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Anti-Journalist Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe
ISBN: PB: 9780226754574, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In turn-of-the-century Vienna, Karl Kraus created a bold new style of media criticism, penning incisive satires that elicited both admiration and outrage. Kraus's spectacularly hostile critiques often focused on his fellow Jewish journalists, which b...
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£34,00
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View from Somewhere Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity
ISBN: HB: 9780226589176, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
#MeToo. #BlackLivesMatter. #NeverAgain. #WontBeErased. Though both the right- and left-wing media claim "objectivity" in their reporting of these and other contentious issues, the American public has become increasingly cynical about truth, fact, and...
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£19,00
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Behind the Screen Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media
ISBN: HB: 9780300235883, Yale University Press, August 2019
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Social media on the internet can be a nightmarish place. A primary shield against hateful language, violent videos, and online cruelty uploaded by users is not an algorithm. It is people. Mostly invisible by design, over 100,000 commercial content mo...
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£20,00
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What Philosophy Wants from Images
ISBN: PB: 9780226513195, ISBN: HB: 9780226513058, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema – or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image i...
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£22,50
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£67,50
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Early Royko Up Against It in Chicago
ISBN: PB: 9780226730776, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
232 pp., 21.5x14 cm
Combining the incisive pen of a newspaperman and the compassionate soul of a poet, Mike Royko became a Chicago institution – in Jimmy Breslin's words, "the best journalist of his time".Early Royko: Up Against It in Chicago" will restore to print the...
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£12,00
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John Fuller and the Sycamore Press A Bibliographic History
ISBN: HB: 9781851243235, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to publishing established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, t...
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£29,99
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