From the Nobel Prize-winning writer, a new collection of literary and personal essaysOld Truths and New Cliches collects nineteen essays-most of them previously unpublished in English-by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades.
In this book, Nathanson examines how contemporary American television and associated digital media depict women's everyday lives as homemakers, career women, and mothers.
The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Media provides students and scholars with an indispensable overview of the domestic and transnational dynamics at play within multi-lingual Latina/o media.
When I first thought about this topic I encountered many ex- pressions of surprise among my better-read friends, and a number of them asked me: "e;Is there really much love in Thomas Mann's works, and is it really important?
Political Pathologies from The Sopranos to Succession argues that highly praised prestige TV shows reveal the underlying fantasies and contradictions of uppermiddle-class political centrists.
Re-Inventing the Media provides a highly original re-thinking of media studies for the contemporary post-broadcast, post-analogue, and post-mass media era.
This book serves up an accessible, critical introduction to food television, providing readers with a solid foundation for understanding how culinary culture became pop culture via the medium of television.
Der Begriff »Wende« wird in der Literaturwissenschaft hauptsächlich in Bezug auf die Literatur der gesellschaftspolitischen Wende von 1989/90 sowie auf die sogenannten »turns« wie z.
How cable television upended American political life in the pursuit of profits and influenceAs television began to overtake the political landscape in the 1960s, network broadcast companies, bolstered by powerful lobbying interests, dominated screens across the nation.
Music, Words and Nationalism: National Anthems and Songs in the Modern Era considers the concept of nationalism from 1780 to 2020 through anthems and national songs as symbolic and representative elements of the national identity of individuals, peoples, or collectivities.
Media Use in the Information Age (1989) analyses new technologies, their impact on mass communications, and their effects on the users of these new systems.
The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professora lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and funOf all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed .
Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und die alles dominierende Marktideologie haben ein Netz von Abhängigkeiten geschaffen, das so unüberschaubar geworden ist, dass der Mensch an die Grenzen seines Fassungsvermögens stößt.
En septiembre de 2008 la cadena estadounidense FX estrena Sons of Anarchy, una serie sobre un club de moteros outlaw con sede en la ficticia ciudad californiana de Charming.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a wave of TV shows, first on premium cable channels like HBO and then basic cable networks like FX and AMC, dramatically stretched television's inventiveness, emotional resonance and ambition.
Entre 1915 Y 1930 un grupo de jóvenes lingüistas y poetas rusos, ligado a los movimientos artísticos de vanguardia, revolucionó el campo de los estudios literarios.
A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England's greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, 'Brideshead Revisited'.
'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him wonderfully at ease with his readers' David Kynaston'Reading Alwyn Turner's account of life in the first two decades of the 21st century is a bit like trying to recall a dream from three nights ago .
Britain is reeling from reports of a terrorist bomb on a film set that has killed a hundred people and, possibly, the brightest star in Hollywood, Thomas Bayne.
Jorge Isaacs: El caballero de los enigmas está centrado en los grandes interrogantes que no han dejado de rodear a Jorge Isaacs, personaje envuelto en los velos de múltiples leyendas.
An entertaining and illuminating celebration of televisual history by cultural historian Phil NormanFor decades, television occupied a unique position in the national imagination.
