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Culture Studies

Jet Age Aesthetic The Glamour of Media in Motion

Schwartz Vanessa R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300247466, Yale University Press, February 2020
232 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 98 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

Vanessa R. Schwartz engagingly presents the jet plane's power to define a new age at a critical moment in the mid-20th century, arguing that the craft's speed and smooth ride allowed people to imagine themselves living in the future. Exploring realms...

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Film Studies

Media Studies

Transmedium Conceptualism 2.0 and the New Object Art

Stewart Garrett

ISBN: PB: 9780226500904, ISBN: HB: 9780226500874, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 2 line drawings

If you attend a contemporary art exhibition lately, you're unlikely to see much traditional painting or sculpture. Indeed, artists today are preoccupied with what happens when you leave behind assumptions about particular media – such as painting, or...

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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

Devil's Long Tail Religious and Other Radicals in the Internet Marketplace

Stevens David, O'Hara Kieron

ISBN: HB: 9781849043434, Hurst Publishers, February 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The internet may be a utopia for free expression, but it also harbours nihilistic groups and individuals spreading bizarre creeds, unhindered by the risk-averse gatekeepers of the mass media – and not all are as harmless as the...

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Media Studies

Journalism and Technological Change Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends

Schreiber Martin, Zimmermann Clemens

ISBN: PB: 9783593501048, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
250 pp., 22x14 cm

Technology, media, and journalism are closely related, both in the present time and from a historical perspective. New technologies, however, only develop their specific potential within the cultural and social contexts in which they are created and...

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Women Studies

Media Studies

Sex Trafficking, Scandal, and the Transformation of Journalism, 1885-1917

Soderlund Gretchen

ISBN: PB: 9780226021539, ISBN: HB: 9780226021362, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 halftones, 1 line illus.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the penny presses of the industrial East treated brothels as a mundane, if annoying, aspect of city life. But later in the century, reformers and mainstream papers began to push back against this repre...

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Media Studies

Philosophy

Human Rights In Camera

Sliwinski Sharon

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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Media Studies

Neurology

Field Guide to a New Meta-Field Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide

Stafford Barbara Maria

ISBN: PB: 9780226770550, ISBN: HB: 9780226770543, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
368 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 80 halftones

Barbara Stafford is a pioneering art historian whose research has long helped to bridge the divide between the humanities and cognitive sciences. In "A Field Guide to a New Meta-Field", she marshals a distinguished group of thinkers to forge a ground...

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Media Studies

Political Science

Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency

Sifry Micah L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300176766, Yale University Press, March 2011
176 pp., 19.6x12.8 cm

It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts releasi...

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