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Philosophy

Media Studies

New Television The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre

Shuster Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226503950, ISBN: HB: 9780226503813, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Even though it's frequently asserted that we are living in a golden age of scripted television, television as a medium is still not taken seriously as an artistic art form, nor has the stigma of television as "chewing gum for the mind" really disappe...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)

Bennett W. Lance

ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...

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Media Studies

Literary Criticism

Network Aesthetics

Jagoda Patrick

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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Photography

Media Studies

No Caption Needed Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy

Hariman Robert, Lucaites John Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780226316123, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
432 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 53 halftones

In "No Caption Needed", Robert Hariman and John Louis Lucaites provide the definitive study of the iconic photograph as a dynamic form of public art. Their critical analyses of nine individual icons explore the photographs themselves and their subseq...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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Media Studies

News at Work Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance

Boczkowski Pablo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226062808, ISBN: HB: 9780226062792, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 12 tables, 7 halftones

Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustome...

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Media Studies

News from Russia Language, Life, and the Russian Media

Nummikoski Marita, Bogomolov Andrei

ISBN: PB: 9780300104370, Yale University Press, November 2004
272 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 32 illus.

This unique Russian-language textbook draws on printed mass media, and especially up-to-date Internet media sources, to introduce intermediate and advanced students to varied aspects of modern Russian life. Presenting fascinating material on armed co...

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