Media History – Bücher, LPs, CDs und mehr, Seite 6

Alison Peirse

Rewriting Television

Rewriting Television suggests that it is time for a radical overhaul of television studies. It offers a new model for doing television (or film, or media) studies through the synthesis of production studi…

Annika A Culver

Democratizing Luxury

Democratizing Luxury explores the interplay between advertising and consumption in modern Japan by investigating how Japanese companies at key historical moments assigned value, or "luxury," to …

Funny Stuff

More than just gags and giggles, comedy is a powerful force, reflecting our hopes and fears, helping us understand social and political changes, and creating a shared national culture. In this book, histo…

Brian Michael Murphy

We the Dead

Locked away in refrigerated vaults, sanitized by gas chambers, and secured within bombproof caverns deep under mountains are America's most prized materials: the ever-expanding collection of records that …

Amanda D Lotz

After Mass Media

"After Mass Media explores how the business of series and movies have fragmented to become an international business of microaudiences and what that means for the stories told and their cultural role…

Dead Lord

Heads Held High

David Morton

Motion Picture Paradise

This book is a sweeping story of filmmaking in Florida, chronicling the state's importance to producers throughout 125 years by looking at the many iconic films and television shows made across the penins…

Flyover Fictions

Flyover Fictions critically engages the history and contemporary use of the "flyover country" trope in American culture and repurposes the concept as an abstract tool for cultural studies.

Periodicals in Latin America

Assembling research on a diverse range of serialized publications from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this volume explores how Latin American print culture has influenced local movements …

Andrew Lison

100% Utilization

A wide-ranging analysis of how the material limits to discrete, silicon-based computing power impact employment and automation.Since the end of the Second World War, we have come to expect continual growt…

Syria, Revolt and War in the Digital Age

"An intimate portrayal of protest through images during the Syrian war. Never before in history has a conflict been so extensively filmed by its own warring parties, generating a wealth of sound and …

Bérengère Primat, Jean Hubert Martin

Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods

This book argues that globalisation challenges the Western idea of art and explores how different cultures express spirituality through art. Text in English and French.Globalization has forced us to stop …

A S Hamrah

Last Week in End Times Cinema

An almanac of every bad thing that happened in the film industry from March 2024 to March 2025.From A. S. Hamrah, the film critic at n+1 and the author of The Earth Dies Streaming: Film Writing, 2002-2018…

Shenshen Cai,

Contemporary Chinese Celebrities

"Whether willingly or unwillingly, public celebrities are often the focus of discussion of moral matters and political causes, but how does this sort of celebrity culture function in a country such a…

Nicholas Carr

Superbloom

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the …

Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky

Pablo Escobar and Colombian Narcoculture

In this exploration of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar's impact on popular culture, Aldona Bialowas Pobutsky shows how Escobar's legacy inspired the development of narcocultura--television, music, liter…

Ajay Gehlawat,

Bollypolitics

Winner of Best Monograph at the 2025 BAFTSS Awards.This book provides an in-depth exploration of the evolving landscape of Bollywood cinema in response to recent socio-political changes in India, includin…

Nathalie Weidhase,

Pop & Postfeminism

"Focusing on Amy Winehouse, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Lana del Rey, Nathalie Weidhase conceptualises the female dandy as a figure that simultaneously embodies and ruptures postfeminist notions of femin…

June Sarpong

Calling Una Marson

The groundbreaking story of the BBC's first Black woman broadcaster - finally brought to light.