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Between Truth and Time A History of Soviet Central Television
ISBN: PB: 9780300208481, ISBN: HB: 9780300208436, Yale University Press, August 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The first full-length, archive-based history of Soviet Central Television's production and programming in the decades before perestroika In the first full-length study of Soviet Central Television to draw extensively on archival sources, interviews,...
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£25,00
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Bullets and Bulletins Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings
ISBN: PB: 9781849045643, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Bullets and Bulletins" takes a sobering and holistic look at the intersections between media and politics before, during, and in the reverberations of the Arab uprisings. It is a multi-disciplinary approach to the topic, with...
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£25,00
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Identify and Sort How Digital Power Changed World Politics
ISBN: HB: 9781849044066, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The advent of information technology ushered in new forms of political power. Machines play crucial roles in how states see, understand, and act, and scrutiny of these processes lies at the heart of "Identify and Sort". It fram...
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Extended Temporalities Transient Visions in the Museum and in Art
ISBN: PB: 9788869770517, Casemate, Mimesis International, April 2016
160 pp., 21x14 cm, 30 black&white illus.
This book has been conceived from a series of speeches which took place during the Filmforum Festival of Udine and Gorizia whose main theme was the use of moving images in the space of contemporary art. The aim of this publication is to create a scie...
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£13,00
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Network Aesthetics
ISBN: PB: 9780226346519, ISBN: HB: 9780226346489, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones
The term "network" is now applied to everything from the Internet to terrorist-cell systems. But the word's ubiquity has also made it a cliche, a concept at once recognizable yet hard to explain".Network Aesthetics", in exploring how popular culture...
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£72,00
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Mad Men, Death and the American Dream
ISBN: PB: 9783037345504, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
160 pp., 18.4x11.9 cm
Matthew Weiner's Emmy-winning series "Mad Men" has earned wide critical acclaim in its seven seasons. What is it about these impeccably dressed men and women of midcentury Madison Avenue that fascinates us? Decades later, when Weiner's iconic charact...
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£15,00
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This Program is Brought to You by... Distributing Television News Online
ISBN: PB: 9780300197501, Yale University Press, December 2015
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
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 p...
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£30,00
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Reading Sounds Closed-Captioned Media and Popular Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226312781, ISBN: HB: 9780226312644, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones, 18 tables
Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices involved: How do you convey the sarcasm in a comeback? Do you include a henc...
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£30,00
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£96,00
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Practical Photojournalism A Professional Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781781451175, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2015
260 pp., 24.3x19 cm, photos
Press photography is not just a career – it's a way of life – and photojournalists have a ringside seat on contemporary history. This book explains how to capitalise on that ringside seat. Written by an expert in the field, "Practical Photojournalism...
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£19,99
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Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones
We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...
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