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Jet Age Aesthetic The Glamour of Media in Motion
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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£30,00
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Journalism and Technological Change Historical Perspectives, Contemporary Trends
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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£42,00
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Just Words Lillian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, and the Future of Public Conversation in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300191967, ISBN: HB: 9780300167122, Yale University Press, April 2013
361 pp., 21x14 cm
In an appearance on "The Dick Cavett Show" in 1980, the critic Mary McCarthy glibly remarked that every word author Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, 'including 'and' and 'the'. Hellman immediately filed a libel suit, charging that McCarthy's comment...
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£32,00
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£50,00
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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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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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