"Programming Reality is a collection of original essays that explore the television programs that have thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context - the programs that straddle, and even blur, the border between reality and fiction. The interdisciplinary articles in P…
"Programming Reality is a collection of original essays that explore the television programs that have thrived in the Canadian regulatory and cultural context - the programs that straddle, and even blur, the border between reality and fiction. The interdisciplinary articles in P…
"The essays in this book offer an overview of literary works, films, TV series, and computer games, which reflect current social and political developments since the beginning of this century. The authors probe the many ways in which repression and expression are the primary key…
Journalism, television, cable, and online media are all evolving rapidly. At the nexus of these volatile industries is a growing group of individuals and firms whose job it is to develop and maintain online distribution channels for television news programming. Their work, and t…
"An important but largely unseen group maintains the online distribution channels for television news programming. Using fieldwork and exclusive interviews within MSNBC, Joshua A. Braun uncovers and explains how online distribution networks are forged and how the work of maintai…
"This multidisciplinary collection examines post-apocalyptic TV and film for the ways in which these narratives reveal, reproduce, and occasionally resist twenty-first century anxieties and desires around race, gender, and sexuality. Contributors consider the complex interplay b…
"The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Er…
"The Persistence of History examines how the moving image has completely altered traditional modes of historical thought and representation. Exploring a range of film and video texts, from The Ten Commandments to the Rodney King video, from the projected work of documentarian Er…
Overview: Written by veteran journalist and noted professor Jim Willis, with an epilogue by Marilyn Thomsen, this book introduces journalistic decision-making into the classroom, alongside discussion of reporting and writing techniques. Students peer inside the minds of a cross-…
This book deals with significant televisual responses to the events of 9/11 and the subsequent 'war on terror', with a focus on programmes from the UK and USA.
Introduction: American science fiction culture -- Conflict and consensus: the Cold War and the space race. Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) -- The twilight zone (1959-1964) -- Pushing the frontiers of reality: science fiction and the counterculture. 2001: a space odyssey (1…
