Cultural and media studies

Women and Journalism offers a rich and comprehensive analysis of the roles, status and experiences of women journalists in the United States and Britain.

Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb-Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara-for their understanding of "e;the Arab.

Pedro Almodovar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years.

Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today.

In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.

Environmentalism and ecology are areas of rapid growth in academia and society at large.

In 1964, Augusto Del Noce assembled in a book some of his best works on Marxism, atheism, and the history of modern philosophy.

Die Relevanz visueller Kommunikation in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft steht außer Frage.

What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century?

Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles.

Recent years have seen a dramatic upsurge of interest in the connections between sexualities, space and place.

Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States.

This informed and accessible book captures the art, energy, passion, and pageantry of over 60 years of lowrider culture-an absolutely iconic Chicano and American phenomenon.

The Lively Audience (1986) studies television from the children's own point of view.

This book will assist journalists and Flash developers who are working together to bring video, audio, still photos, and animated graphics together into one complete Web-based package.

In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse.

Why do teenagers act as they do?

The youth of the world are our most important assets.

From the Revolutionary War forward, Irish immigrants have contributed significantly to the construction of the American Republic.

Everybody knows, and maybe even loves, a microgenre.

This volume includes edited and revised versions of the papers delivered and discussed at the recent Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference.

Der liturgische Teil des Jahrbuchs befasst sich mit Paradigmen, an denen sich liturgische Erneuerungen orientiert haben und stellt Paradigmen vor, die für die zukünftige Entwicklung von Agenden im Fokus stehen.

Are bad girls casualties of patriarchy, a necessary evil, or visionary pioneers?

Bjorn Krondorfer, one of the leading scholars in this field, has collected 35 key texts that have shaped this field within the wider area of the study of gender, religion and culture.

The culture that infiltrates our lives can provoke a range of feelings and afflictions culture can move you, get under your skin and stir up your emotions.

This book investigates screen representations of 21st century nationalism-arguably the most urgent and apparent phenomenon in the Western world today.

Erinnerung und Imagination sind mit dem Medium Film auf besondere Weise verbunden: Filme sind das Ergebnis kreativer Imaginationsprozesse, sie regen die Imagination der Zuschauer:innen an und können unvergessliche Erinnerungen schaffen.

This book is a detailed critical study of Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum in its historical, architectural and philosophical context.

In this volume, rhetoricians, literacy scholars, and humanists have come together to examine the complex discursive constructions of sustainability.

In examining the presidencies of Barack Obama and Donald Trump, and by extension their communication styles, this book provides a foundation for understanding charismatic leadership and its potent effect on followers.

This book seeks to expand some of the existing, often western and Global North facing, scholarship in the area of Disability and Media Studies to include African perspectives.

The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings.

Named a Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 by EsquireA sociological study of reality TV that explores its rise as a culture-dominating medium-and what the genre reveals about our attitudes toward race, gender, class, and sexualityWhat do we see when we watch reality television?

An exposition of the development of Nietzsche''s philosophy of history in its historical context and of its relevance to contemporary theories.

In Bad Language, Naked Ladies, and Other Threats to the Nation, Anne Rubenstein examines how comic books-which were overwhelmingly popular but extremely controversial in post-revolutionary Mexico-played an important role in the development of a stable, legitimate state.

Passage to Manhood addresses the intersection of modernity, heroin use, and HIV/AIDS as they are embodied in a new rite-of-passage among young men in the Sichuan province of southwestern China.

This book develops a theoretical approach to social stratification and applies it to the development of the official system of state honours in Britain.

Das Radio ist, zusammen mit dem Fernsehen, das mit Abstand meist genutzte Medium in Deutschland.

Trumpism and the racially implied Islamophobia of the "e;travel ban"e;; Brexit and the yearning for Britain's past imperial grandeur; Black Lives Matter; the public backlash against Merkel's refugee policies in Germany.

This book presents the seven entrepreneurial activities (SEA) model of new organizational constitution, a prescriptive extension of the four flows model tradition of communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) theory.

Vor dem Hintergrund der ebenso lebendigen wie anspruchsvollen medienethischen Debatte der letzten Jahre erarbeitet die Autorin einen Kernbestand an Werten, die sich in den verschiedenen Kontexten medial vermittelter Kommunikation als konstitutiv herausgestellt haben: Transparenz, Fairness, Respekt, Verantwortung und Kompetenz.

This book examines the fictional female bodies of four stylistically distinct comics artists in the United States-Chris Ware, Emil Ferris, Ebony Flowers, and Tillie Walden-whose work has attracted significant attention.

The book considers how speech on social media during an armed conflict could potentially be considered a criminal offence.

This volume revisits the notions of Orientalism, Occidentalism and, to a certain extent, Reverse Orientalism/Occidentalism in the 21st century, adopting post-modern, constructionist and potentially non-essentialising approaches.

This book covers the entire scope of computer programming and Structured Program Design, from problem identification to maintaining existing programs.

Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development.