In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews, and television recordings, Evans challenges the idea that Soviet mass culture in the Brezhnev era was dull and formulaic. Tracing the emergence of play, conflict, and…
The term network is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word s ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain. "Network Aesthetics," in exploring how popular culture mediates our experience with i…
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eager…
The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour. The zeal with which television executives seize on the easily replicated formats is matched equally by the eager…
The Routledge Music and Screen Media Series offers edited collections of original essays on music, in particular genres of cinema, television, video games, and new media. These edited essay collections are written for an interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars of mus…
The Routledge Music and Screen Media Series offers edited collections of original essays on music, in particular genres of cinema, television, video games, and new media. These edited essay collections are written for an interdisciplinary audience of students and scholars of mus…
Music in Television is a collection of essays examining television's production of meaning through music in terms of historical contexts, institutional frameworks, broadcast practices, technologies, and aesthetics. It presents the reader with overviews of major genres and issues…
"Is America's racial and ethnic diversity reflected in its broadcasting? The last decade of the twentieth century witnessed a maturing of ethnic communities in the United States and the emergence of multiculturalism as a dominant field of discourse in legal, educational, and cul…
