News depends for its effect on a culturally shared language, and this book concentrates on ways we can decode its messages without simply reproducing their underlying assumptions.
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"Conventional wisdom holds that television was a coconspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America actually became a more op…
In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die Akteure, ihre Merkmale und die Organisationsformen des internationalen Fernsehformathandels untersucht. Der Fernsehformathandel ist dabei dem Bereich der Beschaffung bzw. Produktion von Unterhaltungsprogrammen im TV-Bereich zuzuordnen. Seine…
Introduction : bad mothers, angry girls -- Postfeminism and the third wave : Titanic -- Trouble in paradise : American Beauty and the incest motif -- Girl world : clueless, mean girls, and the Devil wears Prada -- Final girls and epic fantasies : Remaking the world -- How Reese …
A companion to the author's The Unruly Woman, this book "studies the ways popular culture and current debates within and about feminism inform each other"--Page 4 of cover. Since the 1990s, when Reviving Ophelia became a best seller and "Girl Power" a familiar anthem, girls hav…
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"The comprehensive approach of this text brings a multi-tiered perspective of writing, reporting, and producing that is needed more than ever in today's world of convergent journalism. New photos and illustrations, a restructuring of the text, expanded end-of-chapter exercises, …
"More than a century ago, filmmakers made their primary focus innovative and widely promulgated visions of antiquity, creating a profound effect on the critical, popular, and scholarly reception of antiquity. In this volume, scholars from a variety of countries and varying acade…
"From Ken Burns's documentaries to historical dramas such as Roots, from A & E's Biography series to CNN, television has become the primary source for historical information for tens of millions of Americans today. Why has television become such a respected authority? What false…