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Electrophoresis '81 - Advanced methods, biochemical and clinical applications. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Electrophoresis, Charleston, SC, April 7-10, 1981. [held in conjunction with the first annual meeting of the Electrophoresis Society] (Hardcover, Reprint 2019)
Robert C. Allen, Philippe Arnaud, 1981, Charleston, SC> International Conference on Electrophoresis <3, Electrophoresis Society
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"The Television Studies Reader" brings together key writings in the
growing field of television studies, providing an invaluable
overview of the development of the field, and addressing issues of
industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and
representation.
The "Reader" charts the ways in which television and television
studies are being redefined to include new and "alternative" forms
and technologies such as cable television, direct satellite/digital
broadcasting, home video, video art, video/digital applications on
the internet, interactive TV, video surveillance, and converging
media. It explores the recent boom in reality TV and includes
discussions of television programs and practices from around the
world. The "Reader" comprises 44 foundational and cutting-edge
articles from an international cast of contributors, situating the
study of television in relation both to its global reach and to the
many and varied local contexts of its production and reception, and
laying out a wide array of approaches to the study of the changing
phenomenon of television around the world. The essays are organized
in seven themed sections: * Institutions of Television * Spaces of
Television * Modes of Television * Making Television * Social
Representation on Television * Watching Television * Transforming
Television Key features include a comprehensive bibliography and a
list of further reading.
A systematic consideration of commercial television in the light of
contemporary culture, literary and cinematic criticism, the essays
in this book address the place of semiotics, narrative theory,
reception theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist
criticism and British cultural studies in the critical analysis of
television. The second edition includes two new chapters discussing
postmodernism and television theory: "Television and Modernism" and
"Relations of Discourse". The original essays have been
substantially revised and updated in the light of contemporary
theory, and refer to recent programmes such as "Twin Peaks" as well
as being illustrated with more than 50 TV stills. Together they aim
to open up new directions for television studies now and in the
future. Contributors to the volume include: Robert C. Allen, James
Collins, Jane Feuer, John Fiske, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, James Hay,
E. Ann Kaplan, Sarah Ruth Kozloff, Ellen Seiter and Mimi White.
This book should be of interest to undergraduates in media and
communication studies, cultural studies and film studies.
Why did Europe experience industrialisation and modern economic
growth before China, India or Japan? This is one of the most
fundamental questions in Economic History and one that has provoked
intense debate. The main concern of this book is to determine when
the gap in living standards between the East and the West emerged.
The established view, dating back to Adam Smith, is that the gap
emerged long before the Industrial Revolution, perhaps thousands of
years ago. While this view has been called into question - and many
of the explanations for it greatly undermined - the issue demands
much more empirical research than has yet been undertaken. How did
the standard of living in Europe and Asia compare in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries? The present book proposes an
answer by considering evidence of three sorts. The first is
economic, focusing on income, food production, wages, and prices.
The second is demographic, comparing heights, life expectancy and
other demographic indicators. The third combines the economic and
demographic by investigating the demographic vulnerability to
short-term economic stress. The contributions show the highly
complex and diverse pattern of the standard of living in the
pre-industrial period. The general picture emerging is not one of a
great divergence between East and West, but instead one of
considerable similarities. These similarities not only pertain to
economic aspects of standard of living but also to demography and
the sensitivity to economic fluctuations. In addition to these
similarities, there were also pronounced regional differences
within the East and within the West - regional differences that in
many cases were larger than the average differences between Europe
and Asia. This clearly highlights the importance of analysing
several dimensions of the standard of living, as well as the danger
of neglecting regional, social, and household specific differences
when assessing the level of well-being in the past.
A nickelodeon screening a Charlie Chaplin silent classic, the
downtown arthouse cinemas that made Antonioni and Cassavetes
household names, the modern suburban megaplex and its sold-out
Friday night blockbuster: "how" American and global audiences have
viewed movies is as rich a part of cinematic history as "what"
we've seen on the silver screen. "Going to the Movies" considers
the implications of this social and cultural history through an
analysis of the diverse historical and geographical circumstances
in which audiences have viewed American cinema. Featuring a
distinguished group of film scholars--including Richard Abel,
Annette Kuhn, Jane Gaines, and Thomas Doherty--whose interests
range broadly across time and place, this volume analyzes the role
of movie theatres in local communities, the links between film and
other entertainment media, non-theatrical exhibition, and trends
arising from the globalization of audiences. Emphasizing moviegoing
outside of the northeastern United States, as well as the
complexities of race in relation to cinema attendance, "Going to
the Movies "appeals to the global citizen of cinema--locating the
moviegoing experience in its appeal to the heart and mind of the
audience, whether it's located in a South African shanty town or
the screening room of a Hollywood production lot.
The Television Studies Reader brings together key writings in the expanding field of television studies, providing an overview of the discipline and addressing issues of industry, genre, audiences, production and ownership, and representation.
The Reader charts the ways in which television and television studies are being redefined by new and 'alternative' ways of producing, broadcasting and watching TV, such as cable, satellite and digital broadcasting, home video, internet broadcasting, and interactive TV, as well as exploring the recent boom in genres such as reality TV and docusoaps. It brings together articles from leading international scholars to provide perspectives on television programmes and practices from around the world, acknowledging both television's status as a global medium and the many and varied local contexts of its production and reception. Articles are grouped in seven themed sections, each with an introduction by the editors:
*Institutions of Television *Spaces of Television *Modes of Television *Making Television *Social Representation on Television *Watching Television *Transforming Television
To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world. To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity of television soap operas and their reception in other cultures, covering soap production and soap watching in the U.S., Asia, Europe, Australia and Latin America. The contributors consider the nature of soap as a media text, the history of the serial narrative as a form, and the role of the soap opera in the development of feminist media criticism. To Be Continued... presents the first scholarly examination of soap opera as global media phenomenon.
To Be Continued... explores the world's most popular form of
television drama; the soap opera. From Denver to Delhi, Moscow to
Manchester, audiences eagerly await the next episode of As the
World Turns, The Rich Also Weep or Eastenders. But the popularity
of soap operas in Britain and the US pales in comparison to the
role that they play in media cultures in other parts of the world.
To Be Continued... investigates both the cultural specificity of
television soap operas and their reception in other cultures,
covering soap production and soap watching in the U.S., Asia,
Europe, Australia and Latin America. The contributors consider the
nature of soap as a media text, the history of the serial narrative
as a form, and the role of the soap opera in the development of
feminist media criticism.
To Be Continued... presents the first scholarly examination of soap
opera as global media phenomenon.
A systematic consideration of commercial television in the light of
contemporary culture, literary and cinematic criticism, the essays
in this book address the place of semiotics, narrative theory,
reception theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis, feminist
criticism and British cultural studies in the critical analysis of
television. The second edition includes two new chapters discussing
postmodernism and television theory: "Television and Modernism" and
"Relations of Discourse". The original essays have been
substantially revised and updated in the light of contemporary
theory, and refer to recent programmes such as "Twin Peaks" as well
as being illustrated with more than 50 TV stills. Together they aim
to open up new directions for television studies now and in the
future. Contributors to the volume include: Robert C. Allen, James
Collins, Jane Feuer, John Fiske, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, James Hay,
E. Ann Kaplan, Sarah Ruth Kozloff, Ellen Seiter and Mimi White.
This book should be of interest to undergraduates in media and
communication studies, cultural studies and film studies.
A nickelodeon screening a Charlie Chaplin silent classic, the
downtown arthouse cinemas that made Antonioni and Cassavetes
household names, the modern suburban megaplex and its sold-out
Friday night blockbuster: "how" American and global audiences have
viewed movies is as rich a part of cinematic history as "what"
we've seen on the silver screen. "Going to the Movies" considers
the implications of this social and cultural history through an
analysis of the diverse historical and geographical circumstances
in which audiences have viewed American cinema. Featuring a
distinguished group of film scholars--including Richard Abel,
Annette Kuhn, Jane Gaines, and Thomas Doherty--whose interests
range broadly across time and place, this volume analyzes the role
of movie theatres in local communities, the links between film and
other entertainment media, non-theatrical exhibition, and trends
arising from the globalization of audiences. Emphasizing moviegoing
outside of the northeastern United States, as well as the
complexities of race in relation to cinema attendance, "Going to
the Movies "appeals to the global citizen of cinema--locating the
moviegoing experience in its appeal to the heart and mind of the
audience, whether it's located in a South African shanty town or
the screening room of a Hollywood production lot.
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century
Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new
account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution
was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high
and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in
Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the
industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the
substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely
profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of
pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since
more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only
when British engineers made these new technologies more
cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial
revolution would spread around the world.
Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income
differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since
Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between
geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy
has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial
revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of
globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to
form a club of rich nations by pursuing four polices-creating a
national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in
transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their
fledgling industries from British competition, banks to stabilize
the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and mass
education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these
countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever
richer. Before the Industrial Revolution, most of the world's
manufacturing was done in Asia, but industries from Casablanca to
Canton were destroyed by western competition in the nineteenth
century, and Asia was transformed into 'underdeveloped countries'
specializing in agriculture. The spread of economic development has
been slow since modern technology was invented to fit the needs of
rich countries and is ill adapted to the economic and geographical
conditions of poor countries. A few countries - Japan, Soviet
Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China - have, nonetheless,
caught up with the West through creative responses to the
technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that
has achieved rapid growth through investment coordination. Whether
other countries can emulate the success of East Asia is a challenge
for the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions
series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in
almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect
way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors
combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to
make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history
that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth
centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With
the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity
boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines
were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the
construction of the first railways, a great network of arteries
feeding the factories. Cities grew as people shifted from
agriculture to industry and commerce. Hand in hand with the growth
of cities came rising levels of pollution and disease. Many people
lost their jobs to the new machinery, whilst working conditions in
the factories were grim and pay was low. As the middle classes
prospered, social unrest ran through the working classes, and the
exploitation of workers led to the growth of trade unions and
protest movements. In this Very Short Introduction, Robert C. Allen
analyzes the key features of the Industrial Revolution in Britain,
and the spread of industrialization to other countries. He
considers the factors that combined to enable industrialization at
this time, including Britain's position as a global commercial
empire, and discusses the changes in technology and business
organization, and their impact on different social classes and
groups. Introducing the 'winners' and the 'losers' of the
Industrial Revolution, he looks at how the changes were reflected
in evolving government policies, and what contribution these made
to the economic transformation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
This book traces the shift from medieval to modern institutions in
English agriculture. It explores their importance for productivity
growth, income distribution, and the contribution of agriculture to
British economic development. Robert C. Allen's pioneering study
shows that, contrary to the assumption of many historians,
small-scale farmers in the open-field system were responsible for a
considerable proportion of the productivity growth achieved between
the middle ages and the nineteenth century. The process of
enclosure and the replacement of these yeomen by large-scale tenant
farming relying on wage labour had relatively little impact on the
agricultural contribution to economic development during the
industrial revolution. Enclosures and large farms enriched
landowners without benefiting consumers, workers, or farmers.
Thoroughly grounded in the archival sources, and underpinned by
rigorous economic analysis, Enclosure and the Yeoman is a scholarly
and challenging reassessment of the history of English agriculture.
It will be indispensable reading for all historians concerned with
the making of modern Britain.
To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet
communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to say what
many consider obvious. Here, in a startling reinterpretation,
Robert Allen argues that the USSR was one of the most successful
developing economies of the twentieth century. He reaches this
provocative conclusion by recalculating national consumption and
using economic, demographic, and computer simulation models to
address the "what if" questions central to Soviet history.
Moreover, by comparing Soviet performance not only with advanced
but with less developed countries, he provides a meaningful context
for its evaluation.
Although the Russian economy began to develop in the late
nineteenth century based on wheat exports, modern economic growth
proved elusive. But growth was rapid from 1928 to the 1970s--due to
successful Five Year Plans. Notwithstanding the horrors of
Stalinism, the building of heavy industry accelerated growth during
the 1930s and raised living standards, especially for the many
peasants who moved to cities. A sudden drop in fertility due to the
education of women and their employment outside the home also
facilitated growth.
While highlighting the previously underemphasized achievements
of Soviet planning, "Farm to Factory" also shows, through
methodical analysis set in fluid prose, that Stalin's worst
excesses--such as the bloody collectivization of agriculture--did
little to spur growth. Economic development stagnated after 1970,
as vital resources were diverted to the military and as a Soviet
leadership lacking in original thought pursued wasteful
investments.
Why did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century
Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new
account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution
was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high
and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in
Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the
industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the
substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely
profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of
pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since
more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only
when British engineers made these new technologies more
cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial
revolution would spread around the world.
Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as
popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming
cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial
female troupe of ""British Blondes"" brought modern burlesque to
the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their
impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of
masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the
condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's
rights campaigners. Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues,
because it inverted the ""normal"" world of middle-class social
relations and transgressed norms of ""proper"" feminine behavior
and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class
audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of
working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer
""lost"" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the
display of her body. Locating burlesque within the context of both
the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of
gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a
fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular
entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have
been contained and their threats defused. |Robert Allen's
compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular
entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural
phenomenon. Locating burlesque within the context of both the
social transformation of American theater and its patterns of
gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a
fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular
entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have
been contained and their threats defused.
From "Ma Perkins" and "One Man's Family" in the 1930s to "All My
Children" in the 1980s, the soap opera has capture the imagination
of millions of American men and women of all ages. In "Speaking of
Soap Operas," Robert Allen undertakes a reexamination of the
production and consumption of soap operas through the use of a
unique investigatory model based on contemporary poetics and
reader-response theory.
Although a considerable amount of research has been conducted on
these programs, Allen argues that soap operas remain a phenomenon
about which much is said but little is known. Soap operas are
different from most other media programming -- they appear
formless, refuse to end, require little work on the part of the
viewer, and bear no recognizable marks of authorship. For these and
other reasons, soap operas resist explanation from both traditional
aesthetic and empiricist social science perspectives.
The daytime dramatic serials generate nearly a billion dollars in
revenue each year for the three commercial networks. Allen
discusses in detail the economic and institutional functions of
these programs in addition to the context of their production. He
also considers the historical development of the soap opera as
advertising vehicle, narrative structure and "women's fiction."
"Speaking of Soap Operas" is based on the author's own experiences
as a soap opera viewer; extensive interviews with soap opera
writers, producers, and actors; and the papers of Irna Phillips,
creator of dozens of successful ratio and television soap operas.
Drawing also upon trade publications, popular periodicals, and
broadcast archives, this work is an important contribution to the
field of mass communication.
Since its original publication in 1987, "Channels of Discourse" has
provided the most comprehensive consideration of commercial
television, drawing on insights provided by the major strands of
contemporary criticism: semiotics, narrative theory, reception
theory, genre theory, ideological analysis, psychoanalysis,
feminist criticism, and British cultural studies.
The second edition features a new introduction by Robert Allen that
includes a discussion of the political economy of commercial
television. Two new essays have been added--one an assessment of
postmodernism and television, the other an analysis of convergence
and divergence among the essays--and the original essays have been
substantially revised and updated with an international audience in
mind. Sixty-one new television stills illustrate the text.
Each essay lays out the general tenets of its particular approach,
discusses television as an object of analysis within that critical
framework, and provides extended examples of the types of analysis
produced by that critical approach. Case studies range from "Rescue
911" and "Twin Peaks" to soap operas, music videos, game shows,
talk shows, and commericals.
"Channels of Discourse, Reassembled" suggests new ways of
understanding relationships among television programs, between
viewing pleasure and narrative structure, and between the world in
front of the television set and that represented on the screen. The
collection also addresses the qualities of popular television that
traditional aesthetics and quantitative media research have failed
to treat satisfactorily, including its seriality, mass production,
and extraordinary popularity.
The contributors are Robert C. Allen, Jim Collins, Jane Feuer, John
Fiske, Sandy Flitterman-Lewis, James Hay, E. Ann Kaplan, Sarah
Kozloff, Ellen Seiter, and Mimi White.
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