This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective on political, technological, psychological, cultural and economic aspects of media and communications on the international scene.
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While film and television seem to be closely allied screen media, our feature films and television series have seldom been successfully adapted across those screens. In fact, rather than functioning as portals, those allied media often seem, quite literally, screens that filter …
This volume designates a shift within posthumanistic media studies that dissolves the concept of media into a network of operations, that reproduce, displace, process and reflect the distinctions that are fundamental for a given culture. It seems that we need to forget our tradi…
Television studies must now address a complex environment where change has been vigorous but uneven, and where local and national conditions vary significantly. Globalizing media industries, deregulatory policy regimes, the multiplication, convergence and trade in media formats,…
Why are the fundamentals of education apparently so little changed in our era of digital technology? Is their obstinate persistence evidence of resilience or obsolescence? Such questions can best be answered not by imagining an uncertain high-tech future, but by examining a well…
A comprehensive collection that brings together new writings by some of the most respected canonical and contemporary media studies scholars. The result is an overview of the theories and methodologies that have produced this most interdisciplinary of fields. Leading essayists …
In this volume, an international group of leading scholars revisits Rudolf Arnheim' s legacy for film and media studies. The contributors bring Arnheim' s later work on the visual arts to bear on film and media, while also reassessing the implications of his film theory to help …
This is the second volume of Melvin Lasky's study in communications and contemporary language. The first volume focused on the comparative styles and prejudices of mainstream American and British newspapers, and analysed their systematic debasement in the face of obligatory plat…
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Argues that HBO, as part of the leading edge of television, is at the center of television studies' interests in market positioning, style, content, technology, and political economy. This book gives readers a space wherein they find sustained investigations and varied responses…
Internet trolls live to upset as many people as possible, using all the technical and psychological tools at their disposal. They gleefully whip the media into a frenzy over a fake teen drug crisis; they post offensive messages on Facebook memorial pages, traumatizing grief-stri…
This book explores the idea of the poetic in radio and sound as well as the concept of pure sound as poetry, both historically and within a contemporary perspective, examining examples of makers and works internationally. The work examines the development of poetic forms in soun…