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From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western (Hardcover): P. McGee From Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western (Hardcover)
P. McGee
R3,361 Discovery Miles 33 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From "Shane to Kill Bill: Rethinking the Western" is an original and compelling critical history of the American Western film.
Provides an insightful overview of the American Western genre
Covers the entire history of the Western, from 1939 to the present
Analyses Westerns as products of a genre, as well as expressions of political and social desires
Deepens an audience's understanding of the genre's most important works, including "Shane, Stagecoach," "The Searchers, Unforgiven," and "Kill Bill"
Contains numerous illustrations of the films and issues discussed.

Network Society - How Social Relations Rebuild Spaces (Hardcover): Network Society - How Social Relations Rebuild Spaces (Hardcover)
R2,043 Discovery Miles 20 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Finding the Source of Medical Information - A Thesaurus-Index to the Reference Collection (Hardcover): Geneva L. Bush, Barbara... Finding the Source of Medical Information - A Thesaurus-Index to the Reference Collection (Hardcover)
Geneva L. Bush, Barbara S. Shearer
R2,094 Discovery Miles 20 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"This work consists of a listing of basic reference sources in the field of medicine and allied health and a thesaurus-index providing quick access to the cited sources. . . . Recommended for medical and health sciences libraries." Choice

Degradation Rituals - Our Sadomasochistic Society (Hardcover): L. Romanienko Degradation Rituals - Our Sadomasochistic Society (Hardcover)
L. Romanienko
R2,076 Discovery Miles 20 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title provides a candid exploration of sadomasochistic practices driving contemporary culture, covering the demoralizing socioeconomic and political conditions that give rise to agonizing rituals of cruelty demonstrated at systemic, transnational, religious, familial, and even sexual spheres of human relations.

The Politics of Telecommunications - National Institutions, Convergences, and Change in Britain and France (Hardcover): Mark... The Politics of Telecommunications - National Institutions, Convergences, and Change in Britain and France (Hardcover)
Mark Thatcher
R7,083 Discovery Miles 70 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines and compares policy making in telecommunications in Britain and France over the last three decades. The book examines questions related to liberalization, regulation and the role of the nation state in an increasingly international economy.

Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles (Hardcover): Udo Merkel Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles (Hardcover)
Udo Merkel
R2,652 R1,976 Discovery Miles 19 760 Save R676 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals, exhibitions, fashion shows and royal celebrations.

Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies - Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Multilingual Literacies, Identities and Ideologies - Exploring Chain Migration from Pakistan to the UK (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Tony Capstick
R3,140 Discovery Miles 31 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book explores the language and literacy practices which sustain transnational migration across generations and across traditional boundaries such as school and home. The author has conducted extensive fieldwork in Pakistan and the UK to study migration between the two countries. Individuals' access to the dominant literacies of migration are contrasted with the vernacular practices which migrants take up at home as part of their digital literacies. The study explores the blurring of boundaries between home and school as well as the blurring of boundaries between language varieties. Tracing access to literacy in this way also shines a light on the literacy mediators migrants turn to for help with English language learning and when trying to access the bureaucratic literacies of migration. The study ends by exploring how migrants use all of their language resources, not just English, to fit into their new homes once they have arrived in the UK.

Painscapes - Communicating Pain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Jen Tarr Painscapes - Communicating Pain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Jen Tarr
R2,646 R1,970 Discovery Miles 19 700 Save R676 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book brings into dialogue approaches from anthropology, sociology, visual art, theatre, and literature to question what kinds of relations, frames and politics constitute pain across disciplines and methodologies. Each chapter offers a unique window onto the notoriously difficult problem of how pain is defined and communicated. The contributors reimagine the value of images and photography, poetry, history, drama, stories and interviews, not as 'better' representations of the pain experience, but as devices to navigate the complexity of pain across different physical, social, and intersubjective domains. This innovative collection provides a new access point to the phenomenon of pain and the materialities, affects, structures and institutions that constitute it. This book will appeal to readers seeking to better understand pain's complexity and the social and affective ecologies through which pain is known, communicated and lived.

Mastering Highly Sensitive Empath - Everything You Need To Know about How to Stop Emotional Overload, Relieve Anxiety, and... Mastering Highly Sensitive Empath - Everything You Need To Know about How to Stop Emotional Overload, Relieve Anxiety, and Eliminate Negative Energy. The Psychology of Highly Sensitive People, Understanding Your Emotions (Hardcover)
Melissa Carrol
R802 R696 Discovery Miles 6 960 Save R106 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
In Search of Boundaries - Communication, Nation-States, and Cultural Identities (Hardcover): Joseph M. Chan, Bryce T. McIntyre In Search of Boundaries - Communication, Nation-States, and Cultural Identities (Hardcover)
Joseph M. Chan, Bryce T. McIntyre
R2,804 Discovery Miles 28 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and hybridization. Examining how people make sense of the world and their own identities as cultural and national boundaries are crossed, In Search of Boundaries transcends many traditional dichotomies between East and West and, more importantly, between tradition and modernity. Interest in the study of boundaries has grown in sociology, anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, but it has not focused on communication processes. This book fills that void with a series of wide-ranging approaches, from the critical to the liberal, the empirical to the cultural, and the Occidental to the Oriental, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the increasingly global nature of nationality, culture, and identity.

Meaningful Moves - Optimize Your Baby's Development (Hardcover): Sarah E Lane Meaningful Moves - Optimize Your Baby's Development (Hardcover)
Sarah E Lane
R583 R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Save R56 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Organizational Life on Television (Hardcover, New): Leah Vandeberg, Nick Trujillo Organizational Life on Television (Hardcover, New)
Leah Vandeberg, Nick Trujillo
R2,800 Discovery Miles 28 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What kinds of industries, occupations, and organizational behaviors have been presented on prime time television? This is the first full-length volume to answer this question and summarize quantitative and qualitative studies on the portrayal of organizations, occupations and organizations behaviors on prime time television drama. The volume also offers a unique study of the demography of industries that have appeared on prime time over the last four decades of television, thus offering a historical perspective in addition to the authors' analysis of contemporary prime time programs.

Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises (Hardcover): Erdem OEngun, Nilufer Pembecioglu, Ugur... Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises (Hardcover)
Erdem OEngun, Nilufer Pembecioglu, Ugur Gunduz
R8,119 Discovery Miles 81 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Today, individuals and societies of the digital age are no longer constrained by conventional contexts, narratives, settings, and status; they are surrounded and guided by digital tools and applications leading to a digital revolution. That digital revolution changed the individual along with living styles and cultural and social relations among people. Moreover, these revolutionary changes and the increasing capabilities of smart devices have brought today's people a new kind of public sphere with questionable freedoms but also restraints in its digital dimensions. Now, it is possible to talk about the digital dimension and equivalence of all the concepts that are both individually and socially constructed in a new digital world. The Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises covers many different components engaged with digital world responsibilities. The authors assess the position, status, and reactions of the new citizen against future catastrophes. Covering topics such as epistemic divide, internet addiction, and new media technologies, this text serves as a cutting-edge resource for researchers, scholars, lawmakers, trainers, instructional designers, university libraries, professors, students, and academicians.

New Foundations for a Science of Text and Discourse - Cognition, Communication, and the Freedom of Access to Knowledge and... New Foundations for a Science of Text and Discourse - Cognition, Communication, and the Freedom of Access to Knowledge and Society (Hardcover)
Robert De Beaugrande
R2,896 Discovery Miles 28 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A magnum opus in the now vast domain of discourse studies, whose history, methods, and subdomains mobody knows as well as Robert de Beugrande. No other book in the humanities and social sciences today integrates such encylopedic knowledge into a thoroughly transdisciplinary, international, intercultural, and critical program. For all advanced students of discourse, this book should be their major mentor, guide, and compendium of research." -Teun A. van Dijk, University of Amsterdam and Editor of the journals Text and Discourse and Society "Professor de Beugrande has been one of the most influential scholars in text linguistics since he helped to found it as a discipline. He commands a large panorama of knowledge and brings this learning to bear on a variety of topics, giving fresh insights and new dimensions. In his latest book, he ranges over linguistic, educational, and cultural disciplines in order to synthesize an important framework within which text and discourse can be understood in new ways." -John Sinclair, Birmingham University and Editor-in-Chief of Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary

Recontextualizing Humor - Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor (Hardcover): Villy Tsakona Recontextualizing Humor - Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor (Hardcover)
Villy Tsakona
R3,755 Discovery Miles 37 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Humor may surface in numerous and diverse contexts, which at the same time determine how humor works, its form, and its functions and consequences for interlocutors. Adopting a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, this study is aligned with approaches to humor exploring the variety of humorous genres, the wide range of sociopragmatic functions of humor, and the more or less dissimilar perceptions speakers may have concerning what humor is, what it means, and how it works. The chapters of this book propose a new theoretical approach to the analysis of humor by bringing context into focus. Furthermore, the study explores how we can teach about humor within a critical literacy framework creating classroom space for everyday humorous texts that are part of students' social realities, and simultaneously taking into account that humor may yield multiple, disparaging, and often conflicting interpretations. This book is intended to appeal to humor researchers from various disciplines (such as linguistics, media studies, cultural studies, literary studies, sociology, anthropology, folklore) as well as to professionals or researchers in education.

Empires of Entertainment - Deregulation and the Media Industries, 1980-1996 (Hardcover, New): Jennifer Holt Empires of Entertainment - Deregulation and the Media Industries, 1980-1996 (Hardcover, New)
Jennifer Holt
R3,163 Discovery Miles 31 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Empires of Entertainment integrates legal, regulatory, industrial, and political histories to chronicle the dramatic transformation within the media industries between 1980 and 1996. As film, broadcast, and cable grew from fundamentally separate industries to interconnected, synergistic components of global media conglomerates, the concepts of vertical and horizontal integration were redesigned. The parameters and boundaries of market concentration, consolidation, and government scrutiny began to shift as America's politics changed under the Reagan administration. Through the use of case studies that highlight key moments in this transformation, Jennifer Holt explores the politics of deregulation, the reinterpretation of antitrust law, and lasting modifications in the media landscape. Holt skillfully expands the conventional models and boundaries of media history. A fundamental part of her argument is that these media industries have been intertwined for decades and, as such, cannot be considered separately. Instead, film, cable and broadcast must be understood in relation to one another, as critical components of a common history. Empires of Entertainment is a unique account of deregulation and its impact on political economy, industrial strategies, and media culture at the end of the twentieth century.

Health Communication - Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health (Hardcover): D.Lawrence Kincaid, Phyllis Piotrow,... Health Communication - Lessons from Family Planning and Reproductive Health (Hardcover)
D.Lawrence Kincaid, Phyllis Piotrow, Jose Rimon, Ward Rinehart
R2,800 Discovery Miles 28 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Effective communication is the key to encouraging healthy behavior. Documenting a revolution in both theory and practice, Johns Hopkins University experts show that communication leads the way to healthy reproductive health and family planning behavior. They explain why communication makes so much difference and how communication programs can be made to work. This book presents a compilation of lessons learned by the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs and its partners over 15 years of developing and implementing family planning communication projects campaigns in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Near East. An introductory essay provides an overview of family planning and communication worldwide and outlines the role of theory-based communication programs. The main part of the book presents lessons learned in the field about the process of designing and carrying out family planning communication projects. More than 60 lessons are presented, with descriptions and analysis of projects illustrating each lesson. A final essay explores the current and future challenges confronting family planning educators and other public health communicators.

The Diversity of Irony (Hardcover): Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston The Diversity of Irony (Hardcover)
Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston
R3,763 Discovery Miles 37 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole. The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony's diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.

Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume 8 (Hardcover): Brenda Dervin Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume 8 (Hardcover)
Brenda Dervin
R2,798 Discovery Miles 27 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mediatization of Communication (Hardcover, Digital original): Knut Lundby Mediatization of Communication (Hardcover, Digital original)
Knut Lundby
R7,051 Discovery Miles 70 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential to understand contemporary trends and transformations. "Mediatization" characterizes changes in practices, cultures and institutions in media-saturated societies, thus denoting transformations of these societies themselves. This volume offers 31 contributions by leading media and communication scholars from the humanities and social sciences, with different approaches to mediatization of communication. The chapters span from how mediatization meets climate change and contribute to globalization to questions on life and death in mediatized settings. The book deals with mass media as well as communication with networked, digital media. The topic of this volume makes a valuable contribution to the understanding of contemporary processes of social, cultural and political changes. The handbook provides the reader with the most current state of mediatization research.

The Presidential Campaign Film - A Critical History (Hardcover, New): Joanne Morreale The Presidential Campaign Film - A Critical History (Hardcover, New)
Joanne Morreale
R2,771 Discovery Miles 27 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Morreale traces the development of the documentary films produced for presidential candidates from Calvin Coolidge in 1923 to George Bush and Bill Clinton in 1992. The work provides insight into today's visually oriented presidential campaign by analyzing the production of candidates' images as the films evolve from classical to modern forms. Campaign films are usually overlooked by campaign scholars, yet they provide the fullest available visual portrait of a candidate during a campaign, they encapsulate persuasive appeals and strategies, and they illustrate Republican and Democratic candidates' different approaches to mediated communication. Morreale concludes that presidential campaign films provide a lens through which we can view both changes and continuities in American politics and culture. Recommended for scholars and students of communication, political science, and history.

Communication and Information Technologies Annual - Digital Distinctions & Inequalities (Hardcover): Laura Robinson, Shelia R.... Communication and Information Technologies Annual - Digital Distinctions & Inequalities (Hardcover)
Laura Robinson, Shelia R. Cotten, Jeremy Schulz, Apryl Williams, Timothy M. Hale
R4,027 Discovery Miles 40 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 10 of the Communication and Information Technologies Annual, Digital Distinctions & Inequalities, brings together nine studies of this increasingly important form of inequality. Drawn from four continents, the research provides a global overview of the current state of the field in different cultural contexts. As a whole, the volume illuminates the complexities of digital inequalities as they are manifested in groups and societies EURO"even when access is widespread. In their depth and breadth, the volume's contributions provide an indispensable guide to emergent forms of digital inequality as it rapidly evolves.

Civic Discourse and Digital Age Communications in the Middle East (Hardcover): Hussein Y. Amin, Leo A. Gher Civic Discourse and Digital Age Communications in the Middle East (Hardcover)
Hussein Y. Amin, Leo A. Gher
R2,805 Discovery Miles 28 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work is a collection of the best research reports and essays gathered globally by the editors over a three-year period. World-renowned experts from the Arab region as well as the West have authored most of the chapters. Seven sections divide the text, and each investigates compelling, timely questions for today's communication professionals. Because of its focus on communications and new media, this volume may be used at colleges and universities worldwide. It will impact numerous academic disciplines and the professional world as well. A wide range of curricula may adopt the text as supplementary reading for courses in political science, speech and rhetoric, public relations, sociology, communications, journalism, diplomacy and government.

Strategic Climate Change Communications - Effective Approaches to Fighting Climate Denial (Paperback): Jasper Colin Fessmann Strategic Climate Change Communications - Effective Approaches to Fighting Climate Denial (Paperback)
Jasper Colin Fessmann
R1,240 Discovery Miles 12 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dynamics of Writing Review - Opportunities for Growth and Change in the Workplace (Hardcover): Susan M. Katz The Dynamics of Writing Review - Opportunities for Growth and Change in the Workplace (Hardcover)
Susan M. Katz
R2,205 Discovery Miles 22 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An examination of the dynamics of writing review. Areas addressed include: learning to write in organizations; writing review as an opportunity for socialization; writing review as an opportunity for individuation; and implications for future research.

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