectors of the peace. The famed trio...
You Never Know: A Memoir

You Never Know: A Memoir

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There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called...