The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV examines the treatment of women, non-White and queer participants on MTV's The Challenge, a physical competition lauded as 'America's fifth sport', interrogating the treatment of the intersectional body within the reality TV landscape and the influence of professional sports culture.
Digital Film and Television Culture introduces a new framework for the aesthetic and cultural analysis of contemporary film and serial drama, stars on social media and movie awards shows.
Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics explores this distinct fictional form that merges the genres, structures and affordances of television with those of social media and what it entails for contemporary television and media culture and for our experience of new and old media in everyday life.
How the entertainment narrative of upward mobility distorts the harsh economic realities in AmericaIn an age of growing wealth disparities, politicians on both sides of the aisle are sounding the alarm about the fading American Dream.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
This book illustrates how young people engage with pop culture-music, TV, films, fashion, dance, video games, memes, and digital content in its many forms-and outlines lessons that support them in engaging more actively, critically, and strategically.
Die Studie bietet Wissenschaftler:innen und Praktiker:innen Einblicke in die digitale Transformation einer der größten öffentlich-rechtlichen Landesrundfunkanstalten Deutschlands.
This collection seeks to explore what authenticity means in the context of adaptation, whether there is such a thing as an authentic adaptation, and what authenticity can offer for adaptation.
This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.
The Routledge Handbook of Motherhood on Screen offers a comprehensive global analysis of the representation of Mothers and Motherhood in contemporary screen industries and online spaces.
Social Media Television and Distributional Aesthetics explores this distinct fictional form that merges the genres, structures and affordances of television with those of social media and what it entails for contemporary television and media culture and for our experience of new and old media in everyday life.
How we build our invisible libraries Erich Auerbach wrote his classic work Mimesis, a history of narrative from Homer to Proust, based largely on his memory of past reading.
The Death of the Author and Anticolonial Thought promises to transform a decades old debate in literary studies about the relation between structure and agency, form and intention by giving a detailed account-previously unstudied-of the way colonized writers have responded to, learned from, and critiqued the death of the author postulate declared by Roland Barthes in 1967.
La aspiración del ser humano a una vida mejor, no solo para sí mismo en tanto individuo sino como parte de una comunidad, encontró su formulación en diversas modalidades ligadas a los tiempos de la leyenda: paraíso terrenal, edad de oro, país de jauja o arcadia.
En este libro, Julio-César Mateus nos conduce a una inmersión en las obras de un extenso número de autores para comprender la evolución del pensamiento sobre la educación mediática en todos sus aspectos y a través del tiempo.
Esta visita guiada a los chismes más deliciosos de la historia de la literatura, de las artes y de la historia a secas, tiene como cicerone y maestro de ceremonias a Edgardo Cozarinsky, que ha demostrado ya en muy distintos géneros y registros su inteligencia, su veracidad y su rigor.
Mientras espera en un bar la improbable llegada de su viejo amigo y profesor Vladimir, a John –un ingeniero que alguna vez tuvo aspiraciones de poeta– lo acorralan escenas de la vida vivida e hirientes astillas de la vida traicionada.
Resultado del trabajo de investigación para la tesina de grado de la carrera de Ciencias de la Comunicación de la UBA durante el período julio de 2006 y julio de 2008, este trabajo analiza los procesos de migración a la televisión digital terrestre (TDT) en Estados Unidos, Europa, Latinoamérica y, especialmente, en Argentina.
'A riveting read about an amazing man' THE SUNLegendary boxer Muhammad Ali visited Michael Parkinson's chat show sofa four times, culminating in an iconic interview in 1971.
A deliciously irreverent and humorous insider's account of 25 years working at the very top of British political television'What Rob Burley doesn't know about political interviewing isn't worth knowing' - Andrew Neil'A delicious read' - Emily Maitlis 'He writes beautifully' - Jeremy Paxman'Very funny' - Steve Coogan'An excellent book' - James O'Brien'He writes brilliantly' - Adam BuxtonWhy Is This Lying Bastard Lying to Me?
