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"From early sitcoms such as 'I Love Lucy' to contemporary prime-time dramas like 'Scandal' and 'How to Get Away with Murder, ' African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as villains, vixens, victims, and disposable minorities…
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres.
"Suffering from "manopause" and "Low T", underemployed and unwilling to grow up, "the other guy" has emerged as an important figure in modern media masculinity. From the films of Judd Apatow to sitcoms and popular music, this new breed of man is desperately attempting to change …
The hundred commercials in this book are brilliant. They were selected by a team of experts at the Leo Burnett Company, creators of Tony the Tiger and the Maytag Repairman, in collaboration with dozens of advertising pros from around the globe and throughout the industry. Bernic…
Introduction / Melanie Shoffner -- Identifying with the teacher image. Looking into the Mirror of Erised: transacting with representations of Hogwarts' teachers and pedagogy / Dawan Coombs, Jonathan Ostenson -- Playing the role of teacher: using film to explore teacher identitie…
This title about teachers as characters in popular media examines what can be learned from fictional teachers for the purposes of educating real teachers. Its aim is twofold: to examine the constructed figure of the teacher in film, television and text and to apply that examinat…
"HER STORIES provides an in-depth history of the production and reception of the daytime soap opera in the U.S. It offers a detailed view of the genre's life span-from its move from radio to television in the middle of the 20th century to its supposed demise (but continued after…
"HER STORIES provides an in-depth history of the production and reception of the daytime soap opera in the U.S. It offers a detailed view of the genre's life span-from its move from radio to television in the middle of the 20th century to its supposed demise (but continued after…
"Television is arguably the most influential medium in contemporary China. Although television networks are still state-owned and Party-controlled in China, the ideological landscape of television programs has become increasingly diverse and even paradoxical, simultaneously subs…
La maggior parte dei manuali che trattano di radio e di TV offrono una ricostruzione del passato in cui i cambiamenti del presente sono ridotti a poco più di un'appendice. Ma questa impostazione non ha più senso, perché radio e tv non sono più le stesse dopo il passaggio definit…