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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones
We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...
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£19,50
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£61,00
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John Heartfield and the Agitated Image Photography, Persuasion, and the Rise of Avant-Garde Photomontage
ISBN: HB: 9780226981772, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 134 halftones, 9 colour illus.
Working in Germany in the interwar era, John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld, 1891-1968) developed an innovative method of appropriating and reusing photographs to powerful political effect. A pioneer of modern photomontage, he assembled images that...
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£60,00
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Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America
ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.
There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...
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£25,00
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Theater of the Mind Imagination, Aesthetics, and American Radio Drama
ISBN: PB: 9780226853512, ISBN: HB: 9780226853505, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 13 line illus.
For generations, fans and critics have characterized classic American radio drama as a "theater of the mind". This book unpacks that characterization by recasting the radio play as an aesthetic object within its unique historical context. In "Theater...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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How We Think Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis
ISBN: PB: 9780226321424, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones
"How do we think?" N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition h...
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£24,00
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Touching Photographs
ISBN: PB: 9780226626468, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
288 pp., 25.1x17.8 cm, 84 halftones, 37 colour illus.
Photography does more than simply represent the world. It acts in the world, connecting people to form relationships and shaping relationships to create communities. In this beautiful book, Margaret Olin explores photography's ability to "touch" us t...
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£37,00
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Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300158649, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's ident...
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£29,00
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Drop Dead Gorgeous Representations of Corpses in American TV Shows
ISBN: PB: 9783593395074, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2012
267 pp., 22x14 cm, 60 colour illus.
Previously only ever seen, briefly, at the scene of their demise, corpses have become a central part of many popular American television shows in the twenty-first century. From "CSI" to "Six Feet Under", extended portrayals of dead bodies – in the mo...
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£37,00
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Human Rights In Camera
ISBN: PB: 9780226762760, ISBN: HB: 9780226762753, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 halftones
From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Hannah Arendt's furious critiques, the definition of what it means to be human has been hotly debated...
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£24,00
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£61,00
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