Korea is currently witnessing huge social change with unprecedented divorce rates and the disintegration of the traditional family system. Fusing audience research and ethnography, Women, Television and Everyday Life in Korea presents a compelling account of women's changing liv…
Ambient television: visual culture and public space
Ambient television: visual culture and public space
Ambient television: visual culture and public space
Although we tend to think of television primarily as a household fixture, TV monitors outside the home are widespread: in bars, laudromats, and stores; conveying flight arrival and departure times in airports; uniting crowds at sports events and allaying boredom in waiting rooms…
Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: Television Animation and Infrastructure Ecology -- Part I. The Screen-Brain Apparatus -- 1. Population Seizure -- 2. Neurosciences and Television -- 3. This Stuff Called Blink -- 4. A Thousand Tiny Blackouts -- Part I…
"Examining the cultural impact of K-drama and its fandom, this collection of new essays focuses on the formation and transformation of identities in the context of regional and global dynamics and differing values and beliefs among social groups. Contributors discuss such popula…
"China is the world's largest market for cultural products, including films produced abroad in the USA and elsewhere. So why is it that just a handful of American movies are imported for theatrical releases in China each year, and anointed by the government to earn massive audie…
"Television has long been identified as a dead hand on culture; but as George Gilder so brilliantly reveals here, this centralized, authoritarian institution is also a dying technology whose grip on our imaginative and economic life threatens to impede American competitiveness i…
As beautifully written as it is theoretically rigorous, 'Utopian Television' turns to the writing of Fredric Jameson and Ernst Bloch in treating the three directors' television experiments as enactments of 'utopia as method.' In doing so it reveals the extent to which the medium…