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DEFA - East German Cinema 1946-1992 (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Sean Allan, John Sandford DEFA - East German Cinema 1946-1992 (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Sean Allan, John Sandford
R2,847 Discovery Miles 28 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

East German culture has not lost any of its fascination for western scholars, not even after unification. It is cinema in particular that continues to attract interest. This volume, the first one in English, traces the development of the main institution, the state-sponsored Deutsche Film Anstalt (DEFA), that was responsible for film production in the former GDR from 1946 and ceased to exist in 1992 Although largely ignored outside the former GDR, the DEFA produced a number of excellent films and scriptwriters that are examined here for the first time and presented to a wider readership. The themes covered by the contributors include the representation of fascism and anti-fascism in the cinema of the 1940s and 1950s, the conflicts between the state and the film-makers of the 1960s, and the social-political criticism in the 1970s and early 1980s. Other chapters focus on key issues such as the representation of women, the concept of "Heimat, " the reception of the classical heritage, documentary film-making before and after unification, and the relation of DEFA cinema to other European film traditions. The comprehensive bibliography and a list of research sources on East German cinema make this volume an indispensable tool for students and scholars of the media.

African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives - The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup (Hardcover): Tendai... African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives - The Legacy of the FIFA 2010 World Cup (Hardcover)
Tendai Chari, Nhamo A. Mhiripiri
R2,806 R1,905 Discovery Miles 19 050 Save R901 (32%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with deeper social, cultural and political currents.

Media Analytics - Understanding Media, Audiences, and Consumers in the 21st Century (Paperback): Ann Hollifield, Amy Jo Coffey Media Analytics - Understanding Media, Audiences, and Consumers in the 21st Century (Paperback)
Ann Hollifield, Amy Jo Coffey
R1,811 Discovery Miles 18 110 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This textbook takes a case study approach to media and audience analytics. Realizing the best way to understand analytics in the digital age is to practice it, the authors have created a collection of cases using data sets that present real and hypothetical scenarios for students to work through. Media Analytics introduces the key principles of media economics and management. It outlines how to interpret and present results, the principles of data visualization and storytelling and the basics of research design and sampling. Although shifting technology makes measurement and analytics a dynamic space, this book takes an evergreen, conceptual approach, reminding students to focus on the principles and foundations that will remain constant. Aimed at upper-level students in the fast-growing area of media analytics in a cross-platform world, students using this text will learn how to find the stories in the data and to present those stories in an engaging way to others. Instructor and Student Resources include an Instructor's Manual, discussion questions, short exercises and links to additional resources. They are available online at www.routledge.com/cw/hollifield.

Colour'd Shadows - Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (Hardcover, 2005... Colour'd Shadows - Contexts in Publishing, Printing, and Reading Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
T. Hoagwood, K. Ledbetter
R1,408 Discovery Miles 14 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book studies the print culture of the nineteenth century as it shaped the meanings and the cultural significance of literary works by women writers - Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Lady Blessington, Lady Morgan, Caroline Norton, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and others. Colour'd Shadows explains and interprets the physical forms of their books, the economics and politics of production and reception, and the cultural meanings of their literary work, showing how poems, literary annuals, engravings, commercial arrangements, the practices of women editors as well as writers, the politics of gender, the changing means of production, and women's literary relationships unfold in the medium of print and, more largely, the rapidly changing culture of the century.

History and the Media (Hardcover, 2004 ed.): D Cannadine History and the Media (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
D Cannadine
R3,090 Discovery Miles 30 900 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

History is everywhere in the media. Television viewers can spend every evening watching a different historian expound upon Empire, Witchcraft, the Civil War or Royal Mistresses or go to the cinema and watch reconstructions of the Second World War, American Civil War or Imperial China. Even current affairs reporting on television, radio or in newspapers implicitly or explicitly includes historical explanations. This book examines the boom in history in television and film, newspapers and radio and the constraints and opportunities it offers. Leading historians and high profile broadcasters, such as Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schama, Tristram Hunt, Ian Kershaw and David Puttnam, drawn on their personal experiences to explore the problems and highlights of representing history in the media.

Documentary (Hardcover): David Saunders Documentary (Hardcover)
David Saunders
R3,659 Discovery Miles 36 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dave Saunders? spirited introduction to documentary covers its history, cultural context and development, and the approaches, controversies and functions pertaining to non-fiction filmmaking. Saunders examines the many methods by which documentary conveys meaning, whilst exploring its differing societal purposes.

After a historical consideration of international documentary production, the author examines the impact of recent technological developments on the production, distribution and viewing of non-fiction. In addition, he explores the increasingly hazy distinctions between factual and dramatic formats, discussing ?reality television?, the ?docu-drama?, and less orthodox approaches including animated and fantastical representations of reality.

Documentary encompasses a broad range of academic discourse around non-fiction filmmaking, introducing readers to the key filmmakers, major scholars, central debates and critical ideas relating to the form. This wide-ranging guidebook features global releases from the 1920s through to 2009, and includes films such as:

  • Nanook of the North (1922)
  • The Man with the Movie Camera (1929)
  • Night Mail (1936)
  • Night and Fog (1955)
  • Primary (1960)
  • Roger and Me (1989)
  • Tarnation (2003)
  • My Winnipeg (2006)
  • Sicko (2007)
  • Waltz With Bashir (2008)
  • Say My Name (2009)
  • Anvil: The Story of Anvil (2009)
Media Ethics Beyond Borders - A Global Perspective (Hardcover): Stephen J. A Ward, Herman Wasserman Media Ethics Beyond Borders - A Global Perspective (Hardcover)
Stephen J. A Ward, Herman Wasserman
R4,493 Discovery Miles 44 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume explores the construction of an ethics for news media that is global in reach and impact. Essays by international media ethicists provide leading theoretical perspectives on major issues and applies the ideas to specific countries, contexts and problems, addressing such questions as: Are there universal values in journalism? How would a global media ethics do justice to the cultural, political, and economic differences around the world? Can a global ethic based on universal principles allow for diversity of media systems and cultural values? What should be the principles and norms of practice of global media ethics? The result is a rich source of ethical thought and analysis on questions raised by contemporary global media.

The Pictorial Turn (Hardcover): Neal Curtis The Pictorial Turn (Hardcover)
Neal Curtis
R4,501 Discovery Miles 45 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1992 W. J. T. Mitchell argued for a "pictorial turn" in the humanities, registering a renewed interest in and prevalence of pictures and images in what had been understood as an age of simulation, or an increasingly extensive and diverse visual culture. However, in what is often characterized as a society of the "spectacle" we still do not know exactly what pictures or images are, what their relation to language is, how they operate on observers and the world, how their history is to be understood, and what is to be done with or about them.

In this seminal collection of essays, the first to be devoted to the "pictorial turn," theorists from across the humanities and social sciences, representing the disciplines of art history, philosophy, geography, media studies, visual studies and anthropology, are brought together with a paleontologist and practising artists to consider amongst other things the relation between pictures and images, the power of landscape, the nature of political images, the status of images in the natural sciences, the "life" of images, and the pictorial uncanny. With these topics in mind, picture theory and iconology exceed in scope the objects of visual culture conventionally understood.

This book was published as a special issue of Culture, Theory and Critique.

Digital Advertising (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Andrew McStay Digital Advertising (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Andrew McStay
R3,988 Discovery Miles 39 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This core textbook addresses structural change in the advertising industry, its legal and political environment, and the ways in which people engage with advertising. Providing an assessment of the contemporary and emergent advertising techniques that drive the world's largest media companies, this second edition charts the scope of recent change at both analytical and creative levels. Accounting for a re-shaped advertising industry, this key text introduces the reader both to the practical make-up of digital advertising, and the theory needed to understand its history and future direction. Succinct and accessible, this is an ideal text for undergraduate courses in advertising, media studies, communications and marketing. This timely and engaging book is also an essential resource for academics and anyone interested in advertising and what funds modern media. New to this Edition: - Fully updated to account for the re-shaped advertising industry and transformed media landscape since the publication of the first edition - Added coverage of topics including: the creative uses of technology, novel modes of storytelling, adblocking, the pre-eminence of analytics and big data, privacy, growing interest in data about emotional life, and alarm about the role of artificial intelligence and automation in advertising - Increased number of case studies and analyses of campaigns

Emerging Trends in Indigenous Language Media, Communication, Gender, and Health (Hardcover): Kehinde Opeyemi Oyesomi, Abiodun... Emerging Trends in Indigenous Language Media, Communication, Gender, and Health (Hardcover)
Kehinde Opeyemi Oyesomi, Abiodun Salawu
R7,677 Discovery Miles 76 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The importance of communication in health-related matters cannot be overemphasized. Despite modern global advancements, indigenous communication methods assume a large part of health practices in rural regions throughout the world, including areas in Africa and Asia. Indigenous language remains one of the strongest means of communication and a vital function in local communities across the globe. Emerging Trends in Indigenous Language Media, Communication, Gender, and Health is a collection of innovative research that vitalizes, directs, and shapes scholarship and global understanding in the aforementioned areas and provides sustainable policy trajectory measures for indigenous language media and health advocacy. This book will provide a better global understanding of the significance indigenous language still has in modern society. While highlighting topics including digitalization, sustainability, and health education, this book is ideally designed for researchers, anthropologists, sociologists, advocates, medical practitioners, world health organizations, media professionals, government officials, policymakers, practitioners, academicians, and students.

Postdigital Aesthetics - Art, Computation And Design (Hardcover): D. Berry, M. Dieter Postdigital Aesthetics - Art, Computation And Design (Hardcover)
D. Berry, M. Dieter
R3,045 Discovery Miles 30 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Postdigital Aesthetics is a contribution to questions raised by our newly computational everyday lives and the aesthetics which reflect both the postdigital nature of this age, but also critical perspectives of a post-internet world.

War and Conflict Communication (Hardcover): Philip Seib War and Conflict Communication (Hardcover)
Philip Seib
R16,300 Discovery Miles 163 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The close and complex relationship between conflict and communication has been vividly illustrated in work spanning the writings of Homer and Thucydides to blogs bashed out on contemporary battlefields. And in recent decades there has been a huge growth in scholarly and popular interest in the subject. As serious research flourishes as never before, this new two-volume collection from Routledge's acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series has been assembled by the field's leading thinker to meet the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of cross-disciplinary literature.

Drawing on disparate, and sometimes less accessible, sources, the two volumes gather together canonical and the very best cutting-edge scholarship to cover a diverse range of key themes, including: the theory and reality of journalistic practice; the effects of conflict communication on the policy process; and the impact of technology on the very nature of war and conflict.

The collection also includes a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context. War and Conflict Communication is an essential work of reference and will be welcomed as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Global Impact of Media on Migration Issues (Hardcover): Nelson Okorie, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Juliet Wambui Macharia Global Impact of Media on Migration Issues (Hardcover)
Nelson Okorie, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Juliet Wambui Macharia
R7,644 Discovery Miles 76 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In today's culture, media outlets have as much influence on the general public as ever. Migration is an issue that has sparked commentary throughout the globe, leading to many dissimilar viewpoints. These news systems have the ability to convey mass messages regarding these disputes, which could lead to a wide range of socio-cultural implications depending on the intent and nature of these reports. Global Impact of Media on Migration Issues provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of media structures and implications of media institutions tackling migration issues and related problems. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as human trafficking, global peace, and modern slavery, this book is ideally designed for reporters, journalists, policymakers, government officials, communication specialists, industry professionals, students, and scholars seeking current research on the modern development of migration.

Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising - Dreams for Sale (Hardcover): Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, Gail W. Pieper Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising - Dreams for Sale (Hardcover)
Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, Gail W. Pieper; Contributions by John Kloos, Jean-Marie Kauth, …
R3,671 Discovery Miles 36 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The study of advertising and its treatment of utopian appeal enhance our understanding of consumer culture. By looking into the advertising page, we also look into consumers' desires and the process by which these desires are reshaped and rechanneled through images and narratives created solely for the purpose of making a sale. Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising: Dreams for Sale, edited by Luigi Manca, Alessandra Manca, and Gail W. Pieper, is a collection of essays which gather a host of academicians from a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, psychology, literature, fine arts, history, religious studies, communication, and media studies. Through their expansive disciplinary expertise, the contributors bring unique insights to the analysis of the advertising page. The collection's cross-disciplinary investigation also examines gender images and narratives which, in the advertising page, are frequently associated with utopian fantasies. The analyses offered in Utopian Images and Narratives in Advertising will appeal to any scholar or student engaged in mass media, communication, and the effect of advertising and consumerism on individuals and cultures.

Aesthetic Journalism - How to Inform Without Informing (Paperback): Alfredo Cramerotti Aesthetic Journalism - How to Inform Without Informing (Paperback)
Alfredo Cramerotti
R857 Discovery Miles 8 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the art world eagerly embraces a journalistic approach, Aesthetic Journalism explores why contemporary art exhibitions often consist of interviews, documentaries and reportage. This new mode of journalism is grasping more and more space in modern culture and Cramerotti probes the current merge of art with the sphere of investigative journalism. The attempt to map this field, here defined as 'Aesthetic Journalism', challenges, with clear language, the definitions of both art and journalism, and addresses a new mode of information from the point of view of the reader and viewer. The book explores how the production of truth has shifted from the domain of the news media to that of art and aestheticism. With examples and theories from within the contemporary art and journalistic-scape, the book questions the very foundations of journalism. Aesthethic Journalism suggests future developments of this new relationship between art and documentary journalism, offering itself as a useful tool to audiences, scholars, producers and critics alike.

Studies in Communication, Volume 1 - Studies in Mass Communication and Technology (Hardcover): S Thomas Studies in Communication, Volume 1 - Studies in Mass Communication and Technology (Hardcover)
S Thomas
R2,542 Discovery Miles 25 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Postmodernism in the Cinema (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Cristina Degli-Esposti Postmodernism in the Cinema (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Cristina Degli-Esposti
R2,840 Discovery Miles 28 400 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although "Postmodernism" has been a widely used catch word and its concept extensively discussed in philosophy, political thought, and the arts, many scholars still feel uneasy about it

Despite the fact that the concept can he traced back to Arnold Toynbee's 1939 edition of A Study of History, or even back into the nineteenth century, its amorphous nature continues to confound many scholars, not least because there are not one but several kinds of postmodernism, each one pointing to different states of questioning and to diverse ways of remembering, interpreting, and representing. This anthology makes a significant contribution to the current debate in that it offers sophisticated and multi-faceted discussions of a number of key issues in relation to cinema such as auteurism, national cinemas, metacinema, the parodic, history, and colonization.

Television and Terror - Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (Hardcover): A. Hoskins, B. O'Loughlin Television and Terror - Conflicting Times and the Crisis of News Discourse (Hardcover)
A. Hoskins, B. O'Loughlin
R1,405 Discovery Miles 14 050 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The advent of the twenty-first century was marked by a succession of conflicts and catastrophes that demanded unrestrained journalism. Yet, the principle mass news medium of television has become torn between strategies of containment and the amplification of security threats. Hoskins and O'Loughlin demonstrate that television, tarnished by its economy of liveness and its default impositions of immediacy, brevity and simultaneity, fails to deliver a critical and consistent exposition adequate to our conflicting times.

Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market (Hardcover): R. Keat Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market (Hardcover)
R. Keat
R2,648 Discovery Miles 26 480 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Russell Keat presents a theoretical challenge to extensions of the market domain and the introduction of commercially modelled forms of organization in areas such as broadcasting, the arts and academic research. Drawing on Walzer's pluralistic conception of social goods, and MacIntyre's account of social practices, he argues that cultural activities of this kind, and the institutions within which they are conducted, can best make their distinctive contributions to human well being when protected from the damaging effects of an unbounded market.

Television Studies: The Basics (Hardcover): Toby Miller Television Studies: The Basics (Hardcover)
Toby Miller
R3,071 Discovery Miles 30 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Television Studies: The Basics is a lively introduction to the study of a powerful medium. It examines the major theories and debates surrounding production and reception over the years and considers both the role and future of television.

Topics covered include:

  • broadcasting history and technology
  • institutions and ownership
  • genre and content
  • audiences

Complete with global case studies, questions for discussion, and suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable and engaging resource for those interested in how to study television.

Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms - Field Testing the Future (Paperback): Dan Pacheco Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms - Field Testing the Future (Paperback)
Dan Pacheco
R1,161 Discovery Miles 11 610 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms teaches students in media tracks - journalism, advertising, film and public relations - how to independently field-test and evaluate emerging technologies that could impact how media is produced, consumed and monetized in the future. Taking a unique trial-and-error approach, the author encourages students to go against their desire for perfection and instead plunge into exercises with the full expectation that they will "fail" many times before they succeed. Through focused assignments, this book provides pointers on how to familiarise yourself with current technology including extended reality (XR, VR, AR, and MR), open-source coding, photogrammetry, aerial imagery using drones, automation, and artificial intelligence. Readers are invited to create and test their own hypotheses and work outside of their comfort zones to reach conclusions on how a technology could enhance storytelling for a particular audience. Through experimentation guided by workbook exercises, case studies from students and media practitioners, practical tips and reminders about ethical decision-making, students will learn how to work like explorers and civic hackers to enact change in the media landscape. Readers are invited to share their final field test results online through the book's companion website and social media channels, where the author will post links to further reading, coding templates for simple projects, and short video tutorials. Built around an established course being taught by the author and informed by over 20 years' experience in media industries, Experimenting with Emerging Media Platforms is essential reading for aspiring media professionals and students undertaking courses such as Emerging Media, Media Innovation and Media Startups. For additional resources, please see the companion website: https://www.emergingmediaplatforms.com/

War and the Media - Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed): Philip M. Taylor War and the Media - Propaganda and Persuasion in the Gulf War (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)
Philip M. Taylor
R772 Discovery Miles 7 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work is about how the allied coalition and the governement of Iraq attempted to influence, utilize and manipulate the ways in which the Gulf War was presented by the media to the outside world between mid January and early March 1991. It is only in part about the media coverage of the conflict per se since the book concentrates on the point at which the policy and the presentation, the war and the media, came together on both sides to form propaganda. It also embraces, as far as it is possible to do so, a preliminary examination of psychological warfare method employed during the war.

Bad News (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg Philo,... Bad News (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, …
R3,687 R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Save R2,016 (55%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.

The authors undertook an exhaustive monitoring of all television broadcasts over 6 months, from January to June 1975, with particular focus upon industrial news broadcasts, the TUC, strikes and industrial action, business and economic affairs.

Their analysis showed how television news favours certain individuals by giving them more time and status. But their findings did not merely deny the neutrality of the news, they gave a new insight into the picture of industrial society that TV news constructs.

More Bad News (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, Gregg... More Bad News (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge, John Hewitt, Jean Hart, …
R5,778 Discovery Miles 57 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as balanced and factual news reporting is produced from a highly partial viewpoint.


Focusing on the British economy in crisis, and its thematic linkage with the Social Contract during the first four months of 1975, the book deals with three main levels of activity: the story, the language and the visuals. As the book unpacks each level of routine news coverage a picture emerges which has the surface appearance of neutrality and balance but is in fact highly partial and restricted

Hearts Exposed - Transplants and the Media in 1960s Britain (Hardcover): A Nathoo Hearts Exposed - Transplants and the Media in 1960s Britain (Hardcover)
A Nathoo
R1,412 Discovery Miles 14 120 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book examines the relationship between medicine and the media in 1960s Britain, when the first wave of heart transplants were as much media as medical events and marked a decisive period in post-war history. Public trust in their doctors was significantly undermined, and medicine was held publicly to account as never before.

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